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At last a day when Ukraine is not on the front pages – politicalbetting.com
At last a day when Ukraine is not on the front pages – politicalbetting.com
Last week on one of the threads a couple of PBer got into a wager as to whether during March there would be a day when Ukraine wasn’t on three or more of the front pages.
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Why do the BBC insist on calling the PM "Prime Minister Boris Johnson", like he is some kind of royal. Far too much formal respect
Why the Johnson nonsense? It's ludicrous. He's Boris. We all know him as Boris. He IS Boris. They should just say "Today, our Boris went to Saudi Arabia", or "next week, the Bozzmeister" (cheery grin) "will be Bozzing About in Belarus". Or just have a picture of the Bojo doing thumbs up at all of us
No wonder I'm not paying my licence fee
https://www.ft.com/content/8e279842-ff80-4342-86da-df15eb3b7d09
And others will want the BBC to call him FLSOJ.
I prefer Mr Johnson. No argument about that being correct. (Unless he self-declares etc. But that is different.
Newsnight could be renamed BORIS TONIGHT FEATURING "BORIS"
GMGB could be GOOD MORNING GREAT BORIS
And so forth. These are just ideas. But we need to return the news to more neutrality. No one says "Johnson" unless they hate Our Boris, so it is bollocks to use the word
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-boss-denies-cost-inaccuracies-despite-whistleblower-claims-10-03-2022/
Saudis: So what are you doing here then?
In centuries to come. no doubt, each of the primitive tribes inhabiting reed-thatched round huts in the ruins of Cam Dun and Primisil will call its tribal leader the Buris.
Should be.
"Today, the elders of Scottlelund elected the New Boris, after a traditional Scottysh feast of pebbles, mud and rancid offal. Later, offerings were made in garbled Englysshe at the Faslane shrine of Holie Trydent"
Some chat on twitter that China is now allowing people to post online comments that are favorable to Ukraine - a change from the previous situation - and that the Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine has praised the unity of the country and pledged assistance in the recovery.
How are you? I noticed you having long PB discussion on diet and exercise? Have you seen idea’s of Jessie Inchauspe Daily Mail were promoting?
https://getpodcast.com/de/podcast/be-well-by-kelly/144-balance-your-blood-sugar-feel-your-best-with-jessie-inchauspe-fabu_fe12693a8d
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58438618-glucose-revolution
To be fair to Daily Mail their health articles have always been very good.
https://mobile.twitter.com/IAmPoliticsGirl/status/1504193965226020864
You literally just voted AGAINST aid for Ukraine.
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Sen. Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn · 9h The USA stands with Ukraine. 🇺🇸🇺🇦
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/ps1billion-investment-into-teesside-expected-as-boris-johnson-visits-saudi-arabia-3613067
Or are we excluding the Is your CLOCK radio giving you CANCER? type articles?
(I may paraphrase slightly, but I remember at least a very similar headline from my youth, which was most definitely mispent reading the Mail)
Edit: Good for you though. What's that old quote? "Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Wise words indeed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16473296#:~:text=How much will HS2 cost,2015 (at 2015 prices).
Having been a candid friend of Russia to start with it appears they may be maneuvering a little.
Superb nature writing. I always remember his description of hiking an English meadow in a winter storm and happening - by chance - across a gypsy encampment and finding a beautiful young topless Gypsy woman standing proud, with the snowflakes "driving thickly aslant upon her"
And it must have been exquisite
I sometimes like to imagine Middlesex or the greater Home Counties before about 1820. It would have been rapturously beautiful. Great beechwoods and elmwoods, hanging over deep river valleys. Dotted with lovely medieval villages like, say, West Wycombe is today, but unremarked because there would have been so many
Sad
Let's hope they don't over-reach
*for avoidance of doubt, not really - although given I've no idea what a second cousin thrice removed is, or even whether there is such a thing, who knows?
It probably makes him ideal for this crisis, but it also means he might not be ideal for the next.
