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A ship’s prow adorns this art nouveau ‘House of the Five Continents’ in Antwerp, designed in 1901 by Belgian architect Frans Smet-Verhas for the home’s shipbuilder owner
December 19, 2025 at 7:46 AM
A ship’s prow adorns this art nouveau ‘House of the Five Continents’ in Antwerp, designed in 1901 by Belgian architect Frans Smet-Verhas for the home’s shipbuilder owner
Hypocrisy is not something Trump understands #robreiner
This is Trump celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner. That's what it is. That's what we should call it.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.
utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Hypocrisy is not something Trump understands #robreiner
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So we have two immigrant heroes. One in Australia who helped disarm one of the shooters and one in the US who helped track down the Brown U shooter. When a man stabbed several people in the UK, it was also an immigrant who disarmed him.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
December 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
So we have two immigrant heroes. One in Australia who helped disarm one of the shooters and one in the US who helped track down the Brown U shooter. When a man stabbed several people in the UK, it was also an immigrant who disarmed him.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
So far the biggest increase in admissions this year was last week (69%) but this is normal for the rising phase of a flu season.
At a similar point in the wave last year the increase was 61% and 70% the year before that. 4/10
At a similar point in the wave last year the increase was 61% and 70% the year before that. 4/10
December 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Source: The Art Newspaper
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François-Xavier Lalanne hippo bar sells for record-breaking $31.4m at Sotheby’s
The price, three times its high estimate, smashed the auction records for Lalanne's work and any design object
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December 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Source: The Art Newspaper
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16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
16th century Venetian lawyer/bibliophile Odorico Pillone shelved his books spine-inward and commissioned Cesare Vecellio (Titian’s nephew) to paint their fore-edges with colourful images suggesting their subject matter. Here’s how they looked on the shelf news.yale.edu/2019/03/14/p...
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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I am sorry but every time Joe Biden closed his eyes in a meeting it was a 36-hour international news story, and the media consensus is that they didn't cover it enough!
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I am sorry but every time Joe Biden closed his eyes in a meeting it was a 36-hour international news story, and the media consensus is that they didn't cover it enough!
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And yet they've not managed to find the families of the half a million kids to be lifted out of poverty... 🤔
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
And yet they've not managed to find the families of the half a million kids to be lifted out of poverty... 🤔
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NEW: Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage should have “courage” to launch inquiry into Reform's links to Russia after Nathan Gill sentencing.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
NEW: Keir Starmer says Nigel Farage should have “courage” to launch inquiry into Reform's links to Russia after Nathan Gill sentencing.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
“It is shocking that a senior Reform official, the leader in Wales, has been jailed for over 10 years, a very significant sentence for taking pro-Russia bribes.
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Employ more judges, reopen closed courts, and spend money on sensible policies.
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Employ more judges, reopen closed courts, and spend money on sensible policies.
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The corruption never ends
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The corruption never ends
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Trump at the UN:
"I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law."
This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law.
This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.
"I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law."
This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law.
This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.
September 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Trump at the UN:
"I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law."
This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law.
This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.
"I look at London where you have a terrible mayor... Now they want to go to Sharia law."
This is entirely false. London Mayor Sadiq Khan is politically moderate and has never ever called for Sharia law.
This is Islamophobic propaganda and a bigoted attack on Khan.
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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London’s spectacular rebirth as a great global city should be a source of national pride. Instead - with its multicultural vibrancy and Muslim mayor - it is being attacked by the hard right, who try to portray it as an urban hellhole
July 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
London’s spectacular rebirth as a great global city should be a source of national pride. Instead - with its multicultural vibrancy and Muslim mayor - it is being attacked by the hard right, who try to portray it as an urban hellhole
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Hancock ignored call to test all NHS staff, Covid inquiry hears www.bbc.com/news/article...
Matt Hancock ignored call to test all NHS staff, Covid inquiry hears
Two Nobel prize-winning scientists worried about "asymptomatic transmission" between staff and patients.
www.bbc.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hancock ignored call to test all NHS staff, Covid inquiry hears www.bbc.com/news/article...
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54% didn't vote. 20% of electorate voted Reform. So, 80% didn't. FPTP doesn't work for modern politics. Apathy won it for Reform. Disillusionment lost it for Labour
May 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
54% didn't vote. 20% of electorate voted Reform. So, 80% didn't. FPTP doesn't work for modern politics. Apathy won it for Reform. Disillusionment lost it for Labour
I think they should leave the covers on #democracy #usa
Grosvenor Square this morning "Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction" Ronaldo Reagan 1981. Outside former US embassy now a hotel.
April 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I think they should leave the covers on #democracy #usa
Grosvenor Square this morning "Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction" Ronaldo Reagan 1981. Outside former US embassy now a hotel.
April 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Grosvenor Square this morning "Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction" Ronaldo Reagan 1981. Outside former US embassy now a hotel.
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"Like what happened in Germany"!?
Trump knows nothing and has read nothing. But I wonder if, growing up, he heard at home stories that I gather were current at the time in pro-German, Holocaust-minimizing circles, of alleged instances of humane treatment of the Jews in the camps?
Trump knows nothing and has read nothing. But I wonder if, growing up, he heard at home stories that I gather were current at the time in pro-German, Holocaust-minimizing circles, of alleged instances of humane treatment of the Jews in the camps?
Trump: "I said to [the former hostages], was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like what happened in Germany."
April 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Like what happened in Germany"!?
Trump knows nothing and has read nothing. But I wonder if, growing up, he heard at home stories that I gather were current at the time in pro-German, Holocaust-minimizing circles, of alleged instances of humane treatment of the Jews in the camps?
Trump knows nothing and has read nothing. But I wonder if, growing up, he heard at home stories that I gather were current at the time in pro-German, Holocaust-minimizing circles, of alleged instances of humane treatment of the Jews in the camps?
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Liz Truss, somewhere, this morning, suffering flashbacks. But also thinking “Well I only tanked *one* country’s economy.”
April 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Liz Truss, somewhere, this morning, suffering flashbacks. But also thinking “Well I only tanked *one* country’s economy.”
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Fact-checking these pathological liars is exhausting, but important to note that this claim - that US sanctions mean zero trade with Russia, so no tariffs needed - is completely false. By USTR’s own count American imported $3bn of Russian goods last year. ustr.gov/countries-re...
April 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Fact-checking these pathological liars is exhausting, but important to note that this claim - that US sanctions mean zero trade with Russia, so no tariffs needed - is completely false. By USTR’s own count American imported $3bn of Russian goods last year. ustr.gov/countries-re...