You go here and go there, but also stand still, return to the same spots: the bench on the hill in Victoria Park, above the plane trees that veil through winter branches the city’s spill, platform seven, same-time Tuesdays, Temple Meads gloomy and Cardiff central gleeful in sun, a table in the café waits, routinely
World’s stock of afternoons is running short And summer’s light is turning golden brown – It’s time to summon up our winter thoughts Since poetry will always be our sport And images, once mothered, won’t disown Our afternoons, though old, though running short, For in mind’s shadows metaphors hold court And new dreams swarm. We
It’s too late now to say you are not old, the years gang up on you, they settle down like locusts falling on a field of grain, the rustling noise you hear, that is their sound. How to be old: I’ll help you on the way. Stand straight. Be calm. Pretend you are a tree
January For three weeks wildfires raged around Los Angeles. Perhaps 30 people were killed but 200,000 were evacuated, 18,000 homes and structures destroyed and 57,529 acres burnt. Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President. On his first day he issued about 1,500 pardons for people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol
The videos Mohammed Hegab publishes are ‘at least as reputationally damaging to him’ as Murray’s article, a judge found
Despite Elon and Trump’s public fallout, DoGE is still slashing away at the federal workforce
The night started off strong with cocktails and conversation with Speccie subscribers
Plus: a history of misguided pollsters
Plus: Trump talks taking over DC
The president spoke with Ben Domenech at the White House on Thursday afternoon
Plus: Mike Johnson pulls rabbit out of hat…again
Plus: Monsieur Macron goes to Washington
Plus: Mitch jets out
Plus: Is this the end of the line for Eric Adams?
What to watch this March
Plus: Controversial cabinet picks confirmed
Plus: Russia releases American detainee and Gabbard clears confirmation
Plus: Five cabinet nominees advance
Plus: Trump plans more tariffs
Plus: See ya to the CIA?
