The whole article is both depressing (because it seems to confirm the worst assumptions about Reform in office) and also encouraging (because it seems to confirm the worst assumptions about Reform in… (View Post)

It’s in all our interests that US medicine prices remain as high as possible. The ridiculously high returns to be had on the monopolistic US market subsidise the affordability of medicines in the mon… (View Post)

Reuters now reporting the DST is untouched. That’ll surprise the tech companies. So this looks like a very limited and provisional tariff relief agreement that leaves UK exporters and US consumers wo… (View Post)

This isn’t going to be an actual trade deal. It looks like a slight relief from tariffs in exchange for dropping or reforming DST. As predicted in this eloquent article in CityAM a couple of weeks ag… (View Post)

Particularly as a trading bet. The threshold for most seats is now somewhere in the mid to high 20s% vote share, unless Reform manage to consolidate the right of centre vote. Thats a much lower bar t… (View Post)