Meanwhile, today is Groundhog Day in the United States, as made into a film starring Bill Murray. The tale of an ambitous cynic who gets stuck in a time loop which causes him to believe that his acti… (View Post)

I expect you'll be becoming a podcast host, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour. (View Post)

Haves and have-yachts. You get more elite, you move into more elite circles, you still don't feel elite. There's no such thing as "enough". It requires a certain kind of bloddy-mi… (View Post)

You know that ghastly aphorism about "if you want it enough, you will make it happen?" (Ghastly partly because it's trivially untrue, but mostly because it gives bad people permission … (View Post)

"They're called secrets for a reason." End of Lesson One. "Always ask yourself 'How would my actions look on the front page of the papers?'" End of Lesson Two. The … (View Post)