Astonishingly this is only the 2nd stupidest thing I’ve heard today.
the suggestion that children would be upset by soup being thrown on a painting is laughable. And suggests that Judge Chris Hehir has never met any children.
This is ridiculous. A judge has sentenced an activist who threw tomato soup in the National Gallery to two years in jail. The same judge decided not to jail a policeman who gave a drunk woman a lift in his patrol car, then had sexual contact with her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw tomato soup over Van's Gogh's piece.
If they'd worked for the BBC and had downloaded child porn, they'd be celebrating in the pub about now
A reminder that the Stansilav Petrov story is both more complex and more terrifying than people think. I did a full deep dive into it, but importantly WHY the USSR was at launch-on-warning (which is what would have caused catastrophe) many years ago. medium.com/lapsed-histo...
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved…
Oh I don’t need roads… This lovely moonlight is so bright I can’t possibly get lost
It’s a shame Elon Musk wasn’t around in the 1930s to debate Hitler. I’m not saying it would have changed anything, I just think they’d have really got on.
I hope not because, coincidentally, I’ve gone for a lovely walk on the moors.
If this dude worked as a wine waiter, it was at Pizza Hut.
Bissouma is a liability tonight. Not just that last bit - that’s been coming, though.