Any updates appreciated beginning to think about peaking outside but we are all 3 scardy poos
I'd strongly advise against it right now, the entire global media turns into a big echo chamber of slightly misreported/out of date events at this point.
Needless to add, I suppose, but their are likely to be scenes unsuitable for well, everybody, but particular young'uns...
Tragic though the events in France and Tunisia are, you know the media will just do both stories to death. The endless interviews with so-called 'experts' and their own correspondents, just repeating endlessly the same thing. I saw two minutes of David Cameron's press conference on BBC before they pulled away to go to the weather. Switched over to SKY and they were in the middle of commercials (which, seem to go forever). I hate this 24-hour dumbed-down media. The quality of news is appallying - most of it based on people's opinions, rather than actual hard facts.
Agree - the hotel attack in Mumbai caught guests thinking it was all over before it really was.
No sense in risking it until the all clear is announced. There's no news pic coming out here in the UK apart from old ones of hotel frontage and a helicopter. Looks like the whole area is on lock down for a while yet.
Any updates appreciated beginning to think about peaking outside but we are all 3 scardy poos
I'd strongly advise against it right now, the entire global media turns into a big echo chamber of slightly misreported/out of date events at this point.
Not good they ran off at the first gunshot I was stupid enough to think it was part of the entertainment and carried on swimming for about 30 seconds till I realised everyone running past me was not a good sign
BBC reporting: UK tourist Debbie Horsfall, from Huddersfield, tells the BBC: "I'm staying at the Belleview Park Hotel, next door from what's been happening. I was on the beach with my friend sunbathing when I heard gunfire. My friend stood up and saw a man with the gun firing. We got up and ran, but we didn't know where to go. We have only been here two days - we came on Wednesday. We went back to our room but we didn't feel safe. We just want to go home - we packed right away."
Some tourist guy called Steve Johnson staying at the 'Imperial Marhaba Hotel" (sic) saying it's all over and many armed police have arrived to control the situation.
I have no idea of the veracity of that statement, unfortunately.
I am certain this started next door in the imperial but then gunmen fled to our hotel the Bellevue via the beach still shooting and killing people
Source: Daily Telegraph, London. "14.50 Local Tunisian Mosaique FM radio reporting that one gunman has been killed and another has been arrested at the entrance to the Sousse motorway."
Tragic though the events in France and Tunisia are, you know the media will just do both stories to death. The endless interviews with so-called 'experts' and their own correspondents, just repeating endlessly the same thing. I saw two minutes of David Cameron's press conference on BBC before they pulled away to go to the weather. Switched over to SKY and they were in the middle of commercials (which, seem to go forever). I hate this 24-hour dumbed-down media. The quality of news is appallying - most of it based on people's opinions, rather than actual hard facts.
I go back and forth on the issue, but I liked a comment of John Oliver's when he was temporarily hosting the Daily Show, on endless speculation to fill space, by saying 'Stop Guessing - you don't win a prize if you happen to be right' or words to that effect.
I remember being in my hotel in Sana'a in Yemen when a demonstration got out of hand. The police/army went in heavy handed, and there were bullets ricocheting around.
Just hunker down until it is over, and then some. If there is any doubt about who is outside your door, say you aren't coming out until a British Embassy rep puts his business card under your door...and talks to you in plummy Embassy English!
Agree - the hotel attack in Mumbai caught guests thinking it was all over before it really was.
No sense in risking it until the all clear is announced. There's no news pic coming out here in the UK apart from old ones of hotel frontage and a helicopter. Looks like the whole area is on lock down for a while yet.
Any updates appreciated beginning to think about peaking outside but we are all 3 scardy poos
I'd strongly advise against it right now, the entire global media turns into a big echo chamber of slightly misreported/out of date events at this point.
Not good they ran off at the first gunshot I was stupid enough to think it was part of the entertainment and carried on swimming for about 30 seconds till I realised everyone running past me was not a good sign
Did you remember your deodorant this morning?
Toilet paper running low as the females of the family didn't want to make noise.
Agree - the hotel attack in Mumbai caught guests thinking it was all over before it really was.
No sense in risking it until the all clear is announced. There's no news pic coming out here in the UK apart from old ones of hotel frontage and a helicopter. Looks like the whole area is on lock down for a while yet.
Any updates appreciated beginning to think about peaking outside but we are all 3 scardy poos
I'd strongly advise against it right now, the entire global media turns into a big echo chamber of slightly misreported/out of date events at this point.
