Price increases in Russia this year 📈 • Potatoes: +73% • Butter: +30% • Inflation: +64% • Mortgage rates: 28% • Interest rates: 21% https://x.com/FrankLuntz/status/1858544729979601069 (View Post)

Surely Reeves should be grateful it turns out that she was not an economist at RBS and HBOS before the 2008 crash? (View Post)

No but I don't see why going around glad handing other world leaders means you produce anything of substance in the actual detail of the summit (View Post)

Plenty of photos of Starmer meeting and talking to Xi and one chatting with a Saudi Prince. I expect he thinks that is rather more important than Macron glad handing Milei and Biden as he actually ha… (View Post)

Maybe, maybe not. At the moment the only EU governments genuinely hard right led are Italy's and Hungary's. Nationalist hard right parties are in coalition governments in the Netherlands, S… (View Post)