Jake

I’m afraid I don’t - just wordle!

Yes four for me too - really thought it ended in a K at first

How lovely you both are indeed! I go to Venice every other years for the Biennale and always arrive by the water taxi from the airport, so indulgent, but just the best way.

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Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

I second this. Welcome to the club - our two cities are the future

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Rachel Reeves: “My job is to deal with the world as I find it, not the world as I might wish it to be.”

A great sentence.... for July-Sept 2024.

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

And it's daylight outside the window and not in a station

I’ve never seen that! An abomination! The official TfL Go app is really useful for navigation and has lots of tube art and stuff

Academia - yes me too

The next 12 months are going to be remarkable

It’s Austria Day - I am eating Punschkrapfen - delicious

Absolutely happens to me too

White House in ruins

Trump is destroying the White House and the US. From symbolism to literalism.

I have never seen such a perfect image

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

New read……

#WarRavagedPortland

Honest Bob Jenrick holding a judge’s wig in a manner that makes it look like his ventriloquist’s dummy.

“Gottle of geer.”

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage.
Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.

If the rapture happens today, I wonder how many cancellations I will get for clinic this afternoon? Actually, life may be a bit better with all those bores gone

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social and caller Peter react to the 'new Brexit benefit' revealed by Sir James Dyson.

What do we want?

A pluralistic, democratic member-led process rooted in an understanding of Marxist dialectic and class consciousness!

When do we want it?

Once we have consensus on the appropriate structures to decide the bodies to determine the correct timetabling procedures!

Yes. It also seems odd to complain about journalists marking the passing of a ‘free speech champion’ by reporting - or broadcasting - things he said.