Jack Serle

Because Die Welt is not enough (HT Nick Mathiason)

Assistant Under Secretary for Linoleum.

The billionaire ‘buccaneer’ braving the Strait of Hormuz George Prokopiou’s Dynacom is one of the few legal operators willing to sail to and from the Gulf

There's something pleasingly nostalgic about a story on a Greek shipping magnate. Sort of feels like a tale out of its time, compared to the gauche tech-moguls of today. www.ft.com/content/dd34...

At first I thought the clock behind her was shouting "BOO". Turns out it's actually saying "Boo-urns".

Orbital pharma factories. Talk about low-hanging fruit. And with such a diverse array of regulators involved it cannot fail!

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Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

Note this is the jet route around Iran to the north

The true victims of this crisis. www.ft.com/content/80bf...

It's been a joy to follow the FT's coverage of all this.

Was this the big gaff up in Finsbury or did you do an embed in Benghazi in 2011 that completely passed us all by?

And there's fertile ground in Germany for readily Anglicised programmes without... the eggy bits. An homage to Jerome K Jerome with a train trip to Oberammergau for the passion play, for e.g. Or basically televise a Rhine Viking River Cruise.

“Describe Hegseth’s war effort in Iran in three words or less”

Still marvelling at the people who managed to get pretty close to Rockall and Tristan da Cunha

Thus far it's still somehow a less chaotic leadership rollout than Your Party.

After four months travelling around Asia, I'm back in Merrie England and back to work. Thanks to @zoetidman.bsky.social for holding the finance fort on HSJ news.

Pls get in touch with tips / coffee requests / ideas for what I should be looking into!

Think I'd have asked if I could have dialled in to this one.

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

a man in a suit and tie is looking at a cartoon of people holding hands in front of a rainbow and sun . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is looking at a cartoon of people holding hands in front of a rainbow and sun .

But can you imagine a world without crypto guys and UFC bros?

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Too many seasons, not enough slaves.

Great analogy.

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Good grief, Kilroy is 83!!!

Ooftah.

If the answer is "Toby Young" you're asking a question that should get you sectioned.

Trying to imagine a aloof and distant Italian character they'd be needed for. Maybe a aging Contessa living alone in faded opulence, her palazzo full of dust sheets and memories.

Is "the first US Civil War" a pessimistic statement or have I gone through life ignorant to _other_ US civil wars?

I have questions