Focus on effort, not outcomes. It’s insane to tie your wellbeing to things outside of your control, Marcus Aurelius said. If you did your best, if you gave it your all, if you acted with your best judgment—that's a win…regardless of whether it’s a good or bad outcome.

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Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove ran the Covid PPE lanes, while Rishi Sunak rubber stamped every payment.

Given the £14.9bn in fraud they should all be in jail.

RP if you agree.

7 questions to ask every day:

1. Is this in my control?
2. Is this necessary?
3. What's the worst case? Am I prepared?
4. Where can I do better?
5. What habit bonfires am I fueling?
6. How can I make the best of this?
7. (When people irritate you) When have I acted like that?

The Ghosts of Christmas past #AdventCalendar - Day 1.
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2 girls stand by their 17ft snowman in Aberdeen, Scotland 1962.
Image: Popperfoto

Truth!

Paris to Berlin - €49.99
London to Manchester - €324.36

Guess which train journey is 4x longer?

Ben Stiller says there's no shot
#TropicThunder gets made today

"in this environment, edgier comedy is just harder to do .. the idea of Robert playing that character who's playing an African American character ... incredibly dicey. Even at the time ... it was dicey too"

(via Collider)

#OtD 24 Nov 1995 French workers took part in a massive general strike against welfare and pension reforms. Part of a movement which lasted from October to December, they were eventually able to force the government to scrap its pension plans stories.workingclasshistory....

#OtD 24 Nov 1942 Scottish comedian and former shipyard apprentice, Billy Connolly, was born. He was involved in the apprentices strikes on the Clyde shipyards in the 1960s, striking alongside future Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, among others stories.workingclasshistory....

The problem with Margaret Thatcher is that she was a scumbag who looted the UK for her Neo-Conservative buddies, and she gave some crumbs to cover it up.

In her 11 years in charge she sold enough national assets to fund the NHS for 50 years.

What did you get?

A discount council house, at most.

Reform UK, what they say and what they do.