every so often, I rewatch this amazing 2-minute clip of Jane Fonda being interviewed about gay rights in 1979. her warmth, tone, and words are extraordinarily inspiring. “I hope they use me. What am I here for if not to be used by good people for good things?” www.youtube.com/watch?v=01wK...

They think he's a carpetbagger.

She would do a better job.

NYC

As a historian, you might appreciate this one somebody sent me from LA.

Very good this.

Large ego but very fragile. Easily to envisage him running amok one day and hurling studio chairs about before they have to hastily cut to the adverts.

Oh I see. I thought it was Rick Owens’ new season.

Obviously

Brave New World

Helpless with mirth

Trouble at t'racism mill

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Brilliant

Authoritative opinion

I've made this loads it's luuuverly.

Monday

Horrified by the antisemitic attack in our city. Antisemitism is vile and has no place here. Solidarity with the Jewish community in Golders Green - and with our communities across the country who will be feeling this today.

It really is wild just how transparently full of shit Bessent is in particular

All Trump does is issue threats

Giving away the game here that ICE is his own mob he will deploy if his demands aren't met.

All Trump ever does now is issue one threat after another, to sue, to intimidate, to primary, to deport, to tariff, to invade, to bomb, to destroy. Lashing out in every direction like some malevolent, screeching turd, clinging to the bowl and refusing to flush.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

There's a surprise.

Yeah no

Heavens to Murgatroyd.

I say again that anyone who thinks Jews, or any minority group, are better off in a world where senior politicians feel comfortable with overt racism is an idiot of the highest order.

Decide to experiment with some new recipes from Leith's Vegetarian Bible (4,000 pages unillustrated). Make Mushroom Paté which is rather strange tasting and discover too late that recipe yields approximately one megaton.

Asking myself why I am listening to the News Agents on which Jon Sopel is expressing shock that Trump appears to be making stuff up.

i genuinely think the longer this war goes on without a solution he can spin as a win, he will go insane

The legal powers for wide "executive orders" are already there, waiting to be (mis)used. And the current government is doing nothing to guard against the risk of such future (mis)use by an illiberal government.

You won’t be needing Chinese, French or British help then, Mike old son

Good grief fuck off.

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death

Actor and Film United Peter Purves, actor, and star of both the recovered episodes of Doctor Who, posses with the original can in which the 16mm film was found, and Film is Fabulous! founder, John Franklin.

Defence Secretary Norma Desmond having another normal one.

Had a great conversation with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social about what we can learn from the past 14 months of Trumpism in power - and why Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless, but his ability to impose them on the country is very much not:

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

Spot of sunshine yesterday tempted me to start tidying up my tiny garden. Sheer waste of time given it now seems to be the epicentre of a category 5 icy hurricane currently searching my street from end to end. #Walworth

Shock us again

Enforced cultural assimilation? You must go "wahey" when someone drops a glass in a pub?

Incredible

A malevolent little pustule gurgling with inebriated delight as he revels in violence.

"Special"

How I imagine the war updates are going at the White House

Lindsey Graham and Marco Rubio's performances on Fox give a hint of what it might have been like to watch Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi grovel in front of Mao to survive another day