If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history: The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

no idea who made this but it’s genius

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

Ich auch Duolingo, Ich auch.

Following you down the antimacassar rabbit hole: the chair protectors were so called after Rowland's Macassar Oil, a hair oil made of imperial plant products, chiefly coconut and palm oil. Its exotic name evoked the Indonesian port of Makassar, then in the Dutch East Indies. Just look at this ad!

A new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship. But they *really* don't like the Gulf of America thing. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

#SaveThePCC Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease. For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below; you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it

4.45pm this evening the #London suburb of Muswell Hill

Utterly brilliant

Not the most memorable number

Sunday bun day

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

Behold Sutekh, Lord of Death

I made a “bring back National Service” joke only yesterday.

what's the best email you've ever received? i'll go first.

I quite like the idea that the Garrick lads had to have an emergency meeting about admitting women and someone was all, "Ok, how about... hmm... ok, who are like the main seven or so women?"

Vinyl records and air fryers: two things people Will Not Shut Up About if they own them. Now in an inflation basket near you. www.ft.com/content/1754...

Asked who he would be trying to appeal to at the election Mr Rowntree responded "ALLLLLLLLL THE PEOPLE" [I'll get my coat]

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2024 will mark the 20th anniversary of this great British masterpiece. If you’ve ever fancied revisiting it I can heartily recommend the magnificent audiobook, read by the never less than wonderful Simon Prebble.

saying things about bitcoin on the internet while female, a visual guide (on.ft.com/3RDwL72)

Home from a few days away. Look how excited she is to see me.