Ian Williams - Deadline Pundit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTHiEV3eTW8

Back in the 90s, I wrote 6,000 words for the Village Voice on the Republic of Nauru - which was roughly two words for each inhabitant of the world's third smallest state. As I explained to the editor, I was hoping to do a follow up on the PRC on the same basis, at a dollar a word! 

Been there, done that. Went from Gibraltar to Ceuta in the days when it took longer to cross from the Rock into Spain than to sail from Malaga to Ceuta, where the traffic flowed interrupted across the border with the EU in and out of Africa,

John Cleese seems to be supporting Reform. Is it Alzheimer's, or a convoluted satirical skit as he lambasts immigrants from his home on the Caribbean?

Maybe, more and more he is reduced to parodying the parodies he used to do so well!

https://diplomaticacademy.us/2026/07/26/media-diplomacy-trump/

Erudite critics of DJT's speech to the WHCA commented that his dissing of his own tele scripting team broke the "fourth wall." 'Tis a great accomplishment. From the rest of the speech, those walls are padded!

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

 SG INCITATUS  VIVAT!

There are rumors that Trump wants Infantino of FIFA, possibly the world most detested person after himself, to be UN Secretary General  for his services to groveling, and perhaps in hopes of getting a UN Peace Prize. The Emperor Caligula reportedly nominated his favorite racehorse, Incitatus, to be a Senator, and of course the fawning Roman Senators - who are the very model for their modern avatars  on Capitol Hill in Washington - went along with it. 

The U.N. System is Worth a Roll in the Mud

Ian Williams