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Have you lot done this yet? Tiny Tom gets his arse handed to him by boxer Ty Mitchell in Dubai.

Tan Smith just referred to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon as Ewok Powell. Well it made me laugh.

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/12/robinsons-dubai-trip-a-challenge-to-emirates-law

Do the people running that magazine realise that Tommy Lots Of Names *wants* to get lifted by the UAE police? That far from being a stone in his shoe, getting locked up for his racist shit there would be the trigger for pressure from his fan club in the US to get released.

So he’d get a free ride home at the end of his holiday, remind his pals in the high places he exists and burnish his rep among his online chums. Wonder how many more subscriptions to his online sewer he would get from that?

The video of Mitchell owning Yaxley-Lennon was a wondrous site to behold. I do find it remarkable that Islamaphobic racists and Reformers seems to be drawn to the UAE. It must be their relaxed social contract.

It’s because the UAE is like a hot dry version of Croydon. And because they quite like autocracies.

I actually marginally prefer the Canary Wharf of the tropics with added corporal punishment of Singapore to the Croydon of the Gulf with its patrol cars checking for shaggers on the fake beach.

I wasn't aware that an extra-marital affair could result in state administered beating in Croydon.

Only if you ask nicely

On general car safety, whenever I watch films from the 60s or 70s I wonder how on earth so many survived driving around in those death traps. Twice, on different occasions, I had friends fall out of a car as it was driving along. They were in the passenger seat and as the car went round a bend, they lurched against the passenger door and it opened and they fell out. They weren't wearing a safety belt, because no-one did in those days. Both survived. One landed on a grass verge, injured his back and had to wear a corset for 6 months. The other fell out at a roundabout. She was in an MG, which was going slowly, but she was lucky not to be run over. Her face was badly bruised. It was the summer when everyone seemed to be wearing a Kaftan so she wore one with the hood up to try to hide her bruises.

The past is a different country.

Two Russian Su-27s allegedly taken out by Ukraine in Crimea last night.

https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2002306368535941132

There’s been quite the ramp-up in Ukranian strikes on strategic assets in the last few days.

Nice to see the Ukranians responding to Mr Putin's plea for respect.

It might have more affect if they disabled civilian airliners. That would impact the Russian population because sanctions would drastically limit their repairability. Only a handful of generals know or care how many warplanes Russia has.

Russian warplanes drop glide bombs on Ukrainian cities daily. The Ukrainian population certainly knows about Russian warplanes. Plus they're also used to shoot down Ukrainian drones and cruise missiles.

I am struggling to get my head round how weird your comment is.

I thought the point was that targeting empty civilian airliners would cause far more damage to Putin’s reputation among his people and lead to him possibly being forced out?

I have to say I think that’s optimistic but somebody may have said that in December 1916 (as John Buchan had the Princess say in Huntingtower).

The one thing the UK could do that would put significant domestic pressure on VVP would be to stop granting visas to Russian citizens under any circumstances. The Russia That Matters greatly prizes foreign travel. Starmer seems about as keen on that as he is on seizing Russian assets frozen in the UK. Not very.

The nativity is the first public sorting most children experience, and it’s definitely sorting rather than sortition.

Some parts have lines, others don’t. The narrator, Joseph, the innkeeper, the wise men and the angel Gabriel have meaningful lines.

There are no female parts with dialogue. As I discovered when our daughter was given the seemingly plum role of Mary only to discover it’s a completely silent part. You just sit there looking demure. Hence the most articulate young girl tends to get the narrator part, and/or they treat the Angels as ladies.

Those vote shares are pretty close to what you’d expect with current class and educational differences in party support, but there’s something else going on too. Look at the Lib Dems: Joseph the top performer, but narrator way down. I would hazard a guess that says something why some people become Lib Dems. We are Josephs, rather than narrators.

My teachers realising my greatness cast me as a wise man.

I was an innkeeper. The only “baddie” in the story.

King Herod surely...

Herod was only taking targeted and proportionate action against terrorists.
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The nativity is the first public sorting most children experience, and it’s definitely sorting rather than sortition.

Some parts have lines, others don’t. The narrator, Joseph, the innkeeper, the wise men and the angel Gabriel have meaningful lines.

There are no female parts with dialogue. As I discovered when our daughter was given the seemingly plum role of Mary only to discover it’s a completely silent part. You just sit there looking demure. Hence the most articulate young girl tends to get the narrator part, and/or they treat the Angels as ladies.

Those vote shares are pretty close to what you’d expect with current class and educational differences in party support, but there’s something else going on too. Look at the Lib Dems: Joseph the top performer, but narrator way down. I would hazard a guess that says something why some people become Lib Dems. We are Josephs, rather than narrators.