I’ve really enjoyed working with @Carl_Portman to publish this book. But then, I’ve always preferred & tried to publish books which have some human interest and aren’t just dry analysis. Excited to be releasing another chess title through @steelcity_press after a bit of a break.

In France, the “far-left” achieved 25.8% of the vote, 180 seats. The “far-right” 37.1% of the vote, 142 seats. The “centrists” 24.5% of the vote, 159 seats. New Prime Minister’s party: 5.4% of the vote, 39 seats. Concerning.

If you lionise ULEZ opponents’ vandalism, you lose the moral right to demonise Just Stop Oil’s vandalism. And vice versa. Hypocrites - Left and Right - hold contradictory views of thuggish behaviour based on whether or not they happen to agree with the cause.

Can both be true at once? T20 (and the dreaded Hundred) revolutionised cricket’s image through theatrical modernisation. Yet Test cricket has thrived. Could a modern fast-paced chess product be a gateway drug to the thoughtful, beautiful, traditional game?

So many defaults in that round, but to do that to someone needing one result for a norm…unthinkable.

This thread is so Twitter/X. An authority figure (International Arbiter) posts the definitive answer in the thread, quoting the actual Law, yet debate continues.

A whole-life tariff in a UK prison may seem trifling for the sadistic evil of Lucy Letby; the suffering and death inflicted on so many families. Yet if we had the death penalty, a jury might have been scared to convict in a complex case. A vile murderer could have walked free.

Had that situation a few times when we were doing commentaries for the hospital radio. At least you had 5G!