Brit living in #Cyprus. AGW etc doomer. Proud dad of a doctor and an ecologist. Outsider. Ambivert. Big picture ponderer. Reader.
Nothing has independent self existence. Everything has interdependent self existence.
My art to buy at.... kitchingart.com
Five tests for nationalism in the next 10 days. Could be genuinely transformative.
🇷🇸 Serbia — Vucic lost (yay!)
🇧🇷 Brazil — Lula leads early count
🇮🇱 Israel — 27 Oct
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 1 Nov
🇺🇸 USA — 3 Nov
One down, one looks promising, three to go.
This sort of thing, and its implications for growing wealth inequality, are what the riots in Europe are about. Enough now.
Did you know that the top marginal tax rate in the 1950s US -arguably the US's heyday - was over 90%? Because so many more people had money. It was fairly distributed.
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
“Our old horse is blind. He walked into the creek and couldn't find his way back out... He kept turning toward the deep water. His donkey waded in, leaned up against him and walked him to the bank one step at a time. They've been best friends for eleven years.”
The warzone that is King's Cross Station at 10pm. Oh the humanity. I expect 15 Tweets before bedtime saying how you can't venture out on London's streets in safety after sunset.
Good night from Ukraine🫂
I don’t wish for miracles anymore.
Just one night without missiles
And shaheds around Ukraine
One morning without terrible news.
Is that too much to ask?
#ukraine#ukrainians#ukrainian#ukrainiangirl#war
The people of Albania are doing something the Americans refuse to do
Standing up against the billionaire Trumps and their Saudi backers who are laying waste to a protected wetland off the coast of Albania
WITKOFF TO PUTIN (yes, that Putin): “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian — you are a humanitarian also, sir. I salute that. I commend you.”
🤯 we are so cooked.
Russia was never a hoax.
The American political system is broken and is not fit for purpose.
"...they underscore just how little power Trump’s own party has had in reining in his attacks on longstanding allied relationships."
www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
If they must riot, this is where people should be rioting. The epitome of grotesque greed and excess. Not trashing their own towns and cities.
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
#AI#stocks Run for cover.
"..Gartner is standing by its forecast that $3.5 trillion in AI investment could be on the rocks due to profitability concerns among the top AI models."
www.cnbc.com/2026/10/19/g...
“We reject the idea that the fascism that emerged in 1920s and 1930s Europe, particularly in Italy and in Germany, was a rupture in the history of western civilisation,” say Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
When Meduza launched in 2014, there was no COVID pandemic, no President Trump, and no mass exodus of Russians. But Putin and Russia’s war in Ukraine were already here. Today, on our 12th birthday, we asked 12 people what the world might look like in 2038. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
The the Institute of Economic Affairs is an anonymously-funded neoliberal think tank whose alumni appear on the BBC virtually every day of the week without viewers having a clue whose interests they represent, in flagrant violation of the BBC's own editorial guidelines.
#PoliticsLive
Elon Musk is paying for Tommy Robinson's legal costs, £200,000 just for today.
Robinson's owner is a billionaire economic migrant from South Africa.
Who is Trump's little bitch.
What does that make Robinson?
The bitch of a bitch.
💔Albania Bulldozers destroy
last untouched Delta in Mediterranean IN VJOSA-NARTA
Home to hundreds of bird species, endangered wildlife, migratory birds, sea turtles, and critically endangered Mediterranean monk sea
so Ivanka Trump can build 12,000 villas
www.instagram.com/p/DYM44LqDFu...
Despite months of protests
Albania Govt set to destroy the last intact delta system in the Mediterranean and the Flamingos and wildlife that live there
the Vjosa-Narta
to build 10,000 villas for Ivanka Trump Jared Kushner. and her Saudi backers
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
Last week, at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, I told a room of CEOs, chairs and senior investors that we are not going to make it. Not at this pace.
I did not know how it would land. A thread 👇
Trump and Putin planning the new US-Russia Grand Alliance, Even Before Ukraine Is Conquered and Subjugated. Russia and the US are discussing a range of new joint projects including nuclear-powered data centres in the wake of last week's agreement on diesel, President Vladimir Putin's investment
Oh dear - white, male, privately educated, gold bullion selling, 5 homes owning, multi-millionaire MP feted by BBC, for years promoted by billionaire press, feels excluded and victimised. Can anyone close to Farage give him contact details of a good counseller ...
meme via Greg Stuart
🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk personally proposed slowing down Ukraine’s Starlink access, and Trump agreed, The Telegraph reports, citing four sources.
Musk reportedly later feared backlash from European customers and publicly denied responsibility, blaming the White House instead.