Never doesn't last as long as it used to.

Teddy clears that bar.

“I am Stanisław August Poniatowski and I endorse this message.”

TRUMP: I’m sorry Zohran, but we can’t make exceptions for illegal immigration. MAMDANI: *shows picture* TRUMP: She can stay.

He's speaking about Lord John Russell - I had no idea about the visit to Elba! This is truly wonderful from Bertie

OTD 1638 First Slaves Arrive in #Massachusetts Colonists first tried to enslave captured Native Americans massmoments.org/moment-details… The story of New England #slavery remains too little known. The @Umass "Slavery North" initiative aims to redress the problem umass.edu/humanities-art…

Ukraine’s war on Shaheds is a glimpse of everyone’s future. My new piece on the success it is having — but for now — intercepting Russia's cheap and increasingly precise drones. economist.com/europe/2026/02…

Anyone who has ever spent time with French fonctionnaire knows they are masterful at cutting

Best review ever! 😂

What clinched it, Trash? The anti-gay laws? The imprisoning of dissenters in mental institutions? The bread lines and leaky milk cartons? Women having six or seven abortions with no anesthesia because birth control is not available? The warrior cult for men? The antisemitism?

Reading about late c18th prelates who travelled around in great splendour and deployed ecclesiastical prestige and superior learning to browbeat provincial churches and libraries to give them their valuable books, amassing huge ill-gotten collections. I think I may try this? 🤔

Lookin at you Cardinal Loménie de Brienne 👀

Giving a lecture on the Dissolution of the Monasteries in a dissolved monastery (well, convent) today. Historian achievement unlocked.

Congratulations to Sithamparappillai Jegatheepan of the Fournil Didot bakery for winning the Best Baguette in Paris Competition (aka the Grand Prix de la baguette de tradition française)! Jegatheepan now has a one-year contract to supply daily bread to the Élysée Palace.

Extraordinary to think of the talent of Disraeli and Gladstone V the lack of talent today. Can you imagine a novel by Starmer? Or a disquisition on Homer from Ed Davey?

Very much looking forward to this, I distinctly remember my 1st-semester medieval history course: seeing the Khanate of the Golden Horde on the map in the endpapers of the textbook & excitedly turning to the index BTW that basic "introductory" text was so much denser than today's

Not sure whether I am happier because of the discovery or because the Ahnenerbe is not around to exploit it

“Never again is now,” write angry but ignorant know-nothings on the statue of the man most singly responsible for saving Europe/the world from Hitler.

Oh I see! Churchill, not Hitler the war criminal. So silly of me to think it was the other way round...

Being a dick must be a full-time job: enjoying inflated fame & income yet having to worry about some tweet that bruised your fragile ego I have no idea why he blocked me, though I may have noted years ago that his keynote speech to the Mass. Municipal Assn was vacuous ¯\_(ツ)_/¯