Recommendation seconded (though I’m a massive Pynchon fan generally).
Creepy guys in the next door cabin at this Centre Parks keep looking at us
This is genuinely disturbing.
Just as an aside, when did the Tories ever try to be nice to everybody?
Sam Altman is a dumpster fire located inside a mountain of bullshit.
![Andrew Neil: That Trump started the attacks on Iran without even having the semblance of a plan to keep the Strait of Hormuz open is both a mystery and a scandal — from which he might not recover politically. Republican grandees in swing seats/states now beginning to panic, flooding White House with calls to ‘do something’ as gas [petrol] prices soar.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbvszoqtcywxew6vdl2uyghj/bafkreignwdpb7xfpkevffbpuriuumaj2b2vt7mafq6fhj5ch7crdpughoe)
It would indeed be 'a mystery' if we were dealing with a rational non-demented idiot.
NEW | A rare positive edition of the newsletter…
IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN
His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
Not even Beryl Bainbridge’s publishers?
There’s really no point in trying to find the ‘good Tory’ now. They’re long gone, sadly.
And sorry.
Was talking to my son who for professional reasons is far more informed than I am about this stuff. The answer seems to involve a lot of expletives.
It’s worth a chance.
Oh, yes, of course you are. Memory lapse. You north London clubs all meld into one for those of us further north. In that case, we can both hope they hold on to Tudor.
The similarity is ‘if you watched the games’. I’m not convinced that sacking Dyche was right pragmatically but don’t think it was inexplicable. Time will tell how Pereira does but broadly seems positive. Can’t disagree about Tudor. Hope you hold on to him, obviously.
As a Forest supporter, I’m entirely behind the ‘sack the manager on the off-chance you might find someone slightly better’ strategy. It never fails.
This is rather lovely and somehow relaxing - an interactive map of lighthouses of the northern seas lighthouse-atlas.netlify.app#3/48/-30
Read that several times and, no, no idea.
When you've realised you've made a bad call but are also physically incapable of accepting you can be wrong.
I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good to see Farage robustly challenged. Telling to see the feebleness of his responses.
Hm.
My son, who was in a well-paid IT job in banking but hated it, left to become a chef, a job he loves. But he did it in his 20s. If he’d left it much later, it would have been much harder, I suspect.
"The pollster Peter Kellner has calculated that if the referendum were rerun today, instead of a leave win by 1.3m votes, remain would win by 8m. There’s no historic parallel for the injustice of that"
Given that this probably didn’t happen much after 4.00pm at the latest, the media is not exactly in a hurry to report it.
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
"Making it up as they go along"
The US has started a war with no idea how to finish it and there's a power struggle within the Iranian regime too.
Where does the war in Iran go from here?
samf.substack.com/p/making-it-...
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
Will this World Cup actually happen?
Axel Springer has big £600m to buy The Daily Telegraph/Sunday Telegraph. It also bid £600m to buy the titles back in 2004 (it was beaten by the Barclay bros £665m offer). With inflation though, that 2004 bid would equate to about £1.1bn now.
Absolutely right
Again, as with Guardian article, Mahmood's reliance on false/deliberately misleading claims about her "earned settlement" proposals suggests that she knows she can't defend them on the merits, in principle or in practice.
