This is also said about Europe's approach to China and I simply don't believe this is true. I was at conferences with senior US folk in the early 2010s and none thought China would become more democratic or liberal. We thought we could compete.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The repulsive David Miller

Hamas are Zionists now

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

In defence of digital ID. By Tim Harford timharford.com/2025/10/in-d...

She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.

This is kind of a CAPTCHA for AI

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

The sad state of the Gaza "ceasefire". mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/a-great-gl...

How China laid the Rare Earths Trap, and the West blundered into it. nixons.substack.com/p/how-the-we...

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Incredible to hear Russell's voice. And important to note that from the very beginning, some people on the left recognised the sadism and intellectual poverty of Bolshevism.

What did Reagan really say about tariffs?

Seems like an important detail

every passing day, rightwingers are inventing new and unexpected ways to signal to the world they may be the dumbest iteration of humans so far

Masterful writing from Ian Dunt on the seasons. He’s right. Spring is the best. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

So much for the idea that the US has supported the Ukrainian long range strike campaign.

Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

It was always BS that Trump was going to help Ukraine with Tomahawks (or anything else). To the world's press & politicians, FFS, stop making the same error over & over again. Fool me once: shame on you Fool me thirty times and counting: shame on me phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-is-t...

“No, America Is Not Experiencing Fascism. Yes, You Should Still Worry: A response to Niall Ferguson” By Roger Partridge www.persuasion.community/p/people-are...

Doris Lessing shows how to react to getting a Nobel Prize

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history: The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch. Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

Kash was begging for a Community Note

Israel is terrible at genocide

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Just got a haircut, and my lovely barber, a Turkish guy who employs 6 people, and has a wife who's an IVF technician, is shutting up shop and moving to another country because his Indefinite Leave to Remain is under threat by these venal, stupid, posturing politicians, left and right.

If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?

🏆🚘👌

Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Rio de Janeiro

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

*gasp*

Kittens

“A very stupid and dangerous mistake; unbelievably, Israel - of all countries - has made the crisis for Britain’s Jews even worse” Astonishing how the Israeli govt has made such a staunch supporter as Melanie Phillips so apoplectic (and rightly so). open.substack.com/pub/melaniep...

Hard to express the appropriate level of contempt for the Far Right extremism of the Israeli govt… #Israel

This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.

It is a joint statement from the Board of Deputies and the JLC. Its sad something like this needed to be said on the first Sabbath after Thursday but many people from every faith & none will be glad to see the clarity with which this longstanding position has been reiterated, and so can amplify it

Jewish leaders in Britain entirely correct about the disgraceful decision of Israel’s govt to associate with thug Tommy Robinson.

“I asked a simple question at a pro-Palestine protest and it turned ugly” By Matthew Syed Antisemitism is rife at a Gaza protest in London. All you have to do to expose it is ask a simple question about Hamas. #Israel share.google/nG50o4NihYtM...

Think harder

FFS, Netanyahu

Fascist

My ‘favourite’ was the MAGA woman who was furious the dictionaries had changed the definition of ‘fascist’ because she looked it up and it just described Trump without naming him!