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  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,479
    Andy_JS said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @michaelkeohan

    NEW: The Home Office have confirmed to me that last night the Border Force vessel Ranger, returned migrants back to France, after rescuing them in French waters. The FIRST TIME this has EVER happened.

    It's not yet clear if this is a direct change of policy from the Home Office.

    https://x.com/michaelkeohan/status/1813934284337791195

    The Tories must have been really rubbish not to have been able to organise this when they were in charge.
    Was it ever in question that they were “really rubbish”?
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,479
    Sandpit said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @michaelkeohan

    NEW: The Home Office have confirmed to me that last night the Border Force vessel Ranger, returned migrants back to France, after rescuing them in French waters. The FIRST TIME this has EVER happened.

    It's not yet clear if this is a direct change of policy from the Home Office.

    https://x.com/michaelkeohan/status/1813934284337791195

    The Tories must have been really rubbish not to have been able to organise this when they were in charge.
    Smacks of the French being French, and doing it deliberately. New British government, new approach.
    Lol.
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 3,077
    Sandpit said:

    Leon said:

    algarkirk said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    dixiedean said:

    On a bus in front of a person who literally hasn't stopped talking for 45 minutes. It's a stream of consciousness of every single thought that enters her head.
    How does she think?
    What does she do when alone?

    Writes shit articles for the Spectator.
    Indeed. My stalker has stolen yet another of my favourite rants - against Michelin food

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keep-michelin-men-out-of-our-hotels/
    Hint: if you want to keep up the pretence that you are not SeanT, stop promoting your Spectator articles.
    Oh do cheer up

    Here’s a photo of “the world’s most beautiful Romanesque cloisters”. In Arles cathedral



    They also have the skull and leg bone of St Anthony of the desert. One of the first ever saints, famous for his “temptations” in Egypt. Who managed to survive being “beaten to death” by cave-demons

    Brilliantly, the bones of the saint made it to Arles via some fabulously arcane route, including a gift by “Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer”

    Arles est fantastique
    British bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314. During Anthony's lifetime. One of many things schoolchildren don't learn just in case it fires their imagination.
    If you want to be depressed - get this

    My older daughter is very smart and reads a lot (she just devoured Brave New World in the 2 hour flight from Gatwick to Marseilles)

    I mentioned that I’m reading a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Her answer:

    “Who?”

    She’s never heard of CHARLES DE GAULLE

    And she’s clever and highly literate. She went to a supposedly “outstanding” north london comp then another “outstanding” sixth form and she’s in line for a top of the range uni

    What the fuck are we teaching our kids? Every child should know by the age of 18 who Charles de Gaulle was. Its bonkers and stupid
    Put her on a plane to Paris.
    Orly? :-)
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,116

    Leon said:

    algarkirk said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    dixiedean said:

    On a bus in front of a person who literally hasn't stopped talking for 45 minutes. It's a stream of consciousness of every single thought that enters her head.
    How does she think?
    What does she do when alone?

    Writes shit articles for the Spectator.
    Indeed. My stalker has stolen yet another of my favourite rants - against Michelin food

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keep-michelin-men-out-of-our-hotels/
    Hint: if you want to keep up the pretence that you are not SeanT, stop promoting your Spectator articles.
    Oh do cheer up

    Here’s a photo of “the world’s most beautiful Romanesque cloisters”. In Arles cathedral



    They also have the skull and leg bone of St Anthony of the desert. One of the first ever saints, famous for his “temptations” in Egypt. Who managed to survive being “beaten to death” by cave-demons

    Brilliantly, the bones of the saint made it to Arles via some fabulously arcane route, including a gift by “Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer”

    Arles est fantastique
    British bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314. During Anthony's lifetime. One of many things schoolchildren don't learn just in case it fires their imagination.
    If you want to be depressed - get this

    My older daughter is very smart and reads a lot (she just devoured Brave New World in the 2 hour flight from Gatwick to Marseilles)

    I mentioned that I’m reading a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Her answer:

    “Who?”

    She’s never heard of CHARLES DE GAULLE

    And she’s clever and highly literate. She went to a supposedly “outstanding” north london comp then another “outstanding” sixth form and she’s in line for a top of the range uni

    What the fuck are we teaching our kids? Every child should know by the age of 18 who Charles de Gaulle was. Its bonkers and stupid
    One of my grandsons has just finished a History at Manchester (2:1, if you’re interested). During his time he had to do an essay on significant changes to young people’s lives in the 1960’s, and I asked him if he’d included the ending of National Service. He said he didn’t.
    If we’d had National Service through the 60’s we wouldn’t have had the bands!
    That's an unknown unknown !
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,116
    algarkirk said:

    Selebian said:

    Leon said:

    algarkirk said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    dixiedean said:

    On a bus in front of a person who literally hasn't stopped talking for 45 minutes. It's a stream of consciousness of every single thought that enters her head.
    How does she think?
    What does she do when alone?

    Writes shit articles for the Spectator.
    Indeed. My stalker has stolen yet another of my favourite rants - against Michelin food

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keep-michelin-men-out-of-our-hotels/
    Hint: if you want to keep up the pretence that you are not SeanT, stop promoting your Spectator articles.
    Oh do cheer up

    Here’s a photo of “the world’s most beautiful Romanesque cloisters”. In Arles cathedral



    They also have the skull and leg bone of St Anthony of the desert. One of the first ever saints, famous for his “temptations” in Egypt. Who managed to survive being “beaten to death” by cave-demons

    Brilliantly, the bones of the saint made it to Arles via some fabulously arcane route, including a gift by “Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer”

    Arles est fantastique
    British bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314. During Anthony's lifetime. One of many things schoolchildren don't learn just in case it fires their imagination.
    If you want to be depressed - get this

    My older daughter is very smart and reads a lot (she just devoured Brave New World in the 2 hour flight from Gatwick to Marseilles)

    I mentioned that I’m reading a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Her answer:

    “Who?”

    She’s never heard of CHARLES DE GAULLE

    And she’s clever and highly literate. She went to a supposedly “outstanding” north london comp then another “outstanding” sixth form and she’s in line for a top of the range uni

    What the fuck are we teaching our kids? Every child should know by the age of 18 who Charles de Gaulle was. Its bonkers and stupid
    You know, I'm not certain I knew of de Gaulle before I went to uni. There wasn't much on WW2 in secondary school really (loads on WW1) and pretty much nothing post WW2. Obviously we should all know about him anyway, but I'm not as shocked as maybe I should be.

    I think I first became aware of him in the post-war context, probably when reading up on the formation of the EU.
    I remember where I was when I heard he had died; and I had a French lesson in school where the matter got aired that very afternoon nearly 54 years ago.
    I think I became aware of De Gaulle when I read The White Rabbit, which was a WW2 French Resistance biography. That would be in my teens; we had a large collection of such books from an aunt who died early.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,116
    Cicero said:

    Sandpit said:

    Leon said:

    algarkirk said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    dixiedean said:

    On a bus in front of a person who literally hasn't stopped talking for 45 minutes. It's a stream of consciousness of every single thought that enters her head.
    How does she think?
    What does she do when alone?

    Writes shit articles for the Spectator.
    Indeed. My stalker has stolen yet another of my favourite rants - against Michelin food

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keep-michelin-men-out-of-our-hotels/
    Hint: if you want to keep up the pretence that you are not SeanT, stop promoting your Spectator articles.
    Oh do cheer up

    Here’s a photo of “the world’s most beautiful Romanesque cloisters”. In Arles cathedral



    They also have the skull and leg bone of St Anthony of the desert. One of the first ever saints, famous for his “temptations” in Egypt. Who managed to survive being “beaten to death” by cave-demons

    Brilliantly, the bones of the saint made it to Arles via some fabulously arcane route, including a gift by “Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer”

    Arles est fantastique
    British bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314. During Anthony's lifetime. One of many things schoolchildren don't learn just in case it fires their imagination.
    If you want to be depressed - get this

    My older daughter is very smart and reads a lot (she just devoured Brave New World in the 2 hour flight from Gatwick to Marseilles)

    I mentioned that I’m reading a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Her answer:

    “Who?”

    She’s never heard of CHARLES DE GAULLE

    And she’s clever and highly literate. She went to a supposedly “outstanding” north london comp then another “outstanding” sixth form and she’s in line for a top of the range uni

    What the fuck are we teaching our kids? Every child should know by the age of 18 who Charles de Gaulle was. Its bonkers and stupid
    Put her on a plane to Paris.
    Orly? :-)
    Or late.
  • Leon said:

    I’ve been away so I can understand why the site is a bit grumpy and bored, so I apologise. I’m on hols with ma fille

    But this might cheer you all up. The gazette have just told me this afternoon that it is sending me to Japan’s Yaeyama archipelago, one of the most exotic and fabulous destinations on the planet

    Isn’t that good news? Surely everyone just feels little bit happier now, knowing that at least one PBer is going to this amazing place?


    https://visitokinawajapan.com/destinations/yaeyama-islands/

    But have you travelled first class in an 1892 carriage with a steam engine round the Circle Line?
  • algarkirk said:

    Leon said:

    algarkirk said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    dixiedean said:

    On a bus in front of a person who literally hasn't stopped talking for 45 minutes. It's a stream of consciousness of every single thought that enters her head.
    How does she think?
    What does she do when alone?

