@JohnRentoul An excellent article. Another factor though which might be determinative is the risk that markets force the sitting government to make deep cuts. 10-year gilts are already 5.2%, much higher than during the Truss blip. Emergency cuts of 10% of spending would upend politics.
@NicholasTyrone Should be noted that the Falklands thing is quite longstanding in Argentine politics, and significantly predates the junta as something which politicians spoke about.
@93vintagejones There's a really funny story by Peruvian Nobel-Prize-winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa about a guy who becomes a fanatical rat-catcher after his infant sister is eaten alive. Doesn't sound funny, but it is. In his novel "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter".
@elerianm@FIFAWorldCup@fifa I normally follow your account for the economic commentary, but I have to admit it's been rather amusing to see your totally justified transformation into a passionate critic of FIFA and Argentine football tactics in recent weeks.
A barrister hired a digger and physically restored a dead river, brought back fish, herons and dragonflies, and the Environment Agency response is to threaten him with two years in prison for not having a permit.
“What’re you in for mate?”
“Cleaning a river without a permit. What about you?”
@EnvAgency is really plumbing new depths of malevolent uselessness here.
Does
@TMBC_Kent
have a department for spreading ugliness?
@HoodMajhood. (let alone from the obvious fact that this sign is useless and only intended to pre-empt potential legal action from accidents which will occur anyway)