It was the obvious gap in my set of first editions. My wife kindly bought it for my 50th birthday.

For some reason, Anti-Ice remains on my TBR pile, despite having read almost everything else on these shelves. Will be interested to hear what you think of it.

I'm hoping he's still alive when the ballroom is demolished but hope is slim as I'm sure he'll die in office, sometime in the 2030s.

I've been haunting the BB website hoping to order one of these but it's not listed anywhere. Have they all been snapped up?

RFK Jr must be very confused that someone who has received his annual flu and COVID-19 boosters can have such a clean bill of health.

Ohhh hellllow, I see a fellow @nickabbot.bsky.social listener?

Me want!

I find it almost quaint that you have such faith in the institutions of the US. IMO, it's a given that, if he's still alive, the tangerine toddler will still be in the Whitehouse way beyond noon on 20 Jan 2029. Can you give me some hope that I'm wrong, please. (Phil from Ipswich)

I admit I'd have to dip into it again to remember it. I can't always immediately recall a story from a title. But I don't recall not liking any of Adam R's books or Alastair R's.

Almost snap!

Yes. I linked it from a paper I've drafted for the age-restricted content workshop, see philarcher.org/diary/2025/w.... I'll submit that as is before the deadline unless I have feedback to the contrary. I almost certainly can't go to the workshop, which is a pain.

I did a double take when I heard that too. Yesterday. Or was it earlier today. Or maybe I'll hear it again tomorrow? Cue @nickabbot.bsky.social's blubblubblabberblabber sfx

Bother. Looks like I missed it.

As a Brit, I can only concur with this obvious truth.