1. Extinction take over UK:
2. A hundred year old letter worth reading:
https://www.samizdata.net/2019/07/there-is-nothing-new-under-the-sun/
3. So many memes going around on it, this was quite good:
4. Oh dear – chagrined:
5. Yep:
6. Nice:
Fines don’t dissuade corporations in the slightest. Putting the CEOs, board members, and other executives in jail when the corporation breaks the law would be a much more effective disincentive.
7. Breaking – Alan Turing to feature on the new Nine Bob Note.
[H/T Chuckles and haiku]
1. This is a good reminder of why you all should be EXTREMELY grateful that the Queen has not chosen to leave. Can you imagine Charles in Charge???
6. You think jail would change them? Tell me again how much jail changed Epstein. Or do you think they would be sent to a DIFFERENT jail??? Maybe the one where they’ve got Tommy… The REAL disincentive for them would be the gallows.
High crimes and misdemeanours. Could be called the Blair Act over here. Over there it could be called the Schumer-Pelosi Act.
7. Ahhh! I see what you did there. Very good. I wonder how many youngsters get it, either the reference or the terminology.
Doubt it. Also I saw it, not my cleverness.
#2: hic! illae lachrymae christi
Indeed.