https://www.adoptionuk.org/news/significant-cut-in-government-funding-for-adopted-and-kinship-children

How heartless and how wrong.

Should the price of eggs and milk decide who runs a country?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/breaking-vladimir-putin-orders-russia-to-stop-fighting-in-ukraine-in-bombshell-move-from-kremlin/ar-AA1DeopT?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=cd3b35e162754a719331fa6c394b55b4&ei=7

There is a case to be made for higher levies on imports.

America needs to rebuild its industrial base, it can’t always be reliant on its main geopolitical adversary for a vast range of tech and consumer goods, and it needs to bring production back onshore.

Former President Joe Biden was trying to do all that with his huge range of subsidies, especially for microchips, and now Trump is pursuing the same goals, but with tariffs as the main tool instead.

It has become the new consensus in American economic policy, and, whoever is in charge, it is likely to stay in place.

The rest of the world will just have to get used to it.

The trouble is, the tariffs have been poorly planned, and badly executed.

They should have been announced a long way in advance so that companies had the time to reconfigure their supply chains.

For example, iPhones.

If it will take Apple until 2028 to build the necessary manufacturing capacity in the US, why not wait until then before the tariff is introduced?

If it will triple the cost of an iPhone, why not phase the tariff in gradually so that the market has time to adjust?

Perhaps most of all, talk to industries first to figure out what the impact might be instead of raising the tariffs overnight, and then suspending them after some frantic lobbying from a series of bewildered chief executives.

It remains to be seen whether Apple can build the factories it will need in the US.

As an insurance policy, at least, it will have to try. It can’t risk going through another week with huge tariffs hanging over it.

VACANCY.

Horse whisperer needed for stable genius.

https://animalequality.org.uk/campaign/ban-force-feeding/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=paid&utm_content=LG+-+Image+2+-+goose&utm_campaign=01%2F08%2F24_GH_AEUK_Acquisizione+%28Leads%29&utm_id=120209366310810358&utm_term=120216324271520358&fbclid=IwY2xjawJvt05leHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqxgcLam_hgEeycHxlZFU3S6oh5btig_RlIA-Xa3PpWJgIKVkecaLrGpds7Zp3RaJs7Aim2A_aem_UY0C-zr6nf8jOV6rPXntCA

https://www.bbc.co.uk/travel/article/20250411-why-icelanders-are-happier-than-ever

Trump says U.S. might have to ‘take a pass’ on Ukraine-Russia peace talks.

Might this suggest the war couldn't be resolved in 24 hours?

[ and recognition there wasn't any easy money in it for "deal" makers...]

In the 20th century, the youngest person executed in the United States was George Stinney Jr. At just 14 years old, he was executed in the electric chair. From the day of his trial until his execution, the young man held a Bible in his hands, constantly proclaiming his innocence.

Stinney was charged with murdering two white girls. One victim was 11-year-old Betty and the other was 7-year-old Mary. Their bodies were found near their own homes. During the trial, all the jurors were white and the proceedings lasted only two hours. Just 10 minutes into the trial, the death sentence was handed down. Stinney's parents were threatened with death and were not allowed to give their son any comfort in the courtroom. They were subsequently forced to leave their town.

George Stinney spent 81 days in prison before his death and was never allowed to see his parents during that time. He was held in solitary confinement about 50 miles from his hometown. His execution was carried out by applying 5,380 volts of electricity.

Seventy years after his death, a South Carolina judge has proven George Stinney innocent. The two girls had been killed by a beam weighing more than 40 pounds, which would have been impossible for 14-year-old Stinney to lift, let alone use to inflict lethal blows. The entire case against him was fabricated, and Stinney was targeted simply because he was black.

This tragic story later inspired Stephen King to write his novel "The Green Mile." It is often said that people in the past were more humane, but that is a blatant lie. People were cruel then, just as they are now. The only difference is that before, cruelty was hidden, whereas now it is exposed for everyone to see.

(This article has been copied from Quora)

After seeing that 705 illegals crossed the channel on Tuesday, I was wondering what happens to all those dinghies and outboard engines??.
Are they recycled, sent beck to France to be used again??.

https://youtube.com/shorts/3LglFtw5_5g?feature=shared

An answer to one of them

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFwXa5h/

Or has he?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/17/trump-china-harvard-supreme-court

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t

This made me laugh - I don’t think it was supposed to as most of it is a fact

https://youtube.com/shorts/CtIybHGX5MQ?si=zBRiLK2gnHq09WI6

It's tit for tat between the USA and China - The tit has made the Chinese tat more expensive.

Easter Egg Hunt

The days of trench warfare or the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava are long gone.
The nuclear age is one of total annihilation.
This is what happens when a Mouse throws its weight about.

https://www.ladbible.com/news/uk-news/putin-nuclear-targets-uk-leaked-world-war-3-warning-216481-20250416

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdFxdm7A/

Thanks to that vermin scumbag Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/russian-rouble-crowned-world-s-best-performing-currency-as-dollar-declines/ar-AA1CYzSz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=254f24ba5d29416d906b56bd1acf6dcf&ei=38

Lessons will be learnt

But they never are

Paedophile gang

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/how-did-one-of-britains-most-shocking-paedophile-rings-get-away-with-it-for-so-long-13344456

I know a little something that so many do not appreciate about Donald, but that those of us who worked with him in the financial services game have known for many

decades—LONG before he ever made a run at politics.

