still waiting for that pivot to asia
06.03.2026 16:12
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still waiting for that pivot to asia
In press release, current Axel Springer boss Matthias Döpfner says "The Telegraph" was the late German conservative press baron's "guiding star" when he built his newspaper empire after World War II.
"The prospect that “the Torygraph” — as it has been dubbed — could soon be in the hands of German owners for the first time in its 168-year history will send shockwaves through the ranks of conservative power brokers in Westminster." www.ft.com/content/e5cb...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
i really recommend "the belgrano diary" podcast series about the sinking of an argentine warship by a british submarine during the falklands war—& the lies & political intrigue that follow. from lrb / andrew o'hagan. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
the FT's paywall is so good that it won't even deliver to me, a paying subscriber, the print newspaper that i pay them money for.
"It takes an immensely talented writer to draw us through all this material and keep the story humming with dramatic tension. Ismaïl delivers." A stunning review of HYPER by @brynstole.bsky.social
theauflauf.substack.com/p/march-book...
"Trump’s moment of peak potency was choosing to go to war with Iran. From then on, Trump lost his monopoly on how the war unfolds. Many others—not just Iranians—now have a say over its direction." www.ft.com/content/611e...
„Doch laut Dokumenten, die der taz vorliegen, ermittelt die Polizei gegen den Schuldirektor im Fall nun sogar wegen ‚falscher Verdächtigung’. Weder auf Deutsch, Arabisch oder Englisch lassen sich zudem Belege für seinen imposanten Lebenslauf finden.“
Starke Recherche!
taz.de/Mutmassliche...
the best new books publication the western hemisphere is THE AUFLAUF: theauflauf.substack.com
subscribe to the auflauf! undoubtably berlin's premier gossip-mongering literary review!
Another great set of books this month: Matthew McDonald's debut poetry collection @ajbwells.bsky.social; Julia Franck's autobiographical novel @return2sanders.bsky.social; and Agri Ismaïl's account of dislocation and late capitalism @brynstole.bsky.social. Plus some EXPLOSIVE new gossip...
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
“I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground — like every president says, ‘There will be no boots on the ground.’ I don’t say it,” Trump said nypost.com/2026/03/02/u...
“all the fun stuff – books, sports, local news – has been blotted out by the shrill melodrama of partisan politics.” a lovely lament for the book world. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
well, there are english allotments and then there are german allotments. sounds about right?
Maybe The Berliner called a Berlin police spokesman for this lil news hit, since no other sources are cited: www.the-berliner.com/english-news...
And maybe it just so happened they got the exact same details as dpa/Tagesspiegel, & wrote it up the same way: www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/mehre...
after my brief run in Rundle C i refuse to believe that most of these people actually know the answers to these questions.
Hmm, wonder where local mag The Berliner got this reporting about clubs under threat at RAW Gelände: www.the-berliner.com/english-news...
Oh wait they (apprently?) just ran rbb's story through google translate, removed citations and gave no credit for exclusive quotes: www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...
"One of every 15 residents in Dublin’s trendy Grand Canal Dock district was born in the U.S., according to realtors, higher than the percentage of Americans born in Ireland during the 19th-century influx following the Potato Famine." www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...
Not often you seen "Oi!" in European cultural discourse: it can only be @ajbwells.bsky.social, here with his "extra scoop of Auflauf": namely on great book openings... theauflauf.substack.com/p/oi-quick-q...
it’s wonderful!
My latest — on Malaparte in @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
lol this twist in a "pc magazine" article headlined "the unabomber was right"
BOOM. www.ft.com/content/8017...
claim could be right, idk, but simply gesturing at the NEH's (much-bemoaned) budget does little to prove it. surely there are other sources of humanities funding? some are even mentioned in the piece. would be nice to have more evidence (in a v long article!) to underpin such a sweeping argument.
i finally read the mellon foundation story in the atlantic and the annoying thing is there is no attempt to actually establish the central claim—that mellon has a "virtual monopoly on humanities funding"—beyond an offhand comparison to the (much diminished) national endowment for the humanities.
Berlin (AFP)—Some Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete under their own national flags at the 2026 Paralympics in Milan-Cortina, the Games' governing body confirmed to AFP on Tuesday.
pretty stunning chart
amazing how many well-informed people i meet continue to think that pageviews / ad impressions is a meaningful and healthy revenue source for news outlets.