Former UK diplomat. Neglectful gardener, baker, and maker. There is one planet. We pass through and are supposed to take care of it. Politics, as well as random observations on other stuff. No unsolicited DMs.
Simon Pease
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it costs us over £600 a month to have our 3yr old in nursery full time and that’s after the free working parent hours and tax free childcare but yeah it’s probably the phones
Brexit was an act of self-harm.
"A decade on, Britain is an unhappier, more divided place, and leaving the EU has brought no discernible benefits.
"Billions of pounds and extraordinary effort have been wasted on a project that made the country poorer."
They lied and lied, we were complacent - and the culture war began in earnest
Farage discovers polls can move in both directions * Zack Polanski ignores calls to clear the path for Burnham * Kemi's Tories accidentally become Remainers
Well, yes, indeed.
EU looks more attractive in Donald Trump’s ‘crazy world’, says Norway
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😉 Update about strikes today:
🔥 Temp plant of Russian Reserve in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region.
🔥 In Novomoskovsk (Tula Region), Azot chemical plant was hit. The enterprise produces ammonium nitrate.
🔥 In Oryol, Russian EW directed drone directly into residential building.
🔥 Vyazma, Smolensk Region.
dean
Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
Best for Britain
Merz: "Ukraine has been defending its freedom for more than 4 years."
(AfD members laughing)
Merz: "That’s telling sign, ladies and gentlemen. They laugh about it, they laugh about fate of millions of people in Ukraine and they travel to Moscow for their champagne receptions."
Oslo rethinks relationship with bloc after it rejected membership twice
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East Anglia Bylines
Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
One of the things that still smacks my gob about Brexit is that when it became clear to many who had voted leave the extent to which the Brexit case had been built on lies, the liars shrugged and said voters had known the truth because remain campaigners had told what was going to happen.
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Kate from Kharkiv
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, and Putin is desperate. But that’s when he’s at his most dangerous | Simon Tisdall