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Final chance to enter the 2026 PB predictions competition – politicalbetting.com

To enter you simply need to post your answers to the following 12 questions onto the site before the end of January with the hashtag #competition somewhere in the post to help the scorer (me) find your entry.  Or, you can private message me @Benpointer with your entry answers.  

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  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 24,318
    edited 9:00AM
    1st. Unlike where I'll finish in the prediction competition.
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 57,553
    edited 9:00AM
    First?
    OK, second!
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,995
    edited 9:01AM
    Good morning, PBers.

    And third.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 89,667
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 21,440
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    He was happy to impersonate a horse?
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 15,138
    TheScreamingEagles said:


    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Look at the competition... Wierdo, Wooden and Wimp.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 21,994
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    He was the second son
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    I have to agree.

    I know some very high end escorts (don't ask why or how) and they are all regularly tested for the clap and other associated diseases, I am sure if Bill Gates did use an escort it would be in that bracket.
  • TazTaz Posts: 24,389
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Microsoft anti virus not working then ?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    Dura_Ace said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:


    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Look at the competition... Wierdo, Wooden and Wimp.
    Please do not call Prince Edward a wimp.


  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 15,138
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:


    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Look at the competition... Wierdo, Wooden and Wimp.
    Please do not call Prince Edward a wimp.


    That's the 4x Jubilee medals, which you basically get for being alive, and some New Zealand thing that you can swap for 2L of milk at a petrol station. Honestly, I'd be fucking embarrassed to wear that rack.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,995
    Do we know what came of the suggestion last night of some post-hoc redaction of pretty incriminating direct allegations against DJT pointed to in an X post that was linked by, I think, NigelB? Was the brief presence of that journalistically verified or was it typical internet hype?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    Sandpit said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
    Like Norman Fowler, there's hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) alive today who otherwise wouldn't be thanks to Bill Gates, I'll put him in the flawed genius category for now.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 89,667
    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.
  • TresTres Posts: 3,446
    Sandpit said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
    Always good to see the trump fans pearl-clutching about how awful bill gates is
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Talking about Xbox Live I saw a comment the other day which went along the lines of

    'Some kid called my 10 year old son 'gay', my son replied with 'I'm straighter than the pole your mum dances on' and I'm not intervening.'
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 60,330
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Sandpit said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
    Like Norman Fowler, there's hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) alive today who otherwise wouldn't be thanks to Bill Gates, I'll put him in the flawed genius category for now.
    There’s a long history of people who got rich using the money to try and buy back their souls, in the second half of their lives.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 42,102
    Pro_Rata said:

    Do we know what came of the suggestion last night of some post-hoc redaction of pretty incriminating direct allegations against DJT pointed to in an X post that was linked by, I think, NigelB? Was the brief presence of that journalistically verified or was it typical internet hype?

    https://x.com/jaketapper/status/2017303445322059847?s=20
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 34,935
    Dura_Ace said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:


    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Look at the competition... Wierdo, Wooden and Wimp.
    Please do not call Prince Edward a wimp.


    That's the 4x Jubilee medals, which you basically get for being alive, and some New Zealand thing that you can swap for 2L of milk at a petrol station. Honestly, I'd be fucking embarrassed to wear that rack.
    Most medals are campaign or service medals and always have been. What makes the royals look daft is not the medals but the OTT uniforms from that day Vivienne Westwood was asked to imagine what Henry VIII would have worn if he swapped the monasteries for velvet and gold braid factories.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 60,330
    On the bus driver thing - I was struck by the manager saying that she was convinced that the reason the robber returned to the bus (after the bus driver grabbed the ladies necklace from him) was that he (the robber) was going to apologise to the robbery victim.

    How did she know this?
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 33,865
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    Bill Gates is not a nice man. That goes for his so-called activism on buying up farmland and getting the world to eat lab-grown fake meat (though I highly doubt much of it goes in his own gob). Any Epstein allegations are ancillary evidence frankly.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 21,440
    Sandpit said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
    None of us are totally good, none of us (I hope and trust) are utterly irredeemably bad.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 46,419
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Given some of Phil's shenanigans, Andrews chip off the old block qualities?
  • carnforthcarnforth Posts: 8,250
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Ghislaine was alledgedly big on Reddit:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523156
  • RogerRoger Posts: 21,994
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    I have to agree.

