Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast: 5 takeaways from the latest episode
A roundup of the Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast
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Tories ditch plans to cap UK MPs’ earnings from second jobs following sleaze scandals
The government says a cap would be ‘impractical’
Boris Johnson returns from Saudi Arabia empty handed after begging dictators for oil increase
Despite Johnson’s meeting with bin Salman for 1 hour and 45 minutes there was little sign of a breakthrough.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 3, March 2022
The news you didn’t seek this week…
‘Going cap in hand from dictator to dictator is not an energy strategy’: Boris Johnson slammed for begging Saudi dictator for help
‘Saying we are not going to rely on Russia and then going to Saudi Arabia is not an energy strategy.’
Tory MP deletes Twitter account after claiming it would be ‘immoral’ for Britain to take in more Ukrainian refugees
His comments also drew criticism from his own Tory association
‘They’re lying to you’: Editor interrupts Russian TV news broadcast with ‘no war’ protest
‘No war, stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.’
Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week
A roundup of progressive news…
‘Putin go f*** yourself’: Squatters occupy mansion owned by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska
“You occupy Ukraine, we occupy you.”
Sajid Javid defends ‘economic relationship’ with Saudi Arabia after country executes 81 people in single day
“While it is to be welcomed that we don’t send money to Putin of course, would we want to deals with the Saudis, noting their human rights record?”