"Say this for the ancien régime, it knows how to have lunch."
An instant classic Lunch with the FT
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"Say this for the ancien régime, it knows how to have lunch."
An instant classic Lunch with the FT
www.ft.com/content/ab4d...
Homiletics !
Endless night of the living dead
SOMEWHAT AGREE
19th-century textile mill working conditions join the list of anti-American topics that must not be brought up
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/o...
"Watching Hegseth rant about limitless killing,"
@polgreen.bsky.social remembers Aimé Césaire's words: “The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
smh
Oh hey it's @arunadsouza.bsky.social on the Whitney Biennial
hyperallergic.com/the-polycris...
The grotesque.
The grotesque.
The Markwayne Era
Julia Halperin on the big shift in Doron Langberg's practice.
"'Dehumanizing Palestinians is an Israeli problem,” Langberg said. “It made sense to look inward.'"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/a...
Holland Cotter on the Whitney Biennial
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a...
Mathematics!
Farah Diba is still alive?
The way time is telescoping right now
the old hollow leg before wicket
Here's an obituary. As always with these veterans of the struggle and then government, lives were complicated and there will be many perspectives.
www.businessday.co.za/politics/202...
Always moving when figures from the struggle pass on. Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota. The nickname came from his prowess as a football striker as a teenager, before his years in prison including with Madiba on Robben Island.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5e...
You all are watching Al Jazeera, right?
Detailed report just now from Minelle Fernandez in Galle, Sri Lanka, where the Sri Lanka Navy has brought the dead and the survivors from the Iranian frigate sunk in international waters by a US torpedo.
The best/worst to ever do it
The American one didn't do much of anything. He had jobs, but he was more into poetry. The Indian one was an engineer and budding industrialist, but he died young of typhoid.
The grotesque.
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
she's got great taste
Does she have a favorite album
It's giving General Belgrano
The grotesque.
