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I am the Trade Training and Compliance Manager at the BCC, as part of my role I manage the Export Documentation Service. All views are mine not the BCC's.
The "E Street Band" do not always get the credit they deserve. See also the "Purple Rain" cover.
03.12.2025 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
No matter where you're from, Happy Thanksgiving from all of us on E Street to everyone who calls this land home!
27.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 575 🔁 94 💬 26 📌 2
The UK does at least now publish its preference utilisation rates which is useful: www.gov.uk/government/s...
13.11.2025 12:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm looking forward to tea production stats from English tea growers (shout out to www.dartmoorestatetea.com, tregothnan.co.uk, and peterstontea.com) that look like this chart...
17.09.2025 13:02 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1True — and probably as upbeat as Brussels policy discussions get!
14.09.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Love will tear us apart?
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"I’ve written a lot of other narrative records, but there's just something about that batch of songs on 'Nebraska' that holds some sort of magic." –Bruce Springsteen
Pre-order "Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition: brucespringsteen.lnk.to/Nebraska82EE
It's a bit of a mess.
While there is no clarity as to how the 40% transshipment tariff is going to be used, it doesn't mean that CBP won't start applying it to some shipments to "encourage" compliance.
economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/tr...
Also they could believe that the current court cases in the US will render the deals till and void so they will never be held accountable.
31.07.2025 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Resharing this before the performative idiocy begins again.
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It's gonna be a long walk home.
10.06.2025 20:21 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
This week's MFN is called "Not Serious People" and it is about Unserious People.
mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/not-seriou...
Brexit was a referendum on whether the UK should leave the European Union.
The UK has left the European Union. Referendum fulfilled.
If the people bleating about "Brexit Betrayal" wanted the Referendum to enshrine their pet policy preferences, they should have included them in the question.
This is a great review by Kitty Empire in The Observer of Springsteen in Manchester observer.co.uk/culture/musi...
18.05.2025 08:39 — 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 0
Tonight, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour. Bruce launched this run of shows with three statements about the situation in the United States, with comments preceding his songs Land of Hope and Dreams, House of a Thousand Guitars and My City of Ruins.
14.05.2025 23:17 — 👍 3586 🔁 1213 💬 487 📌 350
New Most Favoured Nation with thoughts on the new UK-India and UK-US deals.
Also, how I became big on YouTube.
mostfavourednation.substack.com/p/deals-deal...
Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
01.05.2025 22:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The real liberation day is June 27- when Tracks 2 is finally liberated from the vaults. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Qt...
03.04.2025 13:06 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Marta is one of the best on trade, and these two paragraphs sum up brilliantly the current US situation, from the failed promise of protectionism to the strategic incoherence that prevents response.
05.03.2025 09:54 — 👍 99 🔁 54 💬 7 📌 0
The Independent Monitoring Panel on the Windsor Framework has been given a formal go-ahead.
The first six month reporting period for the Internal Market Guarantee commenced on the 1st January and will conclude on 30th June 2025.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
Bruce originally recorded "Murder Incorporated" for "Born in the U.S.A.," a track that went on to become a centerpiece of E Street Band shows in the Reunion era. Here, they perform the song at a New York City club — 30 years ago, on this day.
21.02.2025 16:22 — 👍 422 🔁 50 💬 19 📌 9All together now “Eliminating tariffs on trade … across the sea … the transatlantic trade and investment partnership”
02.02.2025 10:31 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Sam Moore (October 12, 1935 - January 10, 2025)
11.01.2025 19:37 — 👍 3975 🔁 652 💬 104 📌 67Surely the Isle of Dogs
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No, America's postwar boom wasn't because we'd bombed our competitors into ruin paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trade-in-t...
04.01.2025 12:29 — 👍 1239 🔁 236 💬 51 📌 31
Japan handled downshifting growth pretty well. China looks alarming open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
27.12.2024 12:14 — 👍 915 🔁 171 💬 32 📌 26Happy Holidays from all of us on E Street!
23.12.2024 16:39 — 👍 579 🔁 102 💬 20 📌 71/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on:
- what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve;
- the options on the table; and
- why this shit is hard.
This will be very long. I'm sorry.
Let's get wonky.
The rise of predatory "limbic capitalism" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-th...
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