That's really gonna help Palestine, isn't it? Smashing up a fancy car in London. Did the driver look Jewish?
Kensington and fancy cars... isn't that more likely to be an Arab, although a bit early for summer silly season with their super cars revving night ans day
I’d have a lot more sympathy with the Free Palestine movement if they were protesting against the murders of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well.
But they don’t care about that any more than Hamas care about the people of Gaza. Because the Chinese aren’t Jews.
They’re just racist useful idiots for Iran and therefore ultimately Russia.
I have a sneaking feeling that Putin is pro-Israel and has the same regard for his Muslim population as Xi Jinping. But he isn't as powerful, so he is unable to act in quite the same way
Can we separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
That's really gonna help Palestine, isn't it? Smashing up a fancy car in London. Did the driver look Jewish?
Kensington and fancy cars... isn't that more likely to be an Arab, although a bit early for summer silly season with their super cars revving night ans day
I’d have a lot more sympathy with the Free Palestine movement if they were protesting against the murders of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well.
But they don’t care about that any more than Hamas care about the people of Gaza. Because the Chinese aren’t Jews.
They’re just racist useful idiots for Iran and therefore ultimately Russia.
I have a sneaking feeling that Putin is pro-Israel and has the same regard for his Muslim population as Xi Jinping. But he isn't as powerful, so he is unable to act in quite the same way
I can't watch Eurovision, but my expert wife has just texted me to put an outside flutter on Finland - just done at 20/1. She thinks Malta should be favourites.
The consensus among the pundits was that Malta had a great song but a bad draw. Finland are favourites to be top Nordic country.
That's really gonna help Palestine, isn't it? Smashing up a fancy car in London. Did the driver look Jewish?
Kensington and fancy cars... isn't that more likely to be an Arab, although a bit early for summer silly season with their super cars revving night ans day
I’d have a lot more sympathy with the Free Palestine movement if they were protesting against the murders of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well.
But they don’t care about that any more than Hamas care about the people of Gaza. Because the Chinese aren’t Jews.
They’re just racist useful idiots for Iran and therefore ultimately Russia.
I have a sneaking feeling that Putin is pro-Israel and has the same regard for his Muslim population as Xi Jinping. But he isn't as powerful, so he is unable to act in quite the same way
It is a bizarre idea: that Putin would favour Islamists over Jews - Islamists who regularly attack Russians, blowing up bombs on metros. and who foster secessionism and terrorism on Russia's southern fringe.
For all its many flaws, Israel is not going to do that to Russia. Besides, a huge number of Israelis are from Russia. And note how Putin has gone to the extremes for a secular Arab: Assad. Who beats up Islamists
However, Putin has to play the hand he has in terms of Realpolitik. He is not quasi-omnipotent like Xi
100+ member of FIFA have just voted to consider holding the World Cup biennially. That doesn’t make it right.
So, are you saying Palestine shouldn't exist as a state?
Ok. In which case, the people who live there must be Israelis, and therefore should be accorded the same rights as other Israeli citizens.
This is the terrible logic Israel must face
Either it allows Palestinians sovereignty, or it goes the whole hog and becomes an apartheid state, in a single state with lower class Arab citizens (it is already horribly close).
Or it expels all the Palestinians from Palestine, and maybe Israeli Arabs as well
It is hideous choice, but they have made it this way, by insisting on a Jewish state allowing only Jewish immigration and a lesser status for Arabs
David Herdson on Boris’s 16 point best PM lead in today’s YouGov
“These are dreadful results for Starmer, much worse than last time the gap was this big.
Then, he had much more scope to create an impression with the public. Now, the impression has already been formed and will be much harder to shift - not least because it's probably right.”
Just wait until he does Piers Moron....20 point poll bounce incoming.
That will be a proper bit of ‘can’t watch tv’
Will be interesting to see what ratings it gets. That show has been losing viewership for quite a while now.
