Les von Darrow
@lesvondarrow.bsky.social
"We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us."
For all that Tsipras and Varoufakis badly fucked things up, this is a line that always used to annoy the shit out of me so much. The terms put to the referendum were for closing the fourth and final review of the second bailout. Another bailout (with additional conditions) was always going to follow
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
For all that Tsipras and Varoufakis badly fucked things up, this is a line that always used to annoy the shit out of me so much. The terms put to the referendum were for closing the fourth and final review of the second bailout. Another bailout (with additional conditions) was always going to follow
We're all just trying to find the guy that made him finance minister www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We're all just trying to find the guy that made him finance minister www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Gosh, at the crossroads huh? (I feel their heart's really not in it this year)
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Gosh, at the crossroads huh? (I feel their heart's really not in it this year)
Also amazing how even the briefings now trying to defend Starmer by distancing him from McSweeney make him come across like Jim Hacker.
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Also amazing how even the briefings now trying to defend Starmer by distancing him from McSweeney make him come across like Jim Hacker.
There's a million and one different reason why the Conservatives are deeply fucked up and unserious people, but quickly ditching their failing leaders is not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There's a million and one different reason why the Conservatives are deeply fucked up and unserious people, but quickly ditching their failing leaders is not one of them.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it:
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it:
As a late Xer with musical taste that came of age alongside MTV, I quite enjoyed this piece. But also, the fact that Kim Deal is two months older than Barack Obama does underline how the whole generations stuff is fun nonsense that shouldn't be taken at all seriously. unherd.com/2025/10/good...
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As a late Xer with musical taste that came of age alongside MTV, I quite enjoyed this piece. But also, the fact that Kim Deal is two months older than Barack Obama does underline how the whole generations stuff is fun nonsense that shouldn't be taken at all seriously. unherd.com/2025/10/good...
Genuinely quite surprised as I thought I would come up as a Pragmatist too
October 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Genuinely quite surprised as I thought I would come up as a Pragmatist too
“Susceptible to accusations”? Really now? Seriously, fuck you Bloomberg.
September 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
“Susceptible to accusations”? Really now? Seriously, fuck you Bloomberg.
This will be the Reichstag Fire event for liberal boomers.
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This will be the Reichstag Fire event for liberal boomers.
Marinakis’s reputation is most definitely not on the line, lol!
September 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Marinakis’s reputation is most definitely not on the line, lol!
Doctor I trust more than RFK
September 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Doctor I trust more than RFK
They know full well that they're over egging this, but some higher-up has decided on a narrative and everyone below them has to fall into line.
September 2, 2025 at 12:05 PM
They know full well that they're over egging this, but some higher-up has decided on a narrative and everyone below them has to fall into line.
I must admit that I really don't understand Bloomberg has gone so big on singling out the slide in UK gilts as their top news story all day.
September 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I must admit that I really don't understand Bloomberg has gone so big on singling out the slide in UK gilts as their top news story all day.
Late start this year for the first barbecue of the season
August 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Late start this year for the first barbecue of the season
Also, this is just factually wrong on a very basic level. Georgiou was appointed in August 2010. Greece entered a bailout in May 2010. It did so precisely because it was revealed by the incoming Greek government (in 2009!) that the country had been severely understating its budget deficits.
August 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Also, this is just factually wrong on a very basic level. Georgiou was appointed in August 2010. Greece entered a bailout in May 2010. It did so precisely because it was revealed by the incoming Greek government (in 2009!) that the country had been severely understating its budget deficits.
This is factually wrong on a very basic level. Georgiou was appointed in August 2010. Greece entered a bailout in May 2010. It did so precisely because it was revealed by the incoming Greek government (in 2009!) that the country had been severely understating its budget deficits.
August 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This is factually wrong on a very basic level. Georgiou was appointed in August 2010. Greece entered a bailout in May 2010. It did so precisely because it was revealed by the incoming Greek government (in 2009!) that the country had been severely understating its budget deficits.
The opinion I have that really will have people like this is that I think St Andreas’s legal problems owed much to him being kind of a dick with people, leaving too few of them prepared to go out and bat for him.
August 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The opinion I have that really will have people like this is that I think St Andreas’s legal problems owed much to him being kind of a dick with people, leaving too few of them prepared to go out and bat for him.
Daddy Pig isn’t actually unusual for an architect
July 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Daddy Pig isn’t actually unusual for an architect
The two ways to look at a narrative
July 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The two ways to look at a narrative
I love that Japan has two different rice components to its inflation basket
July 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I love that Japan has two different rice components to its inflation basket