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well, obviously, we need to unite against divisiveness.

anyone going to ask Farage if he'll renounce paracetomol now

update on war blogging: Petraeus literally bows to a man who fought with Zarqawi and founded Syria's al-Qaeda franchise

The Trump/Kennedy jihad against paracetamol somehow reminds me of the best analgesic ever, the Brompton Cocktail; heroin, cocaine, and cannabis tincture dissolved in gin. If we're going to get assisted suicide, why shouldn't we get a proper send off.

“Even you wouldn’t kill a dog, and you kill everything.” Monsters, all of them monsters nymag.com/intelligence...

quite a bit of having it both ways here, which always seemed to be the policy

Note how we’ve moved from concerns about people arriving irregularly in small boats to wrecking the lives of people who are by definition here entirely lawfully

christ, another one. It is actually legal for politicians to support another team.

quite right to expose this, but Faragists are also going to be pursued by a huge, throbbing crowd of abandoned mistresses, embezzled pensioners, and people wondering where their bitcoin is or wanting to be paid for that cocaine.

That said humanity’s burial practices can at times defy the obvious - like the two Scottish bog bodies that were later found out two be at bits from at least six different people who died literally centuries apart from each other that for reasons now unknowable reassembled into two “bodies”

comedian in China got a few weeks in jail a couple of years backfor making a joke that could have been construed with bad faith as criticizing the military. Amazing how China went from learning from the West to teaching it.

so they actually gave Trump a red box, which can't symbolise anything other than ownership of policy.

terrific essay

tonight brings this to mind, for some reason

“Legitimate concerns.”

we're getting to the stage where something like DeGaulle's SAC or a Kitson style counter-gang strategy against the right would be justifiable policy and we absolutely need to realise that the US under the current regime is the major external threat to British democracy and we have...this

shame Warren Zevon's not around right now.

the man in charge of this shitshow is the only American president considered worthy of two state visits. It's all hoo-ha of course, but it's supposed to matter to the kind of people who like flags.

Hat tip @clownf1st.bsky.social

when he said intensely relaxed all those years ago, he apparently meant it.

we have exactly the wrong government now, a better one isn't available, and we're chained to a lunatic who's visiting next week to help drag us further over the cliff.

in growing old together news, me and Julie have just spent twenty minutes trying to open a packet of biscuits. Darby and fuckin Joan.

what's that, skippy? Members of a violent rightwing masculinist subculture are going around killing each other? Well i never expected that!

Update: The "Trans ideology" thing is getting Crowder visited by the ATF, and the reason he thought it might be the dumbest possible combination. We are surrounded and ruled over by idiots.

ah, bracing stuff

the Conservative Revolution eats itself

this is just a ridiculous way to describe a guy who built an enemies list of professors so his shithead followers could send them hate mail and death threats

Mandelson's successor should have been whoever was ambassador to Turkmenistan while Saparmurat Niyazov was in power. The man who erected this would have been great training for Trump.

Sanchez has managed to behave with a comparatively impressive degree of dignity and self respect with regard to Trump, too.

all round bad actor

the bonnet ornament, the Foreign Secretary, the Leader of the Opposition and Boris Fucking Johnson. Why are they all doing this over a League One level rightwing propagandist?

It's all getting a bit Harry Kessler's diaries.

good times, my man. good times.

> and then have a couple of decent dinners and get drunk; this year was the first one where someone, an ex-government official and normally quite guarded, bluntly said to me in conversation “ the global system you and I have worked in for all our careers is gone” That was quite unsettling.

The Mandelson appointment seems pretty clear to me. He wanted the Washington job to promote his consultancy, and his former protege McSweeney made sure he got it. And if you want Mandelson gone, and a general change of direction in the government, he is the resignation you need.

precious bodily fluids, no less

this Qatar thing...we're all aware that the Begbie of international relations has nukes, right? And can we stop pretending that their denials are worth anything.

Yes, Peter Mandelson did write in the Epstein book, a multi-page letter with photos. Screenshots in thread. page 1

slightly diminish a book A Tale of Two City Regions

i think a lot of this goes back to the wave of Polish migrants after EU accession, and the government's refusal to defend and support it.

While South Korea might be mad at us over brutalizing their citizens for having the audacity to bring more manufacturing jobs to America, it’s important that it not overshadow other aspects of the relationship, like our president’s support for the guy who tried to end Korean democracy and start WW3.

there's a house on Bennet Road with the Royal Standard on a pole in the garden. Original Gangster there.

written in the guileless tone of a man breathlessly showing up late for the event of the season. This is the BBC. This is why people despair.

explains why Taiwan is reduced to wooing essentially marginal characters like Truss and Johnson, More consequentially, it's absolutely dreadful news for Latin America. They're going hemispheric/spheres of influence.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

the classic business case for dictatorship is that you know who to bribe out of the gate.

said this before, but China is 'national conservatism' in power. The little people may not cook, for their foul emissions may obscure our patriotic glory