Musk’s daughter confirming everything I believed about him. The crazy thing is how it’s not obvious to so many people.

“Armed with teaching degrees, Mr Walz took on a one-year teaching post in China around the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre. He later honeymooned in the country and also organised summer educational trips to China for US students.” He’s the Manchurian Candidate ;) Tim Walz

They don’t. Believe me. Why do you talk such utter shite? And why are you morphing into a sovereign individual anarcho-capitalist narcissist with fascist leanings? Some journey you’ve been on.

It's bad enough that Iran, Russia, and China (now Venezuela) ban social media like X, Facebook, and YouTube in their countries while exploiting it to spread hate & propaganda in the free world. A little market share shouldn't be worth enabling invasion & murder. Cut them off.

1/ The Russian publication 'Interesting Stories' has published a lengthy interview with a former Russian army officer who opposed the invasion of Ukraine. He explains how the Ukrainians were able to invade the Kursk region so easily. Here are some extracts. ⬇️

Looking forward to it, Ava

Many thanks Katty Kay & Anthony Scaramucci for answering my question about the Electoral College on their brilliant podcast @restispoliticsus And for mentioning - and downloading - BOX88 @restispolitics bit.ly/4fJti0R at 26mins Mysterious Press HarperFiction Janklow & Nesbit

More tremendously good news to start the morning. Harris is polling TEN POINTS better than Biden across four battleground Sun Belt states, driven by 10-point improvements among Black, Hispanic and young voters. nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/… via @NYTimes

Raced through another one of Charles Cumming’s excellent spy novels and now I am sad it’s over. Am I the only one who searched for Lucian Michael Cablean’s podcast?

Corfu in September! We have Stephen Fry Sebastian Faulks David Olusoga Sarah Churchwell Evie Wyld she/her Dr Adam Rutherford and many more. We have temples, sun, sand, great beauty. We have cricket! Prolong your summer Corfu Literary Festival 💙

This is doing the rounds again and rightly so - it’s Brexit in a nutshell. Britain becoming isolated by accident because the people running the country had no idea what they were doing.

Stephen King For people who claim to hate “cancel culture,” Republicans spend a lot of time wrapping their arms around it.

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” -Victor Hugo-

I think you're too stupid to realize that inflation was a global phenomenon related not to American economic policies, but rather to Covid and the subsequent supply chain collapse a look at the data will show the Biden administration delivered inflation rates lower than every

The claim that the US government can be funded by tariffs at no cost to Americans is not just a dishonest claim. It's a claim intended to appeal to dishonest instincts in his hearers. Trump is the true con man, who works his grift by exploiting the cupidity of his marks.

As part of Chiswick Book Festival I’ll be introducing a special screening of Plane at the Chiswick Cinema at 7.30pm on Saturday 14th to raise money for local charities. Q&A afterwards Gerard Butler Lionsgate UK Casarotto Ramsay Chiswick Book Festival The Chiswick Cinema Torin Douglas

We can’t wait to welcome you back to #ChiswickBookFest as a screenwriter Charles Cumming ! Tickets on sale : ticketsource.co.uk/chiswickbookfe…

Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice

Landed in Warsaw this morning - mass celebrations of this line in particular