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Britain’s Tory Meltdown Is a Case of Socially Determined Stupidity

The new Conservative prime minister Liz Truss has experienced a spectacular humiliation during her first weeks in office. Her self-defeating agenda reflects the mindset of a Thatcherite ideologue managing an economy already ravaged by decades of Thatcherism.

The new Conservative administration, a little over two weeks old, is already reeling. Its “mini-budget,” a cocktail of substantial tax cuts with high borrowing and state spending, has helped tank the pound sterling and discredit Britain in the eyes of traders.

 

Source: Britain’s Tory Meltdown Is a Case of Socially Determined Stupidity

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Banks save UK economy as Liz Truss plays ideological games

Tory leadership candidate Liz Truss (Image: AAP/EPA/Neil Hall)

The near collapse of the UK financial system yesterday is one of the biggest economic stories of the year. It should be a hard lesson for politicians the world over about economic policymaking and the importance of independent central banks.

Source: Banks save UK economy as Liz Truss plays ideological games

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We Got Arrested Protesting Against King Charles III

Dozens of people were arrested in Britain for taking part in peaceful protests against the new king. Two of them spoke to Jacobin about why they oppose the monarchy — and how the British state trampled on their dissent.

Source: We Got Arrested Protesting Against King Charles III

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Royal Money: Charles III and the Wealth Dimension – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Crimes and misdemeanours in the Royal House,

Graham Smith, CEO of the activist group Republic, also filed a complaint against Charles along the same lines: that both he and his close aide and former valet, Michael Fawcett, had allegedly breached the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925. In the peculiar world of royal family relations, Fawcett made himself indispensable as chief squeezer of toothpaste onto the royal toothbrush when required. “I can manage without just about anyone, except for Michael,” Charles once stated.

A published email from Fawcett to an aide of bin Mafouz, written in 2017 as chief executive of the Dumfries House Trust, promised, “In light of the ongoing and most recent generosity of His Excellency… I am happy to confirm to you, in confidence, that we are willing and happy to contribute to the application for Citizenship.” An effort would also be made to apply “to increase His Excellency’s honour from Honorary CBE to that of KBE in accordance with Her Majesty’s Honour’s Committee.”

Charles, for his part, denies having any knowledge of the scheme, something considered risible by Baker. “The idea that Fawcett was running a rogue operation without telling [Charles] is simply unbelievable.” The issue of royal money and its inscrutable mysteries is unlikely to go away.

 

 

Source: Royal Money: Charles III and the Wealth Dimension – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Being a republican in Britain used to be perfectly respectable. So why are people now getting arrested for it? | Zoe Williams | The Guardian

A protester airs her views outside parliament as King Charles arrives

British republicanism, which used to be a perfectly acceptable position, quite within the range of polite debate, and definitely not something you could be arrested for.

A woman in Edinburgh was arrested at the weekend for holding a sign that said: “Fuck imperialism, abolish monarchy.” In Oxford, an even milder protest resulted in the arrest of Symon Hill. He emerged from church as the proclamation for King Charles III was being read, and called out: “Who elected him?” There is a question mark over how disruptive that was, in the great scheme of things, but it was enough for the police to arrest and handcuff him, later to de-arrest him on the understanding that he would be questioned in the future. Hill says that, at the time, they told him they were acting under the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act (2022), though they later described it as a potential public order offence.

Source: Being a republican in Britain used to be perfectly respectable. So why are people now getting arrested for it? | Zoe Williams | The Guardian

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Liz Truss Will Lead Britain Deeper Into Decline

As energy bills soar, Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, proposes short-term measures to prop up suppliers with public money. But we won’t be “back to normal” anytime soon — and it’s working-class Britons who will suffer.

Source: Liz Truss Will Lead Britain Deeper Into Decline

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The Queen has left her mark around the world. But not all see it as something to be celebrated

Not so Tanzania or Rhodesia it was a German Colony

From the very beginning, Queen Elizabeth II’s reign was deeply connected to Britain’s global empire and the long and bloody processes of decolonisation.

Indeed, she became Queen while on a royal visit to Kenya in 1952. After she left, the colony descended into one of the worst conflicts of the British colonial period. Declaring a state of emergency in October 1952, the British would go on to kill tens of thousands of Kenyans before it was over.

