Runnin' scared.. Rutger Bregman @rcbregman I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as… (View Post)

Cover of K. Clark's biography; trilby, homburg, hard to tell. I imagine this image was in the reviewer's mind. https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Kenneth-Clark-Life-Art-and-Civilisation-Audiobook… (View Post)

Curiously recent IMF and Trump handouts to Milei also seemed to have passed many young(er) righties by. (View Post)

Not that I know of. I tend to go with the Gatsby analysis, ie Boris is a careless person who smashes up things then moves on. (View Post)

I am. A salutary reminder (among other recent ones) of Boris making a fucking mess of a big call. Nice counterpoint between the horrible Kafkaesque Iranian regime and the less malign but still frustr… (View Post)