HeartfulBadger

The economist blogger "Noahpinion" had a few articles I agreed with along the lines of "the internet wants to be fractured" that are worth a read. Centralized town halls like Twitter are just exhausting and nobody can agree how to moderate them.

Not content with just trying to decimate the sciences, Trump can go after the arts next.

Trying to be fair, Donald Trump is so surrounded by sycophants who ritualistically praise his every move or fear excommunication, it is really hard to tell whether a tweet is that, or a legitimately reasoned opinion with some historical consistency which is not an endorsement

On the economic side I'm inclined to agree with you that I don't think the EU is a miracle growth cure. However, you could argue that Brexit has helped sink all boats (at least a bit). I think it's easy for people to dismiss the UK's importance to Europe, but just like the US tariffs I suspect it hurts everybody.

Difficult political situation to navigate. If you refuse to publish statistics then it looks bad and fuels this populism mania around government coverups and "woke agenda" blah blah blah. But also, people use stats in very dishonest ways. A bit of damned if you do and damned if you don't, but I guess I'd lean towards putting data into the public domain.

My issue is that it's a heroic assumption that a society where we go and burn down the centres of our democracy is going to be improvement over today. These things don't happen in a vacuum. I have plenty of things I'd change if I was in charge, but I also look around the world and I think Britain has a lot worth defending.

Bit much mate

I'm wondering what UK based tech companies are critically dependent on American customers? My gut would have said it's better to accept the reciprocal tariffs.