    I know some very high end escorts (don't ask why or how) and they are all regularly tested for the clap and other associated diseases, I am sure if Bill Gates did use an escort it would be in that bracket.
    Pity we don't have any high end escorts or indeed sex workers of any sort to comment on how they feel about those ugly black rectangles suggesting people in their profession have something to be ashamed of. We don't have them covering the faces of Daily Mail journalists
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 15,262
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Talking about Xbox Live I saw a comment the other day which went along the lines of

    'Some kid called my 10 year old son 'gay', my son replied with 'I'm straighter than the pole your mum dances on' and I'm not intervening.'
    That's reminiscent of the ripost from Jimmy Carr to a heckler who asked JC what his dick tasted of. 'Your Mum' was the instant response.

    Was the lad really 10? Precocious.
  • IanB2IanB2 Posts: 54,185
    carnforth said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Ghislaine was alledgedly big on Reddit:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523156
    Assuming the factoids in that are accurate, given the lack of cited proof, then that's a very convincing account. And not an incredible one, for somone like her to have spend a fair deal of time online moderating discussions.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 89,667
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Talking about Xbox Live I saw a comment the other day which went along the lines of

    'Some kid called my 10 year old son 'gay', my son replied with 'I'm straighter than the pole your mum dances on' and I'm not intervening.'
    Kids grow up so fast these days....
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    edited 9:40AM
    Stuartinromford said:

    Sandpit said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
    None of us are totally good, none of us (I hope and trust) are utterly irredeemably bad.
    Indeed. I always try and see the good in people, and once you get past the Putins and Khamenis of this world I try not to think of anyone as evil. We all have good and bad ideas, and all do good and bad things.

    I do however reserve extreme scepticism for those who try and present themselves as philanthropists, while turning up regularly on as island full of underage sex workers. There’s a lot of other pretty horrible rumours about Bill Gates out there, which I’m not going to repeat because I don’t want to get this site in trouble. I remember when we all used to think that Microsoft was the worst thing he’d ever done.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    Peter_the_Punter said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Talking about Xbox Live I saw a comment the other day which went along the lines of

    'Some kid called my 10 year old son 'gay', my son replied with 'I'm straighter than the pole your mum dances on' and I'm not intervening.'
    That's reminiscent of the ripost from Jimmy Carr to a heckler who asked JC what his dick tasted of. 'Your Mum' was the instant response.

    Was the lad really 10? Precocious.
    “If you want my comeback, you can scrape it off your mum’s teeth” - Jimmy Carr.

    Don’t ever go to his show and heckle, he’s way better at it than anyone in the audience!
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 60,330
    On Epstein and Xbox

    Can’t believe that this hasn’t been posted yet - https://youtu.be/lreKS6DGBMM?si=_ZY0TGuOOZfqImQk
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    Sandpit said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Talking about Xbox Live I saw a comment the other day which went along the lines of

    'Some kid called my 10 year old son 'gay', my son replied with 'I'm straighter than the pole your mum dances on' and I'm not intervening.'
    That's reminiscent of the ripost from Jimmy Carr to a heckler who asked JC what his dick tasted of. 'Your Mum' was the instant response.

    Was the lad really 10? Precocious.
    “If you want my comeback, you can scrape it off your mum’s teeth” - Jimmy Carr.

