"Back to Trump: What are we to make of a wannabe autocrat foisting shoes on his underlings in a petty display of dominance disguised as generosity? We can only hope that the American political system will be able to beat back his authoritarian aspirations."
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This is literally the "nothing to see here, please disperse" meme from Naked Gun come to life
Can this be a solution?
Totally superb and fearless writing here from Susan Pedersen.
“…any man shocked by the Epstein story has been working over time at shutting his eyes”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Our excellent interior designer Jennifer Chong has revamped her Feioi website (and scattered throughout are a number of photos of what she has been doing to our flat).
Paul Sagar on LLMs.
(And, as his political thought tutor, once upon a time, I can confirm that he did the reading, and that his writing was all his own.)
imagine your home crawling with burglars 24/7 and all the police/government do is tell you to STFU, burglars need to fence your stuff in order to make a living
Radio 3 exists. Switching to that from the Today programme is better for your blood pressure than Ramipril.
The subtitle of the album is "The Songs of Shane MacGowan", so I'd guess not.
Hullo, Bruce Springsteen & Tom Waits singing the songs of Shane MacGowan, yes please.
This is on how ZP hadn't apologised *six days* after his Sun nonsense, when *over a year* later he was boasting on his blog that "since The Sun article last year, I’ve worked a lot w. people on phobias, building confidence & self esteem", etc. w. not a hint of shame.
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The number of MPs who should have their own podcasts is very small indeed, because just imagine, but Marie Tidball (Labour, Penistone & Stocksbridge) is very much one of them.
Poop! poop!
the toad: tory
the badger: tory
the rat: tory
the mole: communist
I've been thinking about Italian unification recently, for various reasons (only some of them related to watching the Netflix Gattopardo), so this is your occasional reminder that Mole has a plaster statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi in his garden.
Still mostly lady bison, I think.
There seems to be some badger / beaver confusion here.
(Obviously I am in favour of images of beavers on all forms of currency. If you'd like to see what they'd look like on a coin, click here homerton250.org/people/dam-p...)
we dare you to find a museum more ready
Here's Mandelson calling Epstein "young & vibrant" and "a friend of mine" in email to Jonathan Powell (then Tony Blair's chief of staff) in 2002.
This is how Mandelson's relationship with Epstein was described in the "due diligence checklist" that was part of the PM's advice ahead of deciding that there was nobody more suitable to be our man in Washington DC.
The first document in the Mandelson files is civil servants explaining to the PM that he can have an "official" or a "political" appointee as Ambassador, but that with the latter "if anything goes wrong, you could be more exposed as the individual is more connected to you personally". #gaiety
I think this is the link (from the NY Times):
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69b131... [pdf]
News reports are saying things like "The 147-page release was published Wednesday on the government website" (that's from the AP) in relation to the Mandelson stuff, but aren't clear about just *which* webpage they are on (and news reports like this for some reason don't routinely include links).
A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme.
Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.
I mean, what's not to like?
Good cat.
PUT A CORGI ON THE MONEY YOU COWARDS
In general, that's quite right--Parton acquired a younger fanbase, esp. I think amongst LBGTQ people--in a way that Harris didn't, though there's a *fantastic* extended use of EH's terrific cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Tougher than the Rest" in a recent episode of The Bear.
