Just met the Queen of Malta

Dogs, demand a bowl of barf today!

New cherry blossoms chart just dropped

Anyone else had that sore throat thing that feels like swallowing a cocktail of razor blades and barbed wire with a dusting of broken glass?

Have a go at The Economist's mildly festive cryptic crossword, produced by many visible hands: www.economist.com/interactive/...

"Let's get the early flight–at least we'll have the whole day there"

A lot of Ctrl+F going on at the moment

It's quite fitting that all I can manage after last night's office party is to stare at this mesmerising list of booze-related slang words www.economist.com/interactive/...

High jinks on yesterday's edition of the Insider www.economist.com/insider/the-...

A couple of hours left to make the epidemiologist in your life happy this Christmas www.etsy.com/uk/shop/3DAr...

My review of Chris Dalla Riva's excellent book, Uncharted Territory - What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves www.economist.com/culture/2025...

A really nice—and surprising—chart from Amanda Shendruk's excellent newsletter, Not-Ship www.not-ship.com/when-do-most...

Well, which is it??

What the Democrats can learn from the UK Labour Party's complete implosion after moving right on immigration www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...

Can't believe I only just twigged where this is from

Trump's approval has rebounded a little in this week's update of our tracker www.economist.com/interactive/...

Obviously inspired by this

“No less an authority than the United Kingdom’s former Prime Minister, Liz Truss” That’s a real sentence that someone wrote, which made it into Trump’s legal filing.

The Guardian crossword setter has had it with Michelle Mone

There's still time for Snow at Christmas 3dartmaps.etsy.com

Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

Is it called Evri because you're waiting in every day for it to arrive?

Best cathedral in town

'Tis the season

Correlation is not causation. Well, not always. www.economist.com/business/202...

The kid's assessment of how much GCSE revision she needs to do is brutally honest

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

Very pleased with my Christmas present to myself - a 3D map of Cholera deaths in London. Available here: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Students can bet thousands on their peers. What could go wrong? www.economist.com/united-state...

Etsy is leaving money on the table by not charging a VAT processing delivery transaction regulatory operating payment fee

You Must Cancel America

Depends how you pronounce it

Not sure what's harder to parse, the picture or the headline

yesss, just what substack needed

Chickens have quadrupled in size too... www.economist.com/internationa...

I've cornered the "sad dad" market www.spotify.com/wrapped-shar...

I would love to know about the temperature control in the room in which Hegseth watched that first strike

Show this to anyone who thinks everyone used to die at 40

TIL that a "dashboard" was originally a wooden or leather board at the front of a carriage to keep mud off the driver. When cars came along, it was a good place to put the dials and gauges the driver would need to keep an eye on

It's decoration-retrieval-injury weekend

Made with plane flour

Hagueseth

This is cool. Cloudflare generates random numbers for encryption by taking a photo of a wall of lava lamps and converting the image to a number www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

Almost anything can be treated as a map. Projections, charts, and diagrams are all ways of flattening the world so we can understand. But the real magic happens when we enjoy those maps together. MAPS FOR KIDS is here! Let's meet our three maps: visionarypress.com/pages/maps-f...

This is unbelievably wrong: "Someone who has invested £1,000 a year in an average stocks and shares ISA every year since 1999 would be £50,000 better off today if they'd put that same money [realises mistake but doesn't correct it] into a cash ISA".

Someone archived the mistakenly-uploaded-then-deleted budget in case you can't wait another 90 seconds web.archive.org/web/20251126...

The budget's not working for me, is anyone getting anything from the budget?

Did they forget the second part of "pump and dump"? finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-f...