Threadbare. In cities like NYC, it approximates European transport, though is somewhat more dysfunctional. Elsewhere, you have things like “commuter rail” (like a regio/S-bahn, only with next to no off-peak service, running solely as a shuttle between CBDs and dormitory suburbs). There’s Amtrak, but it’s slow and infrequent and runs on tracks owned by freight railroads, and often is delayed by hours from waiting for freight trains to pass. Bus services have a stigma, associating them with poor (and typically non-white) people, to the point where people who have a choice avoid them, and vote to minimise the amount of their tax money that goes to pay for them. And in some Republican states, the government has scrapped even buses, replacing them with Uber vouchers mailed to households.

So yes, DB is creaking and needs investment to bring it up to scratch, but its service levels (even when wracked by delays) are utopian compared to most of the US.

“Adrenaline-style policing”: new policing methodology just dropped. What are the pros and cons of it versus, say, Peelian community policing?

Every country has its Big Balls.

If the US dumps NATO, that’s all the more reason to increase defence funding. Either that or start learning Russian.

You love to see it.

If you’re going to name a cat that, adopt two and name the other Weed or something.

He gave his name to the sin of swaggarcy, of diverting church funds to pay for sex.

Isn’t Spain’s left-wing government on the ropes with a corruption scandal, and likely to be replaced by a hard-right government soon?

When faced with the choice of good relations with the EU (including funding and cooperation) and standing with Putin, Magyar may, unlike Orban, make the pragmatic choice.

Hungary should follow Slovakia’s proposal and leave NATO.

He’s probably a highly decorated special forces veteran, chosen specifically for the honour.

The full swathe from Art Nouveau/Jugendstil through Art Deco/Moderne and Bauhaus functionalism through to 1950s modernism. If I had to be more specific, I’d focus on British interwar modernism.

Krasnov’s job is to deliver a Russian victory, while making it look to be in spite of US efforts

Given that Ireland is in the EU customs zone, how’s this going to work?

Maybe they should send the Antideutsche there

Good news for Eurofighter, Saab, Rheinmetall and so on.

The Germans will need to be reminded of their Holocaust guilt, it seems

Wasn’t that 1100kg of TNT, or a smaller quantity of more powerful explosives with an equivalent power?

I was just wondering about the bridge. We hadn’t heard much about it in the news, and it seemed like about time for its turn in the spotlight.