If someone comes up with a ‘Thucydides Trap’ analogy we can pinpoint it exactly.

Elon Musk: da nine books that everyone should read are
9) Brainology: The Secret Science of Ensmartification
8) Numbers: What Numerals Get Wrong about Integers
7) Future Time Now: How Silicon Valley Makes Yesterday's Present into Tomorrow's Past

Actually the Moore/O’Neill take on Jimmy Bond might be worth a try.

I mean, it’s clear that Bond pioneered the multiverse idea long before those interminable Marvel films.

…raises an eyebrow, says "I guess he just stopped for a quick bite”, gets in the car and embarks on another complex chase sequence that’s ended by him being blown up by an anti-tank missile wielded by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who raises an eyebrow…

A belated reaction to the fact that they’d run out of ‘authentic’ titles?

You should have the decency to wrap it in a Harry Potter dust jacket.

That’s a fair description of a reasonable proportion of their one-off contributions…

There is a pretty consistent pattern whereby their regular writers are consistently excellent and the one-off contributions are frequently rubbish.

I like properly punctuated sentences, even in less formal contexts.

…and I was promised the chance to talk about Thucydides and Corcyra, and more should have been said about the *desire* for apocalyptic breakdown. Basically we needed at least another half hour, and rather less nonsense about UK public debt levels. But great fun overall.

I feel a little distressed to think that I may be upsetting some people by using full stops in text messages, but have no intention of changing.