In Sweden, you see induction cooktops and electric ovens in 19th-century apartment buildings. Gas stoves exist, but are less common than induction these days (and old-fashioned resistive electric ones seem to be rightfully extinct). I’m guessing they rewired the buildings to accommodate this, though it is definitely possible to do.

Someone could make Union Jack-patterned poppies, for those who want to show in no uncertain terms how gammony they are. They could sell them through ads in the Daily Mail, arguing that the traditional red poppy has been taken over by “wokeness”, and make a lot of money.

The Harambe of our times

Evelyn as a man’s name, if you want to be really old school.

Hopefully, assuming that Harris wins, this will count against pressure from the Democratic Party’s corporate wing to fire her.

Given their abundance of geothermal energy (they keep their footpaths ice-free year round and still have enough to power energy-hungry facilities such as aluminium smelters and data centres), Iceland is probably the country that least needs this.

Maybe, maybe not. Get out and vote anyway, and get everyone you know to vote.

I wonder if they’ll all be blacklisted from entering the Schengen zone (Germany has a policy of banning BDS advocates).

“ancient evils” are usually things like blasphemy, insubordination or having intrinsic self-worth.

The Democrats have to win by enough of a margin that it can’t be taken away from them by a rush of spurious lawsuits aided by partisan judges. If they’ve won a state but invalidating a few batches of votes would undo that, they haven’t actually won it.

That factoid is from a decade or two ago, when clear air turbulence was a lot rarer. Nowadays, due to global warming, turbulence coming out of nowhere is more common, and on occasion results in unbelted passengers being thrown into the ceiling and severely injured.

Stories are, though, which is why recipes have long, rambling introductions about the author’s grandmother’s childhood in a small village in Sicily or whatever.