    Don’t ever go to his show and heckle, he’s way better at it than anyone in the audience!
    I've been to dozens and dozens of his shows and I've only ever seen Jimmy Carr stunned into silence once

    Jimmy Carr was talking about hall passes and who each person had on their hall pass/celebrity wish list and one guy in a thick Geordie accent said 'You/Jimmy Carr'.
  • MilesPartridgeMilesPartridge Posts: 84
    Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the House? 22
    Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the Senate? 2
    Number of MSPs won by the SNP at the Holyrood election? 58
    Number of AMs won by Plaid Cymru at the Senedd election? 41
    UK Party recording the largest poll lead during 2026 and by what percentage (British Polling Council registered pollsters only)? Reform 14%
    Labour’s Projected National Share of the vote based on the 2026 local elections according to the BBC? 19%
    Number of Reform MPs on the 31st December 2026? 11
    The name of the UK Prime Minister on 31st December 2026? Keir Starmer
    Will Andy Burnham will be an MP on 31st December 2026? NO
    UK borrowing in the financial year to November 2026 (£132.3bn to November 2025)? £145bN
    UK GDP growth in the 12 months to October 2026 (1.1% to October 2025)? 1.3%
    Winners of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup? France

    #competition
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 60,330
    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Sandpit said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Talking about Xbox Live I saw a comment the other day which went along the lines of

    'Some kid called my 10 year old son 'gay', my son replied with 'I'm straighter than the pole your mum dances on' and I'm not intervening.'
    That's reminiscent of the ripost from Jimmy Carr to a heckler who asked JC what his dick tasted of. 'Your Mum' was the instant response.

    Was the lad really 10? Precocious.
    “If you want my comeback, you can scrape it off your mum’s teeth” - Jimmy Carr.

    Don’t ever go to his show and heckle, he’s way better at it than anyone in the audience!
    I've been to dozens and dozens of his shows and I've only ever seen Jimmy Carr stunned into silence once

    Jimmy Carr was talking about hall passes and who each person had on their hall pass/celebrity wish list and one guy in a thick Geordie accent said 'You/Jimmy Carr'.
    That’s a good one. I’m seeing him next month, they’re letting him into the sandpit to sully the opera house of all places. Thankfully this time I’m far enough back for him not to notice me by accident.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 54,949
    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 18,437
    Sandpit said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
    Good of you to acknowledge this about Donald Tru… oh, you said “Gates”! Sorry…
  • eekeek Posts: 32,430
    Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the House?
    18
    Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the Senate?
    3
    Number of MSPs won by the SNP at the Holyrood election?
    57
    Number of AMs won by Plaid Cymru at the Senedd election?
    42
    UK Party recording the largest poll lead during 2026 and by what percentage (British Polling Council registered pollsters only)?
    Reform 13%
    Labour’s Projected National Share of the vote based on the 2026 local elections according to the BBC?
    18%
    Number of Reform MPs on the 31st December 2026?
    10
    The name of the UK Prime Minister on 31st December 2026?
    Starmer
    Will Andy Burnham will be an MP on 31st December 2026?
    No
    UK borrowing in the financial year to November 2026 (£132.3bn to November 2025)?
    £127.4bn
    UK GDP growth in the 12 months to October 2026 (1.1% to October 2025)?
    1.6%
    Winners of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup?
    Brazil
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 40,400
    Net gains in the House 24

    Net gains in the Senate 2

    Number of
    MSP’s 55

    Number of AM’s 35

    Poll lead Reform 16%

    Labour PNV 15%

    Reform MP’s 10

    PM on 31.12.26 Starmer

    Will Burnham be an MP? No.

    UK borrowing £120 bn

    UK Growth 2.0%

    World Cup winner France.



  • RogerRoger Posts: 21,994
    Malmesbury said:

    On Epstein and Xbox

    Can’t believe that this hasn’t been posted yet - https://youtu.be/lreKS6DGBMM?si=_ZY0TGuOOZfqImQk

    Maybe cos it's not funny?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,383
    bondegezou said:

    Sandpit said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    His wife still divorced him soon afterwards, so she clearly wasn’t buying the denial.

    Gates is someone who’d worked very hard to try and get himself a reputation as a good man, while his terrible behaviour both in business and personal lives has been kept quiet.
    Good of you to acknowledge this about Donald Tru… oh, you said “Gates”! Sorry…
    Donald is like Gates in that it's an open and shut matter.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 46,419
    For the several unenthusiastic listeners to The Today programme on here (including me):

    https://x.com/HackBlackburn/status/2017520043215483012?s=20

    'staff on the programme are glad that Justin Webb remains untangled'

    Fuuuccckkk.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 42,102
    Roger said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Pro tip: Don't read about Bill Gates and his knobrot whilst you're eating bran flakes.

