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Still a risk, mind. I'd wager a fairly big one.

You have to laugh. The alternative is to enter a never ending descent into despair at humanity that that thing is now the most powerful man in the world.

Corbyn is given a hard time by the media, but he loads the bullets for them, and is incapable of fighting against it. If I believed there was some nefarious campaign against him, and I really believed in the man, I'd like to think I'd be on the streets with placards and likeminded people. Same goes for all the death of democracy stuff I think.

It is an election losing quote. But he's an election losing man.

He's still fence sitting.

He's done an interview with Kuenssberg which is perhaps slightly enlightening. And brave, given her track record.

Basically the point I was trying to make earlier.

I've seen a report quoting Chelem, who do economic analyses, which seems to have our 2014 export to Germany alone as 10% of our total. Not my strong point though.

Not a shock. It taints his image (calling the sites Tories to point and laugh) but he's got even less chance of success supporting free movement. In chucking that under the bus he improves his electibility from absolutely never, ever, ever will be PM, to will be PM when pigs fly.

I've seen £30bn as a possible impact if a hard Brexit, and it's likely for those advancements to take longer to actually filter into industry fully (and arguably they would have their own negative impacts). Incidentally other industries expected to particularly hurt in a hard Brexit are agriculture, textiles and the wider food industry. We also have a massive trade balance deficit with over 50% with the EU. And I think Tony's 6% is wrong. The impact is going to be huge.

6% looks low. I've just been digging through various reports and can't find any reference to overall UK exports. But assuming it's correct, I doubt 94% of UK businesses don't have any exposure to Europe - those 6%, for arguments sake, will have businesses supply them, that ultimately means there's an exposure to the EU that's bigger than first appears. And that's not accounting for the reciprocal side of things, where businesses are getting stuff from Europe to process and sell back. I understand the chemical, machinery automotive industry are expected to particularly feel a hard Brexit pinch.

I daresay Snapchat has very different requirements/regulations to adhere to, to the much larger number of small (and not so small) businesses flogging physical items or services, particularly to Europe. But great for them. I trust all of the US digital media empire will flock here now.

My prediction was actually kind to Scalebound, they just cancelled it instead! 4 years of work, binned. Ha.

His mockery of Arnie the other day takes an even more bizarre tangent when you note he's an exec producer of the Apprentice, so his ego was more important than his product. This is going to be a car crash.

They'll be back on the colour of passports again soon.

Rise of the Tomb Raider is, dumb title aside, rather good. Maybe outstays its welcome a bit but still a very good ride.

She is quite adept at doing her bit for the export market. Whenever she opens her mouth the pound drops.

If you plan on watching Westworld, I wouldn't read more or less anything on the last couple of pages.

Saw Assassin's Creed yesterday. It's a very accurate adaptation, in that it makes all the same mistakes the games do with the plot, notably that the present day stuff is completely shit and nobody cares and is not the reason anyone is watching or playing, and the fundamental concept doesn't really work. Odd film. There's little outright bad about it. But the sum of its parts is rubbish. Also the thing looks crap. Everything is dull and either muted grey and blue or beige, and everything has a haze to it with a completely mental fascination with smoke and fog everywhere. Not the franchise starter Ubisoft wanted I suspect. Also saw Hunt for the Wilderpeople yesterday. Watch this movie. And The Neon Demon. Which was weird and looks and sounds absolutely fantastic.

'The theatrical cut of Alien 3 isn't very good, but better than Resurrection. The studio issued Assembly cut, which re-edited the movie and added in scenes, is better than the theatrical, but it's still the third best Allen movie.'

I'd maintain that the Assembly cut of 3 is a decent movie, better than the theatrical, but it's still third in the rankings of Alien movies.

It's £450m now.

I look forward to the government's response to the Red **** Cross saying the NHS is in a humanitarian crisis. Snigger. ...

This year Brexit should actually start to solidify, and then it would be perfectly acceptable to say damage to the economy could sit at it's feet.

The Conversation Interesting read.