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Ukrainian forces continued to hunt down Russian missile production facilities with their UK-supplied Storm Shadows today, successfully striking the Yelets Energia Plant.
The plant, hit by multiple Storm Shadows, produced subcomponents for the Iskander, Kinzhal, and Zircon.
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Footage of multiple Ukrainian Storm Shadow cruise missiles slamming into Russia’s Proton military electronics plant in Orel this weekend.
The strike heavily damaged a chip fab at the factory.
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It’s a remarkable coincidence that SpaceX discovered and closed a “loophole” in a way that severely harmed Ukraine in the very same week that the White House had a dispute with Ukraine. Just astonishing luck that SpaceX lawyers got to the issue at the very same time by chance!
Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
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I’ve written many times about how the soft left on Labour’s backbenches are ‘economic illiterates’. This is proof positive. Beyond redemption in its misunderstanding of markets, supply, demand, taxes.
Nope, that’s not how taxes and price works. The price is determined by demand and supply.
Companies charge the highest price they can given demand. A tax levied on *profits* does not affect a company’s cost ie supply.
Taxes on *windfall* profits (like oil and gas) are the most efficient kind of tax there is.
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No. The scariest thing here is what HMRC considers wealthy.
£200k/pa
OR
£2M in ASSETS
And apparently, out of a population of £68ish million inhabitants, there are only 850,000 of these 'wealthy'.
We are so irredeemably fucked.
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This government is taking preparations for war so seriously that the MoD is being forced to make £3.5Bn of in-year ‘efficiency savings’ during 2026-27.
"we needed to make some savings to bring them into line and balance the books. I have taken decisions to stop doing some things this year” says Streeting.
UK must be ready for war in 1000 days says Streeting trib.al/Tzf9Jil
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Close down refineries and they put a green tax on fuel imports. Makes sense...
John Healey has drawn up plans to announce a “green tax” on imported fuel in next week’s Budget, prompting fears that petrol prices could rise, The Telegraph can reveal.
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Rosebank oil field would add £24bn to the UK economy over the field’s lifetime and create 1,200 jobs. Quite frankly madness not to push for domestic oil and gas production in such a volatile world 👍👍👍👍
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HMRC has quietly sent hundreds of letters to wealthy people asking them to reveal what they own. Not what they earn or what tax they've paid, but what they own.
Here's what's going on. A unit called the Wealthy Team covers anyone with "incomes of £200,000 or more, or assets equal to or above £2m in any of the last three years". That's about 850,000 people. The letters ask for a meeting to discuss "sources of wealth", "future intentions", trusts, companies, family arrangements and even "significant life events" you expect in the coming years.
It is presented as voluntary, but there's a nudge: "We may still need to carry out compliance checks on your tax returns. However, speaking with you first may help avoid this."
Until now, inspectors have usually only asked about income and earnings. Experts call this a "sea change". One lawyer asked the obvious question: "does HMRC have a right to know what someone owns and not simply that they have paid the right amount of tax?" A tax adviser said: "No other G20 country asks for this level of detail from its taxpayers about what they own."
So what is it for? Advisers suspect it is groundwork for an exit tax, a charge on your wealth for leaving the country. As one put it: "Building that knowledge could indeed be part of moving towards an exit tax."
You don't have to be a billionaire to see the problem.
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HMRC writing off £13bn in unpaid business taxes due to businesses going into liquidation. Unpaid council tax bills a £7.4 billion. Stamp duty down £500m due to higher rates. North Sea windfall taxes achieving only 25% of forecast. The Laffer curve is everywhere. The country is on its knees.
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It's 151 days since an operational RN SSN was at sea.
The boats in these pictures (Audacious-1303, Ambush-1546 & Artful-1273) have now spent a combined total of 4122 days in port.
The lack of dry dock capacity has been known for years, but we still await for an order...
#scandal
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Elon Musk lies again. Civilian Starlink was already speed-limited, and every terminal had to be whitelisted. Yet Starshield was throttled too, which can’t be explained by alleged ToS violations. His explanations keep contradicting each other, making his claims even less credible
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There is no Starlink coverage over Russia. We’re talking about Russian military logistics inside occupied Ukraine.
I think it’s fair to ask whether Elon is trying to protect them.
We don’t use Starlink for our responses inside Russia. We use Starlink to intercept jet-powered “shaheds” that attack our civilians and kill families.
Starlink wasn’t turned off – its speed was reduced. And when the speed was reduced, we were unable to intercept a certain number of jet-powered “shaheds.” We couldn’t use a tool that helps protect people. That’s very painful and frustrating.
We also use Starlink for mid-range strikes against enemy military targets in our temporarily occupied territories. We couldn’t do that when the restrictions were in place. And third, what matters most is people. Our warriors, who spend weeks and months on the front line, receive food and water delivered by drones using Starlink.
Has the speed been fully restored to what it was before? No. Is it being restored now? Yes.
From a conversation with media representatives in Brussels. (2/3)
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“Take up arms… and do preemptive strikes wherever those preemptive strikes are needed”.
That sounds pretty much like incitement to violence to me @nottspolice
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Elon Musk claims that Ukraine allegedly violated Starlink's terms of use and used the system on combat drones.
As someone who was inside the process at the Ministry of Defense, I can say with certainty that this is not true.
In February of this year, whitelists were introduced. Stationary terminals could be registered by both military personnel and civilians.
But for any satellite terminal to work while on the move, it had to be added to a special list and connected to the military Starshield system. Otherwise, no satellite communication terminals in Ukraine would work.
In other words, using civilian Starlink for drone missions was technically impossible. All drone missions that required satellite communication could only be carried out using Starshield.
We are very grateful to the United States and SpaceX for access to critically important satellite communications. Ukraine did not violate the terms of use.
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Lovely idea but.... Ship building isn't a tap that you can simply turn on and off, water pouring out as soon as you turn it on. There are lead times for structures and sub-systems. @BAES_Maritime has given @DefenceHQ several options to speed up T26 over the past yrs - turned down
I agree with @NavyLookout - with frigate availability set to worsen further "The only credible solution is to speed up the delivery of Type 26 and Type 31s."
That's exactly what @KemiBadenoch and I first proposed back in May, using the cash from Labour's stalled Chagos deal to fund the plan.
So it's disappointing to learn from @NavyLookout that the Government have rejected this idea.
With the Budget looming, the Chancellor needs to think again and finally set out a clear path to 3%.
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RRS Sir David Attenborough outbound from Devonport today after refuelling and extended stay due to Storm Austen, on her way south to Antarctica.
Via: K. Clarke
The Chinook fleet is dying as it retires and only a niche SF fetish fleet of H-47(ER) Chinooks is been purchased to replace some at an insane cost and while destroying the helicopter portfolio. But lets add another role.
