Research, analysis & grey-skies thinking on labour markets, social security, public finance & equality. Usual disclaimer. Cheap foreign labour 🇮🇪. Profile pic is Takashi Shimura with Toshiro Mifune in Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949).
I did not picture Iggy looking like a member of Peter Paul & Mary when he was putting down those vocals.
Michael Daly1969, The Hit Factory, NYC. Iggy prepares to lay down a vocal for The Stooges' debut LP. John Cale is in the producer's chair📸Glen Craig
MAGA would like a schism so they can call Leo anti-pope whenever he inconveniences them.
Christopher HaleNEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
In this case, the corruption is flowing from the state to the markets. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruptionTruth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per monthwww.theguardian.com90% have already returned to Morocco.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)Braverman: "make no mistake, these men are on their way to the UK right now" Farage: "before long, many will be crossing the Channel" [Would see big spike in Moroccan boat arrivals + asylum claims in next 3 months if true. V unlikely to be true].
Skeeter Best is *niche*. Great accompanist work on the wonderful 1956 Lucky Thompson-Oscar Pettiford trio sessions.
Kirkdale BookshopCapitalism is determined to prove Thorstein Veblen was right.
missusveeBecause you don’t save, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger. You don’t know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.
Never seen this. I can see why Pauline Kael claimed Orson Welles got his makeup ideas for the older Kane from Peter Lorre here.
Forever Louise BrooksFrances Drake and Peter Lorre for Mad Love (1935). Photo by Clarence Sinclair Bull. Choose your Tuesday mood.
'The police I assume.' He sounds exactly like Morrissey, maybe they should do a duet.
SnigdhaJohn Cleese seems to think Muslims try to convert everyone to Islam on pain of death. I have Muslim neighbours and colleagues, none even suggested I convert, let alone threaten me with beheading. Also aren't the Christian faiths ones, like Islam, where converting others is encouraged?
Yeats's Byzantium. Drunken soldiery, mummies, mechanical birds, loads of dolphins.
Jesse HawkenStudio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now