Shout-out for Mr Strong here.

If he means Chinese exporters to the US, he's right. However the main points here are that this is 1. his own fault 2. objectively very funny.

Also they have social media in Canada and Carney's doing fine.

They have it in Spain and Sanchez has been PM since 2018.

And in France where Macron's been President since 2017.

Getting fired for stealing a sword would be a tremendous way to go.

Is it partly because a lot of people (including and especially in the Labour party) want him to go but find it easier to use a specific scandal as the cause? The way people get fired for stealing pens or something but actually they're a massive pain or on a final warning and that's just the excuse.

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

The Mandelson fiasco reveals the true nature of Starmerism This is a prime minister who does not understand the difficult trade-offs involved in governing

Keir Starmer famously said there was "no such thing" as Starmerism. He was half-right: there is no such ideology. There is however an approach to managing and running the country that is core to so many of the government's difficulties that we probably should call 'Starmerism'. In tomorrow's paper:

some very sharp questions from Kemi Badenoch to Keir Starmer in the Commons just now

🎶"A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience" 🎶

"...the full fruits of someone else's industry and the least equitable distribution thereof..."

Though he suddenly turned into a francophile state interventionist in 2010 when he thought it might help in the general election. Mandelson is essentially a Mandelsonite, with a Mandelsonian doctrine of promoting Mandelson at all times. "To secure for the Mandelson by hand or by brain" etc.

The trade resilience that’s doing Trump a favour Absence of freight shipping crisis gives US time to pursue stand-off with Iran

Today's Trade Secrets. If we assume (not 100% clear tbf) Trump is more sensitive than is Iran to huge and immediate dislocations in world trade (along with equity markets & global growth), the resilience of shipping is giving him leeway to continue the Gulf stand-off. Fun!

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Shit Jon that's awful, so sorry.

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

More than 600 migrants cross English Channel in single day On Saturday, 602 people arrived on nine boats, marking the second busiest day so far this year.

Yesterday, the BBC covered 600 people crossing the channel in small boats on Saturday, noting it was the 2nd highest in a day so far this year. What they'd didn't add was that even including the 600 people, crossings are down 35% compared with the same time last year.

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Yep, done that. Turns out Ryanair are basically the only budget airline to fly from Zaventem rather than Charleroi, something we remembered only on arrival at the latter. A satisfyingly crazy Belgian taxi driver and we nailed the transfer.

The time is surely ripe for the widespread adoption of Going Underground.

"Writing a book let me become a big-spending international high-roller" is an inspiring lesson for all would-be authors out there.

People like you don’t deserve to fly, some would say to live. This is sick behaviour.

Also the cause of many broken resolutions. “When we get home we’re going to have flatbreads and olive oil and honey and feta and stuffed vine leaves and freshly-squeezed orange juice and strong black coffee for breakfast EVERY MORNING.” Bollocks you are, you’ll be back on the Rice Crispies in days.

Freak

I will not judge, lest I be judged.

Has the magnificently creepy Rachel (Natasha Little IIRC) arrived yet?

Jesus wept.

Yebbut they then just came and bought trophies with £££. It's like they're two different clubs.

I'm trolling, and it's working a treat.

Spurs fans get on my tits as well, sense of entitlement. "Oh we've suffered so much." No, really you haven't.

That makes no sense on so many levels I can barely count them.

The problem here is this is a PL burn I don't understand at all because I don't watch PL football and have zero interest in it. I will care about Coventry City next year because my mate watches Coventry and they aren't just buying trophies with dodgy money.