'Tony 10' is now out on audiobook. Thanks to Ruairi Conaghan for doing such a great job voicing Tony O'Reilly's astonishing story of gambling addiction.
Journalists should be asking the State Department if it views a Putin disinformation campaign to smear Orban’s opponent as “free speech”. My guess is yes
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'Wavelength' is an overlooked Van Morrison album but I like it very much
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'Tony 10' is now out on audiobook. Thanks to Ruairi Conaghan for doing such a great job voicing Tony O'Reilly's astonishing story of gambling addiction.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Supreme Leader position to be abolished? Like they're 'retiring the shirt?'
Americans stranded in the Middle East say the State Department hotline Marco Rubio told them to call plays a recorded message warning: “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation at this time.”
Thanks Cat Lad, sounds like good advice.
I am pleased to announce that 'Tony 10' is now out in audiobook.
People in UK publishing take note. In case you haven’t heard, your government is still at it.
And anything that hoovers up British publications is liable to get a lot of Irish ones too.
#SpeirGorm
How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
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It's an abomination.
Appalling to see one crucial element of football -- corner kicks -- now turned into rugby.
One word : "Data".
shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere
Is the American economy really in that dire a state that people are betting money on what raindrop reaches the bottom of the window first? Why has the betting thing exploded since Trump won again?
I used to believe UK and US political correspondents were about fifty percent to blame for Brexit, Trump etc. -- now it seems more like 66.6% and rising.
Different times, of course.
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
Free Derry Wall: ‘I reject idea of somebody stepping in and saying, ‘We will dictate what goes on this wall’
"a letter of reprimand"
A cynic might suggest that the move to embed betting markets in newsrooms is mere marketing: an attempt to signal that these are somehow different from, and superior to, casinos. www.theverge.com/business/881...
all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...
If Trump doesn't get you, the online gambling surely will.
Poor from CNN.
Pisspoor.
Is it the same Koke playing for decades or it is just Spanish law there must always be a Koke ?
Immensely proud of this stunning piece of writing by my cousin Shannon.
In tribute to her mum - my wonderful aunt, Ferga on her Alzheimer’s journey.
The medical appointment that confirmed my mother’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s was brief
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Well well well
An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back
Mason, Coates and others cut their teeth under Johnson and Brexit.
For them, politics is light entertainment. They're no different to gossip columnists and offer zero serious analysis of the complex world of 2026.
