Mike Cormack

Trump is heading for a hard reckoning over Iran It isn’t a sign of Trump Derangement Syndrome to consider the Trump administration's Iran war video obscene

spectator.com/article/trum...

"Keep digging."

Same with the Shogun adaptation. Looked great, very respectful of Japanese culture, but too chicken to properly go into the cross-cultural love of Blackthorne and Mariko. Timid.

Take me back to XP city
Where the screen's biue-green
And looks really pretty

"And the answer is No."

The references in Edmund White memoirs are extensive

Barn Raising Dance (7 Brides for 7 Brothers) - MGM Studio Orchestra (HD) YouTube video by 33Evenstar

This is the greatest scene from any musical ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tygm...

The King and I, An American In Paris, Calamity Jane, Singin' in the Rain (obviously), Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady... all timeless

I experienced this when my daughter was young, working my way through all the classic musicals with her. They are all still wonderful. My personal favourite remains Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, extremely dodgy sexual politics notwithstanding

when I was searching for the recent David Attenborough documentary on Asia, I searched "BBC Asia"... some results were not what I expected

Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

a moral what now

REceived a spam email from a certain Ms Gu Kailai. Very 2012 references.

That's the real mark of a champion

I have worked on an oilrig, and as an accountant, a croupier, and a magazine editor

There is really something profoundly wrong about this man's psychology

@johnharris1969.bsky.social was this you? 🧐🤔

Didn't Thatcher downplay her marriage wealth and order Dennis to return a Rolls-Royce in 1979?

Book covers are so parvenu

Between 1974 and 1976, it was the comfortably-off who suffered. High inflation ate their savings. The low pound spoiled their holidays. A property crash – house prices fell 13 per cent in 1974, 16 per cent in 1975 and 8 per cent in 1976 – devalued their homes. The stock-market slump did the same for their share-holdings. Share dividends shrank or were not paid at all. During these years, disposable income fell considerably faster for the richest tenth of British households than for everyone else, and by larger and larger amounts the further you were up the financial scale. Even in a severe recession, this was not a familiar situation. ‘For the first time since 1931,’ writes Middlemas, ‘London pawnbrokers … began to receive assets of the former new rich.’

The economy was much worst for the middle and upper classes in 1974-1976

wow, I'd assumed they would have not said anything about it

Good morning and happy Thursday to everyone. The United Kingdom just arrested former Prince Andrew. Your turn, America.

On "woke" consumerism:

China’s high-speed rail network accelerates world’s largest human migration Lunar new year travel is taking place faster than ever

www.ft.com/content/3c15... Great article

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows

The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants).

‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I feel a strong urge to do the same but for dry martinis