Not good they ran off at the first gunshot I was stupid enough to think it was part of the entertainment and carried on swimming for about 30 seconds till I realised everyone running past me was not a good sign
Did you remember your deodorant this morning?
Toilet paper running low as the females of the family didn't want to make noise.
I am too scared to see though
I am sure ISIS hasn't been the only movement there today
Any updates appreciated beginning to think about peaking outside but we are all 3 scardy poos
I'd strongly advise against it right now, the entire global media turns into a big echo chamber of slightly misreported/out of date events at this point.
Needless to add, I suppose, but their are likely to be scenes unsuitable for well, everybody, but particular young'uns...
I would give a big warning to anyone before they click on the Twitter trend "Tunisia". Don't. Other international media are not as self-censorious as they are in the UK.
Have to say that when I saw the explicit image of gunman #1, somehow, the tears wouldn't come.
The 24 hour media in most countries when something big happens is very reminiscent of the election results show between 11pm and 2am - "There's a big story somewhere but right now we've got almost nothing new to say - what do you think of the fact we have nothing to say, person sitting next to me?"
Good one. The best ongoing coverage I remember seeing was when the London Riots broke out. I wandered onto PB late one evening and caught the beginning of the coverage.
I was glued for hours. Skycopter must have refuelled multiple times. The posts from PBers were very useful as we identified various hot spots from where we lived.
The 24 hour media in most countries when something big happens is very reminiscent of the election results show between 11pm and 2am - "There's a big story somewhere but right now we've got almost nothing new to say - what do you think of the fact we have nothing to say, person sitting next to me?"
Russian tourist Pyotr Chervonets tells the BBC Russian Service: "Terrorists attacked people at the beach. They came on a boat. From the beach they ran to the Hotel Imperial Marhaba."
Scalia even offered what may the first first legal cite of a hippie. “The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality.” (Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."
Hillary Clinton is in trouble. *snip* Apparently, Clinton is in a worse position now than she was in 2007 against Obama.
Hilary is 1/5 for the nomination on Betfair. Starting to think there's now value in the lay. We have 13 months until the convention and plenty to happen between now and then.
Russian tourist Pyotr Chervonets tells the BBC Russian Service: "Terrorists attacked people at the beach. They came on a boat. From the beach they ran to the Hotel Imperial Marhaba."
If true then even more need to secure the seas off Libya.
I would say about 20% of the guests here are British at least same number French more than 20% German and maybe 10% Dutch.
Wonder if its safe to surface not heard any gunfire for about an hour
I wouldn't hurry to go anywhere. Realistically, even when there is the all clear, they are not going to let you go downstairs as presumably that will be cordoned off and have police and forensics specialists there. Most likely you will wait around for hours and then they will organise a special charter plane (or planes) back to the UK tomorrow for people staying at the 2 hotels
Huzzah for the U.S. Supreme Court. They've declared Same sex marriage legal.
About bloody time.
I can't wait to read Justice Scalia's dissent.
His one yesterday seemed very interesting, because he lamented, it seemed, that Justices individually and the Court generally, supported their personal political laws rather than truly considering their constitutionality (twisting themselves in knots to get their side's bit approved), if I recall his comments correctly. Which I took as odd, as appointing judges on the basis of their political proportionality was something I thought was understood and that sort behaviour inevitably a result of that, and also because surely all the Justices do that to one degree or another?
Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 6m6 minutes ago Update - AFP: The man who was decapitated in a terror attack near #Grenoble today is believed to have been the suspect's boss
I missed this report from last week on Yemen by Sherine Tadros, although I'd read about the situation this footage really brought it home as to how dangerous things are getting across the whole region.
Huzzah for the U.S. Supreme Court. They've declared Same sex marriage legal.
About bloody time.
I can't wait to read Justice Scalia's dissent.
His one yesterday seemed very interesting, because he lamented, it seemed, that Justices individually and the Court generally, supported their personal political laws rather than truly considering their constitutionality (twisting themselves in knots to get their side's bit approved), if I recall his comments correctly. Which I took as odd, as appointing judges on the basis of their political proportionality was something I thought was understood and that sort behaviour inevitably a result of that, and also because surely all the Justices do that to one degree or another?
Like Scalia can criticise others for that.
He's the one who spent all his life railing against the equal protection clause, then used it decide to Bush v Gore.
