Trevor Warner
@trevor1953.bsky.social
Asquithian Liberal, Wykehamist, Balliolian, Classicist and European.
A Francophile, Germanophile, Austrophile and a Sinophile.
Archaeology, Art, Books, History, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science.
A Francophile, Germanophile, Austrophile and a Sinophile.
Archaeology, Art, Books, History, Music, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Science.
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Why the next 12 months will determine whether British politics steps back from the brink, or embraces a dark future under Nigel Farage and the far-right
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My Six Political Predictions for 2026
The next 12 months will determine whether British politics steps back from the brink, or embraces a truly dark future under Nigel Farage and the far-right
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December 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Why the next 12 months will determine whether British politics steps back from the brink, or embraces a dark future under Nigel Farage and the far-right
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Fatal Realism
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Andrew O’Hagan · Fatal Realism: Walter Lippmann’s Warning
Lippmann was called the greatest journalist of his age, but his claims as an original thinker rest on his book Public...
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December 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fatal Realism
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An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
#museums
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A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
#museums
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
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December 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
An Engine of Fossil Discovery Fights Its Own Extinction
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
#museums
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
#museums
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/s...
A Kouros at the Met
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T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met
The kouros in the Met was almost certainly a soldier: he has stepped out of his armour into his skin. The idea of...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A Kouros at the Met
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"One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary."
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"One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary."
First published, 17 December 1943
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December 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"One way of feeling infallible is not to keep a diary."
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It continues to tell you everything you need to know about British politics and media that the only person who has ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of inflammatory and racist comments, is a journalist who accurately reported them as such
December 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It continues to tell you everything you need to know about British politics and media that the only person who has ever had to apologise for Nigel Farage's long history of inflammatory and racist comments, is a journalist who accurately reported them as such
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Discord and Fuss
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
by Adam Plunkett.
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Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
by Adam Plunkett.
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Clare Bucknell · Discord and Fuss: Robert Frost’s Ugly Feelings
Robert Frost’s poetry has a way of lifting its gaze – with a heightening of register, a grand image, a weighty...
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December 13, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Discord and Fuss
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
by Adam Plunkett.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry
by Adam Plunkett.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
'He resembles a 19th-century poète maudit, a Beddoes, a Bécquer, a Baudelaire, a Rimbaud. He is a poetry touchstone, a poet-martyr, no less than his near exact contemporary Osip Mandelstam.'
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Michael Hofmann · Only foam comes out: Vallejo in English
César Vallejo is Yeats’s poet with the sword upstairs. Everything about him seems to burn with intensity. He...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
'He resembles a 19th-century poète maudit, a Beddoes, a Bécquer, a Baudelaire, a Rimbaud. He is a poetry touchstone, a poet-martyr, no less than his near exact contemporary Osip Mandelstam.'
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Schopenhauer sees human existence not as grand tragedy but squalid farce, with men and women writhing in the grip of appetites that are both pointless and insatiable.
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Terry Eagleton · Pregnant with Monsters: Schopenhauer makes a stir
Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand tragedy...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Schopenhauer sees human existence not as grand tragedy but squalid farce, with men and women writhing in the grip of appetites that are both pointless and insatiable.
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‘If I must die’: poetry from Gaza creates an alternative archive of testimony
#GazaHolocaust
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#GazaHolocaust
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‘If I must die’: poetry from Gaza creates an alternative archive of testimony
Poetry offers something that news and visual imagery cannot in times of crisis: depth over immediacy and meaning over spectacle.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
‘If I must die’: poetry from Gaza creates an alternative archive of testimony
#GazaHolocaust
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#GazaHolocaust
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Their crime - being against genocide
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
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"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Their crime - being against genocide
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
"The legal limit for holding someone on remand is 6 months, yet 8 young activists have been locked up for over a year. They’ve been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, and you wouldn’t know it from our supposedly “trusted” BBC — total silence."
