My Trade Secrets today.
If there’s one good thing about Trump’s tariff shambles it’s that governments that might have contemplated a protectionist campaign themselves - even the UK with its habitual embarrassing cringe towards US politics & policy - will see it and go “nah”.
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If the EU and specifically the holdout France cannot see that RIGHT NOW THIS MOMENT is the time to ratify its trade deal with Mercosur they are absolutely utterly totally hopeless.
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) & others) there’s a thing called a “henge” but Stonehenge ISN’T ONE. I propose we either rename Stonehenge or knock it down and start again. Who’s in?
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A big shout-out to the Cato trade people, some of the very few “libertarians” who didn’t turn out to be authoritarians and/or Republican loyalists in disguise. 👏👏👏
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All I'm saying is that if you all think I'm going to let this drop and won't be picketing the British Museum handing out flyers, defacing exhibition posters and interrupting public lectures with a loudhailer you have very much underestimated me.
Here I stand. I can do no other.
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FFS THE BAYEUX "TAPESTRY" IS NOT A TAPESTRY. IT'S AN EMBROIDERY. TAPESTRIES ARE WOVEN. THE BAYEUX "TAPESTRY" IS SEWN. IN ABOUT 50 YEARS WE'LL HAVE THE 1000-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF PEOPLE MAKING THIS ELEMENTARY MISTAKE. SORT IT OUT, PEOPLE.
Nor is it from Bayeux.
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Hello to you, the A Beattie that's about to take a Greyhound from Grand Rapids to Chicago and to you, the (presumably different) A Beattie who's about to stay in a single room in a Brighton hotel at the weekend, and can you make sure you put the correct email address on the booking form, thanks.