Source: The Queen has left her mark around the world. But not all see it as something to be celebrated

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Mourn the Queen, But God Save the People | The Smirking Chimp

Great Britain hasn’t just lost a monarch. The British social welfare state, once a shining beacon for Western democracies, is also dying. On a human level, every death is an occasion for mourning. But who mourns the needlessly dead or the system that could have saved them? If people could learn to care half as much about every victim of poverty or inadequate healthcare as they do about one person, we might yet build a just society.

They will play “God Save the Queen” and “God Save the King” many times in the days to come. But who will save the people?

Source: Mourn the Queen, But God Save the People | The Smirking Chimp

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Elite rule: Liz Truss’ socially exclusive cabinet

Despite her rhetoric of inclusivity, Liz Truss’ cabinet is anything but that, writes Sam Bright.

English elitism and lack of experience dominate the Truss Cabinet.

Source: Elite rule: Liz Truss’ socially exclusive cabinet

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Elizabeth’s legacy: the enduring Australian monarchy – Michael West

We are glorifying an individual when we should be denying the system of Imperial Colinisation she represented despite the Commonwealth.

In 1954, Elizabeth stood at Farm Cove in Sydney, where Captain Arthur Phillip landed in 1788, and celebrated it as the birthplace of the nation. Our consciousness has changed. The Queen saw Australia as a young nation. Now we boast of the oldest continuing occupation by a people.

The crowds got smaller and less voluble with every visit, but Elizabeth cemented the monarchy over the years. If it was not only showmanship, it was attention to detail. John Cain, Victorian premier 1982-90, met her during celebrations for 150 years of Victorian statehood in 1984. ‘’I knew your father,’’ she told him. That was John Cain senior, premier 1952-55. A young monarch might have had other things on her mind. Mind like a steel trap.

King Charles III is an underwhelming prospect for Australians. He is 73, but he could go 20 years. His mother would have ignored many a gentle hint (she was apparently a bit sniffy whenever a European queen would abdicate).

There will be another referendum on a republic, but when?

Elizabeth’s legacy: the enduring Australian monarchy – Michael West

Elizabeth’s legacy: the enduring Australian monarchy – Michael West

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James Connolly: The British Monarchy Is an Affront to Democracy

The British monarchy is a vestige of tyranny, a grand monument to hierarchy and plunder. As Irish socialist James Connolly wrote in 1911, the royals are for the other despots of society, the capitalists and landlords — not for the working class.

Source: James Connolly: The British Monarchy Is an Affront to Democracy

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Casting Malevolent Shadows: Liz Truss Wins the Tory Leadership – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Sunday Mirror has reported that 12 Tory MPs are willing to submit letters to the 1922 Committee to express no confidence in the incoming prime minister – and this, even before Truss sets foot in 10 Downing Street. For Jake Berry, MP for Rossendale and Darwen in Lancashire, such a move was “certainly suicidal”, while former Conservative chancellor Lord Hammond warned Johnson not to linger like a “malevolent shadow”.

The Truss factor has also given British Labour a boost of seven percentage points. Party strategists, as part of this bounce, have already readied a campaign in the so-called Red Wall seats, using previous, leaked remarks from Truss about how British workers produced “less per hour” than their foreign equivalents, “and that’s a combination of, kind of, skill and application.” But opinion polls do not deliver election victories. The Tory party machine, cunning, ruthless and mendacious, does at least know something about that.

 

Source: Casting Malevolent Shadows: Liz Truss Wins the Tory Leadership – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Who is Liz Truss, the new UK prime minister?

Members of the Conservative party – the approximately 180,000 people who elected the new leader – will be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line. Similarly, strategists for the opposition parties – Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party – will also be delighted that the continuity candidate got over the line. In electing Truss as leader, Conservative members have increased their party’s chances of losing the next general election.

Source: Who is Liz Truss, the new UK prime minister?

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Yes, Jeremy Corbyn Was Vilified Because He Criticized Israel

Jeremy Corbyn’s critics are once again furious because he stated an undeniable fact. Corbyn was shamefully denounced as a dangerous antisemite primarily because he supported the democratic rights of the Palestinians.

