Yeah I’ve heard JP Morgan are struggling

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

Is drinking Lebanese #wine a political act Find out in the new episode of Get Yourself a Glass with me and @victoriamoore.bsky.social, as we look at how #Lebanon's winemakers are coping during the latest war there. Feat Ch Ksara, Dom des Tourelles + more Apple bit.ly/4t4tHkl, Spotify bit.ly/41sQ8nu

You know who puts themselves on the money? Dictators. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/creeping-aut...

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

Trump didn’t want to stand next to a Black woman officer. More economic anxiety, I guess. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

‘For Israel, it seems, there is no political problem that can’t be solved, at least in part, by the elimination of individuals.’ Andrew Cockburn on Mossad’s assassination strategy and its legacy. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Is drinking Lebanese #wine a political act Find out in the new episode of Get Yourself a Glass with me and @victoriamoore.bsky.social, as we look at how #Lebanon's winemakers are coping during the latest war there. Feat Ch Ksara, Dom des Tourelles + more Apple bit.ly/4t4tHkl, Spotify bit.ly/41sQ8nu

This is incredibly cool.

At Tesco press tasting. A shockingly large number of #wines with elevated residual sugar. I mean, what are a respected producer like Oregon’s Stoller doing putting this out with 5g/l residual sugar? Horrid!

‘Palestinians and their supporters have long likened the occupied territories to a “laboratory” where Israel experiments with military tactics, surveillance technologies and methods of population control, before applying them elsewhere.’ Amjad Iraqi on Israeli strategy www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

At the big California benchmark chard/pinot #wine tasting in London and literally the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ Californication is playing. OK guys, we get the vibe

In the new episode of Get Yourself a Glass, I and @victoriamoore.bsky.social explore #Lebanon’s amazing #wine and find out how winemakers are coping during the war - with some memories of previous ones... Feat Château Ksara, Domaine des Tourelles + more. Apple bit.ly/4t4tHkl, Spotify bit.ly/41sQ8nu

My blog: Michel Rolland and the fall of Bordeaux: The region had lost its way well before death of the influential #wine consultant last week – as bizarre new plans to reboot claret suggest. Plus: what I've been drinking, inc Assyrtiko, Crozes, Soave aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/michel-rol...

The new episode of Get Yourself a Glass is out! Join me and @victoriamoore.bsky.social as we explore Lebanon’s amazing #wine and find out how winemakers are coping during the latest war there. On Apple, bit.ly/4t4tHkl, Spotify bit.ly/41sQ8nu etc

Only Trump could be stupid enough to have formed an alliance with his own enemies.

It's been eight hours since the Government announced that crypto donations to political parties had been banned effective immediately and Reform's crypto portal is still accepting donations

The Farage Flounce: my SKETCH of very angry people demanding, DEMANDING to be taken seriously. thecritic.co.uk/the-...

Britons tend to want King Charles to cancel his planned state visit to the US later this year, as the White House reportedly prepares to announce the visit will take place next month Should go ahead: 33% (-3 from 9 March) Should be cancelled: 49% (+3) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

this explains everything

The new episode of Get Yourself a Glass is out! Join me and @victoriamoore.bsky.social as we explore Lebanon’s amazing #wine and find out how winemakers are coping during the latest war there. On Apple, bit.ly/4t4tHkl, Spotify bit.ly/41sQ8nu etc

My blog: Michel Rolland and the fall of Bordeaux: The region had lost its way well before death of the influential #wine consultant last week – as bizarre new plans to reboot claret suggest. Plus: what I've been drinking, inc Assyrtiko, Crozes, Soave aviewfrommytable.substack.com/p/michel-rol...

Literal lunacy.

Also happening soon: Elvis to ride Shergar in a victory march though downtown Tehran #Iran www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Also happening soon: Elvis to ride Shergar in a victory march though downtown Tehran #Iran www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Yay. Another day of losing your sanity and savings because of the actions of a deranged malignant neo-fascist narcissist

It's certainly doing politics differently

The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US. https://cnn.it/4d6Y3y8

NEW Why the United States attack on the school in Minab matters A follow-up post to the Prospect article at The Empty City Blog Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-un... Non-Substack theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...

The deep, deep stench of corruption.

Trump: "We're in a position we haven't seen. We're respected. You know, our country now is respected all over the world. A year and half ago we were a laughingstock. The King of Saudi Arabia told me."

How can this go on for another 3 years?

48 hours to open the Straits, which Trump also says US don’t need to have opened, in a war he has already said US has won, and in a situation where he demands help from countries which he also insists US does not need.

Loving how enraged this week’s @economist.com cover is gonna make #Trump and his cheerleaders #Iran

Hard to be optimistic about anything at the moment, but there is one positive development I suppose. Donald Trump has made the strongest possible case for why countries must turn their back on fossil fuel. And they seem to be listening.

the insane thing is that this is extremely lightly exaggerated 🤦🏽‍♂️

A more unchristian group of people it would be hard to imagine

More racist and fascist than Nick Griffin is a grim bar to clear yet, depressingly, Lowe clears it and sits in our Parliament. I expect he and his political movement will move rapidly into the dustbin of history. Hope I'm right about that.

Is this the most MAGA thing ever?👇 “A far-right conspiracy theorist turned high-ranking official at the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) claims to have once teleported to a Waffle House.”

*checks calendar to see if this is 1 April already* all of these are terrible with the possible exception of Athelstan.

Aside from all the many other ways this is self defeating stupidity, I don’t think it is going to do wonders for our effort to reboot relations with the EU when our government is stranding teenagers with dual British-EU nationality abroad.

Again, if Reform's opponents can't work out how to beat this guy, then they really have no business being in politics at all. The most target-rich politician in the UK

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting. If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this. I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse. This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

Taking a step back, such as statement by the US President on NATO would have been considered the absolute worst case about a year ago. It reads like Trump is just one sentence away from declaring the US no longer regards itself bound to mutual defence in NATO.

Great opening par. "The Trump administration, which definitely carefully planned its war on Iran and thought through all the potential implications, seems to be getting increasingly worried about the completely unforeseeable rise in gas prices." www.ft.com/content/2b00...

New from me: my chat with Richard Hough on Italian Wine Podcast’s Book Club, about #wine writing, sustainability, what makes a pub culture, and more podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

Typical response by Good Old Nige to getting rumbled. Portrays himself as a victim rather than holding his hands up and saying sorry. Such cowards, these "patriots": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #farage

V disappointing. But then #GerryAdams was never in the #IRA. He wasn’t commander of the Belfast 2nd battalion 1971-72, and wasn’t on the Army Council from 1977 until the end of armed ops 2005. Definitely not. Civil trial against Gerry Adams over IRA bombings withdrawn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's not the biggest thing, but it is genuinely deeply aggravating that everything will get worse for no real gains, just because Americans were stupid enough to elect him again.