I play poker with a bunch of friends once a month. Modest stakes but not nothing. One guy has started to wear sunglasses to be more inscrutable. I tried to tell him I can see his cards reflected in them but he got angry so I've shut up about it. And call nearly all his bluffs.

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Free weekend update is out. This was the week when the USA-Russia alliance was made formal, to even the most ardent skeptics. And its reality was signed in Ukrainian blood. Hopefully now Ukraine, and Europe, will understand what they must do. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

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the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

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“We’re not allowed to talk about immigration” was said at every Question Time for a decade, more or less.

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The inability of many UK journalists /political commentators to understand how the law works in the UK is quite astonishing. Apart from anything else tweeting “I don’t understand how…” just means you need to read more.

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