They are eight seats at Stormont and two at Westminster, but the argument is practical enough. Essentially, "Would even unionists want to live under British rule that is nothing like the Britain they claim to stand for?"

Well I suppose she does have an affin

Purely because almost nobody can do it. Labour going back to Miliband at a time when the country is desperate for new direction would speak for itself.

I don't yet know he could run the country, but Polanski has real talent. He pre-dates Mamdani, but he is adapting the Mamdani playbook in an extremely specific way.

Four ministerial aides and over 60 MPs have today called for Starmer to resign. There is no heir apparent, either. There is impatience with Burnham, who is not even at Westminster yet. Streeting (an idiot) is nowhere to be seen. There is much talk of this being Corbyn's fault. He left six years ago!

You may have heard us favorably discuss The Athletic in the old days. It was like the better parts of the old Sports Illustrated and Sporting News. Now, like the rest of the Times, it is no better than USA Today.

My mother was a saint.

We are getting a lot of messages like this regarding ‘26. Don’t misunderstand me: ‘26 and ‘28 will be akin to the last general election in Britain. They will be votes against. You still have to turn people out, but there is no getting in the way of that. Then the clock will run. It is a short clock.

Unspoken here is Kay's known jealousy that Sterling was "the voice of the New York Yankees," in spite of his place on television.

It is not our business to give opinions on why a court does what it does, only the effect.

Democrats are going to take the House. The margin may be smaller. It's a kick in the teeth but you have to go out and win elections, not ride waves.

High probability that at some point in the next day or so we'll see that Rubio photo with the pigskin digitally replaced by a tiny, transparent football.

That is, the Labour conflagration in local elections - losing many traditional areas to Reform, and deep inroads by the Greens. Burnham has identified MPs willing to stand aside for him. Starmer will not be able to block him twice. He barely survived the first time.

Burnham’s return to Westminster is imminent.

Yes.

A lot of people have left the Bureau, but they are still Bureau people, and good at their jobs. If you follow me.

I’ve thought many times about @dicknixon.bsky.social’s prediction to the effect that the career FBI would leak him to death.

Polygraphs aren't difficult to beat.

I am determined to do a lot of things before I die.

That is about 100 pages a year since 2020.

I have it on reasonable authority Rubio is aware of that picture. Our use of it, I mean.

The only thing that makes it a kind of coalition is Trump. His physical presence. When he goes, it's Balkanized. You see it happening. The America Firsters vs. the hawks vs. the libertarians vs. the bigots vs. Wall Street vs. the Norquist types. There is no more useful idiot.

Not Rubio. There is a chance—I don’t credit it, but a chance—that Vance hangs onto the shreds of that coalition through pure bullheadedness and panic. It’s far more likely someone else arises.

Our analysis was and is popular, but merely repeating Rubio’s embarrassment on the “German Dam” was by many tens of thousands our most successful thing at the other place.

The press will fall for some of it. They know better. Almost all of them do. But they haven’t got anyone else. They’re certainly not going to pretend Vance has a chance in hell. It will go as well as ‘16. I’m not saying I will play a role. I’m a private citizen.

I know Jesuits, not Augustinians, but there’s a close relationship & the tone here is familiar to me as, ‘It would be instructive for the rest of the class to have you flayed, but for various reasons I won’t do that’

A lot of people have left the Bureau, but they are still Bureau people, and good at their jobs. If you follow me.

Iran knows who speaks for the President.

In a way it's productive because Rubio takes on the shape of whoever he's in the room with. Leo is not so dumb as to take that for change, but it may be enough to bring down the temperature for the immediate future. The leaks from Rome - in general, not on the meeting itself - are leaks of strength.

He had to ask some priest friends in Chicago to talk to the bankers. "We can't make exceptions," the bankers said. "Do you want to lose the Pope's account?," the priest said. The exception was made.

It has always seemed to me the video irregularities were done to cushion guards who should have been watching Epstein, but weren't.

No. It is a Republican primary. The people who turn out in a Republican primary are the ones who are still with Trump.

The Phillies have played better since he changed it.

@dicknixon.bsky.social Thought of you when I saw this:

What separates the men from the boys in politics is the boys seek office to be somebody and the men seek office to do something.

This is proving true. In numbers and spirit he is approaching Bush '08 or Biden at the end. It's not broad, deep disapproval so much as the vast majority acting like he's not there.

Unless there is some kind of physical allegation against Platner—I am not saying there is, I’m saying that’s what it would take—you are not going to see a lot of movement in this race. Anyone who isn’t already moved by the Platner stuff will not be moved.

Sir, players genuinely liked him. A handful of years back Sterling's New Jersey apartment building burned to the ground. The first call he got was from ARod who offered his Manhattan spread for as long as he needed it rent free.

John Sterling was too long in the booth, and I never cared for his style. But I always felt somewhat guilty criticizing him, because his joy in it came through. He loved his kids, baseball, and old movies. He was never far from any of them, even at the end. I am thinking of his friend Waldman.

Both of my daughters talk to me.

Honestly I didn't expect his liver to last so long.

I don't like Stancil. He certainly doesn't like us. But there are people who get wrapped up in battling him. I don't understand that. He has no power, nor is he looked to as an effective trategist. He has opinions, and he doesn't back down. So does the fellow who attends every town meeting.

Jerry Brown came to his senses and decided he'd never be president. He went back to Oakland and then Sacramento, where he effectively used his power made a good legacy.

I told you Harris should have run for governor.

You have to keep the faith.

Embiid sacrificed life and limb. Maxey played that fourth quarter like Jesse James. But after the game Maxey didn’t say a word about himself; he only talked about Embiid and how the city “shouldn’t take him for granted.”

Maxey is a real son of a bitch.

Charles was thanked by a woman in New York for his speech to Congress. “We needed that.” “Well, I keep trying,” he said.