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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙪𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙞𝙩! #MarchMadness Kentucky Men’s Basketball's Lamont Butler joined our Noah Eagle & Tom Crean after leading UK to its first #Sweet16 since 2019!

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Three years ago today Alabama Men’s Basketball delivered one of the most unforgettable nights in Coleman Coliseum history and secured another championship. Down 17 points with just more than 10 minutes to play, the No. 2-ranked Crimson Tide stormed back to defeat arch-rival Auburn 90-85 in overtime, clinching its second SEC regular-season title in three years on March 1, 2023. In a rivalry that never lacks drama, this one felt destined to live forever. Alabama trailed 66-49 before flipping the game completely, outscoring the Tigers 26-9 the rest of regulation to force overtime, then winning the extra period 15-10. The victory secured a 16-1 SEC mark and capped a perfect 15-0 season at home — the program’s first undefeated run inside Coleman Coliseum since 2010-11. Jahvon Quinerly came off the bench with 24 points and six assists, while Brandon Miller, Mark Sears and Noah Clowney added 17 apiece. The Tide’s core accounted for 75 of the team’s 90 points in a championship-clinching performance. Afterward, Nate Oats summed up the night perfectly: “To be down 17 with just over 10 minutes to go in the game and come back to win, I couldn’t be prouder of our guys.” It wasn’t just a rivalry win. It was a sweep of the in-state rival. It was an undefeated home season. That’s how championships are defined and banners hung.

Three years ago today Alabama Men’s Basketball delivered one of the most unforgettable nights in Coleman Coliseum history and secured another championship. Down 17 points with just more than 10 minutes to play, the No. 2-ranked Crimson Tide stormed back to defeat arch-rival Auburn 90-85 in overtime, clinching its second SEC regular-season title in three years on March 1, 2023. In a rivalry that never lacks drama, this one felt destined to live forever. Alabama trailed 66-49 before flipping the game completely, outscoring the Tigers 26-9 the rest of regulation to force overtime, then winning the extra period 15-10. The victory secured a 16-1 SEC mark and capped a perfect 15-0 season at home — the program’s first undefeated run inside Coleman Coliseum since 2010-11. Jahvon Quinerly came off the bench with 24 points and six assists, while Brandon Miller, Mark Sears and Noah Clowney added 17 apiece. The Tide’s core accounted for 75 of the team’s 90 points in a championship-clinching performance. Afterward, Nate Oats summed up the night perfectly: “To be down 17 with just over 10 minutes to go in the game and come back to win, I couldn’t be prouder of our guys.” It wasn’t just a rivalry win. It was a sweep of the in-state rival. It was an undefeated home season. That’s how championships are defined and banners hung.

Tide Hoops History

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The penny is fast dropping that a Burnham gov won’t just be Starmer with better comms. Things are moving firmly leftwards. Yesterday, Andy had a big meeting with the unions just as his camp were sending a flurry of anti-tech briefings to the FT. It has immediately spooked the UK’s tech industry - one of the economy’s rare bright spots right now. Take this one on autonomous vehicles, where Team Burnham criticises the gov’s ‘headlong pursuit of driverless cars.’ We should be so proud that the UK has a dog in the fight when it comes to this field of tech, with British software company, Wayve, competing against the likes of Tesla, Waymo and Baidu. Wayve is developing a different proposition to its competitors, which map everything in a way that is time-intensive and costly. By safely testing its tech on London’s complex road network, a brilliant product is being developed and refined in the UK that could be exported or have application in other settings. Instead, all the focus is on the threat of robotaxis to jobs even though there remain substantial real-world hurdles to rolling them out at scale, not least their cost versus a driver. Do we want the UK to develop world-leading tech or just receive what everyone else is willing to give us? It looks like a Burnham gov may want to crush our chances, just as it wants to remove Palantir from the delivery of important gov projects even if its tech can deliver better NHS services or policing. I am on record as being sceptical of Labour’s unquestioning embrace of US big tech in its first two years because I worried that they were too dazzled to carry out due diligence on promised investments, draw up decent contracts which avoided vendor lock-in or to procure from a wider range of more innovative, often domestic, companies. But that’s not the critique the Left is making of this current gov’s tech policy thus far. Tech companies of all kinds are their new bogeymen, to be driven out the moment a union’s interests are threatened. After all, if Labour was truly concerned about tech’s impact on jobs, it would not have made it so much more eyewateringly expensive and difficult to employ people.

The penny is fast dropping that a Burnham gov won’t just be Starmer with better comms. Things are moving firmly leftwards. Yesterday, Andy had a big meeting with the unions just as his camp were sending a flurry of anti-tech briefings to the FT. It has immediately spooked the UK’s tech industry - one of the economy’s rare bright spots right now. Take this one on autonomous vehicles, where Team Burnham criticises the gov’s ‘headlong pursuit of driverless cars.’ We should be so proud that the UK has a dog in the fight when it comes to this field of tech, with British software company, Wayve, competing against the likes of Tesla, Waymo and Baidu. Wayve is developing a different proposition to its competitors, which map everything in a way that is time-intensive and costly. By safely testing its tech on London’s complex road network, a brilliant product is being developed and refined in the UK that could be exported or have application in other settings. Instead, all the focus is on the threat of robotaxis to jobs even though there remain substantial real-world hurdles to rolling them out at scale, not least their cost versus a driver. Do we want the UK to develop world-leading tech or just receive what everyone else is willing to give us? It looks like a Burnham gov may want to crush our chances, just as it wants to remove Palantir from the delivery of important gov projects even if its tech can deliver better NHS services or policing. I am on record as being sceptical of Labour’s unquestioning embrace of US big tech in its first two years because I worried that they were too dazzled to carry out due diligence on promised investments, draw up decent contracts which avoided vendor lock-in or to procure from a wider range of more innovative, often domestic, companies. But that’s not the critique the Left is making of this current gov’s tech policy thus far. Tech companies of all kinds are their new bogeymen, to be driven out the moment a union’s interests are threatened. After all, if Labour was truly concerned about tech’s impact on jobs, it would not have made it so much more eyewateringly expensive and difficult to employ people.

Julia Lopez MP

231,015 views • 24 days ago

We just hit 800k followers!!!! What a fantastic moment to step back and reintroduce myself to both new and familiar faces. Aha m bu Janine, born and brought up in Zurich, Switzerland but, since September last year, proudly immersed in the vibrant life of Enugu, Nigeria. My family includes my wonderful husband Ezenwa; our adventurous twins, Chijioke and Ziora; our thoughtful Uche; and of course, our spirited Nnanyereugo, not forgetting Brutus, the most senior among us all, our ever-youthful dog! A huge part of my love for everything Igbo has been inspired by my amazing husband, Ezenwa. Not only is he a Nze na Ozo, earning me the title Lolo Anyanwu Ututu in Ala Igbo, but his love and passion for his culture have deeply influenced my journey into embracing and celebrating our beautiful life here. His support and love are the bedrock of my adventures and storytelling. For those who have just joined us, my blog shares my journey through the beauty of intercultural marriage, the joys and challenges of raising multinational kids, and my adventures in trying (and sometimes failing) to master the Igbo language after 16 years. I am a self-confessed foodie, diving fork-first into the rich flavors of Igbo cuisine, and an enthusiast for showcasing the stunning spots Nigeria has to offer. Despite what might seem, social media isn’t my main hustle. My day job is in an office, keeping things balanced, but my heart beats strongest for my side passions. I am a passionate children’s book author, with my first book, “Ala Nnam,” exploring our kids’ adventures in their father’s village and their discovery of Igbo culture. My creativity also finds its outlet in painting and photography, my personal retreats that I’ve yet to share widely. As we continue to build this amazing community, I warmly invite each of you to be part of this journey. Whether you’re here for the cultural insights, the art, the food, or to simply share in our story, I’m thrilled to have you with us. Here’s to the exciting journey ahead, together. Your support and curiosity fuel this adventure, and I can’t wait to see where this shared path takes us. #introduce #igbo #nigerwife #travel #anambra #isuofia #nwanyiocha

We just hit 800k followers!!!! What a fantastic moment to step back and reintroduce myself to both new and familiar faces. Aha m bu Janine, born and brought up in Zurich, Switzerland but, since September last year, proudly immersed in the vibrant life of Enugu, Nigeria. My family includes my wonderful husband Ezenwa; our adventurous twins, Chijioke and Ziora; our thoughtful Uche; and of course, our spirited Nnanyereugo, not forgetting Brutus, the most senior among us all, our ever-youthful dog! A huge part of my love for everything Igbo has been inspired by my amazing husband, Ezenwa. Not only is he a Nze na Ozo, earning me the title Lolo Anyanwu Ututu in Ala Igbo, but his love and passion for his culture have deeply influenced my journey into embracing and celebrating our beautiful life here. His support and love are the bedrock of my adventures and storytelling. For those who have just joined us, my blog shares my journey through the beauty of intercultural marriage, the joys and challenges of raising multinational kids, and my adventures in trying (and sometimes failing) to master the Igbo language after 16 years. I am a self-confessed foodie, diving fork-first into the rich flavors of Igbo cuisine, and an enthusiast for showcasing the stunning spots Nigeria has to offer. Despite what might seem, social media isn’t my main hustle. My day job is in an office, keeping things balanced, but my heart beats strongest for my side passions. I am a passionate children’s book author, with my first book, “Ala Nnam,” exploring our kids’ adventures in their father’s village and their discovery of Igbo culture. My creativity also finds its outlet in painting and photography, my personal retreats that I’ve yet to share widely. As we continue to build this amazing community, I warmly invite each of you to be part of this journey. Whether you’re here for the cultural insights, the art, the food, or to simply share in our story, I’m thrilled to have you with us. Here’s to the exciting journey ahead, together. Your support and curiosity fuel this adventure, and I can’t wait to see where this shared path takes us. #introduce #igbo #nigerwife #travel #anambra #isuofia #nwanyiocha

Nwanyi Ocha

773,056 views • 2 years ago

Tom Lee explains his $62,500 ETH price target “If we clear this Middle East problem and the US economy holds up through higher oil, I think we’re looking at a bull market that could run through 2028. A major move in equities is the setup… and here’s something to keep in mind. Since the war started, the best performing asset in the world — outperforming energy stocks — was Ethereum. It outperformed the S&P 500 by almost 20 percentage points, and you can see it has massively outperformed gold and silver. And if you take a look at Ethereum’s chart over the last 10 years, I think it’s going through a massive consolidation.” In its first consolidation of 2016, Ethereum went on to rise by 227x. In the second consolidation of 2018 and 2019, Ethereum rose by 54x. Tom points out that Ethereum is in the midst of its third consolidation: “I think there is a massive move coming in Ethereum, driven by a couple of things: tokenization and agentic AI… I think this means you can get something like a 25x for Ethereum.” Tom gives a quick overview of the tokenization thesis: “I think we’re going through an important moment in the financial system that’s not too different from 1971. Tokenization is making almost every asset synthetic, and it follows a roadmap that happened when the US went off the gold standard in 1971. This led to a huge unleashing of innovation and products from money market funds to currency futures to CDOs to indexed futures all because the US was trying to preserve the sovereignty of the dollar when we went off the gold standard. I think that’s happening today because we’re digitizing everything.” He points to the following quote from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (formerly one of crypto’s biggest skeptics): “Crypto is better than the current financial system.” Tom continues: “I think everyone who’s building in crypto is going to develop these future products — stablecoins, tokenized equities, monetized reputation. It’s also part of the future agentic system.” On a separate slide he points out all of the things Agentic AI will need that work better on crypto rails. Two are identity and payments. “Agents almost certainly won’t want to use PayPal or Visa or MasterCard to do micropayments,” Tom argues. Lastly, Tom turns to price: “Blockchains should gain relevance against against crypto’s store of value, which is Bitcoin. In our minds, the way to think about the future of Ethereum is its price ratio to Bitcoin The 8-year average was 0.0479. The high was 0.087… We think fair value for Bitcoin is $250,000, so if Ethereum goes back to the 8 year average, that’s $12,000 ETH. If Ethereum goes back to its 2021 high, that’s $22,000 ETH. But of course I think it’s better positioned today than it was in 2021. So that gets us to what we think is the ‘payment rails’ number — that Ethereum is going to be roughly a quarter of the value of Bitcoin. And that gets you to $62,500. And that’s kind of following the previous historical price cycles.” Source: Signal Week (formerly Paris Blockchain Week) (May 2026) Read Etherealize's "Productive Money" report on the path to $250,000 ETH below 👇

