Time is money. If it takes twice as long to do something you earn half as much. This is the brutal fact at the heart of Brexit.
Let’s "Brexit" a £12.99 paperback, blow by blow, and see what difference leaving the single market has made.
A paperback is made of paper but Britain does not make paper like that. Until recently we had Sweden, Germany, Italy and France to do that for us. (Nor are Britons likely to engineer paper soon: Gmund is 195 years old. Munken is 150).
All that paper has to cross the channel...
Jul 11, 2023 • 11 tweets • 9 min read
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It's a little-known fact that Beethoven was invited to Boston, America. Nobody could do this what if? tale better than librettist and music critic Paul Griffiths. In Mr. Beethoven, the composer writes an unwritten oratorio and learns sign language!
@superteadrinker@shotscarecrow Wait! Without your glasses, and with that binder-like object in your arms, you suddenly remind me of that female bassist/student earlier on!
@superteadrinker@shotscarecrow You push me down the stairs, but I tell the sidekick to carry on after you when he stops to look at my head wound. You attempt to leap off/over something. It doesn't go well. Sidekick rescues you though and I catch up.