Highly recommend @edwardluce.bsky.social fantastic bio of Brzezinski. Biography and history done well.

Just a periodic reminder.

So glad to see "Zbig" by Edward Luce named as one of the 50 Notable Non-Foction Books of the Year by the @washingtonpost. A terrific biography of one of the most important foreign policy figures of modern times. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Fully agree with my paper's editorial on Trump. Ukraine needs Europe to stop flattering Trump the conman and take a clear stand for its own survival and values. www.ft.com/content/8ccf...

Also Zbig on The Economist’s books of 2025 in good company

Delighted to see Zbig on the Wapo's best non-fiction of 2025, though because it begins with Z it appears last. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

New free link on.ft.com/4r7ILgO

Trump's British Maga allies - and his suit against the BBC. My column. on.ft.com/4i6z6mR

Just read transcript of GB News interview with Trump. North Korean broadcasting standards. Bev Turner is not a journalist. Her sycophancy was shameful.

“A politician’s greatest trick is to convince you that he's not one,” Nuzzi writes. “And what is a politician? Any man who wants to be loved more than other men and through his pursuit reveals why he cannot love himself.” High end clickbait masquerading as sophistication.

Gotta give my friend @edwardluce.bsky.social credit: He published this column in the @financialtimes.com in the wee hours this morning in London, and it's now almost lunchtime in Washington and it has already aged like a bottle of 1869 Château Lafite Rothschild.

That @edwardluce.bsky.social ! He must have a crystal ball. Here's his prescient column for today. www.ft.com/content/0fd7...

Free to read. on.ft.com/4nVSV1w

“Are you still talking about Epstein?” Trump keeps asking. Epstein is a “dead issue”, he says. The man stays dead but his issue is very much alive. That is because the system that protected Epstein has still not been held to account." My column. on.ft.com/43p8IhQ

Area social media addict takes plunge into offline world and gets everything hilariously wrong. Thinking of pitching Netflix.

Am gagging. I'd rather eat cat food than watch this.

LUCE: “.. the opening act of Trump’s second term is over. .. Only the naive would bet on an unmolested midterm election,” but “big victory margins are by far the best guardrail against skulduggery.” @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7913...

"For the first time in a while, Democrats now think they can see a pathway out of the gloom. Big victory margins are by far the best guardrail against midterm skullduggery." My column. on.ft.com/3LphRkt

"You made a fool of me". www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxz1...

Can't get over Vance's "Rome wasn't built in a day" comment. So is that what you're up to Mr Vice-President?

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

New gift link (previous one expired). Comments have been disabled, which demonstrates my point.. on.ft.com/47oS8kI

An important piece from @edwardluce.bsky.social. It speaks a truth many both-sidesers in the media have actively obscured. The anti-semitism in America comes from the right and it is getting worse and it has high-level MAGA sponsorship. We need to see it and reject it.

"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj

Belatedly watched 60 minutes Trump interview. OMFG. This isn't journalism.

Delivering on transparency....Trump's a vandal, a cheat, a conman and a thug and it's all manifested in his aesthetic taste.

The Kim Kardashian test is whether her spiel about a fake moon landing should be taken at moronic face value or whether it's an ingenius brand refresh strategy that works. For the sake of our species, I hope it's the first.

Happy Publication Day and congratulations to Dr. @kschake.bsky.social ! A brilliant scholar of civ-mil relations, her prose is joyful and well crafted, and her narrative, compelling. This is a foundational, urgently needed text. I cannot recommend more strongly. www.amazon.com/State-Soldie...

"Like Napoleon’s generals, Trump is a lucky man. Having done what he can to give us a recession, the AI gold rush has so far spared him that fate." My column. www.ft.com/content/dcea...

We're Unraveling at Light Speed (w/ Edward Luce) Mona Charen discuss how Trump #47 term has gone from chaos to control — from a fake war in Venezuela to a culture of fear in D.C.. They talk abt the money, the mobs, the East Wing demolition,...." www.thebulwark.com/p/were-unrav...

Looking forward to hosting @edwardluce.bsky.social discussing his book "ZBIG: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's great power prophet" along with @sbg1.bsky.social (Susan Glasser) & Graham Allison at Harvard's CES @europeatharvard.bsky.social . ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Talking of which, give this a (free to) read on.ft.com/48JYzji

Pedantic complaint: You don't "give it a read". You "read it".

In the poverty of Trump’s American faith comes the impoverishment of our founding ideas — and the fractures ripping America apart The destruction of the White House was visceral, sacrilegious It profanes our secular American religion My latest: www.greatpower.us/p/the-sacred...

Is an aircraft carrier the best means of interdicting non-existent fentanyl boats? Asking for a friend.

Guess who Hegseth's Pentagon awards its biggest drone contract to....? Naturally one in which Don Trump Jr has a stake and sits on its board. Every goddam conflict of interest law is being vandalised daily by Trump's administration. www.ft.com/content/4ced...

A whole lot of people believe in rugged individualism until it’s time to be ruggedly individual 👀

If you read one thing today, this weekend, or this month, let it be this essay by @edwardluce.bsky.social. It starkly depicts where we are in America, how and why those who have power in America have yet to effectively stand up to Trump and why they must start. Superb job by Ed.

"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr

this is a fearless, clear, alarming explainer by @edwardluce.bsky.social on how Trump is trampling over democratic norms in the USA www.ft.com/content/1377...

"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...

This. Every word.

"Whatever lies behind Trump’s cupidity towards Putin, we should be long past caring why. The reality is settled fact. Putin has fewer cards in his hand than Trump supposes. One of those cards is Trump." My column. www.ft.com/content/7deb...

Gold now above $4,300 a troy ounce - up more than 60 per cent since Trump was inaugurated. It's what you buy in times of turmoil and uncertainty, and is the best market indicator of the Trump effect.

Per @edwardluce.bsky.social in this excellent and insightful peace, it would be rash to assume Trump knows what he is doing. Especially with China. He’s punching way above his weight class with Xi, a man who knows exactly what he’s doing in response to Trump’s trade war.

"Trump is a field day for Palantir, OpenAI, xAI, Anduril & others. He may think he's the ultimate peacemaker. But his actions are stoking China’s self-belief and elevating America’s military-AI complex. It would be rash to assume he knows what he is doing." My column. www.ft.com/content/7343...