Babe wake up Giscardpunk is finally here

This is not the airport, which is a train station in Nanchang China🇨🇳

Having said all the above, I’m not enamoured of this English version. My view doesn’t weigh much since I don’t know German (a shame as it’s my single-favourite language to listen to, and I like looking at it too). But I find the phrasing at times clanging and bathetic. E.g.:

Third Worldism might be the most contemptible ideology going. All losers. No vision beyond bitching about richer countries, and blaming them for their own self-inflicted disasters

You literally can ‘arrest [y]our way out of the problem’. There are numerous examples where this works; most recently El Salvador joined the example list. How do these people square away these real-world examples like Singapore in their heads?

The things I have to put up with…

Do you have a favourite? Three rows down, centre is mine.

I really like that one of the examples given of a ‘top’ artist is a ‘Turner prize ­nominee’. So… axiomatically not top then.

His hair's turned white overnight like Leland Palmer

Find it interesting how easily entertained I am by people doing different accents (or celebrity impressions). Enjoyed this, for example.

Looks like much of England is covered in tiberium.

My favourite – by far – of Wagner’s leitmotifs is the one for Siegfried. Here is the famous Solti recording of the variation which plays near the start of Scene II, Act I, of Götterdämmerung (“Wer ist Gibichs Sohn?”), which is my favourite version of it. Heroic, n'est-ce pas?

The voice behind cinema’s greatest villain. Rest In Peace James Earl Jones (1931 - 2024)

He’s in seventeen fast and furious movies but learned nothing about family

A trip to Dominic Cummings’ Twitter page shows a banner displaying three interesting and very effective people: Pitt the Younger, Lee Kuan Yew, and (of course) Nayib Bukele. Quite enjoy too that the editing is appalling. Look at the blue and white boundaries…