Good chance to catch up with this sharp critic.

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The received view of Poilievre is that he understood the medium was the message. Marshall McLuhan in a tight black t shirt.

Best bit of Angus Wilson's moving book on Kipling is his strange identification with his vanished world: an old man who grew up in South Africa remembers the twenties in the diminished nineteen seventies.

Don't go to the USA (if that wasn't already obvious).

Carneyism

Something very Kipling about Carney: his wife went to Marlborough College and is from a wealthy pig-farming family.

Very wrong for Americans to covet our natural resources but you can see why

Vous avez choisi la France pour votre première visite à l’étranger : c’est un immense honneur et cela montre l’importance de la relation entre le Canada et la France. Très heureux de vous recevoir, cher Mark Carney.

Edwardianism

Kipling on the Irish Guards in the Great War

'How could Sir Keir respond w such cowardice to US aggression over Canada?' Because it's his personality. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Edwardianism

"Zaher al-Waheidi, head of the records department in Gaza’s Health Ministry, said at least 263 of the 404 people confirmed dead so far Tuesday were women or children 18 and under. He described it as the deadliest day in Gaza since the start of the war" apnews.com/live/latest-up…

Just a shame about the nasal quisling who serves as the King's British PM

Edwardian apocalypse: Kipling dreams of bombarding Chicago (1912)

YOINKING

There is a snake in Lotusland thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/1…