The full on doom and gloom topic.

[Plastic Person]

Fantastic timing to welcome Herzog, too. Right after Israel violated yet another previously watertight international norm by trying (and, unusually for them, failing) to assassinate Hamas's negotiating team in Doha yesterday afternoon. There may not be a literal red carpet for him, but the Labour government has laid out something better by announcing that they have no reason to believe that the country is undertaking genocide, despite every major human rights agency internationally, the UN, and numerous high-profile genocide scholars in and out of Israel declaring otherwise.

I hope whatever consultancy job Lammy and Starmer have in mind after getting booted out of office will cover their individual legal fees at The Hague sometime in the next few decades. Although their capacity to think anything through seems completely diminished.

 

[rob666]

OK, meant to post this about a fortnight ago, following thoosie discussions with "Those in the Know", in the corridors of power, while wandering the Beach.

The economy, local, national, and international, is failing, and good old money may well be the cause of civilisation folding.

We are spending beyond our means, on all levels.

We haven't got enough workers paying tax to pay for it all, and it only gets worse with 1.3 kids instead of 2.4 when I was a kid.

The economy is based on borrowing, and covid doubled the outstanding debt, and we haven't started to pay back yet what was borrowed.

The markets are on the edge, especially so with AI investments, and AI making investments!

Happy Monday.

Will update the top ten this week.