-- Baffling Perversion: Some men are compelled to express unrequited love for women by ejaculating onto them or into their beverages. The Minnesota legislature is working to upgrade its law (since a recent defendant, John Robert Lind, was acquitted of adulterating his co-worker's coffee on the ground that current law requires actually touching the victim). However, Lind (who admitted a total of six climaxes against the co-worker) is an amateur compared to Tetsuya Fukuda, 40, who was finally apprehended in April, at which time he admitted "more than 100" semen attacks on women on trains near Kinshicho, Japan, dating back to 2011. He told police, "I get excited when in close contact with a woman on a crowded train." [St. Paul Pioneer-Press, 3-11-2015] [Asahi Shimbun via Gawker.com, 4-10-2015]
-- Convicted "satanic cult" day care operators Dan and Fran Keller were finally unconvicted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in May -- 23 years after being found guilty based in part on toddlers' fantastical testimony (encouraged by counselors) telling impossible tales of molestation. Still, however, the judges could not bring themselves to rule the Kellers "not guilty," thus preserving children's narratives of the Kellers videotaping orgies, serving blood-laced Kool-Aid, kidnapping them to Mexico and more -- yet somehow releasing them, unscarred, each day to parents at pickup time in Austin. (The Kellers spent 22 years behind bars.) [American-Statesman (Austin), 5-20-2015]
Very sad events today. Hope everything is alright for you BJO and you can come home safely sooner rather than later.
I'm beginning to think that closing down all mosques in Europe for review and extremism extermination wouldn't be an over reaction any more. People would still be free to practice at home but until extremist preachers are rooted out and deported it seems insane to give them a platform from which to spew hate against non-muslims.
Close them all tomorrow, review them one by one, look at the backgrounds and history of all the preachers, a whiff of extremism would lead to them being barred from preaching in this country.
Sounds extreme and very harsh against normal Muslims given that other religions wouldn't be under the same level of scrutiny but there aren't British born Hindus, Christians or Buddhists fighting a war against people not of their denomination. It is Muslim men beheading and killing all over the world and many of them went through UK mosques. Something has to be done and the time for consensual action is over, the government need to make big moves, and in all honesty if some people don't like it, they can buy a one way ticket from Heathrow to any Muslim nation of their choosing.
Asked if he wants to come home now from Tunisia, a Scottish gent says in his opinion lightning doesn't strike twice, so it's the safest place to be right now.
Mr. Max, won't happen, and if it did there'd be a bloody massive backlash.
We're barely past the stage where the authorities looked the other way when girls were being raped on an industrial scale because they didn't want to 'stir up tensions'.
Edited extra bit: girls *and* boys. About a third of the Rotherham victims were boys, which is something rarely mentioned and which I shouldn't've omitted.
Asked if he wants to come home now from Tunisia, a Scottish gent says in his opinion lightning doesn't strike twice, so it's the safest place to be right now.
He is probably not wrong. Doesn't mean that Scotland's not a whole load safer though!
Mr. Max, won't happen, and if it did there'd be a bloody massive backlash.
We're barely past the stage where the authorities looked the other way when girls were being raped on an industrial scale because they didn't want to 'stir up tensions'.
Edited extra bit: girls *and* boys. About a third of the Rotherham victims were boys, which is something rarely mentioned and which I shouldn't've omitted.
I think we are getting to the stage where we need last resort measures like this though. Whatever we're doing right now in Europe clearly isn't working. Maybe we need to fight fire with fire. Bomb them in Iraq and Syria and root the extremists out at home by any means necessary.
Reports that beheaded chap in France was the boss of the captured bomber(s). Apparently had Arabic writing on his head when it was found. It was intended to be a major explosion point - several detonated but whole place didn't go up as planned.
Mr. Max, I think it's a valid position to argue, but there's no way it's going to happen.
Only a few weeks ago Labour's would-be PM wanted to outlaw Islamophobia. That's a bit of a daft, leftist, Milibandian perspective, but it's representative of a substantial minority of political thinking in UK politics.
Just been to my room with a seaview a quick peak out the window revealed nothing. Bottle of water nearly run out.
Mrs BJ is being all sensible I think I will follow her advice for once
ks for update my room at the Bellevue looks onto the side of the imperial marhaba literally 10 yards from my room gunshotsvwere right outside.I still can't see or hear anyone moving around in either hotel. The idea someone had earlier about ringing hotel sounds good one
Asked if he wants to come home now from Tunisia, a Scottish gent says in his opinion lightning doesn't strike twice, so it's the safest place to be right now.