via Piara Mia
The UK’s food supply is more fragile than you might think – here’s why it should be a national priority
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The UK’s food supply is more fragile than you might think – here’s why it should be a national priority
Raising public awareness that food security is a shared national responsibility does not infer panic – it means preparation.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The UK’s food supply is more fragile than you might think – here’s why it should be a national priority
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Vote Reform to ensure
you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
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you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
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December 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Vote Reform to ensure
you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
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you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
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Jurors aren’t impartial – that’s exactly why they are so important to justice
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Jurors aren’t impartial – that’s exactly why they are so important to justice
If a judge makes a decision on their own, only their own biases will influence the verdict. In a jury, consensus needs to be reached.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Jurors aren’t impartial – that’s exactly why they are so important to justice
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Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Former Tory MP Ben Bradley has now defected to Reform. They really are taking all the worst people from the Boris era.
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Farage thinks I'm a maniac?
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Farage thinks I'm a maniac?
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer thinks the Greens are nuts?
Badenoch thinks I'm weird?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Switzerland bans Palantir
"The fear is that Palantir is handing over sensitive data to the US and from there to Israel"
(Note: Palantir currently has many UK government contracts and is bidding fir many more ...)
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"The fear is that Palantir is handing over sensitive data to the US and from there to Israel"
(Note: Palantir currently has many UK government contracts and is bidding fir many more ...)
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December 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Switzerland bans Palantir
"The fear is that Palantir is handing over sensitive data to the US and from there to Israel"
(Note: Palantir currently has many UK government contracts and is bidding fir many more ...)
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"The fear is that Palantir is handing over sensitive data to the US and from there to Israel"
(Note: Palantir currently has many UK government contracts and is bidding fir many more ...)
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
Nigel Farage accused of breaking election spending laws – the situation explained
#Fromage #Reform
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#Fromage #Reform
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Nigel Farage accused of breaking election spending laws – the situation explained
Police are looking at whether the MP for Clacton overspent on his campaign – but it’s incredibly hard to make such cases stick.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Nigel Farage accused of breaking election spending laws – the situation explained
#Fromage #Reform
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#Fromage #Reform
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Well of course they are!
Donald Trump’s peace agreements are also business deals
#TheArtOfTheGrift #CrookedDon
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Donald Trump’s peace agreements are also business deals
#TheArtOfTheGrift #CrookedDon
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Donald Trump’s peace agreements are also business deals
Combining diplomacy with deals has long been a feature of US foreign policy, but Donald Trump seems to have taken that to a new level.
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December 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Well of course they are!
Donald Trump’s peace agreements are also business deals
#TheArtOfTheGrift #CrookedDon
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Donald Trump’s peace agreements are also business deals
#TheArtOfTheGrift #CrookedDon
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
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Being an 'unapologetic Zionist' means
- supporting IDF genocide & ethnic cleansing
- condoning illegal settlers burning West Bank homes & crops
- having no qualms about slaughter of 30,000 Gaza children
- backing Greater Israel designs on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria ...
- being unfit for public office
- supporting IDF genocide & ethnic cleansing
- condoning illegal settlers burning West Bank homes & crops
- having no qualms about slaughter of 30,000 Gaza children
- backing Greater Israel designs on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria ...
- being unfit for public office
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Being an 'unapologetic Zionist' means
- supporting IDF genocide & ethnic cleansing
- condoning illegal settlers burning West Bank homes & crops
- having no qualms about slaughter of 30,000 Gaza children
- backing Greater Israel designs on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria ...
- being unfit for public office
- supporting IDF genocide & ethnic cleansing
- condoning illegal settlers burning West Bank homes & crops
- having no qualms about slaughter of 30,000 Gaza children
- backing Greater Israel designs on Palestine, Lebanon, Syria ...
- being unfit for public office
Has Trump Just Declared War on Europe?
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Has Trump Just Declared War on Europe?
Byline Times' Head of Investigations Nafeez Ahmed talks to Adrian Goldberg and the Byline Podcast about what really lies behind the new Kremlin-aligned US National Security Strategy
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December 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Has Trump Just Declared War on Europe?
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