Fazi understands AUKUS better than most Australian observers.

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The social democratic era was far from perfect. But we were on the right track. Simon Partridge Simon Winlow Dan Evans Workers Party of Britain Thomas Fazi Steve Aldridge

“Perhaps we can infer that economics professors have to be paid much more than other faculty because orthodox economic ideas are silly and hence embarrassing to espouse in public.”—Andrew Abbott

The Bank of England has got what it wants. Britain’s unemployment rate has risen to 4.2%, as the number of workers in payrolled jobs falls and more people leave the jobs market. There will be celebrations in Threadneedle Street today, and I am not joking. This was always the plan

Inflation data confirms that the Bank of England is still driving us towards recession. Labour should take note. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/1… I can almost hear Rachel Reeves echoing Liz Truss on the institutions of power seeking to undermine her, sometime soon.

40 years ago today. London. 17th April 1984. Police inspector Alex Fish from Vine Street police station has just briefed a team of officers due to police a demonstration outside the Libyan Peoples Bureau in St James's Square. He decides to walk up to the square to check

A view of Tuthill Stairs, Newcastle upon Tyne, taken in 1886.
The photograph shows a house near the foot of Tuthill Stairs.

What causes the collapse of empires?

Fear - becomes so immobilising we stop planning for the future, fail to challenge orthodoxy

Loss of faith - stop believing our own philosophy, myths & in the justice of our aims

Exhaustion - nothing good lies ahead so effort is pointless

David Edgerton on the underrated Harold Wilson. We need the same vision and focus on investment in clean energy/industry to launch the UK into ecologically sustainable renewal. He also told Johnson to do one and kept us out of Vietnam! newstatesman.com/the-weekend-es… Workers Party of Britain

We are sleepwalking into a catastrophic global conflict.

Our political class shows no interest in de-escalation, diplomacy or restraint — and it is always other people's children who pay the price.

In a world of endless war, we need voices for lasting peace.

Jeremy Hunt calls Thames Water 40% bill rise demand ‘utterly outrageous’.

Wants shareholders (S/H) “to sort out the mess”.

Clueless. For 35 yrs Govt watched S/H extract mega returns; inflict high bills, dump sewage, invest little.

What's the govt for?
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Did you know Keir Starmer served alongside Henry Kissinger on the Trilateral Commission?

Starmer joined the secretive group while one of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow ministers—without telling Corbyn.

Two former heads of CIA also served alongside Starmer👇
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If only we'd stayed in the EU, our water quality would be as good as France's.

Shocking footage by Al Jazeera shows recent aerial footage of the devastating in the city of Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip.

The city was completely destroyed by Israel.
#GazaGenocide

It’s the same staff! There’s no separate private healthcare workforce that’s just standing around waiting to be deployed to ‘help’- it’s nhs consultants and surgeons that just moonlight for the private sector. Very easy set of questions to put to him, surely

The confidence trick played by the Conservatives and The Labour Party is laid bare by Canary. Both parties try to hoodwink the public into believing we can't afford a good society. But that's a lie. As John Maynard Keynes said: 'Anything we can actually do, we can afford.'

As the neoliberal EU tightens its fiscal spending and the liberal left sits on its hands, the nationalist right gain traction with the wrong solutions. Simon Winlow and I have been warning of this for years, but, never mind, we're used to being ignored!
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Three Tuns Pub; Coppergate, City Centre of York, England.

The building was probably constructed in the 16th Century AD, and is timber-framed, with the first floor jettied. It was heavily altered in 19th Century AD, since when it has been a two-storey building with an attic, and

Even ‘populist’ European governments have little choice but to go along with the EU’s diktats.

Thomas Fazi: 👇 buff.ly/3TMHg7Y