The European Union is donning its camouflage pants and flexing its muscles on defense.

NATO isn’t happy about it.

🔗 trib.al/ixGIk3X

MADE IN YORKSHIRE: Sheffield Forgemasters has awarded VINCI a £138 million contract to construct a new 13,800 sqm building which will house the UK's largest open-die forging facility.

The new Forge building will be complemented by a proposed new machining facility as part of a

New scheme to mark DDay80 for the RAF display Typhoon.

2025 Aston Martin DBX 707 configurator is now live, see the model updates and choose your specification.
More: configurator.astonmartin.com/.../model.../M…
#astonmartin #dbx #dbx 707

Germany has arrested three people suspected of spying for China.
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More evidence that the UK economy returned to growth in Q1... 👇

#Retail sales were flat in March, but the rebound in January and small upward revision to February mean that sales volumes rose by 1.9% in Q1 compared to Q4 2023.

(My guess: #GDP rose by at least 0.4% q/q)

Trouble in paradise...

The more this account posts weird AI images, the more I become convinced that they do not know how to spell rejoin.

Pure cynicism from Sadiq Khan

The Thames will be swimmable next year because the Thames Tideway Tunnel (started under Boris Johnson) is due to start working next year. Khan has had nothing to do with it.

🎖️ Celebrating an Extraordinary Endeavour: Running the 250km Marathon des Sables for the Army Benevolent Fund
which saw Rob Rinder running across the Moroccan Sahara alongside an elite team of British Army professionals.

Read more here
bit.ly/4b5s2lD

#RindersRun

They did it! Our incredible team are victorious at the end of the 2024 MARATHON DES SABLES. 👏🎉

Thank you to Rob Rinder, British Army Sergeant Major Carney, Heather Stanning, Natalya Platonova and Mark Nooney from everyone at ABF for raising over £24,000 and counting. ➡️tinyurl.com/29xj8pue

NEW: Labour were made aware of multiple allegations of criminality against former Chief Whip Nick Brown but did not alert the police

thesun.co.uk/news/27459255/…

Wrote a bit for @cityam about FA Cup replays, Dickie Guy, Marcus Gayle, and why this feels like a tipping point for modern football: simply put, the big boys can't be arsed to actually play the game anymore cityam.com/what-price-tho…

The Bank of England has a tough decision to make after recent data:
-Stubborn wage growth of around six per cent
-Inflation came in at 3.2 per cent
-Retail sales underwhelmed in March, remaining flat

What choice will BoE make on interest rates?
cityam.com/bank-of-englan…

Wealthy people trying to escape New York’s high taxes are going to extremes to prove they've actually moved. trib.al/Tu8b0nb

Catch up on the day's hydrogen news with #H2View

Hydrogen Vehicle Systems begins Attribute Prototype manufacturing at Silverstone facility. #repost

h2-view.com/story/hvs-begi…

Worked for who ? EU students certainly. UK student take up very low. Turin much more global, effective and cost efficient. US universities included for example and free of EU propaganda turing-scheme.org.uk

Sweden and Finland urge Brussels to get on and do trade deals — and not to tie them to its environmental agenda.
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Another tweak in the gradual rollout of post- #Brexit border checks, which should minimise any remaining risks of disruption 👇

(Still frustrating though: repeated delays are adding to business uncertainty, which is not good for trade or investment 🙄)

The first unit of governance in society is the family - Aristotle

So if families break down, societies break down