They man a lot of news-desks, but I know what you mean.

A die with 7 faces. Hmm.

Ici Paris. "Bring down" the European project? It doesn't feel very "brought down" from here.

Well that, genuinely without a word of jest, is exactly the mentality of it.

The world is in a sad state when somebody like J. D. Vance is actually the *preferred* negotiator on behalf of his country.

In answer to your most burning question, Linux (of course) ... although you have to read quite far down the text to find out.

No, he'd be on TV yelling that it was Biden's fault.

He's been told that by people who have spent a day with him.

It was definitely written entirely by him, for the first time in a while.

Ah... You young 'uns...

For grown-ups, BTS appears to be a reference to some sort of musical act originating in South Korea. It took me a few minutes of research to get there, after initially wondering why the New York Times was interesting itself in the Bangalore Transport Service.

A trap that a master strategist such as yourself would never fall into.

Has anyone else noticed that with your reading specs off, 'Peter Thiel' looks exactly like 'Peter Thief'? Just sayin'.

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A thing I did with the excellent Jenny Kleeman for the OffGrid festival. It’s mostly about my beloved & deeply personal second book, How Not To Be Wrong, which sadly got a bit swamped by the pandemic.
Just in case 16 hours a week of me isn’t enough…
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I hear lamentions that the USA lacks a Plan B. How ridiculous. Better to start by lamenting the lack of a Plan A.

To put this another way, "Russia slams 'EU warmongers' for not getting involved in a war." We're happy to be "slammed" for not doing something Putin wants.

"Worst regards." 😀 Nice. I'm going to nick that.

Catch '26.

If 100% of Iran's military capability has now been destroyed, then the missiles, drones and mines are clearly non-military in nature and nothing to be feared. Good. Problem solved. No other countries involved.

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The world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nuts The president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care?

"Ah."

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Former political prisoner Nasrin Parvaz reads a letter to Keir Starmer signed by more than 100 pro-democracy, pro-justice and anti-war British-Iranians, including other former Evin detainees Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Aras Amiri. Full list of signatories is at togetherforiran.org

This possibly? (I speak as someone with little better to do before 10 o'clock.)

Someone will no doubt rustle up a bespoke emoji for you. Bit beyond my capabilities, I'm afraid.

So something in the room doesn't lie.

Well they're just as sunk.

They haven't thought any of this out. Simple. Occam's razor.

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*Tsk* Let's keep it in-house, James.
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