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Always worth remembering that Matty has never had a job. Twenty-five years of takes, all based on instinct rather than insight, with the insight borrowed from policy admin types rather than *people who actually do the job*.

He must have published about three million words in that time, and nobody – not even Matty – has willingly read a single one of them twice.

Another fantastic edition of How To Spend It this week, where you can buy these 1 kilo dumb-bells (in limestone, travertine and marble) for a mere $10,995. Each. ft.com/content/f0689d…

Goodbye and fuck you.

You mean like Brendan O’Neill?

Today in great FT headlines:

Once again we must ask ourselves: are the cartoonists okay?

Watched the first episode of the new Lena Dunham thing (not good) and was amazed that they’d found someone who looks so much like Emily Ratajkowski to play the, uh, Emily Ratajkowski role, and it didn’t hit me till the end that there was an obvious reason they look so similar.

oh no

All of us shoneens, more like.

Fucking hell, Edith.

I like windfarms better than I like misty moors, but if Simon organises a synchronised Kate Bush dance in protest, I’m all in.

Really noticeable how corporate sponsors of Pride withdrew their money at the first opportunity. There might be a larger lesson here about how Mastercard is not in fact a queer ally, but on the other hand it does hit visibility and inclusion very hard in the short term.