Ceasefire, all alone in the moonlight. Trump has saved the world and brought the Gazans back from the dead in their thousands. He has a stately pleasure dome decreed on the beleaguered strip. Meanwhile, Australian cookers are on the prowl and the patron saint of guys whose undies have lost their elastic (Paul Thomas Anderson) has made another movie. Pat and Tim talk One Battle After Another, conspiracies, the outlook for the Labubu Dubai Gaza Riviera, and the “antisemitism” “reports” in “New South Wales.”

Song is No Strain by Southend Rainbows. Thanks as always to “Dictator” Dan Dare.

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