Them's the choices, Ivan
a) We could not send Vulcans over willy nilly. We did it once. It was a massive logistical operation involving multiple refueling planes refueling each other to finally get a Vulcan over Stanley. It was a one off. So again you are talking nonsense.
B,) Sea Dart and Sea Wolf are not air to air missile. They are a defence of last resort for ships. You haven't a clue have you? Also Sea Wolf was limited in numbers so it caused huge problems using it as a defence.
C) It was the harriers with their sidewinders that provided the first line of defence. Without them the ships would have been overwhelmed.
God bless Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin.
By the way, do you have a direct line to CCHQ for this stuff, or do you just..y’know…read the Yorkshire Post on the regular.
There is an overwhelming sympathy for Ukraine in this country which is why it is so weird that someone as politically attuned as Boris has not pulled the plug on this ridiculous visa nonsense sooner. A Ukrainian passport is all they ever should have needed.
This thread could have ended 2 threads ago. But no, being the tedious bore you are you had to carry it over again and again onto the next thread and the next.
A) We had multiple Vulcans in the Falklands over the course of the War, all of which could have been used to bomb Argentine airfields.
C) Sidewinders were not the sole missiles that could have been used by Harriers. Having them was a help but if we did not have them we would have had other air to air missiles.
Plus again we had submarines with nuclear missiles unlike Argentina as a last resort
Chelsea fans drank throughout the day as they clashed with Gendarmes in Lille
Police fired tear gas cannisters and sent in squads to arrest the ringleaders
Around 2,500 fans who bought tickets before sanctions have travelled to France "
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10620605/Chelsea-fans-chanting-Roman-Abramovich-throw-bottles-French-police-respond-tear-gas.html
It has hints of Grand Budapest Hotel. Obviously not as good - that would be hard - but still captures that early 20th century European bohemian feeling rather well. It's all about the bisexual French writer (played brilliantly by a luminous Keira Knightley) and her older libertine partner and publisher, played expertly by Dominic West (him off The Wire, et al)
Frivolous yet moving. 8.4/10
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/06/colette-review-keira-knightley-wash-westmoreland
(While also wondering why GCHQ would be needed if it's in the Yorkshire Post)
This film scene from The Railway Children seems appropriate - https://twitter.com/michaelwarbur17/status/1504083733766455299?s=21.
Good night all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/07/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-jets-chinese
Sorry good news stories get to you as you give the impression you want anything HMG does to fail
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/permanent-location-of-national-cyber-force-campus-announced
Whether or not his foolhardy comments had any bearing on Mrs Ratcliffe's fate is not the issue. We should expect senior Ministers to avail themselves of their brief. Johnson did not, and you want to give him "a small boost".
Both Lammy and Sadiq put party politics aside and commended Liz Truss today. They remained stinging in their analysis of Johnson's tenure as FS. He deserves no credit for Mrs Ratcliffe's release whatsoever.
It is at least Diverting and Fun. And these are not bad things, right now
This story reads precisely like one of those cases.
I’ll be very pleased if I’m wrong.
I’ve been banging on about levelling up for nearly as long as you’ve been dining out on driving Miss Daisy, or whatever that Tory grandee was called.
I must confess I can’t understand why someone who works in the legal profession should so easily be taken in by someone who has spent his career flouting the rules.
I admit I cracked a smile when he suggested that the Radcliffe news will give Boris a “small bounce”.
They are a stain on this country
Those who called for him to go seriously had some principles and had quit voting Tory when he became the leader.
( https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/13/cyberfirst_ads_cancelled/ )
Which was better Phoenix Nights or The Office?
Phoenix for me. Or maybe that's the world I know?
Regardless. A sign of how sitcoms have declined.
Mrs. Brown's Boys these days.
https://twitter.com/tass_agency/status/1504219918438391815
There's a good reason why England and Labour have a red rose.
Bisexual is but a bonus.
Also I’ve been in those clubs.