I think I'm right when I say that Michael Faraday published just 19 papers in his life.

Pencil case in hand luggage with pens, eraser, pencils...

And a pair of compasses with a three (3) mm long sharp point.

Paxo would have been good. And even (God help us) John Humphrys would have given him a run for his money.

China has a vile repressive government. But that government contains many engineers who can count. It's perhaps unsurprising that the fate of the planet now relies upon its oldest, most powerful, and most sophisticated continuous civilisation.

And to an upper-class person the evening meal is supper, unless it's black-tie, whereupon it becomes dinner.

I once heard an Earl say of a Rolls Royce, "Scrap merchant's car."

The Earl, of course, drove an old Morris Minor.

You can't get more working class than, "I the 80s my Dad had a Rolls Royce."

Women can fake their class, up or down. Men can only fake down.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with money. Rich people at the bottom especially resent this. Poor people at the top are largely indifferent to this, but that's only because people at the top are largely indifferent to everything.

Every British person knows the class of another British person a second or two after they meet them and can unerringly place them above or below themselves in the ranking.

No AI could learn this skill. A non-British person would have to live here for at least three decades to learn it.

From The Slow Horses: "Going for a Donald"

For the simple reason that mere observation has allowed her to know Musk better than his own introspection allows him to know himself.

Read out loud; put commas where you pause.

Except that aspect is peripheral. The main point is the change it makes to humanity, except for a tiny number who are immune. The body-snatcher bit is a mere device.

Last time passenger aircraft flew at that altitude was around 100 years ago...