Five minutes to complain to BBC.

Done.

Kierkegaard* talks of being in the fear and trembling of an actual decision not an in your head luxury debate.

Real case study of that

*read about, not read.

Also the joyous discovery that you have to figure out how to make the book good at least as hard fourth time round.

BTW if I am anything to go by "I probably won't ever have kids" theory turned into "I will die for this particular kid" practice very quickly

The Privy Council obviously only contains people who keep secrets - like Boris and Liz ... ... ...and John Stonehouse

Yes, I see that now you point it out.

My favourite story about people being rude about diplomats

The inventor was Wheatstone who created lots of useful things including the concertina and important stuff on telegraphy. The cipher is usually called Playfair after its populariser.

I know what you meant, I am showing how ludicrous the position you disagree was. Sorry I was unclear.

This is exactly the kind of policy that should be left to headteachers, who know what will work best for their own school (and almost all have strict curbs on phones anyway). But the government wants the headline.

Ah the skills of diplomats.

An inventor went to Palmerston with a good cipher system. Palmerston said, poopoo, too complicated and the man replied "I could take ten schoolboys and have them expert in half an hour." Palmerston said, 'I'm sure, but we're dealing with attaches, not children.

So when someone collapses on a London bus and so many people try to help they trip over each other, that's abnormal? Or when my wife or I had a buggy on the Tube, you never had to wait long before an offer of help...

If "kindness you receive is contrary to the human spirit," yet I literally am an eternal optimist and always have been (despite being born with a disability and having seen the best/and worst, of humanity) I must just really be an anomaly.

German harder than French? Anyone with a view. (I know some French but little German. The pesky neuter grammatical gender?)

Is German harder than French? I'm afraid no experience of the former.

You're free to not agree the new terms and conditions, Dave. Of course, you'll have to leave the ship.

You're free to not agree the new terms and conditions, Dave. Of course, you'll have to leave the ship.

I'm sorry Dave, I really need you to agree to these new terms and conditions.

Made me thing even more of the logistics and shop workers who kept us fed and the transport staff who kept things moving.

Not having a go but five days a week during lockdown I got on a Tube then a bus, walked past supermarkets that were open, to go to a hospital that was still saving lives, delivering babies, and some other useful things, as a senior manager expected to be in.

Some of us were at our station.

What if Gregor Samsa had always felt he was a bug in a mammal's body

'safe for who?'
Can you sell the opposition newspaper outside the government building?

Famously Mussolini did not make the trains run on time. He just made it a bad idea to complain the trains did not run on time.

I think we can trust the sun but

sideeye that pesky atmosphere. Very treacherous.

Famously Mussolini did not make the trains run on time. He just made it a bad idea to complain the trains did not run on time.

Probably counts as engineered but I considered a frozen soap bubble.

In my experience when I asked for a book which met all three criteria, people would offer a book which met one at best, and be extraordinarily pissy when I pointed this out. And the moderator said I shouldn't be snarky because people were trying to help.

Or an 1880s bicycle could easily beat this robot.

I'd love to read something in a format other than Twitter posts from him on this; "the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized" is a banger.

oh my god all this.

no argument here