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Rory & Al say who are the most evil people they've shaken hands with (2 minutes):-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rmRIhqjib5A

Let me guess Boris comes in just above Gaddafi but below Saddam?

If Andy B's team did not have a sub-group 'wargaming' an early GE then I would consider them shite at their jobs.

The whole point of wargaming is to explore situations and strategies and possibilities and most importantly - consequences.

Insiders also say Andy Burnham is lining up Shabana Mahmood for Chancellor.

Her experience looking at the numbers was 5 minutes of shadow work experience under Harriet Harman's caretaker role.

Best Chancellor of my lifetime was a lawyer, just like Shabana Mahmood.

Lawyers are polymaths.

Lawyers are badatmaths, more likely.

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Rory & Al say who are the most evil people they've shaken hands with (2 minutes):-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rmRIhqjib5A

Huzzah, a victory for football, so glad Set Piece FC have lost.

Who could have predicted nationalisation would be utter shite.

Rail services slashed after Thameslink nationalised

Britain’s biggest train operator announced the cuts hours before being taken into state ownership

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/30/thameslink-greenwich-nationalisation-rail-heidi-alexander/

But now we can stop blaming everything on privatization and fix the actual problems.

Ok maybe not. But isn't it pretty to think so?

Who could have predicted nationalisation would be utter shite.

Rail services slashed after Thameslink nationalised

Britain’s biggest train operator announced the cuts hours before being taken into state ownership

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/30/thameslink-greenwich-nationalisation-rail-heidi-alexander/

do you have a reliable link?

Not with Thameslink

In the US, "classical liberal" is often used to describe a person who believes in free speech, free press, free trade, and free men. (As I understand it, that is close to the way that liberal would have been used in the UK, during the 19th century.) The Republican Party, when it began. favored three of the four, all except free trade. The slogan used in their first presidential campaiggn, in 1856, was: "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men, Fremont!"

The adjective "classical" is needed because, since FDR, "liberal" came, more and more, to include support for a large welfare state.

Who could have predicted nationalisation would be utter shite.

Rail services slashed after Thameslink nationalised

Britain’s biggest train operator announced the cuts hours before being taken into state ownership

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/30/thameslink-greenwich-nationalisation-rail-heidi-alexander/