Brendan Miller

New video: War As Content youtu.be/qf3dVcUSRzc

Within one 24 hour period, Trump: - got out of a $100 million IRS fine - secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends - created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters - was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything. But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

Southwark’s Planning Chair opposed a 860+ home development because locals couldn’t afford the new homes. It’s a common misconception. So I’ve decided to explain the evidence showing how luxury flats can make housing more affordable on the Old Kent Road.

The asylum backlog has also more than halved. Odd that such progress is barely mentioned by Labour.

Posted elsewhere, posted here for info. The map of Reform Councils in the UK. So much for 'WE'VE TAKEN OVER THE NATION !!!"

Break out students, and below shows the UK immigration story. Latest data only takes us to June last year: it will have fallen further since. Basic net migration is probably at a multi-year low already. Why doesn't Starmer say so? comment.press/brown

Agreeing with Jacob Rees-Mogg wasn't on my 2026 bingo card.

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here. Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch. Let's go.

What's the best explanation for why Orban, who's spent so long building an autocracy, handed over power voluntarily?

An extremely rare case of someone dropping a fashionable opinion, and adopting an unfashionable one instead, because there's better evidence in favour of the latter. The world would be an infinitely better place if people did this more often.

He threw this away for…Israel. You have to ask why.

“HOW DARE YOU SPEAK LIKE THIS” -Tucker Carlson to Donald Trump One of the most prominent right-wing voices has broken away from Trump, directly criticising him.

Russian losses this March have reached their highest level since the start of the war: our drone strikes alone resulted in 33,988 Russian servicemembers killed or seriously wounded, while artillery and other strikes eliminated another 1,363 Russian occupiers. That means more than 35,000 Russian losses in just one month – and these are clearly verified losses. We have video documentation of every such strike in our system. I thank all our warriors for their precision. I will especially recognize the warriors of the Special Operations Center “A” of Ukraine’s Security Service, the “Magyar's Birds,” the State Border Guard Service special unit “Phoenix,” “Lasar’s Group,” and the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade – these are the most effective units in the use of drones. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov, briefed me on the performance of all units at the front. We have clear and verified reports for every direction and every type of strike. We are ready to provide the relevant data to our partners. Essentially, Ukraine’s Defense and Security Forces have denied the occupier the ability to dictate the situation on the front line. Importantly, the results in the destruction of Russia’s air defense systems have also significantly increased, with 274 such systems hit in March alone. There have also been tangible results in the destruction of Russian depots and military logistics. The Ministry of Defense, together with the Armed Forces, will present a detailed report to the public for March – data that may be made public. I also approved with the Minister today a number of tasks for the coming weeks. In particular, we are preparing decisions to strengthen the Ukrainian infantry, the army contract system, and measures to address AWOL cases – measures that must genuinely work in practice. We are also preparing decisions to scale up the export opportunities of our weapons manufacturers and joint productions with partners. I thank our Defense Forces for the results! Glory to Ukraine!

New video: How Trump Is Building an American Dictatorship youtu.be/kSuIHppLMOY?si…

Excellent but you can see it's two shots. James Burke still had to get the 2nd one exactly right with the rocket. Michael Buerk's link to camera as a train pulls in might be technically superior. Two of the cleverest links to camera by a pair of Burkes/Buerks! The irony!

The plane window seat is such an underrated gift of modernity

The latest Economist cover says it all.

Oops! He’s forgotten to swap accounts again 😂

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