Tom Lee explains his $62,500 ETH price target “If we clear this Middle East problem and the US economy holds up through higher oil, I think we’re looking at a bull market that could run through 2028. A major move in equities is the setup… and here’s something to keep in mind. Since the war started, the best performing asset in the world — outperforming energy stocks — was Ethereum. It outperformed the S&P 500 by almost 20 percentage points, and you can see it has massively outperformed gold and silver. And if you take a look at Ethereum’s chart over the last 10 years, I think it’s going through a massive consolidation.” In its first consolidation of 2016, Ethereum went on to rise by 227x. In the second consolidation of 2018 and 2019, Ethereum rose by 54x. Tom points out that Ethereum is in the midst of its third consolidation: “I think there is a massive move coming in Ethereum, driven by a couple of things: tokenization and agentic AI… I think this means you can get something like a 25x for Ethereum.” Tom gives a quick overview of the tokenization thesis: “I think we’re going through an important moment in the financial system that’s not too different from 1971. Tokenization is making almost every asset synthetic, and it follows a roadmap that happened when the US went off the gold standard in 1971. This led to a huge unleashing of innovation and products from money market funds to currency futures to CDOs to indexed futures all because the US was trying to preserve the sovereignty of the dollar when we went off the gold standard. I think that’s happening today because we’re digitizing everything.” He points to the following quote from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (formerly one of crypto’s biggest skeptics): “Crypto is better than the current financial system.” Tom continues: “I think everyone who’s building in crypto is going to develop these future products — stablecoins, tokenized equities, monetized reputation. It’s also part of the future agentic system.” On a separate slide he points out all of the things Agentic AI will need that work better on crypto rails. Two are identity and payments. “Agents almost certainly won’t want to use PayPal or Visa or MasterCard to do micropayments,” Tom argues. Lastly, Tom turns to price: “Blockchains should gain relevance against against crypto’s store of value, which is Bitcoin. In our minds, the way to think about the future of Ethereum is its price ratio to Bitcoin The 8-year average was 0.0479. The high was 0.087… We think fair value for Bitcoin is $250,000, so if Ethereum goes back to the 8 year average, that’s $12,000 ETH. If Ethereum goes back to its 2021 high, that’s $22,000 ETH. But of course I think it’s better positioned today than it was in 2021. So that gets us to what we think is the ‘payment rails’ number — that Ethereum is going to be roughly a quarter of the value of Bitcoin. And that gets you to $62,500. And that’s kind of following the previous historical price cycles.” Source: Signal Week (formerly Paris Blockchain Week) (May 2026) Read Etherealize's "Productive Money" report on the path to $250,000 ETH below 👇

Etherealize

167,773 views • 2 months ago

Sunil didn’t commit suicide. It was a pre-planned murder by toxic professors. A final-year MBBS student, Sunil Bairwa, was found hanging in his hostel room at Kota Medical College, Rajasthan, on March 6, 2025. His death is not just another case of student suicide. It is a direct result of systematic harassment by the college administration that broke him mentally. Sunil’s father revealed the relentless struggles his son faced. After clearing NEET, Sunil joined Kota Medical College in 2019-20. In his first exam, the college administration failed him, forcing his family to file a case. When the results were re-evaluated 7-8 months later, he was declared passed. In his third year, he was caught cheating, leading to the cancellation of two exams. Since then, he had been out of college for 1.5 years. Recently, when he tried to discuss his academic issues, the administration harassed him again. Soon after, he was found dead. A suicide note was recovered, where Sunil apologized to his parents for not meeting their expectations. But let’s be clear, he wasn’t weak. He wasn’t a failure. He was systematically broken down by an institution that should have supported him. Toxic professors and a ruthless system killed him. Why are medical colleges still run like mental torture chambers? Why is failing a student seen as a power move instead of a failure of the teaching system? Why are professors more interested in punishing students than in helping them learn? How many more students have to die before we start holding these toxic educators accountable?

Sunil didn’t commit suicide. It was a pre-planned murder by toxic professors. A final-year MBBS student, Sunil Bairwa, was found hanging in his hostel room at Kota Medical College, Rajasthan, on March 6, 2025. His death is not just another case of student suicide. It is a direct result of systematic harassment by the college administration that broke him mentally. Sunil’s father revealed the relentless struggles his son faced. After clearing NEET, Sunil joined Kota Medical College in 2019-20. In his first exam, the college administration failed him, forcing his family to file a case. When the results were re-evaluated 7-8 months later, he was declared passed. In his third year, he was caught cheating, leading to the cancellation of two exams. Since then, he had been out of college for 1.5 years. Recently, when he tried to discuss his academic issues, the administration harassed him again. Soon after, he was found dead. A suicide note was recovered, where Sunil apologized to his parents for not meeting their expectations. But let’s be clear, he wasn’t weak. He wasn’t a failure. He was systematically broken down by an institution that should have supported him. Toxic professors and a ruthless system killed him. Why are medical colleges still run like mental torture chambers? Why is failing a student seen as a power move instead of a failure of the teaching system? Why are professors more interested in punishing students than in helping them learn? How many more students have to die before we start holding these toxic educators accountable?

यमराज

42,066 views • 1 year ago

(1) BREAKING: In a win for Christian freedom, a West London church has compelled a local authority to reverse a controversial Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that had effectively criminalised its Christian outreach ministry. Supported by lawyers at the Christian Legal Centre, the Kingsborough Centre in Uxbridge, pursued a Judicial Review of the London Borough of Hillingdon’s (LBH) decision to create the first ever street preaching and evangelising censorship zone in the UK. The Pentecostal church, known for founding London’s first food bank in 2009, discovered during a prayer meeting that most of its outreach activities had been banned without warning. The Church, which is situated within the censorship zone, has undertaken ministry in the community since its inception, and for example, held and organised peace gatherings in the area that is now a PSPO zone following the 7/7 terror attack in London in 2005. Contributing significantly to the community, the Church has also set up three branches of the ‘Coat of Many Colours’ nursery, plus an affordable childcare service which now serves multiple areas within Hillingdon and Hounslow. Reading the proposals, however, the church believed they had been ‘criminalised for loving our neighbour’ without proper consultation and had no choice but to pursue legal action. The few responses there were to the public consultation described the legislation as “extremely worrying”, “an attack on freedom of speech”, and ushering in a “police sate”. In August 2023, the council went ahead with its plans, nonetheless, with its website stating that: ‘police and specific officers authorised by the council can enforce PSPO conditions and may issue fixed penalty notices of £100 for non-compliance.’ It added that: ‘Non-payment of an FPN may lead to court prosecution with a maximum fine of £1,000 and/or criminal conviction.’ This made it a criminal offence to preach with amplification, distribute Christian leaflets and display Bible verses on posters in Uxbridge town centre. But now after permission was given for a Judicial Review of the 'unlawful' legislation, the council has been forced into a U-turn with £20,000 legal costs... See more in this🧵, on our website, and breaking in the The Daily Telegraph👇

(1) BREAKING: In a win for Christian freedom, a West London church has compelled a local authority to reverse a controversial Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) that had effectively criminalised its Christian outreach ministry. Supported by lawyers at the Christian Legal Centre, the Kingsborough Centre in Uxbridge, pursued a Judicial Review of the London Borough of Hillingdon’s (LBH) decision to create the first ever street preaching and evangelising censorship zone in the UK. The Pentecostal church, known for founding London’s first food bank in 2009, discovered during a prayer meeting that most of its outreach activities had been banned without warning. The Church, which is situated within the censorship zone, has undertaken ministry in the community since its inception, and for example, held and organised peace gatherings in the area that is now a PSPO zone following the 7/7 terror attack in London in 2005. Contributing significantly to the community, the Church has also set up three branches of the ‘Coat of Many Colours’ nursery, plus an affordable childcare service which now serves multiple areas within Hillingdon and Hounslow. Reading the proposals, however, the church believed they had been ‘criminalised for loving our neighbour’ without proper consultation and had no choice but to pursue legal action. The few responses there were to the public consultation described the legislation as “extremely worrying”, “an attack on freedom of speech”, and ushering in a “police sate”. In August 2023, the council went ahead with its plans, nonetheless, with its website stating that: ‘police and specific officers authorised by the council can enforce PSPO conditions and may issue fixed penalty notices of £100 for non-compliance.’ It added that: ‘Non-payment of an FPN may lead to court prosecution with a maximum fine of £1,000 and/or criminal conviction.’ This made it a criminal offence to preach with amplification, distribute Christian leaflets and display Bible verses on posters in Uxbridge town centre. But now after permission was given for a Judicial Review of the 'unlawful' legislation, the council has been forced into a U-turn with £20,000 legal costs... See more in this🧵, on our website, and breaking in the The Daily Telegraph👇

Christian Concern

113,563 views • 1 year ago

POST OFFICE KNEW ITS TILL BUTTON WAS ROBBING PEOPLE SINCE 2019 A subpostmaster called Denis O'Donnell messaged me on LinkedIn. He follows this page and asked me to help amplify a story he has spent six years trying to get anyone to take seriously. After checking it out I understand why he is still fighting. In 2019 O'Donnell ran a Post Office branch in Prestatyn, Wales. He noticed something wrong with the till. A screen icon on the Horizon system does two opposite jobs, take money and pay money. When several transactions stack up together, Horizon can hand cash to a customer and then log it as a payment the other way, creating an instant shortfall the subpostmaster gets blamed for. O'Donnell wrote to the top. He sent letters to then CEO Nick Read and communications boss Mark Davies. Post Office's answer was that it was a one off mistake, fixed within days. Convenient timing too, since this was 6 months after Post Office had just been humiliated in the High Court by subpostmasters who proved Horizon was faulty all along. O'Donnell kept pushing for years. He eventually got the story to ComputerWeekly and its reporter Karl Flinders Karl Flinders, and to Ron Warmington, the forensic investigator at Second Sight who was one of the original people who blew open the whole Horizon scandal back in 2012. Warmington called this new defect sufficiently serious to write directly to the public inquiry. He also called Post Office's first response to questions about it arrogant and dismissive, which by now is basically the company's official slogan. Post Office finally agreed to investigate and warn branches in December 2025. Six years after O'Donnell first told them. Their own spokesperson said it is impossible to know the true impact but they believe it is limited, based on checking 1 year of error logs out of more than 24 years Horizon has been running. O'Donnell calls that maths a joke, and it is hard to disagree when millions of transactions across two and a half decades got reduced to a single year sample. O'Donnell is trying to warn other subpostmasters and their families that the Post Office Process Review scheme closes to new applications on 30 September 2026. This scheme covers losses caused by Post Office products, policies or processes, separate from the Horizon Shortfall Scheme which already closed in January and the GLO scheme closing this month. If people affected by this specific defect do not apply before the deadline, they may lose the chance entirely. Post Office spent over two decades telling subpostmasters the system never lies. Then it spent six more years telling one particular whistleblower his bug did not matter. Forgive people for not trusting the next apology on the first read. If you are a current or former subpostmaster affected by this or unsure about the Process Review deadline, get proper advice before it closes. SOURCES ComputerWeekly Karl Flinders Post Office Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry BBC News (UK)

