George Osborne's comments clearly haven't dated very well. America has a leader who attempted a coup one week ago which killed five people, still strutting around and menacing more danger, … (View Post)

Amid the general catastrophe, the light-relief "Pelosi Loves Trump" trend that has emerged is really quite genuinely amusing. There are thousands of photos and videos like this of the past … (View Post)

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Lawrence Durrell wrote some great poems while living in Greece, too, on both ancient and modern themes. One of the last of the waves of essentially upper-class Philhellenes living in Greece, from Byr… (View Post)

Although via Cummings he clearly mimicked him at crucial moments, such as the boorish and inflammatory "surrender bill" , and at other times some of the more ironic nudge-and-wink extremity… (View Post)