He is probably not wrong. Doesn't mean that Scotland's not a whole load safer though!
BBC reporting: UK tourist Debbie Horsfall, from Huddersfield, tells the BBC: "My friend stood up and saw a man with the gun firing. We got up and ran...We have only been here two days - we came on Wednesday. We went back to our room but we didn't feel safe. "
Bummer really - you go on holiday from Huddersfield to get away from gunfire and not feeling safe.
Very sad events today. Hope everything is alright for you BJO and you can come home safely sooner rather than later.
I'm beginning to think that closing down all mosques in Europe for review and extremism extermination wouldn't be an over reaction any more. People would still be free to practice at home but until extremist preachers are rooted out and deported it seems insane to give them a platform from which to spew hate against non-muslims.
Close them all tomorrow, review them one by one, look at the backgrounds and history of all the preachers, a whiff of extremism would lead to them being barred from preaching in this country.
Sounds extreme and very harsh against normal Muslims given that other religions wouldn't be under the same level of scrutiny but there aren't British born Hindus, Christians or Buddhists fighting a war against people not of their denomination. It is Muslim men beheading and killing all over the world and many of them went through UK mosques. Something has to be done and the time for consensual action is over, the government need to make big moves, and in all honesty if some people don't like it, they can buy a one way ticket from Heathrow to any Muslim nation of their choosing.
Banning preaching would be difficult. If you stop it in official mosques, the extremists will preach in people's homes. I'm not comparing them to Islamist nutjobs, but Quakers and other non-conformists were banned after the Test Act in 1673, and they met in the open air.
Besides, t'Internet is apparently a large problem with radicalisation.
You are right. This happened at 1140 just as the pool darts was starting. Can't believe Mrs BJ and daughter BJ ran off and left me glad they did though. They are of course now claiming they were shouting me to get out of the pool.
You are right. This happened at 1140 just as the pool darts was starting. Can't believe Mrs BJ and daughter BJ ran off and left me glad they did though. They are of course now claiming they were shouting me to get out of the pool.
Asked if he wants to come home now from Tunisia, a Scottish gent says in his opinion lightning doesn't strike twice, so it's the safest place to be right now.
Plus there's the deductible on his holiday insurance that he'll not get back if he has to rebook.
You are right. This happened at 1140 just as the pool darts was starting. Can't believe Mrs BJ and daughter BJ ran off and left me glad they did though. They are of course now claiming they were shouting me to get out of the pool.
Mr. Max, won't happen, and if it did there'd be a bloody massive backlash.
We're barely past the stage where the authorities looked the other way when girls were being raped on an industrial scale because they didn't want to 'stir up tensions'.
Edited extra bit: girls *and* boys. About a third of the Rotherham victims were boys, which is something rarely mentioned and which I shouldn't've omitted.
I think we are getting to the stage where we need last resort measures like this though. Whatever we're doing right now in Europe clearly isn't working. Maybe we need to fight fire with fire. Bomb them in Iraq and Syria and root the extremists out at home by any means necessary.
I'm reluctantly coming to a similar conclusion to you. The problems with Islamic extremism are just becoming so extensive that we just need to accept we treat Islam differently to other religions. I can understand that's unfortunate for moderate Muslims, but ultimately there's more important things at stake here.
Very sad events today. Hope everything is alright for you BJO and you can come home safely sooner rather than later.
I'm beginning to think that closing down all mosques in Europe for review and extremism extermination wouldn't be an over reaction any more. People would still be free to practice at home but until extremist preachers are rooted out and deported it seems insane to give them a platform from which to spew hate against non-muslims.
Close them all tomorrow, review them one by one, look at the backgrounds and history of all the preachers, a whiff of extremism would lead to them being barred from preaching in this country.
Sounds extreme and very harsh against normal Muslims given that other religions wouldn't be under the same level of scrutiny but there aren't British born Hindus, Christians or Buddhists fighting a war against people not of their denomination. It is Muslim men beheading and killing all over the world and many of them went through UK mosques. Something has to be done and the time for consensual action is over, the government need to make big moves, and in all honesty if some people don't like it, they can buy a one way ticket from Heathrow to any Muslim nation of their choosing.
Banning preaching would be difficult. If you stop it in official mosques, the extremists will preach in people's homes. I'm not comparing them to Islamist nutjobs, but Quakers and other non-conformists were banned after the Test Act in 1673, and they met in the open air.
