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Seems pretty likely to me that per current trajectories KH will establish a clear national polling lead vs DT.

lololololol etc www.ft.com/content/c4b4...

Bill Ackman slashes fundraising target for US fund IPO by as much as 90%www.ft.com Pershing Square USA distances itself from its CEO’s comments

Extremely excited to announce that our friends with a nice view of the Olympics opening have invited us for drinks on their terrasse!

This just seems off the charts stupid.

The singularity is going to be shockingly stupid. This goes beyond "garbage in garbage out" and approaches the level of the informational Human Centipede.

Does anyone know what this means?

Guys, I ❤️ the Olympics.

Really quite incredible how my mood has improved by not reading The Times every morning. In related news I received the NS pls re-subscribe email - that’s a hard no.

Always good to hear Dan Hodges’ views re the US election.

People suggesting that KH in the lead by 2 points is somehow not especially important have taken all leave of their senses.

Macron just waiting them out…

From some time ago…a Covid era piece which I’ve never previously shown.

I mean who on earth would listen to Rory Stewart’s views re US politics.

Some dude on Twitter just posted re his 300k (oh. my. god) academic book heading off for publication.

Will this dissertation never end 🥲

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Paris 2024 : la Corée du Nord de retour aux Jeux olympiques, sans faire délégation commune avec le Sud

Paris 2024 : la Corée du Nord de retour aux Jeux olympiques, sans faire délégation commune avec le Sudwww.lemonde.fr Les athlètes nord-coréens sont arrivés, dimanche, à Paris. Ils n’avaient pas participé aux Jeux de Tokyo en 2021, en raison de la pandémie de Covid-19 et, selon le régime, de « l’activisme des forces hostiles », ni à ceux d’hiver de Pékin, après une…

Next big piece of news

*BIDEN ENDORSES KAMALA HARRIS AS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE

Wish him very much all the best. Only interesting question now is the nomination process.

Erm, BREAKING etc etc

Weirdly, or perhaps not, not reading The Times every day has materially improved my mornings.

A bit obsessed by this. I think it’s a great example of something you cannot do digitally (speaking as a digital artist kinda person). So…you can do something very like this but enfin the pixels are all kinda the same - v different to using a brush.

An Ellsworth Kelly fragment

Well, I have been introduced to Heartstoppers by a youngling…and…it’s charming.

I’d like to see criminal prosecutions for this sort of thing. Let’s draw a line.

Abolish the Home Office. Newborn baby made homeless by Home Office in frenzy to clear asylum backlog www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

Newborn baby made homeless by Home Office in frenzy to clear asylum backlogwww.theguardian.com Department ordered to reconsider cases of father with baby and a mother with two children

Introduced the kid niece to the concept of ‘normie’.

An Ellsworth Kelly fragment

Ellsworth Kelly…

Possible future Labour PM here www.ft.com/content/4e68...

Keir Starmer turns to arch-networker Varun Chandra to woo businesswww.ft.com Hakluyt chief appointed to Downing Street to lead investment drive

Really difficult to comprehend the catastrophic stupidity of these people.

Vintage clothes shopping with the kid

Some noteworthy developments in UK policy towards the EU. The first is the facility for (what looks to me) like virtually automatic alignment with EU product regs (subject to ‘sovereign’ choice).

The first few spatters of rain on the evening’s BBQ preparations. 🥹