Miyamoto Musashi, c. 1640 Shrike on a Dead Branch Swordsman, philosopher, writer and rōnin. He became renowned through stories of his excellent and unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai).

And my longer read for the @ASI adamsmith.org/deep-dives/why…

The Gen Ban is back in the Lords. So what’s the point in it? I’m in the @spectator looking at the data 👇

“The duty collected for cigarettes has fallen by 44.4 per cent over 4 years, indicating an explosion in criminal activity” Astonishing data from @maxwell_marlow in @spectator👇 And a warning that the smoking ban will drive the cigarette trade deeper into the black market

We are as far away from the first episode of Have I Got News For You as the start of HIGNFY was from polio vaccine trials, the Treaty of Rome, the Suez crisis, and (almost) the end of rationing.

Still no sign of that post Kemi conference speech Tory opinion poll bounce 😂😂😂

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 33% (+3) LAB: 20% (=) CON: 17% (-1) LDM: 12% (=) GRN: 11% (-1) Via @OpiniumResearch, 5-7 Nov. Changes w/ 22-24 Oct.

“Employees working on Ukraine policy were asked to watch Carlson’s monologues, which were rife with conspiracy theories about the war, to delete past tweets in support of Ukraine aid and to write papers reflecting the new, more isolationist policy” wsj.com/politics/policy/the-…

Politicians in Europe need to realise that a huge increase in Ukrainian refugees is inevitable unless military and economic aid to Ukraine is rapidly stepped up.

In Kharkiv, residents line up at a natural spring for water after Russian strikes on critical infrastructure

Would be nice if Russians could get as upset about genocide, rape, banditry, and mass kidnapping, as they do about it being mildly more inconvenient to go to Ibiza.

I love that he mentions the ENORMOUS DEBT when, given the clear tariff math, he's literally promising to increase the debt

Put a shirt on and turn your hat forward. You're like 40.

I like how he asks “who else?” like he’s collecting grifter buzzwords that he can use to get fringe communities to RT him, because that’s exactly what he’s doing

Can we get away from the left-wing, Bernie Sanders economics and have Trump just stop taxing us so much?

How radical was Wolf? At a time when Barack Obama was still running on a “traditional marriage” platform, Wolf was telling parents they have no right to pull their kids out of LGBTQ-focused classes if the teacher union decides it wants to indoctrinate the kids. An absolute nutjob who should’ve been impeached decades ago. Adios.

He’s also a senior status judge and is 78. He’s making zero sacrifice here, and leftists in the responses are angry he’s retiring rather than continuing to fight Trump from the inside. Hilarious self-aggrandizement helped along by “journalists” who hope you don’t read past the tweet and headline.

Wolf has been a leftist judge for many years now. He’s ordered federal agencies to provide transgender surgeries to murderers. He tore down parental rights, forcing children in public schools to attend classes teaching LGBTQ ideology. We’re all better off with him resigning.

I had this figured out many moons ago when we volunteered at a food bank. Many 'customers' were driving new cars and had new iPhones. One guy who was driving a brand new Chevy Silverado said that he was going on a week-long fishing trip in Idaho.

I’m honestly not sure. She’s also not married to the dad of her kids so I don’t know if that plays a role in how it calculates/appears on financial statements