I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Another year like that and they will fall into Trumps shithole category.
Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or boats to us?' It's the same thing here."
FPT I agree, Yvette Cooper is a decent trading bet, 20/1 best odds currently. Especially if you have backed Rayner, Miliband and Healey at far longer odds than you can get on them now. Like Miliband, Cooper has had ambitions to be Labour leader because she stood in 2015.
Of the viable candidates for next PM, I wouldn't look beyond Rayner, Miliband, Streeting, Cooper and Healey now. There will be a contest under way by June 2026. Rayner or Miliband will be the candidate of the left, Streeting the candidate of the right, leaving a space for either Cooper or Healey to come through the middle. It's very difficult to see more than 3 candidates making it past the 80 nominations threshold.
Why are you convinced there will be a contest? It seems to me that any wise candidate will wait until things have settled. Or they're going to walk into a storm.
So any challenge by HMRC would have to win an argument that there wasn't a genuine attempt to attract additional investors to reduce Tice's ownership from 90% to 10% in the 35 months before it was delisted as a REIT.
Leading to the question how did HMRC not see that they'd created a tax loophole ripe for abuse that would be very difficult to challenge?
Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or boats to us?' It's the same thing here."
Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.
Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.
Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services
That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.
That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.
I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.
One assumes you don't have an ISA then.
No never had one, never will have one.
Some of us have ethics
(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.
Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).
I say what I think aboutvBadenoch
I praise other Tories, current and past.
Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.
Well you're not a real person, and if I'm wrong and you are then that's pretty horrible for you really.
If Brixian isn’t a real person he/she has a fantastic knowledge of Birmingham and BCFC that no bot could just conjure up.
He/she is real. I have no doubt about that.
:lol A real twat?
You insult my football club and you cross the line.
Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.
Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.
Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services
That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.
That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.
I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.
One assumes you don't have an ISA then.
No never had one, never will have one.
Some of us have ethics
(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.
Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).
I say what I think aboutvBadenoch
I praise other Tories, current and past.
Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.
Gibshite ... Is that a nautical term of disapprobation ?
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Another year like that and they will fall into Trumps shithole category.
Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.
Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.
Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services
That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.
That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.
I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.
One assumes you don't have an ISA then.
No never had one, never will have one.
Some of us have ethics
(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.
Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).
I say what I think aboutvBadenoch
I praise other Tories, current and past.
Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.
Well you're not a real person, and if I'm wrong and you are then that's pretty horrible for you really.
If Brixian isn’t a real person he/she has a fantastic knowledge of Birmingham and BCFC that no bot could just conjure up.
He/she is real. I have no doubt about that.
:lol A real twat?
You insult my football club and you cross the line.
Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.
Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.
Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services
That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.
That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.
I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.
One assumes you don't have an ISA then.
No never had one, never will have one.
Some of us have ethics
(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.
Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).
I say what I think aboutvBadenoch
I praise other Tories, current and past.
Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.
Well you're not a real person, and if I'm wrong and you are then that's pretty horrible for you really.
If Brixian isn’t a real person he/she has a fantastic knowledge of Birmingham and BCFC that no bot could just conjure up.
He/she is real. I have no doubt about that.
:lol A real twat?
You insult my football club and you cross the line.
Relax, I know Birmingham, Coventry, Wolves quite well, it's an OK part of the world.
Just wondering if the new tram line to Dudley will actual open in August.
A long term lurker has messaged me this regarding a recent thread.
Went to a Dire Straits themed restaurant, got charged for the cakes but got sides for nothing, yes it was..
Money for muffins but the chips were free.
They are a great loss as a lurker...
They are, sadly their contract of employments mean they are forbidden from posting on sites like PB.
I've known them since 2012, they helped crush Scottish Nationalism stone dead in 2014 which as a Scot was a career highlight for them, and once called me a fucking nob.
Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.
Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.
Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services
That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.
That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.
I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.
One assumes you don't have an ISA then.
No never had one, never will have one.
Some of us have ethics
(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.
Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).
I say what I think aboutvBadenoch
I praise other Tories, current and past.
Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.
Well you're not a real person, and if I'm wrong and you are then that's pretty horrible for you really.
If Brixian isn’t a real person he/she has a fantastic knowledge of Birmingham and BCFC that no bot could just conjure up.
He/she is real. I have no doubt about that.
:lol A real twat?
You insult my football club and you cross the line.
Relax, I know Birmingham, Coventry, Wolves quite well, it's an OK part of the world.
Just wondering if the new tram line to Dudley will actual open in August.
There’s going to be a new tram line running to the new Blues ground when it is built too.
Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.
Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.
Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services
That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.
That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.
I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.
One assumes you don't have an ISA then.
No never had one, never will have one.
Some of us have ethics
(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.
Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).
I say what I think aboutvBadenoch
I praise other Tories, current and past.
Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.
Well you're not a real person, and if I'm wrong and you are then that's pretty horrible for you really.
If Brixian isn’t a real person he/she has a fantastic knowledge of Birmingham and BCFC that no bot could just conjure up.
He/she is real. I have no doubt about that.
:lol A real twat?
You insult my football club and you cross the line.
I’ve just realised that the BeeGees song “I started a joke” is about Trump. The bit in bold will likely be true.
I started a joke Which started the whole world crying But I didn't see That the joke was on me, oh no I started to cry Which started the whole world laughing Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I looked at the skies Running my hands over my eyes And I fell out of bed Hurting my head from things that I'd said 'Til I finally died Which started the whole world living Oh, if I'd only seen That the joke was on me I looked at the skies Running my hands over my eyes And I fell out of bed Hurting my head from things that I'd said 'Til I finally died Which started the whole world living Oh, if I'd only seen, oh yeah That the joke was on me, oh no That the joke was on me Oh, no, no, no
Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or boats to us?' It's the same thing here."
Arsehole. No doubt the whole squad would have looked at that and learned a lesson. Don’t even dream of turning down a good franchise contract to play for this shower. You’ll get no thanks for it.
Who'd have thunk it. NCP car parks has gone into administration.
Long, non-variable, leases on sites apparently. Bit like parking without reading all the terms and conditions, no?
We virtually never pay to.park. we park on double yellows whilst one does what necessary and move if the yellow peril appears. Loads of people are doing it because our council.is fffing greedy.
Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or boats to us?' It's the same thing here."
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Another year like that and they will fall into Trumps shithole category.
Yes, it only goes down to 60 so there's not much further to fall. I'm not sure who is chopped off the bottom but I think Russia and Iran are in the bottom three.
Arsehole. No doubt the whole squad would have looked at that and learned a lesson. Don’t even dream of turning down a good franchise contract to play for this shower. You’ll get no thanks for it.
A long term lurker has messaged me this regarding a recent thread.
Went to a Dire Straits themed restaurant, got charged for the cakes but got sides for nothing, yes it was..
Money for muffins but the chips were free.
They are a great loss as a lurker...
They are, sadly their contract of employments mean they are forbidden from posting on sites like PB.
I've known them since 2012, they helped crush Scottish Nationalism stone dead in 2014 which as a Scot was a career highlight for them, and once called me a fucking nob.
Surely not big TUBA who I saw when boarding london city flight this morning
Whiffy. And note the appeal (by Tice) to forelock tuggers - the plebs should be pleased to vote for a wealthy businessman who is smart enough to figure out ways around tax. We need people like that in charge. Part of Trump's shtick, that was. Lesson there for anybody paying attention.
Tice s a twat
If he has broken the law on tax, then the HMRC should pull his socks up over his head.
If he hasn't broken the law, then the party of government shouldn't complain about it. They have the ability to change the law. Even make new ones.
Doesn't Tice spend part (at least) of the year in the Gulf?
Whiffy. And note the appeal (by Tice) to forelock tuggers - the plebs should be pleased to vote for a wealthy businessman who is smart enough to figure out ways around tax. We need people like that in charge. Part of Trump's shtick, that was. Lesson there for anybody paying attention.
Tice s a twat
If he has broken the law on tax, then the HMRC should pull his socks up over his head.
If he hasn't broken the law, then the party of government shouldn't complain about it. They have the ability to change the law. Even make new ones.
Doesn't Tice spend part (at least) of the year in the Gulf?
I thought his property company had been offshore for decades, but I have never bothered to check.
Who'd have thunk it. NCP car parks has gone into administration.
How can a free hit protection racket go out of business? I tell you what, I'll phone a friend. Donald, "how can a free hit protection racket go out of business?".
Arsehole. No doubt the whole squad would have looked at that and learned a lesson. Don’t even dream of turning down a good franchise contract to play for this shower. You’ll get no thanks for it.
Here's the full interview/article.
I've upgraded Rob Key from being an utter Mark Reckless to an utter Max Verstappen.
Who'd have thunk it. NCP car parks has gone into administration.
How can a free hit protection racket go out of business? I tell you what, I'll phone a friend. Donald, "how can a free hit protection racket go out of business?".
By leasing sites at rates that don't make any sense on contracts they can't extract themselves from.
At some time in the past an idiot made a number of expensive decisions that have finally come back and bitten them.
Personally I would also blame an app which you could only register a single car on - which for a muli-car family made parking them blooming painful.
Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or boats to us?' It's the same thing here."
Whiffy. And note the appeal (by Tice) to forelock tuggers - the plebs should be pleased to vote for a wealthy businessman who is smart enough to figure out ways around tax. We need people like that in charge. Part of Trump's shtick, that was. Lesson there for anybody paying attention.
Tice s a twat
If he has broken the law on tax, then the HMRC should pull his socks up over his head.
If he hasn't broken the law, then the party of government shouldn't complain about it. They have the ability to change the law. Even make new ones.
Doesn't Tice spend part (at least) of the year in the Gulf?
Whiffy. And note the appeal (by Tice) to forelock tuggers - the plebs should be pleased to vote for a wealthy businessman who is smart enough to figure out ways around tax. We need people like that in charge. Part of Trump's shtick, that was. Lesson there for anybody paying attention.
Tice s a twat
If he has broken the law on tax, then the HMRC should pull his socks up over his head.
If he hasn't broken the law, then the party of government shouldn't complain about it. They have the ability to change the law. Even make new ones.
Doesn't Tice spend part (at least) of the year in the Gulf?
I thought his property company had been offshore for decades, but I have never bothered to check.
His floosie spends most of her time there as uk is not safe. Tice spends weekends there.
Not sure if SKS can duck Trump's request for help with Iran. Trump wrote it in a book a few years ago. He helpfully writes a lot down in a book (called Project 2025)
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
FPT I agree, Yvette Cooper is a decent trading bet, 20/1 best odds currently. Especially if you have backed Rayner, Miliband and Healey at far longer odds than you can get on them now. Like Miliband, Cooper has had ambitions to be Labour leader because she stood in 2015.
Of the viable candidates for next PM, I wouldn't look beyond Rayner, Miliband, Streeting, Cooper and Healey now. There will be a contest under way by June 2026. Rayner or Miliband will be the candidate of the left, Streeting the candidate of the right, leaving a space for either Cooper or Healey to come through the middle. It's very difficult to see more than 3 candidates making it past the 80 nominations threshold.
Why are you convinced there will be a contest? It seems to me that any wise candidate will wait until things have settled. Or they're going to walk into a storm.
No, the optimum position for a challenge is when Starmer is reeling from an absolute shellacking at the May elections, immediately after which there will be an absolute clamour for him to go as MPs realise that it will happen to them in 3 years time unless they throw the dice. Whoever rises to the occasion will get credit for forcing a contest if Starmer doesn't fall on his sword. It takes only one to initiate a contest and once one jumps the others will follow.
Tice pitches that people should pay the minimum possible Tax, to cover up his own nefarious activities.
Whether they break the Law or not, Tax avoidance is as bad as Tax evasion in my eyes and always has been.
Tice may need to explain to his core vote the C and D categories who will rely more on public services than most, that by choice he will be destroying any concept of public services
That in part defines a reason why well off and wealthy do lean left and vote left. It is because we believe in equality of opportunity irrespective of what we were born in to, the polar opposite of the silver spoon brigade, but that wealth earned should be distributed via tax to the less well off, and inherited wealth should certainly be more equally distributed.
That does not allow the NEET state Boris, Truss and Sunak created however.
I will take to my grave my time spent in Sweden when Olaf Palme was in power, a high tax, world class public service system that rewarded enterprise and deliver hope and prosperity. A generation who glady contributed to the wonderful services provided by the State for the benefit of everyone.
One assumes you don't have an ISA then.
No never had one, never will have one.
Some of us have ethics
(FPT) OK, I now believe this is a wind up account.
Of course it is! The account has done nothing else but trash talk Kemi Badenoch for weeks on end. No-one can be that single minded, (our dear Hyufd excluded of course).
I say what I think aboutvBadenoch
I praise other Tories, current and past.
Badenoch is a gibshite with an aggression issue who is not fit to lead any Party.
Well you're not a real person, and if I'm wrong and you are then that's pretty horrible for you really.
If Brixian isn’t a real person he/she has a fantastic knowledge of Birmingham and BCFC that no bot could just conjure up.
He/she is real. I have no doubt about that.
:lol A real twat?
