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Correspondent, Vice on HBO. Ex-NYT. Ex-Londoner.

Joined November 2009

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  1. "It's anti-football. A way of playing football against the football."

  2. How did they win? "An exercise of cynicism and revenge."

  3. Cynics, liars, madmen, narcissists, the petulant, the spoiled and the casually nasty: 2016 is your year. It's the one you have waited for.

  4. Did someone secretly declare this the year that the bad guys all win?

  5. This is a shattering story in the Sunday Times but it won't get much attention in the current newspocalypse:

  6. All the characters floating to the top of British politics currently are vaguely like villanous Hogwarts professors.

  7. Andrea Leadsom is the leader of an am-dram peasants’ revolt < this is entirely excellent & hilarious

  8. "The Dead" by Billy Collins:

  9. we should be careful of each other, we should be kind while there is still time Philip Larkin

  10. Holy. shit. This Vanity Fair reporting from two decades ago reads in a different way today.

  11. Outdated, out-of-touch corporations now face start-up competitors and radical disruption. But obsolete political parties keep going. Why?

  12. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness..."

  13. Wait, so when the alt right trolls photoshop yellow stars on Jewish reporters and politicians, they're deputizing them as sheriffs?

  14. These are the best analysis I've read of sociological currents underlying Brexit:

  15. Interested to know who anon clients are behind Mischon suit MT: Article 50 process on Brexit faces legal challenge

  16. How US Politics Went Insane. See Chaos syndrome: chronic decline in a pol. system’s capacity for self-organization.

  17. "Trump, Brexit, ISIS and the unmistakable stench of the 1930s." via

  18. Maybe we're just at the point where economies are too complex to be left to governments.

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