“I’m Mandy, try me.” I accept only quite old people will get this one.

Call today purporting to be Barclays security, reporting possible fraudulent transactions. Checked app, confirmed fraudulent transactions. But they were being made by the caller. Damn nearly got me. Careful, people.

Former bar person here. Can confirm.

Fucking bougie of him to get someone in rather than putting it up himself

I’m assuming that “Aldi Expert” is some kind of lower tier influencer.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

God, you can just imagine him thinking the arresting officer was a stripper.

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Plus de trente ans après les faits, la néerlandaise Thysia Huisman raconte son viol dans la capitale, sa rencontre avec Jeffrey Epstein et dénonce un système organisé. Elle demande aujourd’hui aux enquêteurs français d’identifier tous les complices.

No idea what his excuse is, but I sometimes get a bit wistful because I’m one of the few left alive who can do sums in £sd. Let me tell you about guineas.

I listen regularly to the Word Service. It was useful about 20 years ago, but it’s hollowed out these days. Defend it if you like, but it needs both funding and clear editorial direction. No point in just giving it enough to carry on being rubbish.

No senior EU officials I've spoken to have a positive assessment of Rubio's speech. Not one

In the bit after covering Columbus and Davy Crockett Rubio’s speech seemed almost to regret Europe’s post-war retreat from empire. Something the then US administrations very much favoured. But going round the world helping yourself to things being the new black…

Alex Stubb on EU competitiveness - excellent "Economists look at crude GDP... but I look at our Gini coefficients.. & whether it's justice, least corrupt, open, welfare, environment, open media, gender equality.. I don't buy the argument we're doing bad. I'm actually bloody happy" MSC '26

A bit repetitive (editors, you need them) but interesting.

Post a banger not in English. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0v...

Have written about a week where the hypocrisy of much of the media was laid bare (and address mine). I also write about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of the Epstein connection but in a sense, because of it. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

“How do I make this about me?”

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

There should really be a Simon Jenkins award for stuff like this.

À demain mes chers amis <3

Been waiting with bated breath to see if ios call screening works. Ah yes, it’s a message from the pharmacy. Adds number to contacts… um it’s “unknown caller”, no number given. Scratches head.

Today is the third time Elon Musk has bought Twitter in four years.

Bless.

And there was me thinking I was the only one who thought Desperado was the best thing the Eagles did. apple.news/AgSe2jDWJSli...

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

Frozen five foot iguana falls out of tree. Whatcha gonna do?

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Uhhhh this file magically disappeared from the dump after being up for a while apparently

Post news conference Sky’s James Mathews remarks no journalist asked Trump about Epstein release. As they’re in the White House they probably haven’t seen them yet. On the subject of journalistic good practice, odd that James doesn’t find 30 seconds to note every single thing Trump said was a lie.

Stellantis still seems desperate to force an Abarth 600e on me. Checking small print, I see the offer applies to orders from 29.01.26 to 30.01.26. Um…

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

That noise you hear is the primal scream of millions of Minneapolitans.

Plumber turned up this morning to look at low pressure on central heating. After he left wife told me he’d said he looked the problem up on ChatGPT. We’re all doomed.

As an older tech person, it's legit heartwarming watching the TikTok generation discover why we all hate Oracle.

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

J’ai notamment vu ça de mes propres yeux à Donetsk en 2022, quand de nombreux hommes de la ville se planquaient pour ne pas être mobilisés par la Russie pour aller combattre l’Ukraine. Alors les femmes travaillaient et faisaient les courses pour deux.

Always read for sense before you push the button, Telegraph.

My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.

Exercise commanders had to ask 🇫🇮 reservists, the most formidable Arctic warriors, who were playing the role of invaders in the war games, to go easy on the Americans. “The Finns had to be told to stop beating the Americans as it was embarrassing and demoralising for them,” a mil source said.” 3/

Americans cannot fully comprehend the horror of what they have done by forcing the rest of Europe to concede that de Gaulle was correct

Four VCs for UK forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Two of them posthumous. An obvious question for his British admirers.

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Last week, Billy Long, Trump’s spectacularly unqualified nominee to serve as US ambassador to Iceland, “joked” about Iceland becoming the 52nd state. tinyurl.com/48js5d4p It’s a detail that seems newly relevant this morning.

What is happening here in Minnesota is a road map for both pro-democracy activists and Jack Booted Thugs.