Besides, t'Internet is apparently a large problem with radicalisation.
Half of the problem with extremist preachers is that that handpick the kids they want to groom for extremism and invite them to listen to "classes" outside of normal hours where they will be braibswashed to hate non-muslims. Having this shifted into the homes of their parents basically closes that down. How many times have we seen kids go to Syria and the parents are completely unaware and still believe their offspring are wonderful little angels who wouldn't hurt a fly.
As for the internet, absolutely agreed but one step at a time. Getting rid of radical preachers and those who glorify violence against non-muslims needs to be step one.
Asked if he wants to come home now from Tunisia, a Scottish gent says in his opinion lightning doesn't strike twice, so it's the safest place to be right now.
He is probably not wrong. Doesn't mean that Scotland's not a whole load safer though!
Dubai. About the only place in the middle east to have escaped this sh!t so far.
A few years ago when Bahrain had its problems the UK foreign office did an unofficial census, getting all the expats and regular visitors to register with the embassy. They were surprised to find over 150k Brits in the UAE. Apparently there exists an evacuation plan, but it would take more than a couple of weeks to get that many out! My personal evac plan would either be to fly East somewhere safe and British-friendly like HK or Singapore, else drive over land to Muscat, Oman and out from there. Hopefully won't need it though!
You are right. This happened at 1140 just as the pool darts was starting. Can't believe Mrs BJ and daughter BJ ran off and left me glad they did though. They are of course now claiming they were shouting me to get out of the pool.
Danny565 Hillary won NH in 2008, nationally she still has a commanding lead. In their other poll Jeb Bush actually has a smaller lead over Trump than Hillary has over Sanders
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I saw two minutes of David Cameron's press conference on BBC before they pulled away to go to the weather. Switched over to SKY and they were in the middle of commercials (which, seem to go forever).
I hate this 24-hour dumbed-down media. The quality of news is appallying - most of it based on people's opinions, rather than actual hard facts.
UK tourist Debbie Horsfall, from Huddersfield, tells the BBC: "I'm staying at the Belleview Park Hotel, next door from what's been happening. I was on the beach with my friend sunbathing when I heard gunfire. My friend stood up and saw a man with the gun firing. We got up and ran, but we didn't know where to go. We have only been here two days - we came on Wednesday. We went back to our room but we didn't feel safe. We just want to go home - we packed right away."
"14.50 Local Tunisian Mosaique FM radio reporting that one gunman has been killed and another has been arrested at the entrance to the Sousse motorway."
Just hunker down until it is over, and then some. If there is any doubt about who is outside your door, say you aren't coming out until a British Embassy rep puts his business card under your door...and talks to you in plummy Embassy English!
Jo Moore obviously now works at FIFA.
I am too scared to see though
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
F***
I was glued for hours. Skycopter must have refuelled multiple times. The posts from PBers were very useful as we identified various hot spots from where we lived.
New Hampshire poll for the Democrats' primary:
Hillary Clinton 43%
Bernie Sanders 35%
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/25/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-democrats-poll
Apparently, Clinton is in a worse position now than she was in 2007 against Obama.
Wonder if its safe to surface not heard any gunfire for about an hour
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11700327/Greece-debt-crisis-creditors-proposal-live.html
Scalia even offered what may the first first legal cite of a hippie. “The nature of marriage is that, through its enduring bond, two persons together can find other freedoms, such as expression, intimacy, and spirituality.” (Really? Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie."
http://huff.to/1Gx75Lj
https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/614435771311857664
Seriously RIP all casualties.
I want confirmation its all over.
Can Sean send his private jet for us!!
http://images.politico.com/global/2015/06/26/14-556_3204.html
Update - AFP: The man who was decapitated in a terror attack near #Grenoble today is believed to have been the suspect's boss
http://news.sky.com/story/1502701/yemen-hangs-in-the-balance-as-war-rages
The bravery of the journalists like Sherine who put themselves in harms way to get us this first hand news should be saluted by us all.
He's the one who spent all his life railing against the equal protection clause, then used it decide to Bush v Gore.
