On a catamaran sea trip (ostensibly on holiday with family) and it’s playing some cheery upbeat music for the tourists……and on comes Enola Gay. Hmmm.

“Neurodiversity advocates can romanticise autism. While many with mild forms of autism might lead relatively ‘normal’ daily lives with little or no assistance, many who are more severely affected cannot function properly without round-the-clock care

I can absolutely believe this happened: despite being a conspiracist disowned by his own family, Kennedy’s surname has real power. This could’ve been a disaster for Biden.

Donald Trump boasted he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without hurting his popularity. Even he knew you can’t shoot a dog.

Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Was indirectly reminded by Kate today of this piece I wrote about trying out the metaverse, which is the only time in my whole career (so far) I have named the commissioning editor in an article I’ve written, because I hated it so much. theneweuropean.co.uk/meta-metaverse…

More on the Greenpeace International-driven Philippines court decision stopping the government-approved use of Golden Rice...

I did spend a good chunk of last week saying that I didn’t think the coverage of Truss’s book would translate to sales, and…voila.

Still, if her advance actually was £1,500 she’s probably earned about £700 in additional royalties now.

This line is ice cold

Less than two years ago, the future of the internet was the metaverse

I appreciate that we’ve moved on from reporting that the Republican candidate for president fell asleep in the courtroom during his criminal trial again to analyzing the quality of his snoozes.

The sugar thing is extremely under-discussed among British ex-pats out there even among ourselves because there’s basically absolutely nothing you can do about it, the American palate is just calibrated *way* sweeter than the European one.

This will quite possibly be awful and I will watch it at least four times.

This kind of secrecy always seems self-defeating to me: the answer is never as bad as the speculation.

The ‘fun’ thing here is you could run this exact headline and picture combination as praise of the Met’s restrained policing, supporting free expression.