His stated motives rarely reveal his true agenda. His showmanship and charisma bedazzles the uninformed, which is exactly how he likes it.

He never signed a contract or met an agreement he wouldn’t violate or wriggle out of if it suited his hidden agenda. He never met an investor whose purse he didn’t consider his own in some strategic way. And he never met a human being he wouldn’t screw in order to advance or satisfy himself.

If you want to understand his beef with Panama, don’t look at the canal to which he now points. Look at Trump enterprises and their fraught financial and criminal relationship with Panama, and look to the Russian oligarchs who bought condos in his Panama Tower.

If you want to understand his fixation with Gaza, don’t look at the Palestinian or Israeli people; look at the real estate value he now perceives that Gaza holds, and he’d like to unlock.

If you want to understand his insane, obsessive beef with energy renewable windmills, don’t look at the wind energy aspect; look at his beef with Scotland over his golf course and the nearby windmills that damaged his idea of its aesthetics.

If you want to understand his irrational hatred of Obama, don’t look at the policies of the Obama administration; look to the annual press corp dinner where Obama poked fun at him and bruised his ego. If you want to understand his demonization of Democrats, look not to Democratic social policy, but to the fact they didn’t want him to run under color of their party.

If you want to understand his hatred of “immigrants” don’t look to the actual contributions and challenges related to immigration, but to his own germophobia and personal disgust for all things “dirty and brown.”

What he does SO masterfully, as many sociopaths do, is figure out how to align, however temporarily, his own personal agenda with the drives of those he can then USE to help him execute it. And the GOP fell right in line with that abusive strategy.

The GOP now looks much like a battered wife who would LOVE to quit Trump, but who also knows their financial security, personal comfort, and social status would collapse if they ran away. And they fear they won’t get much sympathy or support from the people who tried to warn them not to marry the dude—a serial, liar, cheater, thief, sadist, and a generally Bad Person.

Many of the GOP politicians today are busily masking their own abuse from the general public; at some point, however, as they watch their power continue to erode, their reputations get smashed, and themselves get blamed for the extensive abuse they now suffer, something’s gonna give.

I don’t know what it is, but every bone in my body FEELS an energetic convergence heading toward a massive, MASSIVE explosion—coming soon.

Author ~ Eilene Workman

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/it-s-already-in-the-cards-trump-impeachment-urged-by-wsj-editorial-board-member/ar-AA1CNss5

Worth every moment - this bloke is a joke

https://youtu.be/ucMgf7C-xsU?si=J0oOWhnvaLKiahrH

Feel free to submit your title for this cartoon!!

https://mashable.com/video/snl-cold-open-trump-tariffs-easter-jesus

Comedy or Tragedy?

https://youtu.be/ZaNdd-k_dHk?si=54knMsI8ffQkzzl-

https://www.gbnews.com/money/universal-credit-dwp-freebies-discounts-savings-april-check-eligibility

https://youtu.be/OS8Azn22Vw8?si=_pZCd_uuq3VMeHUg

https://youtube.com/shorts/lfGDTAqteeA?si=uKbgHh9DYQ9FrZYx

https://mol.im/a/14579625

I see that some of our so called asylum seekers are leaving their hotels to fly home for the holidays, are we paying their air fares??, and how do they manage without passports??

It’s getting more like North Korea and Russia every day. The comments are interesting too

https://youtu.be/WyNDFgYtaGw?si=fHPfGiwGM-O2e8Cx

Your Excellency, Mr. President,

We watched the report of your conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, with fear and distaste. We find it insulting that you expect Ukraine to show respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States in its fight against Russia. Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed their blood in defense of the values of the free world. They have been dying on the front lines for more than 11 years in the name of these values and the independence of their homeland, which was attacked by Putin’s Russia.

We do not understand how the leader of a country that symbolizes the free world cannot recognize this.

Our alarm was also heightened by the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation, which reminded us of the interrogations we endured at the hands of the Security Services and the debates in Communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, acting on behalf of the all-powerful communist political police, would explain to us that they held all the power while we held none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people suffered because of us. They stripped us of our freedoms and civil rights because we refused to cooperate with the government or express gratitude for our oppression. We are shocked that President Volodymyr Zelensky was treated in the same manner.

The history of the 20th century shows that whenever the United States sought to distance itself from democratic values and its European allies, it ultimately became a threat to itself. President Woodrow Wilson understood this when he decided in 1917 that the United States must join World War I. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood this when, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he resolved that the war to defend America must be fought not only in the Pacific but also in Europe, in alliance with the nations under attack by the Third Reich.

