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Scooby Doo, where are you as Spanish politics is literally going to the dogs – politicalbetting.com
Scooby Doo, where are you as Spanish politics is literally going to the dogs – politicalbetting.com
The heat has addled my brain today so please enjoy this shaggy dog story from Spain in lieu of a regular thread.
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Keep your hands inside of the ride, or you might die, Shabba....
I didnt get the chance on the last thread to thank David Cameron for calling a referendum
Will there need to be a bill passed to amend this one, once the details have actually been worked out?
Tesco says sorry after running ‘meet the Lionesses’ campaign... in Wales
Supermarket pulls Lucozade’s England promotion for Euro 2025 from Cardiff outlets after shoppers describe it as ‘deeply offensive’
Tesco has apologised for displaying a “meet the Lionesses” advertising stand in a Cardiff store, which customers described as “deeply offensive”.
Wales’s women’s team will take part in their first major tournament at this summer’s Euro 2025 and have been drawn in the same group as England.
Shoppers in Cardiff were outraged by a Lucozade display that offered the chance for fans to meet the Lionesses, whom Wales play on July 13.
Noel Mooney, the chief executive of the Football Association of Wales (FAW) was one of several people to share their anger on social media, posting on X: “We are Cymru.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/06/20/tesco-lionesses-campaign-wales-england-women-euro-2025/
There's quite some weighting going on as well, many unweighted polls showing things as tight and preferred PM figures favouring Sanchez.
Do you read it as competitive or don you use the UK rule of think and take the worst Socialist figures?
An interesting and potentially competitive environment.
I still have a memory of leader of Liverpool City Council Mike Storey complaining on the North West news - when car registrations were reordered around 2003 - that it was 'insensitive' that Manchester and Merseyside had to share a letter 'M'. Tit.
Some people in Wales forget Wales is a littoral part of England.
Rep. RJ May, a Republican member of the South Carolina House, has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material. Prosecutors say he used the screen name “joebidennnn69.”
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1935816209741586692
I think the debate on the last thread is where the controversy lies in so far as some want it as a way to end their life when they haven't a terminal diagnosis
If I hadn't missed the boat train from Victoria perhaps I would have conquered Everest. Who knows?
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/norwegian-government-commits-to-allocating-5-of-gdp-to-defence-related-expenditures/id3110204/
Football - England or Scotland. If they play each other then it depends.
Rugby - Scotland, then Wales. In fact anyone but England...
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1936015937783603244
and
"Russia plans to launch over 800 Shahed 136 drones on Ukrainian cities every night in the future."
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1936052859117682970
IIRC The UK was one of the last countries in NATO, at that point, not using that definition.
Which seems sensible, as (eg) defence related industrial infrastructure is every bit as important in creating sustainable defence capacity.
Evidence of the shrewdness of Cameron's judgement.
https://www.thepoke.com/2025/05/27/telegraph-sob-story-about-family-having-to-cut-holidays-to-pay-school-fees-fake/
I expect rapid deflation at some point later tomorrow.
Are we praying for rain already?
Sadness in the Tyndall household today as two of my son's classmates were killed in a car crash a few miles from here last night. They had finished sitting their A levels yesterday and I assume were out celebrating. The two lads who died were passengers in a car and the driver has been arrested on a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Really sad and all too common. I do wonder whether there is something more that should be done to either educate young drivers or prevent them from carrying passengers for a while.
Nasser in Brisbane levels of ouch
Putin: "We have this old rule: wherever a Russian soldier sets foot, it's ours."
https://x.com/PolymarketIntel/status/1936095773315268979
(its not like I'm not trying).
Maybe a truth Sarum?
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mango-lassi
Stricter driving restrictions are needed for young drivers and I thought they were in the pipeline
We have strict laws on e-bikes and mopeds but that doesn't stop them being misused by illegal riders, often with catastrophic results (Ely, anyone)?
I do find it inexplicable that motorcycle/scooter licences are age-gated but car licences are not, when the potential damage from driving a car recklessly is so much greater.
The moon, like elephants, are surely Russian?
England looking horribly exposed.
*Off his arm, admittedly, but it looks sloppy.
Hmm.
I caught up with him half a mile later, balaclavad up and engaged in some sort of conference with two cyclists.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14831671/Attack-Iranian-Embassy-Two-pro-Israel-protesters-taken-hospital-set-police-arrest-six-men.html
WAIT WAIT WAIT
Arrests as two assaulted outside Iranian embassy
...
The Met Police have said they believe the altercation happened between protesters supporting and opposing the Iranian monarchy, and there were no links to Israel.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y2r27jn24o
This is a piece and a short video from Martin Lewis, who says they have listened to what he asked them to look at.
It's cautious to a fault, and very Starmer - it looks like scraping the barnacles off the hull, where imo it needs a new hull. But it's a start with things like making challenging a banding easier, bringing in safeguards to debt collection more in line with utilities, changing default payments to 12 per year not 10, maybe reforming "miss one payment and it is all due NOW", and so on.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/06/council-tax-reforms-consultation/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLL4NIttlNc
Two minutes of very entertaining analysis from Rory & Al on TRiP.
All the more reason for us to publicly back Israel.
So we'd better get on with working out what we need to do to win and then do that.
Indian batsmen can bat all day
@itvnews
"It won’t come in my lifetime, I won’t live long enough, but I am so relieved that it will help future generations to be able to look forward with hope and confidence to a good death," Dame Esther Rantzen shares with
@PaulBrandITV
her joy at seeing MPs vote in favour of the assisted dying bill
https://x.com/itvnews/status/1936087934614008319
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn81g4e0nlyo
Without going the full Leon, I was surprised at how vehemently these activists were condemned on social media. Rather than framed in terms of the current Middle East kerfuffle, the split was mainly whether the charge should be terrorism or treason.
Sadly it may turn out to be 4 young lives ruined as an 18 year old girl and 18 year old boy (the drivers of the two cars involved) were arrested over the deaths.
If he'd won that argument in 2004, what happened at Brize Norton would be perfectly legal.
https://x.com/kemibadenoch/status/1936100131574587419?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
Except it's no fun of course. Because of his position he has to be pandered to and 'managed'. Which in the opposite of a virtuous circle feeds back into the ludicrous self-image.
Where it all ends with him, I do not know.