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‘I’m still here’ is just as good as reviews say. And made me even angrier than I was already that a load of cretins who don’t read history decided to give the fascist a go bc eggs, or some such such blithering nonsense.

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America needs to import the stored British tradition of getting a junior tabloid hack to dress up in a giant chicken suit so he can follow Donald Trump around. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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A profile of Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, who spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet, & whom current Defense Secretary and former Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth fired tonight.

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www.economist.com/culture/2025... ‘American advisers lent tacit approval, if not outright support, to what their own reports later described as “an indiscriminate reign of terror”.’ Presumably because someone decided Rhee was ‘our bastard’ or similar

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Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything www.economist.com/science-and-... from The Economist

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

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“America has turned” www.ft.com/content/1511...

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on.ft.com/4bj7FTu Hackers steal $1.5bn from crypto exchange Bybit in biggest-ever heist Dear me everyone try and contain their surprise

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Am watching NT’s production of The Crucible and altho I know it’s about McCarthy it’s hard not to sit and be like yeah sorry maybe Lenin et al had a point ;)

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Catalan Peasant Head https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227967

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An Oscar-nominated film sparks a reckoning with Brazil’s dictatorship www.economist.com/the-americas... Booked a ticket to see this tomorrow just before I saw the article. Looking forward

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Why so many children in America have ADHD www.economist.com/united-state... They don’t, it turns out.

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www.economist.com/united-state... ‘“Once they get through figuring out where all the fraud is, I expect a lot of these conservation programmes to come back,” says Mr Fleske.’ Comrade Stalin will fix it, it’s just his underlings doing the bad things and he doesn’t know

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www.economist.com/europe/2025/... “Assertions that hard-right parties are “censored” sit awkwardly with the fact that a slew of such politicians are in office in Europe, and the Alternative for Germany could win over 20% of the vote in German elections on February 23rd. “

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I’d like to think I’m the first person to get into a flame war with VPOTUS from the swimming pool of Woburn Center Parcs at half-term.

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“As for the nuclear deterrent, it has never been truly independent. That’s why generations of British politicians have insisted on always referring to it as such.” Not to mention um we only have 1/2 subs at sea at a time and recently have had issues testing the missiles

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American Pundits: It was an exuberant and controversial gesture of uncertain significance… Actual Fascists: It’s a Nazi salute.

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'London, Westminster' (1920s) by Isabel Hunter Tweddle (Private collection)

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Patten wouldn’t be welcome in what the Conservative Party is now

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This is five alarm fire stuff

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'Kensington Gardens' (1926) by Isabel Hunter Tweddle (Private collection)

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st james park daffys out

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A lot of Leopards around today. A lot of people who thought sucking up to a bunch of gangsters would somehow give them influence.

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Our cover this week. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

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The weekly cartoon www.economist.com/the-world-th... from The Economist

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on.ft.com/4hEwCuO “put traditional family values and an exigent danger to western civilisation at the centre” What is it with men like that.You’d think if their chosen lifestyle actually made them happy, they’d get on with it without getting into a frothing rage about everyone else.

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www.economist.com/leaders/2025... “All this sounds outlandish. NATO has been the world’s most successful alliance: its disappearance is hard to imagine. But the old things have passed away; all things have become new. Europe needs to face up to that before it is too late.”

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Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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on.ft.com/41mo5ag European stocks outpace Wall Street since Donald Trump took office Not that it matters compared to everything else but serves the ‘oh the fascist doesn’t mean it and we’ll make money’ crowd right

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'The Tower and the City' (1985) by David Gentleman davidgentleman.com

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"'If I keep staying here, because they’re treating me like a delinquent, I’m going to kill myself.' This is what he told me,' she said, recalling how his voice became so low, she could barely hear it."

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