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Breaking Points - China shuts down billionaire wealth funnel
youtu.beThis Billionaire Became China’s Charles Schwab. Then Beijing Cracked Down.
Leaf Li’s Futu brokerage has become a central target in the government’s campaign to control the flow of Chinese money offshore
Trump judge saves Trump from turning over financial info to BBC in defamation case
ms.nowWhat is the ideal outcome for the Ukraine war?
-Run Russia into an economic collapse that seems to always be on the horizon by continuing the war
-A peace process that could allow them to potentially rearm
-Does the UK and EU have the capacity to make Ukraine a regional ecomomic and thus military power as a buffer
-How does Europe\UK coexist with Russia moving forward?
I can’t really think of an outcome that should be aimed for…
Anyone think the Tories purposefully built up the asylum backlog to generate contracts for lobbyists, and to coast on the right of a new culture war issue?
Main part of this question is it being done purposefully. We all know that the incidental consequences actually happened this way.
Edit: this assumes that they didn’t think reform would be able to outflank them on the asylum hotels and thus lead ahead of the Tories in the polls
Do modern Brits know how to fix cars themselves? My granddad used to be able to work on his own car, and so did his son (my uncle). But I’ve not heard of any non mechanics being able to fix their cars at home outside of that. Lost art or impossible?
reddit.comAnyone feel like IMAX isn’t making enough of an effort in meeting the consumer demand for 70mm IMAX
According to the below article, their only real strategy is refurbishing existing projectors, with the difficulties of institutional loss of knowledge with no real drive it producing new 70mm projectors. I feel like filmmakers are doing there part (Nolan, villeneuve, coogler etc), but they are not doing there bit in making it more accessible.
Is Spence’s favourite IP Grun, based on Dune
His “warriors of Grun” poster in ‘acting out’ and the movie in ‘Taste buds’ sounds like “Children of Dune”. Both sound are a mixture of medieval mythology and space scifi
Mosque effigy on loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland condemned as ‘vile’
theguardian.comWhy don’t we have those eye level gas grills anymore in the kitchen? Americans call them broilers. The professional term is “salamander grill”
I haven’t seen them in a kitchen past the 90s, give or take the odd old style gas cooker oven, where there’s a back support and the grill is leaning over on top. Was super useful for finishing sandwiches off, good for finishing off wraps or chapatis. The ones integrated into electric ovens don’t have the same intense radiant heat that made the og so good.
If economic integration brought together Germany, France and the UK (two of which fought for centuries, while the other waged two brutal wars), why did Merkel’s integration with Russia not work?
The EU was founded primarily to entangle Europe so deeply that it would be too difficult to create war within Europe. I believe it originally began as a way for France and Germany to separate steel and coal to make it harder to rearm without cooperation. I know Brexit sort of ruined that, but Britain still embeds it self deeply in European security. People say that Merkel made the mistake of liberalising trade with Putin, but her calculus was of Clinton-ism - an open economy is a more peaceful one. Why was she wrong when it has worked before. People would argue China. Except while they’d rhetoric is hostile, they favour global stability becuase of how entrenched they are in the global economy.
Watching Dunkirk. The eldest son of the civilian sailor is an underrated performance.
If you watch his face acting when talking to his dad, you can feel the oldschool British emotional suppression felt between father and son. He thinks his father is going mad with self righteousness as his brother goes blind and he refuses to go back, but also feels a duty to help him, and somewhat partially agrees in a greater good. But there are no actual words between them expressing this. But you can tell that his paralysis in being unable to help his brother, and inability to talk to his dad about it in this situation will haunt him forever.
Burham is advocating for devolution, and proportional representation. He has also argued for a codified constitution in the past. Would this require new laws?
Everything that burham is advocating for, are there legal obstacles that need to be overcome?
Community rocked after 'terrifying' rise in gun violence
sloughobserver.co.ukTrump threatens 100% import tariff on UK over digital services tax
independent.co.ukShould the UK have a codified constitution, with a Supreme Court with Americanised power (power to strike down action)
Not sure if this has been asked before, but I checked and can’t find. But I look over to the US, which is burning. However, because of said checks and balances, there is a lot of cases of the government just breaking the law, and those people could in theory be held liable after they leave office. Hence the country IS salvageable. I feel like, without such checks, this country is a much better breeding ground for fascism. The only real check against government power is pressure from the media it seems (lol yikes). So would such a system work? How would it be implemented? What could it look like? Would any government likely implement it?
Selling: The Odyssey; The Science Museum; 01-Aug-2026; central (G17 G18) x2
Incredible seating. Most central seats are sold out. DM if interested