The perfect exhibit of what happens when the bar for politicians drops ever lower. Just woefully unqualified and unsuited.
Those puppy teeth are sharp!
Yes, but I cannot think of a US president in history less predisposed to accepting a humiliating outcome.
My niece’s favourite from our half term trip to the National Gallery.
How on earth, given everything we know, he was able to eventually achieve this clearance is beyond me.
I’m sure it wouldn’t have been a regular vetting officer, but the Epstein connection (ie. relationship with a convicted paedophile) would have surely been a decent chunk of an interview.
Ditto Labour tbh.
With a few exceptions, they just all seem to struggle to think on their feet. Like, that’s an objectively terrible answer and way to answer.
Again, an hour long conversation with Putin and we’re back to square one.
The market manipulation is off the charts.
These really drives home to me what a colossal waste of time Brexit has been, the opportunity cost we’ll never truly know, and the best example of sunk cost fallacy that I’ve seen in my life.
I dunno, in the midst of an imperial escapade that is rapidly spiralling into a strategic disaster, I’d probably not invoke Suez.
They let him walk away because they thought he was unelectable. I think that calculus, after the last 13 months, has changed dramatically.
He’s existentially at risk if he loses them. That’s the top and bottom of it and tells us everything we need to know.
What’s the off-ramp here? I don’t see one.
As someone who routinely mocks permabullish clickbait oil forecasts, I want to be exceptionally clear:
Crude WILL go to $200/bbl, en route higher, unless traffic through the Strait resumes.
Not clickbait, but rather brutal physics and necessary economic incentives.
Agree the German system isn’t perfect, not sure any is. And to be clear I don’t think just introducing grammar schools is an answer
But if you look at the number of young people out of work/training, dearth of graduate jobs, unemployment, AI, it looks like we need a rethink of secondary education
If we were talking about an entire reimagination of secondary education, and building a real technical path, there would be something in having a grammar school pathway (like Germany). But this is certainly not the way to do it.
You can’t wish away an 8% hit to GDP. It’s impossible and ludicrous.
I just wonder if we are reaching a point, whether it be viewed through geopolitics or international trade, where we don’t collectively reason that anything resembling meaningful economic growth outside of the SM is objectively impossible? (Even if it was ever thus)
I’m saying it quietly, but Kemi saying it could have been written by ChatGPT isn’t totally wrong. (And I think they have been using LLM’s for a lot of their press/comms).
Source: just a hunch from working with them all day.
We are closer to a vote to rejoin than we are the vote to leave.
I think given the geopolitical landscape, any idea that the EU would actually turn their nose up at a genuine UK Art. 49 request just feels unlikely to me.
There would also be a certain poetry to the UK and Ukraine having joint accession.
Trump will get his Dover Test real quick.
Extraordinary cynical policy of trying to avoid a headline of ‘Boris-wave given passports’ in the 2029 election. Nothing more.
Too many who should know better are backing this war. It wouldn't be happening if a) Trump were a remotely serious president who knew the risks of embarking on something whose aims he still can't specify, and b) Netanyahu wasn't embracing regional chaos as his get out of jail free card.
This one says a trip to the pub is the most important
Do you think he ever reflects on who exactly he is talking to?
Also was thus government policy towards Europe (2016-present day).
This is performance art. There is no other explanation.
Even if he were to come up with a message (which I don’t think he can), I don’t think anyone would trust the message or the messenger (based on a pattern of dishonesty). He’s spent.
