Enjoyed the drollery in the Telegraph's story of the burning electric bin lorry in London:

Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg, of Westminster City council, said last summer that the “trailblazing electrification” would improve air quality and reduce CO2 emissions by 2,000 tonnes per year.

Mailman,
Was covered on the ABC News last night. They couldn't hide that it was a big crowd, but that didn't stop the tut-tutting at the folly of campaigning in a state he couldn't win.

Also on the great divide in the US, Elon Musk has tweeted the top corporate donors to the two campaigns. Besides the obvious skew, and where the big names land, you need to go down to Harris's 10th biggest donor (Morgan Stanley) before you're near the amount of Trump's top donor. More interestingly, you're at the bottom of the page, and Harris's donors are still well above the level of Trump's 2nd biggest.

Will all these companies have done their dough, or will they get the result they paid for? Also musing on how the companies that donated on both sides decided their weightings (e.g. Wells Fargo ~3:1, Microsoft ~20:1).

Robbo,

Trump was in MSG last night and the photos of the crowds both inside and outside are just insane...and this taking place in deepest darkest Democrat controlled NYC!

Can you imagine Kamala going to Florida or Texas and doing the same thing without using Beyonce as bait? People are focking to Trump rallies to hear him speak for a couple hours...meanwhile Kamala has to use Springsteen or the possibility of a Beyonce concert to get anyone to her rallies to hear her talk for about 6 minutes.

Next week is going to be insane with Democrats attempting to cling to power.

tomo,
Didn't watch the Rogan interview (only so many hours in the day), but reading comments there and elsewhere suggests that it went very well for Trump.

Did watch the rocketry one, and Part 2 on the turbopump (which came out 4 years after part 1). Very interesting viewing, and my understanding of rockets has gone from zero to scanty. The presenter, with his homespun models and enthusiastic delivery rates as a boffin, first class. Hasn't helped my shortage of hours in the day!

DaveS,
Yes, it probably wouldn't be legal to do the campaign work on a tourist visa.

US immigration is a bit of an enigma these days. I'm sure they're as picky as ever at the airports, meanwhile waving everybody through at the Mexican border. I expect they'll manage to turn a blind eye to any false declarations by the Labour staffers.

Jo's article today is the not at all surprising story of the World Bank's missing billions in the climate fighting fund. Very genteel of Oxfam, who made the report, to have used the "misplaced" rather than "misappropriated".

Robert

One line I heard was that it wasn't illegal because they were not going to be paid (presumably in the sense of not being paid by the Democrat Party - if they are Labour Party staffers they'll be being paid by the Labour Party even if doing this in vacation time). But I wonder what they would declare on their travel documents when entering the US.

Mailman, DaveS,
The Labour Party was just having a go at what Australia's Labor Party tried 8 years ago.

I suspect it's mostly just a bit of a jolly for the footsoldiers — a Sunday-school picnic — let the kids go and enjoy themsleves with some harmless fun. Looking at the headlines Google turns up today, I see there's a lot of lawyering going on — that it wasn't strictly illegal — which is to completely miss the point. I'm glad it's not illegal, because it's better handled in terms of Moulton's Law and Manners talk. Could there be a more self-undermining action than going to interfere in a foreign election when your own country is already in the "S"-bend, and about plop over into the real sewer?

I think Labour should be worried on this one. It's not just their usual opponents; a fair number of their supporters will know fine well what a stupid thing it was.

And on the American election: I did enjoy Trump's line in his McDonald's serving stunt: I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala at McDonald's.