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// subscribe via rss →Every star you see is already old news. Most of the universe is somewhere we'll never reach. Nobody knows what came before the beginning, and it could all end with zero warning. Somehow all of that ends up feeling like relief.
Spurs spent over £300m this summer and are bottom of the table with two goals in five games. Here's what a transfer fee actually buys, why the new financial rules let this happen, and why the names alone were never going to fix it.
MUC to AUH to TRV, a 787 that made me feel small, an A320 that made the 787 feel enormous in hindsight, and why none of it is rocket science.
Everything strange about trains, from three-kilometre braking to why Deutsche Bahn is late, comes from one fact. With things to play with.
I'm going to write here every week. This is the first one.