Friday, December 19, 2025

We really are living in dangerous times

 KEEP YOUR COOL:  New window insulation blocks heat, but not your view


‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women 

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.


Cocaine and Bananas: How Balkan Traffickers Used Fruit Shipments From the Ecuadorian President's Family Firm to Smuggle Drugs

Shipping containers sent by Noboa Trading Co. have been caught up in huge drug shipments sent from Ecuador to the Balkans....


We really are living in dangerous times

I was talking to a friend about my post on Donald Trump, and his attack on European civilisation, made earlier today. The thought that kept recurring was this: why are none of our political leaders standing up and telling Donald Trump where he can get off?

If I am right in suggesting that this is one of the defining questions of our era – if not the defining question – then what we are getting from our supposed leaders in all our major political parties is a resounding absence of leadership on the issue. They are, it would seem, totally silent.


Australia Post under fire after staffer 'faking' delivery attempt


One UK journalist’s close access to Hitler carries a warning about Trump’s media restrictions


America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. “We’ll tolerate this just like we tolerate everything else. Because this is who we are, collectively, as a country.”


Why Housing Prices in Big Cities Cannot Be Expected to Come Down Any Time Soon

On the dynamics behind seemingly unyielding high urban housing prices.