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Ian Wacogne
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Husband, dad, paediatrician, ex-editor, CCIO Ride a bike too. Take your pick. Don't like these opinions? I've got plenty of others.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thinking again of the scene at the end of the movie "Toys" where the general is kept safe and happy in his bed by having a circular conveyor of toy soldiers run by him that he can endlessly salute...
this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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For fucks sake
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The recycling begins...
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It's Black Friday?
If only advertisers had thought to send me dozens of similar emails.
I'd never have known...
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
It must be so deeply worrying for the US medical and scientific establishment at the moment. Like watching a car crash.
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Cardboard advent calendars are so much better than chocolate advent calendars. I didn't even like chocolate advent calendars as a kid. Give me some fantastic artwork of a robin and I'll a small square of shite chocolate some other time, thanks.
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I reckon you could dump me in a decade and I'd be able to work out the approximate date based on the veggie option on menus.
90s - lasagne
00s - nut roast
10s - risotto

If I go to a good place I get choice paralysis because I've got so used to "Oh, the veggie option"
It's like going back in time 20 years. Pub menus, for very highly rated pubs, with only one vegetarian main course (the least imaginative thing on the list). The world is changing. Diets are changing, and eating meat can't still be the default. Catch up!
* yes, not all pubs, but still most of them.
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This isn't a daft idea to be honest, although the international sign up will be the kicker!
However, from experience with Easter, holidays that always coincide with weekends still need folk to work...
Christmas Day should always be the Thursday of December that falls from 24th to 30th. That way, St Stephen's Day / Boxing Day is the Friday and you get the weekend as well. This year will prove me right when you all have 4-5 days off together and use no holidays.
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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It is genuinely staggering that there isn't mandatory software in cars/phones to prevent drivers from looking at their fucking phone screens and/or texting while driving. It's something I see every day from almost all drivers and it's a largely unacknowledged disgrace.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I've not moved to the right in my politics but I am getting a bit worried by how often I hear some of the Tory elder statesmen making more sense than nearly everyone else..
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The irony is that some things don't need any editing to be awful.
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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All I'm saying is, what if during a colossal cost of living fiasco, every supermarket entered an unprecedented pact to completely sack off ALL Christmas advertising, and instead put the collective £400m (more? Less? Who knows) into giving millions of households a free Christmas 'big shop'.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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You should lose your licence after 6 points, rather than the current 12. You should also have to take your test again to get it back after the ban ends. We've got too many shit drivers on the roads, this might go some way to getting rid of them.
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I have the one on the left proudly on my wall.
Buy one. You know you'll love it.
Available with real or fake swearing!

The fake swearing is in the form of 'grawlix', which is a great word for something familiar, if you are unaware of it.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Damn. RIP the absolute titan of British acting that was Prunella Scales.

I wrote this Fawlty Towers short story a while back as a tribute to her performance in it.

Shared in her memory.
No Pasarán
Some debts you can never repay Terry stepped out of the kitchen door into the cold, winter air. It was dawn. The sun was slowly rising over Torquay, casting beams of fresh sunlight across the façade o...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Emily was no help
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I'm not sure if I truly prefer my pasta al dente or I'm just a bit impatient.
October 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)

by Richard Horton

bit.ly/3IPC0PD
October 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM