Will Cooling

Gonna do a books i read in 2026 thread

Oh wow. Yeah Netflix is so activating their break clause

I am still paying off the holidays I had between 2010-2015 - four trips to Trinidad, one to Zimbabwe, and one to Mauritius. Utter madness given that for most of that period I was on 50-66% of what I earn now in real terms

I'd appreciate it if the FT stop snooping on my shopping decisions

1000% This. There are no permanent victories in politics. If Brexit is to endue, today's Britain must support it.

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

Well something's broken

a weird set of people who only exist online are people who celebrate the defeat of global fascism in every other country and are then horrified and appalled at the idea that they should also be expected to vote for their domestic opponent of global fascism if some of their stances are Problematic

Bluesky has five kinds of users

I think it's more profound than that - it shows all they have is boomer grievance mongering

Woah. That's a spicy meatball

Sorry FIFTY FOUR PERCENT

lula

Serious point though, this kind of thing does prove Linz's point about presidential systems: having absolute power decided by a zero sum election no matter how narrow really is quite a bad idea.

First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes. Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power. Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

It's a sad and forgotten truth that racism can be a lot of fn: it makes the people who do it feel like winners! They get to be part of something!

Suez episode of Rest is History just dropped for members. That's my afternoon sorted

Also not seen enough discussion of the fact that the EU may well actively oppose the UK joining the Euro (even if it wanted to) given the potential of an economy the size of the UK's to destabilise the currency.

Very excited about the Brexit debate becoming about why rejoin might get us 'better' immigrants......

100% This. I also think people are slightly overlooking that the EU is still indulging our Schegen opt-out by not making Ireland join it. The idea they would become stricter if we rejoin doesn't make sense

Maybe Burnham's dog whistles will get Rejoin over the line but if any issue has proven that "the ends justify the means" isn't true, unless you're a very cheap date*, then it's Brexit *I was that cheap date

Reagan talked about welfare queens in Cadillacs, Trump talks about Somalian thieves in Mercedes Benzes, because being *real* racist has been a core strategy Republican politicians for a very long time, even if prior to Trump a lot of folks who should have known better enjoyed pretending otherwise.

If I, or a team member, were asked to remove that pin or told it would be edited out I'd want us to be brave enough to walk off set. At some point we've just got to refuse to work with a BBC that does this to us.

And let's be honest some of that is on Obama. He's a bit like Tony Blair in that he's taken the easy, lucrative path rather than actually retiring or staying in the trenches. Only he's nowhere near as corrupt as Blair and has stayed more aligned with his party

I'm just saying, constitutional amendment so both Trump and Obama can run in 2028....