Adam Jezard
@appledumplinggang.bsky.social
Ex-journalist Reading Evening Post, Marvel Comics' Hammer Horror mag, Financial Times Special Reports and many others. Currently trying to enjoy life, if only the despots would let me. Reading a lot of philosophy and occasionally trying to write a novel.
Gotta Love Martin Sandbu in the FT.
Who knew economists had a sense of humour?
Who knew economists had a sense of humour?
April 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Gotta Love Martin Sandbu in the FT.
Who knew economists had a sense of humour?
Who knew economists had a sense of humour?
Reading this in a coffee shop. Cobbett details how the incomes of working men fell over 900 years. Inadequate poor relief is a vision of what Trump has in store for working classes around the world.
Brought home all the more as the places he writes about were in my first patch as a young reporter.
Brought home all the more as the places he writes about were in my first patch as a young reporter.
April 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Reading this in a coffee shop. Cobbett details how the incomes of working men fell over 900 years. Inadequate poor relief is a vision of what Trump has in store for working classes around the world.
Brought home all the more as the places he writes about were in my first patch as a young reporter.
Brought home all the more as the places he writes about were in my first patch as a young reporter.
Time to wake up to what Trumpism really means. A disaster for humanity.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-orange...
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-orange...
The orange emperor and his recipe for global disaster
Trumpians have a plan - sort of - to recreate the warring states of ancient Greece and Rome. And it could lead to a mass human extinction. By Adam Jezard.
adamjezard.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Time to wake up to what Trumpism really means. A disaster for humanity.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-orange...
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-orange...
Been saying this for years. Like the quote about AI making "bone-headed mistakes".
archive.is/yRAkx
www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
archive.is/yRAkx
www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
March 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Been saying this for years. Like the quote about AI making "bone-headed mistakes".
archive.is/yRAkx
www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
archive.is/yRAkx
www.newscientist.com/article/2471...
Met this amazing actor in a café today. He came over as a genuinely nice guy.
“Am I going to be impressed by money or fame or whatever, really? I don’t think so, no. I mean, a day’s fly fishing is all I’m really aiming for.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
“Am I going to be impressed by money or fame or whatever, really? I don’t think so, no. I mean, a day’s fly fishing is all I’m really aiming for.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
James Cosmo: 'My friend said: They're going to drink beer out of your skull'
After his brutal demise on Game of Thrones, the veteran Scottish actor is back in crime drama The Bay. Is he the baddie?
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Met this amazing actor in a café today. He came over as a genuinely nice guy.
“Am I going to be impressed by money or fame or whatever, really? I don’t think so, no. I mean, a day’s fly fishing is all I’m really aiming for.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
“Am I going to be impressed by money or fame or whatever, really? I don’t think so, no. I mean, a day’s fly fishing is all I’m really aiming for.”
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Reposted by Adam Jezard
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Testimony Reveals Doors Would Not Open on Cybertruck That Caught Fire in Piedmont, Killing Three
The Highway Patrol’s investigation into a November Cybertruck crash in Piedmont where three college kids died is finding two very Tesla problems: the vehicle immediately caught fire, and its doors wou...
sfist.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The word "yet" in the right place missing from this sumup. Its absence hangs heavy.
"Trump isn’t another Hitler, complete with death camps and a Gestapo; but he is the nearest thing America has ever come to such a fate – and that’s bad for the whole world."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
"Trump isn’t another Hitler, complete with death camps and a Gestapo; but he is the nearest thing America has ever come to such a fate – and that’s bad for the whole world."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
How low must Donald Trump sink before adoring Tories call him out?
With every passing day bringing yet more puzzling and depressing actions by the president, it’s about time that fawning British politicos found the gumption to condemn him, says Sean O’Grady
www.independent.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The word "yet" in the right place missing from this sumup. Its absence hangs heavy.
"Trump isn’t another Hitler, complete with death camps and a Gestapo; but he is the nearest thing America has ever come to such a fate – and that’s bad for the whole world."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
"Trump isn’t another Hitler, complete with death camps and a Gestapo; but he is the nearest thing America has ever come to such a fate – and that’s bad for the whole world."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
It's useful to remind ourselves of Umberto Eco's 14 features of fascism.
So far Trump/Vance et al hitting them all.
www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...
So far Trump/Vance et al hitting them all.
www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland
One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms an...
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March 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It's useful to remind ourselves of Umberto Eco's 14 features of fascism.
So far Trump/Vance et al hitting them all.
www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...
So far Trump/Vance et al hitting them all.
www.openculture.com/2024/11/umbe...
A footnote on the popularity, or otherwise, of countries that have an exceptionalism problem.
From Stephen Fry's Heroes.
This doesn't end well.
From Stephen Fry's Heroes.
This doesn't end well.
March 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A footnote on the popularity, or otherwise, of countries that have an exceptionalism problem.
From Stephen Fry's Heroes.
This doesn't end well.
From Stephen Fry's Heroes.
This doesn't end well.
Prats.
MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting.
Meanwhile:
Meanwhile:
March 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Prats.
March 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Remember a vote for Farage is a vote for Putin.
A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Putin.
Support for Brexit is tantamount to appeasement.
Forgot the US and any special relationship. It's irrelevant, if it ever existed at all.
