every single macro-type person i've spoken to this week has been very much in the 'ah it'll blow over' camp
i don't understand why, but this is the consensus
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every single macro-type person i've spoken to this week has been very much in the 'ah it'll blow over' camp
i don't understand why, but this is the consensus
Not the best guide but comments under Brillo's tweets are mostly critical (it's usually the opposite). The British Right are quite out of step with the public here. There's a section that's always dazzled by American power. Tony Blair suffered from this, it's demented.
Did you know?
In 2024, the govt had to rename the statutory enquiry process for DA deaths to ‘Domestic Abuse Related Death Review (DARDR)’* because suicide is the most common cause of death in domestic abuse cases.
(was Domestic Homicide Review)
Coffee, straight out of my nose.
The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers.
Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes.
Wonder why that is?
Heating oil prices have more than doubled in the UK since war broke out: that’s 4.5m people living off gas grid, no they haven’t all got Agas, and in places like Cumbria and Scottish islands that’s a lot of anxious pensioners. (Difference with post-Ukraine is oil as well as gas spiking this time)
This is almost exactly what I said would happen on yesterday’s show. The conflicting & contradictory reasons given for the war, coupled with client journalists & pusillanimous politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, will enable him to claim ‘success’ when nothing remotely successful has happened.
The Trump administration is unsatirisable
Qatar’s energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could “bring down the economies of the world”, predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within days and drive oil to $150 a barrel
www.ft.com/content/be12...
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
I was taking some diesel in Germany this morning.
The price at the pump was 1.99 when I started. I only took 200 l as apparently it's still cheaper in Finland.
By the time I finished it was 2.07
But at least Americans who elected Trump have cheaper eggs.
...ah, wait, they don't!
President Trump demands unconditional surrender in respect of something his government insists is not a war.
It's only Regime Change if it comes from the NeoCon region of Washington. Otherwise it's Sparkling Restructuring.
I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.
There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.
But hey, Vlad and his consiglieri say we’re gonna make $16 trillion with them in Russia
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A girl can dream in her test data right... Bringing back (from never) the Nightstar service!
Epic Fury.
"There is an old saying in politics: if you want loyalty, get a dog. The trouble for Kristi Noem is that she infamously shot hers as a 14-month-old puppy after failing to train it properly. So, freshly fired by Donald Trump, she has absolutely nowhere left to turn."
inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
“Self-driving taxis safe” says self-writing article.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Savour the irony here. For a year the Trump administration have browbeaten Zelensky as a loser with no cards. Now they turn to him for anti-drone defences. Perhaps they will now recognise that Ukraine is a valuable, battle-hardened ally.
I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.
American reporters need to relentlessly ask Trump what he’s going to do about Putin helping Iran kill American service members.
Not so long ago the United Kingdom had a plethora of gravely named statutes protecting sensitive government information: the four venerable Official Secrets Acts of 1911, 1920, 1939 and 1989. We had the theatre of people “signing the Official Secrets Act” even though the statutes bound you whether you signed or not, though sometimes you needed to be notified that it applied. The point was that the act of signing would concentrate your mind wonderfully. And then in 2023 we had an entirely new legal regime. The Official Secrets Acts were all repealed, although the ceremony of signing them may well continue. Urban myths die hard. A new statute, the National Security Act 2023, was enacted. The law was recast. The nomenclature of official secrets gave way to that of national security. These were to be laws for a modern age.
Me on the urban myth of "Signing the Official Secrets Act"
The ultimate security theatre.
It's almost like 'my friend Vlad, as I like to call him' isn't a friend at all, but Trump is a credulous fool.
bsky.app/profile/meid...
weirdly i was discussing the other day who in Team Trump you would have look after your dog
Pete - would lose dog
Noem - would shoot dog
Bondi - would deny dog existed
Lutnick - would sell dog
One reason for this semantic nonsense is that a declared war engages a load of legal implications they don’t want to engage with (see also Russia)
So, the really revealing part for me was in her Today programme interview where she claims we've learned the lessons if Iraq:
- Be prepared
- Have a plan
- Have an endgame
Then, when it is pointed out that none of these things apply here, waffles for over a minute about arrows and archers.
Anticipated by anyone who followed the war in Ukraine for more than 5 mins at any point.
We should be asking British politicians this question. Answers provide a powerful indicator of integrity. Not sure I’ve ever heard it put to Farage, for example.
Zelensky has done everything he possibly can to satisfy this admin while he fights a war of survival for his people. And the Trump admin has done nothing but repeatedly treat him with disrespect, scorn & ridicule. 2 days ago, Trump called him “PT Barnum.” This is how Z responds.