POST OFFICE KNEW ITS TILL BUTTON WAS ROBBING PEOPLE SINCE 2019 A subpostmaster called Denis O'Donnell messaged me on LinkedIn. He follows this page and asked me to help amplify a story he has spent six years trying to get anyone to take seriously. After checking it out I understand why he is still fighting. In 2019 O'Donnell ran a Post Office branch in Prestatyn, Wales. He noticed something wrong with the till. A screen icon on the Horizon system does two opposite jobs, take money and pay money. When several transactions stack up together, Horizon can hand cash to a customer and then log it as a payment the other way, creating an instant shortfall the subpostmaster gets blamed for. O'Donnell wrote to the top. He sent letters to then CEO Nick Read and communications boss Mark Davies. Post Office's answer was that it was a one off mistake, fixed within days. Convenient timing too, since this was 6 months after Post Office had just been humiliated in the High Court by subpostmasters who proved Horizon was faulty all along. O'Donnell kept pushing for years. He eventually got the story to ComputerWeekly and its reporter Karl Flinders Karl Flinders, and to Ron Warmington, the forensic investigator at Second Sight who was one of the original people who blew open the whole Horizon scandal back in 2012. Warmington called this new defect sufficiently serious to write directly to the public inquiry. He also called Post Office's first response to questions about it arrogant and dismissive, which by now is basically the company's official slogan. Post Office finally agreed to investigate and warn branches in December 2025. Six years after O'Donnell first told them. Their own spokesperson said it is impossible to know the true impact but they believe it is limited, based on checking 1 year of error logs out of more than 24 years Horizon has been running. O'Donnell calls that maths a joke, and it is hard to disagree when millions of transactions across two and a half decades got reduced to a single year sample. O'Donnell is trying to warn other subpostmasters and their families that the Post Office Process Review scheme closes to new applications on 30 September 2026. This scheme covers losses caused by Post Office products, policies or processes, separate from the Horizon Shortfall Scheme which already closed in January and the GLO scheme closing this month. If people affected by this specific defect do not apply before the deadline, they may lose the chance entirely. Post Office spent over two decades telling subpostmasters the system never lies. Then it spent six more years telling one particular whistleblower his bug did not matter. Forgive people for not trusting the next apology on the first read. If you are a current or former subpostmaster affected by this or unsure about the Process Review deadline, get proper advice before it closes. SOURCES ComputerWeekly Karl Flinders Post Office Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry BBC News (UK)

Artur Nadolny

47,327 views • 8 days ago

(1)🚨BREAKING: After a seven-year, high-profile legal battle on multiple fronts, Rev. Dr Bernard Randall, supported by the Christian Legal Centre, has secured a legal settlement with Trent College and succeeded in overturning the Church of England’s (CofE) safeguarding blacklisting of him for preaching a sermon on freedom of belief and gender identity. Dr Randall, a former Cambridge University college chaplain, is now free to preach in church again and work in an education setting for the first time in seven years after he and his legal team successfully challenged the ban imposed on him. Had he preached in a CofE place of worship during the past seven years, he could have faced disciplinary action. The sanction followed a sermon he delivered as chaplain of the Derbyshire college in July 2019 in a CofE school, in a CofE chapel, precisely the kind of setting where pupils might reasonably expect to hear orthodox Christian teaching. The sermon encouraged debate and was pastoral and rooted in Anglican belief. It came after the school had invited in the external campaign group Educate and Celebrate, which openly stated its aim to “smash heteronormativity” and to embed Queer Theory throughout the culture of the school. Yet for delivering that sermon, Dr Randall, was treated like a criminal: forced out of the college, reported to Prevent without his knowledge, and blacklisted by the Diocese of Derby as a safeguarding risk. Meanwhile, in the years since, Educate and Celebrate has been quietly closed down by the Charity Commission following a series of scandals, including one of its patrons committing multiple sex offences against children. See more breaking in The Times, on our website and in this 🧵

Christian Concern

84,340 views • 18 days ago

I just left the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai after a ceremony that turned into a poignant trip down memory lane. The NSE India CEO, my friend Ashish Chauhan & his outstanding team marked our 30 years of listing with a symbolic bell-ringing, along with Mahindra leadership, followed by a spirited exchange (pun intended!) of mementos and a tour of their state-of-the-art IT operations. What stayed with me most was a sense of reassurance. The Exchange is a constant target for cyberattacks, but its systems and disaster-recovery capabilities are world-leading. Even more reassuring is the mindset of the team, their quiet confidence and vigilance. The nostalgia came for two reasons. First, NSE’s inaugural office in 1993 was at Mahindra Towers in Worli, Mumbai, where I had just begun my own journey with the Group in 1991. In a sense, we were fellow travellers from the very start. Second, I had the privilege of serving on the NSE Board from 2002 to 2010. The learnings from that decade have stayed with me ever since. And a point of quiet pride: among NIFTY50 companies listed back then, we’ve been the best-performing stock since 2002. My thanks to Ashishkumar and his colleagues; not just for today’s honour, but for the memories that came with it. Some milestones mark time. Others bring it vividly back. Today did both.

I just left the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai after a ceremony that turned into a poignant trip down memory lane. The NSE India CEO, my friend Ashish Chauhan & his outstanding team marked our 30 years of listing with a symbolic bell-ringing, along with Mahindra leadership, followed by a spirited exchange (pun intended!) of mementos and a tour of their state-of-the-art IT operations. What stayed with me most was a sense of reassurance. The Exchange is a constant target for cyberattacks, but its systems and disaster-recovery capabilities are world-leading. Even more reassuring is the mindset of the team, their quiet confidence and vigilance. The nostalgia came for two reasons. First, NSE’s inaugural office in 1993 was at Mahindra Towers in Worli, Mumbai, where I had just begun my own journey with the Group in 1991. In a sense, we were fellow travellers from the very start. Second, I had the privilege of serving on the NSE Board from 2002 to 2010. The learnings from that decade have stayed with me ever since. And a point of quiet pride: among NIFTY50 companies listed back then, we’ve been the best-performing stock since 2002. My thanks to Ashishkumar and his colleagues; not just for today’s honour, but for the memories that came with it. Some milestones mark time. Others bring it vividly back. Today did both.

anand mahindra

110,220 views • 2 months ago

Huma Turns 4 today. Huma was founded on April 20, 2022 with a clear mission — to accelerate the movement of money for a world that is always on. This is the story behind that mission. The inspiration came from our founders’ experience building EarnIn, a leading payment financing app. EarnIn helped tens of millions of Americans access their wages in real time instead of waiting for weeks, avoiding end of month cash flow challenges that often led to debt spirals. It wasn't easy. Even after scaling EarnIn to more than $10B in cashouts with less than 1% loss rates, it was difficult to find lenders willing to finance payment gaps for a few days. Retrofitting AI-driven real-time solutions on top of existing banking infrastructure revealed a stark truth. The future of finance could not be built on legacy rails. So, they left EarnIn to build a new payment financing layer at global scale. The first prototype won the DeFi track at EthDenver. Shortly after, Huma was founded. Huma 1.0 launched in 2023 with a handful of LPs and early partners believing in our mission, building alongside us. Each partner validated a different real world use case: - Arf focused on cross-border payments - Rain focused on card settlement - Jia focused on trade finance In early 2024, Huma crossed $1B in transaction volume. It became clear that Arf's regulated infrastructure is critical to onboard larger global payment companies. The two teams merged, combining onchain infrastructure with regulated financial rails. Since then, the network has grown 10x. Solana Foundation was first to recognize PayFi’s potential and offered a partnership to build the category. Huma went all in, rebuilding its stack on Solana, believing global liquidity solutions belong to the fastest growing ecosystem with the highest TPS. Huma 2.0 and PST (PayFi Strategy Token) launched in April 2025, followed by the HUMA token in May with full ecosystem alignment. Partnerships with Jupiter and Kamino helped scale PST, letting everyone on Solana access yield from real world payment flows. Our leadership in the ecosystem was recognized by an invitation to the Genius Act signing ceremony at the White House. Huma now leads the PayFi category with measurable scale: - $12B total transaction volume - $160M active liquidity - 100K+ depositors - PST has become a core onchain yield primitive All of this is to say, thank you. To the teams at Huma and Arf, our investors, and every partner who backed PayFi before it had a name, thank you. To our community, none of this happens without you. As the first PayFi network, we have come a long way in advancing our mission to accelerate the movement of money for a world that is always on. There is still much more to build.

Huma Turns 4 today. Huma was founded on April 20, 2022 with a clear mission — to accelerate the movement of money for a world that is always on. This is the story behind that mission. The inspiration came from our founders’ experience building EarnIn, a leading payment financing app. EarnIn helped tens of millions of Americans access their wages in real time instead of waiting for weeks, avoiding end of month cash flow challenges that often led to debt spirals. It wasn't easy. Even after scaling EarnIn to more than $10B in cashouts with less than 1% loss rates, it was difficult to find lenders willing to finance payment gaps for a few days. Retrofitting AI-driven real-time solutions on top of existing banking infrastructure revealed a stark truth. The future of finance could not be built on legacy rails. So, they left EarnIn to build a new payment financing layer at global scale. The first prototype won the DeFi track at EthDenver. Shortly after, Huma was founded. Huma 1.0 launched in 2023 with a handful of LPs and early partners believing in our mission, building alongside us. Each partner validated a different real world use case: - Arf focused on cross-border payments - Rain focused on card settlement - Jia focused on trade finance In early 2024, Huma crossed $1B in transaction volume. It became clear that Arf's regulated infrastructure is critical to onboard larger global payment companies. The two teams merged, combining onchain infrastructure with regulated financial rails. Since then, the network has grown 10x. Solana Foundation was first to recognize PayFi’s potential and offered a partnership to build the category. Huma went all in, rebuilding its stack on Solana, believing global liquidity solutions belong to the fastest growing ecosystem with the highest TPS. Huma 2.0 and PST (PayFi Strategy Token) launched in April 2025, followed by the HUMA token in May with full ecosystem alignment. Partnerships with Jupiter and Kamino helped scale PST, letting everyone on Solana access yield from real world payment flows. Our leadership in the ecosystem was recognized by an invitation to the Genius Act signing ceremony at the White House. Huma now leads the PayFi category with measurable scale: - $12B total transaction volume - $160M active liquidity - 100K+ depositors - PST has become a core onchain yield primitive All of this is to say, thank you. To the teams at Huma and Arf, our investors, and every partner who backed PayFi before it had a name, thank you. To our community, none of this happens without you. As the first PayFi network, we have come a long way in advancing our mission to accelerate the movement of money for a world that is always on. There is still much more to build.

Huma Finance

73,338 views • 3 months ago

Trump's 'Mission Accomplished' Blunder In times of war, the right words by the commander in chief can make inspire a population to even stunning sacrifice to win. Poorly chosen words, however, can undermine it. Last night Trump made a blunder of the second category. Who can forget Winston Churchill's famous "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech, made just three days after the Nazi's invaded France, and inspired the people of the British Empire to resist through even the dark days of World War II until final victory. In contrast, one of the worst speeches in American military history came when George Bush made the infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom: that May 2003 speech came *before* the insurgency reared its ugly head and we fought another eight long years untill the next president silently withdrew without any victory. Last night at a campaign event in Kentucky, in an apparent attempt to fool the American people into believing this war against Iran had been all but won in 12 days (like his previous declaration of victory against Iran in 12 days), Trump claimed "You never like to say too ⁠early you won. (But) we won. In the first hour it was over." No. It was nowhere near over in the first hour. Not in the first day, and now now into the 13th day. We've officially lost 7 Americans killed, 140 wounded - so far - and we're bleeding funding at the rate of a staggering $1 billion PER DAY, 17 of our bases or military sites in the Middle East have been attacked, 10 of our regional allies have been attacked, Israel in particular has seen more devastation in its cities than at any point since its creation in 1948, and the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed. The Iranians have weathered everything we've thrown at them so far, and every indication they'll continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Short of a ground invasion (for which we don't have troops) or the use of a nuclear weapon - something that should be off the table - there is no identifiable path for the president to accomplish the sweeping and expansive list of objectives he has publicly declared, most painfully "unconditional surrender" of Iran's government. No, Mr. President, we have not 'won', and there is no rational basis for achieving a victory in the foreseeable future. Our best move forward at the point should be sober recognition a total military and political victory is not achievable at a cost we could afford, and to eat some humble pie and seek the best negotiated end that can be found (and ANY deal will be massively complicated by our walk-away from the JCPOA in 2018 and the two false negotiations we employed in 2025 and prior to this attack). But don't give us feel-good moments on a tarmac somewhere that we've won something our eyes clearly reveal we have not.

