Simon Jenkins next year?

That said is Wes really passing grade??

Heresy: TB was a passing grade candidate who was very lucky in his timing

Has there ever been another 9 year old who can sing like this tho? youtu.be/rujxXOmYLUU?...

The inclusion of the promise that "Russia will be invited to rejoin the G8" indicates that Putin *really* minded Russia being booted out of it. It's a deeply, deeply weird thing to include in a peace treaty.

Oh beautiful! From services to enforcement. Ours underwent a similar evolution from Immigration Service to Border Force

True, though la migra definitely sounds more visceral to me

To update Capote's line about Kerouac, that's not writing, that's texting

Something magical about how city grids persist through almost any degree of destruction

"As much as 30% of rank-and-file staff's communications with each other is via Signal"

I hadn't heard that, but it certainly makes sense as an explanation

They got to this point where they were masters of software that was dull but basically perfect. And then they tried to turn everything into a web app. And now nothing is the same from week to week and it's 50/50 whether outlook can find the mail server today

How did Microsoft products go from the Victorian cast iron engineering of software - dull and heavy but basically unbreakable - to this flaky and impermanent surrealism?