In the news

Quite often in the present tense.

Reuters reporting another US mass shooting. Tragic. Stand by for thoughts, prayers and inaction.

A fella called ShivAroor has posted some audio on Twitter of when the shots start. It’s quite chilling (and so I won’t post the link directly).

(Edit: Actually that link seems to everywhere now...)

Sounds like it was some sort of live streamed gaming competition. I believe that there is video footage also. Grim.

The governments latest attempt at reanimating a corpse hasn't gone very well:

https://youtu.be/hXLPjPdbwGE

Ah yes. The "colourful natives at play" dance that has proven to be the nemesis of so many a colonialist soutpiel.

Good luck begging for scraps from people your party actively supported oppressing.

I had to turn that off after 14 seconds of the 35 on offer.

Good luck begging for scraps from people your party actively supported oppressing.

A line echoed in all of commonwealth. I am loving India's arm-twisting over trade for visas at the moment.

What does the UK export to India btw?

which is doubly ironic considering your common or garden gammon is likely to be far more salty about brown folks coming over here and taking our jobs than they are about lily white east european folks.

i imagine.

Cricket.

exactly!

@Dammit I have no idea but would love to find out .. probably arms

Arms is probably one of the few things that we export these days that will survive the Brexit transition. Arms and Formula 1 cars.

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Bromptons.

Interesting. We're going to lose the motor vehicles, may keep the oil depending on how closely after Brexit we see Scottish Independence. Bituminous materials go with the oil.

We'll lose medicine, I'm not aware that the Cornish goldmines are still churning it out, but hey - that's a benefit if so.

Telecomm's kit I imagine is bundled with a service so we'll lose that.

Parts of vehicles will go as part of the car ecosystem.

Aircraft - we can maybe flog Typhoons to India?

Engines and Motor, again we will lose.

Data processing machinery- unknown, but again I suspect it'd be wrapped in a service so likely dans le poubelle.

So - Arms it is. What's the import duty on fighter jets? And do we make a whole fighter jet in this country? I suspect we don't, so they're likely in the bin as well.

This is interesting too:
"As EU and Indian leaders meet in Delhi, we look at the figures on trade. The UK’s place in the relationship warrants special attention. EU-India trade has more than tripled since 2000, but UK-India trade is largely static. The shift is especially noticeable for EU exports to India, where the UK share has dropped from 29% to 10%."
http://bruegel.org/2017/10/indias-trade-ties-with-the-uk-and-eu/

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Hopefully bike frames retrofitted with s&s couplers and Paul brakes.

Is Vladimir just willy-waving or are these part of serious preparations?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-wargames/russia-to-hold-biggest-war-games-in-nearly-four-decades-idUSKCN1LD0OP

I'm not aware that the Cornish goldmines are still churning it out

This was all down to the cash for gold adverts on telly in 2014, no one has any of Granny's necklaces left to flog.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45330801

Lovely building in Belfast completely destroyed by fire, just burnt out today :(
It is the clock one, the roof caught fire and they couldn't rescue it...

Sad. BBC headline of 'Major fire at Primark Belfast store' doesn't really do it justice.

I can't bring myself to start it - the still shot alone is bad enough.

Depressing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/28/german-police-criticised-as-country-reels-from-far-right-violence