A few years ago, my dinner table sat empty because we were all waiting for the last guest. Finally, he came in and said: “Sorry, I’m late. When you go through a divorce, everything takes longer, like figuring out which house your daughter’s sweater is in. And traffic is rough.”

Rewatching Lost in Translation on Prime. Hard to believe it is 22 years old, but simultaneously captures a time and place gone forever. Hard to feel a sense of isolation in the Tokyo of today..

We have gained thousands of new followers overnight. We give you all a soothing Icelandic waterfall to calm down. This is Dynjandi.

“My plan is to smash the establishment by recruiting millionaire ex-Tories who used MPs’ expenses to heat their stables.”

If you’re from North Korea, do get in touch and tell me which games you’ve applied for, and how you’re getting to the World Cup. I want to follow your journey.

I think this is absolutely wonderful — Shakespeare and Sir Ian McKellen putting the case for decency and kindness and civilised standards in a world full of anger and brutality.

On the 30th anniversary of the first Super Bowl (XXX in Tempe AZ) I attended and worked on with an amazing IMG/TWI, Crawford Comm, NFL, and Channel 4 crew, I’m enjoying the LX edition live on a plane ✈️ Thank you #MySport24, #SingaporeAirlines #NFL

Japan's Olympic Committee is taking a very serious stance against online slander targeting its athletes: They have a special team who have identified and requested the takedown of about 2,000 slanderous online posts. They've also got lawyers ready to sue.

Get paid to talk to me about it sneakers. 👉

It’s the charity single almost nobody asked for, and even fewer would publicly admit to supporting, but in the warped theatre of Westminster, you suspect a few on the Labour side might. Here’s Keir, Mandy and Andy with “Free Peter Mandelson.” {Satire / parody}

For various boring reasons we have to say that these are Hugh Grant’s views not ours, and that we definitely haven’t printed his post out and put it in a little frame on our desk

The situation with the Iranian women's football seeking asylum in Australia has brought back memories of a similar incident when more than 40 Hungarian athletes and officials defected after the 1956 The Olympic Games in Melbourne to avoid having to return to a country occupied by Soviet

青森で撮ったガソリンスタンド。エドワード・ホッパーの絵のようで好き。

To most people, the town of Stenhousemuir is little more than a funny-sounding name they'll have heard on the Saturday classified football results. Few will give it a second thought. However, its origin makes for one of the most intriguing place-names in Scotland. 1/n

🚨 $220K. 3 months. No PhD. No gatekeeping. Perplexity's Research Residency is hunting brilliant minds from ANY field: physics, cogsci, quant finance, math, philosophy + more. Bring your unique brain. We'll bring compute, mentorship & mission. Rolling apps. SF/Palo Alto. Visa

In 2002, Quentin Tarantino, one of the most influential film directors in the world, walked into a secondhand clothing store in Tokyo, Japan. A track was playing over the speakers. He asked the man behind the counter if he could buy the CD right then and there. The man refused.

Hi Daily Mail your “journalist” Perkin Amalaraj has taken this story from a report in the Kathmandu Post. The language is slightly different as it’s been re-written as a summary, but the details aren’t. You’ve ripped off the investigative work of a modest newspaper in Nepal and

This is excellent

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

Superb piece from my #CarnegieAsia teammate Matt Sheehan on why Chinese leaders and AI policymakers are becoming increasingly concerned about impacts on employment. "Over the past two years, worries about AI displacing workers and leading to structural unemployment have shot up