Trump's 'Mission Accomplished' Blunder In times of war, the right words by the commander in chief can make inspire a population to even stunning sacrifice to win. Poorly chosen words, however, can undermine it. Last night Trump made a blunder of the second category. Who can forget Winston Churchill's famous "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat" speech, made just three days after the Nazi's invaded France, and inspired the people of the British Empire to resist through even the dark days of World War II until final victory. In contrast, one of the worst speeches in American military history came when George Bush made the infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech in the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom: that May 2003 speech came before the insurgency reared its ugly head and we fought another eight long years untill the next president silently withdrew without any victory. Last night at a campaign event in Kentucky, in an apparent attempt to fool the American people into believing this war against Iran had been all but won in 12 days (like his previous declaration of victory against Iran in 12 days), Trump claimed "You never like to say too ⁠early you won. (But) we won. In the first hour it was over." No. It was nowhere near over in the first hour. Not in the first day, and now now into the 13th day. We've officially lost 7 Americans killed, 140 wounded - so far - and we're bleeding funding at the rate of a staggering $1 billion PER DAY, 17 of our bases or military sites in the Middle East have been attacked, 10 of our regional allies have been attacked, Israel in particular has seen more devastation in its cities than at any point since its creation in 1948, and the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed. The Iranians have weathered everything we've thrown at them so far, and every indication they'll continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Short of a ground invasion (for which we don't have troops) or the use of a nuclear weapon - something that should be off the table - there is no identifiable path for the president to accomplish the sweeping and expansive list of objectives he has publicly declared, most painfully "unconditional surrender" of Iran's government. No, Mr. President, we have not 'won', and there is no rational basis for achieving a victory in the foreseeable future. Our best move forward at the point should be sober recognition a total military and political victory is not achievable at a cost we could afford, and to eat some humble pie and seek the best negotiated end that can be found (and ANY deal will be massively complicated by our walk-away from the JCPOA in 2018 and the two false negotiations we employed in 2025 and prior to this attack). But don't give us feel-good moments on a tarmac somewhere that we've won something our eyes clearly reveal we have not.

Daniel Davis Deep Dive

33,059 views • 4 months ago

Prince Harry was with Morgan McSweeney at the Kyiv Security conference in Ukraine. He spoke for the first time on the Mandelson scandal at the conference yesterday. Apparently McSweeney was in Ukraine to learn about how AI could be used to SHAPE future elections in Ukraine. Morgan McSweeney is going before UK Select committee on Tuesday April 28th to answer questions about forcefully pushing Mandelson's appointment through as UK ambassador to the US despite being called a security risk and not suitable. Why should Americans and "Royalists" care? UK based 'Center 4 Countering Digital Hate' (CCDH) founded by Keir Starmer’s top advisor Morgan McSweeney is listed as a partner in 'Change the Terms coalition' with Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). In my previous post, I mentioned UK British Royal Family Member, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have funded and worked closely with most of the organizations in this dirty leftist coalition called"Change The Term" CCDH specifically. The Feds indicted SPLC last week for all kinds of crimes, but more importantly they were funding the same hate orgs they were putting targets on right leaning voices while whipping up chaos and division, especially online. The group was influential in getting Charlie Kirk assassinated. Morgan McSweeney came to the United States to help the Kamala Harris Campaign in Chicago and Labour sent 100 people from the UK to campaign against Trump in 2024 CCDH and Prince Harry were driving censorship in 2020 with the pressure campaigns that were silencing and getting people deplatformed leading up to the US 2020 Elections.. #stophateforprofit #stopfundingfakenews Harry and Meghan fabricated and manufactured racism/hate online through the Sussex Squad and attacked conservative/royalist voices that questioned Meghan's lies about her past and validity of her pregnancy and Line of Succession. Innocent middle aged white women and critics were targeted/labeled as racists and attacked viciously, putting targets on all our backs. Immediately after the Minnesota Fraud was exposed at the end of 2025, Archewell Foundation changed their name to Archewell Philanthropies, their Director James Holt fled the US back to the UK, and the Archewell website was wiped. This is a serious diplomatic issue because we have a Prince of the UK , who is supposed to be a ceremonial, symbolic, allied presence, weaponizing their global platform and prestige against his host nation’s very system of government and its leader. Harry needs to be called before Congress about his political activity in this country the past 6 years. Why has Congress not asked how Prince Harry knew about J-6 and his relationships with high ranking Democrats (Clinton, Obama, and Biden)? President Donald J. Trump Vice President JD Vance Secretary Marco Rubio Department of State FBI Director Kash Patel FBI Senator Eric Schmitt Rep. Jim Jordan House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Senate Republicans GOP Daily Empress Tarot Acting AG Todd Blanche Lauren The Insider Dan Wootton

Prince Harry was with Morgan McSweeney at the Kyiv Security conference in Ukraine. He spoke for the first time on the Mandelson scandal at the conference yesterday. Apparently McSweeney was in Ukraine to learn about how AI could be used to SHAPE future elections in Ukraine. Morgan McSweeney is going before UK Select committee on Tuesday April 28th to answer questions about forcefully pushing Mandelson's appointment through as UK ambassador to the US despite being called a security risk and not suitable. Why should Americans and "Royalists" care? UK based 'Center 4 Countering Digital Hate' (CCDH) founded by Keir Starmer’s top advisor Morgan McSweeney is listed as a partner in 'Change the Terms coalition' with Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). In my previous post, I mentioned UK British Royal Family Member, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have funded and worked closely with most of the organizations in this dirty leftist coalition called"Change The Term" CCDH specifically. The Feds indicted SPLC last week for all kinds of crimes, but more importantly they were funding the same hate orgs they were putting targets on right leaning voices while whipping up chaos and division, especially online. The group was influential in getting Charlie Kirk assassinated. Morgan McSweeney came to the United States to help the Kamala Harris Campaign in Chicago and Labour sent 100 people from the UK to campaign against Trump in 2024 CCDH and Prince Harry were driving censorship in 2020 with the pressure campaigns that were silencing and getting people deplatformed leading up to the US 2020 Elections.. #stophateforprofit #stopfundingfakenews Harry and Meghan fabricated and manufactured racism/hate online through the Sussex Squad and attacked conservative/royalist voices that questioned Meghan's lies about her past and validity of her pregnancy and Line of Succession. Innocent middle aged white women and critics were targeted/labeled as racists and attacked viciously, putting targets on all our backs. Immediately after the Minnesota Fraud was exposed at the end of 2025, Archewell Foundation changed their name to Archewell Philanthropies, their Director James Holt fled the US back to the UK, and the Archewell website was wiped. This is a serious diplomatic issue because we have a Prince of the UK , who is supposed to be a ceremonial, symbolic, allied presence, weaponizing their global platform and prestige against his host nation’s very system of government and its leader. Harry needs to be called before Congress about his political activity in this country the past 6 years. Why has Congress not asked how Prince Harry knew about J-6 and his relationships with high ranking Democrats (Clinton, Obama, and Biden)? President Donald J. Trump Vice President JD Vance Secretary Marco Rubio Department of State FBI Director Kash Patel FBI Senator Eric Schmitt Rep. Jim Jordan House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Senate Republicans GOP Daily Empress Tarot Acting AG Todd Blanche Lauren The Insider Dan Wootton

TR G - The Royal Grift

48,543 views • 3 months ago

Ten years after the majestic, globally significant, yet betrayed NO Referendum of the Greek people – a personal message: On 5th of July 2015 the Greek people voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to say a big, beautiful NO to the Big Business and Big Finance who, through their centre right and centre left political representatives, were demanding of the Greek people that they shoulder the costs of the banking crisis which Big Business and Big Finance had caused, with the result that hundreds of millions of people in Europe and America were crushed under mountain ranges of banking losses which governments then turned into public debt, before shifting it to the shoulders of the weakest of citizens through universal austerity – the working classes, the poor, the elderly, the young, the women, people who lacked the power to defend themselves from the powerful plucking the very moneytree whose existence they denied. Churchill once said of the battle of El Alamein that, before it, the Allies had never won but that, after it, they never lost again. I could say something similar about that splendid and, at once, tragic day, of the Greek NO Referendum ten years ago today – the day when 62% of Greek voters ignored the financial terrorism of the European Central Bank (which had shut down the Greek banks to blackmail voters to accept the terms of surrender they were dictating to the Greek people). That same day when my former comrade, the PM I was serving as finance minister on behalf of the Greeks who were resisting, trashed their verdict and defected to the Big Finance and the Big Business in the name of the left. Before that day, before the magnificent NO Referendum outcome of 5th July 2015, and during the months and years leading to it, we could not imagine losing in the long run our fights against the Big Finance and the Big Business that blew up our social economies in 2008. But after it, since the PM I was serving under overturned our people and betrayed their referendum verdict, we cannot imagine winning ever again, at least not in our lifetimes, against the Big Finance and the Big Business whom the betrayal of the NO Referendum helped recover. It was THAT significant a day. It was THAT significant a defection. Now, I know it is not the done thing to sully the spirit of one’s fellow travellers, one’s comrades, to say things like that - to surrender in public to the admission not only of the size of our defeat but also of the possibility that we may not win again for the foreseeable future. Alas, now is the time for honesty – for without honesty amongst rebels no rebellion worth its salt can be staged. Indulge me friends, fellow travellers, comrades. My point is not to bring you down. My point is to acknowledge where we are not just in Greece, in Germany, in Britain, in Europe but globally. To take stock properly of our situation globally not to mourn nor for some perverted sense of inverted glory, certainly not for gain, but for the simple, stubborn hope of rising again. Somewhere to the North of where I am talking you from, the killing fields of Ukraine are devouring lives with a ruthless, mechanical precision. Where is the Peace Movement to stop this? Nowhere really. Instead Europe is sinking fast into Military Keynesianism, with large majorities in our parliaments voting for unspeakable amounts of new debt to go to weapons of mass destruction we neither need nor can afford – and certainly weapons that people with the slightest of sense left in their hearts and minds should not want. Meanwhile, needless to say, from my southeast, from the scorched land of Palestine, the acrid stench of genocide drifts on the wind. Yes, we have staged magnificent marches on our streets. Yes, our people have marched to Gaza, other comrades risked life and limb to sail to that coastal war crime scene. Yes we have made it possible to speak of the genocide without being treated as buffoons. Yes, we have shifted public opinion. But, nothing is changing on the ground where Palestinian life is eradicated at a steady, at an unbearable rate, or in the corridors of power. Where are the sanctions on Israel? Where is the UN Peacekeeping force that should have been parachuted in to stop the genocide in its tracks? Nowhere. The only people that are hounded are people like the UN’s Special Rapporteur, my friend Francesca Albanese, for daring to report on the political economy of genocide. Why has Brazil, Spain or Ireland, countries whose governments have been supportive of the Palestinians not joined the Hague Group that our Progressive International has brought together to isolate Israel? What are they waiting for? Friends, fellow-travellers, comrades, at the risk of saddening, maybe even angering you, I shall say it again: Since that NO referendum was overturned ten years ago, today, by the left’s own leadership, we are losing at every front. Who is winning? Not the liberal authoritarian establishment – Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz. No the pro-genocide radical centre they sensationally unpopular. Even if they are clinging onto power for the time being, they are thoroughly discredited, despised even. No, the winners nest elsewhere in even uglier echelons of the political spectrum. Have you not smelled its smell? Can’t you smell the fascism in the air? Can’t you feel its sour, metallic taste clinging to the back of your throat? What happened to our great hopes? Remember Woman-Life-Freedom? The whispered three-word promise Kurdish heroines carried like a fragile beacon in their hands, a promise that until recently seemed to shimmer just within reach? Well, take a look at the triumphant Donald Trump on the one hand – yes, he is winning on every front – and the pathetic Kamala Harris, or the even more pathetic Hillary Clinton, on the other. Between them, willingly in Trump’s case, they created the manosphere’s unyielding juggernaut, which trampled upon Woman-Life-Freedom, as if these precious little words, had never been spoken at all. Authoritarianism, that most insidious of plagues, has crept into every sinew of life. Along with the smell of pollution in the air, microplastics in our oceans, the insidious power of cloud capital hardwired into our brains, delivering our minds to the whims of our new techlords – this New Global Ecocidal Hyper-Exploitative Ruling Class is entrenching itself as the new order, its cold grip tightening with each passing day. I don’t know about you but, speaking personally, on this, the 10th anniversary of our Great Victory which was turned overnight into the Great Betrayal, it is ever so easy to surrender to the feeling, the sensation, that my political struggles, fuelled by a fierce and unyielding hope, are taking me from one defeat to the next, making me feel like a character in some twisted simulation, doomed to repeat the same futile actions over and over. BUT, I shall not surrender. And nor will you! Acknowledging our defeats, the overwhelming strength of the monsters in power, and the magnitude of the task, needs to be done so that we ground our disobedience, our activism, our sacred campaigns for Humanity and for Nature, on solid ground. So that we learn from the past, from what happened to the brave Greek people 10 years ago to this day, focussing with laser sharp precision not only on the economics and the politics of what needs to be done but, much more so, on the greatest solvent, the ugliest enemy, of solidarity: The tendency of our own side, our own comrades, to be lured by power into defecting to the other side – to the oligarchs who are ever so eager to co-opt us, to co-opt our leading figures especially. So, on behalf of DiEM25, today, the 5th of July 2025, exactly 10 years after the Greek people’s majestic, betrayed, but inspiringly courageous NO – that ethereal revolutionary little word – a word redolent of the only Freedom that matters, the freedom to turn down exploitative, extractive deals. On this day, I bid you farewell. Battle well, and let us all, grounded on facts, work joyously to devise acts that make the fascists, the radical centre, the genocide practitioners and the purveyors of all types of exploitation lose their sleep at night so that the many can dream again.

