John Rendel

What’s driving the fall?

Definitely getting the ‘first a trickle, then a flood’ feeling about Trump world. Power visibly flowing away from the White House over the last couple of weeks.

Pretty sure the end will come well before 2028 but it may get worse before it gets better.

The EU has a very clear two-point plan: first, weaken Russia; second, support Ukraine.

Sanctions are hitting Russia hard.

The export of Russian crude oil is at its lowest. And tax revenues from oil are the lowest since the war started.

My press remarks following today's FAC link.europa.eu/VDdpDw

To be fair to Musk, Grok’s obvious dangers are doing a lot for the cause of AI safety.

Isn’t this now just a sign of desperation. Is he going down all guns blazing?

School funding to fall by up to 4% in real terms, expert warns Government’s headline rise to minimum per-pupil funding largely reflects grants being rolled into the NFF, leaving schools facing real-terms cuts, says Simon Oxenham

Minimum per-pupil funding will not keep up with schools’ rising costs next year, an expert has warned. By @jabedahmed.bsky.social
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There has never been a clearer example of the fact that we do not have a legislature in the United States right now. Trump tells them to vote no, so they all vote no. Then Trump changes his mind and they all change their votes. That is autocracy. Vote them out!

Ha! Tbf, that’s the website not me and I used that one so Americans could donate too!

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The BBC should remember the wise old line: ‘never negotiate with terrorists or toddlers’ or in this case, both.

Or ‘never negotiate with terrorists or toddlers’ or in this case, both.

A young one by the looks of it

You must have got there early to get a solo photo! Such a great site.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi hits astonishing century in India A victory Vaibhav Suryavanshi, 14, hits a stunning 144 off 42 balls for India A in an Asia Cup Rising Stars T20 match against the United Arab Emirates.

This kid is surely on his way to becoming a white ball batsmen GOAT. 14 years old.

Not sure that smallish bond yield fall is material re the overall gap. Productivity/growth and inflation are the big bits.

True

That’s different though.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s objectively the right thing to do, in government, the main things you said you were going to do to get elected. Both politically and for a healthy democracy.

What about trust in politics and doing the big things you said you’d do? Are you saying it’s legitimate for a party to say whatever will get them elected as long as they then do the ‘right’ thing afterwards?

Two things seem to be true this morning -
1/ That the politics of breaking the manifesto pledge was too difficult
2/ Reeves has received much more optimistic forecasts, likely to he wage growth and inflation related

The combination means they can reverse their plans

NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.

They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.

I’d be v surprised if they lowered thresholds in nominal terms. Lowering them in real terms is disingenuous enough.

But are you fully accounting for the magic AI beans they’ve got hold of?

I think the trust in politics argument is a strong one. They shouldn’t have boxed themselves in but once they had, it’s healthier for democracy that they’ve gone down this route irrespective of the politics.

It’s clear that the only thing that matters to the GOP is whether or not Trump is an electoral asset or liability. While the GOP dominates congress, the constitution only kicks in if he loses their support. This time could be different. He is a lame duck and conservatives dislike paedophilia.

True. And various people have proactively crushed that trust to serve their ends too.

Agree with your overall point. The U.K. population has roughly doubled over that period though, so adjusted for population, the prison number increases would be roughly half those shown.

Now’s the perfect time for the BBC to splice the various Trump-Epstein emails together, creating a false narrative no more damning than the truth.