OneGuyFromBarlick

THIS and it is madness.... 3 hours ago Every time Donald Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the US, there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down or rowed back. Today, he will reveal in the White House Rose Garden not just how serio...

A Late one from a Week agoJohn Normam Organ Builder , Designer and Consultant. Worked in family business ( inc after acquisition by Christie ) Associated with Gloucester Cathedral, St Mary Undercroft Palace of Westminster and The Festival Hall, London

In much the same way that Russia is tolerated in sending in missiles targeting kindergardens and human hunt drone operations.

The Pennines must be blocking the easterlies which caught me out with a stiff breeze and more forecast for the next couple of days - it often blows along the Thames Estuary right into the London bowl and over the northern and southern heights

Musk's Space X is taking a research rocket into space (to the station?) funded by Chinese Crypto Billionaire as a private trip to undertake looking into how mushrooms grow in micro-gravity (dont we know that already?)

A Wealth tax will take too long , be encumbersome to too great an extent. A quick fix to wealth inequality and a tax burden too high on the lower paid and struggling middle that can create money in the economy to drive growth has to be to end the gross (literally) taxation of residential properties ...

I cannot see turnout in Local Elections being more than previous years. people are so fed up I dont even think Reform will get a significant protest vote.
Six weeks away and what , really, have Labour got to offer ? Conservatives to Gain ? But then a week is a long time in politics

Blocking highs for the next 10 days or so, winds from NE at best bringing a little drizzle Met Office has told us one of the driest Marches in England and Wales and I don think Scotland was much wetter. Is this going to bring problems for tree stability and farming yields this summer and again winte...

Not a chance , and Starmer has taken over the right in British Politics and envys the control Trump and Putin have over their political systems.

The sun has been shining since dawn in SW London currently at the south . loaf of low rise bread clouds barely moving in the sky

Thumping up ERs seems generally absolutely wrong and only done because of the promise of what taxes would not be increased

The Blue whitener where a touch of blue in the hue makes the white better (applies to paints too)

Elon Musk has sold X to his xAI company , for 33billion USD. He Bought X for 44billion USD . Both companies are private. I suspect the reason is two fold , possibly bank in some way a tax loss of 11billion (I dont know how US Tex works for related party transactions on acquistions (memo I mean suppo...

There's a report of a specific effect of the DOGE cuts reported in the World Service's Science in Action... Among the grants terminated this week by the National Institute for Health is a programme called AViDD, AntiViral Drug Discovery, supporting 9 independent consortia. Annette von Delft of Oxfo...

I thought Fell was "to cut down" / "to bring down"

Until Russia fully annexes all Soviet Union (and Eastern Bloc) states as part of Russian Federation ? . Maybe the US should take in Mexico . Cuba and beyond.
Never Understood why the US never tried to do deals with Brazil in the past significantly

SW London had morning sunshine early for the clock change, and some still around and should last all day I note BBC TV show a warm front running roughly down the pennines for the next day and a bit moving eastwards. Rain there today and will reach SE England on sunday. Good weather for farming assum...

Perhaps Ukraine should just apply to be 51st state of the US ,

SW London has been cloudy murk all over since morning, it is now raining , light at first but more heavy now

Even Ken Clarke is reported as saying he would have increased income tax. (The odd thing is through "stealth" and other tax band etc non-changes the amount of income taxable has increased anyway). Am I correct on universal credit ? the amount you get because you have limited capacity for w...

SW London light murky mid height cloud cover with full sun to the south. much like yesterday morning. bit cool yesterday evening but no mist or fog noted, spring could be here, the cherry and similar trees are a bit late / slow coming into blossom, the larger trees only preparing to come into leaf s...

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BBC Was showing last night some reminders about people who had died from Covid, one I think was a nurse with a young family. I think I wrote about a article I read in a paper of a mid-50s truck driver that got Covid at the end of 2020. To me I dont know if hospital treatments were correct or effecti...

there is some thought that the ideal interest rate is one that gives a return of zero after inflation (so inflation rate=interest rate) For business and govt there is possibly an allowance to pay a little over this if growth exceeds inflation as a result of borrowing for investment

Trump says there was nothing of security value in the messages and the journalist was a sleezeball for publishing them anyway