Mark Baruch

I used to point lights at famous people, now I live life one spreadsheet at a time. Slow cyclist, fast gin drinker. Imperfect ✡️ Work: @SiyanLtd Play: 🚴🤿 🥁

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

All right Google, I’ll give this one to you. This is pretty great.

[Tom Jamieson @jamiesont]

Explaining to foreigners the winner of this contest gets to be Prime Minister

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

netanyahu losing his election because of trump’s iran deal would be the biggest favor the united states could do for israel.

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

"I once spent £400,000 of other people's money on jewellery, cosmetics and a campervan and my wife didn't know anything about it."

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Netanyahu is arguably the only criminal in human history who has managed to stay out of prison by openly committing infinitely more heinous crimes.

[robert shrimsley @robertshrimsley]

Am trying to work out if Your Party was ever rally a politial project or just a satirical art installation

[Mark Baruch @MarkBaruch]

@charlie_pearce excellent work putting all this together every week (and twice a week at Christmas!), thank you :)

[Mark Baruch @MarkBaruch]

@charlie_pearce isn't it the second highest weekly total, (just) beating the 2020 figure?

[Josh Schwerin @JoshSchwerin]

Don’t worry. It’s not a war like Iraq. It’s more of a police action like Vietnam.

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

The ‘rules‑based international order’ was underwritten—again, with exceptions—by American military restraint and structured power. That era is over. If Europeans want to preserve it, military power is like a dinner jacket: when it’s required, nothing else will do.

[Jon Hollis @JonHollis9]

Brigitte Bardot’s death means there are now just three people mentioned in @billyjoel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire who are still alive.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

When did we collectively decide that Paddington is the Grim Reaper for British celebrities?

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

They are always telling us that Hamas should not be rewarded for October 7 with a Palestinian state. But a much bigger concern is that Israel should not be rewarded for the genocide by getting control over Gaza. That is exactly what is about to happen.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

“unprovoked military strikes against a sovereign member state of the united nations, against its citizens, peaceful cities and critical nuclear energy infrastructure facilities are totally unacceptable. the international community must not ignore such acts, which not only jeopardize peace but also undermine security both in the region and globally."

- russia’s foreign ministry, three years late, apparently ashamed at what they’ve done

[Hans Kristensen (also on Bluesky) @nukestrat]

Apparently the work of Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz. 👏👏

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

You may not believe in climate change but your insurance company does. When your payment skyrockets because organizations whose entire job is measure risk decide that your community is risky you will get that climate inaction is screwing you, personally. Not birds and butterflies. You.

[Will Carver @will_carver]

My son won our annual King’s Speech Moustache Game. Bragging rights for a year.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

[Robert Hutton @RobDotHutton]

A Barnier is one Scaramucci short of two Trusses.

[robert shrimsley @robertshrimsley]

Am coming round to the view that Elon Musk is going to be one of the better Trump nominations