That’s where London is traditionally found.

More mundanely, because the US has bases and shipyards on both coasts.

US Warships already have access. About 40 passages per year.

Wars are slow

Their PM is a literal fascist. They’re Musk’s peeps.

No he hadn’t. Because people who have been disappeared are never seen or heard from again. It’s like claiming someone was murdered, but later recovered.

Still hasn’t happened. This was a sales pitch for a Canadian defence contract.

People’s whereabouts being uncertain just after detention is simply standard bureaucracy. It certainly doesn’t rise to the level of being disappeared.

No, because they didn’t attempt to disappear him.

Yeah. It was a press event. OP had all the leverage.

It’s Hull. Who cares?

That’s how they’re funded. Your new favourite Icelandic Noir drama series can’t possibly get funded by Icelandic sources alone. So they pre-sell the rights in various territories to gain the funding required. So 5% from the BBC in the UK, 5% from NRK, 10% from ARTE etc.

In return for the investment, those broadcasters get to exploit the show on their own services. This is the basis of funding for most high-end dramas and feature films. Even the BBC, which thanks to the English language and its large annual budget was largely immune from this, has had to cut back and can only move forward by pre-selling territorial rights (see Doctor Who).

Take away territorial exclusivity and you’re left with the few films and shows being made will be ones for international streamers which are American with different accents (like Sex Education or the Harlan Coben adaptations) or very tiny budget things that no-one cares for.

Without territorial pre-sales, there would be very few European films made, almost all in Britain, France and Germany, and almost all highly commercial. It would also gift the market to the American global streaming services, reducing plurality in the market.

You might look up what he did to a King who pushed things too far. Or whatever.

One of the major arguments against impeaching Clinton was that it would harm the prestige of the office. The same was used as an argument not to continue prosecution of Nixon. Both were alive at the time.

And the one thing Oliver Cromwell should have taught you all is that when you set clear precedent for what happens when the head of state takes the piss, it doesn’t tend to reoccur.

American politics is built around worshipping the cult of the presidency, and whipping the office holders into shape has been repeatedly rejected on the basis of “harming the dignity of the office”.

Sandringham is one of the King’s private residences. So who he chooses to invite there and how they are received is up to him.

A state visit is commissioned by the government and the King has no choice in who is invited or how they are received.

Why are egg prices high? A Bird flu epidemic that has run since 2022.

Trump’s DOGE fired several key USDA officials working on containing the bird flu outbreak. So that’s directly going to increase egg prices. It’s also going to reduce the efficiency of the only process that’s going to reduce egg prices - getting the bird flu epidemic under control.

To fill the shortfall, eggs would usually be imported from Canada. Trump started a trade war with Canada. Again that’s going to directly increase prices.

The price of eggs can’t be reduced by economic policy, only by agricultural policies. But we also know from his choice of Health Secretary how much Trump values vaccines.

On the other hand, Trump’s economic policies will increase the price of eggs and prolong the effects.

So Trump wandered into a house fire that was already burning, shot himself in the foot, then opened fire on firemen and paramedics attempting to rescue him. And the American consumer is meanwhile trapped upstairs.

Always has been.

Significantly. The F-35 programme is a 50-year one. Trump won’t even be alive in half that.

They are legally obliged to refuse to carry out illegal orders. “Just following orders” is no defence against war crime charges.