Samantha: there's too much fucking introspection right now and not enough fucking Charlotte: but how can we know how to act ethically without a commitment to introspection and self knowledge? Miranda: insight can follow action can follow action can follow insight! Carrie: Big's moving to London

If they do offer more help (in ways other than ships to Hormuz), I hope European leaders make Trump GROVEL first. Make him lift tariffs; swear off Greenland; back off attacking their societies, cultures and political systems. Apologize for all the insults. And send more aid to Ukraine.

New substack: "Being a lawyer, Sir Kier knows well the old saying, “never ask a question to which you don’t know the answer.” How to fix capitalism is one of those questions." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/wanted-a-n...

"...I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the bases. You can do anything. "

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.

Yesterday evening, Peter Mandelson told me "I've never owned property in Brazil and never will". Then we discovered the Brazilian company he incorporated, "for the purpose of purchasing and selling real estate". Thread:

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.

The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)

look it's daft but it's how my brain works, every time

This raises another problem with our political culture. Politicians rarely ask: what is best practice globally? What can we learn from other countries? We're so insular, as I've complained for ages: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/our-insula...

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

it’s about oil and yet from an energy markets perspective that doesn’t make much sense, unless we assume USG all but seizes control of US oil companies. Karthik Sankaran outlines the doesn’t-make-sense reasons here: responsiblestatecraft.org/venezuela-oil/

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Isn’t it usually easier to just buy something from a country that wants to sell it to you?

Time and again, we are presented with the same tableau: a three-inch mouse effortlessly subdues a 40-pound cat, flattens him with an anvil, denounces him implicitly as a “bully, idiot, menace,” and dispatches him with both moral and literal finality.

It’s time to show Donald Trump that resistance goes to eleven.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. REPOST to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

Donald Trump is sleeping in public the right way. by Ezra Klein

Pete Hegseth is violating international law the right way. by Ezra Klein

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

I despair to see the Labour Party die before my eyes. I am Irish, but am of the European social democratic family. I have always felt a close bond with UK Labour. Now, it is diving down reactionary racist rabbit holes, betraying ts basic values of social solidarity. If this is Labour, let it die.

Morally awful, administratively impossible & expensive.. and politically, the reverse of Starmer's panicked conference speech. A govt completely at sea, terrified & incoherent, throwing basic principles overboard in desperation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You can tell phrenologists are all lazy by the shape of their skulls

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

As a first order issue, management that decides it can deploy AI as an efficiency tool is already leveraging themselves into some combination of job cuts/lower hiring (at least relative to some counterfactual) position. So there's an ex ante incentive problem where the job cuts are proof of concept.

Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human

Here are my worst socio-political thoughts. I hope I am not really the person who believes these things. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/10/misa...

"From our vantage point as a fundamentally innumerate body of milquetoast thinkers who are wrong about everything, holding fewer sincere beliefs is the key to electoral success."

A (dedicated and professional) Deputy Headteacher: ‘it’s really increased the number and length of letters from those parents who are total pricks’

The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.

Breaking promises made to people the government thinks unpopular, and saying bad luck with health or unemployment is as reprehensible as criminality, is bad not just for those facing deportation but for all of us who care about Britain as a country that believes in fair play, decency and honesty.

The politics of the far right does not magically become acceptable when delivered by a young Home counties woman with the right accent and friends.

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to Fransisco Franco.

Just want to give a shout out to my 83 year old dad- normally conservative, a former SCOTUS law clerk for Rehnquist- who protested out in the rain this morning in St Louis. #NoKings

Our government is currently run by 12 year-olds and extremely divorced middle aged men and, somehow, extremely divorced 12-year old middle aged men.

Something very weird has gone on to persuade so many organisations to roll with this half-baked software. It's like someone invented concrete that's 30% cheese and every other building collapses and everyone just shrugs and carries on.

The deep irony is that Labour is paying the political price for failure of the signature project of its opponents.

If the Altman be Bob, Great work, good job If the Altman be Sam, Good grief, goddamn

BBC4 is repeating Bryan Magee’s 1987 series, The Great Philosophers, and I introduce it next Monday 13th at 22.30. I remember being very impressed when it went out that my wonderful PhD supervisor, Myles Burnyeat, was in the very first episode!