I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of The New York Review of Books nybooks.com/articles/2026/…

Really surprised how an entirely predictable question could sink the entire Berlinale jury. "We have to stay out of politics" (Wim Wenders) could have been said in any authoritarian regime, where artists often are political. Here it was disgraceful. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

BREAKING: WE WON. The High Court ruled the Palestine Action ban is unlawful as it is disproportionate to free speech and the Home Secretary breached her own policy. The court ordered the ban be quashed. Details of lifting the ban will be decided and completed at a later date.

I am still bewildered that these people are running the show. Oh, the times when politicians were at least intelligent!

Russophernia. Episode #1,005,000. Yesterday Rutte and Sikorski were telling us that Russia is ridiculous, weak, a garden snail rather than a bear. Today Starmer is warning that by the end of this decade Russia might attack NATO. And once again, Starmer subtly hints that

U međuvremenu, hrvatsko bilo u Širokom. Ovdje ni zlo nije dovoljan opis. Grobari tuđih i svojih života. Ljudske gnjide.

The 8h work day has been won with blood. Any attempt to take it away must be seen as a declaration of war and treated by the masses as such. Total chaos and collapse is preferable to a 12 hour work day.

And has been bankrupt from the start when they pushed Ukraine into this war. West is led by monsters who will now try and convince us that all this time they only wanted to prevent the war.