The comments to this piece on line are mostly eviscerating, but the man in the big tower wants it this way.

Gotta reap what you sow.

Indeed it was. Sort of.

The Editor’s Picks: Tony Gallagher, editor of @thetimes.com, really likes a diet of unadulterated junk, doesn’t he?

The splendour of Amin Taha/Groupwork’s 15 Clerkenwell Close. Which Islington Council, who approved much of the garbage on City Road, tried to get demolished. Twice.

Quarter-Millennial.

Any particular reason the picture shows Hornton St in Kensington?

the actor Jean Marsh, who has recently died, stands on a county lane in a 1961 portrait by photographer Brian Shuel

Jean Marsh has died at the age of 90. Brian Shuel's 1961 photograph of the actor hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery and is one of the most striking images in the collection

Presumably Musk’s companies own a ton of patents that can now be exploited by anybody in the world at will?

One for Zoot Money fans there.

Making Retirement Plans for Nigel.

"I saw some graffiti the other day - YANKS GO HOME. Yeah, like Ronald Reagan's gonna be walking down Guildford High Street and see that and go, 'Oh! OK then'."
- Alexei Sayle, 1984

"What Starmer needs to do - a long thread"
- ledges of social media, 2025

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Excellent.

"I'm the man who broke the bank at Mar A Lago..."

Lewisham’s Riverdale Centre, ten thousand years ago. sites.gold.ac.uk/inlivingmemo...

The man himself, turning restlessly in Kensal Green.

WH becomes TG, Smith becomes Jones. My guess is that it’s the internal code word they were using when they were planning the deal, and no one could be arsed to come up with anything better.

My guess is that it was the code name they used for the deal, and they couldn’t be bothered to come up with anything better.

Maybe I’m too old and cynical, but I’ll believe it when I see it…!

WH Smith himself is not available for comment.

Had to be a placeholder brand - switch Smith for Jones and slightly alter the initials. If the business survives in any form at all, it will need to be rebranded and reengineered once the new owners or their successors have figured out a strategy.

The day of the cackle.

"Trump Is Amazing He Just Can't Tell Us Why!" is the most Bezos era WaPo headline of all Bezos era WaPo headlines. #WaPo #WashingtonPost

They went from "democracy dies in the dark" to "somebody turn out the lights."

Very droll from The Critic magazine.

Sunshine at Brompton.

And in similar vein (I’ll stop now):

Found it.