Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
The discount offered on senior tickets has been reduced from 50% to 25%.
In particular amused because it shows a common but complete lack of understanding of percentages and pretty basic maths. A lot of people complaining that they were expecting a 25% increase in prices but its more like 60%: As a pensioner, I was expecting the increase to have been 30%, 5% price increase and 25% concession. No, it equates to 60%!! I'
Yeah, that's how percentages work! Going from paying 50% of the full price, to 75% of the full price, is not a 25% increase in the cost you need to pay. Interesting how many people never understand something so very basic.
Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1 · 3h BREAKING: In an unbelievable moment, Trump's Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins tries to gaslight he Fox News audience by saying Americans knew they were voting for higher prices under Trump's tariffs when they elected him. That is a blatant lie.
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
"An experienced electrical engineer today blamed the catastrophic failure of an 'oil-filled transformer' for the devastating fire that has shut down Heathrow Airport and embarrassed Britain on the world stage.
Tom Watters, who has worked on critical infrastructure around the world, told MailOnline the crucial substation powering Heathrow and west London contains 'very old' equipment and blamed a 'lack of investment' for the crisis.
The substation fire in Hayes involved 25,000 litres of cooling oil igniting, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said."
President Trump appears to agree to the US joining the British Commonwealth, saying it "sounds good to me"
He's following the divide and conquer principle: what can I throw the Brits to separate them from the Europeans?
And if it was a "one off", where we then found ourselves in the US's "good books", with all the benefits that accrue from that, then great.
The problem is that once you have established a reputation for completely shafting your allies (see Canada), then why should Britain join the US? It'd only be a matter of time before we too were shafted because we'd upset King Donald.
Would Canada be shafted if it joined the US?
Ask a Canadian.
Arguably the United States expanding to its natural borders would be a great thing for both sides, like the union between England and Scotland.
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
That's something that should make owners of TIPS extremely concerned. If you can no longer trust the inflation data, then you are not being adequately compensated.
Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump · 2h Trump says that “certain” U.S. allies will be able to buy a “toned-down” version of the new F-47 fighter jets:
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
"An experienced electrical engineer today blamed the catastrophic failure of an 'oil-filled transformer' for the devastating fire that has shut down Heathrow Airport and embarrassed Britain on the world stage.
Tom Watters, who has worked on critical infrastructure around the world, told MailOnline the crucial substation powering Heathrow and west London contains 'very old' equipment and blamed a 'lack of investment' for the crisis.
The substation fire in Hayes involved 25,000 litres of cooling oil igniting, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said."
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
That's part of the live Bob experience. Half the time you have no clue what song he's doing.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
You have to be either senile or kidding
The threshold for charging seems to be v high. If she did nothing wrong I would be more than amazed
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
"An experienced electrical engineer today blamed the catastrophic failure of an 'oil-filled transformer' for the devastating fire that has shut down Heathrow Airport and embarrassed Britain on the world stage.
Tom Watters, who has worked on critical infrastructure around the world, told MailOnline the crucial substation powering Heathrow and west London contains 'very old' equipment and blamed a 'lack of investment' for the crisis.
The substation fire in Hayes involved 25,000 litres of cooling oil igniting, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) has said."
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
Is there a way to do tariffs against the US that especially hurts his base? If so I think it's worth considering.
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Impressive. But probably he'll just have to lower the price and it will fill up with Americans. So not quite the disaster he's claiming. Unless the whole town is just Canadian tourism, which I suppose is possible.
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
You have to be either senile or kidding
The threshold for charging seems to be v high. If she did nothing wrong I would be more than amazed
Or he’s made a statement taking all the blame, and saying he never told her what he’d done.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
You have to be either senile or kidding
The threshold for charging seems to be v high. If she did nothing wrong I would be more than amazed
Or he’s made a statement taking all the blame, and saying he never told her what he’d done.
Where did she think the money for the motorhome came from, though? See no evil..
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
IOC should ban dictatorships and absolute monarchies.
IOC should only allow nations to participate who the British team can beat.
We have the commonwealth games for that. Or at least, that was the original idea.
Problem is it’s too expensive to run and hardly anyone seems to want to do it now.
It should be restricted to proper British sports like crown green bowls, the Eton Wall Game and rolling a giant cheese truckle downhill. As a pallid reflection of the Olympics its day has been and gone.
Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump · 2h Trump says that “certain” U.S. allies will be able to buy a “toned-down” version of the new F-47 fighter jets:
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
That's part of the live Bob experience. Half the time you have no clue what song he's doing.
I saw him at the O2, and in addition to being unable to place the harmony, rhythm or words of any of his tracks, our evening was immeasurably improved by the bloke in the row in front pulling out a harmonica and playing along. I love BD but that was one of my worst live experiences ever.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
You have to be either senile or kidding
The threshold for charging seems to be v high. If she did nothing wrong I would be more than amazed
Or he’s made a statement taking all the blame, and saying he never told her what he’d done.
Where did she think the money for the motorhome came from, though? See no evil..
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
She signed the accounts. The police thought there was enough evidence to warrant a report to those making charging decisions. She has not been cleared because that only happens if you are tried and acquitted.
