but the big political interviews are always better when Nick Robinson is not doing them. (Anyway, Evan Davis has now quietly turned PM into the BBC's flagship news programme, in case they hadn't noticed) www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
AI will solve the Straits of Hormuz problem momentarily, and then you'll all feel like foolish cynics
on the one hand, it's definitely also fine to be a Mancunian or a Geordie, but on the other hand, Londoner obviously wins
My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.
There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.
it is definitely led by stupider people!
i mean i agree it is very stupid! But Saddam posed no threat to anyone else in 2003, whereas the Iranian regime has been doing so for decades
how is the present war stupider?
if you don't love WAR MACHINE then you hate cinema; sorry, i don't make the rules
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it's a bit fucking late to worry about that, don't you think
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I'm at an event at the LRB bookshop which hasn't even started yet and I've already overheard a man telling a woman that he's a writer
so as i understand it the Greens are against nuclear power, Caesarean sections, and the State of Israel, but in favour of hypnotic breast augmentation. Do they have any other policies?
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it's not unintentional though: he really does have a gift for comedy
An open letter to all the children who celebrated the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977: come on, you knew. When will you apologise??
"Eye of the Tiger"
i feel like a lot of "smart" people decided a long time ago that Michael Lewis was kind of mid, but his 2018 book The Fifth Risk is in retrospect a brilliantly prescient explanation of why the second Trump term is such a disaster for the US
and Audacity (free) to record on the computer
this is excellent
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
nothing is easier than to write a genre novel that withholds the pleasures of the genre
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
"vaccine hesitancy" is a peculiar term of liberal Unspeak that manages to be more patronising to its targets ("ah they're *hesitating*, but surely they'll eventually do the right thing") than a correct description such as "uneducated anti-vaccine kill-other-people's-childrenism"
this seems like a weirdly sexist headline: none of the women quoted in the article is "furious"; they are simply making reasoned arguments
if i were the prime minister i would simply not resign just because Chris Mason has a weirdo boner for my defenestration
omfg 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
