Loved Fleabag, of course, though I preferred the family dynamic to the (neither particularly hot nor believable) priest shenanigans, and overall not as much as Catastrophe. (Is that just because I’m an expat American in London with kids rather than a Catholic-seducing Millenial?)
Dennis Overbye in the NY Times on the latest rumours: Expected Soon: First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole.
Yes, paradoxically, a picture of a black hole, or at least its shadow.
Even better, an op-ed from my colleague @SheerPriya, At Long Last, a Glimpse of a Black Hole.
@TheMekons make the world alright, briefly, at the 100 Club, London.
Our dishwasher has stopped working — any London appliance repair recommendations?
Varifocals?
It makes sense that the two leaders, a remain-supporting leaver and a leave-supporting remainer, closer to each other than to their own parties, would eventually work together.
At least there are still the Mekons, now reporting from the desert at Joshua Tree. My favourite band in one of my favourite places.
Corbyn set to whip MPs to back public vote as frontbench threatens revolt.
So Corbyn finally does the right thing. But…
He [shadow minister Gardiner] said Labour could not be portrayed as a party that wanted remain at any price.
I don’t understand — what’s the “price”?
The last Brexit vote that had as little legal force as today’s “indicative votes” was the referendum.
“The answer, of course, is not to abandon p-values entirely, but to bear in mind their, and our, limitations.“ — The Guardian (editorial)
It’s rare for a newspaper to have a view on the details of scientific methodology! (But I don’t entirely agree with that view…)