as far as I can tell the super rich plan to burrow into the ground like 19-year cicadas while the apocalypse goes by. The tax cut is to ensure they have enough Chateau D'Yquem to keep them going while it lasts

Trump pleases the devil so much he gets snatched down to hell?

Trump wouldn't regard even a 30% drop in all stock markets as a problem. And he'd cancel any doctors brave enough to try the 25th. Fake medicine. UK PM such as Truss is dependent on Parliamentary support whereas Trump isn't. We just have to hope he dies or falls under a bus.

are there not a few groups who will benefit from tariff protection just as there are groups who lost from globalisation? US carmakers perhaps - those who don't export much but sell in the domestic market where people will become less able to afford BMWs etc. Jobs will be created but more lost.

With threats to Greenland by the fascist us government nato must seriously consider sending ships troops and planes to protect Denmark’s territory

It is equally puzzling to me why the billionaires want even more money. They have already shown they have enough to control the Government. What else is there to do with the surplus billions?

FBI should reopen its investigation into the classified docs he took to Mar a Lago, in the light of the new evidence of his true sympathies. Oh wait - it’s run by a stooge

And traitor

Not sure how to interpret this when April 2024 was rock bottom before the oddly good figures for Oct and Nov. Seems bizarre to me that monthly figures could fluctuate this much.

will this damage Musk enough to make a difference?

UK interest rates 4.5%. Inflation 2.5%. GDP growth 0-0.75%. Wonder why..BoE needs to be held accountable for its catastrophic overuse of the brakes on an economy that wasn’t moving in the first place.

not if a hike in US rates is seen as a "moron premium"

I'd like to see some Wagnerian names in there. Roll on storm Flosshilde..

Labour seem to be learning at warp speed. Today's ousting of the Competition and Markets chair in favour of an interim from Amazon has the worst optics possible. Price gouging is so obviously rampant Labour should change the CMA's remit to include a contribution to inflation-busting.

Enjoying Bluesky so far. Reading long papers about,say, the evolution of lampreys is so much better than trying to pick the bile from Musk out of twitter. Although the authors forgot to mention that lampreys are both tasty and a danger to medieval monarchs

I like to think they give him a dummy set

Hard to believe the US military would obey orders to attack NATO territory

Greenland's a strategic staging post between the US and Europe (like Iceland, of whose existence Trump appears to be ignorant). Not a good argument for stealing it, especially as Nato's constitution would require every other Member State to retaliate.

Any chance he could be removed using Article 25 (unfitness) before he takes office again?

This is too optimistic. The UK rule, for instance, is discretionary. Australia took a very strong stance with Novak Djokovich over vaccine scepticism, so perhaps they will keep Trump out too.