Ben Robins

Yep, the course is set and Farrage knows exactly what's coming.

Here's a couple that do industrial heat among other things:

Clade (Bristol)
Star Refrigeration (UK wide)

It's also a nice job creation scheme, and effectively additional new housing supply (albeit temporary in both cases)

Isn't the same bill needed for NPR? That fact can give political cover to leave the HS2 bit open, without dealing with the argument of a declared commitment to reinstatement.

This I suspect will be Heidi Alexander's preferred stance, as there are a few clues indicative of further scope.

I've noticed that bots driven by AI are often a bit thick.

Can't argue with stupid.

In other words, about 0.44% error rate

Failing Grayling screwed the business case for full electrification by ordering these trains.

Well the US gun lobby started the 'London has fallen' thing.

Then American tourists (ones who've actually been to Europe) started to point out that's utterly absurd.

So here we are.

You just highlighted why Trump spouts shite 24/7.

It's IMO a deliberate and calculated strategy to allow him to do outrageous things, because people get immune to his insanity.

Lets talk about the price of Big Macs

The simple way to debunk Claire's argument is to refer to the EPEX spot price, which is most often set by gas.

It's not anywhere near £55

In fairness though, EWR is one of few rail schemes Reeves has actually continued to fund. And electrification of EWR was descoped under the previous government.

So I'd be more concerned, about pausing MML.

How much beef do we import from the USA?

There's your answer

Another meaningless photo-op for Trump

It appears that a significant number of Reform voters are uniquely susceptible to Russian disinformation.

Some Orwellian levels of doublethink in those numbers.

These problems would basically go away, if gilt markets didn't have to price in the possibility of Nigel Farage becoming PM.

Credit where it's due, I've seen @sophyridge.bsky.social‬ trip Tice up a couple of times.

Talked him into a corner using his ego.

Asylum backlog (and thus use of hotels) will fall away much sooner than expected

That's IMO why Farage increasingly tries to shift goalposts with unpopular extreme ideas like reimigration & deals with the Taliban

It's an act of desperation as he is cornered politically by events beyond his control

It's difference between 'I would like this' and 'given Hobson's choice'

People don't vote tactically in polls.

A lot of that is rooted in an extreme interpretation of Calvanist predestination.

Something I've followed for a while

Pretty sure Ukraine only spared Russia's oil & gas at the behest of the USA, for US political reasons

But Trump effectively tore up the US veto by throttling various support

And Trump can't stop Ukraine using home-produced, Euro-funded weapons as they see fit

Flip-flopping is a classic and very deliberate Tumpism.

They know client media will quote selectively, and most people are too intellectually lazy to delve beyond the soundbites.

So it's literally a way of having the argument both ways.

Twas the banking crisis obvs

But rejoining will fix everything, if we keep saying it over and over, right?

Cart, horse etc.

But do they really need to say anything?

Farage crossed the Rubicon

Does it occur to Farage, that paying Iran and the Taliban to take people back, is a perverse incentive that will likely encourage them to actively send more?

It's straight up MAGA copycat.

See also Farage on abortion, fracking

I hope they keep it up, because these things don't land here.

I'd be very interested to see a projection of the effects of voter mortality vs new voters

This crucified the Tories, and looking at Reform's polling demographics, it should be even worse for them.

An AI slump will leave a huge DC/Compute capacity glut, so it's likely to undercut supply (and thus demand) across the wider tech sector.

It's very hard to make a (new) tech investment business case, when you compete with distressed assets.

Asylum numbers seem to be somewhat inflated by new claimants with expiring visas

This outpaced a big increase in decisions, so backlog still increased.

But...

Visas halved from the previous anomalous peak; so the asylum backlog should follow (& perhaps quickly) as the temporary boost reverses.

Contagion

AI market crash incoming...