Bragging again?

Well, I'm amazed Wendy Erskine's The Benefactors isn't on the Women's Prize shortlist. It's just out in PB so I'd recommend reading it if you haven't already.

Nurse! He’s escaped again!

Congratulations, Rob! Looking forward to reading it (again! Differently!)

Rapidly followed by a flu epidemic that killed far more people than the war had

"Finer Things" by David Wharton. (And not, as autocorrect wanted, "Finger Things". That would be an entirely different book.)

Having a clear-out and just stumbled upon this, by @wharton1965.bsky.social. Really enjoyed this, and it might be due for a re-read. Recommended.

Adults should be banned from the internet.
The govt know this will make no difference - it’s just to stop the HoL wrecking more important legislation.
It’s not worth an argument - but everyone with a smartphone - 🙋‍♂️ - has to wade in with why it’s all the fault of Brexit or Palantir or something.

If the new Apple CEO isn’t just the brain of the old CEO uploaded into an AI robot, wtf have they been banging on about the last few years?

That would be … illegal?

… having pretty much disappeared from view for decades

Interesting, too? That the guy who does the debunking (Burt) is nonetheless the one responsible for conducting the tests - because he’s a junior research assistant, and has no choice. Which may say something about how this crap is still around 60 years later…

'I did not have cognitive relations with that vetting process'

The Master of Go

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

Strong toddler energy

Hamnet-era mourning jewel from celebrated painting rediscovered after 400 years Exclusive: pendant appears in 1635 painting Sir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of His Wife that hangs in the Manchester Art Gallery

“Hamnet-era”

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Spoil the rod, don’t spare the horses

In a rational world - and possibly even in this one- this statement would exclude Palantir from any public procurement process

Magical thinking all the way down

We asked one individual who returned to steal from the Brixton store on multiple occasions what he was doing with all the food he was taking. "I'll sell this stuff to my social worker," he said.

Not, it’s fair to say, the answer I was expecting

(Reporting on shoplifting T Greggs from London Centric)

Back garden apple tree awash with blossom

They say you shouldn’t count your Coxes until they’re in the basket, but October’s looking good

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar…

Evening, all

I’ll make the flowers myself, said Jesus

Frictionmaxxing, innit.
Keep up, lads

👍

Yeah I’m not sure this hospital* would approve

*visiting, not suffering

this did just give me a blinding flash that there's gonna be a Slow Horses novel about this disaster though and that's gonna be an absolute blast

😢

Top gear for the bottom impersonator