Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Last night the US quietly lifted sanctions on Russian oil for another month - two days after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it wouldn’t happen.

Green Party candidate for Lambeth shares a poster: "I want YOU to die for Israel - because I'm owned by Jews"

Green Party candidate for Lambeth shares picture of goblin-like Jewish caricature crying. Caption reads: "Don't you know the rules?? We went through the Holocaust and now we get to kill everyone, forever!!"

Green Party council candidate in Lambeth.

In a normal world, it would not be sustainable for a Party which claims to be "anti-racist" to ignore this, or to try and punt it away by telling everyone that everything is ok because Zack Polanski is Jewish

With an astonishing, raging performance by Richard Harris, an equally blistering turn by fellow Oscar nominee Rachel Roberts, and electrifying direction by Lindsay Anderson #botd, This Sporting Life is a dramatic powerhouse...

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

This is a Ukrainian boy, Bohdan. He will forever be eight years old.

Yesterday, a Russian drone killed Bohdan as he was playing on a playground in Cherkasy.

Bohdan sang in the church choir.

Deepest condolences...

Russian terrorism must be stopped.

A rectangle colour linocut. The dominant colour is yellow, which is used for the platform & walls & ceiling of an underground train station, lit as they are by electric light. Shadows in the form of triangles of green reappear across the picture. The platform curves from far left to a dark tunnel two thirds of the way towards the picture’s right hand edge. At the platform is a curving red train. At its head is a worker on the platform signalling to it. The train is full of silhouettes of passengers. The platform is empty of them.

The Tube Station, linocut, by Cyril Power, c.1932.

Yes & there was a crisis of confidence re the unhealthy bodies of British troops at x of Boer War as well as WW1. Need to feed & look after people so they are fit to fight.

Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.

‘New party’

How long before Trump calls Orban a loser

I fear so

Headline: "My autism means I cannot cope with lying politicians – that’s why I back Farage"

Oh mate...

JD VANCE: With no disrespect to the cardinal, I don't know who Cardinal Christophe Pierre is


REPORTER: He's the ambassador to the Holy Sea and US


VANCE: Okay, I've met him before. Sorry. I just didn't remember the name. I've never seen this reporting. I'd like to talk to him.

He baked himself into a corner

When was that photo taken? 5am in summertime? 😃

I was called back at Seville airport the other week - had to put a silver bracelet into a tray. Same bracelet passed the same test at Stansted. Meanwhile my backpack was through & waiting for anyone who fancied it

She didn’t marry or have children &, despite the treacherous times ruled for a long time, so she must be a man

Oh yes I overlooked that option

It's no surprise that in a society with antisemitism on the rise, the ranting muckspreaders also pick on immigrants, then the children of immigrants, then Catholics, etc. etc. That's how it always works.

Yes not sure if he actually believes it or is courting the cranks who do. Either way unedifying

So Kemi would have stood shoulder to shoulder with Trump on Day One but a month later - having committed British service personnel and weapons to attack Iran - she would have realised she'd made a mistake. Well, that really does inspire immense confidence.

ASBOs in Bournemouth what is the world coming to

Goodfellas - not as unremittingly grim as other suggestions but scarred me at the time - just couldn’t relax after that car boot scene

Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals What the rise in antisemitism teaches us about radicalisation

New post just out:

"Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals"

Antisemitism is becoming mainstreamed on both left and right at an alarming rate.

What can it teach us about the way radicalisation takes root? And can it be stopped?

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...

The couple in the foreground, exchanging rings, are thought to be Charles I, duc’Orléans & Bonne d’Armagnac, who were married in April 1410. Their witnesses are probably Jean de Bourbon and Marie de Berry. After the battle of Agincourt in 1415, Charles d’Orléans was imprisoned in England, where he remained in captivity - with time in the Tower of London - for 24 years. He became an accomplished poet (En la forêt de longue attente); was finally freed and returned to France, after Bonne had died.

The month of April
Avril, Château de Dourdan
A spring betrothal: a richly attired couple in the foreground exchange rings before witnesses; the young girl’s attendants pick flowers in a verdant landscape.
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1412-16
Musée Condé #OTD
Château de Chantilly

Did he say this whilst wandering around with a sandwich board

When Rififi opened in Paris in April 1955, Cahiers du Cinéma ran an interview with the director, conducted by Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut — “Jules Dassin has made the best film noir I have ever seen", wrote Truffaut.

Jules Dassin
December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008

Traitorous git