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Andrew Tate is ’too smart to read’ and says books are for ‘slow brains’ In a viral clip, Andrew Tate dismisses reading as a pastime for "slow brains" while saying he prefers a life of chaos and adrenaline

"I already know all the letters, so there's nothing left for books to offer."

BBC News headlines: Education School caterers 'confident' of meat Missing children data 'worrying'

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

I still recall doing a double take at the V&A when I realised the jewellery wing is named after a couple of my favourite restaurant regulars (I knew they were rich but 😂)

It would maintain the status of the BM and go some way to restoring it's international prestige...

Collaborate with artisans from the countries in from whence the artefacts came and have high class replicas made. Then return the items while helping to create suitable museums in the original countries.

This is excellent. The V&A (which I love), should be formally returning items like this.

Ha ha ha. It must be this.

burn them all

how odd

I can’t find myself in the map 🥲

Drinking Valtellina (to the tune of Gasolina obvs). Making wine political again.

How so?

I think Vikerns was just an absolute nazi dick

You all may want to sign this one.

Palantir and Thiel are terrible people.

Montus isn’t released that old. Maybe in the past but I doubt it.

I think it’s more likely the result of very old fashioned winemaking in the early post war years.

Ahhh. I was talking about the old Barolos. The old ports behave very differently. Would expect them to be lovely.

47 Cappellano. Very much enjoyed this.

Mega dusties

Aforementioned 47 Cappellano and sunset looking out from Porseleinberg (where we drank no Syrah).

Last year. 47 Cappellano was legit excellent though I fear it was probably undrinkable when young.

Will let you know in a few weeks. My bet is 1/2 will be ‘brown’ the other half will be ‘brown but intriguing and still with echoes of fruit and interest’.

Some dusty Nebbiolo

Was at dinner with Etienne Tollot-Beaut who was talking about his grandfather straight up laughing about the prices paid for early and mid 20th century Burgs (DRC included) as they were always made with extra stuffing.

I should counter this with the admission that I’m pretty excited about the line up of very old Barolo for dinner in a few weeks 😂

Very old wine is usually (imho) fucked

Picked up a 45 Taylors from a cellar we bought a few months back…

Turns out people have always been awful 😂

Nothing new here, I have fond memories of a guest asking me to help him get a better photo of the wine list page to upload to vivino to let it give him the aggregate scores for the wines on my list.

I would add that I do not want any AI assistance with writing emails..

Adobe Acrobat I do not want to know What’s New. I do not want to turn my PDF into a podcast with my team. I want to look at the PDF. Please stop

who hasn't injected paraffin for the thiccc

thanks