WASHINGTON, DC THE LITTLE-KNOWN Hubris Futures Index, based in Switzerland, has seen a huge spike in the hours following Donald Trump’s announcement of his imposition of tariffs on the countries of the World. The HuFu, as it’s known, began life as a side-bet between two bankers on the outcome of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in…

FROM OUR EVIL VILLAIN DESK “ALL HE NEEDS is that cat in his lap, and he is a central casting villain. Trump’s America has made enemies of all its friends, and will make friends of all its enemies!” Dr Ronald Noall, of the Seismic Institute, a free trade think tank, was speaking from his home…

LONDON THE UNITED KINGDOM’S Brexiteers are screaming victory after President Donald Trump only hit their country with a 10% tariff while the European Union is facing a 20% tax on its exports to the United States. “See, we told you so!” roared Nigely Furore, a Brexit supporter who says he has faced years of criticism…

WASHINGTON DC DONALD TRUMP’S ANNOUNCEMENT of a range of tariffs on imports from around the world could mean that news reports by foreign correspondents from the United States could be cut back by whatever percentage the tariff is on the particular country they come from. “This could see reporters being cut by ten, twenty, thirty…

BEIJING THE RECENT APPEARANCE of Chinese naval vessels off the coast of Australia may have been an attempt to freeload on Aussie internet data, says a maritime intelligence specialist. “They were following our undersea internet cable,” said Ron Valerie whose company Flipper monitors underwater communications. “My guess is they were trying to freeload on our…

BELFAST THE TRIAL OF Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, former leader of the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party, who faces historic sex offence charges, could be held in the Irish language now that a 300 year old law banning its use in court in those parts of Ireland still under British control, has been repealed. “Yes, the…

FROM OUR VIKING DESK “YOU ARE EITHER with us or with the Vikings.” The White House staffer took out his cellphone and pointed to a photograph of Greenland. “You know they only called it Greenland to sucker settlers over the sea. Goddamit, those Danes, they are cruel people. Have you read the history of the…

LOS ANGELES AS PRESIDENT TRUMP takes a wrecking ball to the international trading order, an ominous sign has indicated that the American economy he says he is trying to save, might be in poorer shape than imagined. The so-called Sugar Index has been a guide to economic health for over half a century. In essence…

DUBLIN CONOR MCGREGOR HAS confirmed a recent Kookaburra Bugle story about his leadership qualities by announcing that he will run for President of his native Ireland this year. “This is the headache official Ireland was dreading,”says Dr Peadar O’Peadar, whose recent book Official Ireland Is Dead And Gone: It’s With Anglo Irish Bank In Bankruptcy,…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY FOLLOWING THE SUPERCHARGED bromance between the US President and the Irish Mixed Martial Artist, a poll taken around the world saw an overwhelming number of respondents say they believed that Conor McGregor just had to be his country’s leader, as opposed to a minuscule number who recognized Micheal Martin as the Irish Prime…