Lancelot Ney (1900-1965) Oil on canvas

Same applies to the UK of course.

Kettle Black Calling Pot….

The Trump Administration promised to bring back manufacturing jobs. Yet, since the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs of April 2025, the US economy has lost 70,000 manufacturing jobs. So much for making American manufacturing great again.

I don't mean to be all "Now a warning?," but really: This barbaric shit has to stop.

And of course if it's being asked of any Republican official one can add "And also you." No other questions. None.

So how about every question from the press is "When will the president apologize for his disgusting racism and also resign?" and they just keep asking that, and only that, till he does both (though I'll be fine with just the latter)?

Donald Trump’s racist garbage against my friends Michelle and Barack Obama isn’t surprising, but is still totally unacceptable. Trump remains a disgrace to the Presidency and Republicans should finally find their voices and call this out.

"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

We are under attack. open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

The stone speaks but only when we can read it with our breath

Yes, quite. It's the biggest scandal of this administration, so far, probably. It's an average Tuesday under Johnson.

Excited to be heading to the Old Vic for the press night performance of Arcadia - the play on which I've been maths/science consultant. If you want to know more about the Maths and Science in the play before you go then check out my latest substack:

Going tonight. This whole piece is lovely but the last par in particular is very elegant, regardless of whether you're seeing the play

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...

She also deleted photos with Chomsky from Facebook, but you can find it on Google

🚨 Zarah Sultana has deleted her post about meeting Noam Chomsky in 2022 after it emerged from the Epstein files that he was a good buddy of Epstein. Original post nitter.net/zarahsultana... Web archive web.archive.org/web/20221028...

Absolutely fascinating. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

2024: Trump vows to be "the crypto president" 2025: Trump vows to make USA a leader in digital assets and launches a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve" 2026: Trump crypto crash wipes out over $2 trillion in market value #ETTD #Bitcoin #BTC

"The report said about $187 million from the deal flowed to Trump family entities" www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Two massive, international reviews find that 1) the HPV vaccine is highly effective at preventing the infections that lead to cancer and 2) there is no sign of serious safety concerns from the vaccine. www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

British response to the film about Melania Trump: If they were screening it for free at the bottom of my garden I'd shut the curtains.

In 15 years when Peter Mandelson is next sacked from the government, having been caught red-handed robbing a bank, commentators will confidently predict that his career is definitely over this time.

Does anyone sell subatomic sized violins?

> @johncusack.bsky.social

I’m loving the attitude in the marginalia to this copy of Griffith’s Morality of Shakespeare’s Drama Illustrated (1775).

Important to wear a crown. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...

#Hungary has charged the Mayor of Budapest for helping organize a peaceful #Pride march after it was banned. Punishing peaceful assembly threatens freedom and democracy for everyone. The EU must act. Sign and speak out. a.allout.org/s/P29lG/

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... #Ukraine

That‘s the spirit.

Bannon boasted to Epstein: Advising FN, League, AfD, Orbán – "200 EP seats... shut down crypto legislation or anything." 11/12

2018: Bannon told Epstein he met Johnson, Farage, Rees-Mogg to topple May. Wolff emailed Epstein as Johnson intermediary. 10/12

Epstein was Bannon's patron: Advised dodging scrutiny, gave transport/accommodation, smoothed Euro intros during UK hard-Brexit push. 9/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Enter Bannon: Post-White House, he fronted Farage partner Laure Ferrari's "Movement" to unite nationalists & block EU crypto regs. 8/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks. Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Reminder: At the heart of the Epstein stories are women who as minors were trafficked, raped and treated as sexual slaves by Epstein and his many powerful collaborators. Don’t let political point scoring overshadow that.

The alt-text 👌

To add to the pile, all the photos of the building show a pretty lousy looking house.

“The European Union is pressing ahead with talks to grant United States border authorities unprecedented access to Europeans’ data, despite growing concerns about American surveillance.”

Mandelson was not just operating against his government's interests, but against his country's interests inews.co.uk/opinion/rot-...

His mind is a plastic bag containing a random assortment of puzzle pieces and razor blades. I was completely unprepared for the full extent of his muddle and honestly expected something much more coherent.

Origin Story is BACK from the winter break with this deep dive into one of the silliest and most broken-brained thinkers we've ever come across: Maurice Glasman

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Yep, a crucial element. There was no problem too solve. They had a pro in place. But they had to play Westminster silly buggers.

"When everything is shocking, the shock dissipates and nothing is actionable. When every revelation arrives wrapped in irony, accountability dissolves."