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nytimes.com/2024/06/18/wor… Two recent Thai Prime Ministers were as camp as a row of tents - at his first press conference as Prime Minister, Kukrit Pramoj was asked by a cheeky hack if he was a homosexual - his reply? "Send your mother over and ask her in the morning."

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theprint.in/opinion/people… Useful background on the fatuousness of vegetarian virtue signalling

ft.com/content/edc177… Welcome news from Geneva

nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/… If he remains on the ticket, he will be personally responsible for four more years of Trump. As if PM Chamberlain refused to go to make way for Churchill because he just had a bad day at the office...over to you Clinton and Obama to make him see sense

nytimes.com/2024/06/13/din…

Does anyone know how to stream "Where's my Roy Cohn" in the UK? Seems it simply isn't around and keen to view it

Is it April 1?? theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…

Trump knows neither Gaetz nor Kennedy will be approved by the Senate - they are merely bones for his base and also allow him to blame whatever future problems there are, on Deep State obstructing his attempts to drain the swamp theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n…

V Good news that The Promise, Peter Kosminsky's brilliant drama about the Israeli/Palestine conflict, is now streaming after an absence of more than a decade from our screens - a must watch channel4.com/programmes/the…

The Art World has truly gone bananas theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Latest Goalhanger Podcast: The Rest is Classified, debits with the CIA/MI6 Iranian Regime `Change in 1953 - my take on the coup madtomsalmanac.blogspot.com/2010/07/troubl…

My book of 2025, the foreign adventures of the great travel writer Norman Lewis, superbly edited & collected by the founder of Eland Books, John Hatt, who has done more than anyone to resurrect Lewis from the dusty unread. Eland is still incapable of publishing a dud book.

ft.com/content/e93f5a… A superb anthology of Norman Lewis's articles put together by John Hatt, the publisher who was instrumental in his renaissance in the Eighties

thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/… My farewell to an old friend

thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/… My obit on one of the last publishing gents

theguardian.com/world/2025/feb… Time for Europe to take a belated stand... what with tarrific Trump kowtowing to Putin, this will be a rerun of Peace in our Time

Why should the UK pay for the retention of Diego Garcia anyway? It is a US base, not a UK one . theguardian.com/politics/live/…

My piece on the fall of Saigon in today's Financial Times. This month is the fiftieth anniversary. Please RT. on.ft.com/3EkG8Vs

Doubt if Trump will be coming soon for a Buckingham Palace Banquet as too afraid of massive protests bound to greet him - apart from Moscow, Minsk or Pyongyang are there any world capitals where he could venture with no such risk? Even Tel Aviv, Rome or Budapest wouldn't work...