What has happened is that those making the charging decisions have determined that there is insufficient evidence to justify any charges on the basis of the applicable tests. She remains innocent.
Worth noting that after Salmond was acquitted Sturgeon sought to imply he was "really" guilty and a wrong' un. If some now do that to her it would be karma.
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
Which increase in GDP measure will be used for the US in the PB predictions competition? The official Trump version or the real number?
Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump · 2h Trump says that “certain” U.S. allies will be able to buy a “toned-down” version of the new F-47 fighter jets:
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
Difficult to doctor telling voters they stilll have a job when they don't...
In response to @Luckyguy1983's comments, I've actually read Kemi Badenoch's speech from earlier in the week.
My response, fairly predictably, is to ask what she thought was going on between 2010 and 2024? It's almost as thought she is determined to airbrush fourteen years of history and government and have a cheap pop at both Ed Miliband and Ed Davey.
Yes, you can vertainly argue energy policy generally needs more thought but for the Conservatives to come to the table now and start doing rhe thinking is a damning indictment of the waste of the years in office. What did they do? What did Kemi Badenoch, as Cabinet Minister, do about any of this?
What she proposes is reasonable enough - I'm sure Coutinho will come up with something though for all the picking apart of other proposals, as for what a future Conservative Government might do, platitudes. The debate seems to start from where it always has - the future of the environment versus economic growth and prosperity in the present?
That's not the place to start in my view - claiming people won't accept lower living standards (and more taxes now) for environmental protection in the future is disingenuous in extremis. Conservative might not - I suspect many others would.
Instead of claiming it would be economically ruinous to move to Net Zero by 2050, why nost start from the premise of whether it would be environmentally disastrous not to move to Net Zero by 2050? There's an element of leading by example, as I've said, and the internal politics of Russia, China, America and India may well be more open to technological advances which can reduce environmental degradation and resulting climate impacts.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
She signed the accounts. The police thought there was enough evidence to warrant a report to those making charging decisions. She has not been cleared because that only happens if you are tried and acquitted.
What has happened is that those making the charging decisions have determined that there is insufficient evidence to justify any charges on the basis of the applicable tests. She remains innocent.
Worth noting that after Salmond was acquitted Sturgeon sought to imply he was "really" guilty and a wrong' un. If some now do that to her it would be karma.
But she is an innocent person.
The SNP has a talent for picking leaders who are innocent of serious misdemeanors.
In response to @Luckyguy1983's comments, I've actually read Kemi Badenoch's speech from earlier in the week.
My response, fairly predictably, is to ask what she thought was going on between 2010 and 2024? It's almost as thought she is determined to airbrush fourteen years of history and government and have a cheap pop at both Ed Miliband and Ed Davey.
Yes, you can vertainly argue energy policy generally needs more thought but for the Conservatives to come to the table now and start doing rhe thinking is a damning indictment of the waste of the years in office. What did they do? What did Kemi Badenoch, as Cabinet Minister, do about any of this?
What she proposes is reasonable enough - I'm sure Coutinho will come up with something though for all the picking apart of other proposals, as for what a future Conservative Government might do, platitudes. The debate seems to start from where it always has - the future of the environment versus economic growth and prosperity in the present?
That's not the place to start in my view - claiming people won't accept lower living standards (and more taxes now) for environmental protection in the future is disingenuous in extremis. Conservative might not - I suspect many others would.
Instead of claiming it would be economically ruinous to move to Net Zero by 2050, why nost start from the premise of whether it would be environmentally disastrous not to move to Net Zero by 2050? There's an element of leading by example, as I've said, and the internal politics of Russia, China, America and India may well be more open to technological advances which can reduce environmental degradation and resulting climate impacts.
I can only conclude that deep down, below the triangulating language, there are still a number of her ilk that don’t actually believe climate change is real, or a serious threat. Regardless of the evidence.
Incoming IOC president open to the return of Russia to the Olympic fold, is against bans and points out there are other wars going on at the moment and the aggressors are not banned.
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Who is going to want to go on holiday to the US - and risk ending up in an El Salvadorean prison after no due process?
In view of my forthcoming visit, I would like to get on my Social Media record that Trump is the greatest deal maker in human history, and obviously the best President of all time.
Power to his elbow and his talented sidekick, who in no way is the real President.
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Who is going to want to go on holiday to the US - and risk ending up in an El Salvadorean prison after no due process?
In view of my forthcoming visit, I would like to get on my Social Media record that Trump is the greatest deal maker in human history, and obviously the best President of all time.
Power to his elbow and his talented sidekick, who in no way is the real President.
We don’t need no education. Wise words.
Should we all list PB under "other" in the ESTA social medai section?
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
That's part of the live Bob experience. Half the time you have no clue what song he's doing.
I saw him at the O2, and in addition to being unable to place the harmony, rhythm or words of any of his tracks, our evening was immeasurably improved by the bloke in the row in front pulling out a harmonica and playing along. I love BD but that was one of my worst live experiences ever.
Fun fact: Bob's son (the one from the Wallflowers?) looked around our house in LA with a view to renting it. I wasn't there, but according to my wife he was very handsome.
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Who is going to want to go on holiday to the US - and risk ending up in an El Salvadorean prison after no due process?
