Jessica Kingsley

Trump Went to War With Iran to ‘Seize Oil’ as US Shale Enters Terminal Decline The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves, reports Nafeez Ahmed

Well here’s some important, well thought through and articulate reading. Recommended that it’s read sitting down. open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...

Apparently yes!!

No! I completely missed that. Hilarious

Isn’t it time he went off and joined the Greens?

Medieval manuscript image of a green snake coiling its way up a margin beside and through an initial decorated with curving lines and dots.

eft-ongēn-bīgan, wk.v: to untwist again, to unwreathe. (EFT-on-yain-BEE-gahn / ˈɛft-ɔn-jeːn-ˌbiː-gan)
Image: Livre des propriétés des choses; France (Toulouse), c. 1350; Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Ms. 1029, f. 236v.
#OldEnglish #WOTD

Grim. And Russia could just make this stop any day they chose

This is indeed pretty scary.

Old English certainly has a knack for telling it how it is

The Language of Contempt and the loss of dialogue

Marina Cantacuzino - absolutely always worth reading open.substack.com/pub/mcanta/p...

Because?

Absolutely awful

Pretty sure we were saying this 30 years ago

On the disclosure of Mandelson's emails How to think about disclosed documentary evidence

My post on why context matters, in at least two ways, when there is this sort of disclosure of documentary evidence

emptycity.substack.com/p/on-the-dis...

What stands out from the documents so far circulated is that they do not fully explain the prosecution of Epstein.

There is a gap.

Very weird decision

All good questions. I guess I was making the assumption (while unhelpfully not articulating it) that there are, or are about to be, a bunch of people coming for the same reason as each other - not just trying it out so much as actively looking for a new professional platform

There seems to be a fairly determined exodus from X in the UK. Government, and C of E - not before time - are both making policy decisions about it.

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

In fairness, X is almost always more wrong than right these days. Glad to see so many people leaving it…

This government has been particularly reluctant to have strong policy teams in departments - probably because they represent an alternate power source (recollections of a few interesting conversations in 2018-19). But think this is one of their big mistakes. bsky.app/profile/adam...

Massive military support and a big hug from his wife

Seems utterly destructive. Sorry to see Burnham so ill judged

Again

Burnham is not a great orator, neither is Starmer, he will be held to ransom by the left wing of the party even moreso than Starmer. This won’t work. The UK economy is not under the influence of a PM/Government. It is run by tech giants and that’s where the target should be not a PM, chairs titanic.

Not remotely

Good night, dear friends. It’s 01:10 in Ukraine. I wish everyone has a safe, peaceful, and calm night.

🫡🤗🇺🇦President Zelenskyy received a standing ovation at Davos!

Glad to hear this. He is a hero, glad he was so well received. It’s how most of the world thinks about Ukraine

How terrible. I think in England it was huge uncertainty and people pressing for rearmament

My uncle, who would have been in the 1936 Olympics as a hurdler, was in the army and therefore not allowed to go…

Um. Not that! Not what he says...

Brilliant! Thank you!