Far from obvious to me that the natural lawyers would win a bullet-biting contest. They’ve defended slavery, wars of conquest, wars of extermination, on condition they’re divinely authorised, the permissibility of perpetual torment, and wife beating.

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

Recommend you continue not to, then, but perhaps be less rude about the people whose preferences differ

This is absolutely wrong-headed nonsense. Rural and regional hospitals - not just in Australia - have far worse treatment success rates than major hospitals in cities, because cities are overwhelmingly where experienced medical staff want to live and work

We can't. We've tried multiple times since Foundation and nobody wants it. The people who live in the country don't want their towns to become a metropolis and the people who live in major cities don't want to live in the country. The only partial success is Canberra and that's not repeatable

yeah, that’s right, albeit with caveat that i think x is worse than 4chan. you take the atmosphere of a particularly nasty 4chan subboard and then scale it up to a website where heads of state and ceos of leading corps all post

A sign advertising coconut water except coconut is abbreviated to "cnut"

I didn't realise you could get tides in coconut water.

🎶 Stalin with a nose ring I know, I know it's serious

As a couple of people noted yesterday, it is probably better if these fuckos are thugs for cash being paid by Iran than if they are authentically motivated by Jew-hate

how /do/ you believe in popularism in a world in which electorates /have/ in fact affirmatively voted to Kill The Unperson? i'm personally not so unhinged

I once arrived at LCY 15 minutes *after* my flight's scheduled departure time and somehow still made it on board

Reform said they would pay my energy bills. They haven't Residents of winning street in Nigel Farage's fuel giveaway stunt complain they have missed out on prize

In "bears crap in the woods" news.

I also

Wild that Idris is both a Welsh and a Muslim name with very similar connotations and as far as anyone has ever been able to make out it's entirely coincidental en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(....

Minor thing but one which is just breathtakingly ignorant in a professional writer and ruins the narrative - calling a knight by their surname. No, you can't call him Sir Elba, what the fuck is wrong with you, either reject titles and call him Mr Elba or accept them and call him Sir Idris!

That's too much fighting honestly

The thing about the right is, they want to be able to attack their opponents as if politics were an existential battle of good versus evil they are on the right side of, but demand to be treated by them as if politics were a good faith disagreement among gentlemen about optimising the tax code.

"I'll absolutely back you if you promise to bring HS2 back to Manchester"

Man alleges racial bias after Huntingdon train stabbing arrest A 35-year-old, who was released with no further action, has gone to the police watchdog.

This guy's complaint sounds pretty solid! (cops: "a black guy in his 30s did crimes, let's nick the black guy in his 30s") www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tweet from Adrian Bott (@Cavalorn): Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares; / Aleister Crowley is falling down stairs.

...or just this, which is shorter, and surely unimprovable

"Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose, because I'm not a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn"

The stock market’s new approach to valuation It is demonstrating an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (ebitda) mentality

Check out my latest column for @financialtimes.com:

The S&P 500 keeps rising...the market appears to be adopting an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (EBITDA) approach: as.ft.com/r/d23a0e69-d...

Ahahaha beautiful

In RAIB's defence, the point of the sentence is setting up the argument for building better workplace counselling/escalation systems; it's honestly hard not to sound like Mr Spock when writing about human factors in technical reports

[Paragraph 91] Human performance can be affected by emotions.

New favourite sentence from an accident investigation report

Neighbours vow to keep fighting plans to turn allotments into graves The London council agreed to bulldoze the 120-year-old allotments to expand a local cemetery in December

Have both parties not considered the benefits of shared use? The mulching would be extraordinary.

It’s very weird how little this is brought up, not least because “they’re planned by deniable assets of a foreign government” does suggest somewhat less terrifying things about British society than that this is a spontaneous wave of grassroots ethnic violence

A pair of gloves with the name Weed Master Bamboo

Man, and I thought I knew all the members of wu tang