has any anti-brexit campaigner yet said, "i admit, things are not as bad as we said they would be"? (if that is indeed the case)

gripped by Lionel Barber's reading of his @ft diary 'the powerful and the damned' on Mark Kelso. now at the bit where he pitches marjorie scardino to oust andrew gowers. much i remember, much more that is new to me

"He immediately dispensed with coffee". A fine circumlocution for Norman Stone's manner of mid-morning refreshment theoldie.co.uk/article/leslie…

URL Lengthener …aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com

but what if you believe the vaccine contains a microchip which is *not* the sign of the beast? prri.org/research/qanon…

"privacy is an antiaccuracy value" harvardlawreview.org/2021/06/beware…

today's useful reading: the starbucks training manual studylib.net/doc/18652364/s…

Words whose first recorded use is by Chaucer, and which did not really catch on: "besmottered, corrumpable, displeasant, horsely, jangleress, necessarious, rete, withinforth" viviancook.uk/Words/Chaucers…

If you happen to be an @thebrowser subscriber, I've started publishing there my commonplace book of clippings and quotes from my daily reading: thebrowser.com/reader/

so of course, having read the table of contents, i went straight to page 439 governmentattic.org/39docs/NSAmili…

Is there any public figure whose diaries make us think better of them?

Who'd a thunk it? "It turned out Putin liked to see his food being shot! We later had a wild boar and a deer from the barbecue!!" alastaircampbell.org/2022/04/specia…

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music dustri.org/b/horrible-edg…

⁦tylercowen⁩ "Considering that it predates the Bank of Ireland and the State itself, it could even be said that Guinness is the longest-running successful large institution in Ireland" thefitzwilliam.com/p/no-great-sta…

Every time we praise Norman Borlaug for improving the most lives in human history, we should remember to blame Thomas Midgley for blighting the most lives in human history. Excellent podcast by Tim Harford timharford.com/articles/cauti…

Here is your flying car thechinaproject.com/2022/12/05/ele…

I enjoyed David Bentley Hart's essay about writing, and Robert Cottrell's response, so much that I wrote a rant about why Orwell's rules for writing are such total crap. Exit Orwell, pursued by a gigantic hound. commonreader.substack.com/p/exit-orwell-…

did this used to be called a googlewhack? "draft kine", as in cattle used for plowing, returns one result on google — albeit followed by a long tail of AI garbage and of "draft" and "kine" used adjacently with different meanings

Not at all how I imagined Yevgeny Prigozhin's business partner [svetskyspb.ru/files/issues/m…]

This photograph has acquired a new salience, no?