Judging by the way wages have dropped since 2008, at latest, it feels as if we’re heading for a new era of feudalism.

When it was reported on the radio news yesterday they said “jumped into the engine”. I cannot find anything else to confirm if that’s true. Either way it’s horrific.

For a few years now I’ve thought that the food industry will feature as the next controversy as tobacco has been. Years ago I read an article about High Fructose Corn Syrup, its history and its negative effect on the liver. I can’t find the original but this one comes close. Ever since I’ve avoided HFCS.

We then have hydrogenated fats that are considered bad for the body.

The bottom line is that these ingredients are produced to make food production cheaper but at the expense of a healthy diet. Industry sector lobbying helps these ingredients to the market.

I heard that in the US she’s known as Moscow Marjorie.

I suspect there should be a /s on the end there.

There was a time that the UK government had China involved in the development of a new nuclear power station, Sizewell C. They corrected their mistake.

Next up is Taurus from Germany.

Competition was always going to happen it was just a question of when and to what degree. The established car makers weren’t going to sit around and watch Tesla take their market share. But the rise of Chinese car manufacturers hitting the EV market has been swift and brutal. These are huge companies that are generally unheard of in the West such as BYD.

Edit, the link is almost a year old so I suspect figures have changed a fair bit since.

Here in the UK the price of a delivered newspaper is as high as £3.40 midweek (The Financial Times).

Your typical weekly rag could set you back between £7.80 to £22 per week.

The last time I bought a newspaper was about 10 years ago and that was to light a fire! Yet I avoid pay wall as I do not feel I’m getting as much as a physical paper.

Food security

More food security

Less food

Food versus fuel

Worsening food insecurity

And they want to put solar farms on the fields that grow food.

It’s Mr Bean with a beard.

Lol

Neoliberalism, or the pursuit of a small state through privatisation and cuts.

It’d be interesting to know what percentage of those that voted for Brexit actually knew what the Customs Union was. I suspect incredibly low. Yet Brexit got through on jingoism, populism and downright lies, oh and greed.

I can see hundreds of small businesses going under along with thousands of jobs because of these stupid import tariffs and fees. Yet they dress it up and justify it as something good. That income stream will dry up damn quickly when the imports stop along with exports.

Brexit has been a vote to repeatedly punch ourselves in the face.

Mmmm… that reminds of this story.

The whole event of 7th Oct, as horrendous as it was, is now completely and utterly overshadowed by these evil events in Gaza. The whole thing is deplorable on both sides. This is pure evil.

Is that picture of Eylon Levy real? It looks as if he’s been caught red handed, oh wait.

Russia will use this as bargaining for Russia to be allowed to compete under their flag rather than the individual neutrals that’s has been previously agreed and lob some cruise missiles at Odessa when everyone is watching the 100m final.

In all likelihood Russia will continue its murderous campaign on the region Olympics or not.