Oliver Rivers

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Maybe the thinking isn’t more sophisticated than: “it’s not in the Western hemisphere, we don’t care”.

Almost everything by the Pre-Raphaelites, with the exceptions of anything wombat-related (see attached), and Christina Rosetti’s Goblin Market, which is amazing.

US Policy Creates Ally Shortage
is how a commodities journal might phrase it.

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Did you know Alan Greenspan was still alive?

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

Post See new posts ConversationSéamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says that Israel should depopulate and destroy every village in southern Lebanon, with the Yellow Line in Gaza as the model, and that "it may not be pleasant to scrape off two or three Lebanese villages, but they brought this on themselves." 0:29 / 0:45 2:44 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · 126.6K Views

Well the good news is that the Israeli opposition isn't actually all that crazy right.

Picture unrelated btw

Why are they announcing death before ID has been confirmed?

what if ayatollah but nice

The Red Wall won’t stand for not bringing the Shah back

tldr: do it

Despite reports to the contrary, the children are clearly alright.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/

Hello to everyone who's been telling me to use Proton Mail for years

Mohamed A. El-Erian: On how to think about the economic and financial impact of the war: The crucial question of duration and spread goes beyond narrow timing and the number of countries involved. It also involves the "guardrails" currently under stress. If they fail to hold, and it's a big IF, the economic and financial dynamics could shift from the more predictable mean reversion to the more uncertain "multiple equilibria" (that is, each new disruption makes it increasingly likely that the subsequent situation will drift even further from the initial condition.)

I sometimes find him instructive and interesting, but this is a lot of words to say the longer it goes on for, the more uncertain things get.

I mishear a bit of In Our Time as Margaret Beaufort hosting “distressed gentlemen at Collyweston” (rather than distressed gentlewomen) and I had a brief fantastical image of her as a (slightly terrifying) early Tudor fag hag.

Check the alt

Apropos nothing I note that Portillo took Enfield Southgate with 58% of the vote in 1992. Mahmood won Birmingham Ladywood at the last election with 42.5%.

oof

Magnificently stupid.

*GFC ofc

Can confirm I am going somewhat insane. We have Iraq/Syria replay simultaneous with the lead-in to the GFT, with the added bonuses of worsening climate and discredited political leadership.

Doh, thanks

Can someone explain why this adds up to 631

“Our attack was so successful we inadvertently created a power vacuum” is a new one to me tbh

It's pretty clear that the Home Secretary (& Blue Labour more generally ) isn't doing racist things in an effort to stop Reform, she's doing them because she wants to. Last week's by-election result gave her the perfect pretext to change course; the fact she's not leapt at it speaks volumes.

I’m glad to read he’s maxxed out his pension allowance.