If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Fight The Power (Public Enemy) 10/10 Fight The Power (The Isley Brothers) 8/10

"For President Trump’s goal of a “strong, durable and everlasting peace” to be achieved, this initiative must be grounded in the fundamental principles of international law. It must ensure an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of all Palestinian territory within the 1967 borders, not just of Gaza."

By their friends shall ye know them.

Both Clinton and former Pres Joe Biden had an “emotional identification” with Israel and Biden seemed “ideologically incapable” of wielding real leverage over Netanyahu even when politicians in his party and officials in his administration were calling for it. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 won by a woman - Maria Corina Machado

Taking a page out of the Sweden Democrats playbook.

I am pro-NATO because I am anti-imperialist.

A truly terrible and misrepresentative headline. Not a brilliant article either, neither one thing nor t'other, but if I were Ms. Parkinson I'd be quite aggrieved. www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

Trading terrible Franglais puns on Twitter with my favourite Irish writer - almost made the whole thing worthwhile.

President Gazza. youtu.be/FZOZdwD0Jls?...

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

The once and future Californian, as Marina Hyde so perfectly called him.

I tell you who did win the Nobel Peace Prize: The European Union, in 2012, for" promoting peace, democracy and human rights for six decades". And they deserved it.

This @theguardian.com piece contains the following line, seemingly without irony: "As the US president spoke at an anti-antifa roundtable on Wednesday afternoon..." Apart from anything else, what's the style guide policy on double negatives? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

While all eyes are on Gaza...

I know Newsnight has got rid of most of its journalists already, but you'd have hoped the remaining staff still knew how to spell...

This sounds great, especially for someone like me who's not properly read Heaney since A Level.

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Happy 60th Birthday, Post Office Tower! Love the bit in @stuartmaconie.bsky.social's Welfare State book about him interviewing Tony Benn there and some PR spotty Herbert keeps trying to get them to use the current brand name without success. Surely now's the time to reopen the rotating restaurant?

"Pop is dead, but hey, has he left some message for you guys OR WHAT!"

Coverage of Badenoch's speech was one of the worst examples ever of Westminster Brain and Lobbythink. A litany of nonsense applauded by a policy elite that can't even think three moves ahead. (1/3)

R3 news: #Gaza's civil defence agency says there've been continuing Israeli strikes against civilians since the deal was announced, and the IDF will still control 40% of Gaza after "withdrawal" to the agreed line.

As ever, better to skip the News at Ten and read @roberthutton.co.uk instead. "Whatever else you can say about Badenoch, she doesn’t let anything hold her back, not her record, not her ability and certainly not reality." thecritic.co.uk/one-small-st...

Um Gottes Willen.

But her emails.

Never mind Claudia Winkelman, this new series of Les Traîtres on @tf1info.bsky.social sounds 《formidable》.

Maybe it’s not just the money, it’s also the hubris

Very odd editorialising line in the Radio 3 news coverage of Badenoch's conference speech: "but she had little to say about Reform's rise". So what?

I think we should all take a few minutes to listen to Harry Belafonte on, amongst other things, flags. youtu.be/_XUlCuW7Drc?...

Late to this excellent article by @emmavj.bsky.social with its, um, arresting opening image: "Microsoft pulled its waistband high over its soft belly to introduce the term 'vibe working'."

A press release that unforgivably misses the opportunity to warn of a wurst case scenario.

"What is desperately needed is a vision for resuscitating the UN’s political role in peacemaking and mediation, including within the secretary-general’s own office." #UN80

Finalising that Nobel acceptance speech.

Odzyskać Kontrolę.

Well knock me down with a feather.

Brexit was always racism at its heart.

Depressing and rebarbative to see that The Canary and Mr. Squawkbox are still going - and claiming that the 7 October massacre was committed by the IDF. (As if their actions thereafter aren't sufficient grounds for condemnation.)

Unintentional light relief here - but how long before the Mail, Farage, Jenrick et al declare these racist thugs to be "political prisoners"?

Peak Facebook: spam from a "British Comedy Legends" account, approvingly quoting Johnny Ball calling for the reintroduction of National Service. (Had to check he wasn't already dead.)

Jour de la marmotte encore une fois: I've been reading variations of this headline in @lemonde.fr ever since poor old Pierre Bérégovoy killed himself.

A politician with any shred of shame would resign on receiving such a letter, all the more devastating for its restraint. A leader with any trace of a spine would sack him.

"If you’re in business, media, politics, thinktanks, and you do pan-European things, all of the diversity in the room is British, always." A striking observation from a characteristically generous and forward-thinking interview. UK still streets ahead on multiculturalism than much of Western Europe.

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

I don't disagree - but GOT, not gotten! When did this become acceptable on this side of the Atlantic?

I'd assumed it was a dreadful, ironically-named new musical genre from Dalston.

My column this week: on a world in which your lifeboat seems ever more necessary- but ever more unappealing:

For a political party to post about "remembering the events of 7 October" without mentioning the victims or why they were attacked (and by whom) is abject cowardice at best.