It will drive up the cost of books, reduce the earnings of authors and, worse, much worse, so much indescribably worse I can't bear to think about it, cut the fees of freelance editors. (View Post)

And aiming to merge with Simon & Schuster but the DoJ isn't happy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63466582 (View Post)

The political justification at the time was, of course, that pension funds were "in surplus". Because predicting the distant future is easy money when boom and bust have been abolished. (View Post)

I don't disagree, but we were happy for the looters to bring their loot over here. We offered them supercars, superyachts, superbabes ... anything in exchange for the loot. Russia is undoubtedly… (View Post)

Looting Kherson art gallery yesterday: https://twitter.com/JaneLytv/status/1588111276294647808 But they would, wouldn't they. They would do that. (View Post)