May 17, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE:

”It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

May 16, 2026

CLASS IS A HUGE PART OF IT:

Posted at 10:10 pm by Glenn Reynolds

OPEN THREAD: Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

REPORT: My sources tell me Keir has decided to stand down, but he’ll do it on his terms.

If true:

UPDATE:

Tweet concludes, “Nothing on Starmer’s X feed. I have to assume he’ll have some self serving excuses. But the fact is, after he smeared these people repeatedly, they were the ones who showed and behaved like Englishmen today. And it was clearly a cross section of native Britons, to include those of non-native descent who have chosen to adopt the ways of Britain. And clearly it finally got through to him. May he come to understand how he has defamed them and injured them.”

Posted at 7:37 pm by Ed Driscoll

“KEIR STARMER BANNED FOREIGN JOURNALISTS FROM ENGLAND TO STOP A RALLY → IT PRODUCED THE LARGEST ANTI-GOVERNMENT MARCH IN YEARS:”

Posted at 6:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BILL MAHER IS A VOICE OF SANITY:

UPDATE:

Posted at 6:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

ITS ORIGINS AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: He struck pedestrians with his car, injuring eight, four seriously. “He was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. The man is a 31-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin, who plowed into pedestrians [in Modena, Italy] at 100 km/h. He then attempted to flee, striking one person but was stopped by passersby. He had previously undergone psychiatric treatment….Salim El Koudri, a thirty-one-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin, was arrested on charges of massacre.”

English text via Google Translate; Western media likely to be calling for sensible car control in 3…2…1:

Posted at 6:17 pm by Ed Driscoll

CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE RAPE DOGS OF WAR! Rape Dogs: The Laff Riot.

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

AND THE ANSWER IS NONE. NONE MORE BAGEL: The world has officially reached peak bagel.

New York’s Citi Field has weathered its share of away-team blowouts over the years, but the crowd gathered on a brisk Sunday last fall was not prepared for the upset awaiting them.

At the sixth BagelFest, more than 2,000 devotees of New York’s most iconic breakfast food had lined up to try samples and schmears from local favorites and shops as far away as Denmark and Hawaii. When a panel of expert judges announced its pick for “Best Bagel,” the crowd erupted with a mix of elation and disbelief.

The winner? Starship Bagel, which is not based in New York—or even London or Montreal, cities with venerable bagel traditions of their own—but in Dallas, Texas.

For many bagel purists, the future should look like the past. True New York bagels today are made in much the same way they were when they were brought over by Jewish immigrants from Poland in the 19th century. Few had succeeded in replicating them outside the region until places like Starship Bagel came along and shattered New Yorkers’ long-held belief that great bagels could only come from their own backyard.

The View of the World from 9th Avenue strikes again:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Knoxville’s own Potchke made the list.

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

YES:

Posted at 1:36 pm by Stephen Green