Ten years after the majestic, globally significant, yet betrayed NO Referendum of the Greek people – a personal message: On 5th of July 2015 the Greek people voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to say a big, beautiful NO to the Big Business and Big Finance who, through their centre right and centre left political representatives, were demanding of the Greek people that they shoulder the costs of the banking crisis which Big Business and Big Finance had caused, with the result that hundreds of millions of people in Europe and America were crushed under mountain ranges of banking losses which governments then turned into public debt, before shifting it to the shoulders of the weakest of citizens through universal austerity – the working classes, the poor, the elderly, the young, the women, people who lacked the power to defend themselves from the powerful plucking the very moneytree whose existence they denied. Churchill once said of the battle of El Alamein that, before it, the Allies had never won but that, after it, they never lost again. I could say something similar about that splendid and, at once, tragic day, of the Greek NO Referendum ten years ago today – the day when 62% of Greek voters ignored the financial terrorism of the European Central Bank (which had shut down the Greek banks to blackmail voters to accept the terms of surrender they were dictating to the Greek people). That same day when my former comrade, the PM I was serving as finance minister on behalf of the Greeks who were resisting, trashed their verdict and defected to the Big Finance and the Big Business in the name of the left. Before that day, before the magnificent NO Referendum outcome of 5th July 2015, and during the months and years leading to it, we could not imagine losing in the long run our fights against the Big Finance and the Big Business that blew up our social economies in 2008. But after it, since the PM I was serving under overturned our people and betrayed their referendum verdict, we cannot imagine winning ever again, at least not in our lifetimes, against the Big Finance and the Big Business whom the betrayal of the NO Referendum helped recover. It was THAT significant a day. It was THAT significant a defection. Now, I know it is not the done thing to sully the spirit of one’s fellow travellers, one’s comrades, to say things like that - to surrender in public to the admission not only of the size of our defeat but also of the possibility that we may not win again for the foreseeable future. Alas, now is the time for honesty – for without honesty amongst rebels no rebellion worth its salt can be staged. Indulge me friends, fellow travellers, comrades. My point is not to bring you down. My point is to acknowledge where we are not just in Greece, in Germany, in Britain, in Europe but globally. To take stock properly of our situation globally not to mourn nor for some perverted sense of inverted glory, certainly not for gain, but for the simple, stubborn hope of rising again. Somewhere to the North of where I am talking you from, the killing fields of Ukraine are devouring lives with a ruthless, mechanical precision. Where is the Peace Movement to stop this? Nowhere really. Instead Europe is sinking fast into Military Keynesianism, with large majorities in our parliaments voting for unspeakable amounts of new debt to go to weapons of mass destruction we neither need nor can afford – and certainly weapons that people with the slightest of sense left in their hearts and minds should not want. Meanwhile, needless to say, from my southeast, from the scorched land of Palestine, the acrid stench of genocide drifts on the wind. Yes, we have staged magnificent marches on our streets. Yes, our people have marched to Gaza, other comrades risked life and limb to sail to that coastal war crime scene. Yes we have made it possible to speak of the genocide without being treated as buffoons. Yes, we have shifted public opinion. But, nothing is changing on the ground where Palestinian life is eradicated at a steady, at an unbearable rate, or in the corridors of power. Where are the sanctions on Israel? Where is the UN Peacekeeping force that should have been parachuted in to stop the genocide in its tracks? Nowhere. The only people that are hounded are people like the UN’s Special Rapporteur, my friend Francesca Albanese, for daring to report on the political economy of genocide. Why has Brazil, Spain or Ireland, countries whose governments have been supportive of the Palestinians not joined the Hague Group that our Progressive International has brought together to isolate Israel? What are they waiting for? Friends, fellow-travellers, comrades, at the risk of saddening, maybe even angering you, I shall say it again: Since that NO referendum was overturned ten years ago, today, by the left’s own leadership, we are losing at every front. Who is winning? Not the liberal authoritarian establishment – Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz. No the pro-genocide radical centre they sensationally unpopular. Even if they are clinging onto power for the time being, they are thoroughly discredited, despised even. No, the winners nest elsewhere in even uglier echelons of the political spectrum. Have you not smelled its smell? Can’t you smell the fascism in the air? Can’t you feel its sour, metallic taste clinging to the back of your throat? What happened to our great hopes? Remember Woman-Life-Freedom? The whispered three-word promise Kurdish heroines carried like a fragile beacon in their hands, a promise that until recently seemed to shimmer just within reach? Well, take a look at the triumphant Donald Trump on the one hand – yes, he is winning on every front – and the pathetic Kamala Harris, or the even more pathetic Hillary Clinton, on the other. Between them, willingly in Trump’s case, they created the manosphere’s unyielding juggernaut, which trampled upon Woman-Life-Freedom, as if these precious little words, had never been spoken at all. Authoritarianism, that most insidious of plagues, has crept into every sinew of life. Along with the smell of pollution in the air, microplastics in our oceans, the insidious power of cloud capital hardwired into our brains, delivering our minds to the whims of our new techlords – this New Global Ecocidal Hyper-Exploitative Ruling Class is entrenching itself as the new order, its cold grip tightening with each passing day. I don’t know about you but, speaking personally, on this, the 10th anniversary of our Great Victory which was turned overnight into the Great Betrayal, it is ever so easy to surrender to the feeling, the sensation, that my political struggles, fuelled by a fierce and unyielding hope, are taking me from one defeat to the next, making me feel like a character in some twisted simulation, doomed to repeat the same futile actions over and over. BUT, I shall not surrender. And nor will you! Acknowledging our defeats, the overwhelming strength of the monsters in power, and the magnitude of the task, needs to be done so that we ground our disobedience, our activism, our sacred campaigns for Humanity and for Nature, on solid ground. So that we learn from the past, from what happened to the brave Greek people 10 years ago to this day, focussing with laser sharp precision not only on the economics and the politics of what needs to be done but, much more so, on the greatest solvent, the ugliest enemy, of solidarity: The tendency of our own side, our own comrades, to be lured by power into defecting to the other side – to the oligarchs who are ever so eager to co-opt us, to co-opt our leading figures especially. So, on behalf of DiEM25, today, the 5th of July 2025, exactly 10 years after the Greek people’s majestic, betrayed, but inspiringly courageous NO – that ethereal revolutionary little word – a word redolent of the only Freedom that matters, the freedom to turn down exploitative, extractive deals. On this day, I bid you farewell. Battle well, and let us all, grounded on facts, work joyously to devise acts that make the fascists, the radical centre, the genocide practitioners and the purveyors of all types of exploitation lose their sleep at night so that the many can dream again.

Yanis Varoufakis

255,152 views • 1 year ago

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump slammed people for going after AG Bondi over her handling of the Epstein case on Truth Social - but instead of rallying support, it triggered a wave of backlash. Even on his own platform, the comment section turned against him. This isn’t just noise - it’s a sign something’s shifting. 2.⁠ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warned that last month’s missile strike on Al Udeid - CENTCOM’s forward HQ - could happen again: "Striking Al Udeid Air Base is not a small incident but a major one that can be repeated. We are capable of reaching important American sites in the region." 3.⁠ In a rare high-level meeting, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea. He praised the alliance as a “fighting brotherhood” and thanked Pyongyang for sending troops and weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine. 4.⁠ A year after the assassination attempt on Trump, a new GAO report revealed that the Secret Service had classified threat intel 10 days before the Butler rally, yet they never told the agents assigned to protect him. 5.⁠ SpaceX celebrated the 500th launch of its Falcon 9 rocket. Since 2010, it's gone from risky prototype to unstoppable workhorse - landing on droneships, launching 100+ missions a year, and turning explosions into evolution. 6.⁠ Trump said Biden’s open border policy almost killed the U.S: “What they've done to our country should never be forgiven, allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country that shouldn't be here. But I think when people see the horror show that we had for 4 years, it was almost like they tried to kill our country.” 7.⁠ Flash floods drowned half of Spain’s tourist hotspots - Barcelona, Girona, Zaragoza - while a 42°C heat dome slow-roasts the rest. Tarazona took 100mm of rain in one hour - now the streets are rivers, the military’s deployed, and the vacation vibes are very underwater. 8.⁠ A preliminary report into the Air India 787 plane crash found both engines lost power after fuel cutoff switches were mysteriously triggered mid-flight. Allegedly, a faulty chip flagged by GE and the FAA likely caused signal loss, not pilot error. 9.⁠ A federal judge ruled that Trump’s immigration sweeps in California targeted Latinos without probable cause, ordering Homeland Security to draft new rules and guarantee access to lawyers even on holidays. The White House called the ruling a “gross overstep” and vowed to appeal it. 10.⁠ A massive fire broke out overnight in Lamont, a small town near Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Flames tore through a mobile home park, a warehouse, an acre of pallets, and nearby brush.

