All this stuff about Britain is broken, all is terrible, there is no recourse, society is falling apart, if there was a war nobody would go, etc is beginning to irritate me.
There are doubtlessly considerable problems. But I worry that the catastrophizing could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Good morning. I was reminded of this earlier, have rewatched it, and been crying laughing.
Enjoy

Column. On pathetic European freeloaders.
www.thetimes.com/article/7652...

It might not seem like the major issue, but the historical illiteracy of an American administration complaining that freeloading Europeans haven't done enough to militarily control the Suez Canal is quite the thing, eh?

The excellent @snellarthur.bsky.social on Trump's latest appointments. Two extraordinary paragraphs that barely seem possible open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

I bet you think you could not possibly despise Boris Johnson any more than you already do.

But here he is, while shilling for Trump, trying to equate the democratic push in the UK for a softer Brexit or a referendum on the deal, to the violent January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Utterly contemptible.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.