It’s not a bug, it’s a feature — actions that end up creating flows of money for partners and intermediaries. It is how this system works.

I wish GS would let us know the confidence interval of their forecasts. I wonder whether a correction of 15k is significant, at all.

Never confuse public opinion with actual facts.

I’d agree but for one significant one: Musk threw the lot at this, and lost. The AfD clearly lost, so Musk lost.

As in the Irish election, the centre held, again.

They must have consulted with the Arab-Americans who voted Trump because could not tolerate Biden’s position on Gaza…

Welcome!

Receiving threats of violence, from whom?

Problem is, he strikes me like the type of guy who may actually enjoy that, a little too much…

Of course they do not worry about elections: indeed, they are not elected. They only worry about piling up enough money to buy their way in with who will come next, the same they bought their way in with the current administration.

Recommended. It is a very good movie. Although it may resonate more if you know a bit about Italy in the 1930s… and Italy in the mid 1970s when the movie was shot.

Here’s an interesting exercise: as a social scientist grounded in rational choice theory, explain Suella. (Or Priti. Or Kemi.)

Do they have a pub???