Who will watch, other than some of the 24% who like him? If they all did the ratings would be pretty good I suppose, without changing his levels
Political journalists will too. I can’t see what’s so interesting about his life that you’d want to make a show about it. Private School, Uni, more uni, Lawyer, knighthood, unpopular, boring politician. Hardly a rollercoaster.
I was about to say I’m surprised Farage hadn’t done it, but of course he has!
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Get well soon JohnO.
A good or bad song can break free of things a bit, as it is hardly a universal rule, but I don't think it is controversial or partisan that people have historically noted some pretty obvious geopolitical points scoring in Eurovision over the years. As an attempt at trolling goes it is a bit below standard. But you can fall back on saying the answer is obsessed with you or something (as you simultaneously seek out idiot unionists online for us all to laugh at)
Can’t fault the Guardian for putting in a Sterling shift to try to convince us that the India variant is going to kill us all. Day after day, every one a new angle.
This evening - “Govt coverup to justify ending of masks in schools”.
The Guardian are zero covid in school zealots, but will be the first to moan about how closure of schools is widening the gap for the poorest / BAME kids.
Will the Guardian die first..they must be losing money at an alamming rate...
According to Alan Rusbridger, celebrating their bicentennial in the New York Review of Books, the Grauniad has $1.4 billion in the bank.
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Get well soon JohnO.
A good or bad song can break free of things a bit, as it is hardly a universal rule, but I don't think it is controversial or partisan that people have historically noted some pretty obvious geopolitical points scoring in Eurovision over the years. As an attempt at trolling goes it is a bit below standard. But you can fall back on saying the answer is obsessed with you or something (as you simultaneously seek out idiot unionists online for us all to laugh at)
The problem with the UK entry is the BBC picks it every year.
You could try and get a good artist doing a good song OR you could do something off beat and memorable but every year we pick a middle of the road song by a mediocre artist that is instantly forgettable.
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Get well soon JohnO.
A good or bad song can break free of things a bit, as it is hardly a universal rule, but I don't think it is controversial or partisan that people have historically noted some pretty obvious geopolitical points scoring in Eurovision over the years. As an attempt at trolling goes it is a bit below standard. But you can fall back on saying the answer is obsessed with you or something (as you simultaneously seek out idiot unionists online for us all to laugh at)
The problem with the UK entry is the BBC picks it every year.
You could try and get a good artist doing a good song OR you could do something off beat and memorable but every year we pick a middle of the road song by a mediocre artist that is instantly forgettable.
David Herdson on Boris’s 16 point best PM lead in today’s YouGov
“These are dreadful results for Starmer, much worse than last time the gap was this big.
Then, he had much more scope to create an impression with the public. Now, the impression has already been formed and will be much harder to shift - not least because it's probably right.”
Just wait until he does Piers Moron....20 point poll bounce incoming.
That will be a proper bit of ‘can’t watch tv’
Will be interesting to see what ratings it gets. That show has been losing viewership for quite a while now.
Who will watch, other than some of the 24% who like him? If they all did the ratings would be pretty good I suppose, without changing his levels
Political journalists will too. I can’t see what’s so interesting about his life that you’d want to make a show about it. Private School, Uni, more uni, Lawyer, knighthood, unpopular, boring politician. Hardly a rollercoaster.
I was about to say I’m surprised Farage hadn’t done it, but of course he has!
That Humza Yousaf petition is very poor - even for a political petition where everyone signing will know you have to explain why you think the action should be taken. I'd be none the wiser from that one.
100+ member of FIFA have just voted to consider holding the World Cup biennially. That doesn’t make it right.
So, are you saying Palestine shouldn't exist as a state?
Ok. In which case, the people who live there must be Israelis, and therefore should be accorded the same rights as other Israeli citizens.
This is the terrible logic Israel must face
Either it allows Palestinians sovereignty, or it goes the whole hog and becomes an apartheid state, in a single state with lower class Arab citizens (it is already horribly close).
