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Watching the ski “jumping” at the Winter Olympics and feel like Woody in Toy Story:
February 11, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Watching the ski “jumping” at the Winter Olympics and feel like Woody in Toy Story:
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the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
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White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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I'm not sure I have ever seen a more savage movie review headline than the Guardian's dismissal of Melania as a "trash remake of The Zone of Interest."
January 31, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I'm not sure I have ever seen a more savage movie review headline than the Guardian's dismissal of Melania as a "trash remake of The Zone of Interest."
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Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?
January 29, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Why should I watch something that a director didn't even bother to make?
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Loving the book “The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments” by @liebcricket.com and @kingcricket.co.uk!
The only slightly annoying thing is finding out that Pat Cummins is funny in addition to being great at literally everything else. Greedy sod.
The only slightly annoying thing is finding out that Pat Cummins is funny in addition to being great at literally everything else. Greedy sod.
January 24, 2026 at 2:54 AM
Loving the book “The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments” by @liebcricket.com and @kingcricket.co.uk!
The only slightly annoying thing is finding out that Pat Cummins is funny in addition to being great at literally everything else. Greedy sod.
The only slightly annoying thing is finding out that Pat Cummins is funny in addition to being great at literally everything else. Greedy sod.
So someone thought that Steve Smith, who gets upset if someone’s eating an ice cream 100m away when he’s batting, would be fine with playing through a thick haze of firework smoke? Great thinking.
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 AM
So someone thought that Steve Smith, who gets upset if someone’s eating an ice cream 100m away when he’s batting, would be fine with playing through a thick haze of firework smoke? Great thinking.
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So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
January 21, 2026 at 7:16 AM
So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
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Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos reportedly received a standing ovation.
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Canadian PM Carney’s speech at Davos reportedly received a standing ovation.
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
The speech marked the end of an era.
It will no doubt be looked to as part of the historical record of the end of the transatlantic rules-based international order.
You can read the speech in full here:
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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UPDATE: Mitch Starc wickets taken in the 1st over of a Test innings
Ball #1 - 4
Ball #2 - 4
Ball #3 - 2
Ball #4 - 3
Ball #5 - 5
Ball #6 - 9
Total - 27
#AUSvENG
Ball #1 - 4
Ball #2 - 4
Ball #3 - 2
Ball #4 - 3
Ball #5 - 5
Ball #6 - 9
Total - 27
#AUSvENG
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
UPDATE: Mitch Starc wickets taken in the 1st over of a Test innings
Ball #1 - 4
Ball #2 - 4
Ball #3 - 2
Ball #4 - 3
Ball #5 - 5
Ball #6 - 9
Total - 27
#AUSvENG
Ball #1 - 4
Ball #2 - 4
Ball #3 - 2
Ball #4 - 3
Ball #5 - 5
Ball #6 - 9
Total - 27
#AUSvENG
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you could probably capture our president by writing "nobel peace prize" on a pie plate and putting it under one of those boxes held up with a stick tied to a string
January 6, 2026 at 4:34 AM
you could probably capture our president by writing "nobel peace prize" on a pie plate and putting it under one of those boxes held up with a stick tied to a string
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Cricket update: we had a 6 minute delay because the australian batter was distracted by an older woman in the 2nd deck of the crowd holding 7 ice cream cones. The next pitch went at his head and he did a somersault.
January 6, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Cricket update: we had a 6 minute delay because the australian batter was distracted by an older woman in the 2nd deck of the crowd holding 7 ice cream cones. The next pitch went at his head and he did a somersault.
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Has a team ever burnt 2 reviews on a nightwatchman before? This is top notch ridiculousness from England. @liebcricket.com #ashes #theashes
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Has a team ever burnt 2 reviews on a nightwatchman before? This is top notch ridiculousness from England. @liebcricket.com #ashes #theashes
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Currently thinking about that legendary Frankie Boyle bit about the US military and how they will not only invade your country and kill all of your people but then they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad
January 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Currently thinking about that legendary Frankie Boyle bit about the US military and how they will not only invade your country and kill all of your people but then they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad
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So confusing how he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded annually to the worst fucking guy who does the stupidest most destructive shit
January 3, 2026 at 9:03 AM
So confusing how he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded annually to the worst fucking guy who does the stupidest most destructive shit