Simon Haslam
@simonhaslam.bsky.social
Retired from financial services; likes are engagement not necessarily endorsement
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How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy
And the implications when a ruler gains a taste for misusing emergency legislation
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy
And the implications when a ruler gains a taste for misusing emergency legislation
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy
And the implications when a ruler gains a taste for misusing emergency legislation
emptycity.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NEW
How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy
And the implications when a ruler gains a taste for misusing emergency legislation
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How Trump is misusing emergency powers in his tariffs policy
And the implications when a ruler gains a taste for misusing emergency legislation
By me
Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trump-...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
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We need more Republicans to speak out.
March 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We need more Republicans to speak out.
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EXCEL-ENT: John Rhys Davies as the voice of Treebeard narrates instructional videos on how to use the popular Microsoft package
March 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
EXCEL-ENT: John Rhys Davies as the voice of Treebeard narrates instructional videos on how to use the popular Microsoft package
If the Mail doesn’t like what Trump did!
March 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
If the Mail doesn’t like what Trump did!
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Ah yes, that famous protection of free speech we’ve been hearing so much about.
NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...
Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Comments About Trump
The broadcaster placed a longtime journalist on leave amid growing concerns about its editorial independence.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Ah yes, that famous protection of free speech we’ve been hearing so much about.
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So are we all up for asking the King to cancel the invitation? And if the visit happens anyway, for having the biggest anti-Trump rally?
March 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
So are we all up for asking the King to cancel the invitation? And if the visit happens anyway, for having the biggest anti-Trump rally?
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What?
"Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to halt the enforcement of a US anti-corruption law that bars Americans from bribing foreign government officials to win business. “It’s going to mean a lot more business for America,” the president said"
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Donald Trump to halt enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials
President says move will ‘mean a lot more business for America’
on.ft.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
What?
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I think about these comments from the Constitutional Convention a lot these days.
Like, A LOT A LOT. An unhealthy amount of lot.
Like, A LOT A LOT. An unhealthy amount of lot.
![Screenshot from James Madison's journal of the Constitutional Convention in which Madison attributes Elbridge Gerry saying, "The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. In [Massachusetts] it had been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men, and which no one on the spot can refute. One principal evil arises from the want of due provision for those employed in the administration of [Government]. It would seem to be a maxim of democracy to starve the public servants." Madison then writes that "[Gerry] mentioned the popular clamour in [Massachusetts] for the reduction of salaries and the attack made on that of the [Governor] though secured by the spirit of the Constitution itself. [Gerry] had he said been too republican heretofore: he was still however republican, but had been taught by experience the danger of the levelling spirit."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:w7rcmuq3t7lrkp7nxlxqkusz/bafkreig4yxu4ok3khfsu35vui2quudknhh6ws22xb7dnyrgdnnixvzjjiu@jpeg)
February 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I think about these comments from the Constitutional Convention a lot these days.
Like, A LOT A LOT. An unhealthy amount of lot.
Like, A LOT A LOT. An unhealthy amount of lot.
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I was already addicted to advocaat but once I started adding lemonade and lime juice it snowballed.
December 22, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I was already addicted to advocaat but once I started adding lemonade and lime juice it snowballed.
For some wonderful heart-warming reading, give this a go!
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on
Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...
December 20, 2024 at 3:36 PM
For some wonderful heart-warming reading, give this a go!
This is lovely!
This little guy who lives above the Old Library has just been restored by the brilliant master stone carver, Alex Wenham.
December 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM
This is lovely!
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Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
November 14, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Good morning.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.
Truth!
My other half, currently infuriated by the security checks required for ordering cutlery online:
"THERE IS NO MEMBER OF ANY STREET GANG RUNNING AROUND LONDON WITH A CHEESE KNIFE!!"
"THERE IS NO MEMBER OF ANY STREET GANG RUNNING AROUND LONDON WITH A CHEESE KNIFE!!"
November 14, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Truth!
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I'm trying to check my platform reach before I settle in for the night. If you see this post of a rather nice part of New Zealand taken by a member of my family last week please ❤️ this post
It's a nice picture anyway so hopefully not too difficult to ❤️
🌿🌎Thank you 🌎🌿
It's a nice picture anyway so hopefully not too difficult to ❤️
🌿🌎Thank you 🌎🌿
November 13, 2024 at 6:11 PM
I'm trying to check my platform reach before I settle in for the night. If you see this post of a rather nice part of New Zealand taken by a member of my family last week please ❤️ this post
It's a nice picture anyway so hopefully not too difficult to ❤️
🌿🌎Thank you 🌎🌿
It's a nice picture anyway so hopefully not too difficult to ❤️
🌿🌎Thank you 🌎🌿