Yes, Jeremy Corbyn Was Vilified Because He Criticized Israel
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Chaff Candidates: The Race for the UK Tory Leadership – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In the slime-touched final runoff between two bottom-of-the-barrel finds, voters meet two candidates who, in finding wealth or coming from it, seek the ultimate prize of a country that once kept a quarter of the globe in described, cricket-enlightened subjecthood. The prize is barely worth it, and, with Britain no longer part of the EU, barely noticeable.

Chaff Candidates: The Race for the UK Tory Leadership – » The Australian Independent Media Network
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Met Office says UK heatwave could hit 43C tomorrow – with hottest area NOT in South – Mirror Online

Brits have been warned to stay indoors as life-threatening temperatures are due to blast the UK

Brits have been warned to stay indoors as ‘ferocious’ and life-threatening ‘day and night’ temperatures are due to blast the UK for the first time in history

Source: Met Office says UK heatwave could hit 43C tomorrow – with hottest area NOT in South – Mirror Online

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UK warned it faces Australian-like reputation damage over asylum seeker plan

Hope Hostel in Kigali, Rwanda will host unwanted asylum seekers from the UK.

The Abbott/Morrison legacy will be found in the UK deliveries of Asylum Seekers to Rawanda

“Given the lessons of the Australian experience, this carries a significant reputational risk for the UK.”

The UK Home Affairs select committee report into channel crossing, migration and asylum..

Source: UK warned it faces Australian-like reputation damage over asylum seeker plan

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The good news: Johnson’s on the way out. The bad news: look who’s on the way in | Marina Hyde | The Guardian

Boris Johnson chairing a cabinet meeting in 10 Downing Street, London, 7 July 2022

Ultimately, though, the disappointments and desolation are all ours. It was Johnson’s world; we now have to live in it. It’s quite sweet that people still talk of a “realignment”. I don’t mean to cavil, but what the hell is “aligned” here? The UK will now have had four prime ministers in just over six years. It’s a rolling mess, a joke to much of the world. The only thing you can really align yourself with is the view that it can always get even worse and even more chaotic. Send in the clowns. Ah, don’t bother. They’re here.

Ben Wallace:

Suella Braverman:

Liz Truss:

Rishi Sunak:

Penny Mordaunt:

Sajid Javid:

Tom Tugendhat:

Nadhim Zahawi:

Jeremy Hu:

Grant Shapps:

Steve Baker:

Priti Patel:

Source: The good news: Johnson’s on the way out. The bad news: look who’s on the way in | Marina Hyde | The Guardian

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Johnson Government normalised culture of abuse and toxicity

Boris Johnson presided over a culture of toxic masculinity, in part because of his own hypermasculine style of leadership, argues Sian Norris.

Johnson Government normalised culture of abuse and toxicity
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2 Key UK Cabinet Ministers Quit As Boris Johnson’s Government Teeters | HuffPost Latest News

From left, British Health Secretary Sajid Javid, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrive at No 9 Downing Street for a media briefing on May 7, 2021. Two of Britain's most senior Cabinet ministers have quit, a move that could spell the end of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's leadership after months of scandals. Treasury chief Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid resigned within minutes of each other. (Toby Melville/PA via AP)

LONDON (AP) — Two of Britain’s most senior Cabinet ministers resigned on Tuesday, a move that could spell the end of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership after months of scandals.

Source: 2 Key UK Cabinet Ministers Quit As Boris Johnson’s Government Teeters | HuffPost Latest News

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EU sues UK over move to rewrite post-Brexit trade rules

File photo: Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government proposed legislation that would remove customs checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.

He may have got into power but he has sure as hell been a virus on the UK.

The European Union sued Britain on Wednesday over its move to rewrite the trade rules agreed to when the country left the EU two years ago, ratcheting up tensions between the major economic partners. Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government proposed legislation that would remove customs checks on some goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. Those checks were imposed as part of a hard-fought compromise when Britain left the EU and its borderless free-trade zone — but have caused both economic and political problems in Northern Ireland, where some say they undermine the region’s place in the United Kingdom. The EU has decried Britain’s effort to rip up part of the deal.

