Malcolm Quinn

I don’t see how his war strategy differs from his attempt to bully Zelensky in the Oval Office.

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

I don’t see how his war strategy differs from his attempt to bully Zelensky in the Oval Office.

Ironies abound, not least that the Reform Act of 1832 was only passed because the PM threatened to create pro-Reform peers.

Ah but not the bloodlines of party donors and staffers/failed MPs.

I'm writing about Bentham and Hogarth atm:

'With the admiration commanded by transcendent genius, Your Lordship can not but have often seen the Harlot’s Progress and the Rake’s. Look higher now, my Lord, and behold the Jesuit’s.'

Jeremy Bentham, 'A Picture of the Treasury' (1802)

Hereditary Peers Bill passes in House of Lords, paving the way for further reform The Hereditary Peers Bill has passed in the House of Lords in one of the biggest reforms to Parliament and UK democracy in a generation.

‘Fulfilling a key manifesto pledge of the current Government, the Hereditary Peers Bill will ensure that places in the Lords are not reserved for people born into certain families.’

He isn’t interested in war as such. He is very interested in using war as an instrument of degradation, ruin and humiliation to be repeated at will.

APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The British military says a cargo ship is ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz after being hit by a projectile.

Lucien Freud, ‘Girl With a Kitten’ 1947

In Tate Britain.

Power of Venice: Leonardo Loredan, Doge of Republic of Venice from 1501 to 1521, in ceremonial corno ducale & ornate gold & silver damask robe; masterpiece of Renaissance portraiture, oil on panel, painted in 1501 by Giovanni Bellini, great Venetian artist, master of Titian.
National Gallery London

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

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Mine Krap

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

He isn’t interested in war as such. He is very interested in using war as an instrument of degradation, ruin and humiliation to be repeated at will.

I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

Running out of time: Israel escalates Iran strikes as Trump weighs ‘elegant exit’ The Israeli military is pushing for more strikes on Iran before the window of opportunity closes, when US President Trump decides to end the war.

NEW: Israel has concluded in #Iran war
• Regime change not an option
• Protests didn’t mobilize
• Kurdish option is no more
Result: Escalation of strikes as Trump looks for “elegant exit” and wait for next round www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

The Trump administration's refusal to respond to malign Russian activity, even when it's directed against the US, should be a sharp wake-up call for any NATO leaders still hoping that compromise with the White House will ensure US support in other areas, such as Ukraine.

I'm writing about Bentham and Hogarth atm:

'With the admiration commanded by transcendent genius, Your Lordship can not but have often seen the Harlot’s Progress and the Rake’s. Look higher now, my Lord, and behold the Jesuit’s.'

Jeremy Bentham, 'A Picture of the Treasury' (1802)

You can see the legacy of neue sachlichkeit in this one.

Detail of Hogarth sketching in Calais from his painting ‘o the roast beef of old England (the gate of Calais)’ 1748

I’m keeping an eye on Hogarth.

Lucien Freud, ‘Girl With a Kitten’ 1947

In Tate Britain.

‘heist films also satisfy another fantasy: of a world in which individuals are asked to do the work, and only the work, for which they are best suited.’

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Social Equality: Then And Now, Professor Jonathan Wolff YouTube video by The Royal Institute of Philosophy

My lecture Social Equality: Then and Now for @triphilosophy.bsky.social is now available online.

youtu.be/9xL1gyM4f3Q

🚨IRAN UPDATE:🚨

Charlie Gammell joined me a second time to talk about the latest.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Monumental Rubens ceiling painting revealed once more after two-year renovation The Flemish master's largest-known work, in London's Whitehall, will now be accessible at close quarters, thanks to a newly-installed lift

One of Rubens’s most important commissions—his monumental painting for the Whitehall Ceiling at Banqueting House in central London—is reopening to the public following extensive renovations and conservation work. #earlymodern

www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/09/m...

Watching @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social it seems clear that Trump feels free to start wars that from a long way off look like flies.

Who knew that you could sell war like a city break.