London: this is very, very good. Blistering assault of wit, filth and old school physical comedy. Bottom meets Hamilton meets Ren & Stimpy meets Shakespeare. I loved every second of it.
Difficult to think of a more humiliating moment for the US. Certainly worse than Iraq or Afghanistan. You have to go back to the fall of Saigon to find anything comparable.
The mad emporer has triggered chaos he cannot control
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Well that was nice, hope you all enjoyed it.
We are starkly underestimating the impact of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. This is a much graver situation than people realise iandunt.substack.com/p/the-mad-em...
The people who annoy me the most these days fall into two camps: (1) literally running the world and (2) utterly irrelevant outside of their tiny corner of social media. Reactionary centrism happens when (2) bugs you more than (1)
🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating.
Much of that devastation was avoidable.
This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19
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'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided'
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