You insult my football club and you cross the line.
Relax, I know Birmingham, Coventry, Wolves quite well, it's an OK part of the world.
Just wondering if the new tram line to Dudley will actual open in August.
There’s going to be a new tram line running to the new Blues ground when it is built too.
Been a while since I was up there I assume Dudley also goes to Merry Hill.
As Taz says will also link to The Powerhouse and Airport and NEC
Just in time for the Knicks to play The reborn Bullets at the Powerhouse Indoor Arena.
Not sure if SKS can duck Trump's request for help with Iran. Trump wrote it in a book a few years ago. He helpfully writes a lot down in a book (called Project 2025)
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
Not sure if SKS can duck Trump's request for help with Iran. Trump wrote it in a book a few years ago. He helpfully writes a lot down in a book (called Project 2025)
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Another year like that and they will fall into Trumps shithole category.
Muslim countries conspicuous by their global unpopularity
Not sure if SKS can duck Trump's request for help with Iran. Trump wrote it in a book a few years ago. He helpfully writes a lot down in a book (called Project 2025)
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
Not sure if SKS can duck Trump's request for help with Iran. Trump wrote it in a book a few years ago. He helpfully writes a lot down in a book (called Project 2025)
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
Minesweepers are defensive applications.
Problem is when one gets blown up.
Best to sbstsin
Let them sort their own mess out.
This will end up with people calling to reopen the gas pipelines with Russia in order to stick two fingers up at Trump.
A long term lurker has messaged me this regarding a recent thread.
Went to a Dire Straits themed restaurant, got charged for the cakes but got sides for nothing, yes it was..
Money for muffins but the chips were free.
They are a great loss as a lurker...
They are, sadly their contract of employments mean they are forbidden from posting on sites like PB.
I've known them since 2012, they helped crush Scottish Nationalism stone dead in 2014 which as a Scot was a career highlight for them, and once called me a fucking nob.
Surely not big TUBA who I saw when boarding london city flight this morning
Nah, they aren't a politicians, more a strategist type.
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Another year like that and they will fall into Trumps shithole category.
Muslim countries conspicuous by their global unpopularity
Indeed, it is the woke, modern, liberal, democratic countries that are globally popular, not the reactionary, misogynistic, religious, fundamentalist dictatorships. Might tell us something.
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Interesting graphic.
We are still less well regarded than Belgium. That is a disgrace.
Not sure if SKS can duck Trump's request for help with Iran. Trump wrote it in a book a few years ago. He helpfully writes a lot down in a book (called Project 2025)
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
Not sure if SKS can duck Trump's request for help with Iran. Trump wrote it in a book a few years ago. He helpfully writes a lot down in a book (called Project 2025)
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
Minesweepers are defensive applications.
Problem is when one gets blown up.
Best to sbstsin
Let them sort their own mess out.
This will end up with people calling to reopen the gas pipelines with Russia in order to stick two fingers up at Trump.
Which is why a lot of the infrastructure got "put beyond use"
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Interesting graphic.
We are still less well regarded than Belgium. That is a disgrace.
Especially when the Belgian PM is a Russian asset.
From the EU leader who recently blocked the use of frozen Russian billions:
Belgium’s PM Bart de Wever: “We must normalise relations with Russia and regain access to cheap energy. That is common sense. [...] We must end the conflict in the interest of Europe, without being naïve towards Putin.”
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Interesting graphic.
We are still less well regarded than Belgium. That is a disgrace.
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Another year like that and they will fall into Trumps shithole category.
Muslim countries conspicuous by their global unpopularity
Indeed, it is the woke, modern, liberal, democratic countries that are globally popular, not the reactionary, misogynistic, religious, fundamentalist dictatorships. Might tell us something.
The key seems to be white, and be European - or European-ancestry; and it helps to be quite neutral and inoffensive. Being east Asian is also good, esp if you have nice food and you're not China
The real reason is hidden in the article - the QR codes scan with less errors. Making automated checkouts and apps more accurate and requiring less staff effort.
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Interesting graphic.
We are still less well regarded than Belgium. That is a disgrace.
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Interesting graphic.
We are still less well regarded than Belgium. That is a disgrace.
Nothing to frite about.
We should keep it quiet and not waffle on about it.
The real reason is hidden in the article - the QR codes scan with less errors. Making automated checkouts and apps more accurate and requiring less staff effort.
Surely both are becoming antiquated now when you can get an AI to look at the item and tell you what it is without any codes.
