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Love Starbucks. You know what you are getting and they don’t kick you out. What’s not to love.

(Also loads of other countries now have good coffee cultures, Italian coffee is nothing special!)

Amazon delivery van 'stuck on The Broomway after following GPS' HM Coastguard Southend says the van driver had been trying to get to Foulness Island.

A magnificent set of choices led to this. What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here I was
Was I here?
Yes I woz.

(Last century English school rhyme. Generally scratched into wooden desks, the ones with ink wells).

Disinformation and The Good Law Project Public discussion of the law relating to sex and gender identity is often polarised.

In the UK we have real problems with pro-trans activists. The disinformation being spread about the judgment in Good Law Project v The Equality and Human Rights Commission is shocking.

knowingius.org/p/disinforma...

BRB just changing my Bluesky bio in accordance with my new favourite commenter.

It's been funny watching him attempt to deny the allegations without straight up calling the women liars because he is so in bed with the progressives he cannot bring himself to accuse a woman of lying about rape, even if it's about him…

Believe all women!
~ Neil Gaiman

No, not those women!
~ Neil Gaiman

That one is crazy!
~ Neil Gaiman

NEW

The constitutional significance of what happened to the Prime Minister last week

Members of parliament moved for a parliamentary committee to decide what is prejudicial to national security instead of the government

By me.

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-consti...

Nathan Cofnas writes in a tweet: "The American right has no coherent message or ideology besides being against the left. It has no good answer to the major issue of our time, which is the question of lingering race disparities. We have almost no effective institutions. We control literally zero serious PhD-granting universities. Even universities in solid red states remain in the hands of our opponents. Among graduate students and assistant professors at elite institutions, our representation is very close to zero percent. The right has been shut out of editing Wikipedia the most influential source of (alleged) information in our society. Conservative culture revolves largely around figures who are some combination of grifter, crackpot, criminal, conspiracy theorist, anti-Semite, or racist-in-a-bad-way. We produce virtually no art, music, or literature. Right-wing discourse is dominated by people doing 'physiognomy checks' on each other, calling Democrats pedophiles, and telling people not to get vaccinated and that they can cure their cancer with ivermectin. None of this was changed by the election of Donald Trump."

It really is true.

National Lampoon cover with the text if you don't buy ring we'll kill the dog

That Ring ad

Elmo @elmo · 1h That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰 Based Yankee @thebasedyankee You and Bad Bunny should be deported

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

In the most important news today, @nigella.bsky.social is joining @ftweekend.com as a food and drink columnist! She joins @harrietfl.ft.com's shock and awe roster of @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social, Tim Hayward and Jancis Robinson aboutus.ft.com/press_releas...

How steep is Trump’s democratic backsliding? The erosion of established norms has been dramatic but institutions are holding up

Very good piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com....

The US under Trump 2.0 has shifted towards authoritarianism as record speed but unlike other examples (e.g. Putin, Orban) it's happened by bypassing institutions rather than permanently corrupting them...

www.ft.com/content/b474...

I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband

these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly

www.ft.com/content/608a...

I'm delighted to say that I have been appointed as an Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at City St George’s, University of London. I have happy memories of spending a year at City University (as... I'm delighted to say that I have been appointed as an Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at City St George’s, University of London. I have happy memories of spending a year at City University (as it ...

I'm delighted to say that I have been appointed as a Visiting Professor of Law at City St George's, University of London,

www.linkedin.com/posts/adam-w...

Saw a report that some crew members asked that they not receive on-screen credits!

A personal favourite is the review of a documentary about Princess Diana that called it car-crash TV.

😂😂😂

Early reviews are in:
‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’

Yeah I agree. I have no idea why Stonewall and other orgs, post gay marriage, thought it was ok to ignore the law on sports, single sex spaces and push puberty blockers on kids.

I blame Tumblr.

Money box on bbc r4 is explaining what a cheque is, and I feel ancient.

Of course! IMO, Avery's menswear coverage is the best and smartest I've seen online, ever. Uniquely engaging and substantive.

An Un-MAGA Proposal to Bring Back American Manufacturing Follow the path of Italy, France and Japan.

I'm excited to announce I'm doing a new Bloomberg column about the business of fashion. The first column is about how we can re-shore US garment manufacturing. Instead of mass deportations and raising tariffs, I argue the government should move the industry upstream:

tinyurl.com/reshoringapparel

Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.

I've been waiting for this.

Independent autopsy of Renee Good is in. It's strong evidence against Agent Ross, given what it means about the second or third shot through the left-side window.

It's the second and third shots that make the easiest criminal case of a willful killing.

i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded

"All right," said the hacker. "I'm in."

"You hacked the Gibson?"

"No. God no. But I got my deck onto the hotel wifi."

I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.

As Lisan al Gaib wrote.

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...