He was holding it when he got off the plane. I bet myself that he was going to put it on for the solemnities.
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He was holding it when he got off the plane. I bet myself that he was going to put it on for the solemnities.
Jay: I only wrote this for three people. The editor of the Times, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank of England.
Peter Jay had a point.
Download advice on feeding newborns to teens
Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
No idea why people are asking this as he actually invaded it and kidnapped the Shah.
Telegraph ruminates on Trump’s imaginary Gulf insurance plans. Lloyd’s rolls eyes.
A Betteridge, methinks.
Magee announced what was to become The Register without telling me first. I mailed him:
Fuck, you mad bastard.
Then thought:
Fuck you, mad bastard.
And finally:
Fuck you mad, bastard.
True story.
Used to drink with a Lloyd’s guy who said he parked all the bad stuff with Gadaffi’s Mediterranean Re (state reinsurance outfit) because they didn’t know what they were doing. I see an opportunity for Lloyd’s here.
A promo image used on Facebook to advertise the "Unite the clans rally" being organised by far-right groups. The background is an apparently AI-generated image of a Braveheart-esque group of kilted freedom fighters, with the largest figure in the centre holding a shield with a distorted version of the Saltire on it, which has somehow grown an extra leg and become a giant white on blue asterisk.
I'm not saying the white supremacist neo-Nazis organising the "Unite the clans" rally on 21st March are morons whose knowledge of Scottish patriotism stretches no further than typing a prompt into an AI image generator, but I am loving the brave warrior holding the St Andrew's Asterisk shield here.
General Richard Shirreff just called Trump and Hegseth “a couple of gung-ho nutters. (Sky News)
Amused at Trump saying ‘We’re not dealing with Winston Churchill’ about Starmer. No, if you were dealing with Winston Churchill we’d have already have been fighting a war for two years before your lot even turned up, you scabby orange dough ball
comic by political cartoonist Gary Varvel depicting a man hearing about Greece sending ships to defend Cyprus from the Persians while turning his calendar and discovering the year is 499 BCE.
Telegraph headline claims Macron planning to deploy nuclear weapons to UK
He didn’t say this, the article doesn’t say this, Telegraph subs you are bad people.
In a previous life I wrote about Lloyd’s of London overreacting to a US war risks warning in the gulf. The warning was for a short period rather than the market’s interpretation of it as ongoing. Despite this, the Iran-Iraq war broke out shortly afterwards. Oops.
The Temeraire? Well, I suppose we don’t have one on the books anymore (see illustration).
🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 A bombshell? Not quite but President Macron went further than expected this afternoon in announcing progress towards a strengthened “European dimension” for France’s nuclear deterrent. 1/
If anyone wants to read any of my significantly-longer-than-700-words takes on electricity prices, here are a couple of recent efforts.
Maybe the real challenge is to do a 700 word version....
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/is-gas-...
www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-ene...
Two boats, one broke down on the way. Very Florida.
It wanted to start a SubStack after redundancy!? Lads, you've successfully simulated a middle-aged journalist.
Grim Reaper with the 1920s Warner Bros logo (looking suspiciously like Michigan J Frog) knocks on the door of Oracle, while doors labeled with the previous Warner acquisitions have bloody trails leading from them
Live, laugh, loam.
“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.
A dreadful pub it was too.
Former bar person here. Can confirm.
Fucking bougie of him to get someone in rather than putting it up himself
Ten things you should always buy at Aldi according to an Aldi Expert
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
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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