Tim Burrows

Daniel has been writing brilliantly on the British far right and immigration for more than 15 years, and I can't think of a book I need to read right now as much as this one

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.

It leads on "sharply contested narratives"

It has a dramatic skew to the US government

It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times

genuinely stunning image

When my family and 120,000 other Japanese American were sent to prison camps in WWII, the government only allowed propaganda photos of things like schools and baseball games to be published. A school in a prison is evidence of evil, none of these people, especially children, should be imprisoned

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

The Brexit latest seems to have moved from strong independent sovereign nation to country entirely dependant on US funding and defence for its survival. Thanks.

Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still...

'When the Lykovs were discovered by the geologists, they were still furious with Patriarch Nikon and Peter the Great... Agafia, the youngest Lykov, had never seen a wheel.' Fascinating extract from Sophie Pinkham's new book in @theguardian.com's long read today www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This closing line gets to the heart of the Trump project – a magnified, everyday evil that is only unique due to its scale.

ICE detains 5-year old Minnesota boy; lawyer says agents used him as ‘bait’ The Columbia Heights school district says federal agents have detained four children in their district. School officials and a lawyer for the family say agents used 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramo as “bai...

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

It was not a great idea to elect an anthropomorphized sundowning boomer's racist Facebook feed as president.

World-historical batshitness: "We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength & force where we would be frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that. Now everyone's saying 'oh good.' …I won't use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland."

Also how am I first realising that Toby Carvery was invented in Brentwood? Other things that started in Brentwood: Towie, the peasants' revolt, Only Fans, Tom Skinner...

I like to think of this as the apathetically Thatcherite southerners' version of the Sycamore Gap

Covid-level disruption on education in Minnesota, but because white supremacy and not a virus

if you use doorbell cameras you are a fascist enabler

I imagine Mark Francois in a dimly lit room somewhere, surrounded by discarded sweet wrappers, his finger over the contact marked "Ticey"

Least surprising defection so far: MP for Romford who wanted to make his constituency great again by holding a referendum to take it out of Greater London to become part of Essex again for the first time since 1965 despite no one particularly calling for it.

One year ago...

I hope this guy is living his best life and it's all been worth it for him

- as.ft.com/r/8f116a6c-f...

Maaaan, can't believe I've lived through an era where hypnagogic pop/chillwave mid-90s nostalgia was superseded by the Facebook/AI slop properbinman mid 90s nostalgia

The permanent influence of Mark Fisher A new film grapples with one of the finest—and broadest—minds of the 21st century

Excellent Sukhdev Sandhu piece on We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher. Nice that he picked up on the Patrick Keiller vibe of the film among other elements www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7186...

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

Heard similar on Radio 4 this morning. Was really, really odd. Talking about accusations of fraud involving Somalis. Not sure what - at all - had to do with ICE shooting a woman did.

Felt like classic 'some say it's rainy outside, others say it's sunny' faux impartiality

Newspapers have had ten years to figure this out

NYT landing page right now:

1) Trump is so cool!
2) Trump says that his paramilitary did a great thing shooting that lady, who are we to question the word of the President?!?

COLLABORATORS

Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty The US president’s grotesque theatrics on the world stage are an opportunistic distraction from his falling domestic ratings, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

'When he claims that abducting Nicolás Maduro was strictly law enforcement, tot up the 150-plus aircraft, including Delta Force choppers, bombs and special ops troops, and see if you can’t spot a unilateral act of war.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Keep going. Watching in horror and solidarity from England

Mother of 3 killed by ICE was a devout Christian and poet An ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in her car shortly after she dropped off her 6-year-old son at school.

www.scmp.com/news/world/u...

"All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem." That Jon Ronson line on Katie Hopkins is now United States national security strategy

Fear In The Faceburbs: Comfort, Dread & Digital Fortresses In 2015 | The Quietus If our current cultural predicament can be summed up in a tweet, it’s this: Alan Sugar points at a version of himself on his giant TV that dwarfs his mortal physique, from an episode of the hit Britis...

Spooked by revisiting this piece I wrote in 2015 for a thing, positing how narcissists like Trump may triumph in our age of digital fortresses. Not because of any claims of prescience, more that it's 10 years on and we are still asking if Trump means anything he says thequietus.com/opinion-and-...