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‘Wakanda Forever’ is one of the best recent Marvel movies precisely because it is such a sincere tribute to Chadwick Boseman. It is written to acknowledge the loss.

So Canada has a growth rate more than double the USA?

I’m old enough to remember the argument that Burnham shouldn’t resign as Mayor because it would certainly lead to Reform winning the Mayoralty in Manchester. (TBF I didn’t think it implausible at the time-circa 3 months ago)

I liked Nolan’s Odyssey but we should really talk about how Jason and the Argonauts was better.

If you are in Rome you really should take the Domus Aurea tour. Incredible place. (Also notable that Nero’s ’Golden House’ is so much more tasteful than Trump’s White House)

This is terrible slander on a unique movie that allowed Sean Bean to survive to the end.

It is becoming easy to believe that there are a lot of Americans who are very disappointed that Covid didn’t get to kill an additional million people in the USA. And they are doing everything they can to make sure the next pandemic is much more deadly.

We are entering an interesting world. Ironically the ideological distance from Restore through Reform to Badenoch’s Tories isn’t huge (all favour climate change denial, privatisation of everything, slashing welfare, racism and immigration hysteria) but they are viciously factional.

A wonderful piece by one of my favourite historians underlining a lesson that I have tried to impart in generations of undergraduates.

Everyone involved in this has to be fired. Including Pirro and Blanche. The President probably should be impeached for openly encouraging the groundless prosecution of a citizen who was threatened with 10 years in prison for no reason. This actually is a big deal.

Fauci should be imprisoned for helping the Chinese bioengineer a disease that was no big deal and basically just a cold which didn't require any government action and so he should have stopped the vaccines that Trump authorised and put his son in law in charge of developing. Am I doing this right?

UEFA picking Omar Artan to referee the Super Cup is now looking like very shrewd diplomacy. Infantino being in bed with a racist like Trump damages his credibility in many nations however much he proclaims his Third Worldism.

I think it is time for a corrupt French speaking Swiss guy to have a turn running FIFA.

Of all the clowns on Trump’s ‘economic team’ he is probably the one who annoys me most.

One tangential point about the Odyssey- the movie that sold itself as ‘the most historically accurate’ film about King Arthur is one of the worst movies about King Arthur*. See also Robin Hood. *Despite an excellent cast.

Porn sites are apparently now worried they might be mistaken for Musk owned businesses

At the start of the year I thought Trump would be hitting new lows by the end of the summer due to ‘grey swan’ externalities - an epidemic, a stock market crash, a botched hurricane response. He has so far avoided all of these and managed to instead screw himself with an unpredicted disastrous war.

I wonder if Fauci has occasional regrets about trying to stop MAGA from injecting themselves with bleach?

Much the same way that living through catastrophic heat waves is making them much worse on climate change. The more they are demonstrably wrong the more they double down.

In 2022 Cathie Wood’s ‘bear case’ for Tesla in 2026 was $2,900 - so you can see why she is getting a bargain buying yesterday at 1/10th that 🤣🤣🤣