The UK has done no such thing. Two companies based in the UK are involved in this, but they have zero relationship to the UK government.
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The UK has done no such thing. Two companies based in the UK are involved in this, but they have zero relationship to the UK government.
China doesn't really need to do much, it just has to be present and accept a host of neutral countries signing on for investment/trade and previously hostile countries prepared to negotiate because they no longer trust the USA and now need an accomodation.
If Farage is urging a foreign power to take actions that damage the UK is this not treason?
America has still got superior military force, but that gap is shrinking (the US army is transitioning to a dictators tool for internal policing). In soft power it has less than zero. It has left the western alliance, driven India and Brazil to China and breaks any treaty it signs on a whim.
What is interesting about this is I think China may have replaced America as the world superpower. America cannot attack China and it has no allies and no way of getting allies. China on the other hand will carry on growing influence. Who would you turn to first as a non aligned country?
He really didn't. Not unless his vocab has expanded dramatically.
I think Russia is at war with Europe and if Europe had some spine it could quickly put a stop to it. That Russian airforce wouldn't last a week and then Russian troops would be forced to leg it back to Russia.
Will this rule also apply to Nigel Farage (Belgium resident) Robert Jenrick and Rishi Sunak as well? I would love to see these multi millionaires forced to live in Premier Inns. We would need police to force them in every night. Bonkers but entertaining I suppose.
Item 2.
Same argument with people who say why do the EU care about who runs the UK. To which the answer is you don't want another Putin asset in charge of a country you hope to provide defence, and in fact 50% of your nukes.
This is the best message Labour have managed for about a year. You should be home secretary.
Europe provides cash, it can't do anything else as that is for EU and non EU European nations, possibly with Canada as well.
How does the numpty think the markets would react to the prospect of Farage as PM?
Usually non violent uprisings.
I would recommend the work of Ed Zitron before assuming all these bit barns will get built. The American experience is a good guide for impact. Texas Observer would seem to have some interesting insights into the local impact of the first "Stargate" DCs.
Authoritarian governments get ousted all the time, see Ukraine, Poland, DDR, Spain, USSR. The advantage the USA has versus all of them is a history of democracy to fall back on in the reconstruction.
They did useful stuff, see also smart phones. AI at least Gen AI doesn't and arguably makes loads of stuff worse. This year Google AI returned tide times exactly wrong (which will at least drown people daft enough to use it). So worse than a website.
Read the haters guide to AI. I think this one might go away, at least as it is now.
Copilot is hopeless though. Turn it off. It is Clippy with marketing.
AI is nothing more than a Large Language Model. It has no intelligence. If you are using this in your work do better. It will be full of errors that the MP is too clueless to catch. The job of an MP is to be present for constituents not outsource replies to a gibberish generator. Plus privacy!
Good strategy, plausible deniability.
This is actually shocking, really almost an act of war on a supposed friendly country. Denmark should take much stronger measures than just summoning a diplomat.
Yes but the EU is also going to need the UK to defend it. So allowing Putin's mate Farage to take over is a European security issue. So the EU should get on with stuff that makes that eventuality less likely without doing special favours.
If he trashed everyone's pensions, savings and mortgages as he would as we are a tiny market dependent on partners (unlike the US), what happens. Police and army unlikely to be able to stop him being chased overseas, see Sri Lanka.
I don't subscribe to the don't worry school of thought, but I think this is desperate weak stuff from Farage and it will be exposed as such. Giving tax payers money to the Taliban - wildly popular.
It is different in part because it is the same same oil salesman trying again, and partly because you can't create any upside beyond race hate. Racists are of course going to be racist.
Many do have a pension and many do get benefits. They also purchase food. Life for them would become even more impossible.
Sure nobody understands the GFA, which is why messing with it like Farage is pretending to do is utterly reckless. A lot of people today don't even remember bombs going off in the UK on a regular basis.
Nobody believed in a no deal Brexit, they believed in comforting lies. There would be no doubt what this would entail from the off - our European partners would clearly spell out the impact. Markets would freak out.
Not convinced. Most people value their pensions, mortgage, benefit payments, savings. All of those are toast if Farage breaks the GFA. We are not America, we cannot isolate ourselves from our trading partners
The dictionary definition is ok-ish, I quibble on socialism. But the mapping of that to what Trump is doing is incorrect. He isn't nationalising these companies. It is classic fascism the combination of corporate and state power.
And actually really communism rather than socialism. The right and far left conflate the two. The right out of malice and the far left to try and pretend they aren't tankies at heart.
Wrong, this is classic fascism, as practised by Mussolini and Hitler. The state works hand in hand with Industry (see I.G. Farben and Auschwitz). Socialism would nationalise the company so it was owned and controlled by the state which received all revenues and paid all costs.
Given the USA detained a female student just for writing a pro Palestinian article (which would never happen in the UK), suggests our freedom of speech is superior to yours.
Firstly I am opposed to Israel's genocidal activities in Gaza. The individual group PA is classified as a terrorist group because they engaged in sabotage of active RAF aircraft. In the UK it is illegal to support terrorist groups. So saying I support them, which I do not, is illegal.
America is literally a fascist dictatorship. The president is censoring museums, prosecuting enemies on spurious grounds, trying to steal elections, sending the military into opposition cities and deporting people without due process for opinions. We have way more free speech and the rule of law.
Maybe if Open AI was paying us 2 Billion it might be worth considering. Fair play to Kyle though for not falling for it.
Good job for the CCCP that they were rather better at fighting then than the current Russian army is.
I would expect we have. I would hope next time people are on the base heading towards aircraft they will be met with live rounds. Another reason for a ban.
They sabotaged active military aircraft. We should not tolerate the operation of organisations targeting our defences, otherwise the Russians will have a field day.
He can end wars just by thinking it. Amazing guy.
No, because at that time the thugs were aligned with the people who ran Labour, being from the non democratic socialist tradition. A lot of the leaderships supporters were also antisemitic and this was not tackled by the leadership, although some of the very worst offenders were dealt with.
The closest I saw was thugs threatening British Labour MPs and chucking bricks through windows when they dared to stand up to Corbyn and his fellow travellers, they were pretty antisemitic but in that area they never graduated beyond online abuse - so not really equivalent.
That is literally filing it in the circular filing cabinet and actually laughing at them. Top shade throwing.
I am sure the EU will carefully consider their complaint, file it in the circular filing cabinet and laugh at them.
The idea that the most corrupt government in American history cares about public corruption is weapons grade bullshit.
They actually did sabotage RAF jets. There is no ban on supporting the Palestinian cause in the UK. This one group has been designated a terrorist group and supporting a terrorist group is an offence. Which is why these people get arrested.
Guy needs sacking and replacing with an adult. VPNs are a not a problem. The decent ones are paid services, requiring a credit card, so you have to be 18. Just require free ones to verify age (anybody using a free VPN should ask why it is free).
What if the west repurposed a manufacturing line and made 10K per month.
His army is large, but not actually capable. It cannot execute even the Soviet methods of 1944. If the Europeans were prepared to commit air power to assist Ukraine the war would end very quickly.
We should not start believing Lavrov. Trump can't do that, and right now the war will continue, the USA will supply arms and Europe will carry on preparing for a post US world. Eventually Putin's army will mutiny and refuse to attack, we just need to help Ukraine maximise Russian casualties.
I think Trump's move is to offer robust security guarantees but tell Putin he has no intention of honouring them. This is the best outcome for Putin. It creates the illusion of security while serving Ukraine up on a plate. Fortunately nobody will trust Trump.
Also even ignoring the EU leader, the GDP of European country leaders at the meeting was 8 times that of Russia.
Don't worry about AI, business will take care of that fairly soon.
Around 30% of UK electricity is generated by wind. I have never understood why Trump sees such an easy win as a problem. I guess the USA will just fall behind.
The second article is quite reasonable to be fair.
Well we are not going to launch attacks on Russia over the front line so we need another line. You can't say cross this and you die after it has been crossed.
You will have to do both, Putin still isn't serious about peace so this isn't happening soon. When he finally is forced to call a halt (probably when his army refuses to attack any more) he will view it as a temporary setback. So dig in, build those air bases and depots we will be staying.
Why not just draw a line today on the line of contact and tell Russia if they cross it European air power will wipe out any troops they send. Putin is a bully, but he isn't stupid. If he wants to escalate so be it, but he will lose.
Putin isn't going to agree to effectively a NATO military force. That would kill any chance of another attack on Ukraine.
Why are you a Labour MP? Your views are an utter disgrace to any political wing of the Labour Party
We are definitely up for it, although given the size of the army what will matter more will be airpower. We have stood toe to toe with them before and we will do it again. The risks of nuclear escalation just keep them on their side of the line. Just wind the clock to 1980.
Why does Zelenskyy have to suffer J.D. Vance when Putin got away with a one on one?
Quite a different case. Those planes were for export and not in active RAF service. If the RAF had done their job and shot the intruders, who given Russian sabotage campaigns you would have to assume could be armed, this would all be moot.
Also puzzled at the only country in the world to use mail in voting. Given I regularly vote by mail in non US elections.
This is true and by that logic surely we must be approaching the point where Europe draws a red line and tells Putin if his troops cross it expect to meet NATO minus US airpower. More than enough to stop him dead.
How have the Greens allowed an unserious charlatan (hypnosis anyone) to even be a leadership candidate?
Reform is going to struggle whatever opinion polls say now. JD Vance is trying to engineer cooperation with the Tories but two Turkeys do not make an Eagle.
