Jonathan Flintham

Tell me your company has no Brits without telling me

They hate London because it is beautiful Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.

Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London.

"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."

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+1 for Into the Breach. It’s up there with Slay the Spire & Hades for me. Also worth mentioning Cobalt Core and Samurai Showdown.

One of the earliest football paintings in the world, Thomas MM Hemy's "Sunderland v. Aston Villa 1895", also titled "A Corner Kick", depicts a match between the two most successful English teams of the decade. The venue is the Newcastle Road ground in Sunderland, and the game finished 4-4.

So American children should make do with "two dolls" while Donald Trump gets a free "sky palace" from the Qatari government? Okay.

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

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Adolescence but about when your parent in his 60s has an iPad now

Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber Duncan Gardham a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en- A judge has praised a patient who trance to the hospital. persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon Newby was returning from a walk a suicide attack with a home-made when he saw Farooq. He later told bomb on the hospital he worked at. police that he appeared "depressed Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in and upset" so he tried to cheer him. "T'm quite good at reading people's Leeds with a bomb made from a pres- body language," he said. "I thought sure cooker and low explosives. would go over and see if he's all right." Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb Newby said they had a "totally nor- praised the patient, Nathan Newby, mal chat" before Farooq opened a when she sentenced Farooq to life in bag to show him the pressure cooker She said he was a man ero a man, and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en- "prepared to do the unthinkable". trance and, after three hours, con- Sheffield crown court was told he vinced him to let him call the police. had followed a terrorist manual for Newby later told officers: "I was "lone wolf mujahedeen" and created shocked I had managed to talk him a device similar to the bomb used at out of it. I gave him a hug and said the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing." killed three people. Detective Superintendent Paul Farooq had first planned to attack Greenwood, a head of investigations the listening station at RAF Menwith for counter terrorism, said Newby Hill in North Yorkshire but found had performed an "act of real brav- that the security was too tight. ery". ". He added that the explosion Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating. prosecution, said he then went to the The judge told the court that New- hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a "modest and gentle man, ty and seek his own martyrdom". whose evidence was…

give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero

‘Orwellian’ -a very clear statement from Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social in the Independent.

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

I wonder if JD Vance is planning to lecture his boss’s buddy Vladimir Putin on democracy and free speech. 🤔

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies
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A quote from the writer AR Moxon from 2017. He wrote: "Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon

This.

The rules, if you are keeping track:

If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.

If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.

A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler “seig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.

Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.

Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?

Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness

You’re being lied to about “ultra-processed” foods Coverage of the latest nutrition buzzword is overly broad, arbitrary, and wildly misleading. The problem goes deeper.

This article really hits the nail on the head about so-called "ultra processed foods", a meaningless category so broad as to group together tofu and twinkies as if they had the same health impact.

Every time - every single time - you watch Muppets Christmas Carol you realise it is a greater work of genius than the time before.

Verily: it is the Ghost of Christmas Present of films.

Oof. Something to start your day off in floods of tears…

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

Hold on.

Simply one of the worst people in the world. A man without qualities

it's not that I want to remember this it's that it explains almost everything that's happened since

The Bluesky/X relationship feels like if in 1985, when Coca-Cola introduced the new disastrous New Coke, another company had taken over the classic formula while Coca-Cola doubled down on New Coke and kept adding things like piss and cholera