In view of my forthcoming visit, I would like to get on my Social Media record that Trump is the greatest deal maker in human history, and obviously the best President of all time.
Power to his elbow and his talented sidekick, who in no way is the real President.
We don’t need no education. Wise words.
Are you a self-doxed Fox?
With the number of "Chump"s and worse on my twitter account, I would not stand a chance.
So it would be a burner phone, and plausible deniability.
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
That's part of the live Bob experience. Half the time you have no clue what song he's doing.
I saw him at the O2, and in addition to being unable to place the harmony, rhythm or words of any of his tracks, our evening was immeasurably improved by the bloke in the row in front pulling out a harmonica and playing along. I love BD but that was one of my worst live experiences ever.
Sorry Berberian - you should have asked me to stop!
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
That's something that should make owners of TIPS extremely concerned. If you can no longer trust the inflation data, then you are not being adequately compensated.
It's the kind of shit that will send investor money fleeing from the US to the UK and Asia. If people think the US is cooking the books then you can't invest there. It's too risky.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
You have to be either senile or kidding
The threshold for charging seems to be v high. If she did nothing wrong I would be more than amazed
Or he’s made a statement taking all the blame, and saying he never told her what he’d done.
Where did she think the money for the motorhome came from, though? See no evil..
Let me tell you about the ever-so-convenient Magic Money Tree...
Today, I announced the designation under Section 7031(c) of former President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, and former Argentine Minister of Planning, Julio Miguel De Vido, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. The United States is committed to ensuring there’s accountability for corrupt officials around the world
Today, I announced the designation under Section 7031(c) of former President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, and former Argentine Minister of Planning, Julio Miguel De Vido, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. The United States is committed to ensuring there’s accountability for corrupt officials around the world
Today, I announced the designation under Section 7031(c) of former President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, and former Argentine Minister of Planning, Julio Miguel De Vido, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. The United States is committed to ensuring there’s accountability for corrupt officials around the world
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
That's something that should make owners of TIPS extremely concerned. If you can no longer trust the inflation data, then you are not being adequately compensated.
It's the kind of shit that will send investor money fleeing from the US to the UK and Asia. If people think the US is cooking the books then you can't invest there. It's too risky.
The good news is that that would solve the US's current account deficit! (Albeit at the cost of a nasty recession.)
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Who is going to want to go on holiday to the US - and risk ending up in an El Salvadorean prison after no due process?
In view of my forthcoming visit, I would like to get on my Social Media record that Trump is the greatest deal maker in human history, and obviously the best President of all time.
Power to his elbow and his talented sidekick, who in no way is the real President.
We don’t need no education. Wise words.
Are you a self-doxed Fox?
With the number of "Chump"s and worse on my twitter account, I would not stand a chance.
So it would be a burner phone, and plausible deniability.
I was thinking more of borrowing @williamglenn T shirt for the immigration line.
I am sure that will ensure a swift entry, with no stay in an El Salvadorean Gulag at all.
Today, I announced the designation under Section 7031(c) of former President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, and former Argentine Minister of Planning, Julio Miguel De Vido, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. The United States is committed to ensuring there’s accountability for corrupt officials around the world
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
That's part of the live Bob experience. Half the time you have no clue what song he's doing.
I saw him at the O2, and in addition to being unable to place the harmony, rhythm or words of any of his tracks, our evening was immeasurably improved by the bloke in the row in front pulling out a harmonica and playing along. I love BD but that was one of my worst live experiences ever.
I remember being at a Prince concert in the late 80s while at his full pomp. Amazing music - but at the distance I was at in the stadium - visually it was rather like watching a flea circus.
Tabasco is hot sauce for people who don't like hot sauce.
No, I’ve corrected you on this before
1. The habanero and jalapeño varieties are seriously superior to the classic vinegar-and-heat trad Tabasco. It is that of which you speak
2. Only Tabasco does the bottles tiny enough you can sneak them out in restaurants with UTTERLY DREADFUL FOOD* and not cause a stir
*approximately 94% of eateries in Latin America
But why is the food bad? Is home cooking there bad? Or just restaurants? Don't poor places sometimes have good food because they have time on their hands? Surely they have no problem with quality of ingredients? Is carribean food shite too?
I wrote a whole long essay in the Gazette about the peculiar awfulness of Latin American food - which certainly cannot be ascribed to lack of money or produce
I’ve just come from Myanmar - GDP per capita $1800, enduring a civil war, power cuts every day - magnificent varied cuisine. Now I’m in Uruguay - GDP per capita $18,000 - ten times richer - stable and prosperous by local standards - dreary ugly nasty food. Badly cooked and zero sense of spicing and flavouring
My piece should be out soon
As for the Caribbean it is fairly bad and the more Spanish it is the worse it gets. Cuba OMFG
What do you expect? The Europeans wiped out the indigenous people who presumably knew how to make good food from local produce. And created plantation economies where food was designed to deliver maximum calories at minimum cost, while the European elites ate a kind of second rate transplanted European diet. New world societies are built on slavery and genocide, that's not a great recipe for culinary excellence.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
A second blue tent, another £million and an extra year would surely have seen justice prevail.
