Good morning from the Zimbabwe-Botswana border! 🇿🇼🇧🇼

Off in search of elephants 🐘🐘🐘

Next stop: Zimbabwe! 🇿🇼

🚨🚨 In today's 'we're really stupid so don't keep your hope up too much' Andrew Bounds, Peter Foster and Lucy Fisher reports that The Labour Party rebuffs youth mobility deal suggested by EU Commission arguably crossing Labour 'brexit red lines'. 🧵ft.com/content/feb93c…

Incredible stats in this thread. They’re so, so fucked. And they deserve it.

This morning was incredible.

Highlights:

🦁 Lion sauntering down the path till he heard his women call and he scarpered off across the river

🦬 A herd of buffalo

🐆 Cheetahs taking down an impala and tucking into the kill

Amsterdam pals: I have two tickets to Bill Bailey at the Carré tonight, but can’t make it as I’m in South Africa. Anyone want?

Saw an actual LION! 🦁

And giraffes and zebras and impalas and all manner of birds. It’s been a brilliant morning.

Waiting for a listicle in which someone lists 6,854 times Liz Truss blamed the global financial crisis on Labour.

Herewith a selection of beasts I waved my phone at yesterday

Good morning to absolutely everyone except the company that have just asked me to supply a company letterhead so they can “get me on the system” and pay an invoice which was due two weeks ago.

Good morning from me, and good morning from these absolute units.

Weeknote 15: It's time for Africa. sharonodea.com/2024/04/14/wee…

Never seen such a beautiful community note 😭😭😭

Well hello-zi, Jozi! First day here and I’ve done a walking tour of the city and had cocktails and dinner with my friend Lindiwe Mazibuko. Joberg is a lot of fun.

Africa: comin’ at ya. Four years later than planned, thanks to the pandemic fucking with my shit.

This is hilarious (or would be but for the potential consequences), but also incredibly common.

One of the first things we do when we do discovery at organisations is look at what stuff people have printed out on desks and stick to post-it notes on their screens.

An opportunity to repost one of my favourite pieces of financial journalism ever

Postal voting swung the referendum so maybe we can make it retrospective?