In the news

Doughy boobs? Cunt? I mean, it's made of dough. That's already kinda low res.

Ha. I used to wear a swastika bracelet every day. I was young and liked to wind people up a bit. I was also connecting with my cultural heritage, man.

This is my favourite for ticking all of the stereotypes
https://twitter.com/ColinBrowning14

Shudder.

Was just on my way to post this-glad it's not flown under the offensive bun-radar of the forum.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/tory-politician-suspended-after-making-hot-cross-bun-decorated-with-nazi-swastika-1-6611500

Doughy boobs? Cunt? I mean, it's made of dough.

that's no way to talk about the poor man, however hateful he is

Imagine for being the guy that got fired from your work for making swastika hot cross buns.

Instant company mythology.

A drop in the bucket for the Tory party tho

I don't understand why some people find it so hard.

Rule 1

Don't be racist, sexist or fascist in public.

End of rule book.

I take it that's a shot of some hot swastika buns he baked? Or just someone else's photograph that he forwarded?

While it's true that the Nazi Hakenkreuz was a clockwise swastika, both clockwise and anti-clockwise swastikas are used in various cultures, and the orientation issue is therefore irrelevant as a criterion of distinction (it's more relevant in what cultural continuity the symbol is used; hence lots of innocent usage in places where it has a more noble tradition, and highly ignoble usage in Europe):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

I think it can safely be assumed, quite possibly reinforced by unwitting revelations elsewhere in the picture of certain deep-seated problems, that the poster may be given to fantasies of violence, and that the 'playful' depiction of the symbol may be related to this somehow.

Is he also a Mayor of something or other, or what is the ceremonial chain about?

Er, why not try not to be racist, sexist or fascist in private, too?

I don't think that would result in a rulebook of excessive length.

Didn't want to make it too onerous....

Er, why not try not to be racist, sexist or fascist in private, too?

An Englishman's home is his bunker.

Shouldn't have read some of the stuff he retweeted. Apparently EU farm subsidies are why Eastern European labour is cheaper to go to the UK and harvest. The mind boggles at how stupid/misinformed some people are.

^ "How dare these more informed people than than me block where my truck is unable to drive because the driver can't see out of the windscreen because of my massive placard..."

Or something?

The full clip:

"Go to China if you want communism!"

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1252227614003154946

Oil under $0.99, futures are trading negative. Mad.

Thankfully won't impact Brent prices too much.

Edit: to elaborate, the $1 thing is only May futures contracts, June contracts are fine. Also, the oil storage situation in the US has been known about for a few months, the rest of the world still has at least six months capacity.

This price collapse is apparently because the "depot" (?) in Cushing, OK is full, and the rules with Texas Intermediate is people with the contracts have to take delivery of it there (i can't get my head round that). Texas Intermediate prices for June are fine and Brent Crude is basically unaffected.

Negative $37/bbl for spot WTI (which is at Cushing, which is an inland tank farm where all the tanks are full and it's not so easy ot move crude away quickly)

It's a trading hub at the confluence of a lot of transit pipelines. If you want a lot of liquidity in a physical market so that an associated paper market can develop, then forcing people to trade a standard contract is quite a good way to achieve that. Forcing people to trade a specific location helps a lot with that.

Ha! “We must have freedom to protest, unless you disagree with me, in which case you shouldn’t be allowed” then?

It does also make me wonder what some people think communism actually is? Apart from just throwing it around as an insult.

lots of oil contracts due to settle today, might see some even weirder moves in the price