The ultimate irony is Trump asking Ukraine for support . www.politico.eu/article/dona...

I wrote a song about it. Want to hear it? Here it is! Dance to the destruction. open.spotify.com/track/1iWspq...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, 1948, 1948 #jacksonpollock #museumarchive

“I think Greenland was a wake-up call. There is more talk [in Brussels] about replacing one dependency with another.” This is what I told the Wall Street Journal about Europe’s increasing dependence on US LNG following the end of Russian pipeline gas.

These people have absolutely no clue whatsoever.

Seriously? Amazon previously had a corporate tax bill?!!? Not in the UK they don't.

Democracy dies in tax cuts

Because crime has less to do with policing and more to do with community cohesion than many think. Just because people are poor does not mean they're criminals. Just because people are rich does not mean they are not criminals.

IMDB has flagged Melania the documentary for “unusual voting activity”. Someone is trying to pump up the viewer ratings after critics said it was a worthless piece of shit.

Science-heads who are journalism-curious! This is one of the best internships imaginable. Many of its holders have gone on to great careers at The Economist. Please help spread the word. www.economist.com/science-and-...

Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them

Look, all they need is more training in (checks notes) the most basic concepts of what customs and borders are.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

No. He does it silently, away from cameras, away from public image rehabilitation, away from anything that lets him put his name on it. He serves, and he shuts the fuck up, and that's all he gets. Anything else is between him and his god.

Countdown until the administration also smears its latest victim as a “terrorist”…

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw

The last wave of purges have hit Xi loyalists he put in place after a previois round of purges. Permanent institutional instability is not a pathway to effective military action

It's obvious that Trump II are deeply unserious people. But starting at the top, they are also people who have contempt for institutional constraints on power. That makes institution-building, already hard enough, impossible, esp for the international arena.

When a Canadian Prime Minister has to implicitly remind Europeans of why the EU exists: „Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.“ #WEF

Well, there's a first time for everything. Daniel Hannan has finally written something that I agree with.

We are all going to die of natural causes before Trump stops ranting today. This is incredible.

Trump doing his best to make Brexit not the worst foreign policy decision of the past 10 years

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

If you want to be fit at 70, you need to get fit earlier in life. Ageing brings decline regardless of how fit you are. Start from a higher base, fall from higher up. Fitness compounds, just like money. Go lift some weights, go for a swim, walk around the block!

So … over 8,000 acts of ppl invoking their 1A rights to mouth off to law enforcement? Cops have no rights to their feelings. We do, however, have the 1A right—attested to by SCOTUS—to insult the guys w guns. This is quintessential police-as-baronial class whining: “how dare you not kneel to us?”

All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported

I think the verdict is in. Many of us are divine, but enough of us are evil, and firmly committed to being evil, that . . . the dust blows forward, the dust blows back.

So will Ireland be the 53rd State, and then Britain the 54th? Or will the US divide Britain up into separate states of Scotland, Wales, and England? Hell, it's all one island, just make it one single state, and that way the commies only get 2 senators.

That section only applies to people who “FORCIBLY assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties.” It does not apply to filming them from a distance.

It's coming. On February 8. Everywhere. For the 25th Anniversary. Hard Country Rockgrass, y'all. This is my favorite album cover we've ever done, probably because we didn't do it! My wife had the idea for it, one of her old uni friends set the still-life up and photographed it.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Hayseed Dixie are taking their good times music on the road again: "If loving the banjo is wrong, then we don't want to be right! If it offends you, then it's about you." www.herecomestheflood.com/2026/01/hays... @hayseed-dixie.com #inconcert

So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British? Interesting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters

Tapping the sign

The last line of this is *chef kiss* If you want to understand Putin's mental model, read Seva's last line over, and over, and over.

Das wäre eigentlich ein interessantes ganzes Buch über Fehllektüren und toxische Rezeption.

One of our finest annual traditions

I always thought Plato was pretty pollyannaish on this point, but this is decent evidence for the view that a man of bad character will therefore be unhappy even with every external trapping of success and good fortune.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

It's noticeable that the people who are now angriest with Keir Starmer's Labour government are those who voted for it. And they are right to be. This has been his primary achievement. So where on earth does he think Labour voters will come from, next time round?

It’s obviously true that the “if only Czar Gallagher knew!” fiction on legal resales is just that, a pure fiction, and that banning legal resales above face value will drive up face value. Ending that fiction is a good in of itself, I think.

Thoughts ahead of Downing Street meeting with President Zelensky today. youtu.be/1DYrGcF2NsE?...

Is there a trade expert out there arguing for a UK-EU customs union? I think it’s fair to say that @davidheniguk.bsky.social @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social and myself are hardly Euroskeptics, and while we emphasise different things in talking about a CU the conclusion is unanimous.

Great piece on the failure of centrist governments in the UK, France, and Germany to give voters anything to actually vote for and their fueling of the far-right by elevating its message, and the contrast that Spain offers. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

Balcony, 1945 #surrealism #escher