Obviously this isn't true, but if it was it's an easy choice. Any half decent politician would choose deference in this situation over seeing their country be destroyed.

I once saw one for a half marathon, where a woman complained that her day was ruined by the weather...

It's surely possible to build in much better safety checks than appear to be in the US system.

Fair, I was more responding to the tweet you're quoting.

I think many on the left and right are guilty of the same thing, that competence correlates. He's good at business so must be smart and good at govt, vs he's bad at gov so must be bad at everything.

I share your/ most people's grave concerns about Musk in his government roles, and suspect he's struggling a bit elsewhere too. But he built some spectacular businesses, is clearly very smart and is/was brilliant. Too often we paint people as only being competent or incompetent.

As for life experience vs 18 year olds. you have to draw the line somewhere. There is a big difference at that age, they'll likely have a much better memory of the previous election, have spent far more time at an age where people might talk to them about politics etc.

I think there are 3 main arguments against it. 1) That their brains aren't sufficiently developed to think things through 2) that they lack the life experience and 3) that they're not invested enough in society.

You can reduce the significance of 1 and 2 through education. 3 isn't a real concern.

I’m for votes at 16, but you could say that with less life experience 16 year olds need more education to get them to a point where they can vote well. And this is currently lacking.

Until now the general strategy from those who oppose Trump has been to provide a long list of grievances. It's allowed him to conjure up a sense that there's a witch hunt, there's also not enough time to focus on any one thing in detail. Personally I think fewer topics in more depth would help.

So maybe It was the FAA's fault, but we don't know if any FAA changes impacted this flight yet. So maybe we should focus on the things we do know, like the known risks in changes to the FAA, or that the president has essentially said he's above the law, or the millions who now can't access HIV meds.

I know, Trump is playing with fire, but it's not clear he started this fire. The crash happened outside of the FAA's jurisdiction.

They did this cause they had few actual things they could pin on Biden. There are so many things that are definitely Trump's fault, why waste air bigging up the things that might be.

If you're going to blame the Trump for an accident that happens in another country then I think you need to be clearer about the mechanism. Otherwise I think you risk playing into his narrative that some people blame him for everything, this makes it harder to draw attention to the real harms.

Call it an own gaol and Badenoch will be there in a flash!

Do you think the UK should be trying to help people in Ukraine? Is there a better way to help them than helping to deter future attacks and ensure peace should a ceasefire be agreed?

I know this is probably not your decision, but please make this the Economist's front cover tomorrow, I'll take out a second subscription!

We already see the shutdown's cost. Kids with drug-resistant TB, turned away from clinics, are not just dying - they're spreading the disease. People around the world w HIV, denied their medicine, will soon start transmitting virus. The damage is global.

Oh no, good luck!