I can see the next AI pitch: "News overwhelming? Feeling like it's all too much? Let ChatGPT summarize it for you!"
[Beatles "It's All Too Much" plays behind voice-over]
I’m sure I’m not the only one wishing for precedented times…
I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death
Let me get this straight, businesses raise their prices in response to increasing costs? We need a term for this. No, not that one - a new, less accurate one.
It's fairly difficult to explain the covid shock to the median voter, so one can see how the greedflation narrative took over. Maybe I'm an optimist but I think most people will understand "Trump started bombing the part of the Middle East with all the oil and now we can't get the oil out"
One of the fascinating things about Starmer's Labour is that loads of governments say things that are untrue. They've pioneered the new thing of saying things that are untrue, but are also unhelpful to them personally.
Short read: the Trump Administration has messed up spectacularly and has totally lost control of events - but that doesn’t mean Iran is winning.
Cold, hard, deeply knowledgable analysis. Immensely worrying, thoroughly depressing, reading.
So dark. Kushner raises billions for his fund while the family of a soldier killed in Truml’s war gets help on Go Fund Me: www.gofundme.com/f/major-alex...
Weird thing about the banknote furore: there is *nothing* more British than preferring animals to people.
“Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire.”
Shot in the head and face. Executed with their parents. No words.
There is a wise old saying in litigation that if you are "surprised" at what your opponent is doing, then you are in the wrong job. You may be disappointed by what an opponent does, but you should never ever be surprised.
Trump is "surprised" by Iran's response to being attacked.
I think relentless mockery is good, but endless 'awareness raising' may not be helping.
These guys want to market themselves as the forbidden taboo knowledge parents are scared their kids will uncover.
They do not want you to burst out laughing at the thought of them posing next to a rental car.
It will be on Channel 4, free to watch. So why are the angries getting angry?
'Le Pont du Labastide' (1905) is one of Henri Martin’s final divisionist paintings, a composition of monumental grandeur. What I admire about this work is that he does not sacrifice his subject matter in favour of balanced design or chromatic richness; it's a scene as he saw it.
And there we go …
Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in UK tax.
Complex plan used offshore trust in Jersey, three shell companies and a string of dormant businesses.
His property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018 to 2021.
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Edouard Boubat (1923-1999) - Parc de Saint Cloud
Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:
Four Hard Truths About the Iran War
professorrobertpape.substack.com/p/four-hard-...
It just seems obvious to me that the central dynamic in this debate isn't religion or principle or the risks to suffering individuals/people who might be coerced or pressured ...
... it's who should bear that unavoidable, miserable burden - families/GPs or legislators/state?
The shift to the NY Post, OANN & Breitbart is emblematic of a broader realignment in public perception and political influence, signalling how institutions of authority (and public spaces) choose to construct reality for their audiences.
One standing arm wavy theory I have about politics is that mobilisation of existing attitudes is very often mistaken for a shift in those attitudes. Strong views can become more visible socially or politically even if underlying mix of attitudes haven’t changed (or have even shifted the other way)
Love this
Is this what our government calls Direct Foreign Investment? Buying assets is not the investment we need.
Monday: We have won
Tuesday: Iran is about to surrender
Wednesday: High oil prices are good
Thursday: There is nothing left to hit
Friday: They have no army, navy or missiles left
Saturday: HELP
🇯🇵 Former Fukushima worker devotes life to abandoned pets
Not far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, former plant worker Toru Akama tends to dozens of pets abandoned after the catastrophe 15 years ago, work he sees as part of his quest for redemption.
3/ Right now, Trump has no plan to reopen the Strait. And a plan may not exist.
The assets Iran uses to harass and attack tankers - thousands of small drones, speed boats and mines - cannot be eliminated. They are too numerous, too spread out and hidden.
Reform is too thick to hide their real motive for power. It’s not to make us wealthier. It’s not to improve our public services. It’s not even to manage immigration. It’s to wildly enrich themselves by dumping the rules and regulations that protect us from exploitation, discrimination and risk.
Don't want my last words to be "Et tu, Medvedev".
Would be as humiliating as having my army towed away by Ukrainian farmers. Or making all those retreats. Or begging North Korea for ammo. Or using Donkeys. Or being dependent on POTUS to beat Ukraine. And still not beating Ukraine.
Today is Ides of March. Am taking no chances & got new table.