Source: EU sues UK over move to rewrite post-Brexit trade rules

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Even the Murdoch press is now waking up to the truth: Brexit was an act of self-harm | Michael Heseltine | The Guardian

Lorries queue at the entrance of the Port of Dover, February 2022.

Frydenberg kept telling us how he managed the Pandemic better than the UK but he never mentioned Brexit

When the most anti-EU newspapers are pointing to the policy’s inevitable failures, it’s time our government admitted the truth

Source: Even the Murdoch press is now waking up to the truth: Brexit was an act of self-harm | Michael Heseltine | The Guardian

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The Britain Project Is the Latest Incarnation of Zombie Blairism

 

For two years, Tony Blair has backed Keir Starmer’s war to expel socialists from Labour. Now the Blairites are launching the Britain Project — the latest bid to create an über-neoliberal force to destroy any trace of social democracy.

Source: The Britain Project Is the Latest Incarnation of Zombie Blairism

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British inflation puts economy on road to oblivion

The UK is grappling with soaring inflation.

Inflation is now at a 40-year high after the consumer prices index rose to 9 per cent in April, according to the latest ONS figures. That’s the sharpest jump since 1982, which, as Torsten Bell of the Resolution Foundation pointed out, means much of the country has never experienced an inflationary shock of this ferocity “in their working lives”.

Source: British inflation puts economy on road to oblivion

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The Tories Hate You

Banning protest, suppressing voters, and now diluting the Human Rights Act: the only right Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party cares about is its right to screw over British workers.

Source: The Tories Hate You

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Britain’s Two Job Politicians – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The lines seem awfully blurred to me when you see the jobs politicians get post-politics and even more when contracts are handed out untendered it’s extremely difficult to tell when decisions for commissions are made as they were in the case of McGuire. Matthew Guy was sprung in a case realestate insider trading with friends in Philip Island.  Land deals are regularly seen to benefit MPs as is their good fortune and opportunity for insider trading. Or money parked in anonymous accounts even promised at a later date. The bigger problem is that being it’s becoming an increasingly accepted practice and accepted by a apathetic electorate. Councilmen and politician corruption has become the norm in Australia. It has seen us  fall under the International corruption scale. Should we be surprised to find things were far better 8 years ago on most social metrics even corruption?

The role of the parliamentarian, historically, is one of service. The desire to hold two jobs, or more, suggests that such service is severely qualified. In the quotient of democracy and representation, the MP who is ready to tend to the affairs of others is unlikely to focus on the voter. I represent you, but I also represent my client who so happens to be parking his cash in offshore tax havens. I represent you, but I am moonlighting as an advisor for an armaments company. This condition has become rather acute in the British political scene. While a backbencher earns £81,932 annually plus expenses, they may pursue consultancies in the private sector as long as they do not engage in lobbying – a ridiculous fine line. Astonishingly, there is no limit on the number of hours they may spend on these additional jobs. Accordingly, members of parliament have shown marked confusion on how to separate their various jobs. Every so often, business has tended to find its way into the member’s office.

Source: Britain’s Two Job Politicians – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The UK’s Parliament Is Full of Landlords

No less than 115 UK members of parliament — 90 of them Tories — are landlords. The housing crisis won’t be solved until that changes.

Source: The UK’s Parliament Is Full of Landlords

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Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 death sentence

Boris Johnson has abdicated his principal responsibility as UK Prime Minister – protecting and safeguarding lives – to let COVID-19 kill as many as 100 people every day as early as next month, say scientists.

Source: Boris Johnson’s COVID-19 death sentence

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Covid ‘to get worse before it gets better,’ doctors warn as cases rise ‘dramatically’ | The Independent

A patient is brought into the Royal London Hospital

The warning came after NHS staff told The Independent emergency services were in “borderline meltdown” and braced for demand to soar. Patients have been forced to queue for up to an hour outside one A&E department, with some waiting up to 20 hours for a bed earlier this week, while rising pressure has been piled on England’s NHS 111 system after a dedicated Covid telephone assessment service was scrapped as cases began rising.

