Ian Williams

As often, Lucian Truscott calls it out. 

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/white-house-press-corps-misses-an?...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn77NWzueHw

https://ameu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/vol59_issue1_2026.pdf

Live from New York: 

It’s Complex Algorithms and Simple Equations

Why would people vote

against personable and

plausible candidates

As news oozed of the latest Trump Triumph on Greenland, I watched with shock and awe how many news outlets relayed the Walrus's proclamation of victory. They were somewhat reserved but none of them could produce a single achievement in the US position that was not already there under existing treaties and understandings.

Xi who must be obeyed, Versus he who would not understand the orders!

https://youtu.be/xn77NWzueHw

I mostly want to post bright,original stuff - by myself! :).

I attach below a version of a piece commissioned by the London Review of Books in the aftermath of 9-11 The editor spiked it and instead published a piece by one of his friends, who was reacting sensitively, of course, to events from 20 miles up the Hudson. It was, I suppose, good to see that friendship still counted for something!

A Tariff on Foreign Perspectives

https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/us-plans-to-restrict-foreign-journalists...

Everybody's favourite Nobel Prize had to move to Zurich. They should have offered Trump the IgNobel Peace prize he so richly deserves!

https://www.science.org/content/article/ig-nobel-hosts-science-s-sillies...