Passenger numbers for newly opened Northumberland railway are five times those predicted: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74nq19w100o & that’s with only half the stations open! Same thing ha… (View Post)

This is probably the kind of stuff that’s necessary to get Congressional Republicans to flip - they need to accept that nothing is going to stop him ploughing on regardless. But in the short term not… (View Post)

I have seen any number of attempts to divine method in Trump’s madness. The reality is simpler IMO: there is no there there. Trump isn’t thinking 4D chess. He isn’t thinking 20 steps ahead of everyon… (View Post)

If the tariffs weren’t dominating absolutely everything I suspect a lot of people would be talking about how dumb this is: https://www.reuters.com/markets/trumps-fees-chinese-ships-will-hurt-us-compa… (View Post)

The irony being (with regards to Gore) that it was later demonstrated that the partial recount Gore went for (before the courts stopped it) would have actually resulted in a Bush victory whereas the … (View Post)