Ralph Dunham

Ralph Dunham

@ralphdunham.bsky.social

Politics, Music & Culture, Sport, Travel, Food & Drink. Fully paid up member of the Islington Chattering classes. Fin Tech #CPFC

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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Hoarse with emotion, he says this will continue until blah blah. Please let this become a daily event. I am planning a family day out in town around Xmas and I would really like it if they were still there.

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A lot of discussion around on how to beat the far-right Hardly anyone mentions it, but they need to include a plan to win the war in Ukraine

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social

Increasingly the shifts in European politics are intertwined with the war in Ukraine. One thing stopping Putin moving towards a ceasefire is the prospect of the far right in power in Europe.

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This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

samf.substack.comSovereignty for saleTech monopolies and the future of the nation state
Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com

Britain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...

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All the bullshit aggregators and flagshagger accounts weighing in on the disgusting attack in Belfast, saluting a man called Maitie Mag Toghearnan - who beat the attacker round the head with a hurley - as a "British hero". Give me strength...

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Amazon UK entities' pre-tax profits up from £455m to £555m. It pays corporation tax at an effective rate of 7.1%, headline rate is 25%. Profits shifted through intragroup transactions. UK retailers can't compete with hard-wired systematic tax avoidance.

theguardian.comAmazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355mTech company received infrastructure relief as its five biggest UK divisions generate £32bn in revenues

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Breaking news: The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.

washingtonpost.comPentagon recruiting troops to watch White House UFC fights, memos showInternal messages reviewed by The Post stipulate that military personnel must pay their own ways and meet strict physical requirements to be eligible.

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Professor Michael Clarke, "On a daily basis the Russians are attacking Britain" "Attempts to create division in society" "Attempts to manipulate social media to create doubt" "And to effect our democracy, our elections"

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New Reform councillors off to a great start by refusing to vote on anything because they haven't a clue what anything means, how anything works or what the fuck they are doing. Vote Reform, get lazy, incompetent, ignorant morons.

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However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

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These authoritarian interventions in the arts and education will not improve the safety and well-being of British Jews. The implication that ACE has been already been funding antisemitism is unsupported and worrying. The plan is to suppress dissent, it won't reduce antisemitism.

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The Global Sumud Flotilla has been forcibly stopped in international waters by the Israeli Navy. We're calling on the Prime Minister to condemn this breach of international law, work to ensure the safety of those still onboard, and extend diplomatic protection to those seized by Israeli forces.

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Hi all, just sent out free midweek update on USA-Iran. Normally bad superlatives are used about war--the worst, the most destructive, etc. These are rarely warranted. However in this case we have one superlative, we are witnessing the most corrupt war in US history. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

open.substack.comMidweek Update #7: The Most Corrupt War In US HistoryTrump Is Passing The Initiative To Iran; Oil Markets, Watch Out If They Lose Their Optimism

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It’s not just selfish -it’s a complete breach of the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 when the US and others encouraged Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for these countries guaranteeing Ukraine’s borders. The US is duty-bound to assist in Ukraine’s defence or its promises mean nothing.

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

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The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings: