„Was the first Dalai Lama actually Dalai Lama” is a nice one given the metaphysics and posthumous awarding of the title to a monk that after all, quite literally went to another school
I read that as „and now she’s fuck*ng trying to backpedal”, which would be LAB +5 imo
My economic anxiety!
Only ever been to the doctor there when I needed a test and Covid meant you were booked in random places but walked about a nice park
On a more serious note, aren’t there some parks and the industrial history is sort of interesting if that’s your thing?
Leave
The Keminaissance is coming. To Mid-Sussex
Kemi Badenocb is standing to be my mayor??
I mean… that *would* be rather cool
Would’ve been cool if it was signed by Machiavelli mind
a graph of crude oil prices, which opened at $115 today and fell down to $85.13
they're calling it the most normal and stable price action of any commodity in global history
the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”
This is where I’m at too - slower growth, 2.5% inflation rather than 2.0%, more expensive petrol for a few months and Russian economy strengthened.
If I were the Americans I would have simply not made Donald Trump President. Again.
The big difference in this crisis vs. the oil crises from the past is that the world economy now needs a lot less oil to run.
Net zero looking a bit perkier today huh
"In the whole written history of the strait, it has never been closed, ever," said JPMorgan Chase analyst Natasha Kaneva. "To me, it was not just the worst-case scenario. It was an unthinkable scenario."
collecting takes
Can we give Ed Miliband an unlimited budget just to build enough windfarms and replace every car to an EV and isolate ourselves from the oil price in the next, I dunno, couple of weeks?
If it wasn’t clear already, the reaction of the Brexiteer right to Trump‘s war on Iran shows that Brexit for them was not about sovereignty it was about making the UK a vassal state of the US.
Labour might still fumble it but the UK right making US conservative money their arbiter of morality when the British non-pensionable public dislike Trump intensely may be their long-term downfall
Ok this has been justifiably widely shared because it is excellent
A year and a half ago I was obese and today I did a sub-20 5k. Pretty pleased with myself ngl
in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.
a guy on the train in berlin is wearing a pin badge, of the sort one might wear in support of a band or political cause, but his is in support of the ancient grain amaranth
no brand or anything just Amaranth
Quite an interesting thought towards the end, that humans specialise in spotting the difference between right and nearly right.
Seems notable that Starmer's line about why we're not joining the American bombing didn't just mention international law, but also the need for "a viable, thought through plan". Implicitly the position of the government is that the US has no idea what it is doing.
The main reason UK energy prices are so high is not net zero but the fact the price of gas still sets the price of electricity. Breaking that link should be the priority.
Timeline cleanse: early spring animals
Lower Bann* dammit
Did a half marathon distance in the Lower Benn Valley (visiting wife’s family) which was lovely
