Ian Williams
Writer at Freelance
I write about politics, business,& books. My eventual ambition is to tweet political haiku, but I am honing my poetic skills while mostly sticking to prose.
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Charles Lipson |Andy Palmer |Ross Clark
Shanghai port is the busiest in the world. Activity there is closely monitored by financial analysts distrustful of official statistics and looking for clues as to what is really happening in the world’s second-largest economy. For the past few days they will have been taken for a wild ride. First there was mayhem as ships rushed to load up with containers, half of them destined for the United States, in an effort to beat tariff deadlines.
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1 month ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Ian Williams
"For me, faith comes first. It comes before football."As Ramadan draws to a close, Bournemouth's Dango Ouattara is clear where his priorities lie. The forward from Burkina Faso is a devout Muslim who prays five times a day, as well as before and after each game he plays, saying it helps him to "stay humble". "It allows us to refocus on ourselves, to see what we've done well and what we haven't been able to do well," the 23-year-old tells BBC Sport Africa when we meet at his local mosque in Poole.
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1 month ago |
ca.news.yahoo.com | Ian Williams |Minkwan Kim
Thousands of satellites are due to burn up in the atmosphere every year – damaging the ozone layer and changing the climateThe world’s first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, was launched in October 1957. Just three months later, it fell out of orbit. As Sputnik hit the upper atmosphere at incredible speed, the friction would have caused it to heat up and almost entirely burn off.
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2 months ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Ian Williams
Lawyers for Samuel Eto'o say a ruling that led to the president of the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) being fined $200,000 for an ethics breach has been quashed on appeal. The Confederation of African Football (Caf) opened an investigation into Eto'o's conduct in August 2023 after receiving "written statements from several Cameroonian football stakeholders".
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Jan 24, 2025 |
thespectator.com | Cosmo Landesman |Cressida Bonas |Ian Williams |Tom Holland
This is a tale of two London parties. They say something about London society, status, power, fame and fun — but I’m not sure what exactly. Party one was what I call a Power Party. It was full of famous faces from the upper echelons of British politics and media. I spotted chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves talking to the former Tory chancellor George Osborne and the former foreign secretary David Miliband.
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Now that's the Paul Mason I knew and respected....
@0Calamity He is a hypocrite https://t.co/03ZeV4rzmx
It's filed alongside the pic of an immigrant signing on for dole while taking the idiot's job.
“I’ve seen people entering the country and going straight down to the benefits office” Interesting. What was the result? Because under EU free movement rules they wouldn’t be entitled to a penny. In fact, they could only stay if they can pay their way. https://t.co/OpCHCtsMth
RT @MeirionTweets: Great work by @emmavardytv and her team exposing these low lives
