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A lawyer’s resignation letter for the ages, and that penultimate paragraph is an absolute corker.

The most important thread you'll read today. In brief: Europe has the power to save Ukraine and slip into the leadership position America has vacated. It must grasp it. And Europeans must pressure their governments to do so.

Clarkson is right. Brexit has made travelling to the EU with any kind of professional equipment, nightmarish. Carnets for cameras etc is a bureaucratic, expensive waste of time. But it applies to loads of industries, esp musicians/performing artists etc. www.thetimes.com/article/5356...

There are no basic standards in the modern Tory party. Not of respectability, or intellectual consistency, or mortality. So it will now say anything - anything at all - if it echoes what that madman in the White House is doing.

The Six Nations returned this week, and the latest iteration seems off to a flier. Ireland started with an arm wrestle of a game until the bench made a pivotal difference but what else can we learn from their clash v England

THIS

President Trump has blamed DEI policies for the Washington plane crash. That’s before an investigation, before anyone knows for sure what has happened. He just says it’s “common sense.”

Time to leave his website

Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️

Very sad to hear of the death of Jon Kenny today. One half of D’Unbelievables, who were a comedy phenomena in Ireland in the 1990s, Jon (along with Pat Shortt) created brilliant, mad worlds, dragging the audience, roaring with laughter, with them. An inspiration. RIP.

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...