-- Baffling Perversion: Some men are compelled to express unrequited love for women by ejaculating onto them or into their beverages. The Minnesota legislature is working to upgrade its law (since a recent defendant, John Robert Lind, was acquitted of adulterating his co-worker's coffee on the ground that current law requires actually touching the victim). However, Lind (who admitted a total of six climaxes against the co-worker) is an amateur compared to Tetsuya Fukuda, 40, who was finally apprehended in April, at which time he admitted "more than 100" semen attacks on women on trains near Kinshicho, Japan, dating back to 2011. He told police, "I get excited when in close contact with a woman on a crowded train." [St. Paul Pioneer-Press, 3-11-2015] [Asahi Shimbun via Gawker.com, 4-10-2015]
-- Convicted "satanic cult" day care operators Dan and Fran Keller were finally unconvicted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in May -- 23 years after being found guilty based in part on toddlers' fantastical testimony (encouraged by counselors) telling impossible tales of molestation. Still, however, the judges could not bring themselves to rule the Kellers "not guilty," thus preserving children's narratives of the Kellers videotaping orgies, serving blood-laced Kool-Aid, kidnapping them to Mexico and more -- yet somehow releasing them, unscarred, each day to parents at pickup time in Austin. (The Kellers spent 22 years behind bars.) [American-Statesman (Austin), 5-20-2015]
from News of the Weird.
That is excellent and something to cheer on this miserable day.
I'm beginning to think that closing down all mosques in Europe for review and extremism extermination wouldn't be an over reaction any more. People would still be free to practice at home but until extremist preachers are rooted out and deported it seems insane to give them a platform from which to spew hate against non-muslims.
Close them all tomorrow, review them one by one, look at the backgrounds and history of all the preachers, a whiff of extremism would lead to them being barred from preaching in this country.
Sounds extreme and very harsh against normal Muslims given that other religions wouldn't be under the same level of scrutiny but there aren't British born Hindus, Christians or Buddhists fighting a war against people not of their denomination. It is Muslim men beheading and killing all over the world and many of them went through UK mosques. Something has to be done and the time for consensual action is over, the government need to make big moves, and in all honesty if some people don't like it, they can buy a one way ticket from Heathrow to any Muslim nation of their choosing.
Mrs BJ is being all sensible I think I will follow her advice for once
We're barely past the stage where the authorities looked the other way when girls were being raped on an industrial scale because they didn't want to 'stir up tensions'.
Edited extra bit: girls *and* boys. About a third of the Rotherham victims were boys, which is something rarely mentioned and which I shouldn't've omitted.
He sounds rather complacent to my ears.
Doesn't mean that Scotland's not a whole load safer though!
Against: Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, Alto.
Lucky - would've been carnage.
Only a few weeks ago Labour's would-be PM wanted to outlaw Islamophobia. That's a bit of a daft, leftist, Milibandian perspective, but it's representative of a substantial minority of political thinking in UK politics.
Besides, t'Internet is apparently a large problem with radicalisation.
Stay where you are until there is more certainty.
Also, not visiting countries hit by terrorism would mean avoiding:
USA
Canada
UK
France
Germany
Just off the top of my head (only included First World countries).
My best watch is by the dubbed is it nearly 4pm?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_National_Museum_attack
Do you have access to a minibar? If so, then raid it.
I'll pay the bill.
Is Tenerife closed?
Having said that, I hope all who are stuck there get home safely.
As for the internet, absolutely agreed but one step at a time. Getting rid of radical preachers and those who glorify violence against non-muslims needs to be step one.
A few years ago when Bahrain had its problems the UK foreign office did an unofficial census, getting all the expats and regular visitors to register with the embassy. They were surprised to find over 150k Brits in the UAE. Apparently there exists an evacuation plan, but it would take more than a couple of weeks to get that many out! My personal evac plan would either be to fly East somewhere safe and British-friendly like HK or Singapore, else drive over land to Muscat, Oman and out from there. Hopefully won't need it though!
I wonder how many more are planned - hopefully none, but that seems unlikely.blockquote class="Quote" rel="Tim_B"> It was 3/18 and 24 were killed. That's a few weeks. That would do it for me. I'm not sure I'd trade common sense for FO travel advice.
Is Tenerife closed?
Having said that, I hope all who are stuck there get home safely.
Bush – 16% (15)
Trump – 11% (5)
Paul – 9% (10)
Walker – 8% (11)
Fiorina – 6% (4)
Rubio – 6% (12)
Christie – 5% (3)
Carson – 5% (4)
Perry – 4% (4)
Cruz – 3% (6)
Huckabee – 2% (3)
Kasich – 2% (1)
Pataki – 1% (2)
Jindal – 0% (2)
Santorum – 0% (2)
Undecided – 21% (14)
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/25/politics/republicans-new-hampshire-poll/