Or it expels all the Palestinians from Palestine, and maybe Israeli Arabs as well
It is hideous choice, but they have made it this way, by insisting on a Jewish state allowing only Jewish immigration and a lesser status for Arabs
Don't see what's hideous about that choice. It's only one of the options - continued oppression - that's hideous.
If it is Italy or France, then I'd have thought France win.
Italy is pub metal from the the 80s, with eyeliner. France was chanson from the 60s
Neither will win. Said it!
It's people like Wodger that have the votes in this.
You've gotta think like he would.
So what you are saying is the UK needs to enter a French Refugee Trans Rights Activist, who is a well known Remain campaigner and in their spare time makes really arty films that nobody watches.
That's really gonna help Palestine, isn't it? Smashing up a fancy car in London. Did the driver look Jewish?
Kensington and fancy cars... isn't that more likely to be an Arab, although a bit early for summer silly season with their super cars revving night ans day
I’d have a lot more sympathy with the Free Palestine movement if they were protesting against the murders of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang as well.
But they don’t care about that any more than Hamas care about the people of Gaza. Because the Chinese aren’t Jews.
They’re just racist useful idiots for Iran and therefore ultimately Russia.
I have a sneaking feeling that Putin is pro-Israel and has the same regard for his Muslim population as Xi Jinping. But he isn't as powerful, so he is unable to act in quite the same way
But remember Chechnya
Putin cares about his own powerbase. But he is, on the quiet, the key reason for the Ayatollahs are holding on to power. He does it probably mostly to annoy the Yanks.
100+ member of FIFA have just voted to consider holding the World Cup biennially. That doesn’t make it right.
So, are you saying Palestine shouldn't exist as a state?
Ok. In which case, the people who live there must be Israelis, and therefore should be accorded the same rights as other Israeli citizens.
This is the terrible logic Israel must face
Either it allows Palestinians sovereignty, or it goes the whole hog and becomes an apartheid state, in a single state with lower class Arab citizens (it is already horribly close).
Or it expels all the Palestinians from Palestine, and maybe Israeli Arabs as well
It is hideous choice, but they have made it this way, by insisting on a Jewish state allowing only Jewish immigration and a lesser status for Arabs
Yes. It's an ugly choice.
And expelling millions of people from lands where they were born, who have no other nationality, is nothing less than ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.
Israel's best option was always to have a Palestinian state that was dependent on it. But the settler movement has made a viable Palestinian state a near impossibility.
That Humza Yousaf petition is very poor - even for a political petition where everyone signing will know you have to explain why you think the action should be taken. I'd be none the wiser from that one.
I was just amused at how the comments could have applied to just about any politician in Scotland.
While we're talking of gayness and music, can I recommend Elton John's "Me", possibly one of the best celebrity autobiographies I have ever read. Up there with William Goldman, David Niven - but better than them
Mind-boggling gossip, and extremely funny. It is also explains why he is possibly the most successful solo star of all time, and his bravery in being Out and gay so early.
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Get well soon JohnO.
A good or bad song can break free of things a bit, as it is hardly a universal rule, but I don't think it is controversial or partisan that people have historically noted some pretty obvious geopolitical points scoring in Eurovision over the years. As an attempt at trolling goes it is a bit below standard. But you can fall back on saying the answer is obsessed with you or something (as you simultaneously seek out idiot unionists online for us all to laugh at)
The problem with the UK entry is the BBC picks it every year.
You could try and get a good artist doing a good song OR you could do something off beat and memorable but every year we pick a middle of the road song by a mediocre artist that is instantly forgettable.
Oh for the glory days of Boom-Bang-a-bang-On-A-String.
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Get well soon JohnO.
