This week the IMF released an update to its World Economic Outlook, titled “Global Economy: Steady amid Divergent Forces” and, seriously, in what fricking world are they living? It was yet another example of international groups, governments and parts of the media sane-washing the utter crisis we all exist in because Donald Trump is an egomaniacal bully with the impulses of a spoiled toddler.

How’s this for timing: on Sunday Donald Trump announced from 1 February he will levy a 10% tariff “on any and all goods sent to the United States” from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, and will increase it to 25% from 1 June unless they let the US gain control of Greenland.

The next day the IMF released a report in which it noted that since October 2025 “trade tensions have continued to abate but remain subject to occasional flare-ups”.

Flare-ups? Cripes. I guess the IMF could not write “the madman in the White House hasn’t done anything lately, but you know he probably will because he is deranged and could for example decide that he deserves Greenland because Norway didn’t give him the Nobel peace prize.”

No one writes or says that. Everyone fudges around trying hard to suggest things are normal. Americans being killed by roving gangs of government-sanctioned thugs and Trump threatening to invoke the........

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