HeyJaredPeter Bach
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When the World Stops Dreaming in American (opens the original)
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I was in a low-key New York bar on Seventh Avenue in the mid-80s when I became aware of the steely eyes of American playwright and actor Sam Shepard—who didn’t know me from Adam—watching me buy a drink. I was stuffing the change into my wallet when he slapped a hand on my arm. “Not like that,” he said. “Like this.” He took the cash back out and placed it on the bar. “That way your barman can dip in whenever you want another.” It was a small but memorable lesson in trust from someone best known f
Who is the Enemy Now? (opens the original)
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Photograph Source: Russian Presidential Executive Office – CC BY 4.0 There is a very real and increasingly noisy meeting point between parts of the American MAGA right, several European far-right parties, and positions which, whatever their motivation, increasingly favour catering to Moscow. Remarkably, this is right at a time when—according to one or two current and former US officials openly viewing Putin as misled by his advisers—CIA chief John Ratcliffe Globemastered his way to Moscow to tel
The Curveball President (opens the original)
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Image Source: How to play baseball, a manual for boys – Public Domain Last week, in a fit of blue-suit pique, Donald Trump threw a curveball, reversing his take on ideologically indoctrinated North Korea and flicking signals at Kim Jong Un with the glee of a kid discovering a laser pointer. Remember Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a very different sartorialist—more dark commando chic than preppy shine? He was saying on August 9 that another 30,000-50,000 North Korean troops were about to be sent to Russia
Waiting for the Lead Pipe (opens the original)
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“I’m not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it’s Shakespeare—or, if not, it’s some equally brainy lad—who says that it’s always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping,” wrote P. G. Wodehouse in Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest. There seems to be a great deal of pessimism about these days. You can almost picture banks of dark cloud trailing people as they walk t
Several Truths at Once (opens the original)
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Photograph Source: Tasnim News Agency – CC BY 4.0 Ask what ordinary Iranians think about the recent escalation and you’ll find little reliable information. Even a young Iranian in London may lower their voice and glance around. The difficulty is that many Iranians appear to hold several truths at once: they oppose the Islamic Republic, fear foreign military intervention, resent sanctions, and long for ordinary lives. These positions are not contradictory. Outside Iran, they are often treated as
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