This calm, cool decency is dangerously absent from our discourse at the moment. Almost everyone is embracing, normalising or ignoring the 'cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.'
We need more Bertrands.

"How do you expect to win back men...?"

We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

Johnson: “People have said, ‘Are you going to change your strategy?’ And I’ve said to you all, very plainly in good faith, we don’t have a political strategy here. I don’t have a strategy.”

Stolen Louvre treasures are uninsured, France says on.ft.com/47k9spw

I liked the Platner ads too but I think there's a difference between "guy who had some bad reddit posts a decade ago" and "ex-Blackwater merc who still has a Nazi tattoo." Sucks bigtime that he's the only one taking positions and talking policy I like, but them's the breaks!

When the gallerist Jane Lombard started her career in the ’90s, she joined a delegation that traveled to Poland to help artists show their work in the US before the Cold War ended. Three decades later, she sits at her desk in Tribeca, discussing how to stand against authoritarianism in America.