Andrew Martin

don't just say something, sit there

Kendall energy

“It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself."

#worldcupdraw

FIFA are awarding a made-up “Peace Prize” at a televised ceremony for a draw for a tournament held next year.

Pure simulation. The Baudrillard Peace Prize for the Hyperreal.

#worldcupdraw

“We are in a logic of simulation, which no longer has anything to do with a logic of facts and an order of reason.”

You are missing the point

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Inside Global Power: Giuliano da Empoli on Trump, Putin & the New Tech Elites - Alain Elkann Interviews Podcast Episode · Alain Elkann Interviews · 30/11/2025 · 53m

This is good

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MBS as Cesare Borgia is a great analogy (from Giuliano da Empoli)

Often there isn’t a “different paradigm”; it’s just someone very confident about their new way to be wrong.

Dumbbell was right there

When i was young, I thought "this time it's different" might meant that this time it's different.

Now I'm old, I know it means "this is nearly the top".

<shouting goose meme>
Where did the bread and circuses come from?

WHERE DID THE BREAD AND CIRCUSES COME FROM?

skörd.fi had a really great meal here

It is fascinating that people screenshot and quote posts they find abhorrent, thinking they are doing anything other than amplifying those views.

An alternative take is that they are back to where they were three weeks ago before all the briefing started, and there are “lessons to be learned”

and also, hawala exists?

best Simpsons episode ever

<stops dead>

<gawps>

I mean it feels like a thing I should basically know on reflection but still....

When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.

Provocations for yield and rage for profit that generates real anger in its audience 👇

I listened and I still don’t know what he thinks about it, other than he might be against it

This seems mostly about billionaires rather than COP?

And the Best for Britain piece was two weeks ago?

Thank you. There is nothing on COP in the New Statesman piece?

Can I see the link please?

Also really interesting to see how little they now talk about things like COP

It feels like we have the politics of a resource curse country but without any actual resources

It is frankly too late in the day to be learning about something called ‘TNT Sports’ #ashes