Beautiful piece, thank you!

It’s tourist market haggling-level dealmaking

With today’s news, I had to check whether there are any Stone Roses tracks with a xylophone… there’s a B side called Something’s Burning that has a vibraphone - close enough.

RIP Mani - very much gone too soon

Heh it was actually a clearly-far-too-subtle point about noticing it was a satire from the six or so lines visible for free! But well noted Sonia!

Oh no… it says “my… faith in the good nature of billionaires” then fades into a paywall!

Wow this wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card

Wow brilliant, just found it! (Singapore - one of the most advanced nations in the world except where it comes to advertising events). Son’s birthday tomorrow but will see if I can make it

Are you doing a talk here??

This means all 37% of the UK population who are older than 50 (according to Google AI) plus at least 27% of those who weren’t yet born 50 years ago.