Oliver Houston

AEthelstan Banqueting Hall vibes at Barnes Book Fest with @charliehigson.bsky.social talking all things Fleming & HarryStee. Looking forward to the OHMSS Audio Book narrated by Swiss Toni...? 🤞🏻😜😘

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

PERSON OF THE DAY. 12 August 1964. Ian Fleming died (aged 56). He created fictional spy James Bond. The 1st of his 11 Bond novels, Casino Royale, appeared in 1952. Bond books sold over 100 million copies. They were adapted into a film series. He also wrote children’s story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

You'll hopefully appreciate my forthcoming project even more then! Top a secret, but it's got Ian Fleming in Portmeirion in 1959. Would like to enlist your expertise...

It's amazing! Which train/route(s) did you sample? And did you visit Portmeirion when you were there? Asking for a train-geek friend...

The best bit on why Brits so despise Trump
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This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...

Had a right laugh at the beautiful Noel Coward theatre on Monday at 1st Preview of 'Comedy About Spies' by the brilliant Mischief crew. Only on for 12 weeks, so go see if you can. 🕵️‍♂️🎭

3/If things continue as they are, if, for example, the most important land connection between #Russia & Crimea is destroyed, or if something happens on #Crimea itself, where most of the 🇷🇺 military logistics are located, then that would be an opportunity to bring this country strategically back...

Plus, thousands of classified documents are available at the Mar-a-Lago breakfast buffet each day.

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

WE TOLD YOU SO!🤬

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Perhaps worth chat to @heartofthearts.bsky.social for your next @thestage.co.uk article on Covid? Like Government trying to tackle benefits and sickness without mentioning the illness itself (and only focusing on the lockdown) it makes little sense and won't work. Thanks 😷🎭

All good stuff, but only mention of Covid-safety in relation to Disabled shielding? No effort to make Artists & Back Stage & Theatres safer - Air Filters, High-UV, FFP3 masks for up-close WHAM Dept. Theatres must do more to protect & reduce illness/absence/burnout (Actors need their voices!) 😷🎭

Stand with Ukrainians as Trump prepares to sell them out
(Location: Russian embassy, London, Feb ‘23)

Switching Sides: When friends become enemies, and enemies become friends Plus: The role of information operations in helping this realignment

We've switched sides in the Ukraine war. Pressure on Ukraine, praise and concessions for Russia. Welcome to the Upside Down. alexzfinley.substack.com/p/switching-...

Kid went in as the Pirate with Gout for World Book Day. Ham for Lunch. Thanks @gideondefoe.bsky.social for inspiration 🏴‍☠️🍠⚓📖

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

The image contains text with the following words: "The public is in desperate need of accurate journalism which cuts through the screaming. We need reporters who can refute what's being said, or interrogate it, or at least put it in context. Instead, journalists - opponents and supporters alike - have become Trump’s handmaidens. They help spread the shit. They hoover it in, churn it up, and spew it out again, wider than before, until everything is covered in it. And then eventually you face a deadly choice: Do you turn it off and risk becoming passive? Or do you keep paying attention and risk going insane?"

Journalism is collapsing in the middle of the information war iandunt.substack.com/p/journalism...

What's In A Name? On Big Balls and First Names Plus: A #YachtWatch update, as our new Attorney General guts the agency in charge of dealing with frozen Russian assets

Flabbergastipation: when you are so in shock, you can’t say shit. open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...

Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

(Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

huh...

The King.

RIP Denis Law 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