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The last article is behind a pay wall so I could not read it but as I understand, the EU is not looking to fight Trump. It has no interest in making inflation in the EU worse nor disrupting US supply to EU businesses. Von der Lyen just wants more time.

The two situations are completely different. Trump only accepts the result of an election if he won. If he lost, the other side must have cheated. It's the same with the Epstein file. Obama and Clinton must have written it. Give it 16 months, you'll see if he still claims that he is cheated...

EFTA would suit you but probably not the majority of Irish. EFTA is outside the Single Market, you don't have the 4 freedoms of the Single Market like posting a parcel without paperwork. EFTA has about 100 bilateral agreements with the EU on trade. It's pretty messy paperwork to deal with when...

It's the quatorze juillet fête nationale, aka Bastille Day, holiday in France today.

so you do like to keep the solar farms? I am typing this while on child minding duty in Paris atm. It's 14th July, military airplanes did a few minute flypass this morning.

The point I tried to make to you is laws and people need to have their views tested at intervals. A vote is only a snapshot of public sentiments at that time. If you have to choose between the Swiss style of democracy and Trump's style of democracy, which one do you go for? On the subject of...

I don't know what you saw in the short video that you shared. The video itseft wasn't controversial but barely if at all contained anything useful. When the grid had enough supply to meet demand, it changed the feed-in tariff to negative. Producers would be charged if they don't disconnect. So...

In that 2024 referendum, about one million or one third of the electorate voted no. How can you be sure that is the same as the will of the majority when the turnout is low? If 1.5 million had voted yes, then you can be sure but below 40%, it should be retested in the next parliamentary cycle.

Have you visited China or Hong-Kong? If you haven't, I highly recommend those places. Mao took over a backward country (in his own words), industrialised it, Deng reformed it and now Xi turning it into the next first world empire. Professor Richard Wolf wrote a thesis on its strategies. You can...

Not a U turn. The Japanese target mature markets while the Chinese target novel solutions. Japanese automakers are more concerned with reliability and safety than Chinese. They have been waiting for solid state batteries to become mainstream which should be next year or 2027. Toyota has already...

Elections have limited terms, so why not referenda? We have a stupid situation with brexit. Polls after polls confirmed that the result was not just very narrow but also would be reversed if a new brexit referendum was run again. As is, Starmer are hemmed in by the last referendum so he cannot...

The low turnout is fundamentally undemocratic. That should be enough reason to rerun the referendum.

I did not agree with the idea that Obama should win the Peace Prize, I sarcastically put the reason in double quotes. Still, now that obama was given it, I wonder if it should be given to trump. The reason is that could inspire him to see the good in other countries.

Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for "his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". Trump got nominated by Netanyahu for the 2026 Peace Prize for nothing good other than supporting Netanyahu. Professor Manabe was surprised when he got chosen but his...

I didn’t dispute that your memory is not like what chatGPT made out of the Web. I am saying that the scientific proofs that CO2 is responsible for warming up our lower atmosphere are very well established and have been validated since the 80s that the 2021 Nobel prize of physics was given to a...

You can ride your bike from Southend seafront to Southchurch park in less than 5 minutes. The temperature difference can be 4-5 Celsius in the afternoon atm. Which place is representative of the town? It goes to show that personal perception is not a good enough representation of facts...

That graph was made by chatGPT. It's good for illustration purpose but I agree with your last remark, not for accuracy. For that, we would need to discuss the role of CO2, water vapour etc in the lower atmosphere at that would take a lot of typing.

I asked chatGPT to compare summer heatwaves between London and Telford. Here is the response: London and smaller UK cities like Telford experience heatwaves very differently, even when exposed to the same regional weather systems. Here's a breakdown of key differences in how heatwaves affect...

I suppose he said that to a) offend foreigners a little as he usually does to show strength and b) gently remind his base he stands with them.