I say this having been guilty of it, but there’s something deeply cringe in the way Brits talk about American politics. The internet-acquired, podcast-informed superficiality masquerading as expertise

https://twitter.com/JonathanPieNews/status/1854838732966220147

It’s not just that Jonathan Pie is insufferable or pundits such as Rory Stewart were 180 degrees wrong. We have an entire culture of American politics hobbyism that is just ill founded and a bit embarrassing

Nick Clegg promoted at Meta (Facebook). Will now be president of global affairs, was previously vice-president.

This puts him at the very top table with Zuckerberg and Sandberg, demonstrates how central a figure he's become. Zuckerberg says: "We need a senior leader at the level of myself (for our products) and Sheryl (for our business) who can lead and represent us for all of our policy issues globally."

This is high praise from the top wizard.

Sixteen years after I got my ear pierced on the strip in Puerto Banus, I went back with the "amber gamblers", defying the government for a splash of sangria. The place hasn't changed a jot.

thetimes.co.uk/article/amber-… On arrival in Malaga, a border guard directed "Europeans" to the left and "British" to the right. This ruffled some geo-political feathers.

The abuse this writer receives is both childish and sinister. I also don't think it's right to call what's happening to Zionist Jews on social media a "pogrom", even metaphorically. That word carries too much blood and pain.

tabletmag.com/sections/news/… The argument made in the piece (and elsewhere) is that what happens online doesn't stay online. There's clearly truth in this, but a pogrom it ain't.

Scott Elsworth’s writing on the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 is mesmerising: incendiaries dropped from planes, machine guns sweeping the roads, national guard joining in.

I thought I knew this story, but I really didn’t.

My review for @ST_Culture

thetimes.co.uk/article/the-gr… The Tulsa massacre has a place in American culture and memory (see The Watchmen for example), but nowhere near prominent enough given what happened.

This got me thinking on what tragedies we remember from history and what we overlook.

Jewish students on British campuses have faced a wave of anti-semitism in the past two weeks. Some have left campus, others will no longer wear Jewish symbols in public.

My @thesundaytimes piece

thetimes.co.uk/article/im-an-… One Jewish student who posted concerns about the rhetoric on Israel to her Instagram received messages calling her a “deluded Zionist rat” and “Nazi cumfuck”, as well as a “slut for Zionism”.

Early days, but there is increasing frustration in Bidenworld with Germany and broader EU bids for autonomy.

My @thesundaytimes piece

thetimes.co.uk/article/joe-bi… "Irritated and frustrated" is how one Biden foreign policy adviser described sentiments towards Europe right now

Spent the last 36 hours walking around Kenosha in a daze. Large swathes of the city are indistinguishable from a war zone.

The destruction in places is total, the locals dazed, shocked and trying to be brave.

Here are some pictures /1 The worst hit area is uptown, beating heart of the city's black community. Ice cream shops, nail salons, faith missions, all smouldering husks /2

“Defund the police” means very different things depending on who you talk to, as does “disbanding” a police department, as Minneapolis has said it will.

Camden, NJ, disbanded their police department in 2013, then formed a new one. Here's what happened ...

Thread/ I went to Camden last week, which used to be a byword for urban decay and crime.

Violent crime there is down by almost 50% since 2013. In 2012, there were 67 murders. This year just three so far.

Camden is a long way from perfect, but this is a major improvement.

SCOOP Steve Bannon wants to buy The Daily Telegraph He thinks it could form the basis of a populist-nationalist global hymn sheet. A new Breitbart if you will. “It’s one of the great untapped resources”, he told me