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I've just looked. I wish I hadn't. Horrific. In other news, cracking response from China. Hard to understand how Trump could take issue with 54% tariffs being met with 54% tariffs. That's actual reciprocation, not his made up bullshit.

Hiding after the shit deal they landed us with.

Alas he's either directly or indirectly given the green light to step it up. Carnage.

Almost 1700 now. S&P and NASDAQ even worse in % terms.

I will try to avoid logging on to Hargreaves Lansdowne tomorrow. Yesterday's announcement, and recent uncertainty, has shortened my retirement for sure.

Yep. The potential is there, but it's never been fulfilled, and is very much going in the wrong direction. I had a couple of hours to kill in Southampton this morning while waiting for a vehicle repair. There was a skirmish near the Marlands, homeless dotted everywhere, empty units, and it just looks increasingly disjointed and tired. I saw a few tourists (Norwegian I think) wearing lanyards near the bargate - Christ knows what they made of the place.

Houdini, Blaine, etc, would be proud of that level of sleight of hand.

Interesting to see the world reaction to this. Seems to be based on largely made up numbers factoring in VAT and other nonsense. I vote for simply mirroring the US tariffs - he wants reciprocation, then he gets reciprocation.

Err. Practice/preach/double standards, etc.

I think you're (mis) interpreting things Hamas/Al-Qassam are not representative of all Palestinians. The Israeli government/IDF are not representative of all Israeli's. Nobody on here has suggested otherwise and I'm in no doubt that the masses also understand that. People refer to Hamas as they are the governing political party behind the awful behaviour of the Al-Qassam brigade. It makes sense to refer to them simply as Hamas. You do. There is no single governing party in Israel. Addressing the government machine behind the awful behaviour of the IDF by reference to the governing parties of Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism, the Religious Zionist Party, Otzma Yehudit and Noam, would be a bit of a mouthful. Israel or the Israeli government seems a sensible moniker instead. If you insist on referring to the military (IDF) as responsible, I note you have never referenced Al-Qassam. Using your words, double standards could be at play, although I'm in no doubt that you're in fact just being sensible. However, you seemingly can't accept other being doing the same in reverse, probably because it doesn't suit your narrative.

I'm not sure that you actually read, or understood, what he posted. Regardless, your point was bloody pedantic. Extending your pointless out, people who complain about the "military" side of Hamas are in fact complaining about the actions of the Al-Qassam brigade but nobody has been daft enough to insist on your sort of distinction, as we all know who is being referred to.

My thoughts exactly.

Mason

I assume he's referring to the fella clinging on to power, arresting journalists, etc, rather than people protesting about that.

Shot

You'd said before that you were on a mission. That's a proper effort mate 👏

Sales are down 49% on this time last year which is nice.

Those were the parts which struck me too. They must think that it helps us more than it helps Apple and Tesla to have their products arrive here a bit quicker, and at a lesser cost, or they're so stupid they don't see it. 'All Model 3s for Europe are currently made in the Shanghai Gigafactory and are shipped to Zeebrugge in Belgium, Koper in Slovenia or Barcelona in Spain through the Suez Canal in a journey taking about 30 days At the time of writing the Suez Canal is being avoided by most carriers and are routing via the Cape of Good Hope adding about 10 days to the voyage from Shanghai. It also adds about $200-250 to the shipping cost of each vehicle. All Model 3s and Y's for the UK are currently shipped from Shanghai direct to Southampton'.

I'd be staggered if he thinks that'll actually happen/work.

Yep. We bought a diesel car that was so 'clean' the road tax was free (and still is)but attracts the ULEZ fee. Make it make sense.

On that, we do agree.

And the US...this from the recent Witkoff interview: Trump wanted to co-operate with Russia after relations had been normalised. "Who doesn't want to have a world where Russia and the US are doing collaboratively good things together, thinking about how to integrate their energy polices in the Arctic, share sea lines maybe, send LNG gas into Europe together, maybe collaborate on AI together?" LD's mate Maggie privatising gas has left us exposed to this situation. Net zero here, in itself, won't make any difference on a global scale, but removing our reliance on gas, and it's suppliers, makes lots of sense.

The Steve Witkoff interview yesterday is a real eye opener. Too many highlights to summarise here, but fair to say that the Putin/Trump double act seems to be a real thing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zm4eqvp7o

Fair point!!

Eh? And he's not Musk. It surprises me that 10m people follow someone like Tate. Nothing wrong in highlighting that.