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We’ve not seen a Marf cartoon on PB for some time but this is her end of the year drawing for the Jewish Chronicle. Thanks Marf. It is fun.
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Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, from Banbury, along with Daniel Bogunovic, 27, from Leicester, were convicted of being in National Action.
Birmingham Crown Court heard the couple gave their child the middle name Adolf in honour of the Nazi leader.
Jurors saw images of Thomas in Ku Klux Klan robes while cradling his baby.
The Neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed under anti-terror legislation three years later after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-46151838
What do you do with the Vicar that you really don't want recording?
Dozens missing in deadly Russia explosion in Magnitogorsk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46720260
That style reminded me a bit of the lengthy cartoons Tim Hunkin used to do for New Scientist, when I read it. They were educational and homely.
I am surprised the Jewish chronical are not more scathing about Jeremy Corbyn and his followers! Does anybody else find the irony of Corbyn's initial JC as in Jesus Christ perverse? To paraphrase the Life of Brian film: He (Jeremy Corbyn) is not the messiah but a very naughty boy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plZRe1kPWZw
The best new year I ever had involved a chance encounter with a call girl new to the city, she was booked for an hour but we ended up spending the next three days getting high together. And dated for some months after. Wasn't it John Lennon who said that life is what happens while you're making other plans?
Happy new year to all PB'ers. My resolution is to try to be kinder to others, here and elsewhere. I'm done with all the bloody arguing and fighting.
(Incidentally Sean I am in full Scrooge mode. I am shortly hoping to go to bed and catch up with some sleep, but people will be letting bloody fireworks off all night and I won't have a chance of rest. So I sympathise).
Tomorrow, twenty years to the day, I'll be off to London to do a stretch of the London LOOP trail.
That is twenty years, 1029 walks, 18,100 miles, and 1.5 million feet of ascent and descent.
Memories forever dear, holidays of yesteryear.
If I become a Jew for Jesus I'm blaming you.
22 years ago I made a New Year's Resolution I have kept unwaveringly ever since.
It was to stop making stupid resolutions on what amounts to a random winter's day that I never keep and then feel bad for breaking.
I can highly recommend this as a very valuable and worthwhile exercise.
UK Border Force have recalled 2 cutters from overseas to reinforce border.
Question - where did they think the border was?
Might give it a shot next, currently working my way through the newest season of Peaky Blinders.
I see your point about Vietnam. An unwinnable war that has hopelessly divided the nation, done in the name of freedom but ultimately a bit of a national embarassment, exposing the failings of our own government...
"I'll run three 10k distances a week, unless it's too cold, too hot, or there's something good to watch on the TV whilst stuffing my face full of HobNobs..."
"I'll read a book a week. Although as I have a young son, the likes of 'That's not my pig!' is classed as a book for the purposes of this resolution."
And therefore, our border is in effect in the Mediterranean at the moment.
Moreover, that is where the bulk of the migration starts from anyway and it's more logical to deal with it there than have all the complications of sending them back from here.
So I think they were making the right decision to police further away. I worry the change of policy is therefore a Bad Idea.
@AnneJGP likewise.
Instead, I have made one of my ambitions to walk the equivalent distance of the circumference of the Earth. Since that's about 25,000 miles, I am just under three-quarters of the way there. And all done within the UK, without too many repeat walks.
Edit: the story of the first person to walk around the Earth is fascinating and a little sad. He started with his brother, who got killed by bandits in Afghanistan, and ended the walk with another brother.
http://davekunst1.com/
My resolution should perhaps be to be less passive.
Just a stunning piece of work that at times moved me to tears.
I am off to bed.
I wish all PBers of whatever persuasion a blessed, peaceful and prosperous new year.
It's the incurable optimist in me
Happy New Year.
A couple of months back it commissioned her to do a serious political cartoon on the Corbyn anti-semitism row. Her research led her reluctantly but emphatically to the view that he was indeed anti-semitic, and her cartoon, which was much darker and more political than her work normally is, reflected this. It was however produced without pressure or indeed input from the paper itself.
The JC wouldn't be my newspaper of choice, but it is a serious publication with strong journalistic values.
Rail routes that Sunil has done for the first time - excludes journeys taken to reach said routes. Other routes were done for the first time in previous calendar years.
March
Finsbury Park to St Pancras
Bermondsey new flyover
April
Chester Zoo monorail
Ordsall Curve (Manchester Deansgate to Victoria)
Lancaster to Heysham
Newport to Swansea
May
Lee to Grove Park (Lee Spur)
Northallerton to Sunderland
Filton Abbey Wood to Patchway
Newton Abbott to Paignton
Hawkeridge curve (near Westbury)
Cardiff Queen St to Cardiff Bay
Upwey to Yeovil Pen Mill
Water Orton to Wilnecote via Whitchurch/Kingsbury junctions
June
Cardiff Central to Barry Island
Grangetown to Penarth
Strawberry Hill to Fulwell
Acton Diveunder (eastbound only)
Exeter St David's to Barnstaple
St James' Park (Exeter) to Exmouth
Hang on, I think I've found a perfect test for PB Toryism!
Rail routes that Sunil has done for the first time - excludes journeys taken to reach said routes. Other routes were done for the first time in previous calendar years.
