"We recently announced that Netflix will acquire William Shakespeare, including his plays, sonnets, narrative poems and indeed also his biography and everything he ever said. This unites our leading entertainment service with William Shakespeare's iconic stories. 'All the world's a Netflix!'"

More hours of sunlighte kan not returne fast ynogh. Why doth it have to be 3AM at 5PM?

This is what they call a historic turning point “The independent forecaster Frontier Economics reckons that the impact of US tariffs will shrink UK GDP by 0.7%, while a deeper deal with the EU could instead lift GDP by 1.5%, despite US tariffs” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Roman sarcophagi frequently display touches of humor, depending on the sculptor!😊

#ReliefWednesday Phaedra, in love w/ stepson Hippolytus, turns head away shamed. H rides off on hunt. 2) Nurse connives w/ H. 3) Eros kisses Psyche; Anteros laughs. 4) Dog scratches fleas. @lightacandle.bsky.social @linda2.bsky.social @robinburcell.bsky.social 🪔 #AncientBlueSky 2-4: My 📷s. VatMus

The policy of the US under Trump can be fairly summarised in three impulses. To be cruel to those they can be cruel. To intimidate those whom they can intimidate. And to gain leverage in respect of those they want to manipulate. Almost everything comes down to one or more of these impulses.

Intrigued by this narrative that Britain has done well here. -10% is still v significant. -We're a big exporter of cars to the US which will be subject to 25%. Terrible for UK auto industry. -Even if we get a deal we can't avoid the major economic shock to global trade overall.

-We may have a 10% Brexit 'dividend' but the cost of that dividend is the significant lost output since Brexit and trade dislocation with the EU, which the somewhat more generous US treatment does not even nearly compensate for.

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

just randomly inflicting economic hardship on different groups of Americans, as well as foreigners, for no particular reason

He's just pulling these tariff numbers from the air, isn't he

Went to see Val Kilmer in The Doors twice in the same day when it came out! Old Street Islington 1991 #c4news

Yeah UK is currying favour prostrating ourselves in the most humiliating way before fkn Trump. Brexit driven no doubt, but I hate what Labour r doing and they need to use this miraculous opportunity of the unhinged Trump Presidency/Tariffs to rejoin SM & CU. FFS! #c4news

I'm sure Tesla, which has collapsed because everyone hates Musk, will be turned around by the increased participation of... *checks notes*... Musk #c4news

Why is it that (just like the MP’s in UK during the Brexit aftermath and the dud Deal) the Senators and Congressmen in US put THEIR job security so completely above “National Interest”? Yet they don’t care at ALL about the jobs lost and businesses ruined by both Brexit and Trump/Musk? #c4news

Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.

@channel4news.bsky.social Surely Farage can put a word in with his best buddy Trump on Britain’s behalf? After all he promised us a huge Brexit dividend… #fuckallsquared #c4news

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

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All the news about the ceasefire appears to come down to the simple fact that Ukraine refused to be bullied into surrender by Trump. And from that defiance, this has followed. Slava Ukraini

Top Washington Post columnist quits after piece critical of Bezos is scrapped www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Corinne West (1908–1991), US Abstract Expressionist who used a male pseudonym 'Micheal West' due to the lack of opportunities for women #WomensArt

Trump is Putin now.

"Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service. This is a tragedy for the free world, but it is first and foremost a tragedy for the United States."

Could not be put better.

French polling on Ukraine

BREAKING: Emmanuel Macron: 'I want to believe US will stand by our side but we have to be ready for that not to be the case We need to be able to recognise the Russian threat & better defend ourselves in order to deter such attacks The future of Europe cannot be decided in Washington or Moscow'

There is a best and worst case for what is motivating Trump's strategy on Russia and Ukraine. I've thought about them for this piece. But in a sense it's immaterial- either way Zelensky is being set up for an impossible choice: surrender or blame. Writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

@channel4news.bsky.social Wonder how Boris Johnson is going to spin this abandonment of Ukraine by Trump/their withdrawal of US Intelligence as a good thing? He so wanted Ukraine to be his legacy as PM, but instead he has contributed to their existential future. Bastard. #c4news

Haven’t seen this level of consensus across the UK media about who the bad guy was since the Handforth Parish Council meeting.

January 29, 2023. It was all there for everyone to see, who cared enough to notice.

Posted by @vatniksoup.bsky.social on another platform.

Basically, the living former Presidents (all four of them) hew to the view that there can only be one President in office at any given moment, and some of them particularly recoiled when their predecessors intervened. The moment, however, arguably requires precedents to be broken.

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

'Daffodils' by Elizabeth Blackadder, Scottish painter and printmaker #WomensArt #March1st

The notion that Zelensky is at fault for what occurred today is similar to the notion that Ukraine should be blamed for starting the war. Kyiv didn't ignite the conflict. Zelensky did not ignite the Oval Office brawl. Russia did the former, and Trump/Vance bear full responsibility for the latter.

This was the plan all along

Brexit has never looked quite so daft

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

Let's just be clear: the reason they were gathering was NOT for a made-for-TV, Jerry Springer-style drubbing. They were gathering for private, serious talks that Trump deliberately torpedoed by forcing Zelensky to endure a 45-minute impromptu press conference & a premeditated American mugging.

Boris Johnson is the vainglorious fool who weakened the UK by doing Putin’s bidding/ wrenching us from the EU, just for personal capital. He told Pres Zelensky that Trump wd be good for Ukraine; even y’day he urged Ukraine to sign this dud of a deal. Zelensky was ambushed today. NATO is kaput.

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

Jeanne Mammen (German 1896-1976), Before the performance 1928.

The UK has fully privatised Energy, France fully nationalised.

Underrated tweet.

Haven’t seen a truer word than someone who posted broadly that Europe can no longer create our foreign and defence policy reliant/predicated on the outcome of approx 6k swing voters in Wisconsin every US election cycle. Time to wise up. #c4news

Friedrich Merz, "My impression of the last few days is that Russia and America are coming together over Ukraine" "Take a look at recent days, the intervention in the German elections by Elon Musk.The interventions from Washington are no more dramatic than the interventions we have seen from Moscow"