Source: Covid ‘to get worse before it gets better,’ doctors warn as cases rise ‘dramatically’ | The Independent

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Nearly 200,000 Gather in London for History-Making Demonstration of Solidarity With Palestinians | Common Dreams News

Nearly 200,000 Gather in London for History-Making Demonstration of Solidarity With Palestinians “This movement is growing every single day,” said the Muslim Association of Britain. by Julia Conley, staff writer 9 Comments People march through Central London during a pro-Palestinian rally and a protest against Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip in United Kingdom on May 22, 2021. A cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas reached with Egypt mediation took effect at 2 a.m. Friday. (Photo: David Cliff/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Nearly 200,000 people gathered in London Saturday for what organizers said was one of the largest demonstrations of solidarity with Palestinians in the United Kingdom’s history. Organizers with the Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and the Muslim Association of Britain had planned the protest before Hamas and Israel reached a ceasefire that began early Friday after an 11-day bombing campaign targeting the Gaza Strip. The attacks killed more than 230 Palestinians including dozens of chil

Source: Nearly 200,000 Gather in London for History-Making Demonstration of Solidarity With Palestinians | Common Dreams News

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That creaking sound? It’s the United Kingdom starting to break apart | George Monbiot | The Guardian

Illustration: Sébastien Thibault

Any residual argument for Scotland to stay within the United Kingdom meets its counter-argument in Boris Johnson. Westminster politics has always been the preserve of a remote enclave, on average massively richer and more privileged than those they claim to represent, especially in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. But now that they’re dominated by a prehensile ogre grabbing all that his donors will give him while queues at the foodbanks lengthen, why should anyone north of the border consent to be ruled by his insouciant decree?

Source: That creaking sound? It’s the United Kingdom starting to break apart | George Monbiot | The Guardian

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What Next for Scotland? | Washington Monthly
Nicola Sturgeon

Never has the prospect of an independent Scotland seemed more plausible. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s approval ratings in the region have dropped to all-time lows. Brexit, deeply unpopular in Scotland to begin with (the region voted 62 percent to 38 percent to remain), has become even more so. Independence campaigners comfortably lost their 2014 referendum. But fourteen polls in a row have shown a plurality of its residents now support independence.

What Next for Scotland? | Washington Monthly
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Boris Johnson orders highest coronavirus restrictions for three quarters of the UK’s population to counter surge of new strain – ABC News

Boris Johnson orders highest coronavirus restrictions for three quarters of the UK’s population to counter surge of new strain – ABC News
Boris Johnson with pursed lips and worried eyes speaks at a podium.

Restrictions announced by Boris Johnson will affect more than 44 million people The new measures come as cases continue to surge across the country The UK reported a further 981 deaths on Wednesday

Boris Johnson orders highest coronavirus restrictions for three quarters of the UK’s population to counter surge of new strain – ABC News
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NHS England warns London could run out of critical care beds within weeks | The Independent

London will run out of hospital beds within weeks, NHS England bosses have said. The care body warned that if coronavirus admissions continue at their current rate, the city will be short of 600 critical care beds and 1,500 general hospital beds by 5 January.

NHS England warns London could run out of critical care beds within weeks | The Independent
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London to go into strictest restrictions as new variant of COVID-19 identified – ABC News

Christmas lights overhang a crowded Regent Street in London.

Covid-19 goes to show just how irrelevant Australia and Morrison have been to the rest of the world’s attention (ODT)

Greater London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will be placed under Tier 3 restrictions from Wednesday Pubs and restaurants will be forced to close unless they offer takeaway or delivery It was also announced a new strain of coronavirus had been identified in England

London to go into strictest restrictions as new variant of COVID-19 identified – ABC News
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Tens of thousands of NHS staff off sick because of Covid-19, data reveals | The Independent
Health leaders have said they are “deeply concerned” by Covid-linked NHS staff absences

Exclusive: Almost half of all staff absence linked to coronavirus in parts of northern England

Tens of thousands of NHS staff off sick because of Covid-19, data reveals | The Independent
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is Reportedly ‘Desperate’ For Donald Trump To Lose Reelection

Boris Johnson stands with Donald Trump.

via UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Is Reportedly ‘Desperate’ For Donald Trump To Lose Reelection

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England shuns Portugal

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The facts

The fact is that the UK has 28 times more deaths from Covid than Portugal (and how many strokes and heart attacks in the UK were registered on death certificates as “stroke” or “heart attack” and not a Covid-related incident?), yet the UK has only six times Portugal’s population.

The fact is that Britain has registered 44,131 deaths from Covid-19 compared with Portugal’s 1,587. The fact is that Britain has registered 284,276 positive tests, compared with Portugal’s 42,782 cases.

via England shuns Portugal

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UK lashes out at Washington for threatening ICC with sanctions, says justice must be done impartially & without fear — RT World News

UK lashes out at Washington for threatening ICC with sanctions, says justice must be done impartially & without fear

Trump pisses off his allies too(ODT)

via UK lashes out at Washington for threatening ICC with sanctions, says justice must be done impartially & without fear — RT World News

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British leaders have no idea how bad slavery was, by Patrick Cockburn – The Unz Review

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One does not have to spend long in the US or the Caribbean without discovering that the deep wells of hatred and fear created by slavery have not disappeared over the years. In the US, this is reinforced by the legacy of the Civil War which still divides the country to an extraordinary extent, underpinning racism and de facto segregation. More surprising is the fact that in the years since black people supposedly won civil rights in the 1960s, the rest of America has become more like the South in its political culture than vice versa. President Johnson had promised not just “equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and a result,” but the results never came.

President Trump differs from other recent presidents in being a fairly open racist and supporter of violence by a militarised police force. Protesters are denounced as “terrorist” much as they are in Turkey, Egypt, Sri Lanka and other authoritarian states. Once the US was the sheet anchor stabilising governments and regimes, but now it is the turmoil in the US that is sending waves of instability across the world. This is not the way it worked in the 1960s. As Britain slides out of the EU under a right-wing government it will have nowhere else to turn but the US and potentially share in its turbulence. Quips about Stonehenge and the Roman Empire show how far the ruling party in Britain is from understanding that it is only experiencing the first tremors from the US meltdown.

via British leaders have no idea how bad slavery was, by Patrick Cockburn – The Unz Review

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus, will self-isolate in 10 Downing St – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Scientists in full hazmat gear running tests in a lab

via UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus, will self-isolate in 10 Downing St – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Clap For NHS: UK Erupts In Applause In Moving Tribute To Carers | HuffPost Australia

Lincoln Cathedral is lit up in blue in a gesture of thanks to the hardworking NHS staff who are trying...

via Clap For NHS: UK Erupts In Applause In Moving Tribute To Carers | HuffPost Australia

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Coronavirus: Why Britain is letting the COVID-19 spread

A woman wears a face mask as she visits Buckingham Palace as the outbreak of coronavirus intensifies.

Coronavirus: Why Britain is letting the COVID-19 spread

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Father of British YPG recruit who fought IS charged with terror o

Father of British YPG recruit who fought IS charged with terror offences

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Sturgeon launches ‘neverendum’ campaign for Scottish independence

Scottish National Party (SNP) leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sets out the case for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

via Sturgeon launches ‘neverendum’ campaign for Scottish independence

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The Disunited Kingdom

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These developments do not bode well for the continued unity of the United Kingdom. There have already been demands in Northern Ireland for a referendum to decide whether it should maintain its union with the United Kingdom or join the South, thus remaining in the EU. Opinion polls show a majority in favor of remaining in the EU.

via The Disunited Kingdom

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UK general election is on: how it happened and what to expect now

via UK general election is on: how it happened and what to expect now

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Boris Johnson’s father joins Extinction Rebellion protest, shrugging off British PM’s ‘uncooperative crusties’ tag – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Climate change protester in the streets of London, police officers next to them.

via Boris Johnson’s father joins Extinction Rebellion protest, shrugging off British PM’s ‘uncooperative crusties’ tag – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Conservatives know Boris Johnson is a fraud. But he’s their fraud | John Crace | Politics | The Guardian

Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street, London.

via Conservatives know Boris Johnson is a fraud. But he’s their fraud | John Crace | Politics | The Guardian

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UK Labour declares class war, wants to abolish posh private schools like Eton and Harrow | South China Morning Post

Eton schoolboys, dressed in their traditional uniform of tails, attend class. File photo: Shutterstock

A voice of Reason (ODT)

via UK Labour declares class war, wants to abolish posh private schools like Eton and Harrow | South China Morning Post