I think a lot of people in BBC news are hi a lot of the time. Given the resources at their disposal other conclusions are not immediately apparent.

Is it unfair of me to think of him as a bit of a Pound Shop Dom, in that he was similarly trying to guess what the socially conservative working class might be up for, but I can actually imagine the original in a tatty pub up North comfortably talking it over?

Nobody cares about them and nobody's talking about them......just the President.

This used to be a highly paid industry employing very bright graduates.

Not so much boasting as just telling you things most wouldn't. The vast majority of people with more than a small handful of millions in assets either plan for IHT minimisation or have accountants, solicitors or financial advisers that do it for them. Farms & business investments are bog standard.

Rather as you might apply a moron premium to Gilt yields you can apply a [guy who doesn't mind going bust or defaulting and likes throwing in a hand grenade and saying you guys sort it out rather than engage with detail]* premium to volatility pricing.

* the Germans probably have a word for it.

Big Freedom Fries energy in the replies.

"reckless profiteering" aka "protecting the p&l" or even "the upside" to a volatile business with plenty of downside.

None of this price controls stuff presents any problem if you believe the state should provide energy, housing etc and actively want to get rid of the private sector.

isn't that breathtakingly naive?

Sometimes skilful financial analysis requires you to get your head out of a book or away from a screen and think about actual people and what they're like.
Trump is an unmatched salesman - for an audience of relatively politically disengaged Americans. Unemployment
would have just made it easier.

Surely they confused "the moon" for "a Millwall game".

Not in any way a comment on the policy, but looking at the comments seems quite a good illustration of the left wing echo-chamber characterisation of bsky.

Wait till you and your colleagues find your level and consistency of cynicism comically ridiculous and it keeps proving insufficient.

Some things are far, far, far less likely than others.

Because he and bibi actually believe it would be unacceptable. They do actually believe in some stuff irrespective of the habitual lying.

We know that what Luce suggested - that Trump might do a deal with Tehran allowing development of nuclear weapons - is one of the few things we can be confident he won't do.

Do you agree with Luce?

That's actually rubbish analysis because the nuclear weapons point is almost the only thing we do know.

It's the ones who take out the chimney breast downstairs leaving it in higher up that win the prize.
From the drawings it looks like the GF CB is in place but the one above has had one of its buttressing walls replaced by stud to accommodate a weird en-suite. Big ceiling crack under hearth above...

If you weren't using car parks as a prop dev play you were doing it wrong, and take a look at commercial & office land banking amid WFH etc.

This latest from Trump about not needing the Strait of Hormuz is probably manipulatively trying to set up a dynamic where he can claim deadbeat NATO allies pleaded with him to re-open it - and will want some concession.
Greenland hasn't gone away.

Because all the commentators and participants have invested years in learning how to play a sophisticated game for sophisticated people.

And are trapped in it.

Capability which could be traded to Iran, presumably. A threat which could perhaps go away if traded for support for Ukraine?

Someone at the FT hast just got back from an 80 year excursion to another planet.

Shocking for a guy with a reputation for default, bankruptcy and such an appetite he tends to lob in a hand grenade and say "you guys sort it out".

Nobody could have foreseen this.

Historians will marvel at the way the United States of America became Millwall Football Club.

J Edgar Hoover spinning so fast in his grave he could dig Newt Gingrich's stupid fucking canal through hundreds of kilometres of the deserts of the Arabian peninsula

The Christopher Nolan remake of Zabriskie Point would be hilarious.

pff, they're just unthinking radical fundamentalist sectarian tribalists ideologues.

"So this is how the next one we might have to put up with is going to spin things..."

No, not at all the sentiment. I'm sure everyone was fascinated by her journey into politics.

Surely Trump would be able to bully a badger into the Strait of Hormuz. He might even grab it by a beaver.