It’s called Monday
09.03.2026 07:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s called Monday
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Celebrating the existence of Hong Kong heroine(s) Gwyneth Ho (and Chow Hang-tung) on International Women's Day.
What a sad indictment of Hong Kong that they are political prisoners. At the same time, it is a tribute to (pre-NSL) Hong Kong that it produced women like them.
War with everyone everywhere all the time. But always the most embarrassing, pusillanimous, toadying response imaginable to the Kremlin. Russia, Russia, Russia.
08.03.2026 16:02 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
A sunset in Hong Kong, 2021
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“Only five directors of water companies have been prosecuted in the last 30 years… The system is more interested in prosecuting families that are struggling to pay their water bills than the company directors responsible for polluting our rivers and seas”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Is a deal in the offing?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
China prepares landmark law curtailing minority language rights
www.ft.com/content/94be...
Russia needs higher oil prices
01.03.2026 08:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You see what happens, Larry, when a man doesn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize he deserves?
28.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You can just say things.
28.02.2026 08:21 — 👍 4671 🔁 1317 💬 90 📌 98Will’s live-blogging skills were an underrated element of his art
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THIS.
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Was the timing of this an accident? Were they getting ready to play with their AI war toys?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".
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Hello darkness my old friend...
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The election was stolen! What should we say next, Mr Trump?
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Charming man
Reform’s Matthew Goodwin: “I think the progressives were told how to vote and I think what you saw was a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives that came together to dominate the constituency.”
www.ft.com/content/c7fe...
“That’s what McMurphy does, and inevitably he can’t sweep the road clean. But his example is ultimately seen to be the stuff of life-sustaining hope for the rest of us.”
26.02.2026 06:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Writing about tank man. In 1976
“The film is also about the nature of heroism, and indeed the necessity for it. What do we think, as the director has himself asked, about the man who fights a tank with a broomstick?”
“His chief lesson is not that the nurse and her cohorts are Gorgons but that the evil they do is compounded by the undeniable fact that they think they are doing right. As much like those who control eastern Europe, in fact as capitalism’s grislier lackeys.”
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Reading this right after reading about Jimmy Lai
“It is not so much about mental institutions as about what happens when institutions of any kind take up an attitude towards those over who they have power that is fundamentally insufferable.”
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Ah, BT. Sign a contract in September, watch the price rise in March. Beats me why this is remotely legal. Law of contract?
24.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
I found a pangram word but the NYT says it doesn’t exist 😥
21.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This story is 🤯
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Banning Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was a classic case of state overreach. Reaching for the sledgehammer when other tools are available is a slippery slope toward erosion of free speech and illiberalism
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Of course he did
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
A giant of cinema. RIP
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
That’s it then, right? Landslide defeat coming up
16.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What a wonderful player he was. I’m sorry he didn’t get his second act at Madrid
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The US needs to change
In Munich, Rubio Calls Europe a Friend but Says It Must Change www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...