A good or bad song can break free of things a bit, as it is hardly a universal rule, but I don't think it is controversial or partisan that people have historically noted some pretty obvious geopolitical points scoring in Eurovision over the years. As an attempt at trolling goes it is a bit below standard. But you can fall back on saying the answer is obsessed with you or something (as you simultaneously seek out idiot unionists online for us all to laugh at)
Perhaps, but a lot of what people take to be politics is often just regional musical trends, and on that note, keep an eye on where there are large ex-pat communities.
If it is Italy or France, then I'd have thought France win.
Italy is pub metal from the the 80s, with eyeliner. France was chanson from the 60s
Neither will win. Said it!
It's people like Wodger that have the votes in this.
You've gotta think like he would.
So what you are saying is the UK needs to enter a French Refugee Trans Rights Activist, who is a well known Remain campaigner and in their spare time makes really arty films that nobody watches.
100+ member of FIFA have just voted to consider holding the World Cup biennially. That doesn’t make it right.
So, are you saying Palestine shouldn't exist as a state?
Ok. In which case, the people who live there must be Israelis, and therefore should be accorded the same rights as other Israeli citizens.
This is the terrible logic Israel must face
Either it allows Palestinians sovereignty, or it goes the whole hog and becomes an apartheid state, in a single state with lower class Arab citizens (it is already horribly close).
Or it expels all the Palestinians from Palestine, and maybe Israeli Arabs as well
It is hideous choice, but they have made it this way, by insisting on a Jewish state allowing only Jewish immigration and a lesser status for Arabs
Yes. It's an ugly choice.
And expelling millions of people from lands where they were born, who have no other nationality, is nothing less than ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.
Israel's best option was always to have a Palestinian state that was dependent on it. But the settler movement has made a viable Palestinian state a near impossibility.
Yes, somehow Israel took the wrong fork in the road, in the 1970s or 80s, when it still had massive international sympathy, as the plucky little country. Now it is the Evil Oppressor, and that generally doesn't end well
100+ member of FIFA have just voted to consider holding the World Cup biennially. That doesn’t make it right.
So, are you saying Palestine shouldn't exist as a state?
Ok. In which case, the people who live there must be Israelis, and therefore should be accorded the same rights as other Israeli citizens.
This is the terrible logic Israel must face
Either it allows Palestinians sovereignty, or it goes the whole hog and becomes an apartheid state, in a single state with lower class Arab citizens (it is already horribly close).
Or it expels all the Palestinians from Palestine, and maybe Israeli Arabs as well
It is hideous choice, but they have made it this way, by insisting on a Jewish state allowing only Jewish immigration and a lesser status for Arabs
Yes. It's an ugly choice.
And expelling millions of people from lands where they were born, who have no other nationality, is nothing less than ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.
Israel's best option was always to have a Palestinian state that was dependent on it. But the settler movement has made a viable Palestinian state a near impossibility.
Yes, somehow Israel took the wrong fork in the road, in the 1970s or 80s, when it still had massive international sympathy, as the plucky little country. Now it is the Evil Oppressor, and that generally doesn't end well
Be careful, You’ll have some of the more strident pro Israelis accusing you of Jew hatred for daring to criticise the Israeli govts actions.
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
I was unfortunate enough to overhear the UK entry. Crap doesn't satisfactorily describe it....it deserves a drubbing.
We peaked with Bucks Fizz in 1981.
Katrina and the Waves in 1997!
The song "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves is known as the "million dollar song" because it earns at least that every year, and has done so for decades after its release
Even now it is extremely valuable:
"In August 2015, which marked the 30th anniversary of the song's release, the song was acquired by BMG Rights Management for £10 million, along with all the other songs written by Kimberley Rew and Katrina and the Waves.[9]"
Imagine writing a 3 minute pop song which earns £40m
David Herdson on Boris’s 16 point best PM lead in today’s YouGov
“These are dreadful results for Starmer, much worse than last time the gap was this big.
Then, he had much more scope to create an impression with the public. Now, the impression has already been formed and will be much harder to shift - not least because it's probably right.”
Just wait until he does Piers Moron....20 point poll bounce incoming.
