You have to feel a bit sorry for Chinese diplomatic staff in London. They're trying to be good little lambs with their centrally cooked media packages, but they're locked in a bear pit with this guy:
BBC Archive interview with Evelyn Waugh from 1960.
Interviewer: You didn’t do very well at Oxford, did you?
Waugh: No, I took a bad third.
Interviewer: How did that happen?
Waugh: Sloth.
Interviewer: Why are you appearing in this programme?
Waugh: Poverty
MARRIAGE TIP: If you're having a heated discussion with your wife, just casually drop "my mom was right about you" and let that hang in the air for a bit.
Over the next few years you are going to have to fight with everything you’ve got to retain your humanity. They will try to convince you to give up connecting with each other, to give up truly being alive. It will be the most important fight of your whole life
This amazing website, called "Worse on Purpose," is cataloguing all the ways companies are deliberately and secretively degrading their own products
As usual, in most cases the culprit is private equity extracting enormous sums while everyone else is left worse off.
In 2014, a young Ukrainian officer led the first armored vehicle that broke through barricades erected by Russian-sponsored militias in Mariupol and prevented the Russian takeover of the city.
Today, Mykhailo Drapaty is Ukraine’s new commander in chief.