Nicholas Shakespeare
@dolphinsands
Novelist & biographer (Bruce Chatwin, Ian Fleming), Tasmaniac, latent fisherman & retriever lover, married to an Icelandic-Canadian, two tall sons.
Hugely honoured that Ian Fleming: the Complete Man has been recognised in this way.
🗡#CWADaggers And the ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2024 WINNER is… Nicholas Shakespeare, for ‘Ian Fleming: The Complete Man’ (Vintage) @ALCS_UK
'Colbert’s cancellation is a sign of the unbundling of the American public. Ensconced in our homes, watching our custom-tailored streaming feeds, we simply have fewer and fewer things in common.' wapo.st/4f1BvgV
'It is unsurprising that a coalition of election deniers, Christian nationalists and supplement- and crypto-hawkers would have little regard for academic freedom, scientific progress and learning' nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opi…
Good. We should follow.
Fidèle à son engagement historique pour une paix juste et durable au Proche-Orient, j’ai décidé que la France reconnaîtra l’État de Palestine. J’en ferai l’annonce solennelle à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, au mois de septembre prochain.…
It would be vaguely interesting to know if James Woods is as awful in character as he was as a character actor?
Can you even imagine that the Democrat lapdogs at the New York Times and the Washington Posts still have their stupid little Pulitzers Prizes on their bookshelves like precious jewels?
It’s a shitty brush
The number one selling poop brush in Canada! 🇨🇦
They’ve misspelled whining
Americans voted for a better economy, and that is what President Trump is delivering!
Where is Les Wexner? He came shooting with Epstein at Wilton, dressed in identical clothes like twins.
"The American people are facing one of the great challenges of the 21st century, as great as that confronting the French in 1940, when they had to decide whether to join the Resistance or not.” nytimes.com/2025/06/11/wor…
How much juicier can this get?
BREAKING: Massive bombshell drops in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as his brother Mark Epstein reveals that the billionaire pedophile ended his relationship with Donald Trump — not the other way around as Trump has claimed. And it gets so much worse... "Jeffrey said he stopped…
No day can now be allowed to pass without some hyperbolic announcement of the most important, beautiful, greatest, terrible, evil, unjust thing ever to have happened (since the day before). It’s exhausting - and it’s always nonsense.
David Sacks reacts to President Trump’s historic AI movement. “I thought this was perhaps the most important technology speech by an American President since JFK declared that we had to go to the moon.”
As James Ellroy would say: uncontrollably psychopathic.
WATCH IN FULL: @DNIGabbard meticulously outlines the explosive findings of the newly declassified House report exposing the Obama Administration's role in the Russia collusion hoax
When he explodes so many people are going to be covered with his slime.
The Trump regime and the Republican Party are neck-deep in what could be the biggest cover-up scandal in American history—one that ties Donald Trump directly to the world’s most infamous pedophile and child sex trafficker.
so true. except it does require low cunning as well as no character, no conscience, & no empathy.
And a plurality of voters fell for it. Unpresidented.
A Princeton professor had his students complete an assignment using A.I. It became “the most profound experience” in his teaching career. nyer.cm/5dlF9Ao
The daughter of Israel’s most famous writer, Amos Oz, calling on all soldiers to refuse to serve in Gaza. This may seem like nothing to some, or too late, or whatever, but it’s a tectonic shift there. And she’s right, of course.
חיילים, סדיר ומילואים, הורים של חיילים, סבים של חיילים, כבר אין דרך אחרת: סרבו לשרת בעזה. סרבו, סרבו, סרבו. החטופים ומשפחותיהם האומללות נבגדו בידי ממשלת ישראל. הרעב ההמוני בעזה הוא עובדה מחרידה ונחרצת. ההרג היומי במרכזי חלוקת המזון איננו הגנה עצמית אלא פשע מלחמה מזעזע. החוק…
It’s the sadness you feel watching a third-rate play performed by talentless actors, save that what’s playing out here is the fate of the US which has become for the world audience a theatre of the absurd.
.@SpeakerJohnson: "We have been making history together, and we're making history because you are the visionary, bold, strong leader that America needed... The exciting thing about the Big Beautiful Bill is America First is no longer just an agenda—it is now the law of the land."
sad that a US president, even one as debased as T***p, would position himself as the leader of a lynch mob roused to arrest (i.e., lynch) the only Black president in US history.
Trump is trying to get past his Jeffrey Epstein by suggesting he'll arrest Obama. But so far, MAGA isn't buying it. My latest False Flag newsletter for @BulwarkOnline: thebulwark.com/p/trump-big-ep…
Bonkers.
Lord, you are our light in the midst of darkness. We pray you continue to bless this great nation and guide @POTUS’ hand as he leads our country to a brighter, more prosperous future.