The real reason is hidden in the article - the QR codes scan with less errors. Making automated checkouts and apps more accurate and requiring less staff effort.
Surely both are becoming antiquated now when you can get an AI to look at the item and tell you what it is without any codes.
Much less accurate so far.
The attempts at checkoutless stores - working out what you picked up - have not been very successful. Yet.
The real reason is hidden in the article - the QR codes scan with less errors. Making automated checkouts and apps more accurate and requiring less staff effort.
Yeah QR codes are basically barcodes in matrix form tbh
A slight increase in net approval ratings for SKS but they still remain below the other party leaders. All leaders net negative but Farage on +29% positive correlates with the Reform voteshare and via FPTP is still enough to get him to No 10 while Reform lead the other parties unless significant anti Reform tactical voting
Who'd have thunk it. NCP car parks has gone into administration.
Long, non-variable, leases on sites apparently. Bit like parking without reading all the terms and conditions, no?
We virtually never pay to.park. we park on double yellows whilst one does what necessary and move if the yellow peril appears. Loads of people are doing it because our council.is fffing greedy.
I can perhaps guess at what Andrew Neil sort of means here, perhaps - we still massively consume American culture (and swim in a culturally mainly American sea), and American products, many people like the idea of America, of holidays there, there are American people we like, etc - but I'd be very surprised if he isn't measurably wrong. (Maybe @HYUFD has some polling). The vast majority of people, I suspect, have nudged a little further in the anti direction from wherever they were three years ago on the pro/anti American spectrum. There is a graphic I have been hunting for and cannot find of how well-regarded every country is in the world*, showing America dropping 15 places from 30th to 45th in a year - and this data merely reflects Trump becoming president and not any of the mental shite he has donein the past 6 months. I will post it later if I can find it but I am mid-commute. You don't have to be as firmly on one side in the Middle East conflict as Roger is to think America has made a right bollocks of this.
On a happier note, my tram ride has just been interrupted by the arrival of a panicked pigeon erroneously boarding at Piccadilly Gardens: impressed to report that a gifted passenger was able to calmy usher the pigeon off without any harm being done.
*FWIW, the UK was about 18th, about equal with France and Germany. As you'd expect, Nordics came top.
Found it!
Interesting graphic.
We are still less well regarded than Belgium. That is a disgrace.
Venezuela and Cuba seem to have disappeared into the darkness.
The real reason is hidden in the article - the QR codes scan with less errors. Making automated checkouts and apps more accurate and requiring less staff effort.
Surely both are becoming antiquated now when you can get an AI to look at the item and tell you what it is without any codes.
What happens when it hallucinates a jar of caviar in place of the Branston pickle ?
The real reason is hidden in the article - the QR codes scan with less errors. Making automated checkouts and apps more accurate and requiring less staff effort.
Surely both are becoming antiquated now when you can get an AI to look at the item and tell you what it is without any codes.
A slight increase in net approval ratings for SKS but they still remain below the other party leaders. All leaders net negative but Farage on +29% positive correlates with the Reform voteshare and via FPTP is still enough to get him to No 10 while Reform lead the other parties unless significant anti Reform tactical voting
It only gets him to no 10 via FPTP if you apply proportionate swing to both Reforms rise and Lab/Cons decline. The GE will throw out a different result to the modelling and then, 2 years in to the next parliament we will be talking about what Baxter says like its going to definitely be right this time
A slight increase in net approval ratings for SKS but they still remain below the other party leaders. All leaders net negative but Farage on +29% positive correlates with the Reform voteshare and via FPTP is still enough to get him to No 10 while Reform lead the other parties unless significant anti Reform tactical voting
It only gets him to no 10 via FPTP if you apply proportionate swing to both Reforms rise and Lab/Cons decline. The GE will throw out a different result to the modelling and then, 2 years in to the next parliament we will be talking about what Baxter says like its going to definitely be right this time
We haveny yet tested out an election with the top dog being on mid to high 20s to know if the modelling remotely holds up
Comments
@atrupar
Trump: "The prime minster of UK told me 'I'm meeting with my team to make a determination.' I said, 'You don't need to meet with a team. You're the prime minster. You can make your own. Why do you need to meet with your team to find out if you're gonna send some mine sweepers or boats to us?' It's the same thing here."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2033592952329523406
So any challenge by HMRC would have to win an argument that there wasn't a genuine attempt to attract additional investors to reduce Tice's ownership from 90% to 10% in the 35 months before it was delisted as a REIT.
