Le Professeur sporting the radioactive zebra kit 20 years before it was released Arsène Wenger, he’s done it again.

"a toolmaker, how interesting"

Indian moms just unlocked a new character to compare their sons to

Etymology of the day is ‘tawdry’, meaning cheap, sordid, or in poor taste. It began as ‘St Audrey’s lace’: ribbons worn as necklaces to honour a 7th-century saint of Ely. Thanks to their often shoddy quality, ‘tawdry laces’ became linked to cheap or disreputable behaviour.

the script is starting to jump the shark

🚨 Lord John Browne, the former chief executive of BP, has called for an end to new drilling licences in the North Sea, in an implicit endorsement of the Labour party’s position on fossil fuels.  Financial Times ft.com/content/f5f2d5…

Abstract Failure would make a good French existentialist novel.

Important information about Victoria Starmer in the Times

Maryam Moshiri was supposed to say “habitat” but her autocue said “habit”, so she followed it up with “I’m Rob Burgundy” (via Nathan Chard)

.Guinness Ireland becomes official beer of the Premier League Long associated with rugby via its Six Nations tie-up, Guinness has inked its first global partnership in football marketingweek.com/guinness-premi…

We should probably all be writing to our friends like Proust

Pfizer’s gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy fails in phase 3 trial statnews.com/2024/06/12/pfi… via Jason Mast $PFE $SRPT

Born 96 years ago #Today, John Nash was the game theorist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics and was portrayed by Russell Crowe in 'A Beautiful Mind'. This is his recommendation letter, possibly the best ever

“It’s not about rabbits out the hat, it’s not about pantomime, we’ve had that. I’m running as a candidate to be Prime Minister, not a candidate to run the circus” Someone call an ambulance for Beth Rigby. That was a brilliant comeback.

Never write off the Germans

Where are all the whimsical men? Where are the chimney sweeps? Where are the men who skip along and click their heels in the air? Why is every man a consultant now?

"We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” said a senior military officer involved in the program. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud."

Taylor Swift concerts influencing monetary policy will never not be amusing to me. TD on UK inflation:

Oh.