bkstjjn
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A succession of poorly received zingers
Is the dollar still the global reserve currency of choice? If ‘yes’, then face no further consequences.
January 3, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Is the dollar still the global reserve currency of choice? If ‘yes’, then face no further consequences.
That’s probably the end of socialism as actually possible political doctrine for the next thirty years.
January 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
That’s probably the end of socialism as actually possible political doctrine for the next thirty years.
This is a cryptic and fascinating article to start the new year. apple.news/AlJJWDvC1Tuu...
As Signs of Aging Emerge, Trump Responds With Defiance — The Wall Street Journal
In an interview, the president says he has eschewed some advice from his doctors and regrets getting advanced imaging
apple.news
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This is a cryptic and fascinating article to start the new year. apple.news/AlJJWDvC1Tuu...
“I'm beginning to come round
to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be
reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”
to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be
reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”
December 31, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“I'm beginning to come round
to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be
reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”
to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be
reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.”
Subtext: You move one inch towards rejoining the single market and I will track the full fire of my media empire on your miserable little project. www.ft.com/content/42b3...
The Brexit implementation fiasco
It is not too late to reverse bad policy but that requires good governance
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Subtext: You move one inch towards rejoining the single market and I will track the full fire of my media empire on your miserable little project. www.ft.com/content/42b3...
Even when we do build new bridges, we can’t connect them to the rest of the bloody road network www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Even when we do build new bridges, we can’t connect them to the rest of the bloody road network www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here’s Enfield on Comic Relief 93, where the character changed job from plasterer to arguably a more natural Labour voter now; a baliff. youtu.be/oncDrbLA0zo?...
December 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here’s Enfield on Comic Relief 93, where the character changed job from plasterer to arguably a more natural Labour voter now; a baliff. youtu.be/oncDrbLA0zo?...
There’s a PB story from July about Farage refusing to be at the same party as BB, lest anyone be under any illusions as to what Gove is up to with that article.
December 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There’s a PB story from July about Farage refusing to be at the same party as BB, lest anyone be under any illusions as to what Gove is up to with that article.
Turns out that if you quote post this, it does terrible things to the subhead.
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Turns out that if you quote post this, it does terrible things to the subhead.
Is it good that the only personal looking at voters who entered the workforce post 2008 is big bald Dom?
British millennials are embracing an unlikely new cause: infrastructure, housing and the politics of economic growth.
Fed-Up UK Millennials Are Mobilizing to Push for Economic Growth
An emerging political movement aims to make infrastructure, housing and growth cool for a generation of frustrated Britons.
bloom.bg
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Is it good that the only personal looking at voters who entered the workforce post 2008 is big bald Dom?
Poptimism’s logical endpoint. www.ft.com/content/55e9...
AI has delivered a chart hit — but what do we miss?
Breaking Rust’s conquest of country sales doesn’t alter the fact that recycling material makes these songs generic
www.ft.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Poptimism’s logical endpoint. www.ft.com/content/55e9...
How’s having boring technocrats for Prime Minister and Chancellor going?
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
How’s having boring technocrats for Prime Minister and Chancellor going?
A high profile journalist has fallen far short of the ethical standards they would apply to everyone else, you say?
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A high profile journalist has fallen far short of the ethical standards they would apply to everyone else, you say?
Oceania has always been at war with the mods.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Oceania has always been at war with the mods.
Concealing my copy of Don Quixote inside the latest Razzle in order to avoid embarrassment on public transport.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Concealing my copy of Don Quixote inside the latest Razzle in order to avoid embarrassment on public transport.
Incredible noticing by the politics enjoyers on this site; discovering that the reason you might introduce a wealth tax is not because it raises much revenue, but apparently something called “politics”.
October 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Incredible noticing by the politics enjoyers on this site; discovering that the reason you might introduce a wealth tax is not because it raises much revenue, but apparently something called “politics”.
Your party is useful because it’s like when Marge Simpson made that special cake for Homer to ruin. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Your Party to launch legal action against three of its ‘rogue’ founders, sources say
Exclusive: Leftwing party seeks to recover donations and data from company run by Andrew Feinstein, Jamie Driscoll and Beth Winter
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Your party is useful because it’s like when Marge Simpson made that special cake for Homer to ruin. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Beware Brits bearing columns.
Voters in New York should study the lesson of London’s slow-motion car crash, Matthew Lynn writes.
"What happened to one half of NyLon can happen to the other as well — and a lot more quickly than New Yorkers might imagine."
"What happened to one half of NyLon can happen to the other as well — and a lot more quickly than New Yorkers might imagine."
Opinion | London’s sad decline is a warning to New Yorkers
In three terms as mayor, Sadiq Khan has crushed the economic life out of Britain’s capital.
wapo.st
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Beware Brits bearing columns.
I have nothing to say about Your Party, other than you could probably sustain an Abbott and Costello “Who’s on first?” style bit with the name for about two minutes.
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I have nothing to say about Your Party, other than you could probably sustain an Abbott and Costello “Who’s on first?” style bit with the name for about two minutes.
Honestly it’s a desecration of an American institution, done at the behest of a single, out of touch, elderly monomaniac. I can’t believe Pitchfork are turning on comments on album reviews.
October 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Honestly it’s a desecration of an American institution, done at the behest of a single, out of touch, elderly monomaniac. I can’t believe Pitchfork are turning on comments on album reviews.
Jenrick was seven when the eighties ended, btw.
October 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Jenrick was seven when the eighties ended, btw.
Moving on from “Hypnotits” to “Ah but he’s views aren’t rooted in any intellectual rigour, which matters to the average voter”, great work.
October 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Moving on from “Hypnotits” to “Ah but he’s views aren’t rooted in any intellectual rigour, which matters to the average voter”, great work.
Reposted by bkstjjn
All this reminds me of Thiel’s constantly idling jet to New Zealand, which always made me think “Buddy, in the event of social collapse, you don’t make it off the tarmac”.
January 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
All this reminds me of Thiel’s constantly idling jet to New Zealand, which always made me think “Buddy, in the event of social collapse, you don’t make it off the tarmac”.
“Later, what is a hijacked airliner and how does it crash, but first our correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan is in New York…” www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Why...? - Why Planes Crash
In just six months, four passenger planes have crashed, killing 506 people. Dramatic footage and eyewitness accounts tell the story of a deadly year in aviation. Can lessons be learned?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“Later, what is a hijacked airliner and how does it crash, but first our correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan is in New York…” www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...