I didn’t, sorry!

No, I hadn't! That's brilliant.

Kerching!

NB:

I've been looking into this further and the guide price is £7,500.

I was told Hersheys tastes the way it does (ie horrible) because they have to make it in such a way that it will neither freeze in Alaska nor melt in New Mexico.

Well it’s definitely pricier - starting price is £7.5K.

So it is! So I’m guessing you couldn’t take it away and put it in your back garden?

Perfect for the anti-social single diner.

Spotted this on my walk this morning. Any takers? Since it’s in Chelsea they’re probably selling it as living accommodation.

You're very kind, thank you!

Perhaps she should start with The Dwarves of Death - after that, things can only get better.

Enjoy! (Your holiday, that is.)

Great, will look out for that, thanks.

One of the first writers I ever interviewed for the Guardian, during which he came out with a line that I still like to quote: 'The great thing about fiction is that it's like some covert CIA operation - it's all ultimately deniable.'

The brilliant result in Hungary makes the pessimist in me think MAGA will look at it and become even more determined not to allow free and fair elections to happen in the US.

Conferences organised by well-funded rightwing think tanks are a theme of my last novel, but of course the figurehead eulogised by one drunken character as 'Scrodger Luton' and 'Lodger Scrotum' is - like the fictional British prime minister 'Liz Truss' - merely a product of my fevered imagination.

Seems incredible in retrospect that Bill's musical collaborator on The Goodies was Michael Gibbs, one of the most cerebral and challenging modern jazz composers. Almost as if Benny Hill got Schoenberg to do an arrangement of Yakety Sax for him.

Amazing, I can imagine him rocking the Roger Moore-era James Bond look.

Very good.

Exterior of a branch of Scruton, the Budapest cafe chain named after the British right-wing philosopher Roger Scruton.

Re: my last RT, I think we should all take a moment to reflect on how very bizarre it is that this chain of cafés came into being in Orban's Budapest.

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain.

For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Ha! Let’s start a crowdfunder to get him to come here and campaign for Farage in 2029.

Thank you Jenny, that's really lovely to hear. One of the reasons the film version is struggling to get financed is execs saying that young people have never heard of Billy Wilder and wouldn't be interested in him. (Ironic given the subject of the book!)

Why is everyone suddenly watching Dodsworth?

(I watched it a couple of nights ago, and thought it was great.)

"Art of The Deal" 🙄

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Apparently this position now has to be stated, and not just assumed.

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

Unfortunately both these people are real human beings.

Exhibit B, this guy who thinks that Armageddon is preferable to trans visibility.