“Keep on fighting” means “I’m gone in six months”.
“Must be a wake-up call” means “I’m launching my leadership campaign”.
“Cheating” means we’re so ego-centric and self important we will never understand why everyone doesn’t love us.
The great Fintan O’Toole has some wise words on the monarchy and this week’s differing responses to crisis in the UK vs. the US.
“The answer is that even constitutional monarchies developed limits on arbitrary power, chief among them an independent criminal justice system and some kind of parliamentary accountability. The United States, on the other hand, has allowed the application of its laws to be bent to the will of an autocratic president, and the checks its legislature…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/opinion/andrew-arrest-epstein.html
The beginning of the end for the current UK Labour Prime Minister. Starmer won’t be far behind.
The latest chapter in the long history of staffers taking it in the neck in an attempt to save the elected.
It won’t work. It never does.
Too many questions — too few answers.
Tergiversations.
From Andrew Rawnsley’s Observer column, 15 November 2025:
Might be hard to work into a conversation, but it seems to define much of contemporary discourse.
01 November 2025. 7:40
Ian Hanna 