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
That's something that should make owners of TIPS extremely concerned. If you can no longer trust the inflation data, then you are not being adequately compensated.
It's the kind of shit that will send investor money fleeing from the US to the UK and Asia. If people think the US is cooking the books then you can't invest there. It's too risky.
The good news is that that would solve the US's current account deficit! (Albeit at the cost of a nasty recession.)
The question is how can current account deficits be sustained other than by selling off your assets. The US is a safe haven but over time more and more of it is owned by someone else and the returns on capital go elsewhere.
If coming to Uruguay bring at least two bottles of Tabasco. The smoky habanero and the green jalapeño. Maybe the third trad original if you’re daring
They are tiny and sneaky enough to be weilded in cafes and restaurants and they can turn - as they just did for me - a desperately mediocre dish of frozen fish and meh tabbouleh into something… tolerable
In Uruguay, “tolerable” food is ambrosia. People travel thousands of miles for a tolerable meal. They have entire guides full of the five or six restaurants which serve food which is regarded as “just about edible” or the full on top notch “some lf it was actually nice”
Vegans are advised to apply for asylum: elsewhere
Can you recommend a suitable brand and bottle size of Tabasco Sauce?
Am I correct that it has either to be packed in checked-in luggage, or be very small indeed?
Anything small enough to fit the average rectum, just make sure the bottle is tightly sealed.
Tabasco is hot sauce for people who don't like hot sauce.
No, I’ve corrected you on this before
1. The habanero and jalapeño varieties are seriously superior to the classic vinegar-and-heat trad Tabasco. It is that of which you speak
2. Only Tabasco does the bottles tiny enough you can sneak them out in restaurants with UTTERLY DREADFUL FOOD* and not cause a stir
*approximately 94% of eateries in Latin America
But why is the food bad? Is home cooking there bad? Or just restaurants? Don't poor places sometimes have good food because they have time on their hands? Surely they have no problem with quality of ingredients? Is carribean food shite too?
I wrote a whole long essay in the Gazette about the peculiar awfulness of Latin American food - which certainly cannot be ascribed to lack of money or produce
I’ve just come from Myanmar - GDP per capita $1800, enduring a civil war, power cuts every day - magnificent varied cuisine. Now I’m in Uruguay - GDP per capita $18,000 - ten times richer - stable and prosperous by local standards - dreary ugly nasty food. Badly cooked and zero sense of spicing and flavouring
My piece should be out soon
As for the Caribbean it is fairly bad and the more Spanish it is the worse it gets. Cuba OMFG
What do you expect? The Europeans wiped out the indigenous people who presumably knew how to make good food from local produce. And created plantation economies where food was designed to deliver maximum calories at minimum cost, while the European elites ate a kind of second rate transplanted European diet. New world societies are built on slavery and genocide, that's not a great recipe for culinary excellence.
Or it’s just an old man losing his taste buds?
You could have a point. I now prefer sex with a side order of kink, got used to the heightened sensation. Sex with kink versus vanilla sex is like flying good business over economy. A jaded luxury palate?
However, out in Asia - from Japan to Korea, Vietnam to Cambodia to China to Myanmar - I have no problem with the food at all. Require no secret bottles of Tabasco habanero. I love that food and need no personal touches. Because it is genuinely great food
So, no, I don’t think it’s my aged jaded ennui. I’ve just travelled everywhere and eaten everything and done everyone and I know crap food when I eat it
Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1 · 3h BREAKING: In an unbelievable moment, Trump's Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins tries to gaslight he Fox News audience by saying Americans knew they were voting for higher prices under Trump's tariffs when they elected him. That is a blatant lie.
They'll eat it up. People don't like being told they are the one's at fault (for not listening to warnings), I sure don't, and will contort hugely to avoid that conclusion.
Today, I announced the designation under Section 7031(c) of former President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, and former Argentine Minister of Planning, Julio Miguel De Vido, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. The United States is committed to ensuring there’s accountability for corrupt officials around the world
That's Trump 1 and 2 up Shit Street then.
He said around the world, not all across the world. The US is obviously to be excluded. Pretty ballsy though.
For any worried PBers, I’m happy now tho. That 3rd wine tasting was genuinely fine wines and I did it with a hilarious Scottish couple (I suspect very wealthy, in their early 30s and jetting around the world for months for fun?)
We had a laugh and lots of wine and really quite good steak - steak! - tartare
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Who is going to want to go on holiday to the US - and risk ending up in an El Salvadorean prison after no due process?
In view of my forthcoming visit, I would like to get on my Social Media record that Trump is the greatest deal maker in human history, and obviously the best President of all time.
Power to his elbow and his talented sidekick, who in no way is the real President.
We don’t need no education. Wise words.
Are you a self-doxed Fox?
With the number of "Chump"s and worse on my twitter account, I would not stand a chance.
So it would be a burner phone, and plausible deniability.
I was thinking more of borrowing @williamglenn T shirt for the immigration line.
I am sure that will ensure a swift entry, with no stay in an El Salvadorean Gulag at all.
I prefer this little known bible story. I think it comes shortly after the moneychangers story.
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Who is going to want to go on holiday to the US - and risk ending up in an El Salvadorean prison after no due process?
