They're taking guidance from Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy. The appropriate "legal route" is hidden at the bottom of the deepest cellar beneath Parliament behind three kilometres of razor wire & a sign that says "Beware of the bear!"

Maybe you're right. Maybe there's a "there" there. But this interviewer wasn't going to find it. And it's also played-out territory with its own Wikipedia entry. What more do you think there is to learn? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_W... Feels like asking Simon or Garfunkel, what's the beef?

Maybe, or maybe he's just tired of the same questions? I can't speak for him, but I've been a journalist & done a few high profile interviews. There's a huge difference between having a plan going in, & randomly asking Qs. People who do interviews regularly can tell the difference. This felt random.

How many interviews do you think he does, & has done? 20 years ago it was obvious ownership was not relevant to Wikipedia, or of interest for discussion. It is clear this interviewer hadn't prepared. Should he waste his time, or go to the next interview where he can discuss something useful?

I interviewed Jimmy about 20 years ago in Cape Town and had a wonderful time. We discussed public knowledge & how to ensure representation by the global South in Wikipedia. I don't think "ownership" of Wikipedia even came up in passing. As he said, it's not important.

Farage & Johnson are hardly maverick outsiders. They're privileged members of the UK's ruling class, in a nation that delights in forelock-tugging.

We have perfectly valid ways for running clinical trials on products. They're making these claims. The onus should be on them to prove they're safe, & quantify the effect/benefit to an external auditor. If they can't pass an audit, then they shouldn't be permitted to go to market, secret or not.

Or that bigotry is a revolution that eats its children. Each of these victorious nincompoops arrogantly gave into the small-minded, anti-knowledge, bigoted obsessions of the British ruling class, & ruin has followed for everyone else.

You going for it?

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Chaplin was always right, we just lost sight of it for a very long time.

David Baltimore. I helped organise the Nelson Mandela Science Lecture where he spoke, & spent a lovely lunch interviewing him about his work to prepare media packs for local journalists to understand his importance. He was approachable, generous & kind.
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He won't have sex with any of them, so the toughest part will be getting viable semen out of his drug-addled body.