New Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max - yes - with a lot if storage but £1749 !!!!! 😱
That. Is. A. DISGRACE
In fact it’s OBSCENE - I’m old enough to remember when a mobile phone was £50-£150 - Marketing is normalising almost £2K for a phone ?!? WTF

In which the leveling up secretary accurately summarizes 12 years of Tory achievements

So the government gives just three hours to a debate on a massive announcement affecting the whole country today and refuses to give the opposition or other MPs any details before it starts. Pretty poor treatment of parliament yet again. Nothing changes.

It takes a particularly detached type of mindset to think the best way to help people struggling with higher energy bills isn't a short term reduction on the profits of the companies charging them, but to ensure they have to pay higher energy bills for decades longer. #r4today

Government admits 50 firms were in VIP lane for test & trace contracts.

The PPE VIP lane had Tory donors, peers, pub mates and family members. They made £££ms. Let's see who profited out of the Test & Trace contracts.

#r4today #ToryCorruption

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#r4today
From 2021:
Tories take 1.5million from oil and gas donors under Boris Johnson.
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Liz Truss *Must* introduce an #EnergyPriceCap - paid for by a #windfalltax on oil and gas companies, not bill payers or tax payers!

No wonder Labour is 15 points ahead in the polls!

#R4Today #BBCBreakfast #GMB #KayBurley #TrussTax #TrussOut3 #ToriesOut63 #GeneralElectionNow

This is Sir Evelyn Baring.
As governor of Kenya from 1952-59, he commissioned a system of concentration and slave labour camps, in which tens of thousands were tortured and mutilated, beaten and burnt to death.
He is Dominic Cummings’s grandfather-in-law.

From a Professor of History at Yale

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I'd also recommend watching 'Rise of the Nazis'

There are plenty of documentaries about WW2 but not many about how Hitler came to power. There are a lot of parallels.

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George Monbiot MΛƬ MᄃKΣПZIΣ 'The Nazi dictatorship was “diverting,” it kept people so busy with changes and ‘crises’ that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing all around us'

From 'They Thought They Were Free' by Milton Mayer in 1955

Summary here:

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Now that Kwasi Kwarteng is the new Chancellor, let me tell you what he thinks about the NHS. He thinks it's a bloated, bureaucratic organisation, which pays its doctors far too much. He also thinks there are far too many people on benefits in the UK.

When inequality becomes extreme, those who seek power have one of two options: to contest it or to distract from it. The process of distraction – pointing to scapegoats and fomenting culture wars – is well under way. It paves the way for fascism.

You might think this cannot continue. The people will throw out these creeps at the next election. But if there is one thing the past 12 years have taught us, it’s that the billionaire press can induce people to vote for those who break their bones.

She'll go as far as electoral politics allow in transferring wealth from the poor to the rich, in opening the floodgates for pollution and greenhouse gases, in dismembering the NHS, in persecuting asylum seekers and scapegoating others to distract from the impact of her policies.

Johnson was louche, lazy, venal, dishonest. He would strike any deal, however odious, to secure his position. But Truss and her entourage are fanatically devoted to one aim: ensuring that the oligarchs get what they want, regardless of the cost the rest of us might bear.