open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe... this is very good on Tory nihilism

As a protestant, this feels strange to say, but the point at which an adult convert to Catholicism has been rebuked by two Popes in one year and then goes on to write a memoir called 'Communion' about his faith, they ought to bring excommunication back. This guy is evidently an unrepentant heretic.

The leaders of Iran are evil and crazy, and it is an unequivocally bad thing for them to have nukes. But why do we assume that they can't be deterred from using them against Israel, or any other nuclear power, by the knowledge of certain and terrible retribution if they do?

Come this weekend, some of you will be taking to the motorway! Why not tee up MJT Motorways with @jasonhazeley.bsky.social ready for those long stretches of grey. With any luck I’ll be back on the M40.

Jesus wept! I suppose you could argue that anyone who downloads this deserves it, but I don't think so.

Did you know that Comrade Stalin was also the world’s greatest brain surgeon

Another (arguably even better) shot by the same LA photog, Jill Connelly, posted to her instagram. (Cropped)

Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.

MattGPT. It's only funny because it's true. Prediction: on the road to the full Neil Oliver. No way back, no way to stop.

I fed the General Confession from the Prayer Book into Kagi's LInkedIn translator ... two friends commented that it would be no surprise to find HTB using it.

Quick thoughts on Francis Spufford, love, sex, and God; also a rather shocking anecdote from India open.substack.com/pub/andrewbr...

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Seems like Apple has totally botched introducing age verification. My mum has just updated her phone and suddenly needs to verify her age. She doesn't have a credit card. She doesn't drive, so has no driver's licence. There are literally no other options for her to verify her age.

Wondering what leverage in negotiations looks like? Australia's new FTA with the EU provides 16,830 tonnes of tariff free access for beef. Australia's FTA with the UK, completed with a desperate Johnson administration, provided 35,000 tonnes tariff free, rising to unlimited over 15 years.

Written by all round good egg @seatrout.bsky.social Do yourself a favour and read The Darwin Wars: I've just flicked through my copy - still holds up well, if not better.

"What's your favourite book of the Bible, Robert?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of the Bible"

I wonder if he gave up chocolate for lindt

Does this remind anyone of another recent election? To aid Viktor Orban in his upcoming election Russian operatives proposed “the Gamechanger” — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters. Catherine Belton The Washington Post apple.news/Avq4Ozfy3SUu...

Don't vote with your personal data, vote with your wallet and choose @kagi.com

Gallow’s humour again but my laugh of the day.

This is really excellent. So good it might get boosted in the Church Times! Seriously, a really clear statement of what we seen to be losing.

If we look at how the American as well as Iranian leaderships are responding to escalation around the Gulf the likely outcomes this spring boil down to: A. War B. More War C. Lots More War D. All Of The Above

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Yes, agree. Funny too, from a menu in the caff (written in pencil) from one of the spy novels "Don't complain about the tea in here, you'll be old and weak yourself one day".

A conveersation with Sohrab Ahmari open.substack.com/pub/andrewbr...

Time to end the jokes about Truss at the Cenotaph. She shouldn't be there in future

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I recommend buying an electric car. They're fantastic to drive, but one of their greatest hidden benefits is driving by gas stations, looking at the prices, and not caring. #ev

This week the two teams were asked to reopen the Straights of Hormuuuuz…

Have they considered having the birds bleach their butt-holes in the sun as an alternative to vaccines?

Very good piece from Sam on needing to read poetry to write it well...

Checking in on Elbridge Colby who assured me the threat to Taiwan was so accute the US couldn't spare any weapons for Ukraine as his administration burns through a decade of missile production in a week to make snuff propoganda films.

Odd to think that Israel will soon have brought down two great empires in the seventy years since Suez -- not, of course, by defeating them, but by recruiting them as allies or confederates.

If Claude researches like I did as a PhD student, then there's a very good chance it'll just decide to spend the day playing Championship Manager

You're all mocking them but I bet a hundred years from now every military school in the world will study and learn from the American strategy v Iran. That's legacy.

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

Opinion | By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Littleton, Newtown, Parkland, and Uvalde.

When the service has already gone on a bit long

Useful thread

The Daily Mail going to Tony Blair for a take on conflict in the Middle East, is it?

😂😂😂

This is the Platonic ideal of a social media exchange, never again to be equaled or even attempted:

Going to say this isn’t the *greatest* of attack lines.

Dario Amodei being interviewed by Zanny Minton Beddoes is giving me terrible Darkness At Noon vibes. Poor Rubashov!

Such a shame, he and Markwayne could've made *such* a lovely couple.

Timothy Snyder cuts to the chase on Iran. Follow the money (to Trump). snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

Martin Wolf, here to ruin your breakfast: My quarrel with this analysis is that it leaves all consideration of religion off the table. Whoever emerges to run Iran must I suspect be pretty sincerely devout to have risen to where they might be considered.

The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.

Haha www.legorafi.fr/2026/03/03/e...