One trouble is that Trump claims to want tariffs to do two tings at once. One is to be a government revenue stream, which means continuing imports. The other is to onshore manufacturing jobs (not hap… (View Post)

And then we come back to the shit that Sunak and Hunt left their successors to clean up, treating fiscal headroom like Brewster's Millions. (View Post)

And 1/3 is also about the right score for their performance. Better than the last lot, but not transformatively so. Whether there is much they can realistically do about the other two is another ques… (View Post)

Clever. Partly because Musk isn't Trump- he doesn't have the whatever-it-is-but-it's-real that DJT has. Without that, the public support for MAGA probably falls away pretty quickly. (Farage has "… (View Post)

Suddenly the rejected Overground line names (the ones that left us with Liberty, Lioness et cetera) don't seem so bad; https://www.londoncentric.media/p/the-rejected-london-overground-line The Polari… (View Post)