    Writes shit articles for the Spectator.
    Indeed. My stalker has stolen yet another of my favourite rants - against Michelin food

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keep-michelin-men-out-of-our-hotels/
    Hint: if you want to keep up the pretence that you are not SeanT, stop promoting your Spectator articles.
    Oh do cheer up

    Here’s a photo of “the world’s most beautiful Romanesque cloisters”. In Arles cathedral



    They also have the skull and leg bone of St Anthony of the desert. One of the first ever saints, famous for his “temptations” in Egypt. Who managed to survive being “beaten to death” by cave-demons

    Brilliantly, the bones of the saint made it to Arles via some fabulously arcane route, including a gift by “Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer”

    Arles est fantastique
    British bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314. During Anthony's lifetime. One of many things schoolchildren don't learn just in case it fires their imagination.
    If you want to be depressed - get this

    My older daughter is very smart and reads a lot (she just devoured Brave New World in the 2 hour flight from Gatwick to Marseilles)

    I mentioned that I’m reading a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Her answer:

    “Who?”

    She’s never heard of CHARLES DE GAULLE

    And she’s clever and highly literate. She went to a supposedly “outstanding” north london comp then another “outstanding” sixth form and she’s in line for a top of the range uni

    What the fuck are we teaching our kids? Every child should know by the age of 18 who Charles de Gaulle was. Its bonkers and stupid
    One of my grandsons has just finished a History at Manchester (2:1, if you’re interested). During his time he had to do an essay on significant changes to young people’s lives in the 1960’s, and I asked him if he’d included the ending of National Service. He said he didn’t.
    If we’d had National Service through the 60’s we wouldn’t have had the bands!
    According to Larkin the really big thing in the 1960s was the invention of sexual intercourse, which of course began in 1963.
    It was brought into existence by the Beeching Report.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,059
    Cicero said:

    Sandpit said:

    Leon said:

    algarkirk said:

    Leon said:

    Leon said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    dixiedean said:

    On a bus in front of a person who literally hasn't stopped talking for 45 minutes. It's a stream of consciousness of every single thought that enters her head.
    How does she think?
    What does she do when alone?

    Writes shit articles for the Spectator.
    Indeed. My stalker has stolen yet another of my favourite rants - against Michelin food

    https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keep-michelin-men-out-of-our-hotels/
    Hint: if you want to keep up the pretence that you are not SeanT, stop promoting your Spectator articles.
    Oh do cheer up

    Here’s a photo of “the world’s most beautiful Romanesque cloisters”. In Arles cathedral



    They also have the skull and leg bone of St Anthony of the desert. One of the first ever saints, famous for his “temptations” in Egypt. Who managed to survive being “beaten to death” by cave-demons

    Brilliantly, the bones of the saint made it to Arles via some fabulously arcane route, including a gift by “Emperor Basil the Bulgar Slayer”

    Arles est fantastique
    British bishops attended the Council of Arles in 314. During Anthony's lifetime. One of many things schoolchildren don't learn just in case it fires their imagination.
    If you want to be depressed - get this

    My older daughter is very smart and reads a lot (she just devoured Brave New World in the 2 hour flight from Gatwick to Marseilles)

    I mentioned that I’m reading a biography of Charles de Gaulle. Her answer:

    “Who?”

    She’s never heard of CHARLES DE GAULLE

    And she’s clever and highly literate. She went to a supposedly “outstanding” north london comp then another “outstanding” sixth form and she’s in line for a top of the range uni

    What the fuck are we teaching our kids? Every child should know by the age of 18 who Charles de Gaulle was. Its bonkers and stupid
    Put her on a plane to Paris.
    Orly? :-)
    Rly.

    😎

  • TazTaz Posts: 14,361
    The Hulkster goes full MAGA !
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,059
    Taz said:

    The Hulkster goes full MAGA !

    Seventy-something man with artfully concealed baldness and unconvincing tan attends RNC 😃
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,400
    If it's brokered and it's Harris and three others then one is definitely probably Whitmer and possibly Newsom as well.

    Not sure about the third, or if it's rhetorical, but it almost certainly won't be Michelle Obama.

    I'd say Whitmer is value at 15s.
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,361
    viewcode said:

    Taz said:

    The Hulkster goes full MAGA !

    Seventy-something man with artfully concealed baldness and unconvincing tan attends RNC 😃
    He’s been concealing that baldness for 30 years or so……Brutha.
  • TazTaz Posts: 14,361
    It’s as good as over for Sleepy Joe according to Andrew Neil

    https://x.com/afneil/status/1814086850480398559?s=61
  • moonshinemoonshine Posts: 5,747
    Taz said:

    It’s as good as over for Sleepy Joe according to Andrew Neil

    https://x.com/afneil/status/1814086850480398559?s=61

    It has been thus since the night of the debate. The only question was how much humiliation Mrs Biden would allow her husband to endure before pulling the rip chord.

    Good news on open convention. Most entertaining outcome but also the best chance of getting a good candidate.
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