Any organisation sabotaging UK active military equipment should simply be banned. I think this quite reasonable given the current state of the world. If people want to get arrested declaring their support for such an organisation so be it. But do not confuse that with support for Palestine.
That is superb and pointless whataboutism.
I would argue wars he has fought to date have been police actions and that is what he planned for in Ukraine. His army is incapable of the sort of deep battle combined arms operations the Red Army mastered in 1944 and 45. Not least because his air force is hopeless.
Interesting on populations, Russia is larger in theory but I think Turkey would have more fighting age people.
Biggest issue I can see is Putin has no way to stop fighting. He has no domestic economy and how is he going to deal with demobbed and destitute SMO veterans, a recipe for destabilisation and eventually regime change. He has to keep going even if he somehow beats Ukraine.
Disabling active RAF aircraft and taking them out of service isn't vandalism it is sabotage. In any case we should not permit such an organisation to exist in the UK. There are plenty of better ways to protest against the genocide in Gaza.
Definitely although I think Russia is the junior power in that relationship now.
It is a useless port though, and Russia doesn't have a navy. Basically Turkey can blockade it and Ukraine makes it unusable in war. It might have been the original calculation, but things have changed.
The whole European delegation should just turn round and fly back home, after a press conference where they discuss Epstein. Trump craves attention don't give him it.
How would that work for Exxon in Europe. Nothing stopping the EU sanctioning them.
Even if we ignore the EU the total sum of GDP of those leaders is 8 times that of Russia (I believe Starmer is also going). Russia is not a great power.
Halifax and this sort of fascist Reform worldview have a lot in common. If the book is too much effort the We Have Ways podcast covered it recently - excellent as always.
I recommend reading John Lukacs "Five Days in London May 1940" to anyone who wants to understand how the decision was made to fight on. Possibly the key element was Chamberlain who basically stood against Halifax by rejecting the premise you could do any sort of deal with Hitler.
Talk about a pointless strawman. Nobody cares what the Lib Dems say about the current rules with the EU. They might as well have written an article on what some random person down the pub thinks. It has no relevance to anyone, it is just posturing for clueless voters.
Starmer doesn't do this for domestic consumption and he doesn't do it for fun. This is carefully calibrated and part of a campaign, see also Zelensky's very similar statement. He is rather closer to this than we are, maybe we should cut him some slack.
"His excellency" FFS, the whole of America should crawl away and die of embarrassment.
Congratulations America. You are now Putin's door mats. How much humiliation are you going to put up with?
No. Russia is at war with Europe, after Ukraine the plan is to enslave the population and move on to The Baltic states and Poland. Russian media talks about this every night. Ukraine is the last chance to stop him before we end up in a shooting war. Increasingly it is America that is insignificant.
No progressives and leftists want Russia rejected from Ukraine and Putin facing charges at the Hague. That is the only way we will get peace in Europe. You are thinking of appeasers.
Yes that would work. They could also provide a way to do that in France in an organised way. Why take a boat when you can just apply. But I suspect the calculation, cynical as it is, would be it keeps the numbers down if you need to risk your life on a boat.
I could see air strikes and drones, in which case Mexico should shoot them down. But no way on this planet will they send troops, every time the USA has occupied land since 1945 it has failed utterly. Mexico is completely beyond them.
Except it has been done and failed catastrophically. Turns out if we pause new applications the boats don't stop. We end up with a massive and growing bill for housing unprocessed applicants. That is the ridiculous mess Sunak's Tories got us into and Labour has started to dig us out of.
And my point is you are in a world of make-believe. What you want to be able to do is impossible, you are in unicorn land much like the Brexit charlatans and the Irish border in the famous venn diagram. You have to propose a real world solution, you do not have one.
You cannot send them back to their country of origin, illegal. We know nobody will just accept them -why would they (you can pay Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds to take nobody if you want). Your only sensible option is to process them and return those with no claim.
Right so you can't deport them and jails/camps will cost a fortune. You presumably don't want to just let them go untraced in the UK - so what in a grown up world do you suggest. If it was easy it would be easy.
Tories tried that, but it doesn't work. You just end up with people in hotels costing ever more money.
It will not. It might result in a government that says it will set aside human rights, but they won't - because Northern Ireland and the effect of crushing EU sanctions if there is any blowback on France (and there would be).
It is just inexcusable behaviour. I would suggest he has regressed massively, which given his starting point is an amazing achievement.
You will but the cost of operation is fixed. So maybe you power it off and skip it and consolidate data centres.
They will if the cost of maintaining the infrastructure exceeds the revenue they can get for it.
There is a spectacularly good article on this - which I won't link to as it uses colourful language called "The haters Guide to the AI bubble". The spend versus revenue is eye-opening. But yes this is a bubble and when it bursts it will probably cause share price adjustments.
Europe can't fix Trump only America can do that. I think the expectation is Europe is that the war will carry on and whatever Trump says won't matter as the terms will be impossible.