Well, if it’s 15 March, we could commemorate the 2,070th anniversary of the doing in of Julius Caesar... or we could note that it’s 70 years since My Fair Lady opened on Broadway, and use that as an excuse to trot out one of the finest of all theatrical anecdotes... 🧵

What I hear when I'm in the dentist's chair. www.tom-cox.com/recommended-...

Leavitt again representing the theory that if you get enough dense people in one place, like the White House, the gravitational forces created mean time flows backwards from their perspective

May all your days be Slow News Days.

Has musk offered to rescue the oil in his little submarine yet?

Outspoken women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen devastates Zack Polanski on X

In other news this week, John Nettles' latest death metal album enters the charts, Gemma Collins unveils her plans for streamlining the Shrewsbury bypass, and Piers Morgan announces he will be lead surgeon in my forthcoming heart transplant operation.

You never hear much about the youngest of the McGann brothers: Renault

As one high ranking official quoted another former high ranking official who, when asked why there aren’t women at negotiating tables, said: “Women? They’ll go to the enemy, make peace and the wars will end!” That describes it pretty well.

My marriage is actually open right now. The only thing prohibiting my sleeping with other people is my wife.

"Reginald Arthurell, who now goes by Regina, was convicted of stabbing HER stepfather to death in 1974, bashing a man to death in a robbery in 1981, and beating HER former partner to death while on parole in 1991. SHE was released on parole in 2020." Fuck this shit. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

It's as though he asked ChatGPT to create the archetypal Adrian Chiles column headline.

That thing that never happens has happened again. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

The sooner we all think like this, the better the world will be!

Suddenly, even the concept of a Monopolies Commission sounds quaint and outdated. I guess that's late stage capitalism for you.

This thread.

I still think about this a lot.

What a truly delightful end to the day. I shall be clinking a glass of Meerlust to Ms Aluko for this well deserved victory. Don’t you just love it when entitled dickheads have to face the consequences of their misogynistic, blatantly racist campaigns of hate? Deee-licious.

I am so full of admiration for Charlotte Nichols’ courage in talking about this - particularly awful that as a woman in public life she will have had to consider first how people might use this information against her, especially online. Hope she has all the support she needs.

Remember transexuals? Happy days.

... until somebody trips over the kerb and sues the city for millions.

So gender confused children need 'time to think' about how they want to identify when they are adults. So let's suspend them in a medically induced state of prepubescence until they make their minds up. Seriously, the more you think about it, the more absurd the puberty blockers argument becomes.

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell recounting how as 1 woman out of 50 physics undergrads at Glasgow Uni in 1960s, she learned not blush because male students wd whistle & catcall louder every time she entered lecture theatre. (A uni tradition to treat women this way at time. Teacher or student. Every time).

I visited the Tracey Emin exhibition at Tate Modern yesterday. I found it very moving and thought provoking. Men have treated her so badly yet she has managed not to be silenced and beaten down. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

Some incredible nominative determinism is going on here:

Puberty Blockers Aren't Curing Gender Dysphoria. They're Manufacturing It. www.physiciansweekly.com/post/puberty...

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Meet the new boss Same as the old boss* * Only much angrier, because you killed his father. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well, that's the parsnips well and truly buttered.

Given what Donald Trump has done since receiving the very first FIFA Peace Prize, perhaps Gianni Infantino would like to consider awarding FIFA's inaugural I Can Keep Secrets trophy to the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

That's what we call irony.

Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop: In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table. Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission. She did not win a Nobel prize.

Adam is creepiness personified, busting in on Rex and Alice with all the respect and sensitivity of Donald Trump waltzing in to the Miss World contestants' changing rooms. #TheArchers

If you start from an affirmatory position, that a child is trapped in the wrong body, then hormones and surgeries are the inevitable approach. Children deserve a higher standard of thinking. Children deserve clinicians who think deeper about the issues the underpin distress.

Can confirm this is still a masterpiece, and I still had something in my eye at the end, but Anton Walbrook’s line about the gangsters putting the decent people in prison lands a little differently now

War is peace. Peace is war. Ending a war is starting a war. Starting a war is ending a war. It makes Orwell look prosaic.

Tracy: "Ooh Helen, you look all glowy!" Helen: That must be because finally I feel in control of my own destiny." Peak irony in #TheArchers

What a thread.

Meet Mackenzie Bly (not his real name; see back cover). I wanted to write something purely funny, but fell in love with my lead character along the way. It's out in August, but the lovely proofs, with cover by Jim Kay, have just arrived. Repost before tomorrow (Sun) evening, and I'll pick a winner.

Celebrating IWD 2026. The left ridicule the woman on the right because she is conservative. They praise the man on the left because he is a man who pretends to be a woman and gets away with it.

"You’ve been asking questions that have been causing some people harm and distress," O'Brien tells Winston Smith.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

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1. What he says 2. What he thinks it will look like