Chris 2e

Let me get this straight, Andy Burnham’s great achievement is £2 bus fares at a cost of £135m to the public and £200m a year ongoing. LMAO, he is going to be a disaster.

"We are not a serious country anymore" LMAO, we haven't been for decades. We have replaced serious people with career politicians and vibes based student politics. These people wouldn't make senior management in a medium sized business and give them the keys for running a country.

Until someone bites the bullet, slashes spending, and does the difficult pro-growth reforms this country desperately needs, we will continue to have a ridiculous carousel of Prime Minsters. The truth is the Prime Minister could have survived the Mandelson scandal if people felt better off in their pockets. While there’s no growth, there’s no longevity of political tenure. Blair survived plenty of scandal, and plenty of Mandelson, ultimately because everything in life’s wider context didn’t feel so desperately shit. Until we have a political class brave enough to end the overspending, liberalise the labour market, and *actually* overhaul the planning system - we’re going to be stuck in this same psychodrama of doom.

@tomhfh Spot on

Incentives matter. Gary admitted on Pier’s Morgan that he made around £2m as a trader. This may seem like a lot of money, but it’s not retirement money on the lifestyle he will maintain. Gary needs to sell books and awareness. He’s spotted a vulnerability with a particular group so he sells emotional based economics. It isn’t actually economics, it’s whinging and victim culture. His answers come down to socialism, but socialism harms the people he claims to want to help. Gary is wrong. Don’t be a Gary.

@PeterMcCormack Spot on

@seth_fin This is going to be a rally for the ages.... Just like this NDX melt up for the ages Billions sold to raise cash to re-invest in the IPO... markets maximise pain and the pain trade is that TESLA now melts up ahead of that IPO... Plus its the grand daddy of physical AI

$TSLA pump is around the corner Have I ever missed on #TESLA ??? You fading the Musk? The Techno king? MACD weekly cross incoming

the companies you mention are so far behind the US competitor ... its makes your point absorb and flat out wrong to compare BYD with Tesla is just daft to compare Huawei with NVDA is worse than daft China is simply unable to innovate in teh way US companies can precisely because of the free market and deep capital markets that america has.. there is no contest here

It's hard to find a geopolitical gambit that has backfired as much as the trade war waged by the US against China since 2018. China didn't actively start looking for weapons in trade policy — such as the critical minerals card — until the first Trump administration applied steep tariffs. Sweeping bans and restrictions on semiconductor exports under both Trump and Biden, as well as specific blacklisting of Chinese companies through entity list additions, have motivated Chinese companies to strengthen supply chain resilience and become more innovative. Huawei, BYD, DeepSeek, SMIC, and COMAC are prime examples of companies where US hawkishness has served as an unintentional innovation catalyst — what some are calling “creative insecurity.” Of course, the evolution of China's national system of innovation cannot be overlooked here. But US hawkishness toward China has undoubtedly motivated China to seek more leverage in trade policy and innovate faster.

@Keir_Starmer Will you shut up you useless pillock

It’s good news that the Strait of Hormuz has now reopened. This must be a long lasting and workable solution, without tolls or restrictions on routes. Today we announced our joint plan with France and other international partners to protect freedom of navigation. We need to see a return to peace and stability, and a permanent ceasefire.

@MarioNawfal How are Iran possibly the biggest winner ? They have lost 90% of their military capability and perhaps 99% of their nuclear program

Biggest Winner from this war: Iran Biggest Loser: Lebanon

The Iranian regime executed a 19 year old for demanding democracy. I stand with his memory and the thousands of other young Iranians. Those who grieve the elimination of Iranian leaders over murdered protesters is telling.

Hormuz is a weapon that can only be fired once No one should expect a quick resolution to the current crisis, but across the next decade, even the next 3-5 years, the choke point of Hormuz will be massively substituted for The Gulf Arab states are all very rich, with high per capita GDP - the best single measure of relative state capacity - easy access to global markets, especially financial, and have the favorable backing of the US Everyone has known about the Hormuz vulnerability for decades. The Iranians have continually hinted around closing it, but never did. Now they have, but Hormuz is a gun that cannot be reloaded. Deterrents work only up to the point of use. Once used, they have failed. The purpose of a deterrent is to *not* be used Many analysts have made this basic mistake. They think that Iran is now in a position of strength, having exercised its Hormuz option. But the opposite is true. A state is weakest after it has used its deterrent. The cost of that deterrence is now priced in. The worst having been done, the targets of the deterrent are now free to make other arrangements. Before, they were reluctant to do so because of the switching costs. Now, they have no choice; they will not allow themselves to be controlled in this way again Hormuz may never reopen. But the importance of this is a depreciating asset.

@Glenn_Diesen this is a video from 2025 it seems

US tanker burning off the coast of UAE

@RoryStewartUK Nope. It’s still a world where ALL your predictions are consistently wrong

We have entered a world in which our most pessimistic predictions are consistently right and our optimistic predictions invariably wrong.

While you sleep, this robot checks China's fastest trains

@pmarca @Dominic2306 That sounds like genius

My information consumption is now 1/4 X, 1/4 podcast interviews of the smartest practitioners, 1/4 talking to the leading AI models, and 1/4 reading old books. The opportunity cost of anything else is far too high, and rising daily.

@campbellclaret Rich coming from you !

He lies so often he doesn’t know the difference any more.

Will you are desperately naive. International law is only breached it seems by democracies. With the rest flagrantly ignoring it. This cannot continue. If we tolerate the intolerant then they work out quite quickly how to exploit us. The world is a better place today than it was on Friday

Refusing Trump permission to use British bases in Fairford Gloucestershire, Cyprus and Diego Garcia to mount a unilateral attack on Iran against international law takes some courage. Few mourn the murderous Ali Khamenei. But international law must be kept alive even in dark days

@EllieChowns So you support the murderous Iranian regime? What a clown

US and Israeli strikes on Iran are hugely dangerous: irresponsible, provocative and illegal. Starmer must call out these so-called ‘allies’ - who are acting as rogue states - and use all UK levers to uphold international law. bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn5g…