Leontine Gräfin von Schmettolowski, Baroness of Bromley

France loses another prime minister. The Middle East waits for Hamas's next move. Plus: Your new GLOBAL EYES blog

"The conditions that allowed citizens to offer their informed consent to the social contract—credible information, a reasonable degree of trust, shared narratives—have evaporated, making political legitimacy almost impossible to produce."
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/france-los...

Seems like Macron's own party contributed to this PM failing!

It’s the Internet, Stupid What caused the global populist wave? Blame the screens.

The current populism differs from previous manifestations because it's defined not by a clear economic or political ideology, but rather by conspiratorial thinking. Its essence is the belief that reality is being manipulated by shadowy elites pulling strings.
www.persuasion.community/p/its-the-in...

I have a lovely LED garden torch I can bring!!! 🏮😂

France is basically Italy, but with nukes.

Macron wants to move against the Russian shadow fleet. EU seems happy to play along.

Riyadh has been on a mission to steadily raise output, quietly reshaping the global oil balance while projecting confidence that markets can absorb more supply. The Saudis are not just testing Russia’s limits —they’re undermining one of Moscow’s remaining lifelines.
www.theconcis.com/p/macron-wan...

Tech and the Wealth of Nations Does every country need to have a Silicon Valley?

"Growth is much faster in the West than in the rest of the country. Overall, there are large regional differences in the rate of productivity growth. Indeed, interregional productivity gaps within the US are comparable to the gap between Europe and the US."
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/tech-and-t...

I've always loathed his stance on Ukraine, but he never struck me as particularly stupid for a GOP pol. Which makes it even worse actually, you're correct.

Waving pitchforks, scythes and all

Sturmflut erreicht Nordsee – zwei Teenager in Hamburg gerettet Viele Ausfälle bei Fähren zu Nordsee-Inseln. Auch die Ostsee ist von heftigen Orkanböen betroffen. Am Nachmittag erreicht die Sturmflut Hamburg-St.-Pauli.

An der Küste werden Pegelstände von bis zu 2m über dem mittleren Hochwasser erwartet, an der Elbe noch mehr. Das Amt rechnet bei St Pauli mit bis zu 2,5m über dem mittleren Hochwasser. Der Fischmarkt und weitere tiefliegende Bereiche stünden dann sicher unter Wasser
www.abendblatt.de/schleswig-ho...

He can't be that stupid, perhaps he's being glib for the benefit of his base

Cities remain a bastion of sanity, all over the world.

Electing RuZZia-loving billionaires does wonders for the well-being of your country!!

Babis is a filthy Putinist whore

a busy city street with a clock tower in the background and a statue in the middle ALT: a busy city street with a clock tower in the background and a statue in the middle

Send them to Great Britain for lessons! No country loves roundabouts more than that one

Her albums are full of filler TBH, especially the latest ones

Ready to devour you

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

There's still porn in Tumblr but only terrible porn

The bad faith is staggering.

A truly idiotic move.

Do you think the Corbynist Jew haters of BSky care for halacha? Don't waste your time.

If Corbyn wants to be prime minister, he has to get real about Putin’s Russia Labour’s leader warns of a ‘new cold war’. But is he really over the last one? The great divisions of this century are very different, writes Guardian columnist Matthew d’Ancona

You are a Corbynista, what kind of TV shows are your type of idiots into?

Anything on Russia Today?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Jew-haters of BSky all happen to be half-Jewish, yeah right. Pull the other one 🤦‍♀️

That gives them the right to post the most vile tropes.

‘I’m leaving,’ Trump said. ‘There’s no reason to be here any more’: inside the meeting that brought Nato to the brink Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse

Rasmussen fixed his gaze on Trump. “But sharing the burden isn’t just about money, Mr President. It’s about blood and sacrifice. Denmark is a country of only 5 million people and we have lost 45 soldiers in Afghanistan, in a response to an attack on the US.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Ein Zug steht am Bahnsteig. Auf der digitalen Anzeigetafel am Zug leuchtet in orangefarbener Schrift der Hinweis „Ich bin kaputt!“.

Ich auch.

• Heidegger denkt nach über die Geworfenheit des Früchtekuchens.

I can't beleive it still exists. Must be AI-generated by now.

is that Sarah Vine on the picture