6/ If Trump paid any attention to the Ukraine War he would have noticed how warfare has changed. But he didn’t. And he blundered.
Worse, the Gulf states are running out of interceptors to stop Iranian missiles and drones - meaning that soon more oil sites will be vulnerable.
Trump has a problem? Can’t reopen the straits? What about the one where Iranian missiles keep getting through and hitting expensive pieces of US kit on the ground? I’d say air defence was rather more pressing, but that’s just me.
You mean the handmaiden of doom that’s cruising somewhere out there in the deep? We have others.
A photo of a green bus with the destination screen display showing "192.168.228" The caption has the text showing "Look at that everyone A LOCAL BUS !" Context: The joke is that 192.168.x.x is the local network address for computers, making it a "local" bus.
A local bus
Chambers St museum today, where there is an exhibit on fashion through the years and I have now seen my knickers in a museum. I am doing as well as could be expected.
A Boring Company tunnel, but for tankers.
"U.S. officials called London insurers and brokers, trying to figure out how the market operates, industry insiders said."
When applied to the current administration, I urge caution in using terms like "plans," "strategy," "policy," or "doctrine."
www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
It’s the persistent people who get to the front of the government bureaucracy queue, claims Jones, who seems to view this as cheating which can be stopped by - sigh - ID cards.
Telegraph headline: The Iranian general who always survives… is he Mossad’s ultimate plant?
The Iranian general who always survives. Is Mossad trying to get the Iranians to kill him?
You are suffering from brain mog.
Talking to wife about a pub, which may be new. She claims it’s the one where a couple of locals were rude and “you were really rude right back.” No recollection, but that sounds like me.
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
So riddle me this. Prior to Bluesky adding a translate button I just had to hit “translate” at the bottom of the post. Now if I do that I get “Try Google translate” and I need to download a language first. This is a trap, right?
There’s some disturbing mission creep from the National Weather Service here.
He was holding it when he got off the plane. I bet myself that he was going to put it on for the solemnities.
Jay: I only wrote this for three people. The editor of the Times, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England.
Peter Jay had a point.
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Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
No idea why people are asking this as he actually invaded it and kidnapped the Shah.
Telegraph ruminates on Trump’s imaginary Gulf insurance plans. Lloyd’s rolls eyes.
A Betteridge, methinks.
Magee announced what was to become The Register without telling me first. I mailed him:
Fuck, you mad bastard.
Then thought:
Fuck you, mad bastard.
And finally:
Fuck you mad, bastard.
True story.
Used to drink with a Lloyd’s guy who said he parked all the bad stuff with Gadaffi’s Mediterranean Re (state reinsurance outfit) because they didn’t know what they were doing. I see an opportunity for Lloyd’s here.
A promo image used on Facebook to advertise the "Unite the clans rally" being organised by far-right groups. The background is an apparently AI-generated image of a Braveheart-esque group of kilted freedom fighters, with the largest figure in the centre holding a shield with a distorted version of the Saltire on it, which has somehow grown an extra leg and become a giant white on blue asterisk.
I'm not saying the white supremacist neo-Nazis organising the "Unite the clans" rally on 21st March are morons whose knowledge of Scottish patriotism stretches no further than typing a prompt into an AI image generator, but I am loving the brave warrior holding the St Andrew's Asterisk shield here.
General Richard Shirreff just called Trump and Hegseth “a couple of gung-ho nutters. (Sky News)
Amused at Trump saying ‘We’re not dealing with Winston Churchill’ about Starmer. No, if you were dealing with Winston Churchill we’d have already have been fighting a war for two years before your lot even turned up, you scabby orange dough ball
comic by political cartoonist Gary Varvel depicting a man hearing about Greece sending ships to defend Cyprus from the Persians while turning his calendar and discovering the year is 499 BCE.
Telegraph headline claims Macron planning to deploy nuclear weapons to UK
He didn’t say this, the article doesn’t say this, Telegraph subs you are bad people.
In a previous life I wrote about Lloyd’s of London overreacting to a US war risks warning in the gulf. The warning was for a short period rather than the market’s interpretation of it as ongoing. Despite this, the Iran-Iraq war broke out shortly afterwards. Oops.
The Temeraire? Well, I suppose we don’t have one on the books anymore (see illustration).
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 A bombshell? Not quite but President Macron went further than expected this afternoon in announcing progress towards a strengthened “European dimension” for France’s nuclear deterrent. 1/
If anyone wants to read any of my significantly-longer-than-700-words takes on electricity prices, here are a couple of recent efforts.
Maybe the real challenge is to do a 700 word version....
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/is-gas-...
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-ene...
