What’s
in store??
· Sunak flexes his skills in political rhetoric with Piers Morgan.
·
A business loss that would make FTX blush.
· Putin suggests stronger force is to be taken against Ukraine.
UK Politics
- The Times reports that ‘dozens of civil servants
have submitted statements in support of Raab’s accusers’; this puts further
pressure on Sunak’s claim that he was not aware of any formal complaints made against
the current Deputy Prime Minister.
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Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan, on ITV’s
Good Morning Britain, offers insight into the underlying reasons behind UK
strike action.
‘It isn’t about
what we earn, it is about what other people don’t earn. I Want every nurse in the
country, everybody in the fire brigade, everybody in the public sector, every
teacher to have what we have'
Most might read this as a confession that rail workers are
in less of a position to take strike action when compared to other sectors.
However, this does suggest that pay alone is not the issue, there is a growing
unrest with the British government and a declining sense of patriotic duty, that
Sunak must restore.
Focus
Rishi Sunak made an appearance on Piers Morgan’s show – Pier Morgan
Uncensored – where he deals with issues concerning, gender identity, UK strike
action and his tax returns.
Sunak claims he will release his tax return “shortly” in an
attempt to be “transparent”. This move comes after questions surrounding
his Wife’s Nom-Dom status.
Sunak also offers his views on gender identity. Piers Morgan
asks Sunak “what is a woman?” to which Sunak quickly replies, “Of course, I know
what a woman is - an adult human female”. Sunak stresses the importance of biological sex,
after Piers Morgan makes reference to the current issue in Scotland, concerning
the trans-gender rapist – Isla Bryson.
Across the seas
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Ilhan Omar is removed from the house of foreign
affairs committee due to her past comments on Israel
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The US accuses China of using a spy balloon over
an area of Montana that houses nuclear weapons. China claims it’s a civilian ‘airship’
used for weather monitoring that went off course. This has raised tensions
ahead of the meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese President
XI Jinping.
Business
- Chat GPT sets more records after it’s suspected
to have had 100 million users in January, according to a study from UBS
- JP Morgan acquires 250,000 acres of woodlands in
southeastern US for $500 million. The purchase comes from an interest in carbon
offsets - by purchasing CO2-absorbing forests, they can counterbalance the company's
carbon emissions.
Focus
Indian Billionaire, Gautam Adani, makes headlines as his businesses
have collectively lost $108 billion in value.
The loss comes after US short-seller - Hindenburg Research claimed Adani’s empire pulled ‘the largest con in corporate history’ and made accusations of stock manipulation. Adani denies the allegations and has also made it political – believing that these accusations are a ‘calculated attack on India’.
In Other News…
- Gary Glitter has been freed from prison after serving half of his 16-year jail term. The once huge music star is now a convicted paedophile, with his youngest victim being younger than 10 years old.
- Nicola Bulley, wife, and mother of two daughters, has been missing for a week. The 45-year-old was last seen walking her dog in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, on 27th January. Her husband, Paul Ansell, has stated “it is as though she has vanished into thin air. It’s just insane”. Her phone was found on a riverside bench still connected to a work call, along with a harness for her dog, willow. Police are “keeping an open mind” as to what happened
- The Spanish fashion designer, Paco Rabanne, has died aged 88. Marc Puig, chairman and chief executive officer of Puig, paid tribute to his "daring, revolutionary and provocative vision, conveyed through a unique aesthetic".
War in Ukraine
Putin likens Germany’s decision to send tanks into Ukraine to WWII. Putin states “we are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks”.
It’s almost one year since Russia launched a full-scale
invasion into Ukraine. Speaking in Volgograd - the modern name for Stalingrad –
Putin alludes to using stronger measures against Ukraine with dangerous weaponry.
"Those who hope to defeat Russia on the battlefield do not understand, it seems, that a modern war with Russia will be very different for them…We are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we have the means to respond. It won't be limited to the use of armoured hardware. Everyone must understand this."
By Christian Hotten
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