Richard Close

There's also a Coptic Pope!

I think they're already there?

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They all did good work, but earlier in their careers. Epstein did target the biggest names after all.
I think this Epstein business explains where Dawkins and Pinker in particular got their shitty views from.

You're in for a treat! The good doctor's lovely assistant has the best name, although I question her life choices.

It's the Ineos Grenadiers that I feel the most ...

Please can we start calling it "The Your Party"? Then it's the same as every other party (e.g. "The Monster Raving Loony Party") and we won't have to parse every reference to them twice.

Best pipe weed in the Shire!

You know what would be a better way of achieving Reform's aim here? Scrapping the two-child benefit cap. And, indeed, more generous child support across the board.

Also, a big expansion of housing supply to make it more affordable.

What were their policies on these issues again?

CDs are way better for classical music because they have booklets with information about the composer, the work and the performer. Even more so with libretti and texts for operas and vocal music. Occasionally a digital download will have a booklet but it's rare.

Yup! I've become almost allergic to Kuenssberg (and Mason) so I can't face reading that BBC article.

Honesty is the wrong word for it, but it's the same directness and saying crude and offensive things that has worked so well for Trump.

Where did I put the factor 30 ...

Thanks Lesley, an excellent, well produced and thought provoking film.

I remember those bad boys in Zimbabwe, I knew them as jerrymunglum.

The biggest disincentive to having a family is the cost of housing and rentals. It's the outcome of decades of right wing policies that have inflated house prices and killed off social housing.

Now that I've seen the Times article, I don't like this, it seems calculated to divide the non-fascist vote even more.

Thanks! Infuriating that news is being broken on X.

First I've heard of this, and 5 minutes of searching hasn't come up with any information other than this post. (I refuse to look at X).

A bit odd, this is at least somewhat newsworthy?

It is obviously stupid and will never happen, but there's a bit of schadenfreude to be had from the thought of MP salaries dropping as the economy implodes due to raging xenophobia.

On the other hand, if it's total GDP rather than per capita, it might make them better disposed to immigration?

Ah! That got past my proofreader.

I'm still labouring under that impression.

At this point, I'm supporting the BBC because I want it to continue to exist, despite outrages like this.

I can smell it from here!

If your bottle of wine goes off in 30 days, you're buying the wrong wine.

Jesse Norman.

Damn! Wish I could have been there. (I used to have a flat in the Barbican).

Did she offer him the $1.2 million prize money too? I don't think he'd be interested if not.

Waitaminute! Greenland jumps the queue for statehood ahead of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, US Virgin Islands and Washington DC?