July
Darlington to Eaglescliffe to Saltburn
Darlington to Bishop Auckland
Cardiff Central to Coryton
Cardiff Central to Radyr via Ninian Park
Cardiff Queen Street to Merthyr Tydfil
Pontypridd to Treherbert
Cardiff Queen Street to Rhymney
Abercynon to Aberdare
New Beckenham to Beckenham Junction
Willington to Ilkeston (via Castle Donington and Toton)
August
Cardiff to Ebbw Vale Town
Barry to Bridgend
Bridgend to Maesteg
Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog
Machynlleth to Pwllheli
Swansea to Milford Haven
September
Clarbeston Road to Fishguard Harbour
Ferryside to Whitland direct (Carmarthen avoider westbound)
Gowerton to Llansamlet direct (Swansea avoider eastbound)
Lockerbie (ie. Carstairs south junc.) to Haymarket
Edinburgh to Tweedbank
Carlisle to Glasgow Central via Dumfries
Carlisle to Barrow via Whitehaven
Glasgow Central to Partick
Hyndland to Dalmuir via Yoker
Paisley Gilmour Street to Wemyss Bay
Newton Abbot to Plymouth
Plymouth to Gunnislake
Keyham to Truro
Truro to Falmouth Docks
Par to Newquay
Truro to Penzance
St Erth to St Ives
Liskeard to Looe (inc. Coombe southbound only)
Selby to York (direct)
Selby to Sherburn-in-Elmet
Habrough to Barton-on-Humber
Craven Arms to Llanelli
Thornaby to Stockton
Middlesbrough to Whitby
Wakefield Westgate to Kirkgate
Hebden Bridge to Burnley Manchester Road
Whitland to Pembroke Dock
Pontyclun to Ninian Park (Leckwith Loop)
Lawrence Hill to Keynsham (Dr Days Curve)
October
Kirknewton to Uddingston via Shotts
Kilwinning to Largs
Ardrossan South Beach to Harbour
Troon to Kilmarnock
Port Glasgow to Gourock
Glasgow Central to Neilston
Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal
Pollokshaws West to East Kilbride
Glasgow Central to Cambuslang (via Argyle Street)
Cambuslang to Larkhall
Polmont to Glasgow Queen St via Cumbernauld
Greenfaulds to Hamilton Central via Whifflet
Drem to North Berwick
Carstairs East junction to Carstairs
Mount Florida to Kings Park
Bellshill to Motherwell
Shieldmuir to Carluke via Wishaw
Carluke to Lanark
Rutherglen to Whifflet via Carmyle
Glasgow Central to Newton via Maxwell Park
Holytown to Wishaw
Westerton to Milngavie
Dalreoch to Helensburgh Central
Glasgow Queen Street to Anniesland via Maryhill
Bellgrove to Springburn
Linlithgow to Dalmeny
Llangennech to Briton Ferry Up Fast Loop Junction (Swansea District Line)
We may be 10th generation but he is still front of mind. Not least because this is at the head of the table where the family lunches each day
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Sir_Richard_Hoare_%281648%E2%80%931718%29.jpg/220px-Sir_Richard_Hoare_%281648%E2%80%931718%29.jpg&imgrefurl=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hoare&docid=HZA_NZpeC4uycM&tbnid=1YWtGNSR1Ut4RM:&vet=1&w=220&h=260&hl=en-gb&source=sh/x/im
I’d add to that choosing a system (or systems) which allow you transparently to set limits to what you allow them to do.
Of course most current systems fail on most of those counts.
I predict we leave in March, no election, no referendum and Tezzie stays in No. 10.
May the next year at least bring a close to the current chapter of our nation's story at least, pleasant wishes to all.
Looks like terrorism - if the eye witness reports are accurate
The big compendium of his Observer cartoons is available very cheaply second-hand on Amazon though obviously lots of it will be out of date now. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Almost-Everything-There-Timothy-Hunkin/dp/0600570878
Anyone been to see his contraptions at Southwold Pier?
A Happy and Safe New Year to all.
Mike's analysis is correct - enjoy Brexit!!!
A very happy new year one and all.
(Glad to see back of 2018)
May our politicians be given the wisdom to take the right actions to safeguard our country and to start to heal its divisions
I've had my happiest NTE since my first daughter was born 8 and three quarter years ago, necessarily curtailing new year's celebrations. A cheerful evening with good friends with similat numbers of children, merging seamlessly into a music appreciation session. St. Ettienne to see the year in, the Pixies to finally walk out the door and stagger home.
Hope eevryone's New Year is as joyous as can be.
Con 41 (+1)
Lab 39 (+3)
Lib Dems 7 (-3)
UKIP 4 (nc)
Greens 3 (nc)
Note fieldwork 16th/17th December
Changes are with the YouGov poll for the People's Vote conducted on the 12-14 December
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/tories-top-polls-despite-a-year-of-westminster-chaos-890l9q6tk
The prime minister’s personal ratings have returned to levels last seen before she called the disastrous snap election in 2017, however. The latest poll confirms the dangers posed to Jeremy Corbyn from Brexit. Of those backing Labour 50 per cent voted to remain in the EU and 22 per cent voted to leave.
The Chronicle has previously had some wry fun with the fact that the initials are all the same.