This Hungarian veto is poised to trigger outrage because: - The loan was agreed at the highest level by EU leaders - Hungary secured an opt-out through enhanced cooperation - Ukraine needs the money no later than April - Von der Leyen and Costa will be in Kyiv next week for the fourth anniversary

Love this graph of U.S. tariffs as a proportion of total government revenue

GOP Senator Ashley Moody on stage at the Mar-a-Lago Trump family crypto event

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

I’ve been heads down this week, so am late to posting this, but ironically what this most reminds me of is Corbyn rallies circa 2016/17. Not enjoying the dynamic www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ni...

As a Minister of Justice in apartheid South Africa is supposed to have complained: you appoint judges on the basis of their loyalty to the regime, but once they get there, they think they’ve been appointed on merit.

Based on the supreme court's activity over the last year, I'll predict that this will be left for lower courts to clean up, and then the supreme court will chastise those courts for cleaning it up 'wrong', based on zero available guidance.

By striking down Trump's IEEPA tariffs today, the Supreme Court nearly halved the effective tariff rate, down to 9.1% from 16.9%. But rates are still far above pre-2025 levels.

the problem with this is that the IEPA tariffs were unlawfully collected per the ruling and the tariffs that "replace" them cannot be made retroactive

Gallego absolutely flipping out [laudatory] over the past month or so has been wild to see.

Self driving cars are NOT all created equal. More than sixty people have died in crashes involving Tesla’s various self-driving modes. Waymo has killed one (1) cat that darted under the tires. This distinction is important!

Tesla made suppliers tool up for 120k units/year of this turd, it sold a third of that in year one, and then sales fell by 50% in year two. Biggest flop in modern automotive history, and it isn't close.

We were paying an illegal Trump Tax on pretty much everything we buy. The Trump regime made over $160 Billion dollars- of our money. Under the Constitution, only Congress is authorized to tax us- unless there is a national emergency. So Trump lied that this is “national emergency”.

That evil foreign influence:

winning message right here, Bessent

Bloody hell www.politico.eu/article/bori...

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Good, elegantly ruthless thread. Interesting to me just how closely this LLM defense mirrors the genuinely absurd defenses of NFTs a few years ago. When presented with an accurate description of how the technology works, its defenders best response seems to be, “Nuh uh!”.

The German MOD's response to expressions of alarm about Peter Thiel's concern of a key drone contract provoke concern about their analytical naïveté. MOD says that Thiel holds “under 10%” of STARK. This refers only to Thiel Capital.

Turns out laws also apply to Kings.

Snap judgement on Trump Supreme Court verdict - UK largely unaffected, may get lower tariffs now, but hadn't committed much to get them. EU, never ratified Trump deal anyway, now don't until the next step. China, still tariffs. More affected - those who did full deals e.g. Indonesia, Vietnam

“Farage…decided the complaint was not serious enough to warrant a rethink about Goodwin’s selection… [He]characterised the complaint as “just Matt being Matt” Hmm. Not sure a pair of misogynists are the best people to judge what’s “serious enough”. Let’s ask her. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Huge Supreme Court setback for Trump. Ruling upends two type of Trump tariffs: 1. One is country-by-country “reciprocal” tariffs, stooled on IEEPA (ranging from 34% for China - 10% for rest of the world). 2. Th fentanyl tariffs (25% on some goods from MEX, CAN, CHN). www.ft.com/content/d00d...

Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’

It would be even funnier if it was because Jenrick has put a big sign up saying "We're Tories 2.0".

I was told his politics were a mystery

a lot of competition, but this might be the most stomach-turning exchange in the Epstein Files

Gosh just from eyeballing the graph I wonder if anyone can think of something that might have happened around idk 2016 to cause a further deterioration?

FWIW if you are the kind of man who thinks swearing at MPs in Walthamstow town centre is best way to express your political preferences, can I at least ask you wait until my kids are out of earshot first. You might feel I am fair game for such abuse, but they are not.

Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

This entire thing is a complete clown show. Everyone in attendance should feel like a fool.

BBC bosses don't seem to care their right-wing bias is getting dangerously close to election criminality "The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England" via The National Newspaper

US Q4 GDP GROWS BELOW EXPECTATIONS 🔸GDP: +1.4% vs. +3.0% expected 🔸Final Sales: +1.2% vs. +2.6% expected 🔸Consumer Spending: +2.4% 🔸GDP Deflator: +3.7% vs. +2.9% expected 🔸PCE Price Index: +2.9% vs. +2.8% expected 🔸Core PCE: +2.7% vs. +2.6% expected 🔸Growth slowed while

Grift all the way down

BOOM. www.pmi.spglobal.com/Public/Home/...

FT Exclusive: An IT blunder has revealed an apparent smuggling ring that has moved at least $90bn of Russian oil and is playing a central role in funding the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. ft.trib.al/cmcaLCc

Labour lost three by-elections yesterday - all to different parties mobilising disaffected voters on their liberal left flank: Greens (see below), Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. Starmer/McSweeney strategy of marginalizing the left flank to go after socially con Reform curious continues to backfire

If we acted like Americans, we would check their Social Media history over 5 years and reject them at the border if they've said anything nasty against Macron or the EU or summat.

In this instance perhaps UFO stands for Unashamed File Obfuscation…. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Restore policy on vetting bsky.app/profile/sund...

I know I am approximately the 4343th person to say this but why are these people so whiny about flatly factual descriptions of their politics? Going on about how ancestry is what matters then having an attack of the vapours about people saying 'sounds like racism'.

Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future. www.itv.com/news/2026-02...

I've been harping on the tech billionaires' push for new company towns to anyone who will listen. Company towns have always been advertised as luxurious, cutting-edge, and the middle-class dream. But live and work in one at your own peril.

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

Does he realize how ridiculously guilty he sounds?

NEW: Trump said if Republicans in Congress pass the SAVE America Act, which would disenfranchise millions if passed, the party will not lose a race “for 50 years.” His comment marks the latest in a string of concerning statements disparaging American election security. https://bit.ly/4atKNSk

It is increasingly clear that Donald Trump has no idea what he meant by "hemisphere".