A price cap: keep it under your hat!

Scottish National Party pledges ‘1970s-style’ food price cap Conservatives accuse Scotland’s main pro-independence party of trying to provoke constitutional row with Westminster

I think I owe it to the FT to post the actual article giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Scottish National Party pledges ‘1970s-style’ food price cap

Ooh luvverly! Powdered soup and Angel Delight!

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It’s Holy Week so out comes this old favourite. (Bach never fails.)

Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars in Europe Twelve tons of KitKat chocolate bars went missing in ​Europe last week after thieves ‌made off with the truck transporting them, Swiss food giant Nestle said on ​Saturday.

Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars in Europe, according to Reuters (whose picture research is not great: these were bars not cereal).

Who for? Surely no self-respecting European would want to eat such low grade so-called chocolate. www.reuters.com/business/thi...

"..a complete worked example of Google inventing itself a new fact about an important figure in Edinburgh local history, and people will believe it, because it is Google.."

Lord Mansfield’s magnificent magnolias (Kenwood)

He’s been locked out!

Sounds painful. Also a tad over the top, whatever your view of critics.

Ah those Great Replacement fears!

How are things here in Hot Take City?

Still keeping calm and carrying on?

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People are making a fuss about the posh car used by the police when arresting Andrew M-W but I assume it was because it had to be a Land Rover Defendant.

Now I'm waiting for a bad poem, McSweeney among the Nightingales.

Eheu. Hope no one was hurt. Angel / Goswell junction.

It is worrying. And I think aural/oral chat bots should self declare as such - in the same way warnings are issued that calls may be recorded “for training purposes”. (Training AI models presumably now)

L’age de pierre indeed!

We tried then on the porn site (X rated), but they didn’t reply.

The NS&I (not on here apparently) bot when you ring them is so clever it can even offer to transfer you to a human and then cut you off, just like a real human!

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Nice view, too (from Shinkansen)

We’ve been using all sorts of trains and they’re all wonderful.

What I want is the actual cat bus from My Neighbour Totoro

Another, more local, themed train (Takamatsu)

Naoshima is an island of art in the Seto sea, with museums and galleries dotted along the coast, and lots of outdoor art.

Spotted red pumpkin sculpture by Kusama

Notice requesting viewers not climb on the artwork

Well spotted - Kusama on Naoshima

If you haven’t been on the Hello Kitty bullet train you really haven’t lived

United States: Trump v BBC, a $10 billion “total loser” and a SLAPP? On 15 December 2025, President Donald Trump issued a claim for defamation and deceptive and unfair trade practices, [pdf] claiming damages of “not less than” $5 billion, interest, costs…

Helpful summary of trumped up libel claim against the Beeb, via Inforrm’s blog inforrm.org/2025/12/20/u...

Osaka, I have questions