Did we do this just to spite the Yanks?

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

That the Russian & Chinese states are deeply embedded in influencing foreign elections online & have been doing so for at least 30 years. They're not even doing it well, it's just the systems in place to protect Western democracies are particularly shoddy. Also, Amol Rajan is a Russian asset.

To be fair: that principle is well established in the UK for private equity owners of companies providing public services (e.g. water and sewage, children’s homes etc).

How that Pension industry faring with the pensions dashboard?

I recall being shocked how little time with lecturers £30k purchases.

There was a Comms job going at Downing St recently and I talked myself out of applying, mostly down to imposter syndrome. I needn't have worried.

Imagine how much happier everyone would be if Lords had gone with Harvey's (who already supply the AMEX).

New sexuality just dropped

My right eye is now back online, tree pollen must be subsiding.

One of the few things I’ve learned about women, is that the ability to make restaurant salads (Caprese, Caesar, Chopped) on request, at home is one of the surefire ways to their hearts.

A woman has walked into the pub and asked if they sell pre-made sauces. They naturally said ‘no - it’s a pub’. She says ‘that’s just silly, there should be a shop here that sells these things’. There’s a huge Tesco one street away.

If anything, Watts unrelenting twattery made me a more resolute cask drinker.

Every time my pension get anywhere near £100k, the political Right sends along its latest ‘Angel of Economic Death’; a Truss or a Trump and back down the snake it trundles.

So I've had severe hayfever in one eye for 48 hours.

The most shame you will ever feel as British tourist these days is seeing the State Pension 'bros' taking their copy of the Sunday Express down the streets of Pattaya where they're going a to find a woman who is 'happy' with an accompanying oxygen tank.

I mean this might have an impact if Niles Crane was President.

That Smirnoff Ad is fantastically awful, really, really puts you off the product. Sound work.

Just ordered the people’s Sri Lankan.

What if international diplomacy is not an elegant, high art in which careful webs of agreement are spun from soft power? What if it is just two groups of self-important fundamentalist imbeciles screaming "SELF NUT PUNCH!" as they whack themselves as hard as they can in the Strait of Hormuz?

There’s a Bass shortage according to IFT Director Peter Harrison. All while he evidently can't write a letter, and quite literally, can't organise a piss up in a brewery.

I winked at someone today at the opportune time and I felt like that here James Coburn.

Josh, you’re 9 pints and 6 double whisky’s in.. what is to be? The dawn is far off, so what will you fill those small hours with? Well: open.spotify.com/track/6RfLyB...

Europe to America

I honest to God don’t know what most of you are thinking about most of the time, if not your favourite dinosaurs.

‘We’ve bounced back!’

The Pope should call a crusade, but let's face it, the majority of American cities already look like they've been sacked.

It is, of course, a coincidence that Tice has made his fortune in commercial property management

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

My prediction Jeff? One-of-a-kind specialist production staff let go, middle management strangely retained.

Dunno who needs to hear it but the Holodomor was very much a genocide perpetrated by Stalin on behalf of the Soviet version of the Russian Empire against the Ukrainian nation. Half the replies seem to think it didn't happen.

I remember going to the States for the first time aged 11 and asking if we could go to the 'candy store' in Princeton to get some sweets, picking up a Hershey's unwrapping it, taking a bite - I said nothing handed it to my mother who also tried it and promptly threw it in the bin.

The Navy alone now has 134 Admirals running 18 odd boats. Suspect that warrants a look at.

'Not Pictured:- Stationary 1996 Renault 5 (untaxed), formerly used as reception room and staff accommodation. Sold as separate lot, with outline planning for conversation to one bedroom dwelling. Guide price expected of £475,000.'

I remember when I arrived at Sussex Downs 6th Form, about half the students had been to Lewes Grammar (I had not) & honestly they were more well-to-do than people I have subsequently met who attended 'brand name' private schools. On the plus side, it did force me to become a lot cleverer, faster.

Can’t get on with Rooster, feels moments from schmaltz at all time. That’s probably on me.

I think a great many people at the time pointed out that it was a ‘perfect’ Conservative policy because that was its very intention. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning to all my fellow Jews.

I’m always fascinated by people who smoke skunk at about 8.00 in the morning - you’re that stressed already?

I just feel sorry for that poor fucking kid.

Protip: never use the word “final” in a file name. The gods do not like it.

If you're a fan of The Telegraph's unhinged culture war columns, you're going to love Axel Springer.

'A good time to get into Human Misery Futures.' US bank results: JPMorgan profits surge to $16.5bn in second-best quarter on record - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

This continues to be a serious issue, and not just in the UK - it first started 2 years ago and still doesn't seem to have broken out past BBC Radio Four & The Guardian in terms of awareness. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh my God I think I actually stayed at this hotel - if it's the Valentia Cabillers. I can vouch that it's 'perfectly nice'.

Find someone who loves you as much as a Senior Sales Managers on LinkedIn love liking photos of blonde female students graduating.

Whichever way you imagine this to have come about, it's hilarious. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Totally unsuspicious behaviour.

Is there any company that isn't making massive layoffs? Incredible the unemployment numbers are what they are.