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The other element that every World Cup requires: Brazilians
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The other element that every World Cup requires: Brazilians
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
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🇷🇼 Premier League leaders Arsenal will end their partnership deal with Rwanda at the end of this season, the African country's development board announced on Wednesday.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Ha ha. AI has come for the management consultants. Little sympathy youtu.be/-c4CNB80SRc?...
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Ha ha. AI has come for the management consultants. Little sympathy youtu.be/-c4CNB80SRc?...
Reurm Novarum On the Condiction of the Working Classes www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Reurm Novarum On the Condiction of the Working Classes www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
The Gunners have reached such a level of expertise, they even scored from a Burnley long throw
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The Gunners have reached such a level of expertise, they even scored from a Burnley long throw
Must get my solid stick umbrella fixed…
A couple of weeks ago, Trump struggled with a broken umbrella as he boarded Air Force One.
Let me tell you how we got to this point — and the tragic downfall of the noble umbrella. 🧵
Let me tell you how we got to this point — and the tragic downfall of the noble umbrella. 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Must get my solid stick umbrella fixed…
Hear hear
Bring back small phones! This is my iphone 13 mini. It is a perfectly-sized phone. But it's going to die - in a few years, Apple will stop supporting it w/updates. Yet there are now NO new smartphones to buy on the market that fit the human hand. www.ft.com/content/6332...
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hear hear
Union shenanigans make the national press. Catnip for the baby politicos. The shame is it just continues at Westminster.
Oxford Union president-elect’s latest own goal.
✍️ Steerpike
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Oxford Union president-elect's latest own goal
Something of a nightmare is gripping the city of dreaming spires. Over at the Oxford Union – the supposed nursery of our nation’s leaders – the new Union president-elect is making headlines for...
www.spectator.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Union shenanigans make the national press. Catnip for the baby politicos. The shame is it just continues at Westminster.
Disgusting
CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
October 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Disgusting
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‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Paul Laity · After Martha
For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
‘All doctors get things wrong. What matters hugely to families in our position is that they have the courage and humility to admit to these mistakes. If they do, it transforms the way you feel about a clinician.’
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@paullaity.bsky.social on his daughter Martha’s death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I love this print
Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵
IG msviciousdesign
IG msviciousdesign
September 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I love this print
“Nothing as profoundly stupid and insidious as telling the players to not take Tylenol because that makes them more injury prone, or something.”
September 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
“Nothing as profoundly stupid and insidious as telling the players to not take Tylenol because that makes them more injury prone, or something.”
“I suspect everyone will be told to lose weight, and if you smoke you will be told to stop smoking – and that will be in your data so that advice isn’t going to change remarkably”
New AI tool can predict a person’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases, say experts
New AI tool can predict a person’s risk of more than 1,000 diseases, say experts
Delphi-2M uses diagnoses, ‘medical events’ and lifestyle factors to create forecasts for next decade and beyond
Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that can predict your personal risk of more than 1,000 diseases, and forecast changes in health a decade in advance.
The generative AI tool was custom-built by experts from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the German Cancer Research Centre and the University of Copenhagen, using algorithmic concepts similar to those used in large language models (LLMs). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“I suspect everyone will be told to lose weight, and if you smoke you will be told to stop smoking – and that will be in your data so that advice isn’t going to change remarkably”
What has taken the place of the austere values of the nobility, he (the Viscount of Ayala) says, is their “pursuit of money”.
I *loved* working on this story: what do Spain’s aristocrats think now Rafael Nadal (as the new Marquess of Llevant de Mallorca) has become one of them? on.ft.com/47o4byZ
Rafael Nadal’s elevation to the aristocracy prompts Spanish nobles to reconsider their future
With the retired tennis player a newly minted marquess, the country’s titled class realises it must adapt to modern values
on.ft.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
What has taken the place of the austere values of the nobility, he (the Viscount of Ayala) says, is their “pursuit of money”.
Is this apropos a certain announcement?
You need a prenup, even if it’s uncomfortable to talk about on.ft.com/3HTvLK3 | opinion
You need a prenup, even if it’s uncomfortable to talk about
Agreements before marriage can protect a family’s wealth, including its business, on divorce
on.ft.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Is this apropos a certain announcement?
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This is a truly excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social
Face it guys, you have to pay the doctors
www.ft.com/content/e263...
Face it guys, you have to pay the doctors
www.ft.com/content/e263...
Britain’s medical exodus is a warning sign for the NHS
Doctors are increasingly prepared to travel abroad in search of better pay and conditions
www.ft.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This is a truly excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social
Face it guys, you have to pay the doctors
www.ft.com/content/e263...
Face it guys, you have to pay the doctors
www.ft.com/content/e263...
What did the Tories ever do for us?
Restoring the university constituencies was Tory policy in 1951 and never accomplished.
July 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What did the Tories ever do for us?
Zohran Mamdani is like Kamala Harris and Obama: children of post independence, ex-empire academics who went to the USA to study. Which will no longer happen with the restrictions on foreign students’ visas, drying up a talent pipeline.
June 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Zohran Mamdani is like Kamala Harris and Obama: children of post independence, ex-empire academics who went to the USA to study. Which will no longer happen with the restrictions on foreign students’ visas, drying up a talent pipeline.
“Once you ‘tune up’ your ear, as Al Pacino puts it in the film, these are ‘not fancy words’.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Bee Wilson · Where could I emote? Looking for Al Pacino
Knowing that the question Al Pacino was asking himself as an actor, from a young age, was ‘where could I emote?’...
www.lrb.co.uk
June 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“Once you ‘tune up’ your ear, as Al Pacino puts it in the film, these are ‘not fancy words’.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Shocking
US Senator Alex Padilla was wrestled to ground after raising questions during US Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem's press conference, in a dramatic escalation of tensions in California. www.ft.com/content/93f1...
June 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Shocking
Has Walthamstow won the Cup?
I'm afraid the question has been asked and now you must choose: Should you live in Walthamstow or Crystal Palace? on.ft.com/43WcS0d
Walthamstow vs Crystal Palace: buyers on opposing sides of London’s north-south divide
[FREE TO READ] Eighteen miles and the river Thames separate the two neighbourhoods but both vie for a similar breed of buyer in the capital, and they are driving prices up
on.ft.com
June 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Has Walthamstow won the Cup?
Trip down memory lane. Thank you.
I spent many years on a menswear forum with Michael Anton, director of policy planning in Trump's administration. My editors asked if I'd be interested in writing something on him. I have so many stories to tell; this is only a small bit of our shared menswear world
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Michael Anton Was a Menswear Writer — And He Hated Trump’s Fashion
A dive into the weird world of StyleForum reveals the secrets of “conservative business dress.”
www.politico.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Trip down memory lane. Thank you.