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October 21, 2022
When Liz Truss was elected leader of the Tory party, and thus slid into the empty role of Prime Minister, some friends I have a group chat with took bets on how long she’d last. Two of us, myself included, said she’d be out by December (though the rest all picked dates well before the expected gener...
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October 14, 2022
So, I took a couple of months off the from writing the links for the first time since I started them about a decade ago, and what happens? Let’s see: Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, and almost immediately the Queen died and gave the English around 48 hours to explore what peak English looks like (...
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August 05, 2022
We’re losing legends at a frankly alarming rate: one week after I lamented the loss of Diana Kennedy, we open by lamenting the loss of Bill Russell. If you’re a basketball fan, Russell is to Jordan and LeBron what Thanos was to Loki: the big bad. We argue about whether LeBron (10 finals, 4 wins) or ...