“Ronnie” has a nice midcentury vintage feel, if that’s of any value to you one way or the other.

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts

I love Weimar America as much as I love Weimar Germany. ICE can have jazz, rock’n’roll, the beat poets, David Lynch, Prince, Bikini Kill, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. when they take them from my cold, dead fingers

The deal may now involve the US invading Greenland, specifically to neutralise NATO and hand Europe over to Russia.

Why do Lithuania and Latvia even have a data cable between them that runs through international waters?

Surely when number goes up far enough, it magically gains sentience and godlike powers

Brooklyn originally wasn’t technically part of New York.

All the small birds have already been picked out

It’s always a conservative

I’m surprised she was not turned away at the border. She’s not a UK citizen, has recently been deported by an allied country, and given that British law enshrines the IHRA definition of antisemitism, her legal status would be equivalent to that of a Holocaust denier, and her presence would be considered “not conducive to public order”.

In France, children get watered-down wine with their dinner. In Germany, instead, this happens.

As a handful of German teenagers call for peaceful surrender to Russia, Russians display bumper stickers reading “To Berlin for German women”.

As every good pickup artist knows, it’s a numbers game. For every few hundred or so women who’ll be inconsolably traumatised by your alligator having eaten their dog, there’ll probably be one or two who’ll find themselves irresistibly drawn to your rakish bad-boy charisma, so go out there and find them, bro.

If they put fluoride in drinking water, they can put this in protein shakes and those shower gels that come in the angular gunmetal-coloured containers

If you do enough cocaine, you can end up with one nostril. It happened to a British TV celebrity in the 90s.

No point engaging with tankies. Block and move on.

Would her teenage brother becoming the next Emperor be more likely to accelerate the decline of the monarchy?

The markets will be glad to hear that former human-rights lawyer Starmer isn’t having a relapse.

Ah yes…

Named after Trump won the election, but before it went pear-shaped enough to deliver a second Labor term. Calling the party the Australian Trump Party or something would have invited a trademark lawsuit (you don’t get to where Trump is by leaving money on the table), so they chose a plausibly-deniable name, in the sense that it sounds like some kind of very American mashup of Biblical imagery and Cold War-era nationalism. The electorate took one look and said “yeah, nah”