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This is a fantastic analogy. Why Trump’s America - if we believe the justifications put forward by his economic adviser Stephen Miran - is behaving like a modern Athens towards the Delian League. Which worked out well for them. (It didn’t - ask Sparta) othermeans.io/p/the-american…

As a rule, democracies ought not to fight trade wars with autocracies. See this Economist piece from 2019: economist.com/graphic-deta... TL;DR: Regimes with no voters don’t much care about imposing tariffs that hurt their own economies.

BREAKING: Victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal have been urged to take legal action against the government over compensation delays Sky's Matthew Thompson has more on this story ⬇️ 🔗 trib.al/5HG3TsR 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

BREAKING: The Supreme Court unanimously rules that “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Ruling against the Scottish Government. But Lord Hodge cautions against seeing this as a victory for one side or the other. Suggests some nuance to follow.

It’s 5am. I’m driving to work, and there are *scores* of people out jogging. Some in fancy dress. Clearly it’s marathon related, but why?? Why are people jogging before dawn when they’re about to run a literal marathon?

In the gym. Forgot headphones. Big mistake. Now listening to two enormous blokes segway *seamlessly* from discussing the benefits of taking steroids, to how they never took the COVID jab, because, and I quote “I’m not having anyone inject any old shit into me”. Beyond parody.

BREAKING: Police have charged a member of the Irish rap group Kneecap with a terror offence. Liam O’Hanna has been charged with displaying a Hizbollah flag at the O2 Forum in London last November. He’ll appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on 18th June.

Anyone else notice how social media is now absolutely swamped with ChatGPT guff? Just account after account with their thoughts entirely scripted by AI. The syntax is so obvious—not to mention the em dashes that nobody actually used until about a year ago. Driving me mad.

My final piece of journalism. And I think it’s an important one. “Ordering a woman to be sexually exploited is as easy as ordering a takeaway - how trafficking victims are being sold online.” news.sky.com/story/ordering…

I swear to God, this bloody country. I need antibiotics. I ordinarily live in London. But am briefly staying in NI. My GP in England tells me they are unable to send a prescription outside of England. So what’s the alternative? You guessed it: A&E. No wonder there’s a crisis.

Never had Lee down as an Irish Republican…