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The effing loon is now proclaiming himself the saviour of NATO.

With virtually every European nation now refusing to meet him in private at Davos to “negotiate,” the utterly unhinged president of the US has now began writing an endless stream of nonsensical tweets.
https://x.com/Daractenus/status/2013658554247319927

As my dad succumbed to dementia, he was prey to all sorts of nonsensical ideas, but he retained an essential politeness to the end.

Trump, in turn, seems to be retaining his inner raging arsehole.

I watch a lot of Mary Trump's analysis. Niece and psychoanalyst. Mary maintains Donald was always an over indulged misogynist child and manchild.

25th. Now.

Letby not to face further murder charges. Apols if this has been noted already

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxdgl21nko

Good, she is serving a whole life order anyway, a complete waste of CPS taxpayer money to charge her anymore

That is simply nonsense

Had the evidence indicated further murders than of course she should have faced justice, not least for the bereaved families

There is no sentence longer than a whole life order which she has already received. She has already faced justice and every penny the CPS would have to pay on another prosecution of her would be a penny not spent on prosecuting a criminal who has not yet faced justice.

That is assuming Letby is still definitely guilty, of which even a few medical experts have raised doubts

You cannot deny justice to bereaved families, and dismissing them as no point is simply unacceptable no matter how much you prevaricate [ which is of course your modus operandi]

What's justice in this context? They won't be particularly happy if she were found not guilty. I've gone 180 degrees on my view of her guilt and I suspect that a retrial would have cast doubt on previous convictions.

If the CPS has evidence that could convict a murder than it should be pursued

Whether the defendant has been convicted for other murders and is serving a life sentence has no bearing in the need to seek justice

1. Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the House?
41
2. Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the Senate?
+2
3. Number of MSPs won by the SNP at the Holyrood election?
60

4. Number of AMs won by Plaid Cymru at the Senedd election?
47
5. UK Party recording the largest poll lead during 2026 and by what percentage? (British Polling Council registered pollsters only).
Reform 12%

6. Labour’s Projected National Share of the vote based on the 2026 local elections according to the BBC?
19

7. Number of Reform MPs on the 31st December 2026?
9

8. The name of the UK Prime Minister on 31st December 2026?
Kair Starmer

9. Will Andy Burnham will be an MP on 31st December 2026?
No

10. UK borrowing in the financial year to November 2026 (£132.3bn to November 2025).
£137bn

11.UK GDP growth in the 12 months to October 2026 (1.1% to October 2025).
2.3%

12 Winners of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
Brazil

Pardon me, Nick, I don't see the #competition keyword an entry needs.

"Expansive and enigmatic" ?
FFS BBC.

..This is the president in his most enigmatic and expansive mood. During the campaign this used to be called "the weave" – meandering from subject to subject, often the connections not immediately obvious.
Then there are the odd little interludes – the most bizarre this time when he mused about a ring binder when he closed it and joked it could have taken his finger off...

It is exactly the kind of thing you might expect from a drunk late at night in a cheap bar in the midwest. It is the ranting of a pub boor.

I am going to keep "expansive and enigmatic" as a decent euphemism for alarmingly demented.

Like Private Eye's 'tired and emotional'?