David L

Roots of Fascism compared: 1930s Germany: Shattering defeat in WWI, ruinous financial reparations and loss of territory imposed at Treaty of Versailles, hyperinflation, Great Depression, mass unemployment, economic and political collapse of Weimar Republic 2020s USA: Egg prices a bit high

@doctorow.pluralistic.net must be very proud.

Sagrada Família sandwiched between two thumb drives (USB-A and Lightning)

"The experience of reading BANK JOB is like nothing so much as hearing the ravings of someone who is furious at her smoke alarm for burning down her house. Time and again, Truss gets confused about basic facts, the passage of time, and the basics of how cause-and-effect works."

New Liz Truss book doesn't disappoint. Thrust is blaming the Bank of England for the Sept 2022 market fallout, especially its quantitative tightening announcement the day before the mini-budget. She claims that she and Kwarteng were "caught off-guard", blindsided by the BoE's announcement.

"Replace the first letter of a book's title to better reflect its contents"

Former chief of defence staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin tells @ldfreedman.bsky.social that Boris Johnson was so uncertain whether to back Ukraine just days before the full-scale invasion he asked for papers to be drawn up on supporting Ukraine or 'looking the other way.'

"Suicidal provocation of Russia while our armed forces are at their most woeful state since WW2". Mate, the Russian army is currently pulling T-55's out of storage and losing ~1,800 men a day in foot and motorcycle assaults that achieve nothing. This is "poke the bear" nonsense.

The fact that the media thinks it is worth paying attention to the dribblings of this dog turd is yet more evidence of our worthless political culture.

I must admit I haven’t read the art of the deal, but aside from fellatio and bend-over, does it suggest any other negotiating methods?

@andertoon.bsky.social

On this, the morning after Sebastian Payne was knocked out in the first round of the selection contest for the Chelsea & Fulham Tory nomination, it's worth updating the map of constituencies where Seb has unsuccessfully applied.

Four years ago today: Twitter’s last moment of greatness.

from Monday's post: "We’re all still waiting for Donny to collude with America" — That must be one hell of a pee tape. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff.

Fuck me, what a day to have eyes. Kill me now.

Half-way there...

TOCs can already impose £1000 fine, doesn't seem to make any difference. Relies on "transport safety officers" or police, neither of whom I've ever seen on an Avanti WCML. I suggest a system of break-glass-to-use stout coshes in every carriange to be used by vigilantes to give miscreants dead legs.

Not enough people know about this. Badenoch put Low onto the Public Accounts Committee.

Every now and then it’s nice to remember this orangutan’s reaction to this trick. Original post

I’ve never been to St. Petersburg, but I have to say, their oil terminal looks absolutely stunning at night.

Lord Sumption's opening speech at the Free Speech debate. He was given seven minutes but took only three.

Lord Sumption at The Spectator free speech debate, arguing against a motion 'This house believes Britain no longer has free speech'. Here he explains why the buffer zones around abortion clinics are acceptable and why the restriction on 'silent prayer' is an incorrect characterisation of the law.

Let’s have another look at the time Nigel Farage went to the US to bad mouth Britain, but ended up getting his arse handed to him by the US Senate.

We have one of them in the EU parliament edition.cnn.com/2026/10/07/s...

This story is becoming the Spiderman pointing meme if every version of Spiderman was somehow the equal-first worst person in the world.

SAUDI ARABIA ISSUES EARLY WARNING ALERT FOR POTENTIAL DANGER IN KHAMIS MUSHAIT -CIVIL DEFENCE

it's wild how like 2% of U.S. tech news outlets are capable of covering this white supremacist bullshitter with any useful consistency

Journalist to Hegseth: “Mr. Secretary, are you Vladimir Putin’s puppet on Ukraine? Mr. Secretary, is Vladimir Putin playing you like a fiddle?” Good job, Britain! That’s how it’s done. Video: Sky News

"He really is just a twat ... tiny dick energy" Can't find a more apt description of Pete Hegseth than this from @lewisgoodall.com on today's @thenewsagents.co.uk

You’ve seen stutter step penalties but how about this stutter walk penalty in the Caribbean Cup semifinal?

April 1 comes around sooner every year

Who can doubt the BBC would've been equally unequivocal?

shout out to ITV for their clear & unequivocal conclusion after their investigation into Reform

George Osborne is the unchallenged champion of failing upwards. He, along with his greasy-faced, portly chum, broke Britain with a needless, deeply ideological austerity programme and has been continually showered with rewards by the Establishment ever since.

Osborne's scrapping of universal benefits, such as Child Benefit, was very much ideologically driven, with the intent being to undermine support for the welfare state amongst the better off more than it was about saving money. "Programs for the poor are poor programs."

Midweek update. This is the week when trusting the USA was shown to be a catastrophe. The second part has a detailed primer on the Starlink/Starshield sabotage of Ukraine. This is US being a fully fledged Putin ally and will cause many Ukrainian deaths phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...

George Osborne is the unchallenged champion of failing upwards. He, along with his greasy-faced, portly chum, broke Britain with a needless, deeply ideological austerity programme and has been continually showered with rewards by the Establishment ever since.

Perhaps they should have a looped audio announcement like reversing vehicles now have in the UK: "This pervert is recording...This pervert is recording...This pervert is recording..."

Tonight we've had ITV exposing the disgusting, vile racist behaviour of some @reformuk.bsky.social Councillors. A couple of weeks ago Channel 4 ran a story about Reform being prepared to accept dodgy money. I don't like to say this but would BBC News have ran such stories? I don't believe so.

Way past time the UK government scrapped the ludicrously self-harming proscription of Palestine Action and, if Mahmood doesn't like it, all the better, she needs sacking irrespectively. We can at least live in hope.

Today's lesson for Europe: if your national security relies on US oligarchs' tech, they'll cut you off when you most need it.

The BBC is so broken and unfit for purpose. Clearing out the board should have been amongst the first priorities of both the Starmer and Burnham governments.

Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Love, Ministry of Truth.

Mark Zuckerberg unveils the EU compliant version of his pervert glasses.

RIP an English* King slain by small boat people today

For the first time, the British government has acknowledged that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum. So who did BBC Newsnight invite on to discuss what happened? Sergei Markov, Putin’s former spokesman. Par for the course, says Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 1/

Don't hide behind your followers Matt. Tell us what YOU think about it