Jerome

Can confirm men set the bar so low that rising even slightly above it can put one head and shoulders above the rest

Please exit ‘the Middle East’ in a calm and orderly manner

Forced to use AI at work, hate it. Usage is monitored so I can't avoid it. I've set up mine to play a Sim City clone. It burns through tokens, making crap cities that quickly go bankrupt. Just been told that I'm getting a bonus for being a top user.

Really wish Matt Godwin had a book to promote - we could watch him eat another one.

Hoping Khan can manage to have the same transformational impact on London that Mayor Hidalgo has had on Paris

Mandelson sowing: This is an FT obsession and you can all fuck off

Mandelson reaping: what the hell!?

I can’t ever see the words PS Vita and not hear it in the voice of Kevin Spacey as Francis Urqhuart asking in his Georgian drawl - ‘is that a PS Vita?’ in a shameless bit of ‘subtle’ product placement in House of Cards.

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

Good for them honestly

Good for them honestly

Translation: please buy and use our AI products we spent too much money

The best yet

‘That bursary was just resting in my account’

Thanks Martin, I follow a lot of Americans but it seems to be a new quirk of theirs too!

When did everyone start saying ‘over their/your skis’ never heard before and now I’m seeing it everywhere (on Bluesky)

Everything I know about Matthew Yglesias is against my will

OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me YouTube video by More Perfect Union

@edzitron.com I’m sure you’re all over everything Sam the Clam is up to - but thought this might be of interest youtu.be/qnOmUWd-OII?...

I don’t think it does. Malfoy and Snape are essentially Ethel Harrow and Ms Hardbroom

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

"For The Homeland is not 'The State' or even 'The Country.' The Homeland is not defined by simple geography."

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Excellent stuff. Another unintended consequence of failing to make an ‘example’ of Minnesota is that the resistance movement has created an applicable blueprint for others. And the inter community links created as part of that movement can be much more easily marshalled at the ballot box

I heartily recommend anyone who once loved HP and considered themselves a fan to listen to The Shrieking Shack. It’s a re-read podcast that both deconstructs the texts but also the fandom then and now. Funny and affirming particularly after JKR’s descent

I think long term, the abolition of forfeiture is going to be as significant as ground rent being capped and tapering off to zero

I have no love for leasehold but flats being held as common hold wouldn’t have prevented a lot of the issues that arose from the Grenfell fire, I.e lessees finding themselves in dangerous blocks or with unsellable homes

What replaces that feudal anachronism?

I will admit these photos do make it seem like I kicked the baby offstage

Second to none - except the USA