Still catches my european mind off guard seeing americans post like "noooo gas prices have skyrocketed up from $0.03 to $0.04 cents per swimming pool"
World events have made me think back to this scene from Whit Stillman’s super Barcelona. “The little bastards got what they deserved”.
youtu.be/O50cySmUtWY?...
lol. lmao. xd.
The comments are insane. They think that trying to portray the mindset of the missile crews is somehow condoning or supporting their actions. I expected better from the reading comprehension of FT readers.
I find it bemusing when people talk about the ‘rules based international order’ as an airy-fairy idealistic thing. The people who built it had just fought and won the bloodiest war in the history of mankind. They were well aware of its imperfections but that didn’t mean it wasn’t important.
'We've had enough of experts.'
Also its significance for early women activists. The temperance movement offered ability for women to mobilise, unsurprising considering how alcoholism would often manifest in the home in the form of domestic violence and how women had limited alternative outlets for political pressure.
As technology’s role in our lives deepens ever further, the greater the capability for these types of targeted attacks. The temptation for this form of warfare is only going to increase and I’m not sure it is a world I particularly want to live in.
I’m starting to feel that Netanyahu’s personal foreign policy aims don’t align with that of Europe
The Custer series is disproportionately long relative to its ‘significance’ in history but it never feels bloated and the tragedy of the whole story is masterfully told together with lots of humour. The Aztec series is also amazing, really gets that sense of interlopers in a truly alien world.
In Free Lea Ypi writes of how Albanians would display cans of Coca Cola when the country was first opening up. Found out my mum did something similar, when a uni friend’s mum brought back some instant noodles they kept the plastic packaging as a souvenir never having seen something like it before.
And they laughed at him for saying he saved the world smh
People don’t actually want normal people they can go the pub with, their revealed preference is for politicians who are just very good at the whole politics deal.
His time has come.
Still such a remarkable quote www.ft.com/content/085e...
he’s coming
Ed Miliband surely the least bad option, but would he actually want it?
Like Colin Farrell beating up a Canadian tourist for Vietnam in In Bruges
I thought the whole point of Chagos was to please the Americans and allow them to keep their base on Diego Garcia?
Now this is proper football
All that build up and controversy to lead to what may be the worst penalty I’ve ever seen. Absolutely embarassing from Brahim Diaz.
We were deriding you because you are patently unwilling to fund a viable alternative to consensual US hegemony in democratic Europe. You’d get to preen if you’d been calling for massive defence spending hikes, an independent nuclear deterrent, minimising out-of-home-theatre commitments and so on.
Just because you do not take an interest in foreign policy doesn't mean foreign policy won't take an interest in you etc etc
If only there were some kind of useful lesson here about deploying more senior skills in triage outside of strike periods
www.ft.com/content/c928...
Just local news in general is a shadow of its former self and it should be the role of the BBC, who don’t rely on advertisers, to step up. How can we expect to have functioning local democracy without a functioning local press?
I was reminded of Foch's imaginary British soldier.
What was the point Egypt playing hoofball football for 70 minutes when they had an actual targetman on their bench?
“Should we target Reform voters or ‘left’ voters?” - this is babytalk. Do your job!
I feel like I’m going insane.
We are one day into 2026 and I highly doubt I will see a better trio of performances all year than Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value. The final look took my breath away.
