It’s Hallowe’en. The turnip-man’s lopped head
Blazes at us through split bottle glass
And fumes and swims up like a wrecker’s lantern.

Death mask of harvest, mocker at All Souls
With scorching smells, red dog’s eyes in the night－
We ring and stare into unhallowed light.

'War is easy to start, but very hard to end'

Omne bellum sumi facile, ceterum aegerrume desinere

-Sallust, 'The War With Jugurtha'

This may be the greatest ever opening paragraph to an article.

could sell cheap housing on the moon more convincingly than the Tories sell their own bullshit.

Hannah Arendt on the dangers of political lies

YOU’RE NOT HELPING, NFT WEIRDOS.

That look when you’ve just robbed your supporters of over £28k and fucked off to Disney Land.

Good grifting, Calvin Robinson.

Paul Gascoigne says he used to think news stories on the Gaza Strip were about him trib.al/Tdc8SVj

Elon Musk boosting two regular fake news posters who have historically posted debunked videos

neither are on the ground or verify. both have shared AI-generated videos in the past as real.

they just share any garbage they come across to rack up views.

It is times like this that shows that Twitter is broken. Blue tick bad faith actors, liars and disinformation mongers are not only promoted by the algorithm, but it also monetises their content.

Irish people being not superstitious

Letter of the week (from the Guardian)

The new provost of Eton, quoted in today’s Telegraph.

80% of his close male friends are from Eton and he treats everyone else with suspicion.

No wonder the school spews out so many egomaniacs and weirdos

In the sense that it was a load of rancid incoherent bollocks stitching together a clutch of nasty bigotries, yeah, it was truly Scrutonian.

No, it was not 'gifted' by anyone, it was seized by one of the most brutal colonizers Ireland to which Ireland has ever been subjected, who honed his genocidal skills with Drake. That seizure was challenged, and retrospectively legitimized in the nineteenth century ...

We asked 2,000 people to give us one word to describe the Conservative Party.

#CPC23

Shaftesbury came into possession of Lough Neagh due ultimately to the murderous activities of one of Elizabeth I's favourite thugs, Arthur Chichester . Pumping sewage into it is permissible under the bizarre legal dodge known as 'Crown immunity'. Scandalous stuff all round.

The idea that in 2023 we’d be paying an absentee landlord for natural resources is bizarre. Give him £1 and tell him to fuck off.