Harry

Trump is right about Chagos. Of all the U turns he's made it boggles the mind that Starmer is so slavishly fastened to this ridiculous deal

As usual in labour squabbling, nobody really wins and we all look worse for playing.

I think its a disastrous outcome for AB, but disastrous too for KS. He does look scared.

My brother went to Edinburgh on Sunday, and is in London ATM. I'm so jealous. Honestly thinking about a trip myself, maybe do the gallery and the BM

At age eighty-one, as of this writing, David John Moore Cornwell, better known to the public at large as John le Carré, has just published his twenty- third novel. Viking’s release of A Delicate Truth (2013) coincided with Pen- guin’s issuing a fiftieth-anniversary edition of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1963), the author’s hugely successful third book, which one scholar in 1988 proclaimed “the best spy story ever written” and which Time magazine included in its 2005 roster of one hundred preeminent novels since the peri- odical’s founding. These events merged in the April 2013 issue of Harper’s, where promotional excerpts from le Carré’s most recent work were followed by the author’s reflections on the text that first conferred his celebrity as a writer: The merit of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, then—or its offense, depending [on] where you stood—was not that it was authentic but that it was credible. The bad dream turned out to be one that a lot of people in the world were sharing, since it asked the same old question that we are asking ourselves fifty years later: How far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way?

Cute top!

No, sorry, I just can’t get on board with this weird, smooth quasi-anime Japanese stuff.
I like my train coupling filth properly European - rough, ready and slightly amateurish.

youtu.be/Q6LrZBEv5QY?...

I'm going to start posting (or at least checking) this place more often. I promise.

I'd like to be able to cross post here to the other place and the other place to here automatically, does there exist such a program?

Good for her

This is really really good, I hope you enjoyed writing it as much as I enjoyed reading it

Intellectually adrift, where does Labour’s liberal wing go from here? The tradition of Gaitskell, Crosland, Jenkins, Blair and Brown stands at a crossroads.

Finally got round to setting up a Substack! And I've published the piece I shared with a few of you last month - on the intellectual crisis within Labour's liberal wing.
thenewsocialdemocrat.substack.com/p/intellectu...

The thing that's always frustrated the right wing ideologues who've glommed onto Trump is that he doesn't have the attention span to actually be a committed ideological warrior. He can scream all the right culture war shit, but it's just WWE pugilistic showmanship. He basically has no belief system.

And that ingrate is named Stephen Miller.

And god drew his finger across the sky making a rainbow, a special promise that you f**s were really gonna get it in the neck for a few thousand years, but you'll get a cool symbol at the end of it

I -do- think about this, and it's often torturous. I can't look at the ease and smugness with which certain politicians say and act as they do and come to the conclusion they feel the same.

Not to go full boomer but if I write a reply to your email don't just like it in outlook

The status updates are getting increasingly pass-agg. Having managed a much, much smaller crisis like this, I can hear the 'every moment I'm explaining this to you is a moment I'm not fixing it' coming from engineering.

Cloudflare outage destroys all human communication except Bluesky, this is the weirdest sci-fi scenario I’ve ever seen

Since twitter is down I'm reacquainting with the vibe here. Twitter for me is like being in the smoking area of some weird gay club, whereas this feels like the coffee shops I'd frequent as a student, all hanging plants and people typing their substacks

We demand a more equal twink/bear rate and we won't wait!

I don't know that the party will take it, to be honest. SM is what she is, but I don't think KS can afford to govern like this much longer.

This is not necessarily a problem, to be clear, but it's not strictly speaking the whole of my taste either..

It is isn't it.

My Instagram discovery page looks like someone used AI to make bara guys real -_-

Cloud flare is down, halp

I cannot conceive of a reality in which the Man In Black is not extremely cool. I'm not a country boy at all, but I am a Johnny Cash boy

There should be an app that syncs my tweets here and vice versa

Maybe something new, I've never really settled into A Little Night Music, it could be the thing tomorrow

I think I'm going to have to get into my Sondheim again, I need the balm