    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Billy Boy claims its all fake news.....
    I have to agree.

    I know some very high end escorts (don't ask why or how) and they are all regularly tested for the clap and other associated diseases, I am sure if Bill Gates did use an escort it would be in that bracket.
    Pity we don't have any high end escorts or indeed sex workers of any sort to comment on how they feel about those ugly black rectangles suggesting people in their profession have something to be ashamed of. We don't have them covering the faces of Daily Mail journalists
    @theliamnissan

    Again, these Epstein files are more blacked-out than Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon Christmas party
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 34,935
    Sandpit said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Sandpit said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Epstein being banned from Xbox Live for harassing other players was not on my bingo card.

    Talking about Xbox Live I saw a comment the other day which went along the lines of

    'Some kid called my 10 year old son 'gay', my son replied with 'I'm straighter than the pole your mum dances on' and I'm not intervening.'
    That's reminiscent of the ripost from Jimmy Carr to a heckler who asked JC what his dick tasted of. 'Your Mum' was the instant response.

    Was the lad really 10? Precocious.
    “If you want my comeback, you can scrape it off your mum’s teeth” - Jimmy Carr.

    Don’t ever go to his show and heckle, he’s way better at it than anyone in the audience!
    I've been to dozens and dozens of his shows and I've only ever seen Jimmy Carr stunned into silence once

    Jimmy Carr was talking about hall passes and who each person had on their hall pass/celebrity wish list and one guy in a thick Geordie accent said 'You/Jimmy Carr'.
    That’s a good one. I’m seeing him next month, they’re letting him into the sandpit to sully the opera house of all places. Thankfully this time I’m far enough back for him not to notice me by accident.
    45 seconds of JC:-

    "Please have a go at my boyfriend!"
    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jV7jE6tTT-Q
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 46,419
    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 42,102
    Foxy said:

    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    @RobDotHutton

    Melania is a film that may end up being shown to a jury, though not at Cannes. I watched it so you don't have to.

    https://x.com/RobDotHutton/status/2017515012634415387?s=20
  • Peter_the_PunterPeter_the_Punter Posts: 15,262
    PB COMP....

    1. House gains 22
    2. Senate gains 2
    3. MSPs 51
    4. AMs 33
    5. Poll lead Reform 18
    6. Labour PNV 13%
    7. Reform MPs 8
    8. PM 31.12.26 Starmer
    9. A Burnham will not be an MP
    10. UK orrowing £111 billion
    11. UK Growth 2.2 %
    12. World Cup winner - Argentina! (Please don't cry.)
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
    Gates was a regular visitor to Epstein’s island. The one full of underage girls, that island.

    Musk was invited loads but never went, and lobbied for the all the Epstein files to be released.

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    One of the three is deserving of critisism over Epstein.
  • DoctorGDoctorG Posts: 437
    Happy self employed income tax paying everyone

    Spare a thought today for those less fortunate than ourselves, such as former royals who have allegedly been photographed on all fours in the Epstein files

    Wishing all the best as they adjust to a new life getting to watch more Homes under the hammer and Rip off Britain
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 46,419
    Sandpit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
    Gates was a regular visitor to Epstein’s island. The one full of underage girls, that island.

    Musk was invited loads but never went, and lobbied for the all the Epstein files to be released.

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    One of the three is deserving of critisism over Epstein.
    Thanks, you are most enlightening on the subject of MAGA morality.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 34,935
    Foxy said:

    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    And yet Melania was given a theatrical release rather than straight to streaming so does MGM expect it to pick up some craft awards?
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 46,419
    Two fresh faced young lads before they were raddled by far right politics, and in one case, marching powder.

    https://x.com/LewensWill/status/2017175177650405705?s=20
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 48,880
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
    Yes, at least with Donald Trump we are spared the need for any complex 'weighing in the balance' calculations. Guy just shits on everything and makes a mess.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    DecrepiterJohnL said:

    Foxy said:

    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    And yet Melania was given a theatrical release rather than straight to streaming so does MGM expect it to pick up some craft awards?
    Surely no-one in Hollywood would vote for it to receive any award other than a Golden Raspberry, even if the film was a cinematic masterpiece?
  • RogerRoger Posts: 21,994
    DecrepiterJohnL said:

    Foxy said:

    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    And yet Melania was given a theatrical release rather than straight to streaming so does MGM expect it to pick up some craft awards?
    Plastic surgeon.......that'll be a first
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 60,330
    kinabalu said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
    Yes, at least with Donald Trump we are spared the need for any complex 'weighing in the balance' calculations. Guy just shits on everything and makes a mess.
    Donald Trump? The rapist, insurrectionist, fraudster and general criminal? That’s quite a mess.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 60,330
    Scott_xP said:

    Foxy said:

    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    @RobDotHutton

    Melania is a film that may end up being shown to a jury, though not at Cannes. I watched it so you don't have to.

    https://x.com/RobDotHutton/status/2017515012634415387?s=20
    So what he is saying is that it’s a professionally made influencer video?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    One writer in Kyiv says there’s no water and no power in the whole city, and the outages could last all day. The metro has lost power, trains are stuck between stations.

    Doesn’t sound good at all.

    https://x.com/angelshalagina/status/2017539407826284706
    https://x.com/angelshalagina/status/2017534383536607391
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,383
    Roger said:

    DecrepiterJohnL said:

    Foxy said:

    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    And yet Melania was given a theatrical release rather than straight to streaming so does MGM expect it to pick up some craft awards?
    Plastic surgeon.......that'll be a first
    I'm sure she's already got a big cut.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 133,507
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Dura_Ace said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:


    As for that photo of Andrew Mountbatten-WIndsor on all fours, can anyone tell me why he is was Queen Elizabeth II's favourite sprog?

    Look at the competition... Wierdo, Wooden and Wimp.
    Please do not call Prince Edward a wimp.


    To be fair the Andrew formerly known as Prince did earn his medals as a helicopter pilot in the Falklands war and was always far more macho than Prince Edward the actor and media luvvie and the King, the intellectual horticultaralist who talked to his trees. (Although Princess Anne is probably the toughest of the lot and was Prince Philip's favourite child as a result).

    The Duke of Edinburgh is though Colonel of the Scots Guards, the Royal Hussars etc

  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 69,887
    Russia is losing. The West cannot back down now:


    "The Russian Armed Forces are in a state of profound decay. Reports now confirm that wounded convicts, many missing limbs, are being forced back to the front line to fill critical manpower gaps. Some have not even been provided prosthetics and are expected to return to combat on crutches. This is not resilience; it is desperation."

    ...

    "if this truly reflects the state of the modern Russian Army, a relatively modest increase in Western support would almost certainly allow Ukraine to prevail."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/30/russian-army-amputees-casualties-ukraine-war/



    MoD estimates at current rates it will take another FOUR years for Russia to get Donbas - which they want handed to them by Donny.

  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 21,324
    Sandpit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
    Gates was a regular visitor to Epstein’s island. The one full of underage girls, that island.

    Musk was invited loads but never went, and lobbied for the all the Epstein files to be released.

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    One of the three is deserving of critisism over Epstein.
    Jesus Christ Sandpit you’re unbelievable
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 42,102
    Foxy said:

    Scott_xP said:

    Foxy said:

    I see The Guardian has sent a reviewer to Melania:

    "Ratner’s film plays like a gilded trash remake of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest in which a button-eyed Cinderella points at gold baubles and designer dresses, cunningly distracting us while her husband and his cronies prepare to dismantle the Constitution and asset-strip the federal government. “White and gold – that’s so you,” purrs one of her lickspittles as she busies herself with the colour-scheme for the ball and the incoming first lady allows that yes indeed, this is true."

