Tom Adshead

My guess is a US journo from CBS locked on to a weird Russian source that their Moscow people would have ignored

They've just made it up, or some bad source has fed it to them. There's nothing on the Russian wires about Michael Gloss getting any sort of order from Putin. Or rather, they all cite CBS as a source, which tells you a lot about the parlous state of Russian journalism, especially on a Friday night.

Apparently Trump, Pashinyan and Aliyev will announce a Zangezur corridor called the "Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity". Why not the "Trump Route for International Peace and Efficiency?" Still a rumour, and it will be a tough sell for Pashinyan domestically, and will annoy Iran

Love this book

My boss's annual "August is the cruellest month" piece, this must be the 25th or 26th by now

This is sad news - a fantastic artist. I will never forget his "H.G." exhibition, and "Einstein on the Beach" was formative. An Artist with a capital A

Just trying to recall - Remove was a bad thing, wasn't it?

Sorry, too far back for me to remember!

Both Richard Tice and George Monbiot were in the year above me at prep school in the late 70s

Chloe Kelly’s goal celebration face is the exact look my sister used to give me behind our mum’s back when I was being told off

You could call them the Carolines, and then the men could be called the Charlies

To be fair, isn't it the lionesses who do all the hunting and killing, and the males just sit around looking regal?

HMG and the Royal Family should assign Prince Andrew to be Trump's main escort during his time in the UK

That makes sense. I expected to dislike Fried and he came across better than I thought he would. It probably reflects well on him that he Grandpa Simpson'd out of the situation with Kent. I imagine there were people in the meetings who wanted to lecture him about Bill Gates and 5G

Exactly - he says Kent are using a 24-year old Oracle system, and then says that "no business runs on a system that old"

www.lukeblaxill.com No Peterhouse on his CV, so my guess is that he got turned down for a job. His neckwear suggests he would fit right in at Peterhouse, which I doubt is as conservative as it was in my day

Yes, you hear a lot about the asset side, but where are their liabilities coming from? The Mereen bond markets? HNW capital flight from Westeros? And who is their regulator? So much for GRRM's so-called "economic realism"

I've been doing this via ChatGPT (for listed companies) but still I have to manually download them from the corporate sites, then upload them into ChatGPT (the paid one), and then stand over its shoulder like it's a very thick junior analyst but it does more or less work

Dill is so ubiquitous in Russia that I developed a reflex of asking that any dish with chips be served without dill on the chips (без укропа), which would probably be interpreted as a political stance, post-2022

My thoughts exactly! Much better than poseurs like Hitler, Churchill, and Prince Charles

How much Shapps would a Grant Shapps Shapp,
If a Grant Shapps could Shapp Shapps

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

"Rocking all over the world" was inspired by a particularly choppy transatlantic voyage

www.snopes.com/fact-check/d...

Uk political leadership for 20 years. i.imgflip.com/a0f05x.jpg

This is fantastic. The UK MOD should do one in the style of the old Battle Picture Library comics

They can always get you for improper controls, since proper controls would have avoided the situation. It's like the Moscow cop who fined me for being hit by someone who ran a red light, saying I should have checked that no one was running a red light

Yes, that makes sense.

YouTube video by WKYC Channel 3 Eight-year-old twins rant over ice cream prices in Burnley, England goes viral

Not Scouse as such but: www.youtube.com/shorts/qBMSv...

It's weird though, in that Stunt was found not guilty of money laundering, so Barclays could argue that it was correct in its assessment. But then, if someone was paying me 20% just for collecting cash in my office, it would raise some questions