Trent Renzor has a collection of three-quarter foot medieval toy soldiers Nine inch mails

Michael Yale-Lock … hmm

Looking forward to this - and will be in England soon so will pick up a newsstand copy.

Allowing meta to buy instagram was one of the more fateful antitrust failures of the 21st century. Ad revenue would still have gone to social media, because it goes to screens.

wrote about Badenoch's purge of the wets, and Starmer's leadership, and why political success comes from intellectual confidence and not ideological narrowness: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Very solid piece by @jdportes.bsky.social - openness deserves support on all sides of the political spectrum. It’s Britain’s loss that it has so few defenders on any side, Jonathan is one of the few! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

verdad

There’s a cliche that every PM is either their own chancellor or their own foreign secretary. Burnham being his own chancellor ws lean against Miliband. But there are also govts where the Chancellor: Lawson, Brown, is a powerful driver of the govt’s reforms. That could point towards Miliband.

Once more for the afternoon crowd

Madrid - It has everything except a beach Tel Aviv - Madrid plus a beach, dodgy PM Sofia - The Madrid of the East (at altitude, great food, excellent red wine, dodgy PM) Budapest - No dodgy PM any more London - the most energy of anywhere in Europe

I’m not a Labour man but Mahmood, who has overseen economically damaging immigration policy at the Home Office would be an odd choice for Chancellor. It’s also baffling that her opposition to modernising energy is cited in support. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Characteristically excellent from Martin Wolf discussing the debate about US vs European growth. And the paradox that US economic growth doesn’t appear to translate into higher living standards www.ft.com/content/b77c... Is the US or Europe better off? 🧵

is this a datacenter or is this an illegal gas peaker plant

Much needed for the French

Will they be provided by the National Endowment for Autocracy?

Because Hegseth is on this shit again.

That’s one of those irregular verbs

A wise thought which this 2x2 matrix does not do justice

This is correct. Maybe this is the definition of centre-right: a centre-rightist is someone who would always choose to work with a centre-leftist and keep democracy over a fascist who would destroy it (The mirror image for centre-leftists and communists)

Thank you Mr President for making the relative price advantage of renewables even greater. I suppose he thinks it will help US oil and gas, but it wlll just encourage EVs and limit O&G to areas where stuff can’t easily be replaced.

Very good news. Ukraine is becoming the arsenal of democracy — while fighting.

I can see why Robbins might make the exception here: the civil service in the UK is supposed to be "permanent". Starmer sacked Robbins as if he were a special advisor, bypassing all the usual employment processes. I can see why he might see a point of principle worth establishing, there.

Not a dig at @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social or the Volkswagen Stiftung, but an observation that the assumption that civil society should be regulated strikes one as a particularly Germanic, if ordoliberal idea, where no part of society should be free of state intervention to secure its liberty.

Worth a read

Why Brussels is a mess: no bins Why Britain is a mess: too many bins

Why Brussels is a mess: no bins Why Britain is a mess: too many bins

October 2026. Panicking about the mid-terms, Trump invades Greenland. But that means the US has to join a NATO mission to stop its own invasion. www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...

Idiomatic Spanish 🇪🇸 carabasura

“One [challenge to the world community] has grown clearer than any other in both urgency and importance—I refer to the threat to our global environment. I shall take the opportunity of addressing the general assembly to speak on that subject alone.” www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107...

This is very good

Correct

A very important price showing how wrong-headed fears of a China shock is. By @martinsandbu.ft.com

The single most valuable benefit the EU can extend to an advanced candidate before accession is genuine, level-playing-field access to the internal market and the four freedoms at the heart of European integration. @geraldknaus.bsky.social and Ivan Nagornyak @epik-ukraine.bsky.social

The right wing tabloid media love to make hay when general rules yield “politically unacceptable” beneficiaries. The left wing tabloid media will no doubt do the same - but the EU observer is supposed to be a more serious outfit. Electric car maker gets electric car subsidies isn’t a story.

Jevons was a prof at my university. He was so famous they named a rubbish cafe after him

This is laegely true in Europe and the US but but sometimes Spain (Podemos) and UK (Corbyn) it was also and *separately* the radicalisation of the left.

The NDAA, passed by veto overriding majorities in Congress doesn’t allow that. Republicans with spine would impeach him if he issued orders to this effect. So that’s two “ifs”

Farage: to the Dustbinface of History (Needs a bit of work that one)

Feed here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfEL...

The loud man is turning up the volume

Flanders, Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region constitute an axis of waffles, arming to threaten the peace of the world

The guy had more red flags than a Soviet May Day parade

Don’t know if this is satire perhaps @almagroschool.bsky.social does /)

Country whose most recent former European Commissioner is being prosecuted for money laundering can bask in being the anti-corruption choice for once.

In Robert Harris’s Fatherland the Soviet government has retreated to Omsk, out of reach of the Wehrmacht. But within reach of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces. Slava Ukraini!

Will the Belgians get their diamonds back now?

Areindependent Ireland really in @reneweurope.bsky.social ?

Interesting list but an exit tax is an abomination. A version of the Berlin Wall that misunderstands the inherently global nature of modern capitalism.

Two views of Colonialism, eh. One: extractive rule wrong & representative institutions the way to prevent governments exploiting people they rule. The other deploys nationalist concepts of identity against foreign rule but says nothing about local misrule or imperialism by Marxist countries.