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YouTube video by Simon Roper From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue

This is great too if you want to try to understand the spoken rather than the written word.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=842O...

Do they though

I find a recurring calendar/diary note to check the sealant every x months is useful. I can never remember when I last topped up!

There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave “Congress alone” the power to impose tariffs during peacetime. Merritt v. Welsh, 104 U. S. 694, 700. And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it any more likely that Congress would relinquish its tariff power through vague language, or without careful limits.

(a) IEEPA authorizes the President to “investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit . . . importation or exportation.” §1702(a)(1)(B). Absent from this lengthy list of specific powers is any mention of tariffs or duties. Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs, it would have done so expressly, as it consistently has in other tariff statutes. The power to “regulate . . . importation” does not fill that void. The term “regulate,” as ordinarily used, means to “fix, establish, or control; to adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.” Black’s Law Dictionary 1156. The facial breadth of this definition places in stark relief what ”regulate” is not usually thought to include: taxation. Many statutes grant the Executive the power to “regulate.” Yet the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax. The Court is therefore skeptical that in IEEPA—and IEEPA alone—Congress hid a delegation of its birth-right power to tax within the quotidian power to “regulate.” While taxes may accomplish regulatory ends, it does not follow that the power to regulate includes the power to tax as a means of regulation. Indeed, when Congress addresses both the power to regulate and the power to tax, it does so separately and expressly. That it did not do so here is strong evidence that “regulate” in IEEPA does not include taxation.

Supreme Court absolutely bodies Trump on IEEPA.

Just complete groin kicking.

They could have said that IEEPA lets him impose tariffs in an emergency but that this didn't qualify as one of those, or he failed to define one.

It didn't.

It ruled IEEPA doesn't let him impose tariffs at all.

Sure, chose 2016 as minimum wage started really taking off then.

Absolutely - 77% rise since 2016, far more than median wage - didn't notice it mentioned above - or compared to any move in peer countries..

Yes, minimum wage going from £7.20 then to £12.78 today..

15% drawdown for the 60/40 portfolio during the Napoleonic Wars.

Decimalisation Britain was one of the last countries to go decimal – and had Margaret Thatcher not abolished the Metrication Board, we might have abandoned miles and pints...

There was an informative and interesting podcast about decimalization last week from @rostaylor.bsky.social
There was no significant opposition to it at the time, popular or political.
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/deci...

GBS was once interviewed and asked which painting he would save from the national portrait gallery in the event of a fire.
'The one nearest the exit'

Chart by Neil Kaye showing the lengthening and shortening of daylight hours in southern Britain each week through the year. Each bar represents how much daylight is gained or lost each week. The line is roughly a sine curve (head blown emoji), with the fastest daylight gains in Feb, March and April, and the fastest losses in Aug, Sep and October.

A quick reminder of what #BigFebruary is about…
Thanks to the magic of the cosmos, we start gaining daylight much faster in Feb than in Jan. Over 20 mins a week - setting us up for Spring.

This chart is by @neilrkaye.bsky.social and is one of my all time favourites.

Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence - well written though using the family as an intro to renaissance themes rather than in its own right - by novelist and translator Tim Parks.

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Personal finance site Monevator maintain a table summarising key features of most UK brokers.. a useful diving off point?
monevator.com/compare-uk-c...

Thanks, I enjoyed reading his excellent copper piece on Stocko but didn't realise he had a substack..

Would that be the Nuuklear option?

The front of a nail salon called "Nail Shop Near Me"

Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation

The higher the gross margin, the lower the marginal impact of tarrifs perhaps..

I have a massive confession to make. We're watching a doc that mentions that when Jaws opened the queue went round the block. And I have only just realized what 'Blockbuster' actually means. I am 71 years old

At the age of 26, I bought a flat in London.

Pepperami's 'it's a bit of an animal' will remain the winner in this field until we're all long gone I think..

'Govt must get to the route of..concerns' is an interesting typo...

Wondering if they have a 'you can't park there mate' tesla subgroup on FB.

The Cafe (and street where much of the video was shot) was in Carter Lane near St Pauls. Cafe unfortunately long gone..

You've reminded me of being in the same ward at St Thomas 34 years ago.. My then newborn daughter recently delivered a grandson.. Congratulations!

And the previous number one 'Can't get you out of my head' was co-written by Mud's guitarist which takes the timeline right back to Seventies prehistory..

Less than 48h left to buy an Interrail pass with 25% discount (I already have!). Buy now, activate any date in next 11 months.
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An interesting thread here yesterday exploring the same theme..
bsky.app/profile/gabr...

They don't necessarily have them. A Peruvian friend had problems entering the UK at Gatwick because she didn't have a return flight to Peru. This was for the very good reason that she lives in Spain. Officer wouldn't accept her Spanish ID/residence card, eventually a supervisor ok'd it all..

True. Against that if the Draghi plan is being seriously implemented by the end of the decade, the arguments for the UK joining are more compelling...
And UK politicians could make fresh arguments for joining a new body.. a much better framing than oops we screwed up ten year ago.

To be annoyingly pendantic, that was a solo Lake song!