Ben Fenton

I think Spurs are just trying to reverse history. In the hope that they can turn their season right around.

"It was on on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

*our

The word, not the idea. A point around which to debate the balance between out competitive and co-operative instincts.

The John Mortimer list was restricted to three: the cooked breakfast, the herbaceous border and the presumption of innocence. I would add: the word 'fairness'.

Telegraph timeline:

Friday: Surprise news breaks that Axel Springer, the German publisher, has bought the Telegraph

Saturday: Telegraph Saturday Review is published with this cover

(Real story - this went to press at least 36 hours before editorial heard the news, so it's a bizarre coincidence.)

Classic Galician Restaurantes Every language has its specialities; ideas or feelings expressed so succinctly by a specific word or phrase that a simplified translation won’t suffice.

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That will go down well in the Kremlin.

Oh look, it's the Crapture.

This vein of reporting continues to provide a shaft of sunlight in the gloom of war. Please keep it coming.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills [FREE TO READ] Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills as.ft.com/r/7fbc0a64-9... with colleagues @petercampbell1.bsky.social and Emma Agyemang

Where have we heard this tune before?

Had it not been for Brexit, this would probably have been a conversation involving the UK. We warned the Govt about it at the time. Isolation --> Irrelevance.

Norway ready to start nuclear weapons talks with France French leader Emmanuel Macron is looking to build European atomic cooperation.

Norway is willing to start talks with Paris on how French nuclear weapons can contribute to the continent's security, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said today.

Hi Arthur. Could your doodle have been a tower of sausages? OrCanary Wharf Tower (I was based there then, though when we spoke I was sitting in the press room of the Olympic Games in Barcelona). Yes, I was in DC 98-2002 for the DT. Busy times, especially 9/11/2021! Hope you're doing well. Yours, Ben

Remember what happened to Golgafrinchan though. Went viral. Just saying.

You will indeed.

Also, his book on the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal is excellent.

Happy 90th birthday to Sir John Tusa, ex #BBCNewsnight presenter+ex managing director of #bbcworldservice. Over 50 episodes of The John Tusa Interview ( #BBCRadio3 2000-2005) are still available on #BBCSounds. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00…

Happy 90th birthday to Sir John Tusa, ex #BBCNewsnight presenter+ex managing director of #bbcworldservice. Over 50 episodes of The John Tusa Interview ( #BBCRadio3 2000-2005) are still available on #BBCSounds.
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Caldo Gallego – Galician Broth Many of the ingredients called for in a traditional Caldo aren’t available outside of Spain.

The weather may be warming in Britain, but there will be days to come when you are just going to need a Caldo Gallego – Galician Broth
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Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

Well, now we know how three of their jets came to be shot down by their partners: "no stupid rules of engagement". Just point and shoot. The dictum of the American armed forces since Lexington and Concord.

Hegseth: "Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners are good partners, unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force ... no stupid rules of engagement."

Video appears to show US F-15 fighter jet crashing in Kuwait Kuwait's ministry of defence confirmed

Back in Gulf War 1, the RAF pilots used to tell us that they were more scared of "blue on blue" air defence systems than Iraqi ones because the operators were not the brightest. Plus ca change, it would seem.

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Ranking Member of the House Armed Services:

"I ... still have not heard from anybody from the Department of Defense -- nor has Chairman Mike Rogers, the Republican Chairman of my committee or in the Senate."

(hat tip: @acyn.bsky.social)

Talk about counting your chickens! Can't they see he's shaping up to screw up the elections in whatever way he can?

Trump subpoena, administration probes taking shape, House Democrats say If they take control of the chamber after the midterms, Democrats are planning to summon Trump to testify and launch an array of probes of the administration.

House Democrats, who hope to regain the majority in the November midterms, are charting an aggressive strategy of investigating the Trump administration next year.

I wonder how many members of the Trump cabinet bought oil futures when the price dropped slightly after promising signs from the trip-party talks just before the bombs started falling?

They were - sublime:

It is reassuring to know that US regulation does not allow futures traders to gamble on the time of someone's death. That could create complications. Although it also might explain all of those assassinations in the 1960s.