The US was the first and only nation to ever use nuclear weapons. Looking at this they’ll likely be the second.

The question is not whether or not he can do it legally. The question is who will stop him, and how.

As we know, "it's the economy stupid". Few will tolerate an attack on their standard of living in the hope of a future, promised land. Exporting workforce whilst simultaneously demanding expansion of manufacturing employment - for which foreign export markets are being razed daily - can't end well.

youtu.be/2g5Hz17C4is

France made 2 key bets - on nuclear energy, and on military independence from the US. De Gaulle to thank for the latter, d'Estaing for the former. For it's size (& thankfully for Ukraine), France retains impressive aerospace capabilities:
www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/la-...
ariane.group/transport-sp...

Europe should exclude Boeing because frankly they’re a disaster.

Mastodon is German but essentially decentralised and self-hosted. It’s not as polished, but it’s a viable alternative to X. MistralAI may not be 100% as good as OpenAI but it’s 95% there. A US shutoff would be a massive opportunity for European tech.

The idea of pivoting towards the US now looks almost as laughably bad as the Brexit decision.

Dealing with the collapse of the USSR was complex and painful. It still is. This is no different.

And an offline mirror as a safeguard isn’t an option because?

The LFRA 2024 would, as written, ban marriage and hope value. This would in turn mean that loft or cellar spaces of use only as an extension to the adjacent flat would become free during freehold purchase. This clearly wasn’t the original intention of the Act. Measure twice, cut once.

Statement on the progress of U.K. leasehold reform:

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

On a side note it looks like the development value issue has been noted…

First Gov efforts to delay challenges against the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 fail:
www.landmarkchambers.co.uk/news-and-cas...

This is *not* a bad thing as everyone will benefit from an end to the ongoing uncertainty.

Well if the building is a qualifying building under the BSA 2022, and the freeholder was the developer, and they built a death trap, and the leaseholder only has 3 flats or less. Then they may pay something 🙄. Pretty narrow definition of ‘shared’ though…

Combined with disastrous fire safety issues this has impacted on flat prices and sales volumes. Although Annington's interests run counter to those of the public, if their actions force drafting of secondary legislation to set valuation rates (and thus provide certainty) they will be welcome. /End

What's interesting is that the legal action in the High Court and ECHR seems to be targeted at forcing the Gov's hand into revealing valuation variables that the previous Gov sought to keep hidden.

There has now been 7 years of significant uncertainty in the leasehold market. 2/

So the first challenge to the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 comes from Annington Homes:
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/s...

Hardly surprising given the contentious history of the MOD's disastrous sale & leaseback of its family home portfolio:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri... 1/