In view of my forthcoming visit, I would like to get on my Social Media record that Trump is the greatest deal maker in human history, and obviously the best President of all time.
Power to his elbow and his talented sidekick, who in no way is the real President.
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
That's part of the live Bob experience. Half the time you have no clue what song he's doing.
I saw him at the O2, and in addition to being unable to place the harmony, rhythm or words of any of his tracks, our evening was immeasurably improved by the bloke in the row in front pulling out a harmonica and playing along. I love BD but that was one of my worst live experiences ever.
I remember being at a Prince concert in the late 80s while at his full pomp. Amazing music - but at the distance I was at in the stadium - visually it was rather like watching a flea circus.
We saw Paul Simon from the far end of the Manchester Arena... he was on the big screen either side of the stage.
Apparently he was there in person but hard to tell - it's not as if he's that big close-up.
Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1 · 3h BREAKING: In an unbelievable moment, Trump's Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins tries to gaslight he Fox News audience by saying Americans knew they were voting for higher prices under Trump's tariffs when they elected him. That is a blatant lie.
They'll eat it up. People don't like being told they are the one's at fault (for not listening to warnings), I sure don't, and will contort hugely to avoid that conclusion.
True MAGA believers will but the 10% who are swing voters won't.
Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1 · 3h BREAKING: In an unbelievable moment, Trump's Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins tries to gaslight he Fox News audience by saying Americans knew they were voting for higher prices under Trump's tariffs when they elected him. That is a blatant lie.
They'll eat it up. People don't like being told they are the one's at fault (for not listening to warnings), I sure don't, and will contort hugely to avoid that conclusion.
True MAGA believers will but the 10% who are swing voters won't.
There's 2 years to implement changes and policies to minimise the impact of those cucks.
Amos Harel is probably Israel’s top military and security journalists, so if he writes that Israel might try soon to take over Gaza entirely everyone should listen. Apparently the IDF chief of staff already presented a plan to the government https://x.com/NadavPollak/status/1903167090103587174
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
She signed the accounts. The police thought there was enough evidence to warrant a report to those making charging decisions. She has not been cleared because that only happens if you are tried and acquitted.
What has happened is that those making the charging decisions have determined that there is insufficient evidence to justify any charges on the basis of the applicable tests. She remains innocent.
Worth noting that after Salmond was acquitted Sturgeon sought to imply he was "really" guilty and a wrong' un. If some now do that to her it would be karma.
But she is an innocent person.
Just checking, do you have some statements from Sturgeon implying that Salmond was ‘really’ guilty and a wrong’(sic) un?
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
That's something that should make owners of TIPS extremely concerned. If you can no longer trust the inflation data, then you are not being adequately compensated.
It's the kind of shit that will send investor money fleeing from the US to the UK and Asia. If people think the US is cooking the books then you can't invest there. It's too risky.
The good news is that that would solve the US's current account deficit! (Albeit at the cost of a nasty recession.)
The question is how can current account deficits be sustained other than by selling off your assets. The US is a safe haven but over time more and more of it is owned by someone else and the returns on capital go elsewhere.
Not only that, but because the profits from your firms and the interest on your government debt go overseas, it becomes ever harder to run a current account surplus.
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
She signed the accounts. The police thought there was enough evidence to warrant a report to those making charging decisions. She has not been cleared because that only happens if you are tried and acquitted.
What has happened is that those making the charging decisions have determined that there is insufficient evidence to justify any charges on the basis of the applicable tests. She remains innocent.
Worth noting that after Salmond was acquitted Sturgeon sought to imply he was "really" guilty and a wrong' un. If some now do that to her it would be karma.
But she is an innocent person.
Just checking, do you have some statements from Sturgeon implying that Salmond was ‘really’ guilty and a wrong’(sic) un?
Well there’s this, which I said at the time was unwise to say.
The motives of those women were now being “maligned [and] have been accused of being liars and conspiracists”, [Sturgeon] said.
“The behaviour complained of was found by a jury not to constitute criminal conduct and Alex Salmond is innocent of criminality, but that doesn’t mean the behaviour complained of didn’t happen and I think it’s important that we don’t lose sight of that.”
It would seem the non charging of Sturgeon has passed without a whimper. I find it troubling that such matters nearly all seem to end without any elected official being charged
Perhaps the fact she did nothing wrong played a part?
She signed the accounts. The police thought there was enough evidence to warrant a report to those making charging decisions. She has not been cleared because that only happens if you are tried and acquitted.
What has happened is that those making the charging decisions have determined that there is insufficient evidence to justify any charges on the basis of the applicable tests. She remains innocent.
Worth noting that after Salmond was acquitted Sturgeon sought to imply he was "really" guilty and a wrong' un. If some now do that to her it would be karma.
But she is an innocent person.
Just checking, do you have some statements from Sturgeon implying that Salmond was ‘really’ guilty and a wrong’(sic) un?
There's this rather famous one:
Maybe creating an alternative reality in which the organs of the state [were] all part of some wild conspiracy against him, for reasons I can’t explain, maybe that’s just easier than accepting at the root of all this might just have been issues in his own behaviour,” she said. “But that’s for him to explain, if he ever decides to pitch up and sit in front of the committee.”
Amos Harel is probably Israel’s top military and security journalists, so if he writes that Israel might try soon to take over Gaza entirely everyone should listen. Apparently the IDF chief of staff already presented a plan to the government https://x.com/NadavPollak/status/1903167090103587174
We are back in a world where countries taking over some or all of other countries by force (economic or military) is geopolitically acceptable according to the world's main policeman.
It does not surprise me in the slightest that the Israeli government sees this as an opportunity to take action that it couldn't contemplate in the past.
I feel for any non-combatants still living in Gaza.
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
That's something that should make owners of TIPS extremely concerned. If you can no longer trust the inflation data, then you are not being adequately compensated.
It's the kind of shit that will send investor money fleeing from the US to the UK and Asia. If people think the US is cooking the books then you can't invest there. It's too risky.
The good news is that that would solve the US's current account deficit! (Albeit at the cost of a nasty recession.)
The question is how can current account deficits be sustained other than by selling off your assets. The US is a safe haven but over time more and more of it is owned by someone else and the returns on capital go elsewhere.
Not only that, but because the profits from your firms and the interest on your government debt go overseas, it becomes ever harder to run a current account surplus.
I am so high up in the Manchester Arena (a Peter Kay gig since you ask) I'm suffering from vertigo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Saw Bob Dylan once at the NEC. At least, I think I did. From that distance it could have been anyone. And he seemed to have forgotten some of his old tunes, so maybe it was someone else?
That's part of the live Bob experience. Half the time you have no clue what song he's doing.
Nor indeed which Bob will show. First gig still the best I've ever seen. Second was dire.
Oh what a surprise ! Looks like future US economic data provided by government agencies like the Dept Of Labour will be doctored to make everything look wonderful in Trumpland .
That's something that should make owners of TIPS extremely concerned. If you can no longer trust the inflation data, then you are not being adequately compensated.
It's the kind of shit that will send investor money fleeing from the US to the UK and Asia. If people think the US is cooking the books then you can't invest there. It's too risky.
The good news is that that would solve the US's current account deficit! (Albeit at the cost of a nasty recession.)
The question is how can current account deficits be sustained other than by selling off your assets. The US is a safe haven but over time more and more of it is owned by someone else and the returns on capital go elsewhere.
Not only that, but because the profits from your firms and the interest on your government debt go overseas, it becomes ever harder to run a current account surplus.
Amos Harel is probably Israel’s top military and security journalists, so if he writes that Israel might try soon to take over Gaza entirely everyone should listen. Apparently the IDF chief of staff already presented a plan to the government https://x.com/NadavPollak/status/1903167090103587174
We are back in a world where countries taking over some or all of other countries by force (economic or military) is geopolitically acceptable according to the world's main policeman.
It does not surprise me in the slightest that the Israeli government sees this as an opportunity to take action that it couldn't contemplate in the past.
I feel for any non-combatants still living in Gaza.
It feels like we've been moving this way for awhile now, Russia being a key culprit, then there was the Armenia-Azerbaijan business, and with the USA endorsing it for Russia (rather than at least not recognising it even when it happens) pretence may get dropped in a lot of places. I feel like we're getting closer to more dictators just admitting to being dictators too, rather than playing lip service to democracy.
Amos Harel is probably Israel’s top military and security journalists, so if he writes that Israel might try soon to take over Gaza entirely everyone should listen. Apparently the IDF chief of staff already presented a plan to the government https://x.com/NadavPollak/status/1903167090103587174
We are back in a world where countries taking over some or all of other countries by force (economic or military) is geopolitically acceptable according to the world's main policeman.
It does not surprise me in the slightest that the Israeli government sees this as an opportunity to take action that it couldn't contemplate in the past.
I feel for any non-combatants still living in Gaza.
It feels like we've been moving this way for awhile now, Russia being a key culprit, then there was the Armenia-Azerbaijan business, and with the USA endorsing it for Russia (rather than at least not recognising it even when it happens) pretence may get dropped in a lot of places. I feel like we're getting closer to more dictators just admitting to being dictators too, rather than playing lip service to democracy.
But how does it end? When does it end? Does it end?
The Trump administration is clearly not entirely ignorant of history. This is obviously inspired by the same logic as Morton's Fork, and that of proving witchcraft by immersion.
Commerce secretary: No one but ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missed Social Security check
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5208187-commerce-secretary-social-security-fraud/ ...At one point in the wide-ranging, nearly two-hour conversation, Lutnick also said that if Social Security “didn’t send out their checks this month,” his “mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain.” “She’d think something got messed up, and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining,” the billionaire businessman said. “Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said. “Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.” “So, the people who are getting that free money, stealing the money, inappropriately, getting the money, have an inside person who’s routing the money,” he said. “They are going to yell and scream.”..
Today, I announced the designation under Section 7031(c) of former President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, and former Argentine Minister of Planning, Julio Miguel De Vido, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. The United States is committed to ensuring there’s accountability for corrupt officials around the world
So why did they say they wouldn’t enforce FCPA then?
In response to @Luckyguy1983's comments, I've actually read Kemi Badenoch's speech from earlier in the week.