That will be a proper bit of ‘can’t watch tv’
Will be interesting to see what ratings it gets. That show has been losing viewership for quite a while now.
Who will watch, other than some of the 24% who like him? If they all did the ratings would be pretty good I suppose, without changing his levels
Political journalists will too. I can’t see what’s so interesting about his life that you’d want to make a show about it. Private School, Uni, more uni, Lawyer, knighthood, unpopular, boring politician. Hardly a rollercoaster.
I was about to say I’m surprised Farage hadn’t done it, but of course he has!
David Herdson on Boris’s 16 point best PM lead in today’s YouGov
“These are dreadful results for Starmer, much worse than last time the gap was this big.
Then, he had much more scope to create an impression with the public. Now, the impression has already been formed and will be much harder to shift - not least because it's probably right.”
Just wait until he does Piers Moron....20 point poll bounce incoming.
That will be a proper bit of ‘can’t watch tv’
Will be interesting to see what ratings it gets. That show has been losing viewership for quite a while now.
Who will watch, other than some of the 24% who like him? If they all did the ratings would be pretty good I suppose, without changing his levels
Political journalists will too. I can’t see what’s so interesting about his life that you’d want to make a show about it. Private School, Uni, more uni, Lawyer, knighthood, unpopular, boring politician. Hardly a rollercoaster.
I was about to say I’m surprised Farage hadn’t done it, but of course he has!
100+ member of FIFA have just voted to consider holding the World Cup biennially. That doesn’t make it right.
So, are you saying Palestine shouldn't exist as a state?
Ok. In which case, the people who live there must be Israelis, and therefore should be accorded the same rights as other Israeli citizens.
This is the terrible logic Israel must face
Either it allows Palestinians sovereignty, or it goes the whole hog and becomes an apartheid state, in a single state with lower class Arab citizens (it is already horribly close).
Or it expels all the Palestinians from Palestine, and maybe Israeli Arabs as well
It is hideous choice, but they have made it this way, by insisting on a Jewish state allowing only Jewish immigration and a lesser status for Arabs
Don't see what's hideous about that choice. It's only one of the options - continued oppression - that's hideous.
It’s a sinister development this week, Israel losing one of these skirmishes leaving the terrorists dancing in their tunnels tonight. Far cry from whipping surprise attack from the whole of the Middle East in just six days.
Ben goes into history books as his watch strutting tough whilst delivering weakness?
While we're talking of gayness and music, can I recommend Elton John's "Me", possibly one of the best celebrity autobiographies I have ever read. Up there with William Goldman, David Niven - but better than them
Mind-boggling gossip, and extremely funny. It is also explains why he is possibly the most successful solo star of all time, and his bravery in being Out and gay so early.
He's a dude, the book is superb
That’s been sitting behind my tv cabinet unread, along with Andrew Ridgey’s book, for about 18 months!
Along with every other book I’ve bought in the last three years other than ‘The Great Betrayal’ by Ian Smith, and ‘Treasure Island’
*and ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ which I lent to my Dad
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
While we're talking of gayness and music, can I recommend Elton John's "Me", possibly one of the best celebrity autobiographies I have ever read. Up there with William Goldman, David Niven - but better than them
Mind-boggling gossip, and extremely funny. It is also explains why he is possibly the most successful solo star of all time, and his bravery in being Out and gay so early.
He's a dude, the book is superb
That’s been sitting behind my tv cabinet unread, along with Andrew Ridgey’s book, for about 18 months!
Along with every other book I’ve bought in the last three years other than ‘The Great Betrayal’ by Ian Smith, and ‘Treasure Island’
*and ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ which I lent to my Dad
I entreat you to read it. I bet you will be laughing out loud within 10 pages. It is dazzling, and OMFG the stories. Why is it so entertaining to read of someone fucking up everything in a haze of cocaine, booze, and rent boys, possibly involving the Queen Mother? I dunno, but it is. I guess we all love gossip
To be fair it does decline once he goes sober (sober people are just a bit more boring) but even then it is excellent - as against brilliant
It's a world class autobiography, and he has led a life unmatched by any
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Get well soon JohnO.
