Successful travel week behind me, heading home from Amsterdam, and over the Moerdijk. Time to snooze the emails till Monday.
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Successful travel week behind me, heading home from Amsterdam, and over the Moerdijk. Time to snooze the emails till Monday.
A think paper cover book or pamphlet in French with the title “Antidote to the Cult of Performance” by Olivier Hamant
I bought a Tract Gallimard the other day - 50 pages or so, one argument - and I did specifically think at the time “why is this format not available in the anglophone world”
It’s more “alteration de régime” if I’m honest.
Iceland will hold a referendum on Aug. 29 to decide whether to relaunch its stalled talks to join the EU, its government said today.
I guess it’s small mercies that however mad Dopfner is (& he IS mad), he’s slightly less mad than Paul Marshall
Strong echoes of FDR's Fireside Chats
Probably not, but I don't think the editorial line will change much - though of course I hope I'm wrong and it's the harbinger of the UK centre right realising that the EU is their only defence against being eaten by Reform
True, I suppose.
'the pupil announced he was “working on something important about Swansea” before lying on the playground tarmac to “feel the rhythm of the town”.
...explained to a confused Year 3 class that the sea was “restless and unforgiving”.
#WorldBookDay
dailyswansea.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/s...
Europeans looking at Brits assuming that Axel Springer buying the Telegraph will make it a pro-European newspaper.
It's a reverse demographic. The people who use it are the demographic of terrible people.
I love too many to list but a few have a special place in my heart
Macbeth, which was my first Shakespeare at school
Julius Caesar, because I work in (broadly defined) politics
The Tempest, my son's first Shakespeare (at the Globe with - I realised recently - a young Jessie Buckley as Miranda)
Per fi l’urbanisme que volem.
Absolutely <3
Excellent GIF choice!
Top marks to @sarahowen.org.uk and @stellacreasy.bsky.social (in this leaked messaging thread in the Times).
Headline from both the 16th Century and tonight's Spurs game:
Questions For Tudor Following Palace Catastrophe
Certainly not standard in my experience of listening to TMS and reading match reports.
He said something similar as a (disapproving) description of the views of Rudyard Kipling. That’s where it comes from.
I had no idea until this all started that the UAE licences and pays many influencers to live there and write positively about the regime.
That puts a whole new spin on things.
Propagandists in pocket of regime.
It's why all the messaging is the same.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/duba...
If you think I'm overstating concerns about the loyalties of US tech companies - check out this memo from Anthropic CEO to staff on their battle with the Trump administration.
📣 "We no longer live in a two-party system, and if we continue to have an electoral system that doesn't acknowledge that fact, we will have, as Professor @robfordmancs.bsky.social says, elections that lead to even more chaotic and unpredictable results."
👇 @chriscurtis94.bsky.social
I’m clearly doing something online that drives my Instagram algo quietly insane. Today it has pushed me the unimprovable mix of erectile dysfunction pills, senior dating* and hijabs.
* (I’m 52 and happily married)
If there is evidence of irregularities at some polling stations at the Gorton and Denton byelection, then that evidence should be properly and promptly investigated in accordance with due process by the proper authorities. And that is what is being done. Any denunciations of the election result should thereby await the result of this process. The losing party spokesperson candidly admitted the day after the election that any irregularities were not enough to have affected the result, which was emphatic. But this did not prevent the losing party’s leader from loudly promoting grave allegations of sectarian voting, corruption and dishonesty. Yet if the irregularities are not upheld on investigation as invalidating the result, it is unlikely that those findings will be shouted about. And such a response is irresponsible. Parts of the United Kingdom have a history of sectarian violence. Parts of the United Kingdom have histories of racial tension. Responsible politicians should not exploit such allegations for partisan advantage. Making such allegations is to play with fire, literally. Responsible politicians should be careful to avoid subverting the very fundamentals on which a functioning democracy rests. Such “poisoning of the wells” is familiar to those following the politics of the United States, and it lay behind the lethal violence that took place in Washington DC on 6th January 2021.
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The poisoning of the wells
Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy
This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
I have promised to give a talk with the title "The Emerging European Democracy and its Enemies" and doing the reading on the "Enemies" part is testing my sanity.
Some of them are Teams calls. Mine certainly is.
We could stoke resentment with Buckinghamshire but why would you bother? I think there could be a row over Barnet, if we play our cards right.
My own Hertfordshire having a stronger identity than Glos or Co Durham feels ... implausible. Perhaps there has been a powerful Herts nationalist movement in the last three decades.
This message deserves to be painted in metre-high letters across the frontage of Caffelatte (opposite EPP HQ). Diluting climate regulations makes life harder for businesses, and hurts European autonomy - even before you get to the climate impacts!
Couverture de Médor n°42. Texte de l'image : "GLB, à la limite du hors-jeu"
Médor n°42 · Depuis 2020, Georges-Louis Bouchez est double président. Du MR et des Francs Borains.
À la recherche d'investisseurs pour ce club de D2, ses réseaux s’entremêlent et s’entraident, toujours à la limite du hors-jeu et en dehors de tout contrôle démocratique.
Notre enquête 🧵