🚨12 HOUR NEWS RECAP 1.⁠ Trump slammed people for going after AG Bondi over her handling of the Epstein case on Truth Social - but instead of rallying support, it triggered a wave of backlash. Even on his own platform, the comment section turned against him. This isn’t just noise - it’s a sign something’s shifting. 2.⁠ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei warned that last month’s missile strike on Al Udeid - CENTCOM’s forward HQ - could happen again: "Striking Al Udeid Air Base is not a small incident but a major one that can be repeated. We are capable of reaching important American sites in the region." 3.⁠ In a rare high-level meeting, Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea. He praised the alliance as a “fighting brotherhood” and thanked Pyongyang for sending troops and weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine. 4.⁠ A year after the assassination attempt on Trump, a new GAO report revealed that the Secret Service had classified threat intel 10 days before the Butler rally, yet they never told the agents assigned to protect him. 5.⁠ SpaceX celebrated the 500th launch of its Falcon 9 rocket. Since 2010, it's gone from risky prototype to unstoppable workhorse - landing on droneships, launching 100+ missions a year, and turning explosions into evolution. 6.⁠ Trump said Biden’s open border policy almost killed the U.S: “What they've done to our country should never be forgiven, allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country that shouldn't be here. But I think when people see the horror show that we had for 4 years, it was almost like they tried to kill our country.” 7.⁠ Flash floods drowned half of Spain’s tourist hotspots - Barcelona, Girona, Zaragoza - while a 42°C heat dome slow-roasts the rest. Tarazona took 100mm of rain in one hour - now the streets are rivers, the military’s deployed, and the vacation vibes are very underwater. 8.⁠ A preliminary report into the Air India 787 plane crash found both engines lost power after fuel cutoff switches were mysteriously triggered mid-flight. Allegedly, a faulty chip flagged by GE and the FAA likely caused signal loss, not pilot error. 9.⁠ A federal judge ruled that Trump’s immigration sweeps in California targeted Latinos without probable cause, ordering Homeland Security to draft new rules and guarantee access to lawyers even on holidays. The White House called the ruling a “gross overstep” and vowed to appeal it. 10.⁠ A massive fire broke out overnight in Lamont, a small town near Bakersfield in Kern County, California. Flames tore through a mobile home park, a warehouse, an acre of pallets, and nearby brush.

Mario Nawfal

108,965 views • 1 year ago

Finally, Ed Davey calls for the UK to join the EU Single Market 👏 "We meet at an extraordinary moment. Vladimir Putin is still waging war on our continent. Donald Trump's chaos in the Middle East goes on. And our government, our own government is paralysed by infighting, waiting for Makerfield to release them from their agony." "And yet, despite all that, standing with you here today, I feel hope. And not just about England's chances against Croatia tonight, but hope about our country's future." "Not hope because the path ahead is easy. It isn't. Not hope because everything will magically get better. It won't." "But hope because finally, after ten long, difficult years, I believe we can move on. We can finally fix the Brexit damage, end the Brexit chaos and get our country back on track." "Because the story the media won't tell you, as they fawn over the rise of Farage, as they hang on his every empty press conference, is that the country is with us. We hear it on the doorsteps, we see it in the polls, we feel it in our communities." "People are fed up. They've had enough. Enough of the chaos in government, the queues at ports, the queues at airports, the bills that just keep on going up." "They know the hard truth that most politicians won't admit. The Brexit experiment has failed. And it's failed all of us." "£90 billion a year. That's how much it's costing us all as taxpayers" "£90 billion every year, gone" "That's £250 million every single day. Taken away from our schools, our hospitals, our armed forces. Taken out of everyone's pockets in the form of unfair tax rises." "Not because of a pandemic, not because of a war, not because of some force of nature out of our control, but because of their Brexit experiment. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the rest. An experiment that has now consumed a decade of British politics. That has tangled British businesses up in pointless red tape, that has pushed up prices for British families and that has left us all poorer." "Well, not all of us, apparently. Farage says that the five million he got from a crypto billionaire was his reward for Brexit. So when he said 'We'll be better off after Brexit,' it turns out he was using the royal we." "But friends, it's not only the economic and financial impact, as disastrous as those have been. It's the way they have poisoned our relationship with our nearest neighbours and friends, making it harder to work together on all the things we need to. Energy security and climate change, migration and refugees, AI, and above all, defence." "Britain has always been at its best when we stand tall with our European allies, not when we shut ourselves off. Now they promised us global Britain, but they have left us isolated at the worst possible time. Poorer, weaker and more insecure." "Their experiment has failed. We all know it. So it's time to move on." "But what do they say? The ones who caused all this. The people responsible. Farage and the Conservative Party. They say 'Tough.' They say you can't move on. They say you can't question Britain's relationship with Europe now. You can't dare to suggest there might be a better way. Doesn't matter how bad it gets, doesn't matter how much you're struggling. You just have to live with it, they say." "We say 'No.' We say Britain shouldn't have to live with a bad deal they've lumped us with. We say our country deserves far better than that." "Theirs is old thinking. It's 2016 thinking. The world has changed dramatically since then. It's time for us to change too. It's time for us to move on, move forward." "Just look around. Vladimir Putin is bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, murdering innocent civilians. He's testing NATO's resolve and setting his sights on the rest of Eastern Europe. He has shown that territorial conquest is not some relic of the distant past. It is happening now on European soil to our friends and our allies who share our values and our way of life." "And Donald Trump, he's torching the world economy for fun with his tariffs and his trade wars and now his actual war with Iran. He's ripping up the rules-based international order that generations of British leaders, American leaders, European leaders, painstakingly built after the Second World War. Trump threatening NATO, emboldening Putin and actively meddling in our democracies." "And then there's China, increasingly using trade supply chains and strategic dependencies as instruments of geopolitical competition." "And to add to all those political changes, there's the billionaire tech barons taking more and more control of our lives and our jobs with their empires of AI and social media, that no one nation can govern on its own." "The assumptions we have lived by for decades, that global trade would keep expanding, that international rules would broadly be respected, that our security would be underwritten by stable alliances. Those assumptions no longer hold. The world has changed more rapidly than at any time since the end of the Cold War. And our politics must change too." "Now we obviously can't turn to those who wrecked it. Farage and the Conservatives. They only want to make things worse. Even now, pushing for Brexit 2.0 with their plans to rip up the European Convention on Human Rights. They would just rerun all the old arguments, forcing Britain to replay the last ten years over and over in a never ending Brexit doom loop." "But nor, I'm afraid, can we look to Labour. Labour who failed to act with anything like the urgency this moment demands. Who don't seem to grasp the scale of the change we need in our relationship with Europe. Labour, who still kept us hemmed in the red lines they set more than five years ago. No single market, no customs union. Red lines they set before Putin invaded Ukraine, before Trump returned to the White House. Red lines that were wrong then and are even more wrong now." "The world has changed and it's time to move on. We cannot be trapped by that old thinking anymore. We have to look to the future. Not back to 2016 but to 2036 and beyond." "And that's why we're all here today, isn't it? Not because we are bitter about the past, but because we believe in a better future. Because we love our country and we know its brightest days still lie ahead." "We're here for our children and our grandchildren because we want them to inherit a country that is growing, that is confident, that is leading, not one that is shrinking, stagnating and standing alone." "That's what drives us. We're here because the world has changed, because the challenges we face to our economy, to our society and to our national defence are real and urgent. And because we believe Britain deserves ambition that matches the scale of this moment." "So what does that ambition look like? Well, first the government needs to drop those old red lines that stop us getting rid of the Conservatives' red tape. Those red lines are holding Britain back. They're hurting the British people and they are playing into the hands of Farage and Reform." "So my message to Andy Burnham, to Wes Streeting, to whoever the next Prime Minister may be, is drop those red lines. Drop them now." "If we do, we can move on from the torpor and timidity that has marked out Labour's approach to Europe so far. We can put an end to the endless talk of a reset that so far seems to just mean saying no more politely than the Conservatives did. And we can get on with properly fixing our relationship with Europe, for our economy, for our security, for our future." "Our party has led that debate for years. Last year, days before Trump took office, we set out plans for the UK to join a new customs union with the EU. And today I want to build on that and go further, much further." "Today we are calling for a new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A bold new deal that will make Britain richer, safer and stronger, including a customs union, but also crucially taking Britain back into the single market." "Tearing down the barriers to trade. Ending the mountains of paperwork, the cost, the delays, the queues. Giving our young people the chance to study and work, live and love anywhere in the EU. Undoing the damage of the Johnson Farage Brexit deal that has held our economy back for so long." "Giving British businesses the certainty they need to invest, to hire and to grow. Giving Britain's economy the boost it needs after years of stagnation. Crucially, giving Britain's public finances a growth dividend. Tens of billions of pounds that we would use to cut the cost of living, to fix the NHS and to strengthen our armed forces." "And this new partnership must go beyond trade and growth. In the age of Putin, Xi and Trump, this must be about defence and security too. No country can be prosperous and free if it is not safe." "And Britain can help lead on defence in Europe as we have so decisively in the past. Despite the Conservatives' short-sighted cuts to our armed forces and Labour's chaos over investing in them now, Britain is still one of Europe's foremost military powers. We are a leading intelligence nation, a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the third-biggest contributor to NATO." "We should be using those strengths. We should be at the table, helping to shape Europe's security future, not watching from the sidelines. And Europe wants us at the table. They know they need our leadership on defence." "So let's seize the initiative from a position of strength to form a new partnership that strengthens both Britain's economy and our collective security. That is why our new partnership would be about defence as much as it is about growth." "That means financial cooperation through a new European rearmament bank, alongside securing UK access to the one hundred and fifty billion euro safe programme. It means joint defence procurement, creating jobs in Britain while strengthening our collective capabilities. It means deeper cooperation on intelligence, on cyber security and on protecting critical infrastructure." "It means working together on energy security so that none of us can be held hostage by an authoritarian regime turning off the gas. It means political cooperation through a new European Security Council with a permanent seat for the UK, ensuring that Europe can shoulder greater responsibility for its own security within NATO." "As Trump's actions remind us every day, that we cannot afford to rely so much on the United States. Friends, this is not a choice we can afford to dodge any longer. In the face of Putin's threats and Trump's unpredictability, a new defence pact with Europe, with allies on whom we can depend, allies who share our interests and our values, is frankly the only way to keep Britain safe and defend our values in a dangerous world." "A new defence pact with Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity. So let's get on with it." "That is the ambition we need when it comes to our relationship with Europe. No more tinkering around the edges of a bad deal. No more shackling ourselves to the arguments of the last ten years, but building something new. A partnership fit for the enormous challenges we face today." "A new growth and defence partnership with a new pact for our collective security. Forming a customs union, joining the single market. A new partnership to make us richer, safer and stronger." "I think it's the best hope our country has to stop the chaos and end the crisis. And, my friends, it is the biggest step we could take now back towards membership of the EU." "And there's another big step we need to take too. Defeating Nigel Farage and Reform. We have to stop them from turning our United Kingdom into their version of Trump's America." "And here's the point. Until we do defeat them, many in Europe will not countenance Britain joining." "Let's remember why this matters, why it's so crucial for Britain to be there at the heart of Europe, at the table with our nearest neighbours." "I've been privileged to see it for myself, the power we have when Britain leads in Europe. When Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, we recognised then that the way to defeat him would be to get Europe off its dependence on Russian oil and gas, to take away the money that was funding his aggression, to bankrupt the Russian war machine." "So I led Britain's efforts to bring Europe together behind that common cause, and we succeeded. We wrote Europe's energy security strategy. Britain did that, sitting at the table, leading in Europe." "But then, instead of seeing it through, the Conservatives walked away. They gave up Britain's seat at the table. They locked us out of those discussions at the worst possible time." "Just imagine where we could be now if Britain had continued to lead on energy security. Imagine how much weaker Putin would be now. Imagine how much safer Ukraine and the rest of Europe, including Britain, would be now. What a terrible waste. What an indictment of the Conservatives." "And that is why I am so determined to get us back at the table, back at the heart of Europe. Britain leading again." "Now I want to speak for a moment about the bigger picture. Because our ambition is not limited to Europe alone. It's about Britain's place in the world." "The old assumption that trade, security and prosperity could be treated as separate issues no longer holds. Supply chains can be disrupted. Energy can be weaponised. Economic security and national security are now inseparable." "At a time when authoritarian powers are doing so much to undermine our security, democratic nations must work more closely together to enhance it. As Mark Carney said in Davos, middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. He is right." "Fixing our relationship with Europe is the essential foundation, but it's not the ceiling. The UK can be an incredible force for good when it stands tall on the world stage. Our history, our alliances and our relationships across every continent gives us a unique position for us to act as a bridge, not just between Europe and the US but between Europe and the whole wider democratic world." "We are here because we believe that our country and our people thrive when we are open and outward looking. That is Britain at its best. Not a small inward looking island clinging to the wreckage of a failed experiment, but a leader, a convening power, a country that helps shape the international order rather than being buffeted by it." "That is the Britain we can be." "But friends, I want to be honest with you about the task ahead. What we are proposing is bold. It is ambitious. It requires courage, requires leadership. And it will not happen without all of us." "We know the obstacles we face, the arguments ahead, the opponents who would rather replay the last ten years instead of moving on from them. Who will tell us we can't even talk about a new deal with Europe, let alone make one. The politicians who will claim change isn't possible because the status quo works for them. But it doesn't work for anyone else." "So our job is to get out there and show people that change is possible, that it doesn't have to be like this, that there is a way forward. A better future for our country. Leading in Europe once again." "This isn't just because we believe in Europe. It's not just about friendship or shared history, or the fact that a divided Europe has always ended in misery. Fixing it is about us, our country, our future, our hopes and our dreams." "Britain needs a new plan. A plan for growth, for jobs, for defence. A plan to give our children the better future they deserve. A new deal with Europe. The only way to fix the cost of living crisis. The only way to get our country back on track." "So let us stand together. Let us end the chaos. Let us show the world what Britain can be. Not a small island clinging to a failed experiment, but a leader, open, outward looking. At the table, not on the menu." "A Britain that is richer, safer and stronger. That is the future we are fighting for." " Thank you. Thank you very much."

