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You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

Clue for 57 across in today's Times Jumbo crossword is missing. At least in the printed edition I have. By process of elimination I think perhaps it should be....57 across: a musical note having the time value of half a whole note

You may not think of yourself as an optimist, but you still try to quickly tick the 'remember me' box on a login page after you've clicked 'submit'.

Keep seeing references to UK food security. Since the mid-19th century UK food security has meant the ability to keep the sea lanes open and imports flowing in. Not the ability to produce domestic needs at home.

I was in two minds whether to post this image because I think it’s both a little niche and a little arch.

Sceptic is misapplied as suffix on vaccine-, climate- euro- etc. Scepticism is healthy practice of withholding confidence pending evidence. If you recoil from evidence and demand your own alternative pretend evidence it's denial.

What a chart. www.economist.com/interactive/...

interviewer: give me an example of a time when you took control of a situation me: no, YOU give ME an example interviewer: lol okay, that was pretty impressive me: I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go interviewer: *being led away by security* what is happening right now

"A person who merely refuses to learn what can be known is not a skeptic, but rather an ignoramus; a person who raises questions but does not seek their answers is not a skeptic, but a bullshitter." defector.com/what-the-fuc...