Human Cannonball from LAT... Paul Leary's guitar playing - one of my favourite pieces of music of all time.

100%. At 1.5, we're way below a sustainable birthrate (2.1). I suppose if you take the long view, depopulating the country will eventually fix the housing problem.

Readers will probably complain that future books about this fail to convincingly explain why it happened. We're living through it and I still can't even begin to explain it.

The US' marquee foreign policy objective now is to placate Putin at any cost.

Looks stuff from a montage in future documentary about the AI-driven market crash.

Nothing wrong with this as long as our president doesn't start both-sidesing Ukraine-Russia etc

Concern for the well-being of the "country's soul" is a bit of a red flag.

That cousin interview was the weirdest I have seen this year.

Everyone down the pub is going on about the left wing NGOs.

Looks like a guy who sells loose vape cartridges from the back of a car.

In fairness to Kelly he's been consistently opposed to Catherine Connolly since Aug and made this clear to me when I voiced my own objections about her candidacy.

These people literally look like AI slop

Seems inevitable there will be follow up interviews with the homeowners on the other side of this bank work.

Sovereign states arming to defend themselves is bad while private individuals tooling up to commit acts of terror is apparently fine.

On the other hand, one of the three candidates shared a stage with George Galloway, went to Syria with Wallace and Daly, and enthusiastically supported their European runs AFTER they had spent 2 years trying to prevent Ukraine getting military aid. That matters.

The guff that folks like Ezra Klein are puking out (because obviously, maintaining a respectful silence is out) all reads like the Tony Parsehole column in Viz.

I don't know how someone like Marianna Spring can work with Webb.