My response, fairly predictably, is to ask what she thought was going on between 2010 and 2024? It's almost as thought she is determined to airbrush fourteen years of history and government and have a cheap pop at both Ed Miliband and Ed Davey.
Yes, you can vertainly argue energy policy generally needs more thought but for the Conservatives to come to the table now and start doing rhe thinking is a damning indictment of the waste of the years in office. What did they do? What did Kemi Badenoch, as Cabinet Minister, do about any of this?
What she proposes is reasonable enough - I'm sure Coutinho will come up with something though for all the picking apart of other proposals, as for what a future Conservative Government might do, platitudes. The debate seems to start from where it always has - the future of the environment versus economic growth and prosperity in the present?
That's not the place to start in my view - claiming people won't accept lower living standards (and more taxes now) for environmental protection in the future is disingenuous in extremis. Conservative might not - I suspect many others would.
Instead of claiming it would be economically ruinous to move to Net Zero by 2050, why nost start from the premise of whether it would be environmentally disastrous not to move to Net Zero by 2050? There's an element of leading by example, as I've said, and the internal politics of Russia, China, America and India may well be more open to technological advances which can reduce environmental degradation and resulting climate impacts.
The polling afaik indicates that people strongly support Net Zero, but strongly disapprove of any punitive measures to get there, and rightly so in my opinion.
There are a few points that spring to mind in response to what you've said.
It is an article of faith with Net Zero supporters that there is an early adopter advantage to forcibly decarbonising our energy grid - growing valuable new industries and 'well-paid green jobs'. This is a lie. It is actually the green industries of coal burning China that are taking off - its solar panel industry and its electric car industry to name but two. These industries in the UK are dying, at least partly due to the cost of industrial energy. In the 90s I swear I remember us actually being a fairly big manufacturer of solar panels. So what there actually seems to be is a 'late-adopter' advantage - countries that put their economic prosperity first are surging forward in green technologies (at our expense) and will then be able to afford to pick and choose the best ones.
Nobody wants to 'follow our example' - the only example we're setting is how to fuck up our economy, and the only response we're provoking in other countries is relief that they have not foolishly followed the same path.
I can answer your question about whether it would be environmentally ruinous not to move toward Net Zero by 2050 - No. It will make bugger all difference, as we account for 1 percent of global emmissions. It is also likely that net worldwide carbon would increase as a result of the UK meeting the 2050 target, as economic activity leaves our shores and moves to countries with more carbon intensive industries.
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The discount offered on senior tickets has been reduced from 50% to 25%.
In particular amused because it shows a common but complete lack of understanding of percentages and pretty basic maths. A lot of people complaining that they were expecting a 25% increase in prices but its more like 60%: As a pensioner, I was expecting the increase to have been 30%, 5% price increase and 25% concession. No, it equates to 60%!! I'
Yeah, that's how percentages work! Going from paying 50% of the full price, to 75% of the full price, is not a 25% increase in the cost you need to pay. Interesting how many people never understand something so very basic.
https://x.com/robertjenrick/status/1903138449491656916
Really American 🇺🇸
@ReallyAmerican1
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BREAKING: In an unbelievable moment, Trump's Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins tries to gaslight he Fox News audience by saying Americans knew they were voting for higher prices under Trump's tariffs when they elected him. That is a blatant lie.
https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1903108701986156884
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
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Trump says that “certain” U.S. allies will be able to buy a “toned-down” version of the new F-47 fighter jets:
“Because someday they’re not our ally.”
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1903128473264119899
Team GB was 4th out of 206 nations in Tokyo.
He'd better put on a good show!
Canadians who have been coming to this guy's hotel every summer for 30 or 40 years are cancelling in droves. The phone doesn't stop ringing.
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
WOW. The owner of a popular inn in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, told CNN that “easily” 90% of their business has disappeared as Canadian tourists cancel their vacations in the U.S. following Trump’s relentless attacks on their country.
Donald Trump is destroying America.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1903099415142793506
He has clearly seen an Enoch Powell, Peter Griffiths angle.
Trump and Putin are destabilising Europe and Jenrick sees an opportunity to stir up racial tension in his ascent of the greasy pole.
Why doesn't he f*** off to Reform where he belongs.
I love BD but that was one of my worst live experiences ever.
What has happened is that those making the charging decisions have determined that there is insufficient evidence to justify any charges on the basis of the applicable tests. She remains
innocent.
Worth noting that after Salmond was acquitted Sturgeon sought to imply he was "really" guilty and a wrong' un. If some now do that to her it would be karma.
But she is an innocent person.
No matter how crap Badenoch is, she is still better than that fungating toerag.
From a guy who's already pulled the rug on Europe ?
Not exactly compelling as an offer.
In response to @Luckyguy1983's comments, I've actually read Kemi Badenoch's speech from earlier in the week.
My response, fairly predictably, is to ask what she thought was going on between 2010 and 2024? It's almost as thought she is determined to airbrush fourteen years of history and government and have a cheap pop at both Ed Miliband and Ed Davey.
Yes, you can vertainly argue energy policy generally needs more thought but for the Conservatives to come to the table now and start doing rhe thinking is a damning indictment of the waste of the years in office. What did they do? What did Kemi Badenoch, as Cabinet Minister, do about any of this?
