Given how USA-phile the Tory right are, I had to check whether that was the English/British civil war, or the American one! Glad I did, actually, as the article was interesting.
Really important and frightening perspective - how close the US could be to electing someone with clear cognitive decline in addition to his populist divisiveness. Subhead: "The former presidentās verbal decline and random meanderings are shrugged off as just more of the same." (May be paywalled.)
I thought of Jasper Fforde as well. Reminiscent of his recent-ish novel The Constant Rabbit.
Happy workiversary! And enjoy your extra 5 days leave.
Itās all very well to rag on Truss, but she prevented Boris Johnson from being the Prime Minister during Queen Elizabeth IIās funeral, something he clearly wanted so much, more than e.g. any of his marriages or children, and that makes him sad. For that a grateful nation must thank her forever.
It's widely believed that Margaret Thatcher once said something like "A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure". A quick google suggests that Thatcher didn't actually say this, but could this anti-bus idea be some kind of Maggie cosplay by Badenoch?
If you think the British take queueing seriously, you haven't been in London Euston station when, often less than 10 minutes, before departure, the train platform is announced. The sprint for the platform is really unpleasant.
Even Galadriel is Welsh now.
I think itās not aimed at Jews. Itās aimed at people who: a) hate Muslims and believe (antisemitically) that all Jews do too b) feel (antisemitically) that they are kind of the same as Jews because their culture taught them (antisemitically) that Christianity has superseded Judaism
It was obvious for some time that Rosie Duffield hated Keir Starmer and was likely to quit Labour. Quitting the party two months after being re-elected just looks cynical.