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Hitachi Rail are cutting up to 250 employees, having completed a huge long-term order. They claim it's nothing to do with Brexit. hitachirail-eu.com/announcement
And here's Hitachi Rail in 2017, warning that Brexit would cause them problems in a couple of years, after it finished a massive contract (ie the one they have now just wrapped up)

So it's clearly the usual "why alienate half our customers" PR fluff now.

japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/01/2…
You see, there's no mileage in blaming Brexit once the die is cast. Doing so can no longer influence the situation since the decision to cut jobs has already been made.

(Same story for many of the car companies. Warned and warned and warned about Brexit, then clammed up.)
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Lost in all the kerfuffle about the royal family, Iran, etc. is the fact that the Withdrawal Agreement Bill passed the HOC. It passed easily, 330 to 231!

It still has to get through the HOL, but it's impossible to imagine any realistic scenario in which it doesn't. So that's it.
Of course, the EU still have to ratify the Withdrawal Agreement, but it's hard (though not impossible) to see them not doing so given that it would mean we would leave without a deal, and it would be "their fault" (Note the quotes! I am only conveying what our media will say.)
By my money, that's a grim enough milestone to qualify for drown-your-sorrows time. For me, that means a small glass of white wine (if you've followed me for any length of time, you'll already know I don't drink much). Watch out, Twitter!🍷
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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I apologise in advance, but here's a playable archive of several thousand C64 games... See you on the other side! archive.org/details/softwa…
And if your heart lies elsewhere, here's a library of over 9,000 ZX Spectrum games...
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And over 10,000 old PC games (although a lot seem to merely be demo versions, there is plenty of full stuff there too)
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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If a thousand experts say one thing and one clueless idiot says the opposite, that's not balance.

If you then give those experts and that idiot an equal platform and equal time, that creates bias where consensus reigned.
When the media do a story about the International Space Station, complete with glorious footage of the Earth spinning beneath it, they don't invite on a Flat Earther to explain to viewers that what they're watching has been faked.
Yet that's exactly what they do with Brexit.

The CEO of some multinational comes on and explains factually and in detail why Brexit will harm their business... The media invite some random hayseed or political hack to say the opposite, then conclude with "so there you have it."
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