On obscure but possibly important items, is anyone aware of the UK's policy if any to encourage British flagged merchant shipping, and build up the merchant navy? There were successful but quiet… (View Post)

Yes. This is the BS Chump was coming up with about Usonian cars and the EU - that they were that unfair import duties that disadvantaged Usonian cars. His figures were something like 30% import duty … (View Post)

I wouldn't call the Dems as having given up yet. They have been organising at national level - new chair of the DNC last weekend, but I'm less sure about what is happening at Congress and S… (View Post)

Shades of Thomas Cromwell? But I'm not sure which shades. I can absolutely imagine most people in this Trump regime ordering members of the public to be shot down in the street if it was necessa… (View Post)

I think there are a couple of court orders on those aspects, amongst the other (checks) 35 or so legal cases so far. (View Post)