Simon Johnson🇺🇦

The Met is sad to have missed its target but has made clear that 2026 will finally be the year it arrests more criminals than it employs.

The title graphic from the musical Hamilton. Instead of a silhouette of Alexander Hamilton forming the tip of the large black star at the center of the image, there is a black and white image of a balding, sideburned William Hamilton.

William Rowan Hamilton was born #OTD in 1805.

His reformulation of classical Newtonian mechanics via the principle of stationary action is one of the most beautiful ideas in all of physics, and is at the heart of nearly every modern theory in physics. 🧪 ⚛️

Having very narrowly failed to win the vote for Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

A brilliant example of an ‘elephant done by a medieval artists that had never seen one’ - 15th century, France, Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Ms-2888, f. 180

They're leaning into the wider independent alliance then.

Suspect the new party's views on social issues could be... interesting

Guys if the “member of Coinbase’s advisory council” has a view on Crypto it probably belongs to the Adverts part of your great newspaper than masquerading it as an opinion …

If you put the DOGE guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is, let me consult someone who has worked on this problem for a long time” they would all starve to death

Incredible day in the Ngorongoro Crater. Best part was seeing four black rhinos. Second best part was watching a marabou stork stealing Cost Centre #2 's lunch 🇹🇿

Begun, The Franchise Wars have

Incredible day in the Ngorongoro Crater. Best part was seeing four black rhinos. Second best part was watching a marabou stork stealing Cost Centre #2 's lunch 🇹🇿

Would reply to anyone who used the word 'refute' incorrectly with 'reject'

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/golden-3

#smbc

A larger than normal coffee grinder

TFW the hotel is also a coffee plantation 🇹🇿

Still haven't got over people saying "Hakuna Matata" unironically (to mean "no problem") 🇹🇿

Still haven't got over people saying "Hakuna Matata" unironically (to mean "no problem") 🇹🇿

Two years before he hypothesized nuclear chain reactions, seven before he left for the U.S., fourteen before the Trinity test. Talk about chain reactions.

Fame and fortune awaits for whoever devises the American Li Keqiang index
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqi...

Florentines undercook their steaks

He's firing her because he thinks the unemployment figures should be lower, but that means there is no reason to cut rates which he also wants to do

Fame and fortune awaits for whoever devises the American Li Keqiang index
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqi...

For six months, I've said that threats to economic data have been more collateral damage than intentional harm.

No longer.

Firing the head of the BLS is five-alarm intentional harm to the integrity of US economic data and the entire statistical system.

It's happening

www.bbc.com/news/article...

1 month, for the French

The bad news is that "Trump Inflation" means a medium sized family car will cost a million dollars

🥱

They definitely wanted their tummies scratching

These ladies decided they wanted to lie under the shade of our 4x4

The main anomaly i see is that countries ruled by mad kings tend to trade on P/E ratios of ~10

PSA: Just trotting out the aphorism that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” doesn’t mean *your* model is among the latter…