Madison Keys 🔥🔥🔥
30.04.2025 11:43
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Madison Keys 🔥🔥🔥
Good news and bad news.
Good news: in several matters, the US government plainly have not thought-through their policies and so are facing repeated set backs in courts. Amateur hour stuff.
Bad news: they still have four years to get their act together.
The irony that it is debt awareness week when so many are threatened with PIP and carers allowance being taken away. If the private sector, health sector and social care have to step in, this will cost tax payers more. Morally but also economically bankrupt.
The Mother Teresa miracle that was Kodak, was not his finest moment. Was not familiar with his earlier work, so interesting to see.
Seeing as it’s the Ides of March, here’s our very fun guide to how Julius Caesar rose to power and then destroyed the stability of the state, ignored the law, undermined political institutions, and leveraged the wealth of the richest man in the nation… ahem…
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I’m very happy to announce that the brilliant @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social and I are hosting a new podcast produced by Goalhanger:
Journey Through Time
Join us as we explore the human experience behind the events that changed our world and shaped our present.
First episode coming 20th March…
Two things struck me in the 20 year change in whether other countries trade more with China or USA:
1. China took over the world market fast; and
2. Trump has to be one of the STUPIDEST people ever to go after 3 of the few remaining countries that trade more with US: Mexico, Canada, & Greenland.
This is an excellent weekend essay at FT on Trump and the end of American soft power - by Joseph Nye who popularised the terms "soft power".
Well worth your time reading - and includes many insightful points about legal/judicial/constitutional power.
www.ft.com/content/63df...
Overruled! Last Sunday of March here in UK, clocks spring forward, which means should see one hour more live tennis at Indian Wells before bed. Thankful Norrie and Boulter are up first on same court tonight.
3% of GDP is a good mid-goal for the UK. But we must also ramp up ammunition and supply-side industries to aid Ukraine and ensure we increase our own assets, not run down. We will need to increase that share further, but need a review of how best to spend given we cannot rely on the US.
Time for Europe to put its money (and economy) where its mouth is for Ukraine’s defence. It is typical having complained that they were not stepping up Trump now claims the EU is a rival when they start to. Expect tariffs soon. The days of shared peace and prosperity are ending.
Trump and Vance have shown every reason for the free world to worry as Zelenskyy is treated to a haranguing considered “great television” by POTUS. Your security and liberty is subject to whether it’s good business.
Starmer not inviting Baltic states to summit is dropping the ball.
NEW
Making sense of what is happening in the United States
Why there is perhaps not a constitutional crisis - yet
By me
Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/making-sen...
Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/02/maki...
BAFTA 2025 David Tennant Supercut
(and a couple more things)
youtu.be/DVq-2e6ILjE?...
Jannik Sinner ban makes tennis look ridiculous. He didn’t cheat, he got no performance enhancing benefit, but still a three month ban to show how revellant WADA is. All over someone else’s treated cut finger touching him. news.sky.com/story/world-...
Played tennis at a club for first time in 20 years last night, thanks to support budget for bro. Two hours paying for today, but I’m still smiling. Lot’s of fun despite 2 celsius.
I miss Bouchard. Try to watch Raonic when he makes a rare appearance. Injuries, setbacks and challenges. Then age.
Raducanu can play well enough to warrant a wildcard entry. The problem is she cannot sustain that level of play the tour demands to have the ranking. She has a fanbase and name recognition which means she will merit getting them still. Hope she can maintain fitness/no injury to not need a wc soon.
Yep. And a winning head to head against Serena Williams. Admittedly they played once. If I can think of anything else will let you know. May be awhile.
What happened to Meghan McCain?
I see the OP as adding the case to her irreverence and a good catch up about the volte-face.
Really thought the one silver lining from “The Phantom Menace” is that it might warn people about trade wars given how the Sith are behind it, to bring down the republic and impose an emperor.
I get the economics escaping popular culture. But Star Wars. Unforgivable.
Hold it together Yastremska!
What is rewarding is a purpose to keep doing what you do, and hopefully we have the judgment to make it a good one to pursue. The annoying thing is that can take time to work out. May we all get there.
An exciting find by Duncan Wright and my colleague Ollie Creighton!
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
I freely accept not getting the kids vernacular anymore, so reassuring to learn I may yet be understood when headed for the knacker’s yard.
Given the love for Astarion by BG3 community, I was not expecting to want to kill him by driving a stake thru his heart. But he deserves the little ….
Not to mention what trump on the throne means here, though both meanings are generationally on the way out. I still can’t forgive y’all for what my name means over the pond.
Madison Keys revealed what seems a simple truth in sport yet so hard to do. The right mindset is essential to fulfil your talent and athletic potential. If you need to feel a winner all the time, tennis will destroy you. Her run best seen since Emma’s at US Open. Just brilliant.
