Daniel Sugarman

The chancellor behind the disaster budget of 2022 welcomes Nigel Farage and Blockchain to some Bitcoin business which will doubtless one day appear in a Netflix documentary with a title like "The Anatomy of Stupidity".

What could *possibly* go wrong?

Been having fun looking at his old website via the Wayback Machine.

"How Israel lured Ayatollah to his doom with fake Jewish Sabbath dinner trap...then blew him up with a missile from space."

Not many people know this, but "fake Jewish Sabbath dinner trap" is actually a high-level chess move, regularly used by Emanuel Lasker and Mikhail Tal.

*An ancient land. A beautiful land. A land, most importantly, where there is no VAT charge on private school fees.*

There are approximately 7 billion people on the planet, and 6,999,999,999 of them had the right to tweet this.

Alastair Campbell criticises someone else about lying about striking a Middle Eastern country due to the threat of them developing WMDs

I am almost in awe at the level of shamelessness on show here. It's almost a work of art in its utter confidence that people are unable to remember the past.

Goebbels’ wife had Jewish father, new document shows Residency card shows that father-in-law of Nazi propagandist was businessman Richard Friedlander, murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp

I'm not kidding about Magda Goebbels, by the way.
She let her father die in Buchenwald.

www.timesofisrael.com/goebbels-wif...

"I gather everyone here is 100% certain Josef Goebbels is a Nazi.

"I also gather you are all trapped in an epistemic chamber sealed tighter than the one around Fox News.

"So, who here actually knew that Magda Goebbels' father was Jewish?

"And how does that influence your certainty?"

I just find it amusing because this year Purim, the Jewish festival where kids all dress up, fell on this past Tuesday and so I'm just looking at all this going "you guys are all 2 days late!"

US:

- abruptly drops support for Kurds in Syria in January
- now talking about supporting Iranian Kurdish separatists

Really fills with you with confidence in the long term planning that went into this :/

“Favourite for Supreme Leader of Iran spent months being ‘treated for impotency’ in private UK hospitals.

When they said the UK retained its soft power influence, I didn’t realise this is what they meant

A stellar piece from Josh Glancy

It was also a co-sponsor of Saturday's rally. The Greens have been very keen to play up the role of Stop the War (another sponsor) in that rally, but have surprisingly been somewhat less keen to discuss the involvement of the IHRC.

Fun fact: the "Islamic Human Rights Commission", which organises the march and was described in the Shawcross Review of Prevent as "an Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime", received £10k in public funding as part of govt support for 'local businesses' during the pandemic.

Not how I'd describe their decision to take Christiano Ronaldo away from meaningful professional football, personally.

True, although Iranian regime propagandists still had access in January when the regime was attempting to mass murder in the dark.

*Discover this one simple trick to ensure that Israeli air strikes don't wipe out your entire high command* and it's simply "don't gather in person at the same location for a meeting".

My favourite response genre on here is "ermmm acksherly if you read the article it shows it worked and he did make her breasts larger".

Ok, was it a hatchet job or a puff piece (sorry) then? Please make your minds up.

Obviously you can and will think what you like about the Sun, but that article 12 years ago was not a hatchet job on Polanski, unless you think they knew he was someday going to become the Green Party leader and jumped into a time machine in order to discredit him.

The Guardian's "No-one needs to talk about the Green Party leader's stint as a Mammary Magician" t-shirt is leading to a lot of questions already answered by the t-shirt!

Oh yes, absolutely.

Interesting that for some people it took *a literal man with a literal Totenkopf tattooed on his chest for decades* for them to wake up (and only a few of them, at that).

The thing is, from my unfortunately extensive experience, this shift happened some decades ago. I guess it's a good thing that some people are finally waking up to it?

It's hard to watch a Hegseth press conference (I could end the post here and it would still be true) without getting the impression that he's just itching to challenge a journalist to a pull-up competition.

Tweet from Ryan Grim: "Understand what Neera is arguing for here: she thinks that no Democratic candidate should appear on any podcast where a host has flirted with conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk and Israel. I don't think she understands how many podcasts that includes. And if you make the opposite argument, and say no, actually, tens of millions of people love those shows, Democrats should be on them, she says I'm "defending anti-semitic conspiracy podcasters." The good news is that this stuff doesn't work anymore. Save your breath, nobody cares."

I really don't think "There are so many antisemitic podcasts out there that you just can't help but appear on them" is the defense they think it is.

Trump Jr celebrating employee who missed his sister's wedding

I've seen that sort of attitude somewhere before. Ah yes...

Meanwhile on LinkedIn: "The drone streaked through the sky, directly at my Dubai Penthouse. I didn't even blink as it crashed through my window. The grind stops for nothing and no-one. You thought you were destroying me? A thousand generations of my C-suite ancestors shielded me as I cryptomaxxed."

I'm overjoyed Khamenei and other senior level regime butchers have been taken out, profoundly sceptical that Trump is committed to full-on regime change, obviously don't trust Netanyahu at all, worry about further response from a regime which is targeting its neighbours like a maddened scorpion etc.

Now it would be very easy to dismiss this as 'legally splitting hairs', to which I would remind you that 'legally splitting hairs' is something that the Prime Minister cares a great deal about.

The Akrotiri base is part of a British Overseas Territory, which means that the Iranian regime has, as of yesterday's attack on it, directly targeted the United Kingdom's sovereign territory.

@jwsidders.bsky.social just shared an old Speccie article with me which I hadn't previously seen, and well, let's just say I now understand @stephenkb.bsky.social's "ethnic enemies" comment.