Leading to the question how did HMRC not see that they'd created a tax loophole ripe for abuse that would be very difficult to challenge?
Went to a Dire Straits themed restaurant, got charged for the cakes but got sides for nothing, yes it was..
Money for muffins but the chips were free.
Labour will be up to 40% at this rate, especially with your poodles hanging on your every word.
Tjovl gibhetd
*(that may well be a lie...)
Who would have thought he'd have Trump, Badenoch and Farage all self-destructing at the same time.
UK steady as she goes. Just like our Navy. *ahem*
Just wondering if the new tram line to Dudley will actual open in August.
Is it
That ain't workin'
Or
That's the way you do it?
"If Trump invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil!"
https://x.com/aew/status/2033394065018925274?s=61
I've known them since 2012, they helped crush Scottish Nationalism stone dead in 2014 which as a Scot was a career highlight for them, and once called me a fucking nob.
https://x.com/stokaljona/status/2033528011480265173
I started a joke
Which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see
That the joke was on me, oh no
I started to cry
Which started the whole world laughing
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me
I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I'd said
'Til I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I'd only seen
That the joke was on me
I looked at the skies
Running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
Hurting my head from things that I'd said
'Til I finally died
Which started the whole world living
Oh, if I'd only seen, oh yeah
That the joke was on me, oh no
That the joke was on me
Oh, no, no, no
It's actually:
Did you hear about the psephologist from WARSAW who moved to HAITI?
In any case, I still think Sir Keir will quit over being challenged.
https://x.com/rugby_europe/status/2033274737355313391?s=61
Good.
He can't threaten us with the future of a NATO he has already withdrawn from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdJwzSsLWZM&t=6s
I've upgraded Rob Key from being an utter Mark Reckless to an utter Max Verstappen.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/liam-livingstone-interview-i-asked-england-for-help-i-was-told-i-care-too-much-1528115
At some time in the past an idiot made a number of expensive decisions that have finally come back and bitten them.
Personally I would also blame an app which you could only register a single car on - which for a muli-car family made parking them blooming painful.
She's moved back to UK apparently
Increase allied conventional defense burden-sharing. U.S. allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense. U.S. allies
must play their part not only in dealing with China, but also in dealing with threats from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
1. Make burden-sharing a central part of U.S. defense strategy with the United States not just helping allies to step up, but strongly encouraging them to do so.
2. Support greater spending and collaboration by Taiwan and allies in the Asia–Pacific like Japan and Australia to create a collective
defense model.
3. Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia while
relying on the United States primarily for our nuclear deterrent, and select other capabilities while reducing the U.S. force posture in Europe.
4. Sustain support for Israel even as America empowers Gulf partners to take responsibility for their own coastal, air, and missile defenses both individually and working collectively.
5. Enable South Korea to take the lead in its conventional defense against North Korea
Apart from a double century against a poor Windies side I cannot recall him doing anything at the top level.
As Taz says will also link to The Powerhouse and Airport and NEC
Just in time for the Knicks to play The reborn Bullets at the Powerhouse Indoor Arena.
That would be the Don against the DonKey.
And there's something amiss with the Amiss comparison.
Problem is when one gets blown up.
Best to sbstsin
Let them sort their own mess out.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e48zl4j7ko
He's the most tragically ordinary cricketer in the history of cricket
End of the line for supermarket barcodes
Tesco and other retailers are trialling new system letting shoppers use QR codes
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/15/supermarkets-could-replace-barcodes-for-qr-codes/
That is a disgrace.
From the EU leader who recently blocked the use of frozen Russian billions:
Belgium’s PM Bart de Wever: “We must normalise relations with Russia and regain access to cheap energy. That is common sense. [...] We must end the conflict in the interest of Europe, without being naïve towards Putin.”
https://x.com/AliBunkallSKY/status/2033603619841286369
https://x.com/Daractenus/status/2033475863354736927
Damn.
That's bigger than Trump's inauguration.
https://x.com/MikeNellis/status/2033589528611487816
The one in Pipers Row Wolverhampton was a shocker
The attempts at checkoutless stores - working out what you picked up - have not been very successful. Yet.
Pritti writes Tory Defence Policy, gets daily instructions from Bibi
Or open the boot, and it's loading.
https://x.com/PahlaviReza/status/2033584117657272658
The GE will throw out a different result to the modelling and then, 2 years in to the next parliament we will be talking about what Baxter says like its going to definitely be right this time