Excellent piece by Stephen Bush on the grotesque whataboutist logic that has been heard in the aftermath of attacks on Jews across the world.

www.ft.com/content/4209...

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔

A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.

Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

We are learning of the horrors of El Fasher not from visceral evidence but through silence and absence. Satellite images show hollowed-out neighborhoods, bloodstained grounds and traces of mass graves. Children fleeing El Fasher arrived at camps for the displaced without parents or other loved ones.

Yeah Gorsuch is on fire a bit. /13

As always, well worth listening to Hyun Song Shin of the BIS, who knows a thing or two about the global financial system:
"You saw a lot of stories [in April 2025] about the dollar possibly losing its international status...in retrospect, that was quite hasty."
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Antichrist formation, gold. Maybe Peter Thiel is right?
Bearish.

About to defect to Reform, are we? Or straight to Robinson’s lot? Mind-boggling to see what is becoming of the Conservative Party which put Mosley in his place and threw Powell out after the “Rivers of Blood” speech…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think there is something incredibly encouraging & reassuring that the country’s national broadcaster has the independence & strength to strongly challenge the state security service when circumstances demand it. That’s not true of every national broadcaster.

I think the clue in him being an anti-semite might be the time he went to a Jewish event and shot two random people.