Tme for another update of the projected long-run impacts of Brexit on UK and EU. The long-run forecasted impacts of Brexit put UK growth as lagging EU growth by c. 3%. Cumulative UK growth since pre-Covid is lagging EU by c. 2% so it seems the forecasts are bearing out.

This US administration is now completely losing any semblance of sanity in sanctioning "censorship masterminds". There's no other way to put it, this is tin pot dictatorship territory and must be called out as such. Including in the US.

All the smooth brains retweeting this thinking it's comparing this same thing 🤦‍♂️. It's not: 🇺🇸's 4.3% is an ANNUALISED growth rate!!! 🇪🇺's & 🇬🇧's are ONE QUARTER's growth rate.

What are these "American viewpoints" that are being impinged by "extraterritorial censorship"?

"impose more and higher tariffs on imports from elsewhere" No, Brexit already did that while EU's have continued in steady downward direction.

Das Finanzpaket für die Ukraine steht: ein zinsloser Kredit über 90 Milliarden Euro, wie von mir gefordert. Ein klares Signal an Putin aus Europa. Der Krieg wird sich nicht lohnen. Wir lassen die russischen Vermögenswerte eingefroren, bis Russland die Ukraine entschädigt hat.

In which case a wealth tax on billionaires should be fine, right?

@TerraOrBust @JulianOD The budget ceiling cap is not what EU members contribute towards the EU budget, dum dum.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles shares, um, surprisingly candid views of the Trump team https://t.co/H8Fz2xX3KO

"This clause will likely be used by South Korea to pressure the UK into revising the agreement in its favour."

The anti-EU rhetoric in the U.S. is getting louder and louder. Make no mistake. This has nothing to do with globalism and saving Western civilization (whatever that means). These guys want to dismember Europe and turn it into a collection of smaller dependencies. Europe’s only

"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read.

Hysterical Americans are so out of their depth... falling for sensationalist bullshit tabloid headlines which can't happen because those US treasuries are not owned or controlled by governments. They're so spectacularly idiotic, it beggars belief.

There is no EU President

In my book *Enshittification*, I develop the concept of "giant teddybears," a scam that has been transposed from carnival midway games to digital platforms. The EU has just fined Elon Musk $140m for running a giant teddybear scam on Twitter: https://t.co/w3s8XDGQfD 1/

It's hard to overstate just how much damage a bona fide conspiracy-theory administration in the White House is doing, both to US soft power and to the influence of the West as a whole. The Vice President of the United States is posting like a provincial cab driver from the

Theres a very long list of US products that cannot be sold in the EU thanks to EU regulations. Since the favorite pastime of the Trump regime and every US oligarch is now to demonize EU regulations, I thought it would be very much worth going through some of those products.🧵

When the EU fined Musk, the entire online ecosystem lit up - right-wing influencers, Kremlin-aligned accounts, podcasters, grifters, and bot networks. Not coincidence. A coordinated narrative machine.

The US gov says the EU Commission is “censoring” X by imposing a DSA fine on Musk. This is absurd. Here is what the fine is actually about: 1.Misleading “verified accounts” X sells blue checkmarks as “verified”. But DSA Art. 26 bans deceptive design. These are paid badges anyone

This account on Twitter has 1.3 million followers. All of these generic MAGA accounts are operated by Russians or people in SE Asia being paid to post. American democracy has been captured by Russia.

Musk's app now removing community notes on the posts of Putin's propagandists. "For my friends EVERYTHING. For everyone else, THE LAW".