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“Provocative.” Yes, that’s what they are. Daringly taboo-busting. If they ever create a Nobel Prize for Euphemism, the NYT has put itself right at the head of the list of contenders.

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Some 45 years ago my aunt stitched this very fetching garment for her new nephew, deploying the only colour palette anyone was ever allowed to use in late-70s Derby.

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I’ll do it just to stop commissioning John Gray

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We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this jpeg before the decade is out.

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All else aside, just how is this more interesting than the company you run which sends rockets into space? Just how does this seem like a better use of your time?

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Adulthood is choosing mashed potato over every other form of potatoes anyway.

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Every time my mum moves house, I accumulate yet more random objects. This time, my great-grandfather’s favourite mug, apparently.

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Getting companies who have suspiciously good luck in subsequent public tenders to build you a football stadium in your home village is not quite “renaming the months of the year after your childhood pets”, but you feel Orban will get there eventually.

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Well if it ain’t the consequences of my own decision to keep publishing racists in the Spectator

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Czego nie można dziś znaleźć w internecie?

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I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

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This evening’s playlist

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Nie ma to jak ktoś nastawiony na czytanie ze zrozumieniem

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Like Keith Moon checking out of an LA hotel in 1975.

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49 days too long. What a grotesque fantasist.

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Absolute boom times for cowardice in journalism right now.

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New York Times: “Concern That Muscular Spasm Afflicting MAGA Elite May Be Contagious”

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This takes trickle-down theory to a grim new extreme.

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Will you be allowed to go on it to say that Liz Truss crashed the economy?

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Been thinking the same, Sam, been thinking the same.

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Back in Poland after a week in the UK and my phone has discovered some wonderful new invention called “5G”

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This, by Lucy Mangan, is excellently put. Stephen Graham is terrifying and heartbreaking.

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People who hate their lives taking rage-filled revenge on people who love theirs. It’s becoming something of a theme.

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It isn’t appeasement. It is facilitation.

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God knows I’ve used it in my time, but can we now declare the face-eating leopards thing very much done? It’s like Kruger National Park round here at the moment.

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As Habermas clearly stated in The Transformative Vibe of the Public Sphere, true deliberation begins when they ask you which name to write on your cup.

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Clickbait is killing journalism, exhibit 39485

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Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

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Recent polling ahead of May's presidential election in Poland shows a decline in support for KO candidate Trzaskowski and PiS-endorsed candidate Nawrocki, and increases in the case of Konfederacja's Mentzen and undecided voters. Trzaskowski still the favourite to win in the second round.

“Provocative.” Yes, that’s what they are. Daringly taboo-busting. If they ever create a Nobel Prize for Euphemism, the NYT has put itself right at the head of the list of contenders.

Some 45 years ago my aunt stitched this very fetching garment for her new nephew, deploying the only colour palette anyone was ever allowed to use in late-70s Derby.

I’ll do it just to stop commissioning John Gray

We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this jpeg before the decade is out.

All else aside, just how is this more interesting than the company you run which sends rockets into space? Just how does this seem like a better use of your time?

Adulthood is choosing mashed potato over every other form of potatoes anyway.

Every time my mum moves house, I accumulate yet more random objects. This time, my great-grandfather’s favourite mug, apparently.

Getting companies who have suspiciously good luck in subsequent public tenders to build you a football stadium in your home village is not quite “renaming the months of the year after your childhood pets”, but you feel Orban will get there eventually.

Well if it ain’t the consequences of my own decision to keep publishing racists in the Spectator

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Czego nie można dziś znaleźć w internecie?

I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

This evening’s playlist

Nie ma to jak ktoś nastawiony na czytanie ze zrozumieniem

Like Keith Moon checking out of an LA hotel in 1975.

49 days too long. What a grotesque fantasist.

Absolute boom times for cowardice in journalism right now.

New York Times: “Concern That Muscular Spasm Afflicting MAGA Elite May Be Contagious”

This takes trickle-down theory to a grim new extreme.

Will you be allowed to go on it to say that Liz Truss crashed the economy?

Been thinking the same, Sam, been thinking the same.

Back in Poland after a week in the UK and my phone has discovered some wonderful new invention called “5G”

This, by Lucy Mangan, is excellently put. Stephen Graham is terrifying and heartbreaking.

People who hate their lives taking rage-filled revenge on people who love theirs. It’s becoming something of a theme.

It isn’t appeasement. It is facilitation.

God knows I’ve used it in my time, but can we now declare the face-eating leopards thing very much done? It’s like Kruger National Park round here at the moment.

As Habermas clearly stated in The Transformative Vibe of the Public Sphere, true deliberation begins when they ask you which name to write on your cup.

Clickbait is killing journalism, exhibit 39485

Strangely enough the Telegraph looks less ridiculous with Sunday Sport stories.

Recent polling ahead of May's presidential election in Poland shows a decline in support for KO candidate Trzaskowski and PiS-endorsed candidate Nawrocki, and increases in the case of Konfederacja's Mentzen and undecided voters. Trzaskowski still the favourite to win in the second round.

Habitual liar eagerly rationalises lying. Nation shocked.

How unlike him it would be to leave.