Stanley Pignal

will lewis resigning to spend more time with the darkness

JD Vance Booed at Olympic Opening Ceremony in Milan

I don’t think these guys understand the level of hatred they have engendered in Europe

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

Typical mainstream media globalist take. Sad!

Why? Moving a parliament from one city to another poorly-connected city in a different country would seem like an economic, productivity and ecological disaster. No sane polity would do this.

move the House of Commons to Brussels.

European media: Jeffrey Epstein once spent 6 hours in Brussels and met a retired former deputy minister - WE NEED ANSWERS. FRONT PAGE NEWS.

American media: Jeffrey Epstein partied for years with Trump, Lutnick, Clinton, Chomsky. Read a bit more, bottom of page 16.

Example of a PR pitch this morning using AI to try to flatter me:

You have a clear instinct for identifying when growth in a sector begins to alter professional norms and competitive behavior, which is why I wanted to reach out to you directly.

Yah but I can already see the outraged column of 2045: "of course Parliament's minders could have built these necessary amenities while it was closed for 10 years to carry out essential renovations. But did they? Britain is so short-sighted etc etc. French/Chinese/Poles would have done it better."

in this case Macron suggests cutting back hours during the school year, then having shorter holidays to compensate.

but yeah -- unions are the main blocking factor here. And even his minister said "we are not touching this before elections".

Down with long school summer breaks More time studying is better for children, parents and society

Macron calls for shorter school summer holidays, lasting just a month or so. I argued for this a couple of years ago: long summer breaks are bad for students (who forget), parents (who need to work) & society (greater inequality).

www.economist.com/europe/2022/...

www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

The main selling point of Bitcoin is speculation based on techbro vibez. As an instrument for gambling it really doesn't matter if it goes from $.063 to $0.065 or $63,000 to $65,000.
That's why I think fundamentally it will end up being closer to zero, albeit over some long time-horizon.

Jay-Dawg Powell in The Economist

Watching France thump Ireland at rugby AND Bitcoin getting absolutely slammed: it's rare I have such fun evenings these days.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

MILAN SKI JUMPING: DING DONG OVER KING DONG

Sánchez is the only known person to have tried and failed to spark a fight with Donald Trump, when he made a point of not agreeing to NATO 3.5% defence-spending targets.

Breaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot

an elderly woman is asking what is a weekend ALT: an elderly woman is asking what is a weekend

"what is... what is a factory girl?"

Imagine taking off your sunglasses after three weeks of darkness and the first thing you see is Robert Fico

Then have the payment system be a state-owned thing! A public option, in American parlance. I'm just very unclear why we need to drag the central bank into being a deposit-accepting institution into this. Seems like a very complicated way to do something that could be achieved more simply.

Your money supply is already privatised in pretty much every which way, starting with the way money is created (overwhelmingly by commercial banks, when they issue loans)

Is a digital euro even compatible with the existing rails? Seems like a v different architecture to me.

Again, why not mandate an EU conventional, bank-based payment system as "legal tender-like"?

(Also, legal tender yadi yada settlement of a debt yadi yada)

Indeed. My point is you don't need a cumbersome digital euro to do that. You could just create conventional "rails" that don't involve turning your central bank into a retail-deposit institution.

but we need a digital euro because America has stablecoins, Katie.

or we could just... have an already-existing functional payments system in Europe? just a thought.

Lots of world leaders are attacking Europe. Why? Often, Europe-bashing is best explained by domestic politics in America, China and beyond

For Chinese leaders, playing down the benefits of Europe’s more benign social contract is a comfort. For politicians in America and elsewhere, the bloc is a source of frustration

No! No!! Bovino??

GOD DAMN IT

If I were Andrew, I'd start sweating right about now

Let's take bets what term is most-searched in the Epstein data dump from the DOJ.

I'll give you a hint: five letters, rhymes with "Trump".

Using the well-reputed (and so far accurate) Weyand snapshot barometer, the EU–India deal could be classified as a good one