Nate White, a British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no…

Thank gods they’re back, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey on the end of the world as you didn’t know it, and a little promo discussion of Dorian’s apocalyptic brilliant new book Everything Must Go. Frankenstein, Newton, the balls-trippingly weird Revelations

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Ukraine was in a good position to win or see Putin out. All they’ve asked for is arms and money- they’d do the hard part. Yet we’re about to let them fail, catastrophic for them, catastrophic in the longer term for the rest of us.

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV experts discussed Mike Johnson's meeting with Trump as the deciding factor in whether Ukraine will receive stalled US funding. Referring to Mike Johnson, state TV host Olga Skabeeva claimed him as 'theirs,' just like Trump.
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Truss discovers the theory of the weak centre and decides it's about haircuts.

Another fascinating episode of Origin Story by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Death, environmental calamity, myth, history, gothic literature, and apocalypse cults. After the pod finished I had to pull over the car over to buy Dorian's Everything Must Go. 5*
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the lede on the NYT's original 1995 story about OJ Simpson's trial is insane

We see you Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop
We raise you Waterstones Bradford Wool Exchange 😉

classic

Yeah. This would all be more convincing if you hadn't unlawfully suspended parliament. There's a cost to that sort of thing. And it's being able to play the elder statesman when you've left office.

Together we call upon Congress to do the right thing. Ukrainians are fighting for their existence. Ukrainians are also fighting for our safety and for everyone's freedom. We should not let our allies down.
Read the letter linked in thread, signed by
JJ Abrams, filmmaker…

The sun is out. There are queues for the ice cream guy. Everything's going to be ok.

Ian Dunt Was there this week, and found my new favourite shrine - of Medieval Latin & English parallel texts

Every time I question whether it was worth writing a book that unpacks the lies, oversimplifications, and half-truths politicians tell about trade policy, one of them comes along and reminds me I should have written it ten years ago.

Ian Dunt Oddly enough, this part of Blackwells (the Norrington Room) is directly underneath Trinity College. It's said to have 3 miles of shelves and 150,000 books. That would be very respectable for a large public library, let alone a bookshop.