Rejoin the EU.
A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Putin.
Support for Brexit is tantamount to appeasement.
Forgot the US and any special relationship. It's irrelevant, if it ever existed at all.
Rejoin the EU.
February 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Remember a vote for Farage is a vote for Putin.
A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Putin.
Support for Brexit is tantamount to appeasement.
Forgot the US and any special relationship. It's irrelevant, if it ever existed at all.
Rejoin the EU.
A vote for the Conservatives is a vote for Putin.
Support for Brexit is tantamount to appeasement.
Forgot the US and any special relationship. It's irrelevant, if it ever existed at all.
Rejoin the EU.
Trump: draft-dodging, small-handed, orange gnome bad-mouthing a real defender of democracy.
A lot of Americans applaud.
The rest of the world not so much.
Shameful.
A lot of Americans applaud.
The rest of the world not so much.
Shameful.
February 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Trump: draft-dodging, small-handed, orange gnome bad-mouthing a real defender of democracy.
A lot of Americans applaud.
The rest of the world not so much.
Shameful.
A lot of Americans applaud.
The rest of the world not so much.
Shameful.
Reposted by Adam Jezard
TOMORROW is Public Domain Movie Night! HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940). Rosalind Russell plays a reporter about to marry & retire. Her ex, Cary Grant, tries everything to get her to stay.
📅 Feb. 28, 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315...
<a href="/hashtag/FunCheapSF" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#FunCheapSF #InternetArchive
📅 Feb. 28, 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315...
<a href="/hashtag/FunCheapSF" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#FunCheapSF #InternetArchive
February 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
TOMORROW is Public Domain Movie Night! HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940). Rosalind Russell plays a reporter about to marry & retire. Her ex, Cary Grant, tries everything to get her to stay.
📅 Feb. 28, 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315...
<a href="/hashtag/FunCheapSF" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#FunCheapSF #InternetArchive
📅 Feb. 28, 7:30 pm
📍 300 Funston Ave. SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1259100315...
<a href="/hashtag/FunCheapSF" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#FunCheapSF #InternetArchive
A short story I wrote a while ago. A fantasy but also a warning of where the modern madmen dictators want to take us.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-man-wi...
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-man-wi...
The Man With The Dream
A fiction by Adam Jezard. A mad billionaire, a dream of immortality and a nightmare for the human race hide behind the walls of an English country house.
adamjezard.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A short story I wrote a while ago. A fantasy but also a warning of where the modern madmen dictators want to take us.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-man-wi...
adamjezard.substack.com/p/the-man-wi...
I've got news for folk, certainly in the west, who object to migration or hide behind the racist arse-covering cry of "managed migration".
Japan is what the UK post-brexit in particular will start to look like without migrants.
Look through the telescope the right way.
www.ft.com/content/95d3...
Japan is what the UK post-brexit in particular will start to look like without migrants.
Look through the telescope the right way.
www.ft.com/content/95d3...
Japan births fall to lowest in 125 years
Number of babies born declines 5% despite efforts to boost fertility rate
www.ft.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I've got news for folk, certainly in the west, who object to migration or hide behind the racist arse-covering cry of "managed migration".
Japan is what the UK post-brexit in particular will start to look like without migrants.
Look through the telescope the right way.
www.ft.com/content/95d3...
Japan is what the UK post-brexit in particular will start to look like without migrants.
Look through the telescope the right way.
www.ft.com/content/95d3...
I've been looking back at the foundations of western civilisation. We have barely moved on in our thinking since the days of Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides.
I'll be doing more on this soon but here's a previous thought splurge. We need to do better.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/warlords-o...
I'll be doing more on this soon but here's a previous thought splurge. We need to do better.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/warlords-o...
Warlords of Atlantis: Plato's grim shadow hangs over democracy
Extreme populists around the world are invoking the rhetoric of a violent historic age
adamjezard.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I've been looking back at the foundations of western civilisation. We have barely moved on in our thinking since the days of Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides.
I'll be doing more on this soon but here's a previous thought splurge. We need to do better.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/warlords-o...
I'll be doing more on this soon but here's a previous thought splurge. We need to do better.
adamjezard.substack.com/p/warlords-o...
Currently reading: Stephen Fry's retelling of Greek myths vol 1.
If you want to know where humanity is going it's good to know where it's been.
If you want to know where humanity is going it's good to know where it's been.
February 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Currently reading: Stephen Fry's retelling of Greek myths vol 1.
If you want to know where humanity is going it's good to know where it's been.
If you want to know where humanity is going it's good to know where it's been.
I'm looking at the US cabinet and thinking, I hope they're quickly replaced by more capable DEI hires.
February 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I'm looking at the US cabinet and thinking, I hope they're quickly replaced by more capable DEI hires.
Birds of a perverted feather...
BREAKING | Andrew Tate ‘has left Romania and is heading to the US’
Andrew and Tristan Tate ‘have left Romania and is heading to the US’
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have reportedly left Romania and are believed to be heading to the US.
www.independent.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Birds of a perverted feather...
One of my very favourite character actors of his generation. Sad times.
RIP.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
RIP.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa found dead in their home
The Oscar-winner was 95 years old
www.independent.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
One of my very favourite character actors of his generation. Sad times.
RIP.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
RIP.
www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...