The daily photo. Wimbledon, January 2013.

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

How societies (mis)manage the tension between markets and democracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

European appeasement in the face of Trump’s international and domestic mayhem is not proving successful. The EU and UK desperately need a serious strategy and some backbone as Trump ramps up his destructive domestic & international trail of destruction. My new blog. open.substack.com/pub/kirstyhu...

I, for one, cannot understand why men like Rupert Lowe are opposed to banning X, despite it assisting sex offenders, paying people to invite the foreign powers to invade the U.K, and allowing state-sponsored cyber warfare against our democracy. It's a real mystery...🤔

USA MAGA regime as rogue state: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Why building nature-centric housing involves a mindset shift theconversation.com/why-building...

We’ve reached the ‘hopes lie with Marco Rubio’ stage of disintegrating global hegemony

In Canada, a couple of conservative MPs joined the liberals in order to pass some laws. Too bad we can’t get a couple of Republicans to behave similarly in the name of saving the republic.

This is what it looks like to live in a world, to quote Stephen Miller, "that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power". The rule of law & constitutional govt exist to stop the strong doing what they want & killing who they want. That ideal is under open attack

Another day in the death of rational policymaking in the USA, as the MAGA regime pulls out of the UNFCCC and other UN bodies. Note the lack of protest from the US business world, which has definitively shown how hollow its 'ESG' commitment was. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The daily photo. Wimbledon Common, January 2021.

That major geopolitical events don’t move oil prices that much anymore (euphemism: ‘geopolitical premium’) is the real geopolitical event. See also this report of the Eurasia Group on the energy strategies of China v. US: www.eurasiagroup.net/live-post/ri...

The goal of the MAGA regime : the USA is to be a far richer & tougher version of Putin's Russia - a banana superpower, ruled via kakistocracy, extractivist oligarchs and corruption, and with an ideology that boils down to Might Is Right, tricked out with fake religiosity & nostalgic chauvinism.

The daily photo.

Critically, we also need the public to support actions that enable older people to live great lives without having to drive for when they fail the eye tests. So the public need to get onboard with no pavement parking, pedestrian priority, denser housing, fewer out-of-town shopping centres, etc etc

We must dare to envisage a society where every individual is valued over the bottomless appetite of the elite, a society where the law is the guardian of the collective good rather than the servant of unbridled greed.

We can neither diminish nor deny January 6 — its memory — and how we remember it — is foundational for whatever happens next. So, don’t give up on the truth. January 6: American Crucible open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

The Climate Game: Can you reach net zero by 2050? ig.ft.com/climate-game/ 📣Join: www.collectiveforclimateaction.org/climate-lear...

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

The White House "history" of January 6 is but an amuse bouche of the poisonous plate of authoritarian historical revisionism they'll be serving the American people during this entire semiquincentennial year. Don't swallow the lies. Rise up for truth.

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit. If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

Stephen Miller, who wants the U.S. to steal Greenland and shake down Latin America, says: ”We live in a world … that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” That‘s a criminal pretending that a civilized world is impossible.

January 6 in History Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.” And here we are.

Two policemen remember January 6. One was defending the Capitol, the other attacking it. Both were transformed by the experience, and by the photos and video taken that day www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Never forget.

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

Seems an opportune moment to ask those British amplifiers of Yarvin, from Truss to various Spectator people, if they approve of his…err…physiognomic analysis here.

The lesson of January 6th is that it does absolutely no good to prosecute the the violent foot soldiers if you're not going to prosecute the leaders and hold them accountable for their sedition under the full force of the law.

It's been five years since Trump tried to overthrow the Constitution. What unfolded over the five years that followed will be remembered as one of the greatest failures of American institutions in our history.

This is good by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on wrongly ascribing 'empathy' to bots. Part of the problem is that, decades prior to LLMs, cognitive psychologists were deriving their theories of mind from computation, so there's a vicious circle at work www.ft.com/content/ef77...

Once again I ask myself why we are signing huge government contracts with companies owned & run by people who are open about being authoritarians, who call for public hangings to show masculinity, & who are publicly trying to engineer techno-fascism *via the products we buy from them*? It's madness.

“Solidarity, for Arendt, is the political form of her joyful love for the world. It allows us to live within an imperfect and even broken world…”

Missed this today. Wrongness in every direction.

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

My thoughts today are with the security people and police officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 and have been treated with such distain since by the GOP. For them and the Democratic leadership who lived through such chaos and no doubt continue to carry the scars within. We will not forget.

Five years later, January 6 still matters. Not just because of what happened—but because of what happens if we decide we’ve already heard enough. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

The daily photo. Borough Market, London, Jan.2023

All Americans, and the entire world, must remember. Robert Reich: The most shameful day in American history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

subect of conversation at dinner last night in Poland: will Danes shoot Americans? Some thought yes, some thought no

Plenty of variables, but Farage remains a contender for PM. If so, what's the UK's international role? Airstrip One for a gangster state. Or we reject him, and resume being part of a rules-based Europe. This is the inescapable choice we now face, in shit circs (cos of Brexit, of Farage's making) 1/2

At what point do the US military remember that they took an oath to uphold the constitution?

This sounds absolutely awful. www.ft.com/content/6a33...

The Trump administration guts America’s capacity to deal with its intensifying ecological disasters… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Increasing awareness of the problems in the information environment can make people – incl. politicians – less vulnerable to misperceptions. Showing there is stronger support than assumed could give encouragement that there is public backing [for climate action] & that it’s politically viable.”

One of most remarkable US presentations at UN Security Council I've ever seen. - No reference to UN Charter legal justification - Claims Panama as precedent (which the UN condemned) - Energy reserves ⤵️ as justification is illegal - Sharp contrast with US Ambassador Pickering presentation in 1989

Utterly delusional, but quite interesting in a 'new spirit of capitalism' kind of way, that progressive Silicon Valley is seeking to absorb the critique of Sillicon Valley into itself. Ive has always struck me as a kind of tragic figure www.ft.com/content/6a33...