6% of Americans think they could beat up a grizzly bear. Further proof of the Atlantic voyage selecting for optimism
Ed West
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Ed West
@edwest
Writer, the Wrong Side of History substack
- One of my favourite facts came up in conversation last night. First class men were more likely to die on the Titanic than third class women or children
- I imagine an AI of British soldiers coming back to life to see Britain in 2025 would have a rather different toneSomebody in China made an AI-generated video of KMT soldiers who died fighting against Imperial Japan coming back to life to admire today's Communist China. [Hundreds of thousands of KMT soldiers were killed by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War]
- 'The British suspect is the son of a senior Hamas official'Exclusive: British man arrested in UK over alleged Hamas terror plot itv.com/news/2025-11-0…
- Have to admit I'm more shocked and disturbed by what happened in Israel than probably anything in my life. Far crueler and bestial than 9/11 or even Paris. A little window into genocide - and anyone who still thinks Hamas wouldn't kill every Jew in Israel is deluding themselves
- The common American idea of the French as dainty weaklings, rather than the most militaristic and belligerent country in western Europe, is v strange
- Whenever I now read about a woman committing a horrific crime, especially the sort of crime women almost never commit, I just start at the end of the article
- Almost no one ever talks about the great covid realignment, completely forgotten to time
- Lucy Connolly's punishment for this - 31 months in prison - is genuinely tyrannical x.com/andrewdoyle_co…
A must-read piece by @AllisonPearson on Lucy Connolly, the woman sentenced to 31 months in prison for a social media post. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/0…
