Amazon bought rights to the Lord of the Rings and produced one series that was ok then another that bombed. It's quite possible that there will be no more to follow. You can argue about why that was - I would say poor writing and straying way too far from the source material, others would say 'DEI' or similar - but, either way, the result was clear. It would be nice to think that they learned their lesson from that and will approach Bond differently, but I have no real hope that they will. Bezos apparently said "entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time". That approach clearly doesn't work for media franchises. If you keep producing material that people don't like there won't be a sudden mass epiphany when your genius is finally understood, it will merely entrench negative opinions.

I suddenly have a deep and abiding desire to move to France. I find it remarkable that the guy would go to the media to complain rather than hanging his head in shame.

This is the same kind of argument that environmentalists made about EVs - it'll take too long to develop them so everyone should stop using all private cars right away - until Tesla came along and built them anyway.

Interesting, thank you. Loeb is a serious scientist so letâ(TM)s hope he has all angles covered.

There must be many ways small spheres of once molten metal could end up on the sea bed. E.g. other meteorites, burned up space debris, shipboard fires, war related explosions etc.

When they start weighing everyone on the way in and then in the way out, thatâ(TM)s the time to get worried.

$400m is a crazily high valuation for a bankrupt media company with very few assets to speak of.

On the one hand, itâ(TM)s very hard to imagine the US with the help of NATO allies doing this and it not leaking well before now. On the other hand, itâ(TM)s hard to think of anyone else that would benefit from doing it.

That approach did not end well for this guy who worked for VW and ended up with 40 months in prison for saying yes: https://www.ctvnews.ca/autos/v...

Climate change has a few downsides to be fair but, if it can take Twitter down, then it canâ(TM)t be all bad.

Only without a lender of last resort available to bail them out. And without deposit insurance. They took short term deposits and made long term loans, a rookie mistake in any form of banking. What will be interesting to see is how much their operating costs and economically unviable "interest" payments have eaten into depositor funds. That is, do they have just a liquidity crisis or a full solvency crisis? My bet is the latter but, since, they're largely unregulated, we won't actually find out until the dust has settled.

It's not referred to as The Grauniad for now reason.

This is Amazon sending a message to its building managers about what will happen to them if they don't manage to prevent their own sites from unionizing by fair means or foul.

Things would have to shift back a long way in the employerâ(TM)s favour before I would consider working for a company that did this for any amount of money.

Makes it all sound so simple. How about "Bloody Hell, Dark Matter Might be Gravitons FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION!".