I always forget how much Bezos' rocket looks like a giant cock.

For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds.

I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.

NEW 🧵

A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

A point not made enough: the UK runs a trade goods deficit with the US so shouldn’t be paying any tariffs at all based on the White House formula (10% is not a “win”).

The USA taking revenge on other countries for selling them at good prices a load of things that Americans freely wanted is the weirdest economic story of the era, bar possibly the Memecoins thing

Incredibly, this appears to be true. We tariffed our own (jointly operated with the UK) military base.

"It's unimaginable today. It would be like the US and Russia becoming allies and really collaborating on dismembering a country that sits between them."

Dan Snow commenting on the 1939 invasion of Poland on episode 1 of the 2024 Netflix series, 'Churchill At War'.

Heaven 17 We don't need this fascist groove thing comes onto the playlist...

The new 16 minute track from Mike Vennart, The Familiar, on red 45 rpm vinyl.

The lies are the point: Ukraine is a battle for objective reality

iandunt.substack.com/p/the-lies-a...

Big tech is now formally in league with the far-right. The resistance to it will be personal and political iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.

We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.

2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

I have been informed by SES this afternoon of a fault at the Cheam Water Treatment Works that is leaving some facing complete loss of water supply.

I am monitoring the situation closely - please see my statement below for information about getting access to bottled water.

"The Daily Mail have turned Boris Johnson into a Poundland Adrian Chiles and it's DISGUSTING."

Colin from Portsmouth on Boris Johnson's weekly column youtu.be/F92jx_1O3Mc?...

Love the idea that with Trump about to take office alongside Co-President World's Richest Man Elon Musk, there's a risk we won't be sufficiently exposed to right wing view points because we're on BlueSky.

It's a social media platform, not a sensory deprivation cave on Pluto.

The new edition of Byline Times is hitting the press, with lots of brilliant pieces from Hardeep Matharu, Peter Geoghegan, Sonia Purnell, Peter Oborne, Otto English, Rosie Holt and many more.

Get your copy here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com

The exodus from the other place seems to be speeding up.

For any of the many people who have just joined up, here's a list of UK political journalists, commentators, politicos and experts to get yourself going with

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A new piece by me for OnLondon. How do you set about reviving the diminished wonder of #EarlsCourt? www.onlondon.co.uk/earls-court-... #planning #London.