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This keeps getting proven to be the case and the clock keeps ticking down.

You may well be right tbh, it's clearly only a hypothesis based mostly on anecdotes rather than anything near tested right now. I guess my own worldview in this matter can be a bit twisted as well by the amount of casual cruelty I've seen in online interactions.

There is a link between human behaviour towards animals and the like and their attitude towards humans that can offer no consequences to any actions they might do, so there is a kind of precedent there. Speaking personally and anecdotally, I'm very much of the opinion that people who are inclined to be dickish in the digital world can and will often be dickish and abuse power over those who cannot or will not respond in the flesh, too.

The Attenborough brothers is a good story of a couple of Leicester lads come good. It is darkly amusing however the amount of people out there who will watch one of Sir David's shows and call him a national treasure in one breath and then vote for policies that are his absolute antithesis in the next.

That tallies. Tbh though looking at it more simply, in terms of base value judgements if you're on the opposite side of them to people like Vance, then usually you're on the right side.

Well, thinking JD Vance is wrong is a good start.

Both grandads saw action. Paternal one was in the Royal Engineers, he was with the BEF evacuated at Dunkirk and then saw action in North Africa, Eighth Army. Maternal one was Navy, was based in the Far East for the most of the war. Neither of them wanted to talk much about what they saw and did, which I think is entirely justifiable. Never Again.

They just needed to get Trump and his cadre onside with the new appointment

I think it's because Leicester fans, like any other breed of football fans, have a lack of rationality and a surfeit of tribal pride when it comes to perceived slights against their club.

Pretty much. And it's rather depressing how many people will fall for that.

I hope you're wrong, but I guess we'll find out in due course.

It will be interesting to see what kind of agreement the UK and US have come to regarding those tariffs.

I would absolutely not recommend using https://archive.is and you absolutely should not simply enter the FT web address into the search bar when you're there.

It's an unfortunate fact that the problem has been there or thereabouts for some time now. The much more difficult matter is finding a workable solution when the clock is ticking. Which it is.

Interesting piece, thank you. I'm reminded of two different quotes that have been used here before, one originating on this very forum: "If everyone is seeing different messages then accountability is gone and public debate dead." "The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh, no one is invalidated but no one is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "Truth". And this is the way the world ends. Not with a BANG, but with a whimper."

Exactly so. And those problems are going to be felt at a global level. The absolutely unabashed blantacy of the lies would be hilarious if so many people didn't buy into them and use it to make other people's lives more difficult.

That's not really stopped Trumpism in other places, so I think I'll take the wins where I can get them right now.

No disagreement there. Three nuclear armed powers quibbling in an area that contains some of the largest solid freshwater reserves (which is going to become an incredibly vital resource rather soon) outside of Antarctica. What could possibly go wrong?

Yes, you could tell the experience in an international diplomatic environment that he's had. It's still rather despairing that he's having to hold himself in so much because of the bombastic egotism of his counterpart, though. Canada and Oz have given me a little hope for the future. Hopefully other nations follow suit soon enough.

Further to the above: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g4gw18753o You do wonder sometimes just how international relations have come to conversations and statements like this. NB. Not sure the UK should be so quick to come to any kind of deals with a Modi-led India given their apparent penchant for sectarian violence at the present time.

Carney was incredibly restrained in that meeting. Probably works out for the best that he was.

Shilon Hendrix. Calls an autistic black child the n-word and then crowdfunds $700,000 from bigots because she's worried she'll (rightly) get hit in the pocket and by most public opinion. The US as it is today.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0wjxg0ex1o Sir David Attenborough is launching what he says is one of the most important films of his career as he enters his hundredth year. He believes his new, cinema-length film Ocean could play a decisive role in saving biodiversity and protecting the planet from climate change. Sir David, who will be 99 on Thursday, says: "After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea." If there could be a single man to advocate for our species. He will be missed when he's gone.

Carney: "We neither want nor need your egotistical nationalism as an adjutant to the friendly trade that has existed between us. If you have a further problem with that, we'll see you in the snow, you death-worshipping fascist." "...and enjoy your evening, Mr Trump."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy048rzjjjo Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport briefly lost communications with planes under their control, "unable to see, hear, or talk to them" last week, officials say. The 28 April incident led to multiple employees going on trauma leave, contributing to hundreds of delayed flights. More than 150 flights were cancelled on Monday alone, according to tracking website FlightAware. The airport, one of New York's busiest hubs, has been grappling with staff shortages for more than a week. Ideological cuts to staffing having a real and quantifiable threat to human life? Here's an example.