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The age of the performer-entrepreneur Related Iron Musk is not a renegade outsider Employees fired after writing letter criticising Musk

A review of  Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties  

“When Ihat [ Iraq Historic Allegations Team]  closed, outstanding cases were reduced, overnight, from 3,400 to just 20. It had cost the taxpayer £34m and failed to secure a single prosecution. Fifteen years after it began, we are no closer to holding any politicians or high-ranking soldiers accountable for the disaster of the Iraq war.” “The last person in Britain to be prosecuted for crimes committed by forces under their command was in 1651 during the civil war.” Why we may never know

“ Most agree that the root of the problem lies in the ongoing economic crisis”

"How can I support my people dying? My grandchildren and great-grandchildren were forced to go to Poland. We live in fear and terror." "I was just happy that Russians would come and not fight with us. I was happy that we would unite again." The red flag, she says , is not the flag of the Soviet Union, not of Russia, but "the banner of love and happiness in every family, in every city, in every republic. Not of bloodshed. And whoever says otherwise, is wrong." "If I could speak to Vladimir Putin I would say, you've made a mistake. Us Ukrainian workers, what have we ever done to deserve this? We are the ones who are suffering the most." "Putin is a president. A tsar, a king, an emperor."

Capitalism and the Shipping Chaos

Mortgages to universal credit claimants

What it can tell us about the world