Finally, Ed Davey calls for the UK to join the EU Single Market 👏 "We meet at an extraordinary moment. Vladimir Putin is still waging war on our continent. Donald Trump's chaos in the Middle East goes on. And our government, our own government is paralysed by infighting, waiting for Makerfield to release them from their agony." "And yet, despite all that, standing with you here today, I feel hope. And not just about England's chances against Croatia tonight, but hope about our country's future." "Not hope because the path ahead is easy. It isn't. Not hope because everything will magically get better. It won't." "But hope because finally, after ten long, difficult years, I believe we can move on. We can finally fix the Brexit damage, end the Brexit chaos and get our country back on track." "Because the story the media won't tell you, as they fawn over the rise of Farage, as they hang on his every empty press conference, is that the country is with us. We hear it on the doorsteps, we see it in the polls, we feel it in our communities." "People are fed up. They've had enough. Enough of the chaos in government, the queues at ports, the queues at airports, the bills that just keep on going up." "They know the hard truth that most politicians won't admit. The Brexit experiment has failed. And it's failed all of us." "£90 billion a year. That's how much it's costing us all as taxpayers" "£90 billion every year, gone" "That's £250 million every single day. Taken away from our schools, our hospitals, our armed forces. Taken out of everyone's pockets in the form of unfair tax rises." "Not because of a pandemic, not because of a war, not because of some force of nature out of our control, but because of their Brexit experiment. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the rest. An experiment that has now consumed a decade of British politics. That has tangled British businesses up in pointless red tape, that has pushed up prices for British families and that has left us all poorer." "Well, not all of us, apparently. Farage says that the five million he got from a crypto billionaire was his reward for Brexit. So when he said 'We'll be better off after Brexit,' it turns out he was using the royal we." "But friends, it's not only the economic and financial impact, as disastrous as those have been. It's the way they have poisoned our relationship with our nearest neighbours and friends, making it harder to work together on all the things we need to. Energy security and climate change, migration and refugees, AI, and above all, defence." "Britain has always been at its best when we stand tall with our European allies, not when we shut ourselves off. Now they promised us global Britain, but they have left us isolated at the worst possible time. Poorer, weaker and more insecure." "Their experiment has failed. We all know it. So it's time to move on." "But what do they say? The ones who caused all this. The people responsible. Farage and the Conservative Party. They say 'Tough.' They say you can't move on. They say you can't question Britain's relationship with Europe now. You can't dare to suggest there might be a better way. Doesn't matter how bad it gets, doesn't matter how much you're struggling. You just have to live with it, they say." "We say 'No.' We say Britain shouldn't have to live with a bad deal they've lumped us with. We say our country deserves far better than that." "Theirs is old thinking. It's 2016 thinking. The world has changed dramatically since then. It's time for us to change too. It's time for us to move on, move forward." "Just look around. Vladimir Putin is bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, murdering innocent civilians. He's testing NATO's resolve and setting his sights on the rest of Eastern Europe. He has shown that territorial conquest is not some relic of the distant past. It is happening now on European soil to our friends and our allies who share our values and our way of life." "And Donald Trump, he's torching the world economy for fun with his tariffs and his trade wars and now his actual war with Iran. He's ripping up the rules-based international order that generations of British leaders, American leaders, European leaders, painstakingly built after the Second World War. Trump threatening NATO, emboldening Putin and actively meddling in our democracies." "And then there's China, increasingly using trade supply chains and strategic dependencies as instruments of geopolitical competition." "And to add to all those political changes, there's the billionaire tech barons taking more and more control of our lives and our jobs with their empires of AI and social media, that no one nation can govern on its own." "The assumptions we have lived by for decades, that global trade would keep expanding, that international rules would broadly be respected, that our security would be underwritten by stable alliances. Those assumptions no longer hold. The world has changed more rapidly than at any time since the end of the Cold War. And our politics must change too." "Now we obviously can't turn to those who wrecked it. Farage and the Conservatives. They only want to make things worse. Even now, pushing for Brexit 2.0 with their plans to rip up the European Convention on Human Rights. They would just rerun all the old arguments, forcing Britain to replay the last ten years over and over in a never ending Brexit doom loop." "But nor, I'm afraid, can we look to Labour. Labour who failed to act with anything like the urgency this moment demands. Who don't seem to grasp the scale of the change we need in our relationship with Europe. Labour, who still kept us hemmed in the red lines they set more than five years ago. No single market, no customs union. Red lines they set before Putin invaded Ukraine, before Trump returned to the White House. Red lines that were wrong then and are even more wrong now." "The world has changed and it's time to move on. We cannot be trapped by that old thinking anymore. We have to look to the future. Not back to 2016 but to 2036 and beyond." "And that's why we're all here today, isn't it? Not because we are bitter about the past, but because we believe in a better future. Because we love our country and we know its brightest days still lie ahead." "We're here for our children and our grandchildren because we want them to inherit a country that is growing, that is confident, that is leading, not one that is shrinking, stagnating and standing alone." "That's what drives us. We're here because the world has changed, because the challenges we face to our economy, to our society and to our national defence are real and urgent. And because we believe Britain deserves ambition that matches the scale of this moment." "So what does that ambition look like? Well, first the government needs to drop those old red lines that stop us getting rid of the Conservatives' red tape. Those red lines are holding Britain back. They're hurting the British people and they are playing into the hands of Farage and Reform." "So my message to Andy Burnham, to Wes Streeting, to whoever the next Prime Minister may be, is drop those red lines. Drop them now." "If we do, we can move on from the torpor and timidity that has marked out Labour's approach to Europe so far. We can put an end to the endless talk of a reset that so far seems to just mean saying no more politely than the Conservatives did. And we can get on with properly fixing our relationship with Europe, for our economy, for our security, for our future." "Our party has led that debate for years. Last year, days before Trump took office, we set out plans for the UK to join a new customs union with the EU. And today I want to build on that and go further, much further." "Today we are calling for a new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A bold new deal that will make Britain richer, safer and stronger, including a customs union, but also crucially taking Britain back into the single market." "Tearing down the barriers to trade. Ending the mountains of paperwork, the cost, the delays, the queues. Giving our young people the chance to study and work, live and love anywhere in the EU. Undoing the damage of the Johnson Farage Brexit deal that has held our economy back for so long." "Giving British businesses the certainty they need to invest, to hire and to grow. Giving Britain's economy the boost it needs after years of stagnation. Crucially, giving Britain's public finances a growth dividend. Tens of billions of pounds that we would use to cut the cost of living, to fix the NHS and to strengthen our armed forces." "And this new partnership must go beyond trade and growth. In the age of Putin, Xi and Trump, this must be about defence and security too. No country can be prosperous and free if it is not safe." "And Britain can help lead on defence in Europe as we have so decisively in the past. Despite the Conservatives' short-sighted cuts to our armed forces and Labour's chaos over investing in them now, Britain is still one of Europe's foremost military powers. We are a leading intelligence nation, a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the third-biggest contributor to NATO." "We should be using those strengths. We should be at the table, helping to shape Europe's security future, not watching from the sidelines. And Europe wants us at the table. They know they need our leadership on defence." "So let's seize the initiative from a position of strength to form a new partnership that strengthens both Britain's economy and our collective security. That is why our new partnership would be about defence as much as it is about growth." "That means financial cooperation through a new European rearmament bank, alongside securing UK access to the one hundred and fifty billion euro safe programme. It means joint defence procurement, creating jobs in Britain while strengthening our collective capabilities. It means deeper cooperation on intelligence, on cyber security and on protecting critical infrastructure." "It means working together on energy security so that none of us can be held hostage by an authoritarian regime turning off the gas. It means political cooperation through a new European Security Council with a permanent seat for the UK, ensuring that Europe can shoulder greater responsibility for its own security within NATO." "As Trump's actions remind us every day, that we cannot afford to rely so much on the United States. Friends, this is not a choice we can afford to dodge any longer. In the face of Putin's threats and Trump's unpredictability, a new defence pact with Europe, with allies on whom we can depend, allies who share our interests and our values, is frankly the only way to keep Britain safe and defend our values in a dangerous world." "A new defence pact with Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity. So let's get on with it." "That is the ambition we need when it comes to our relationship with Europe. No more tinkering around the edges of a bad deal. No more shackling ourselves to the arguments of the last ten years, but building something new. A partnership fit for the enormous challenges we face today." "A new growth and defence partnership with a new pact for our collective security. Forming a customs union, joining the single market. A new partnership to make us richer, safer and stronger." "I think it's the best hope our country has to stop the chaos and end the crisis. And, my friends, it is the biggest step we could take now back towards membership of the EU." "And there's another big step we need to take too. Defeating Nigel Farage and Reform. We have to stop them from turning our United Kingdom into their version of Trump's America." "And here's the point. Until we do defeat them, many in Europe will not countenance Britain joining." "Let's remember why this matters, why it's so crucial for Britain to be there at the heart of Europe, at the table with our nearest neighbours." "I've been privileged to see it for myself, the power we have when Britain leads in Europe. When Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, we recognised then that the way to defeat him would be to get Europe off its dependence on Russian oil and gas, to take away the money that was funding his aggression, to bankrupt the Russian war machine." "So I led Britain's efforts to bring Europe together behind that common cause, and we succeeded. We wrote Europe's energy security strategy. Britain did that, sitting at the table, leading in Europe." "But then, instead of seeing it through, the Conservatives walked away. They gave up Britain's seat at the table. They locked us out of those discussions at the worst possible time." "Just imagine where we could be now if Britain had continued to lead on energy security. Imagine how much weaker Putin would be now. Imagine how much safer Ukraine and the rest of Europe, including Britain, would be now. What a terrible waste. What an indictment of the Conservatives." "And that is why I am so determined to get us back at the table, back at the heart of Europe. Britain leading again." "Now I want to speak for a moment about the bigger picture. Because our ambition is not limited to Europe alone. It's about Britain's place in the world." "The old assumption that trade, security and prosperity could be treated as separate issues no longer holds. Supply chains can be disrupted. Energy can be weaponised. Economic security and national security are now inseparable." "At a time when authoritarian powers are doing so much to undermine our security, democratic nations must work more closely together to enhance it. As Mark Carney said in Davos, middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. He is right." "Fixing our relationship with Europe is the essential foundation, but it's not the ceiling. The UK can be an incredible force for good when it stands tall on the world stage. Our history, our alliances and our relationships across every continent gives us a unique position for us to act as a bridge, not just between Europe and the US but between Europe and the whole wider democratic world." "We are here because we believe that our country and our people thrive when we are open and outward looking. That is Britain at its best. Not a small inward looking island clinging to the wreckage of a failed experiment, but a leader, a convening power, a country that helps shape the international order rather than being buffeted by it." "That is the Britain we can be." "But friends, I want to be honest with you about the task ahead. What we are proposing is bold. It is ambitious. It requires courage, requires leadership. And it will not happen without all of us." "We know the obstacles we face, the arguments ahead, the opponents who would rather replay the last ten years instead of moving on from them. Who will tell us we can't even talk about a new deal with Europe, let alone make one. The politicians who will claim change isn't possible because the status quo works for them. But it doesn't work for anyone else." "So our job is to get out there and show people that change is possible, that it doesn't have to be like this, that there is a way forward. A better future for our country. Leading in Europe once again." "This isn't just because we believe in Europe. It's not just about friendship or shared history, or the fact that a divided Europe has always ended in misery. Fixing it is about us, our country, our future, our hopes and our dreams." "Britain needs a new plan. A plan for growth, for jobs, for defence. A plan to give our children the better future they deserve. A new deal with Europe. The only way to fix the cost of living crisis. The only way to get our country back on track." "So let us stand together. Let us end the chaos. Let us show the world what Britain can be. Not a small island clinging to a failed experiment, but a leader, open, outward looking. At the table, not on the menu." "A Britain that is richer, safer and stronger. That is the future we are fighting for." " Thank you. Thank you very much."

