Paul Brown

Just going to leave this here

YouTube video by Avie Sheck Mom & I Cover Creep By Radiohead (she is a classical Indian singer 🕉️)

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

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Our grandchildren are going to ask what we did to stop this.

If you were a UK lawyer I'd introduce you to my colleague @seanjones.org who has a simple solution: you can humblebrag all you like, as long as you make a contribution to his charity. But well done ...

So what was the attendance record of the person who proof-read that before it was printed?

Starbucks has scrapped a $250,000 limit on its CEO's use of the company jet for personal travel.

CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle.

The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.

Reminds me of an interview I once heard with a chef who was going to publish a book of recipes for things to do with capers, but decided not to when he realised all of the recipes tasted better if you left the capers out ...

We caught this one trying to run away

I know Kent is the Garden of England, but I blame the soil conditions

At first glance, all I saw was '0/10' and couldn't believe you'd bombed that badly on quiz of the day. On closer reading, I'm relieved it's just your finger ...

Circular paper with a green and brown round metal handle. To the left is the narrow end which would have been slotted onto the long shaft of the spear.

#ArtDD2026
C3-C4th copper alloy spear handle-butt

From a Pictish site in Fife.

For #DrawingDiggingForBritain and #DiggingForBritain.

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#archaeology

But will the associated new colours match?

The thing about London is you can walk in off the street and two minutes later, be standing in front of this

1. Americans have a constitutional right to carry a gun.

2. ICE have the right to shoot a US citizen simply because they are carrying a gun.

You can logically believe neither of these is a good idea. But you can't logically believe both

Interesting. It's not obvious that it is within the ambit of s.106A for an Inspector to consider whether permission would or should have been granted without the obligation, but that may have been deliberate. In which case is the problem in the legislation rather than the decision.

For decades, the American right has insisted that people need firearms for personal safety and to resist potential government tyranny.

And then LBC just had some US general on who suggested that if a demonstrator has a gun with them, they're essentially a legitimate target.

Which is it?

If anyone in Kent fancies a Saturday ride, we've got groups doing anything from 20 to 80+ miles, at a pace to suit

YouTube video by Demi Dog Productions Rollin Out with K20 Cycling Club

OK, this is a bit niche, so if you're not into cycling, scroll down... but this is the club we set up 5 years ago. We've gone from 11 founding members to 180, and I love it ... youtu.be/YTG9qUfs-jA?...

One thing President Trump and I have in common is we’re both amazed and upset that his approval rating is in the low 40s.

Sad in so many ways. One of our most precious memories of our elder son's childhood is the way, when still a toddler, he would arrive in our room at 6.30 each morning and literally fling his current favourite at my wife with the demand that she "'ead* books, Mummy, 'ead books" (*pronounced 'eed')

The Belgian prime minister at Davos with an interesting analysis from a European perspective.

I think they call it the Whaleway Station ... (seriously)

Ah! The glamorous life of the mediator laid bare for all to see ...

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

"A legal bid to halt Oxford’s congestion charge has been turned down."

There are going to be limits to what you can make other countries do by threatening to tax your own citizen's purchases of their products.

I believe handing over entire territories falls well beyond those limits.

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I somehow feel both seen and invisible at the same time…

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade Sadiq Khan says ‘public health’ approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world London’s murder rate has dropped to its lowest in more than a decade with police in the capital and the mayor saying it is now one of the safest cities in the western world. The figures come as those on the radical right criticise the city for having a crime problem, hoping to gain politically from such claims being believed. Continue reading...

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade