Ukridge is possibly the hardest note to strike. Love all of this.
January 29, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Ukridge is possibly the hardest note to strike. Love all of this.
And then if they need a different one on record at each end? Obviously the USA pulls rank, but as between UK and Schengen, say?
January 29, 2026 at 9:24 AM
And then if they need a different one on record at each end? Obviously the USA pulls rank, but as between UK and Schengen, say?
Airlines or Eurostar ask for your passport when booking. Which do you give?
January 29, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Airlines or Eurostar ask for your passport when booking. Which do you give?
By absolute numbers the main purpose for dashboards is things to knock up in hackathons, closely followed by projects to give to new joiners while they get up to speed. The supply of dashboards vastly exceeds demand.
January 29, 2026 at 7:07 AM
By absolute numbers the main purpose for dashboards is things to knock up in hackathons, closely followed by projects to give to new joiners while they get up to speed. The supply of dashboards vastly exceeds demand.
Go _was_ hard. The current technology all descends from the Go player in a way it doesn't from the chess machines.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Go _was_ hard. The current technology all descends from the Go player in a way it doesn't from the chess machines.
Conan Doyle was a proper South Londoner and lived on a bus route in South Norwood, an area of down-at-heel Victorian sprawl so bleak as to be parodic, though no doubt his house would have been less grimly incongruous before all the twentieth-century infill.
January 25, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Conan Doyle was a proper South Londoner and lived on a bus route in South Norwood, an area of down-at-heel Victorian sprawl so bleak as to be parodic, though no doubt his house would have been less grimly incongruous before all the twentieth-century infill.
Your mom's so fat she's got a spanning basis.
January 24, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Your mom's so fat she's got a spanning basis.
With his antecedents, when he says "globalists" you might assume he means the international cabal of shadowy Jewish scapegoats, rather than anyone who actually exists.
January 24, 2026 at 10:12 AM
With his antecedents, when he says "globalists" you might assume he means the international cabal of shadowy Jewish scapegoats, rather than anyone who actually exists.
I think you mean, it _does_ matter?
January 23, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I think you mean, it _does_ matter?
UK Trident's wartime value to the US deterrent is its independent chain of command. Otherwise a mad, dead or nobbled President would be a single point of failure. A mad President in peacetime wasn't planned for.
January 23, 2026 at 1:57 PM
UK Trident's wartime value to the US deterrent is its independent chain of command. Otherwise a mad, dead or nobbled President would be a single point of failure. A mad President in peacetime wasn't planned for.
One nasty problem only Starmer faces is Trident. The programme is founded on the inconceivability of UK and US interests diverging radically, and if that fails we have wasted a huge amount of money - and will need to spend vastly more, very fast, on conventional forces to make our defence credible.
January 23, 2026 at 1:51 PM
One nasty problem only Starmer faces is Trident. The programme is founded on the inconceivability of UK and US interests diverging radically, and if that fails we have wasted a huge amount of money - and will need to spend vastly more, very fast, on conventional forces to make our defence credible.
Well, what multi-billion-dollar capital investment in sensitive fragile high technology would _you_ propose for the buffer zone? There aren't many options. My idea was for uranium separation centrifuges, but they're not buzzwordy enough just now.
January 23, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Well, what multi-billion-dollar capital investment in sensitive fragile high technology would _you_ propose for the buffer zone? There aren't many options. My idea was for uranium separation centrifuges, but they're not buzzwordy enough just now.
It doesn't show in our Gini index because the rich who have nicked all our productivity gains live elsewhere. The rich who live in London have nicked other countries' natural resources, per 300-year-old tradition.
January 23, 2026 at 7:33 AM
It doesn't show in our Gini index because the rich who have nicked all our productivity gains live elsewhere. The rich who live in London have nicked other countries' natural resources, per 300-year-old tradition.
Actually I'm not so sure. Deleted.
January 22, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Actually I'm not so sure. Deleted.
Beef with 'erbs tastes better than beef without 'erbs, obviously. Also, the French have 80% nuclear electricity and are famously not short of sexiness. What tosh these people do write.
January 22, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Beef with 'erbs tastes better than beef without 'erbs, obviously. Also, the French have 80% nuclear electricity and are famously not short of sexiness. What tosh these people do write.
For that matter, he could get the Nobel prize at the end of his presidency, if he plays nicely.
January 22, 2026 at 11:28 AM
For that matter, he could get the Nobel prize at the end of his presidency, if he plays nicely.
The sport consists of a 50m sprint followed by a lifetime of neurological damage.
January 22, 2026 at 9:19 AM
The sport consists of a 50m sprint followed by a lifetime of neurological damage.
NB this should not be taken as advocacy of economic warfare against the Kingdom of Denmark in any other context.
January 22, 2026 at 9:07 AM
NB this should not be taken as advocacy of economic warfare against the Kingdom of Denmark in any other context.
You know how DFDS used to offer an all-you-can-eat Danish cold table on the ferry to Denmark? And how it cost about £2 for under-15s? And how they stopped sailing that route because it was losing money? <taps chest>
January 22, 2026 at 9:05 AM
You know how DFDS used to offer an all-you-can-eat Danish cold table on the ferry to Denmark? And how it cost about £2 for under-15s? And how they stopped sailing that route because it was losing money? <taps chest>
Otoh the brand new surface on Lambeth Bridge presents a sufficient contrast between the main carriageway (beautifully smooth) and the cycle path (juddery juddery juddery) that I choose the road. It's perfectly possible to lay cyclepaths flat, with a bit of care.
January 21, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Otoh the brand new surface on Lambeth Bridge presents a sufficient contrast between the main carriageway (beautifully smooth) and the cycle path (juddery juddery juddery) that I choose the road. It's perfectly possible to lay cyclepaths flat, with a bit of care.
Their grief is as nothing to that of the government statistician whose regional data series are all broken at once.
January 20, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Their grief is as nothing to that of the government statistician whose regional data series are all broken at once.