Breaking the rules is still breaking the rules. The guardian can report on both.

I bet you he’s got Oasis tickets as well.

Maybe they will ask nicely? The missing diplomacy.

Maybe stop funding them with US tax dollars?

Thank goodness 🙏. We’re gonna need some doctors when all those pensioners die from the cold… /s.

Imagine if the EU fined Ireland like it fines US mega corporations when they’ve been deemed to break the law. 4% of global turnover for GDPR breaches for example. If the EU wants to take tax avoidance seriously it would fine Ireland 4% of their GDP until they shut these schemes down.

But it doesn’t. This is simply a charade.

That’s a really niche US reference that hardly anyone outside of the internet will understand, let alone the British public attending this rally.

The article sums it up well.

Prosecutor Jonathan Bryan said the term “coconut” was a “well-known racial slur which has a very clear meaning”.

He said: “You may be brown on the outside, but you’re white on the inside. In other words, you’re a race traitor – you’re less brown or black than you should be.”

Thanks. I have no idea why it’s not working for me. Now not even my link works for me 😔

Data centres as vital as NHS and power grid, government says

So I guess we’re going to underfund them and treat the workers as mugs?

King Cobra JFS?

😂😂😂😂

This is my impression whilst visiting Roscommon.

Fuck that’s depressing reading. I understand what US corporations get out of this but I’m still unsure why Ireland goes to this length to be a tax haven. What’s in it for them?

Don’t worry, if I believe the internet the EU will save us from Big Tech… checks where Ireland and The Netherlands are… Bugger.

The UK is like: Brexit is over how can we forget divide the country?

Is it a shit hole because there’s nothing to do and no jobs? Well that’s fair.

But if we’re going to build more houses and towns then we need to get that part right as well. Drawing all the wealth and life of the country into the South isn’t great in the long term.

What’s happening with all the money Biden has given Intel? That just disappeared?

Do this but… Build a new fucking city you bastards! Including all the infrastructure and housing and high street and transport.

There was an interesting comment in the previous post about this. Whilst conspiracy nonsense is often quite common here on Lemmy I do feel in this case it’s pretty accurate of what’s going on.

Lammy and his French counterpart were recently in Israel having high level meetings with the Israeli government. No doubt the topic of on going support from the UK & France came up and no doubt Lammy would have mentioned that it doesn’t look good politically in the UK to still have these licenses for arms to kill Palestinians. The US is being particularly quiet on this one given the election but a Trump team member recently said something to the effect of “The UK can get fucked if it stops selling arms to Israel… I tell you hwat”.

So, to me, this really does feel like the UK trying to balance politics at home and abroad. Even the way Lammy sheepishly apologised for suspending a tiny fraction of arms sales to Israel. Just enough to placate the voters at home whilst trying not to damage inward investment from countries that fully support Israel’s campaign (i.e. the US and Israel itself).

It’s a state owned funding company for projects if I recall correctly. Not an actual energy company which is what people on the left want. For the state to run everything.

Obviously welcomed news but the interesting point that commentators are calling out is this:

However, the total capacity of offshore wind projects secured may not yet be enough to meet the UK’s stretching target of decarbonising electricity supplies by 2030.

Industry had previously argued that this round, and the next one, would need to deliver about 10GW of offshore wind capacity each to keep the sector on track with government targets.

Today’s news shows confidence in the sector and in government stability after the lacklustre auction of last year under the previous administration.

Good starting point but we need more. Well done Ed.