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This team are world class. The players were all amazing tonight. No one walks off that pitch with anything left in the tank. Now the eyes turn to the board. Rebuild the attack this summer. Now it's time to win. No more process. COYG

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Reflecting on last night the thing that's disappoints me the most isn't the result, or the performance, it's that our owns fans left the grounds with 10 mins to go 1-0 down in the UCL semi final. What's wrong with them? #arsenal

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing stuff again! Arsenal deserved to win both legs of this quarter-final, Saka's goal brilliant, and Madrid only scored because of a mistake you'll probably never see Saliba make again in his career. 5-1 on aggregate, Rice superb over both games, but a hugely impressive collective effort too.🔥

submitted 26 days ago • 59 comments

I hate this all so much. Wanted to make sure the tariffs actually went into place before publishing my article in case he backed down beforehand and was an hour away from publishing when he cancels them. So much completely wasted work. What’s even the point of trying to write about the economy.

submitted 33 days ago • 154 comments

Why would you move your manufacturing to America when next week the tariffs might half, or disappear, or double, or grow wings and fly, or be turned into a goblin, or become an emotion, or

submitted 33 days ago • 108 comments

If you take the White House seriously we're going to get the largest tariff hike in US history implemented in 2 weeks and nobody will know the numbers or details until the day beforehand. It's insane policy and insulting that they still pretend this is about "reciprocal" trade

submitted 56 days ago • 16 comments

New post from me, thinking through the economic consequences of Merz's announcement yesterday. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

"Inflation was at a multi-decade high, the cost of living going up at an extraordinary rate, the economy was shrinking, borrowing was out of control, NHS waiting-lists at an all-time high." Listening to Sunak on his in-tray as PM, it was tempting to wonder who'd been in power for the last 12 years.

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

"Deleting DEI from IRS tax handbook because DOGE thought it meant DEI" there are not enough clown 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 emojis in the world for these people

submitted 68 days ago • 3 comments

Arteta can put on a brave face but just look at the players faces. They know. It's gone. Get top 4. Don't worry about Champions League. Focus on getting summer business done early.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

A big problem for the "Biden created inflation" Jason Furman types is how big of a percent of demand comes from the richest 10% of Americans. The problem with economics that doesn't consider power dynamics (in this case vast income inequality) is that they miss the forest from the trees.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

submitted 77 days ago • 429 comments

Breaking news: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine war. Washington’s dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides with the Trump administration’s bid to repair relations with the Kremlin.

submitted 77 days ago • 664 comments

Two weeks from now the crew of a nuclear submarine are going to see this email and the subsequent one firing them all.

submitted 79 days ago • 54 comments

I think as Arsenal fans we maybe need to wake up to the fact that you simply cannot compete at this level when you have the amount of injuries we do. The manager might find solutions, but those solutions being successful would be a top 4 finish. Not a title.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

100% this

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Totally agree on this, but can also see Musk spinning sanctions as "authoritarian western states forcing us to support wars". What this will amount to is the challenging of the authority of the state. It's at the very heart of the concept of nation states.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Err defacto President of the US is agreeing with the views of Alexander Dugin... This really is a very very bad sign. Amongst other disgusting views, Dugin supports genocide in Ukraine.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Remember in 2016 when everyone was like "you might not like Trump, but got to give it to the guy he's good at politics"? The fact his 2nd term is pouring cold water on populist parties in Canada, Germany and the UK hopefully puts to bed once and for all that no, he is in fact not good at politics.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I'm more and more convinced that left and right wing no longer exists. Today the big divides are establishment and anti-establishment. The actual policy positions of what people belive seems to be very fluid. The thing that's consistent is their views on the establishment.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is about to learn the hard way that when you raise the price of a thing, for instance with historically high tariffs, people usually buy less of said thing, which in turn leads to less tax revenue It's Econ 101, but for dummies, and real people will get hurt in the process

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

48% of Brits believe it is more important for the UK government to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US

submitted 81 days ago • 109 comments

This is a welcome intervention from @torstenbell.bsky.social Spending on the NHS and other services should be recognised as an investment and foundational for our prosperity It is no coincidence that the years of austerity came alongside years of stagnation www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

It irritates me no end that it’s always liberals who are dismissed as being “out of touch” with “real people”. Liberals are much more in touch with the public mood than the reactionary right, whether it’s on race, same-sex relationships, or abortion rights. We should start saying so more boldly.

submitted 82 days ago • 6 comments

And this isn’t even the number! At best they’ve “saved” only a fraction, in part because they confused $8 million for $8 billion in one case.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

submitted 82 days ago • 110 comments

White House posted this dictatorial statement minutes ago at the Nazi site:

submitted 82 days ago • 31 comments

Good job there weren’t any signs for, say, the past eight years that American hegemony was over, otherwise we’d feel pretty foolish about doing nothing.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Another similarity between Badenoch & Corbyn is tendency to dismiss opponents rather than take them seriously as people who hold different views for good reasons. Corbyn saw opponents as less morally virtuous. Badenoch sees them as stupid. In both cases, they have a fig leaf for their own laziness

submitted 82 days ago • 50 comments

Donald Trump is alienating Ukrainians fast Which means that Europe will probably soon have to step up and match as much as much possible US weapon shipments to Ukraine It’s going to be tough, but it’s critical that we succeed at supporting Ukraine

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

if I were Europe I'd be doing a crash university buildout right now. a whole bunch of top US academics can be had at pennies on the dollar www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

submitted 82 days ago • 54 comments

I hope leftists look at Trump's foreign policy so far and then fully internalise the logic of the "lesser of two evils" before reflecting on how they treated the US election.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

🇩🇰 Denmark today increases the defence budget with 50bn DKK (6.7bn EUR) plus 10bn DKK (1.3bn EUR) extra per year until 2033 going 2.4% of GDP in 2024 to 3.2% in 2025. As discussed probably 50bn more is needed for acquisition.

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

"The return of the assumption that big powers can simply carve bits off smaller ones is a deeply unsettling development. We may come to see the “post-war era” as a golden period which has now reached its end."

submitted 82 days ago • 15 comments

This is a chart of US exports to Russia by year, which peaked at just above $10 billion in the period 2012-2014, or 0.4% of total US exports at the time, and were at $6.3 billion in 2021, or 0.2% of total US exports at the time. They are getting rolled.

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

A number of prominent UK Conservatives' statements about Donald Trump resemble one of those news stories that begins with a magazine feature about a new age mystic who believes he can talk to bears and ends with a newspaper article about a new age mystic being mauled to death by bears.

submitted 82 days ago • 27 comments

My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...

submitted 83 days ago • 149 comments

Or, bear with me here, a reason to increase defence spending could be that Russia has sought to remake the borders of Europe by force.

submitted 84 days ago • 16 comments

“We're now at the stage where America's main incentive in preventing Russia from gobbling up more of Ukraine is that it would jeopardize America's theft of Ukraine's natural resources.” @michaeldweiss.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 84 days ago • 6 comments