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Cake day: August 20th, 2023

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  • They’re not getting the concessions Thatcher handbagged out of Delors. They join the EU on equal terms with other members. If they would prefer to stand proudly alone with their delusions of imperial grandeur and get pushed around by everyone else and eventually turned into a hollowed-out kleptostate run from Beijing, Riyadh, Mar-a-Lago and a dozen tax havens, then they can’t be helped. (Though if Scotland and Wales make a break for it, they should be welcomed into the EU on the standard terms.)






  • But would he have recognised a cigarette-packet-sized device that shows text and pictures and responds to touches as the same class of object as the room-sized mainframes that processed payrolls for corporations and were controlled with punchcards? Without real-time processing, VDU terminals, microcomputers and GUIs to bridge the gap, they’d be essentially two very different things.


  • Wasn’t purgatory something like 100,000 years of being flayed alive in a river of boiling shit for every time you had an intemperate thought or stared cross-eyed at a church or something, meaning that the average person would spend unfathomable amounts of time suffering unendurable tortures before finally getting into the Kingdom of Heaven?