It is hard to think of a more pathetic example of cringing flattery and naked obsequiousness. An utter shame vacuum

www.ft.com/content/7781...

Office of Budget Revelation

If you're curious about the Russian spy ship lurking in UK waters, the FT's @helenwarrell.bsky.social had the scoop back in September www.ft.com/content/0b35...

Nixon's Treasury Secretary John Connally once famously told Europeans that "the dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem.” 

The Trump administration’s view is the opposite: the dollar is everyone’s currency, but America’s problem. And it now seems determined to do something about it.

Just here for the direwolf discourse

Tom Cruise on a biplane! Franchise callbacks! Hoyt McCallany! Shea Wigham! Mr Milchick! "You gave him an air craft carrier?!" Roll on May

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsQg...

There's always a local angle www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Claiming the UK got a "Brexit dividend" from Liberation Day is like saying Trump stabbed everyone in the leg and we're ok because we cut our leg off long ago

New: Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics

As tensions rise with Moscow, suspected cable sabotage has exposed the vulnerability of Europe's subsea infrastructure. “I can believe that one case could be an accident. Two cases in a row? Hardly. Three and more? Never."

👉 ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/

Keep waiting for Claudia Winkelman to walk into the Oval Office and say "Ok, the time for talking is over."

My Proust's madeleine is playable

I see we're back to the era of knee-jerk late-night social media posts abruptly rewriting US policy, and he isn't even president yet

This is great www.neverhungover.club/p/scam-ameri...

Glad to be here among people of my own socioeconomic class and political disposition