Wrote a short piece about Italy's latest WC qualifying disaster. Given more space, would have written about ancient stadia, age of players (Inter's ave. age was over 5 years higher than PSG's in CL Final), financial corruption, dreadful governance, Ius Soli etc. Ach. unherd.com/newsroom/ita...

Liz Truss Appointed by Trump to Dismantle the 'Deep Space Blob'

Hahahahahahahahaha (the ha-ing continues).

Italy denies use of Sicily airbase to US planes carrying weapons for Iran war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

BREAKING: Judge HALTS Trump's $400M ballroom führerbunker project on the site of the demolished East Wing. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

Now playing youtu.be/ZUvN1fY5jpc

DAD TRIED ON A KILT BUT TOO SMALL.

1/ The US attempted to send several Iran-bound bombers to an Italian air base without prior authorisation and was refused permission by the Italian government while the aircraft were in flight. The news comes a day after Spain disclosed it was refusing US military overflights. ⬇️

More cringing embarrassment

America could now relocate bases in Spain to a staunch European ally of its war in Iran, such as Imaginaryland.

Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇

🔴Spy Games and the Global Far Right Loom Over Historic Hungarian Election As Viktor Orbán trails in the polls he is seeking help from the global far right and the intelligence services, reports Ábel Bede bylinetimes.com/2026/03/31/s...

"Whats happening right now in south Lebanon is the result of the fact that what happened in Gaza for more than 2 years has been allowed to happen with total impunity" Budour Hassan from Amnesty🎯

Nell'ultimo mese, dati diffusi dall'Unicef, 216 bambini uccisi e 1.767 feriti in Iran, 124 uccisi e 413 feriti in Libano. Ma guai a parlar male de "l'unica democrazia del medioriente". Non ci provate, altrimenti vi prendete dell'antisemita.

#NOWAR #WARCRIMES #IRAN Your Freudian slip of the day

The Grand Prix Of Gibraltar – Featuring Peter Ustinov hiding inside a Jaguar XK 150

Rum. It’s always rum.

Tuesday

"Welcome to Britain in 2026 and the increasingly harsh way we handle not even protest, but the very thought of protest."

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

There it is bsky.app/profile/josh...

Today's birthday bests go out to actress Gabrielle Drake, who played Lieutenant Gay Ellis in 10 episodes of UFO! Favourite Lieutenant Ellis moments?

Hanyeo (The Housemaid), Kim Ki-young (1960)

“A few weeks before the Second World War, nobody thought we would go into a war that would kill between 60 and 85 million people in less than five years. That’s why authoritarians want you to forget history.”

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

NEW: It’s a journocide. Israel admits to targeting & killing three more journalists & making up false evidence. Journalists in the west have a moral responsibility to speak up. The blowback from this impunity is coming next for us all. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Eric Idle – 83 today

We’re hastening the death of everything for the benefit of a technology that is swamping the world with shit.

In return for information about the thieves, Crimestoppers are offering a large bounty.

Vittime italiane dello stragismo fascista: circa 400 Vittime italiane di attentati anarchici: ZERO

New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir this week. Is it time the NHS did the same? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai

Walz: Welcome to the freest state in the nation—a state where you love who you choose to love, a state where you make your own healthcare decisions, a state where you worship—or not—according to your own beliefs, and maybe most importantly, a state where everyone belongs.

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The San Diego crowd is so massive that we can’t see the begging or end of the march! #NoKings #NoKings3 #NoKingsSD

Virna Lisi and Brigitte Bardot (1967)

Claudia Cardinale and Marcello Mastroianni "Il bell'Antonio" (1960)

Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Anna Karina, Jean-Paul Belmondo 'Pierrot le Fou'

I never get tired of posting this 1957 Burt Glinn photograph of Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler & Grace Hartigan. Today it's in honour of Hartigan's birthday 🎂

On Rudolf Serkin's birthday I'm listening to his first Columbia recording from 1941, the Emperor Concerto with Bruno Walter, from New York. Great Alex Steinweiss album cover, which anticipates Storm Thorgerson's Dark Side of the Moon cover of 1973. youtube.com/watch?v=KTrJ...

There's having a brass neck and then there’s whatever this is from Boris Johnson

#botd Dirk Bogarde on the set of I Could Go On Singing (1963). Photo by Bob Willoughby. "I have never been an extrovert actor, always an introvert; instinctive rather than histrionic,..." From Snakes And Ladders, published 1978.

Meloni clearing out the ministers she doesn't like from her government, although she had been fine with them until the massive defeat in the referendum.