What she proposes is reasonable enough - I'm sure Coutinho will come up with something though for all the picking apart of other proposals, as for what a future Conservative Government might do, platitudes. The debate seems to start from where it always has - the future of the environment versus economic growth and prosperity in the present?
That's not the place to start in my view - claiming people won't accept lower living standards (and more taxes now) for environmental protection in the future is disingenuous in extremis. Conservative might not - I suspect many others would.
Instead of claiming it would be economically ruinous to move to Net Zero by 2050, why nost start from the premise of whether it would be environmentally disastrous not to move to Net Zero by 2050? There's an element of leading by example, as I've said, and the internal politics of Russia, China, America and India may well be more open to technological advances which can reduce environmental degradation and resulting climate impacts.
Power to his elbow and his talented sidekick, who in no way is the real President.
We don’t need no education. Wise words.
With the number of "Chump"s and worse on my twitter account, I would not stand a chance.
So it would be a burner phone, and plausible deniability.
Today, I announced the designation under Section 7031(c) of former President of Argentina, Cristina Elisabet Fernandez de Kirchner, and former Argentine Minister of Planning, Julio Miguel De Vido, for their involvement in significant corruption during their time in public office. The United States is committed to ensuring there’s accountability for corrupt officials around the world
I am sure that will ensure a swift entry, with no stay in an El Salvadorean Gulag at all.
However, out in Asia - from Japan to Korea, Vietnam to Cambodia to China to Myanmar - I have no problem with the food at all. Require no secret bottles of Tabasco habanero. I love that food and need no personal touches. Because it is genuinely great food
So, no, I don’t think it’s my aged jaded ennui. I’ve just travelled everywhere and eaten everything and done everyone and I know crap food when I eat it
We had a laugh and lots of wine and really quite good steak - steak! - tartare
I think it comes shortly after the moneychangers story.
(Alternatively, it's dire, and papaya.)
Apparently he was there in person but hard to tell - it's not as if he's that big close-up.
https://x.com/NadavPollak/status/1903167090103587174
The motives of those women were now being “maligned [and] have been accused of being liars and conspiracists”, [Sturgeon] said.
“The behaviour complained of was found by a jury not to constitute criminal conduct and Alex Salmond is innocent of criminality, but that doesn’t mean the behaviour complained of didn’t happen and I think it’s important that we don’t lose sight of that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/24/salmond-has-questions-to-answer-about-past-conduct-says-sturgeon
Maybe creating an alternative reality in which the organs of the state [were] all part of some wild conspiracy against him, for reasons I can’t explain, maybe that’s just easier than accepting at the root of all this might just have been issues in his own behaviour,” she said. “But that’s for him to explain, if he ever decides to pitch up and sit in front of the committee.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/24/salmond-has-questions-to-answer-about-past-conduct-says-sturgeon
To be fair, I would say she was right on that point given what he admitted to.
It does not surprise me in the slightest that the Israeli government sees this as an opportunity to take action that it couldn't contemplate in the past.
I feel for any non-combatants still living in Gaza.
First gig still the best I've ever seen.
Second was dire.
Interesting to see how the UK is now the country responsible for the fourth most objects launched into space, after the US, Russia, and China.
https://nitter.poast.org/tomhfh/status/1903034834114445624#m
Does it end?
This is obviously inspired by the same logic as Morton's Fork, and that of proving witchcraft by immersion.
Commerce secretary: No one but ‘fraudsters’ would complain about missed Social Security check
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5208187-commerce-secretary-social-security-fraud/
...At one point in the wide-ranging, nearly two-hour conversation, Lutnick also said that if Social Security “didn’t send out their checks this month,” his “mother-in-law, who’s 94, she wouldn’t call and complain.”
“She’d think something got messed up, and she’ll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining,” the billionaire businessman said.
“Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said. “Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”
“So, the people who are getting that free money, stealing the money, inappropriately, getting the money, have an inside person who’s routing the money,” he said. “They are going to yell and scream.”..
Iceland? New Zealand? Uruguay?
There are a few points that spring to mind in response to what you've said.
It is an article of faith with Net Zero supporters that there is an early adopter advantage to forcibly decarbonising our energy grid - growing valuable new industries and 'well-paid green jobs'. This is a lie. It is actually the green industries of coal burning China that are taking off - its solar panel industry and its electric car industry to name but two. These industries in the UK are dying, at least partly due to the cost of industrial energy. In the 90s I swear I remember us actually being a fairly big manufacturer of solar panels. So what there actually seems to be is a 'late-adopter' advantage - countries that put their economic prosperity first are surging forward in green technologies (at our expense) and will then be able to afford to pick and choose the best ones.
Nobody wants to 'follow our example' - the only example we're setting is how to fuck up our economy, and the only response we're provoking in other countries is relief that they have not foolishly followed the same path.
I can answer your question about whether it would be environmentally ruinous not to move toward Net Zero by 2050 - No. It will make bugger all difference, as we account for 1 percent of global emmissions. It is also likely that net worldwide carbon would increase as a result of the UK meeting the 2050 target, as economic activity leaves our shores and moves to countries with more carbon intensive industries.