Relief (perhaps premature anyway in a town that is always deluding itself) is mostly a hoped for easing of market turmoil widely regarded as a potentially highly infectious fiscal contagion. NIp now a 4th order, non-urgent issue, behind Ukraine, energy crisis, fiscal fragility

Candle ice are pillars of ice occurring when ice is decaying and in advance state of melting hence it’s a form of 'rotten ice. Their shape at this point is influenced by the hexagonal nature of ice crystals

21/ The decision to support this “coup” will come back to haunt Labour: even if they win the next election, it’ll be the markets and technocratic establishment calling the shots. Not because they’re omnipotent, but because Labour has helped convince everyone that they are. /END

It’s an appealing analogy, but a misleading one. First because race is so much more central to US politics than it is to ours. Second, because Obama was elected by a majority of the people on a personal mandate.

'It isn’t so much about precisely what Truss did right or wrong, but that one misstep — one ill-conceived and poorly presented fiscal statement — was enough to detonate a bomb in the heart of Britain’s most boring market.'
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Meanwhile

When treaties get in the way of what needs to be done, it is right to tear them up (important internationalist principle)

Why Trussonomics imploded spiked-online.com/2022/10/21/why…

Behind the scenes a Franco-German political drama is playing out

'These are the people who have presided over austerity, flat-lining productivity growth, indebtedness and the longest squeeze on wages since the Napoleonic Wars. We really can’t let them take back control,' Tom Slater

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A one off autumnal version of my Greenwich Park linocut.

Symbolically as well as substantively important:
1. Nuclear coming back big time in comtinental Europe
2. A three-way shoot-out between Europe, US and Asia
Will 🇫🇷 take this contest as seriously as it should?
Note: EDF as a re-nationalised firm will stand for 🇫🇷

THE TIMES: ⁦Boris Johnson⁩ ‘will prove fatal’ #TomorrowsPapersToday