In 1971, John Connally, Richard Nixon's treasury secretary, famously told a delegation of Europeans worried about exchange rate fluctuations that the American dollar “is our currency, but your problem.”
But now, in 2022, the ‘dollar problem’ is coming home.
The decision to push almost 3 billion people (Russia, India & China) into trading with each other in currencies other than the dollar, will go down as one of the most short-sighted and self destructive policies in US history.
If you are basically ok with the idea that your government uses your taxes to kill people, just as long as those being killed don't look like you, then maybe it is you that isn't very civilised.
This is unbelievably irresponsible and unprofessional reporting from the FT.
Criticising NATO does not make someone ‘pro-Putin’.
It’s not only moronic and facile to suggest this, it’s a threat to the safety of MPs like @zarahsultana who have faced horrendous online abuse.
Today the Tories voted for a law that would have banned local communities from supporting anti-apartheid campaigns in South Africa.
And this law threatens the rights of local communities to oppose injustices today. My speech on why I voted against it:
@ianmc46_ian @ToriesMustGo @pleasecallmemac @SimonPease1 @RishiSunak The more you get to understand this £200 SCAM that Sleazy Sunak is playing on all of us the more we have to inform the Financial Conduct Authority.
Click on this link fca.org.uk/consumers/misl…
to report Sleazy Sunak for misleading us and committing a fraud in broad daylight.
This Conservative government could help working families, pensioners and struggling businesses, but they care more about protecting oil and gas producers.
Labour would introduce a one-off windfall tax on their profits to support UK households.
EXCL: Police have a photo of Boris Johnson holding a can of a beer at his lockdown birthday party in June 2020 - taken by his taxpayer funded official photographer.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
The smear made against Keir Starmer relating to Jimmy Saville yesterday is wrong & cannot be defended. It should be withdrawn. False and baseless personal slurs are dangerous, corrode trust & can't just be accepted as part of the cut & thrust of parliamentary debate.
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