We remember that without President Ronald Reagan and America’s financial commitment, the collapse of the Soviet empire would not have been possible. President Reagan recognized that millions of enslaved people suffered in Soviet Russia and the countries it had subjugated, including thousands of political prisoners who paid for their defense of democratic values with their freedom. His greatness lay, among other things, in his unwavering decision to call the USSR an “Empire of Evil” and to fight it decisively. We won, and today, the statue of President Ronald Reagan stands in Warsaw, facing the U.S. Embassy.

Mr. President, material aid—military and financial—can never be equated with the blood shed in the name of Ukraine’s independence and the freedom of Europe and the entire free world. Human life is priceless; its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is due to those who sacrifice their blood and their freedom. This is self-evident to us, the people of Solidarity, former political prisoners of the communist regime under Soviet Russia.

We call on the United States to uphold the guarantees made alongside Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which established a direct obligation to defend Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for its relinquishment of nuclear weapons. These guarantees are unconditional—there is no mention of treating such assistance as an economic transaction.

Signed,

Lech Wałęsa, former political prisoner, President of Poland

https://ukrainainc.net/2025/03/03/22379/

Report them - the councils have been given extra money

https://www.gov.uk/report-pothole

Just seen on the news, this specimen has attacked and injured 3 prison officers, at the holiday camp where he currently resides!!.
WHY is the awful individual NOT dangling on the end of a rope??

Republicans are growing restless and frustrated over President Donald Trump's escalating trade war — and some strategists are warning he's set to trigger a dangerous backlash, Politico reported on Tuesday.

Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs, dubbed a "reciprocal" scheme even though the tariffs are in most cases far higher than those imposed on U.S. products by foreign countries, impose duties of 10 to 49 percent on virtually all foreign goods.

The list of tariffs even singles out remote, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica that have no trade with the U.S.

The result has been a panicked selloff in the stock market and forecasts of a likely imminent recession — which, GOP officials say, are not what their voters wanted.

The president "won in November because many voters saw him as an antidote to their economic malaise; as a candidate, he frequently promised to lower Americans’ everyday prices," noted Adam Cancryn and Myah Ward.

"But as president, he has chosen instead to plunge the country into fresh financial chaos, while insisting the market losses as a result of his tariffs are 'medicine' Americans need to take."

Whit Ayres, who polls for Republicans, said, “Trump was elected in part to lower inflation and juice the economy. Higher prices and slower growth are exactly the opposite of what Americans voted for.”


Donald, where's your troosers?

She confiscated her Ipad, only for the police to be called by a man accusing her of stealing it.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mum-arrested-held-in-cell-seven-hours-confiscating-kids-ipads-b1221989.html

https://youtu.be/SwJu7toxzKg?si=inmy1PUt45sfyHRs

It’s long but worth listening to

Fixed election for Trump

About 4 hours before he announced that the USA will be delaying the introduction of tariffs Trump posted that now is a good time to buy.
When the announcement appeared the stock market saw a fairly substantial rise.
So now we can add insider trading to his list of crimes.

"Police officers smash through the back doors of a bright, modern barber shop in the market town of Shrewsbury.

Inside they immediately detain two men - who we are later told are Kurdish asylum seekers. Both men are later released.

It is the first of six raids that day where police seize thousands of pounds in cash and illicit vapes.

The officers are here with a warrant to search the premises because of suspected money laundering. They say their intelligence also suggests the shop is linked to sale of illicit cigarettes and vapes, illegal immigration and drug-dealing.

Det Insp Daniel Fenn, on his ninth raid of the week, says some barber shops such as this are claiming income of £100,000 to £150,000 a month. "They aren't getting that amount of customers to warrant that amount of money."

CCTV in other barbers that have been raided has shown they do not have many customers, so footage of this one will also be examined, DI Fenn says.

The raid in Shrewsbury was one of 265 carried out across England last month as part of a crackdown on High Street businesses - often Turkish-style barbers, vape shops and mini-marts - suspected of being fronts for international crime gangs.

Politicians and members of the public have raised concerns about many of these businesses which have boomed even while High Streets appear to be in decline. The average number of barbers per person in England and Wales has doubled in the past 10 years, according to commercial property analysts Green Street."

BBC NEWS REPORT


Other businesses of interest - Nail bars / glamour tanning shops / fast food outlets ... any more you can add?

https://youtu.be/zrHZDa6Zv8k?si=546nYEDcr2KBqh6_

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/10/2315723/-Trump-targets-law-firm-that-made-Fox-News-pay-for-2020-election-lies?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main#comment_

Stable Genius at work.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/brexit-passport-government-confusion-denied-boarding-b2731024.html#

From today the maximum stake on an online casino slot machine is £5.
Do you think this will make any difference to those with a gambling addiction?

https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/licensees-and-businesses/guide/online-slots-stake-limit-guidance

The Duke of Sussex met war victims in Ukraine on Thursday when he visited a clinic which rehabilitates wounded military personnel and civilians, a spokesperson has said.

Prince Harry visited the Superhumans Center, in the western city of Lviv, where he spoke to patients and staff.

He was accompanied by a group from the Invictus Games Foundation, including four veterans who had been through similar rehabilitation.

How come he feels safe travelling to an embattled country, but demands Royal protection elsewhere?

Am I missing something?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5rey37e1lo