True

Unless you are extremely good, extremely lucky, or are born or married to wealth, I don’t know how anyone can afford to become a journalist now.

A while back I had to explain to my kids why I despised Elon Musk so much (my fault for shouting at the radio like an eejit). I told them about the spat over the trapped children in Thailand, and his bullshit accusations about the head diver. I thought you did well in that interview. Honesty matters

Anyone saying ‘DEI’ here in the UK is telling you very directly where their hate is imported from.

True, and it never went away - we had that full resurgence of the blood libel in U.K.only a decade or so ago, with an invented conspiracy theory about a historical child-sex ring ‘somehow’ implicated every prominent Jewish politician from a 30 year period

The first time I saw that conflation in print was 25 years ago, from the other side of the coin in a NYT op Ed on ‘the rise of European intellectual antisemitism’ which labelled criticism of West Bank illegal settlers by Europeans as the new face of traditional antisemitism

Comparing these chimps to Hans Gruber feels so disrespectful - both to Hans and the fictional villain community as a whole

I kind of hope he'll eventually be remembered for his record as POTUS, but I might be getting carried away

I can’t even bring myself to admit to the Lovin Spoonful that I don’t really believe in Magic

Have to admit, the way so many very right-wing people in UK have turned against these dicks has been comforting

You may have misunderstood him there

Fair play to you. You’re a young man. Most neurotypical young men are going through same process, only with far less inherent self honestly

WHEN IS MEN’S ST PATRICK’S DAY??!

Historically great reputations self immolating because of Trump? Sounds a bit implausible. Whats ‘America’s mayor’ doing now?

Seedy Moscow motel room 1987. Trump (in a nappy) sits on the bed. KGB Putin and Gorbachev look on.

Exactly this. And in that world U.K. will be screwed for a generation while they carefully untangle from codependency with US

I hope he falls on Vance as he’s dying and suffocates him

That's the one. It's been a long time, but remember when studying this period I was surprised by how much sympathy I had for Chamberlain. Think I once had to retrospectively change an exam essay intro because I argued against my own assertion

Was it the Oxford Union who passed a motion that they would not fight for king and country under any circs?

In a less loaded way, he’s in a similar position.

If you cut that sentence in half, it would still be true

He's a terrified old man. It is embarrassing to think that this...poltroon is the actual leader of the most powerful military power in the world

We can’t push the negotiations too hard or they might terminate the loan agreement on Liz Truss

Also odd how their "free markets" ideology seems to slot so seamlessly with an openly protectionist tariff policy. If only John Peel had such flexibility at his disposal 19thC Britain would have been saved all that hassle over the Corn Laws

I'm just really grateful this inspired me to belatedly 'discover' your music for myself. Listening to Leaving Eden now & it is stunningly good. Thank you.

I managed about £200 - mainly in jam making stuff and glass bottles for fruit vodka/gin. Actually, thinking about it I’ve probably also done over a grand on the vodka and gin. Nature finds a way

Nice

This is people who are sceptical about germ theory yet blindly accepting of existence of ‘the woke mind virus’. My bet would be they blame transsexual paediatric staff

I like what it tells of how the advertisers see us. Kind of flattering they think my important coding job might be improved with regular therapy

Jaysus, surely that article can’t be real?