Interesting. Wine, then chocolate, now coffee seeing climate driven price increases
No time until this book is done! Looks like a fun one
Alison's work is awesome
You're also the sort of guy that might like to know that the 'Mad Parliament' of 1268 is not a contemporary name and may result from a corruption in the manuscript of the London chronicle (its source), where someone wrote 'insane' over 'insigne', meaning famous!
Love that this brief respite from absolute partisanship is being presented as coalition government. In that light, I'd call this the Frightened Parliament. Frightened by MTG and DT!
Saw this and thought of your endorsement. Hoping I will find some fruitful ideas for my introduction...
I finally read the whole thing, and it reminded me of a Twitter thread I had recently seen by a young person extolling McDonald's. The case was that it was cheap and quick. There's def something similar happening in food: people rebelling by conspicuously choosing to eat crap.
No. Year published?
Lol. But there is something about this world that gives great scope to the imagination.