Looking at responses to Sander's points, a tendency on the Centre Right mirror-imaging dogmatic Marxist hostility against capitalism is to view free trade and the market as quasi-theological absolute truths rather than variable outcomes of structural trends whose social utility can change over time

Football trouble or Early Modern intrigue?

The avoidance of a jet fuel crisis in Britain that was being predicted barely 2 months ago is quite extraordinary. Seems we've switched to Nigeria and the US as suppliers, pushed through emergency regulatory changes, and refocused domestic refineries.

Mr Nasser unironically triggered 1000 years of darkness not only upon the Arabs, with his schizo idiocy, but by directly setting the chain of events towards the '73 war, upon humanity as a whole In medieval times we'd paint someone like him in church fresco's as the Anti-Christ

Imagine going on Jihad as a teen in Iraq, getting tortured in Bucca, becoming an ISIS and then AQ warlord in Syria and overthrowing the 70+ years old Baath regime And your dad goes to the media to say he's disappointed in you - for being a damn neo-liberal

“No, not like *that*, you are doing racism wrong” - me, for Spiked

One of the last of the pantheon of true giants has left us. A great originator. You do not learn jazz without learning Sonny Rollins. We’re lucky that we had him for so long, but the loss feels tremendous.

harsh but also no, it's accurate. sorry turkey.

If Burnham loses, then Labour lose the next election to Reform. Their plans will make people significantly poorer, and after that the Brits will go full fash and vote for Restore. 30 years from now they'll be the poorest country in Europe by a long way.

Do you ever think about how the left memed Dennis Skinner’s contributions to the Queen’s Speech into the height of rebel wit and then you go look back at them on YouTube and it’s basically the equivalent of a drunk tramp shouting “you smell of shit” at people in a bus station

Gained value, maybe. Added value, definitely not!!

For a minute I thought this was somebody dressed up in a heron costume doing a stupid dance.

Former Polish Minister Ziobro, wanted on criminal charges, potentially facing 25 years in prison, seeking asylum in the US. Will Trumpland refuse a request for his extradition? If so, will the EU suspend all EU-US data transfers, and make sure no US agencies have access to European data bases?

Someone has to do a study of the Britsand this business with Starmer. He's obviously very average, but their media have persuaded the nstionbes worse than Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined. Some fascinating sociology. When asked why they hate him so much, most people can't explain it 🤷

Oh, god. This is just going to get worse as the 10th anniversary looms.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

This is probably the most straightforwardly egregious example in the article. This woman is voting Reform in order to strip her disabled stepson of his benefits. You couldn't make it up.

🚀 Merz to Welt on Tomahawk missiles: The Americans currently do not have enough themselves. There is currently hardly any possibility for the United States to provide weapons systems of this kind.

#Spain receives more sunshine than any country in Europe — and it is building the solar infrastructure that geography always promised. Extremadura, Andalusia, and Castilla-La Mancha became the center where Spain added new solar capacity, racing toward its target of 74% renewable electricity by 2030

Funny thing with the Brits...everyday the comments in the Telegraph are chock full of stuff like "we need to kill all the Labour MPs" "yes, and the supporters and voters too!" "Yes I want to see Starmer hung from a lamppost!" and literally no-one gives a shit 🤷

By not regulating the tech industry hard, we've allowed fools and idiots to fuck up a valuable industry. Lots of rules, and tax them hard, so only the truly good people create products. The people doing it for money add no value to society. They can stack shelves or something...

Joking aside, I think the greatest disaster in tech was about 10 years ago when people decided testing products was too expensive. Imagine if car manufacturers took that view? We need to regulate the fuck out of the tech industry. These people are not smart at all.

I've just managed to submit a signed document to the Registradores government website, and I think it's possibly the greatest achievement of my life! In general, I've not had problems with Spanish admin, but this system is another level of disfunctionality!

Listened to Any Questions earlier and the bowing and kowtowing to the sacred Americans was so embarrassing. Old men slavishly repeating "it's the greatest alliance in history". Brit politicians have lost all dignity (and plenty of EU pols too unfortunately, but not our Pedro, thank god!)

Always found the “cult” jibe aimed at Corbynism (and indeed, other groups of Stans) wrong. It’s not about a cult, it’s about a parasocial investment that is all about your own worth as a human. Politician I support does/something stupid, this cannot be, I support and am good. Therefore, contortions

The birth of the World 1941. Joan Miró

Everything about this is perfect

Are any British journos having regrets at bigging up Reform and the Greens as the saviours of British democracy? They've ushered in two racist parties. Slow handclaps all round....

Now let is suppose you hate the Israeli government and Netanyahu and everything he’s doing. Suppose you also hated Milosevic and think they are equivalent. Would it have been ok to stab random Serbs in the street?

A reminder that Jonathan Pollard, one of the most high profile Jews in the UK, regularly calls for extreme violence against non-jews. Wonder if the British media will look at his role in all this....

The British elites really thought they could turn the two right wing parties into far right parties without generating a left wing equivalent 🤣🤣

Amazing.

I have just come back Myanmar 🇲🇲 where I spent two weeks traveling around the resistance-held territories of the Sagaing region. Its a remote region which no other foreign press has managed to visit since the start of the war five years ago. I'll share some impressions below 🧵

Back to one of my regular moans about democracy measurement - present bias. According to VDEM the UK's 'level of liberal democracy' is now lower than any time since 1945 - a period of time in which business owners and graduates had multiple votes and during which the Troubles occurred. WRONG.

Watching Israelis spend all day on Twitter saying "yeah we bought your stolen grain, so what??" Is pretty galling. They were once respected, but know a rogue state who are about as popular as Russia. Fuck those guys.

You could have funded USAID and given $30bn of firepower to Ukraine, and not be on the verge of tanking the global economy.

Stalin and tankies is just a constant things that I'll never ever understand. The USSR is dead. Its over. We didn't conquer it, it just fell apart in a nasty, corrupt mess after a nasty, corrupt existence wherein it mostly suppressed and murdered people to no great effect save regime survial

Texas State Rep. James Talarico just announced his campaign for U.S. Senate raised more than $27 million in the first quarter of 2026 — the largest amount ever raised by a U.S. Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year.

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

Fico right now

Antonio Pigafetta, on the first journey around the world, in 1520, reaches Borneo, and encounters Leaf Insects for the first time. I swear, this is one of the best books I've ever read!

Hungary election result: Europe GAIN from Russia

Tisza with 138 seats after almost 90% of the votes counted, supermajority is at 133 vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026

After a couple of very difficult weeks that have left me feeling very, very down, the wonderful news from Hungary has given me a little lift that I really needed. A spark of light in the darkness. What a relief!! 🙂🙂

Whe I started hearing TACO used in meetings involving real world investors and policymakers I realised that our entire political world is now so excessively online that the global system might truly become irreperably f---ed

Any analysis of strategies and survival prospects of the Orban government needs to take into account the network of systemic corruption it has expanded. Playing this dimension down is reminiscent of analysis that once underestimated crises building up around Yanukovych or Mubarak

Just going to throw out this prediction that I've had in my mind for a while now; Sanchez and Starmer both to win their next elections 🙂 @jwsidders.bsky.social @almagroschool.bsky.social @jonnelledge.bsky.social @aphclarkson.bsky.social

Not any more! My 7 yr old is growing up with South Korean music and TV. American soft power is gone with the younger generation.

Uruguay generates nearly 43% of its electricity from wind and solar. In 2010, the share was less than 1%. Most of the rest if hydro. Today, Uruguay produces nearly 99% of its electricity from renewable sources. More here www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...