More entertainment from the peeps at The Spectator
No, I don't mean that picture I found of Andrew Neil with one of the Barclays Blondes which I've posted much about..
Both with Geordie Greig - Ghislaine Maxwell's 'friend'.. I mean..
I mean this hilarious article by Matthew Parris :
"Mass paranoia is plainly a strand in the anti-vax movement ..Jon Ronson looks into the rise of the weird and shocking ‘QAnon’ phenomenon in America .. hidden paedophile conspiracy.." 🤔
" Parris was correspondence secretary to Margaret Thatcher. He was awarded an RSPCA medal (presented by Thatcher, then Leader of the Opposition), for jumping into the River Thames and rescuing a dog " 😇
He has said that an early reading of Animal Farm made him a Conservative, as "An admiration for [the pigs'] intelligence and sense of order dawned in me." 😂
No doubt our learned journo also read 1984 then..
"Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson , leaving his London home, was described as "certainly" gay by homosexual former Tory MP Matthew Parris " - Getty Images
"Bluebloods from Denmark, Spain and Sweden attend the marriage ceremony of 40-year-old former prince Nicholas to Tatiana Blatnik , a 29-year-old event planner for fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg " - Getty
The Technological Republic : Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West is a 2025 book co-authored by Alexander C. Karp, the co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, and Nicholas W. Zamiska, Palantir's head of corporate affairs and legal counsel to the CEO.
Grok : " Palantir is a core partner in the precursor to Genesis—the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR)—which Genesis explicitly builds upon. This involves Palantir's Foundry and AIP platforms for secure data integration across federal datasets..
Mappin : "Princess Gloria Von Thurn und Taxis heard about the London event, in Germany and immediately invited Kirk and Owens to her Palace at Regensburg ..
Mappin : " His Grace the Duke of Marlborough, James Marlbourough invited them both to visit him at Blenheim Palace and later participated in TPUK fundraising events in London...🤔
Yesterday , Grok could find no public records on the mysterious Richard A. Rothschild ..
Today, it gave me an address, listed with some of his patents ..
According to Grok, "no evidence of any professional, personal, legal, artistic, or activist connection emerges between Paolo Cirio and these individuals [ Richard A. Rothschild and/or Robin S. Slomkowski ]".
Grok : Stuart Pivar inherited a substantial fortune from the family plastics business .., which funded his lifelong art collecting, the founding of the New York Academy of Art (with Andy Warhol in 1979), and his later pursuits in theoretical biology (Lifecode).
" Stuart Pivar was the primary founder and financial backer of the New York Academy of Art , and Andy Warhol was his high-profile co-founder and public face..
Key Facts About the Founding :
Idea and money: Pivar , flush with cash from selling his family’s plastics business, wanted to create a graduate school that would bring back rigorous classical training in drawing, painting, and sculpture ..
" Synesthesia is actively studied at institutions like MIT, particularly through interdisciplinary projects at the MIT Media Lab. One prominent example is the "Digital Synesthesia" initiative ..
which explores how to simulate or extend synesthetic-like experiences via technology to enhance human perception beyond natural sensory limits,eg. interfacing computers with multisensory data for broader environmental awareness" media.mit.edu/projects/digit…
MIT's involvement extends to publishing foundational and ongoing scholarship on synesthesia through the MIT Press, including Richard E. Cytowic's 2018 primer Synesthesia (with a 2025 edition highlighting its spectrum-like nature across brain pathways) thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-ye…