The Cocaine Kingpin Living Large in Dubai Daniel Kinahan, an Irish drug dealer, commands a billion-dollar empire from the U.A.E. Why isn’t he in prison?

Daniel Kinahan was arrested this evening in Dubai.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Daniel Kinahan arrested, wow

Explosions heard in Kyiv as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine Explosions were heard in Kyiv as Russia launched ballistic missiles at Ukraine's capital overnight on April 16.

⚡️Explosions heard in Kyiv as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine.

Explosions were heard in Kyiv as Russia launched ballistic missiles at Ukraine's capital overnight on April 16.

Thank you, delighted to hear it! Important to cure book hangovers with hair of the dog

McIntyre was told his trial, which is expected to last for three days, is set to take place from September 9 2030

From a court report *today*.

[and yes, I know this isn't at all unusual]

Children playing on an abandoned car in Moss Side, Manchester, 1957, photo by Robert Smithies, Guardian photographer.

A conversation for irl

Burning the Days is the best imho

Big Salterite over here too

Loved this.

What Tracy Kidder Stood For His deep, immersive writing had moral stakes and changed people’s lives.

“Every piece of writing—whether story or argument or rumination, book or essay or letter home—requires the freshness and precision that convey a distinct human presence.”

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

I loved this book.

Amen to that. What a writer.

Beautifully done. Hero of mine, too.

A beautiful line in the NYT obit, in which TK describes his relationship with his editor, Richard Todd.

Gutted to hear of the death of Tracy Kidder, who was a hero of mine. I adored Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength In What Remains. His prose was clean, gorgeous, and buttressed by thousands of hours of reporting. He was drawn to human goodness. RIP.

"In the midst of what is going on now, it is hard, when you sit down at a desk, to feel confident that morning after morning spent fiddling with words and rhythms is a justified activity – especially as there is never any certainty that the whole thing won’t have to be scrapped." — T.S. Eliot, 1942

A beaut.

Tonight I learned that E.L. Doctorow wrote a screenplay for Ragtime that ran one thousand pages.

Would read.

Lazy Sunday in Kyiv be like :

Danmark forberedte sig på muligt angreb fra USA: Fløj poser med blod til Grønland og gjorde klar til at sprænge landingsbaner i luften Nøglekilder i Danmark og Europa fortæller nu for første gang, hvad der skete i de mest kritiske dage, hvor Donald Trump truede med at tage Grønland "på den hårde måde".

Remarkable story from Denmark's nat'l broadcaster. "When Danish soldiers were flown to Greenland in January...they brought explosives so they could destroy, among other things, the runways in Nuuk & Kangerlussuaq [to] prevent US mil aircraft from landing" www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Laugh it up. A difficult day for my family, historically...

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Yorks, monstered. Devastating essay by Andrew O'Hagan. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hey thank you!

New Footage Shows Wanted Kinahan Cartel Kingpins Post-Sanctions - bellingcat Daniel and Christy Kinahan have been photographed in Dubai, marking the most recent sighting of the wanted crime bosses since the US levied sanctions against the cartel.

New footage analysed by Bellingcat shows two of the world’s most wanted crime figures, Christy and Daniel Kinahan, appearing openly at a mixed martial arts event in Dubai, despite US sanctions and multimillion-dollar rewards for information leading to their arrest.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

The glee on his face. Magnificent.

He just made me enormously happy

Just finished Mao II, in which Don Delillo describes the funeral of another Ayatollah. Incredible book. And weird timing.

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played

(Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

Green Party got 47% in the Gorton & Denton by-election

their previous highest by-election result anywhere, ever, was just 10%