Well worth reading:

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

Here's Peter's review of Jerusalem ... An enthralling evening. presidentshusbandsreviews.blogspot.com/2026/05/jeru...

Iran is gloating over weak, poor negotiator Donald Trump giving them $25,000,000,000 simply to return things to where they were before Donald's pointless war. And all because Donald was too stupid to foresee Iran cutting off supplies of oil, which had devastating effects on Donald's poll numbers.

A tricky situation with an unusual solution: the Tudor tomb effigy of the First Lady Framingham, commissioned by her successor in St Mary Magdalene, Debenham, Suffolk.

So much respect for this exceptional leader! Mamdani disputes Reagan claiming the 9 scariest words are “I’m from the government & I’m here to help,” saying: “9 more terrifying words are actually 'I worked all day, and can't feed my family.' Share everywhere! #uspoli substack.com/@rawstory/no...

Thought for the day:

"You cannot celebrate European civilization while simultaneously attacking the legal and political order invented here, or while openly seeking to undermine the institutions that protect pluralism and dissent" An answer to Vance and Rubio: www.erstestiftung.org/en/a-speech-...

The dismantling of USAID is a humanitarian crisis. Only the cartoonists are covering it.

Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Never have 4 people more wished they were still in the deepest, darkest recesses of outer space.

Fenton House @nationaltrust.org.uk on May 1st

This is happening in the middle of Tel Aviv 👏🏼👏🏼👇🏼💙

A New Yorker cartoon from December 2018, sadly still current.

That says it all

At Orford Ness, this morning

Asleep at the switch

Orford Castle, Suffolk, today

Touché

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Spot on!

🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”

#Hogsbreath is too stupid to be the Secretary of Defense!

I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact. #DonaldJChrist

Happy Birthday!

A magical exhibition by David Hockney @serpentinegallery.bsky.social

Toronto Star

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Thought for the day:

Barack Obama sent seasoned diplomats and nuclear scientists to negotiate the Iran Deal. Donald Trump sent a few real estate bros and JD Vance. Failure was a foregone conclusion.

All the other presidents said no to Netanyahu. Only one was dumb enough to say yes.

Tulips at Fenton House, Hampstead @nationaltrust.org.uk

Tulips at Fenton House, Hampstead @National Trust

Just the kind of editorial exactitude we expect from the FT

Wow!

“They make a desert and call it peace.”

I love dogs;)

Surrealism lives today!

Friends — This is starting to feel a lot like the Vietnam War. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memories-of-vietnam

Puppet Masters

❗️At pre-election rallies in 🇭🇺Hungary, the crowd began chanting: "Russians — go home!" The historic slogan "Ruszkik haza" emerged during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and was directed against the Soviet occupation.

A Happy Easter to all our readers!

Apollo and the three Graces, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich

RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

Enough said!