Trump’s China Trade Policy Is a Hot Mess www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Why can't our leaders see that the biggest danger to democracy is their habitual lying. With Minns, it's lies all the way down. Lies about the caravan. Lies about his reasons for opposing a legitimate protest. Lies and catastrophizing from his dumb cop.

1. I admire Krugman, but I did not find this Paul Krugman takedown of @michaelpettis.bsky.social ideas all that impressive or convincing (as a great admirer also of Pettis, I was looking forward to learning something and hearing his ideas challenged!) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/rethinking...

Everyone involved in arriving at this outcome deserves praise. Shows we can be honest about our history without getting caught up in symbolism www.deakin.edu.au/__data/asset...

Interesting article referred to by Martin Sandbu in today's FT. open.substack.com/pub/navigati...

Saw this amazing movie a few months ago, a good one to watch while Sth Korean attempted coup in the news en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/12.12:_...

A Russian spy ring was tasked with kidnapping and/or murdering my two colleagues, Christo Grozev and Roman Dobrokhotov, a UK court has now heard. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Read this thread, from a heroic American under attack from an unhinged billionaire

@jvl.bsky.social just letting you know you will be added to AI imagery blocking lists with the image on your handle (I applied one to filter out all the junk, it blocked you as well!)

@markgaleotti.bsky.social thank you for turning up, paid off already since I was prompted to buy your book (🥵 summer holiday reading for down under). Had to go amazon as it's not at my regular bookshop (Abbeys) yet

@support.bsky.team hi. It would be very useful to be able to copy the entries of a #starterpack straight to a list (or create a new list from a starterpack). It would also be useful to be able to see who is on one of my lists (not just who I am is following). Thanks, great job, Stuart

10 years for practicing democracy! An utter travesty of justice. Hong Kong has been rapidly descending into just another mainland Chinese city. Even the lengths of sentences for government critics now resemble those of the mainland.

Good piece by David Lynch of the Washington Post on the drivers of US deficits.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

@jonathanbchait.bsky.social come on Jon, time to make a move here as well

Can I suggest a name and acronym for what were all here to free ourselves from: "OCSM" - Oligarch-Controlled Social Media