Prior to the release of the OECD report on Tuesday, Trump wrote on social media: "Because of Tariffs, our Economy is BOOMING!"
Did they really shed tears? "Absolutely, I had my tears at our final meeting where we joined hands and stood up. I said 'We still did great, take a bow."What lessons can we draw for other high-tech ventures? "You definitely have no choice but to be optimistic," says Mr Dissel.
The grim procedure of winding down the business took over as passwords and laptops were collected while servers were backed up in case "some future incarnation of the business can be preserved".The company had been going in various guises for 35 years. "We didn't want it to go to rust. I expect the administrator will look for a buyer for the intellectual property assets," Mr Dissel adds.Other former employees also hold out for a phoenix rising from the ashes. But the Valley of Death looms large.
"Reaction Engines was playing at the very edge of what was possible. We were working for the fastest engines and highest temperatures. We bit off the hard job," says Mr Dissel.Despite all this Mr Varvill's own epitaph for the business overshadows technological milestones. "We failed because we ran out of money."
A West Yorkshire art gallery is attempting to raise sufficient funds to purchase a Dame Barbara Hepworth sculpture "for the nation".
The Hepworth Wakefield wants to buy Sculpture With Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue And Red, created in the 1940s, in order for it to go on permanent public display.Judge James Boasberg said the US had "plainly deprived" the migrants of their constitutional right to oppose their detention.
But the ruling does not apply Venezuelan migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native deported from the US at the same time.It also emerged on Wednesday that the US had flown a Guatemalan man back to the US, after deporting him to Mexico.
A federal judge in Boston last month found that prosecutors had incorrectly declared the man was not afraid for his safety in Mexico.The individual, identified in court papers only as OCG, was returned on a commercial flight on Wednesday, according to his lawyers.