A good or bad song can break free of things a bit, as it is hardly a universal rule, but I don't think it is controversial or partisan that people have historically noted some pretty obvious geopolitical points scoring in Eurovision over the years. As an attempt at trolling goes it is a bit below standard. But you can fall back on saying the answer is obsessed with you or something (as you simultaneously seek out idiot unionists online for us all to laugh at)
Perhaps, but a lot of what people take to be politics is often just regional musical trends, and on that note, keep an eye on where there are large ex-pat communities.
On which note, keep an eye on whether Eastern European support for Ukraine materialises.
While we're talking of gayness and music, can I recommend Elton John's "Me", possibly one of the best celebrity autobiographies I have ever read. Up there with William Goldman, David Niven - but better than them
Mind-boggling gossip, and extremely funny. It is also explains why he is possibly the most successful solo star of all time, and his bravery in being Out and gay so early.
He's a dude, the book is superb
Rupert Everett's is also a classic of the genre imo.
While we're talking of gayness and music, can I recommend Elton John's "Me", possibly one of the best celebrity autobiographies I have ever read. Up there with William Goldman, David Niven - but better than them
Mind-boggling gossip, and extremely funny. It is also explains why he is possibly the most successful solo star of all time, and his bravery in being Out and gay so early.
He's a dude, the book is superb
That’s been sitting behind my tv cabinet unread, along with Andrew Ridgey’s book, for about 18 months!
Along with every other book I’ve bought in the last three years other than ‘The Great Betrayal’ by Ian Smith, and ‘Treasure Island’
*and ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ which I lent to my Dad
I entreat you to read it. I bet you will be laughing out loud within 10 pages. It is dazzling, and OMFG the stories. Why is it to entertaining to read of someone fucking up everything in a haze of cocaine, booze, and rent boys, possibly involving the Queen Mother? I dunno, but it is. I guess we all love gossip
To be fair it does decline once he goes sober (sober people are just a bit more boring) but even then it is excellent - as against brilliant
It's a world class autobiography, and he has led a life unmatched by any
I will read it... just no time!
Funny you type this just as a wild mate of mine who has been in AA for about ten years is what’s apping that he is struggling
In his mad days he once went into a Romford brass house, off his head on gear and booze, and shagged every one of them, then left his Oyster card, work tools and wallet behind and his long suffering dad had to go pick them up the next day!
As another mate said ‘how I wish I had that lack of self control’!!
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
All very interesting but unlikely to shift many votes.
I presume it is going to be part of a wider push to reboot his image.
Starmer's image isn't the problem.
He is a dull speaker, for which he should seek coaching. He needs to nail Boris to the wall. It is no good collecting evidence at PMQs if he never uses it: the electorate is not the Supreme Court bench who will have noted each answer; it is a jury waiting for the summing-up. Some policies would be nice too, though it is hard to create clear blue water against a backdrop of the covid pandemic.
I was unfortunate enough to overhear the UK entry. Crap doesn't satisfactorily describe it....it deserves a drubbing.
We peaked with Bucks Fizz in 1981.
Katrina and the Waves in 1997!
The song "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves is known as the "million dollar song" because it earns at least that every year, and has done so for decades after its release
Even now it is extremely valuable:
"In August 2015, which marked the 30th anniversary of the song's release, the song was acquired by BMG Rights Management for £10 million, along with all the other songs written by Kimberley Rew and Katrina and the Waves.[9]"
Imagine writing a 3 minute pop song which earns £40m
A useless fact is that I think Walking On Sunshine by Rockers Revenge (a big disco hit in 1982) is a better track than the Katrina and the Waves song. There's also the excellent Walking Into Sunshine by Central Line from 1981.
Can I separate the sheep from the goats by asking all those who think the UK’s Eurovision entry will do badly because the nasssty EUssssr hatessss ussss rather than it being crap to put their hands up?
Get well soon JohnO.
A good or bad song can break free of things a bit, as it is hardly a universal rule, but I don't think it is controversial or partisan that people have historically noted some pretty obvious geopolitical points scoring in Eurovision over the years. As an attempt at trolling goes it is a bit below standard. But you can fall back on saying the answer is obsessed with you or something (as you simultaneously seek out idiot unionists online for us all to laugh at)
The problem with the UK entry is the BBC picks it every year.
You could try and get a good artist doing a good song OR you could do something off beat and memorable but every year we pick a middle of the road song by a mediocre artist that is instantly forgettable.
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
Be interesting to see how this does in the ratings compared to the more Showbiz types. I only watched the Chris Eubank one which was okay. Can’t see it doing anything to shift votes. It just smacks of desperation.
Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died weeks before he was sworn in as an MP.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
How do "a series of devastating family tragedies" shape him into the boring man he is today?
Sounds a right laugh
No he can't channel Benny Hill like Johnson.
“Right Sir Keir, we are in the shit. People think you’re earnest but dull, & Boris puts a smile on their face, even though they don’t trust him. We’ve had 15 months of pandemic misery & the nation needs a lift, a sunny disposition, a bit of levity, a break from the constant doom and depressing talk of death and disease...”
‘ Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died’
While we're talking of gayness and music, can I recommend Elton John's "Me", possibly one of the best celebrity autobiographies I have ever read. Up there with William Goldman, David Niven - but better than them
Mind-boggling gossip, and extremely funny. It is also explains why he is possibly the most successful solo star of all time, and his bravery in being Out and gay so early.
He's a dude, the book is superb
That’s been sitting behind my tv cabinet unread, along with Andrew Ridgey’s book, for about 18 months!
Along with every other book I’ve bought in the last three years other than ‘The Great Betrayal’ by Ian Smith, and ‘Treasure Island’
*and ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ which I lent to my Dad
I entreat you to read it. I bet you will be laughing out loud within 10 pages. It is dazzling, and OMFG the stories. Why is it to entertaining to read of someone fucking up everything in a haze of cocaine, booze, and rent boys, possibly involving the Queen Mother? I dunno, but it is. I guess we all love gossip
To be fair it does decline once he goes sober (sober people are just a bit more boring) but even then it is excellent - as against brilliant
It's a world class autobiography, and he has led a life unmatched by any
I will read it... just no time!
Funny you type this just as a wild mate of mine who has been in AA for about ten years is what’s apping that he is struggling
In his mad days he once went into a Romford brass house, off his head on gear and booze, and shagged every one of them, then left his Oyster card, work tools and wallet behind and his long suffering dad had to go pick them up the next day!
As another mate said ‘how I wish I had that lack of self control’!!
As a prodigious musical genius, Elton John is up there with Mozart. He is basically the gay-clown-shoes-wearing Mozart of our time. I never realised the scale of his achievement until I read his book
AND he had sex with 10,000 people and sniffed metric tonnes of coke, and then got properly serious with the booze and strippers, while buying entire villages and chateaux
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But remember Chechnya
Or yet more Euphoria.
Or La, La, La, La, La, La.
Ok. In which case, the people who live there must be Israelis, and therefore should be accorded the same rights as other Israeli citizens.
It is a bizarre idea: that Putin would favour Islamists over Jews - Islamists who regularly attack Russians, blowing up bombs on metros. and who foster secessionism and terrorism on Russia's southern fringe.
For all its many flaws, Israel is not going to do that to Russia. Besides, a huge number of Israelis are from Russia. And note how Putin has gone to the extremes for a secular Arab: Assad. Who beats up Islamists
However, Putin has to play the hand he has in terms of Realpolitik. He is not quasi-omnipotent like Xi
Either it allows Palestinians sovereignty, or it goes the whole hog and becomes an apartheid state, in a single state with lower class Arab citizens (it is already horribly close).
Or it expels all the Palestinians from Palestine, and maybe Israeli Arabs as well
It is hideous choice, but they have made it this way, by insisting on a Jewish state allowing only Jewish immigration and a lesser status for Arabs
Political journalists will too. I can’t see what’s so interesting about his life that you’d want to make a show about it. Private School, Uni, more uni, Lawyer, knighthood, unpopular, boring politician. Hardly a rollercoaster.
I was about to say I’m surprised Farage hadn’t done it, but of course he has!
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/24/piers-morgans-life-stories-review-not-a-bad-interview-if-you-can-stomach-it
Neither will win. Said it!
People forget that the judges have 50% of the votes and they'll already have been cast, and they'll heavily favour the shortlisted favourites.
lol
Come back to me when it is a black welsh woman disabled trade unionist.
You could try and get a good artist doing a good song OR you could do something off beat and memorable but every year we pick a middle of the road song by a mediocre artist that is instantly forgettable.
You've gotta think like he would.
The scoring!
And expelling millions of people from lands where they were born, who have no other nationality, is nothing less than ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.
Israel's best option was always to have a Palestinian state that was dependent on it. But the settler movement has made a viable Palestinian state a near impossibility.
Mind-boggling gossip, and extremely funny. It is also explains why he is possibly the most successful solo star of all time, and his bravery in being Out and gay so early.
He's a dude, the book is superb
As I see the Beeb are to blame. I someone like Simon Cowell was in charge of our entry, we would get something so much better.
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1396212960167698432?s=20
But I am not the median.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has given the most 'searingly honest and intensely emotional' interview of his life, in which he reveals how a series of devastating family tragedies shaped him into the man he is today.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9608419/Keir-Starmer-breaks-tears-Piers-Morgans-TV-show.html
Even now it is extremely valuable:
"In August 2015, which marked the 30th anniversary of the song's release, the song was acquired by BMG Rights Management for £10 million, along with all the other songs written by Kimberley Rew and Katrina and the Waves.[9]"
Imagine writing a 3 minute pop song which earns £40m
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_on_Sunshine_(Katrina_and_the_Waves_song)
Anyway, I have money on France.
Ben goes into history books as his watch strutting tough whilst delivering weakness?
Along with every other book I’ve bought in the last three years other than ‘The Great Betrayal’ by Ian Smith, and ‘Treasure Island’
*and ‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’ which I lent to my Dad
To be fair it does decline once he goes sober (sober people are just a bit more boring) but even then it is excellent - as against brilliant
It's a world class autobiography, and he has led a life unmatched by any
Funny you type this just as a wild mate of mine who has been in AA for about ten years is what’s apping that he is struggling
In his mad days he once went into a Romford brass house, off his head on gear and booze, and shagged every one of them, then left his Oyster card, work tools and wallet behind and his long suffering dad had to go pick them up the next day!
As another mate said ‘how I wish I had that lack of self control’!!
He is a dull speaker, for which he should seek coaching. He needs to nail Boris to the wall. It is no good collecting evidence at PMQs if he never uses it: the electorate is not the Supreme Court bench who will have noted each answer; it is a jury waiting for the summing-up. Some policies would be nice too, though it is hard to create clear blue water against a backdrop of the covid pandemic.
Please don't be Malta.
ETA in some ways that is bad advice: better is when you can see the reason for a drift but you disagree.
‘ Keir Starmer's tears for his father: Labour leader breaks down in tears on Piers Morgan's Life Stories as he talks for first time about three shattering family tragedies - including how his mother died’
AND he had sex with 10,000 people and sniffed metric tonnes of coke, and then got properly serious with the booze and strippers, while buying entire villages and chateaux
I salute him
Does Boris end up in the history books as initially wanting herd immunity when the pandemic began, hence the high number of deaths?