….and we are in fact washing our heir.

I’m starting to get the feeling “all my Navy is in maintenance” is the Naval equivalent of I’m sorry I’m washing my hair…might start using it. Sorry can’t do dinner, I’m welding my frigate.

You see this is the problem with fossil fuels, so intermittent. Sometimes there’s gasoline sometimes there isn’t. But the cars charging using the strategic ball of fire in the sky reserve as we speak.

The disgrace is therefore ours…the backlash will be brutal I think. What catharsis will British men want for being tarred by a nonce.

My belief is Starmer survives because the public’s pain lies more in Andy than the Mandy. Most people believe that the fault of the liar is with the liar not the victim. Even if that’s simplistic when the victim is a leader, but Andrew it was said was out their being the best of us.

Do I need to note that this is satire?

Government can’t build a railway, maintain roads or run the NHS but Lobster welfare they’re on it

In fairness it’s hardly the prize it was 2 years ago. Of you’re attacked the US will totally sell you weapons, maybe.

It wasn’t until I heard a strangely synthetic version of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” that I realised that we were undoubtably in the throes of an AI Bublé

The phrasing says everything, the answer is to tax people “wealthier” than me. Sigh.

UK inflation fell to 3.6% in October Figure strengthens case for BoE rate cut next month

UK inflation fell to 3.6% in October on.ft.com/48kEGyt

Yes I was just making a bit of a cheeky joke as there is an incongruity between the perception of Buddhism and loads of jewels 💎😉

Sotheby's postpones Buddha jewels auction after India threatens legal action The jewels are described as one of the most astonishing archaeological finds of the modern era.

Leaving aside the rights and wrongs here and I’m no Buddhism scholar but isn’t takes massive hoard of loot to the grave a bit sort of materialistic 🤔

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Take no comfort from America’s Trump backlash The revolt against him isn’t huge, and it isn’t about constitutional principle

Excellent and not much to quibble with but also can someone check in on Janan

Take no comfort from America’s Trump backlash

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Kingsday tomorrow in Amsterdam, things warming up nicely !

The rest of the world should play Trump down the line on trade deals. They are the only thing that can save him from his own mistake.

Without, he goes into the midterms with a recession and non of the deals he promised.

Even if he survives as a lame duck he’s gone after his term.

The bond market spanked Trump for posting about Powell, it’ll be interesting to see if he’s learned that lesson and how much he cares. It’s possibly the only thing that does have leverage at this point.

The $ needs to weaken to spur reindustrialization and be strong to limit inflation passthrough from tariffs, which are supposed to spur onshoring, provide long-term revenues, and be a negotiable bargaining chip. And l/t interest rates have to be lower. The last is at least an uncomplicated desire.

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Trump’s world of rival fortresses In his vision of post-liberal global disorder, the weak should always surrender to the strong

Super article

It starts with Trump as instigator however rather than seeing him as a consequence and reflecting on that.

When he won I said we now live in the time of the 3 emperors.

But he is the 3rd and in many ways a consequence of the others.

on.ft.com/4jAwxJ0

OMG you didn’t read the article and made yourself look silly by calling everyone else dumb. Get over it and in future read first and spout later.

It’s an interesting headline and not a lie.

Chinese EVs will be part of the policy.

So will some other makes and models.

Not as stupid as those that find a full article too many words.

“Our policies and procedures take account of the potential threats from all types of vehicle, not just those manufactured in China, and we have issued appropriate internal direction to all drivers and passengers,” he added.

“They’ll never decapitate a whale”, he wept…

Words were used this morning when I read this, as someone who’s solar is a net contributor and pays 100s of pounds of standing charge to give it to the grid.

Ursula von der Leyen: "We have no bros and no oligarchs" Donald Trump's second term has brought "historic changes", says EU President Ursula von der Leyen. In our interview, she explains how Europe must respond.

Super article.

Von der Leyen’s acknowledgment that she wouldn’t have predicted where we are right now is fair, but there is an air of not seeing tomorrow.

That worries me when she dismisses the possibility that the Brexit/Trump theme could manifest in Europe.

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It sort of made me queasy this article. It struck me more like a letter from a small place.

Advice to shell-shocked Americans from Brexit Britain Britons are skilled at navigating the humiliation unleashed by political and market chaos — allow us to give you some tips

I suspect if our intellectual elites had been less worried about the shame of group exclusion at international economics jollies and more by the shame felt by those left behind in 2008 we wouldn’t be where we are

on.ft.com/4jd86lr Advice to shell-shocked Americans from Brexit Britain

Increased bills for higher earners could fund UK energy upgrade, Ofgem says Regulator to consult industry on how to recover network costs via standing charge in a ‘more progressive’ way

@ofgem.bsky.social

Unbelievable….will we be able to offset solar installations against the standing charge and recoup our infrastructure investments.

I’ll just get back to powering my street.

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