White American students at university of Texas doing namaz (prayer). I’ve hit my limit of pretending this is remotely normal. This is the peak of mass delusional brainwashed perverse cosplay. Please make it stop. I can’t take another day of it.

A few words about the protests/encampments at Columbia:

Back in December 2018, when I was a junior, a white student named Julian Von Abele was filmed going on an ethno-centric rant about how much he loved white people. He said things like: “White people are the best thing that…

Ask for humanitarian aid for civilians, for Hamas to release the hostages, not the surrender of the side that was first attacked in this war, let alone its extermination. Protests for Gaza that don’t address Hamas aggression aren’t anti-war, they are pro-war. The real one.

With many of these college protests, I wonder how much they are drawing attention to the plight of Gazans versus to themselves, and distracting from those with real struggles in a real war zone to advocate anti-Israel, anti-Semitic platforms.

Stolen from Guy Walters 🇺🇦 may amuse owen matthews Stephen Fry @sting John Simpson

Georgian opposition leader shows up to work just hours after being kidnapped and beaten by pro-russian government goons.

I can’t believe I have to explain what’s happening here, but here goes. Elite students of Ivy League schools have glamorized oppression so much that they have now reached role play status to satisfy their fantasies. Here, the students have appropriated the suffering of Gazans and…

J.D. Vance Apart from being a moron, having brain damage, some possible cranial infection, being disloyal to this country, being a Putin stooge, having a shit beard, having 84 chins, never having done a thing in office, having written a crap book, being a mark for every con man in the…

Great thread. Miranda Carter (who knows a thing or two about the Cambridge spies) responds to The Sunday Times story about Anthony Blunt

Phillips P. OBrien 🤩🙏🙏🙏

Want to know a little more about our May guest? The excellent Shane - Spybrary Podcast Host takes a look at 'Kennedy 35', the novel Charles Cumming will be discussing with us, 15th May.

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This is an exact quote I received from a Republican party insider who knows the GOP inside and out.

'The damn just broke which is great. We are in a 1938 era - we’ve just swapped Russia/china for Germany/Japan. We have to win this fight.'

This is staggering extension765.com/blogs/soderblo… 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in black-and-white with no dialogue and a different score, put together by Steven Soderbergh

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us last night at Hull Libraries and online to hear from Imran Mahmood. A great evening. We're back 15th May to discuss espionage thrillers with Charles Cumming 📚

Public pressure works. Public pressure works. Public pressure works. Public pressure .......

It’s starting to strain the capacity of the human mind to interpret the mess in the politics of the 🇺🇸 with the profoundly disruptive role played by the small but militantly pro-🇷🇺 section of the Republican Party, reinforced by the support of Donald Trump. nationalinterest.org/feature/ukrain…

Brilliant letter from Nick Boles in The Times on the rank hypocrisy of tax-avoiding Tory grandees going after Angela Rayner (via Guy Walters 🇺🇦 )

Thank you Alan Bardos Greatly appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the book.

#BookReview
Alan Bardos reviews Kennedy 35
By Charles Cumming

'Tense and carefully plotted.'
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Read Kennedy 35
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Some in pro-Trump world argue that by betraying Ukraine, US will conserve resources for other contingencies, eg against China. This is an idea as sound as defaulting on the utility bills to reassure the mortgage company. Credit is credit. Lost anywhere, it's lost everywhere.