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Sounds intriguing. Have booked for the 21st.

Prince William pops up as Caspar David Friedrich.

www.thetimes.com/article/7238...

Back to work after two week break to find hundreds of emails drafted by AI selling AI services claiming to help you tackle email overload.

Sounds very Nathan Barley.

The driver "managed to contact the control centre at Network Rail and get the train diverted onto the slow line", Calder says. "That was absolutely crucial because this train was scheduled to be travelling through Huntingdon station on the tracks with no platform at 125mph." "It didn't stop in the middle of nowhere, which would have been very difficult." Calder thinks this was handled in the "safest possible way" thanks to the "incredible professionalism from the driver and the police". Train drivers are trained on how to take appropriate action, he adds,

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

A crab on a plate.

Crab for breakfast eaten with chopsticks. Defeated in more ways than one.

Voting against Restore Trust in the annual NT elections is becoming a pleasant annual tradition, like Guy Fawkes Night. We should commemorate it.

Sign in Hangzhou urinal.

I chickened out.

Food at a breakfast buffet

Offal bar (breakfast buffet, Shanghai).

A shop in Shanghai called Existentialism Kids

Hell is other people's children.

I think this is a tragedy for the CofE. It means they are still a long way from where the country of which it proclaims it is the national church is on gay marriage. How should gay people, or those of us who have gay friends or family members, think of an institution which doesn't respect them?

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

See if you make an announcement such as “There is fixed, structural damage in the ticket hall at Mornington Crescent” I am going to spend the next 35 minutes trying to decode it

YouTube video by Jeremy Limb Casablanca - Marseillaise Scene (extended edition)

That really moving Marseillaise scene in Casablanca is now 400% more moving youtu.be/CbWgOpG1988

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Phew, that's ages away, I'll worry about it later

Screenshot from Observer email

Bit of a departure for Nige but I guess everything is political.

A still from Murnau's Nosferatu

A still from Murnau's Nosferatu

Nosferatu accompanied by Radiohead's Kid A & Amnesia was excellent. Now obsessed with Hutter's coat.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

I find it amazing that we live in societies where pretty much everyone thinks they would have been in the French Resistance/Rebel Alliance/Sufragettes or would have ‘shot Hitler if they had had the chance’, and yet even the mildest acts of political dissent and protest are vilified.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Perhaps the author is hallucinating.

We already have a system where unwilling, unpaid "volunteers" are made to do work in the community. It's called Community Payback, undertaken by convicted offenders.

So Labour's message to people wanting to come to the UK and build a life is literally "We'll treat you like criminals."

Budget dilemmas look to be an ocean apart from ours just across the Irish Sea. (Just look at that sub-headline!)

Really wonderful evening at the Southbank Centre hearing wonderful performances of Beethoven’s third piano concerto and Saint-Saens organ symphony, plus a lovely new piece by Gabriela Ortiz. On Radio 3 on Monday and on Sounds for 30 days thereafter!

If you see this, post a concert picture you took.

It will all be worth it when documentary makers get to play the White Stripes song, "Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine" underneath this bit of US history.

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