NEW - UPDATE POST Did the CPS make a fundamental mistake with the charging decision in the Chinese spying case? How the CPS may have asked the wrong legal question and so made a wrong charging decision By me emptycity.substack.com/p/did-the-cp...

Non-Substack version now at davidallengreen.com/2025/10/what...

One interesting spot is that the CPS seems to have got the law wrong for the first witness statement and asked the witness to give evidence to the non-applicable National Security Act rather than the applicable Official Secrets Act. Whoopsie.

NEW What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense By me emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-c...

In the USA, many people believe crude oil comes from dinosaurs, while others dismiss this as another government lie, like faked moon landings or hidden history rtc. Both are, of course, wrong. The whole dino myth started with a marketing campaign by Sinclair Oil, as shown in this TV commercial.

In the USA, many people believe crude oil comes from dinosaurs, while others dismiss this as another government lie, like faked moon landings or hidden history rtc. Both are, of course, wrong. The whole dino myth started with a marketing campaign by Sinclair Oil, as shown in this TV commercial.

If you know, you know

I rushed this website out on April 9, and rushing to get it done led to a number of shortcomings in the design of the front-end that I've spent the last couple of weeks working on, at the cost of not delivering content. I've now finished that work, and will add new content soon.

Just back from my first holiday to China. Quiet time to visit. 1) EVs everywhere, Tesla visibly swamped 2) Influencers rule all, even rural farmers do direct sales online 3) Facial recognition is ubiquitous, feels like it could spread to West 4) Parallel internet really limits understanding of China

US chocolate prices surge amid soaring cocoa costs and tariffs

I’m currently reworking the front-end of this website as it was kind of hacked together to get the site out quickly. So sorry for no content updates.

Where’s @richtreynolds.bsky.social? 2nd home game absent?

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

Just cited in a paper we’re writing (although now rewriting final para given Trump’s climb down, at least for a few hours). 🙏

"There's nothing that you've said in your answers or non-answers to me today that would give Americans any assurance..." Rep. Lloyd Doggett pressed Trump's trade Rep. Jamieson Greer on the implementation and justification of the administration's sweeping global tariffs. youtube.com/shorts/5_Kil...

www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/b... At the same moment that US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was defending Trump’s stiff tariffs during a House hearing, Trump said on his social media platform that the administration will delay the additional tariff hike on dozens of countries by 90 days —

Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)

The US has now the least qualified economic policy making in the developed world. An ignorant and seemingly dement leader has not evolved beyond the 1890s. He accepts no facts or economic realities & nobody can impose any truth on him. The US is in a terrible disaster.

You have clearly invited me to share with you one of the finest ambassadorial despatches in the British Foreign Office's capacious archives, after sharing that image and particularly its caption. I'm sure you know this famous message already, but if not, enjoy. Perfectly formed joke between friends.

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I managed to wade through all that, although I won’t claim to understand it. But the conclusion was fascinating. Great job!

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

US Envoys arrived today and are pleading with our leaders to refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs. We initially denied their pleas until their ambassador returned wearing a suit and thanked us for existing.

Given up trying to make sense of US administration - when major news breaks I look for insights to @heardislandgov.bsky.social

This is quite extraordinary!

He's just making it up as he goes

Bessent indicates that Trump still plans to announce new tariffs on lumber and pharmaceuticals despite the pause on the reciprocal tariffs 🤡

Navarro: "It's trust in Trump."

What an epic journey! Still, at least he got paid at every stage of his trek along Hypocrisy Way...

@jdportes.bsky.social I made a website. trumps-tariffs.com/pages/saint-...

The available information was that Trump would enact the disastrous policies that he has in fact enacted

Ferguson, like Andrew Sullivan and others, has so thoroughly impeached their credibility and moral character over the years ... just absolute self-immolation.

Since tariffs, I noticed a surprising trend: elite Trump supporters saying they might have made a mistake. So I asked them what they were thinking, both in November and today. One big takeaway: they thought Elon was actually competent. That error proved catastrophic. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

Just the most startling collapse in basic intellectual standards. He literally campaigned on tariffs you mad obsolete bastard. You didn't need to deploy any sophisticated political analysis, just listen with your human ears.

@explaintrade.com Hi. trumps-tariffs.com is now live.

China just slapped 84% tariffs on the US in retaliation. OMG

Martin Wolf is not messing around here www.ft.com/content/d96d...

Brexit Irony Alert ‼️ UK 🇬🇧 champions EU 🇪🇺 expansion to stabilise Western Balkans against Russian interference, ironic given Brexit. British officials are pushing for the six states in W Balkans to join the EU’s orbit — or risk stagnating in “Russia’s playground.” www.politico.eu/article/with...

President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu spoke to pharmaceutical industry leaders to exchange views on the US tariffs. This is helping us shape an effective EU response. We'll remain in close contact to ensure that the interests of patients and workers are well protected. Read-out ⭣ europa.eu/!jgdkFf

This is now an article on trumps-tariffs.com/pages/saint-...

Hello to all the new people migrating from X. I'm a BBC journalist and fact-checker. Please flag any potentially misleading viral claims either on Bluesky or any other social media platform that needs fact-checking via DM, and I'll do the rest. Thank you!

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

trumps-tariffs.com is now live. I hope it doesn’t blow-up.

It is mind blowing to me that the world is allowing one crazy man to wreck the world economy.

China will not give in to Trump’s “bullying”, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a press conference. “The abuse of tariffs by the United States is tantamount to depriving countries, especially those in the Global South, of their right to development.” That message is a win for China.

As I've said before, this is the "reverse straw man fallacy" - the fallacy was not putting words in his mouth that he didn't say and then criticising those words; it was removing/sanewashing words that he *did* say, and refusing to criticise those words/chastising those who criticised them

It's amazing how few people in the UK realise that the last time the world went in to a massive financial tailspin, albeit one not directly caused by the President of the USA, it was Gordon Brown & the late Alistair Darling who provided the sort of international leadership desperately needed now.

my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date. There are AI-generated summaries of every doc. You can also free-text search summaries