This is also why universal demand subsidies in rich countries are immoral.

Last lingering shred of British Standards: I have to slip a shirt on to eat breakfast, even by the pool

Saw your mum's got a new car

Jeanne Calment was actually her daughter Yvonne, and died aged 99

No thank-you, no, none of this helps

OH MY GOD. SHUT UP. SHUT THE FUCK UP. SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU FUCKING PATHETIC INDIVIDUAL. YOU THINK YOU'RE MAKING SOME SORT OF DEVASTATINGLY INTELLIGENT POINT ABOUT 'LEGITIMATE CRITICISM OF ISRAEL' HERE, DO YOU? SHOULD WE ALL CLAP? SHOULD WE BUILD YOU A FUCKING MEDAL PODIUM?

If you’re just waking up, here’s what we know so far about last night’s firebombing of a Synagogue. Yes, another one. www.jewishnews.co.uk/kenton-synag...

Got to be honest guys, this is more attempted arson of synagogues than is generally "okay".

The Australia trip has reached its final and most sybaritic phase

BEHOLD this tea cosy my friend's mother knitted

Also Surfer's Paradise

Labrador! The other Labrador.

I don't want to be an activist. But then my synagogue — the place where I have personally thrown teenage temper tantrums, where my mom volunteers and my dad was chairman (the man can’t read Hebrew but likes to be involved) — was attacked.

Cecil B Demille clouds, flock of cockatoos

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration. ​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

Absolutely *horrific* discovery about Australia

Second from the Left

Trying to choose a t-shirt for dinner. Swear they're all different

Dawn on my 42nd birthday and the cockatoos are making a hell of a racket

Thirst trap morning coffee

Good morning from Hamilton Island, largely owned by one family until last year, the many cheery young staff clearly have the absolute best time when the guests have all gone to bed, if the tales of the girl working the tequila van are true.

Look I'm sure someone has already done this but what they're saying is you get your ... own ... personal ... Jesus?

I always got around this by thinking that Gaiman was massively overrated

If anyone wants an exquisite little song, may I recommend Strange Things Will Happen by The Radio Dept? This recommendation comes from heavily wined 1 AM William mellowing out in my hotel suite.

Essentially by accident I've been to @nigella.bsky.social's two favourite Sydney restaurants - Icebergs and Fratelli Paradiso and she's really not wrong. Sydney is great

God the first Eels album remains fantastic

Quite wisely nearly everything behind this beaux-arts facade is brutalist. Similarly wisely they've spiced up the "Look, we're trying here, we have one Zurbaran still life?" C. 19th original collection with modern stuff, which they actually have a pretty good haul of, especially Pop.

Hall of fame FT correction

Pre-Mahler cocktail

Now the tan is arriving, the shorts are shortening

Orangutan Reacts to Magic Tricks (suicide warning)

On the Manly ferry! Looking manly

Ron Mueck may have one trick but it's a really good trick. And the new less photoreal stuff is (variably) successful. Oh and it's more fun to photograph with other people in the shot.

Ron Mueck may have one trick but it's a really good trick. And the new less photoreal stuff is (variably) successful. Oh and it's more fun to photograph with other people in the shot.

Reading Barbara Tuchman's "A Distant Mirror" and it's yet another day I'm glad it's not the 14th Century any more

Actually closes at 3am

Signs, placards, and notes in tasting menus I have seen acknowledging the Gadigal traditional aboriginal custodians of the land since I arrived in Sydney: at least 50. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people seen, including in outdoor ad media: 0.

I can't believe Brent crude is still only at $111 a barrel

People who live in Sydney keep on talking about all these neighbourhoods, Darlington, Newtown, Surry Hills etc. but in reality they are absolutely tiny and would all fit in basically Notting Hill. It's very sweet.

I feel it's unsporting to swim in goggles at the nudist beach

I am on an tram, which I understand to be quite important transportation in The Discourse.

It's one of my favourite things that the only people who believe that "executive homes" are actually for executives are NIMBYs.

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."

Lovely salesperson in Bulgari Sydney asking me if you can wear a nice watch safely in London

Just had the finest bacon roll of my life lads. AP Bakery, Surry Hills.

The reason I'm so angry at the Green price cap guff (and indeed more so at the inadequate action of the government) is that if you're deeply worried about what's going to be happening shortly, you're still not worried enough:

Notes from Sydney: the gays here are still deploying Cavalier King Charles spaniels.

I simply do not believe that voters are incapable of understanding “1/6th of the worlds oil supply is blocked, we must use less of it” and if you do genuinely do believe that I don’t know what’s the point of engaging in politics

amazing that out of (a) the voters who told every pollster they expected tax increases during this Parliament and (b) the politicians who promised not to do it and have already broken the promise, it’s the *voters* who get the rap for being unreasonable