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The BBC names ex-Google executive Matt Brittin as its next director general, replacing Tim Davie, as the BBC negotiates its funding; Brittin left Google in 2025 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar

American businesses and consumers absorbed nearly 90% of the 2025 tariffs’ economic burden.
The researchers weren’t working from theory: They tracked actual transaction-level import price data
and found that prices paid by U.S. importers rose nearly one-for-one with tariff rates.
These results confirm what research on the 2018-19 tariffs already established and echoes other studies of the last year.
The bottom line is that, faced with tariffs,
foreign exporte…

Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street Economics
Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through November 2025. We find that nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.

#Großbritannien hat 2025 einen neuen Rekord bei der #Stromerzeugung aus #ErneuerbarenEnergien erreicht. Wind-, Solar-, Wasser- und

Britischer Solarstrom steigt 2025 um 30 Prozent:BBC meldet Jahresrekord bei Strom aus Wind- und Solarenergie in Großbritannien
London - Großbritannien hat im Jahr 2025 so viel Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien erzeugt wie nie zuvor. Das berichtet die BBC unter Berufung auf eine eigene...

Nackt- und Web-Filter, App-Sperre: Apples Alterskontrolle erreicht Europa
In Großbritannien müssen Nutzer nun gegenüber Apple nachweisen, dass sie erwachsen sind – sonst blockiert ihr iPhone bestimmte Funktionen.

".... the second public murder by Trump’s modern-day Brownshirts — is a glimpse of the terror that could come to Britain’s streets if the far right are not isolated and beaten. Reform remains a cheerleader for Trump, while street agitator “Tommy Robinson” has explicitly called for an Ice agency in Britain."
Blocking Burnham, Starmer’s cowardly control-freaks are wrecking their own party | Morning Star

You can see the simmering rage in Walz.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:477rnpqffrg4vayxgmu22v5u/post/3mdbjazpbr22o

Craig R. Brittain (@craigbrittain.com)
Tim Walz: "What side do you want to be on? The side of an all-powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace, and kidnap its citizens off the streets, or the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness - the side of a mother whose last words were 'I'm not mad at you.'"

"AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.html

Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% (Irina Anghel/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Im #Thwaites-Gletscher in der #Antarktis breiten sich Risse schneller aus als erwartet.
Neue Daten zeigen, dass nicht nur Schmelze, sondern auch innere Spannungen den #Eisverlust antreiben. …

Scientists warn: the glacier at the end of the world is not only melting, but is now tearing apart from within
Scientists warn: Thwaites Glacier is not only melting, it is also breaking apart from within and accelerating sea level rise.

Hannah Spencer's speech.
Good speech.
One criticism: why is it called the Green party? What about the ecosystem and climate emergency? You have to use opportunities like this to level with people.
"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently - Manchester Evening News

"Working hard used to get you a house, a nice life, holidays": Green's new Gorton and Denton MP Hannah Spencer rails against life in modern Britain as she vows to do things differently
The Green Party secured a big win in the Gorton and Denton by-election