Gotta Love Martin Sandbu in the FT.
Who knew economists had a sense of humour?
10.04.2025 10:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rural Rides by William Cobbett.
Reading this in a coffee shop. Cobbett details how the incomes of working men fell over 900 years. Inadequate poor relief is a vision of what Trump has in store for working classes around the world.
Brought home all the more as the places he writes about were in my first patch as a young reporter.
09.04.2025 08:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Been saying this for years. Like the quote about AI making "bone-headed mistakes".
archive.is/yRAkx
www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
17.03.2025 20:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
James Cosmo: 'My friend said: They're going to drink beer out of your skull'
After his brutal demise on Game of Thrones, the veteran Scottish actor is back in crime drama The Bay. Is he the baddie?
Met this amazing actor in a café today. He came over as a genuinely nice guy.
“Am I going to be impressed by money or fame or whatever, really? I don’t think so, no. I mean, a day’s fly fishing is all I’m really aiming for.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
15.03.2025 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How low must Donald Trump sink before adoring Tories call him out?
With every passing day bringing yet more puzzling and depressing actions by the president, it’s about time that fawning British politicos found the gumption to condemn him, says Sean O’Grady
The word "yet" in the right place missing from this sumup. Its absence hangs heavy.
"Trump isn’t another Hitler, complete with death camps and a Gestapo; but he is the nearest thing America has ever come to such a fate – and that’s bad for the whole world."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
11.03.2025 20:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A footnote on the popularity, or otherwise, of countries that have an exceptionalism problem.
From Stephen Fry's Heroes.
This doesn't end well.
09.03.2025 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The car chase was good!
02.03.2025 07:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reading your Greek myths. Marvellous! Thank you for them.
01.03.2025 11:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prats.
01.03.2025 11:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
01.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Remember a vote for Farage is a vote for Putin.
A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Putin.
Support for Brexit is tantamount to appeasement.
Forgot the US and any special relationship. It's irrelevant, if it ever existed at all.
Rejoin the EU.
28.02.2025 23:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Trump: draft-dodging, small-handed, orange gnome bad-mouthing a real defender of democracy.
A lot of Americans applaud.
The rest of the world not so much.
Shameful.
28.02.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Promotional tile for Public Domain Movie Night for HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, directed by Howard Hawks. Friday, February 28th, 2025.
TOMORROW is Public Domain Movie Night! HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940). Rosalind Russell plays a reporter about to marry & retire. Her ex, Cary Grant, tries everything to get her to stay.
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27.02.2025 20:02 — 👍 544 🔁 90 💬 13 📌 7
Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years
Number of babies born declines 5% despite efforts to boost fertility rate
I've got news for folk, certainly in the west, who object to migration or hide behind the racist arse-covering cry of "managed migration".
Japan is what the UK post-brexit in particular will start to look like without migrants.
Look through the telescope the right way.
www.ft.com/content/95d3...
27.02.2025 09:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Warlords of Atlantis: Plato's grim shadow hangs over democracy
Extreme populists around the world are invoking the rhetoric of a violent historic age
I've been looking back at the foundations of western civilisation. We have barely moved on in our thinking since the days of Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides.
I'll be doing more on this soon but here's a previous thought splurge. We need to do better.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/warlords-o...
27.02.2025 09:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, I'll give it a listen.
27.02.2025 09:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Currently reading: Stephen Fry's retelling of Greek myths vol 1.
If you want to know where humanity is going it's good to know where it's been.
27.02.2025 09:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm looking at the US cabinet and thinking, I hope they're quickly replaced by more capable DEI hires.
27.02.2025 09:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Holy **** !
27.02.2025 08:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Birds of a perverted feather...
27.02.2025 08:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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