Stefan Stern

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

I preferred Edwina Currie and the handcuffs to be honest.

Unusual result.

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Content-free "content".

I am not content.

She won but he cheated and claimed he'd won.

Content-free "content".

I am not content.

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

Honest and thoughtful from @stephenkb.bsky.social as ever:
www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Honestly these people who dredge up some half-digested literary text and then try to expand the whole thing into a book...

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Congrats to Prof Paul Cartledge for his superb refusal to be drawn into a discussion of the so-called Thucydides Trap on Start the Week on the grounds that the modern usage is, he believes, unsound. Top donning! #starttheweek

Well, it's one way of dealing with that Monday morning feeling.

Don’t shoot the messenger by burying OBR forecasts Rachel Reeves should avoid making the UK less transparent than competitor economies by cutting down the number of official forecasts

My Sunday Times piece: The chancellor has hinted at cutting official forecasts to one a year, which would be a mistake. Just treat one of the OBR’s two forecasts as advisory, not a call for immediate action:

Don’t shoot the messenger by burying OBR forecasts

www.thetimes.com/article/6040...

David Ellis reviews The Macbeth: £4.95 pints? I think I'll move in This is somewhere that feels real, says David Ellis — no play-acting, no plot to keep up with

Had my book launch here last year and now look...
www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...

He has also now saluted Nigel Farage's indefatigability.

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about Charing Cross station after sending evidence to police chiefs

Some potential new recruits to top up Farage's security staff here?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Matt blows the gaff on Farage, Tice and Yusuf.

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about Charing Cross station after sending evidence to police chiefs

Some potential new recruits to top up Farage's security staff here?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

bsky.app/profile/stef...

Farage looks rattled, already.

Farage immediately resorts to Trumpian outrage after being criticised. If he can't stand the heat...

It's called a bully pulpit for a reason. Farage doesn't like it up 'im and he will crumble under the head-on assault. His squealing is set to begin later today.

This feels like the speech Starmer should have given last year.

Terrific event at @theobserveruk.bsky.social last night with Steven Pinker discussing his new book "When everyone knows that everyone knows". There was good news! Behavioural/societal norms can be re-established, Prof Pinker said..but they may take longer to build up again than they took to destroy.

This is awesome news. As well as the Russian assault on the election, Sandu had to cope with the normal headwinds of incumbency and the mechanics of mobilising a huge young diaspora electorate. We could learn a lot from Moldova.

It's slightly embarrassing how happy it makes me to replace a lightbulb successfully, especially if it's in an awkward (ie high) spot.

I think they mean Hamlet

Birnam wood? Burnham would!

It's a serious point for sports-loving Reform fans (and potential Reform voters): if you want to emulate the MAGA golf "fans" in the US, go ahead. But you'll know what you are and what you've chosen to become.

If Andy Burnham is Macbeth Keir Starmer would already be dead. And I should know:

www.amazon.co.uk/Fair-Foul-Ma...

Cut out the racist rhetoric or risk losing British jobs and businesses From Revolut to EvolveYou, Urban Chain to Scrumbles, it is foreign-born people who are more likely to make Britain great again

www.thetimes.com/business-mon...