sort of funny day for this piece to drop but there is a lot of good and sensible stuff in it

don't really know what more it could possibly take for people to start seeing the Spectator as entirely beyond the pale, it somehow just keeps getting a pass, despite Taki, despite stuff like this

fuck you too pal

principally, 'what the fuck?'

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

the Rayner story is going to cut through any day now

Smithers, I'm starting to think that whatever house Angela Rayner was living in fourteen years ago ago isn't necessarily the era-defining political crime story we all thought it would be

You start reading this article and it just keeps going and going and going and going.

to be fair to him, 'I flung a lot of vague allegations in the hope that they'd find *something*' probably wouldn't play very well either

'in our defence, we had no idea what we were doing' is definitely a line!

that must be a very great consolation to them

no thank you!

really like the dynamic where people are worried Biden might be losing his marbles while Trump is saying things like 'so I met with the bees - you don't see bees like that any more, big bees, strong bees - smart bees, they made me king of the bees' on a weekly basis