Farrukh

10,909 views • 1 month ago

There is a delicious irony in the way our governing centrists, in the UK and in the EU, are lamenting the Trump Shock. They wax lyrical about the globalised, financialised capitalist order which they now mourn. They portray it as a golden age, a natural global system of free trade and benign capital flows. Are they truly oblivious to the facts of recent economic history? Do they not know that the grossly imbalanced, extractive, Ponzi-like financialised global capitalism which has spawned the crises that propelled Trump into the White House was also birthed by a major shock? The Nixon shock? Centrists admonish the Trump boys for having turned on their allies but they forget that the Nixon Shock was equally, if not more so, an intentional devastating assault on Europe, Japan and the UK. They seem unaware that precisely because of the economic devastation caused in the 1970s and 1980s, including in America’s heartlands, the Nixon Shock’s architects, men like Paul Volcker, achieved their main long-term objective: to ensure that American hegemony grew alongside America’s trade and government budget deficits, not to mention on the back of financial rents earned at the expense of real value creation. Many seem puzzled that, while the EU and the Britain differ in important ways - mainly in that the EU is running a huge surplus with the US while the UK remains a deficit economy - our centrist regimes on both sides of the Channel seem equally at a loss. There is a reason for this. Since 1971, our economies have been hooked into the same US-centric global surplus recycling mechanism whose deep crisis is steering our politics into the arms of the xenophobic ultra-right – with our electorates increasingly pummelled by nasty undercurrents fuelled by the crisis of this global recycling mechanism that once drove Europe’s and Britain’s growth and relative stability. The essence of this global recycling mechanism (which I once labelled The Global Minotaur) is simple: Since the 1970s, America’s deficits provided Germany, Japan and later China the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan and later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street and its appendage, the City of London, to be recycled into the US rentier sector: private and public debt, some equities, and real estate. A Chinese official once described this mechanism to me as a Dark Deal. “Our Dark Deal with the Americans,” he explained, “turns on the US trade deficit, which keeps demand for our manufactures high. In return, our capitalists invest the bulk of their dollar superprofits into America’s rentier economy - Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate. Once this process got underway”, he concluded, “America shifted much of its industrial production to our shores.” The problem with this global recycling mechanism was that, to function smoothly, it had to generate larger and larger imbalances, greater trade deficits for the US, and more accumulated rents for Northern Europe and East Asia. But, there are limits to how large imbalances can grow, both in terms of trade deficits and in terms of profits versus rents. Ruptures are inevitable. The longer they are delayed the greater the pain they inflict – a truth that centrists never acknowledged, not even when the Crash of 2008 was tearing down their houses. Trump’s boys have dared asked the pressing question that the centrists refuse to countenance: What comes after the Dark Deal once the imbalances built on the US trade deficit proved unsustainably massive? Their proposed solutions may seem wrongheaded, half-baked, even crazy but at least Trump’s team has identified the American ruling class’s problem: How to maintain US hegemony in the face of America’s rapid de-industrialisation, with the Triffin Dilemma hanging over their heads, and now that financial rents are being replaced by what I call cloud rents. In contrast, UK and EU politicians are utterly out of their depth, running around like decapitated chickens, oscillating between vacuous bravado and servility to The Donald. Guy Standing suggested that, today, I focus on how Europe and the UK should respond to the Trump Shock. I could talk endlessly on this. I could, for example, recommend not just a 10% cloud tax by which to clobber Big Tech but also repealing all regulations that we introduced in Europe to comply with Bill Clinton’s despicable ‘anticircumvention’ Act which is why you can’t buy a jailbreaking tool so your printer is able to recognise and use cheaper, generic ink cartridges. I could recommend that our governments rescind all tariffs imposed at the behest of Washington on excellent Chinese solar panels and electric vehicles, while entering into a serious EU-UK-Chinese dialogue with a view to stimulate our economies in a coordinated fashion so as to stem the recessionary wave coming from Trump’s America. I could recommend that Europe starts its own Peace negotiations with Moscow over Ukraine, rejecting the plunder of Ukraine’s underground wealth by Trump’s boys. But, in all honesty, I can’t find the energy to make these recommendations when I know that the Radical Centre in power, in Britain and in the EU, will do everything they can to not do any of that – in exactly the same way they botched the euro crisis or the opportunities offered by the pandemic. Determined to remain wedded to America’s rentier economy, Europe’s and Britain’s elites will not deviate from current policies – not unless we overthrow them first. But for this we need an agenda bolder than Trump’s and Farage’s and, of course, a radically humanist one – an agenda that is not fearful of radical proposals like a public green investment bank, a trust fund for everyone yielding an unconditional personal income, the termination of all quasi-energy markets, the socialisation of housing and, last but not least, a surge in corporations practising one-employee-one-member-one-vote. Meanwhile, as we stuggle to give political representation to such an agenda, all eyes on China – the only country, for better or for worse, that seems willing and able (though not predestined) to counter Trump’s bullies, to boost green energy production, to work toward turning the BRICS into a new Bretton Woods serving the interests of the Global South. For more thoughts on the world’s response to the Trump Shock, watch this space.

There is a delicious irony in the way our governing centrists, in the UK and in the EU, are lamenting the Trump Shock. They wax lyrical about the globalised, financialised capitalist order which they now mourn. They portray it as a golden age, a natural global system of free trade and benign capital flows. Are they truly oblivious to the facts of recent economic history? Do they not know that the grossly imbalanced, extractive, Ponzi-like financialised global capitalism which has spawned the crises that propelled Trump into the White House was also birthed by a major shock? The Nixon shock? Centrists admonish the Trump boys for having turned on their allies but they forget that the Nixon Shock was equally, if not more so, an intentional devastating assault on Europe, Japan and the UK. They seem unaware that precisely because of the economic devastation caused in the 1970s and 1980s, including in America’s heartlands, the Nixon Shock’s architects, men like Paul Volcker, achieved their main long-term objective: to ensure that American hegemony grew alongside America’s trade and government budget deficits, not to mention on the back of financial rents earned at the expense of real value creation. Many seem puzzled that, while the EU and the Britain differ in important ways - mainly in that the EU is running a huge surplus with the US while the UK remains a deficit economy - our centrist regimes on both sides of the Channel seem equally at a loss. There is a reason for this. Since 1971, our economies have been hooked into the same US-centric global surplus recycling mechanism whose deep crisis is steering our politics into the arms of the xenophobic ultra-right – with our electorates increasingly pummelled by nasty undercurrents fuelled by the crisis of this global recycling mechanism that once drove Europe’s and Britain’s growth and relative stability. The essence of this global recycling mechanism (which I once labelled The Global Minotaur) is simple: Since the 1970s, America’s deficits provided Germany, Japan and later China the demand for their factories’ manufactures. In return, the European Union, Japan and later China sent their accumulated profits to Wall Street and its appendage, the City of London, to be recycled into the US rentier sector: private and public debt, some equities, and real estate. A Chinese official once described this mechanism to me as a Dark Deal. “Our Dark Deal with the Americans,” he explained, “turns on the US trade deficit, which keeps demand for our manufactures high. In return, our capitalists invest the bulk of their dollar superprofits into America’s rentier economy - Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate. Once this process got underway”, he concluded, “America shifted much of its industrial production to our shores.” The problem with this global recycling mechanism was that, to function smoothly, it had to generate larger and larger imbalances, greater trade deficits for the US, and more accumulated rents for Northern Europe and East Asia. But, there are limits to how large imbalances can grow, both in terms of trade deficits and in terms of profits versus rents. Ruptures are inevitable. The longer they are delayed the greater the pain they inflict – a truth that centrists never acknowledged, not even when the Crash of 2008 was tearing down their houses. Trump’s boys have dared asked the pressing question that the centrists refuse to countenance: What comes after the Dark Deal once the imbalances built on the US trade deficit proved unsustainably massive? Their proposed solutions may seem wrongheaded, half-baked, even crazy but at least Trump’s team has identified the American ruling class’s problem: How to maintain US hegemony in the face of America’s rapid de-industrialisation, with the Triffin Dilemma hanging over their heads, and now that financial rents are being replaced by what I call cloud rents. In contrast, UK and EU politicians are utterly out of their depth, running around like decapitated chickens, oscillating between vacuous bravado and servility to The Donald. Guy Standing suggested that, today, I focus on how Europe and the UK should respond to the Trump Shock. I could talk endlessly on this. I could, for example, recommend not just a 10% cloud tax by which to clobber Big Tech but also repealing all regulations that we introduced in Europe to comply with Bill Clinton’s despicable ‘anticircumvention’ Act which is why you can’t buy a jailbreaking tool so your printer is able to recognise and use cheaper, generic ink cartridges. I could recommend that our governments rescind all tariffs imposed at the behest of Washington on excellent Chinese solar panels and electric vehicles, while entering into a serious EU-UK-Chinese dialogue with a view to stimulate our economies in a coordinated fashion so as to stem the recessionary wave coming from Trump’s America. I could recommend that Europe starts its own Peace negotiations with Moscow over Ukraine, rejecting the plunder of Ukraine’s underground wealth by Trump’s boys. But, in all honesty, I can’t find the energy to make these recommendations when I know that the Radical Centre in power, in Britain and in the EU, will do everything they can to not do any of that – in exactly the same way they botched the euro crisis or the opportunities offered by the pandemic. Determined to remain wedded to America’s rentier economy, Europe’s and Britain’s elites will not deviate from current policies – not unless we overthrow them first. But for this we need an agenda bolder than Trump’s and Farage’s and, of course, a radically humanist one – an agenda that is not fearful of radical proposals like a public green investment bank, a trust fund for everyone yielding an unconditional personal income, the termination of all quasi-energy markets, the socialisation of housing and, last but not least, a surge in corporations practising one-employee-one-member-one-vote. Meanwhile, as we stuggle to give political representation to such an agenda, all eyes on China – the only country, for better or for worse, that seems willing and able (though not predestined) to counter Trump’s bullies, to boost green energy production, to work toward turning the BRICS into a new Bretton Woods serving the interests of the Global South. For more thoughts on the world’s response to the Trump Shock, watch this space.

Yanis Varoufakis

78,095 views • 1 year ago