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

    @RobDotHutton

    Melania is a film that may end up being shown to a jury, though not at Cannes. I watched it so you don't have to.

    https://x.com/RobDotHutton/status/2017515012634415387?s=20
    On Letterboxd it has a review score of 1.2.

    My favourite review there is "If Melania was to be shown on a plane, people would still walk out"
    Four Seasons scores again

    https://x.com/TotalSeasons/status/2017014669236433016?s=20
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 69,887
    Peter_the_Punter said:

    PB COMP....

    1. House gains 22
    2. Senate gains 2
    3. MSPs 51
    4. AMs 33
    5. Poll lead Reform 18
    6. Labour PNV 13%
    7. Reform MPs 8
    8. PM 31.12.26 Starmer
    9. A Burnham will not be an MP
    10. UK orrowing £111 billion
    11. UK Growth 2.2 %
    12. World Cup winner - Argentina! (Please don't cry.)


    You need to add #competition

    Another Argentina vote. I said same. As did a lot of PBers. Will we turn out to be football sages as well as political rune readers?

  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 42,102
    Sandpit said:

    Musk was invited loads but never went

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    I don't think either of those statements is true
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 77,383
    rottenborough said:

    Russia is losing. The West cannot back down now:

    But they will as soon as Vance has agreed the size of the bribe Mad Vlad will have to pay the US.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 40,400
    Andrew Windsor is saying, “I have you now, my pretty.”
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 21,324
    Gallowgate said:

    Sandpit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
    Gates was a regular visitor to Epstein’s island. The one full of underage girls, that island.

    Musk was invited loads but never went, and lobbied for the all the Epstein files to be released.

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    One of the three is deserving of critisism over Epstein.
    Jesus Christ Sandpit you’re unbelievable
    Trump is all over the Epstein files with tons of horrifying allegations. There’s also an email from Elon Musk begging for an invite when the most “wild parties” are happening. They all deserve criticism (wether or not they are actually guilty of any crimes)
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    Scott_xP said:

    Sandpit said:

    Musk was invited loads but never went

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    I don't think either of those statements is true
    Go on then, evidence for Musk ever going to the island, or for Trump having any relationship with Epstein after I think 2007?
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 45,791
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sandpit said:

    Malmesbury said:

    Sandpit said:

    Is anyone else’s Twitter timeline seemingly full of pictures of mostly young people allegedly killed in Iran?

    It does appear that they may be getting internet connections back somehow. The suggestion is that the death toll is now 70-85,000

    Big shipments of Starlink terminals (mini?) have made it across the borders, looks like.
    I know that Elon Musk is another regular target of ridicule, but what Starlink has done for humanity is incredible. So many people facing war, oppression, and government censorship have been able to get their stories out.

    Not all good news though, there’s evidence that a shipment ended up in Russia and they’ve made their way onto suicide drones. SpaceX are trying to work out a way to block them, without also blocking the Ukranian drones with Starlink operating in the same airspace. Both loiter in place and regularly fly in circles, so it’s not as simple as direction of travel East or West.
    Just trying to work out MAGA morality.

    Gates' valuable contribution to the greater good is completely devalued by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Musk's valuable contribution to the greater good is completely untouched by him being dodgy as fuck and a pal of Epstein's.

    Trump hasn't contributed anything to the greater good so I guess he doesn't enter into it.
    Gates was a regular visitor to Epstein’s island. The one full of underage girls, that island.

    Musk was invited loads but never went, and lobbied for the all the Epstein files to be released.

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    One of the three is deserving of critisism over Epstein.
    Thanks, you are most enlightening on the subject of MAGA morality.
    cult members are blind
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 46,419
    Sajid Javid
    @sajidjavid
    The original online headline on my Sunday Times interview last week was incorrect and attributed words to me that I did not say.
    The paper has now corrected this and added the clarification below. I’m grateful that the record has been set straight.

    https://x.com/sajidjavid/status/2017531846041522568?s=20

    Mr Javid now wishes it to be known that he doesn't know whether he would let people like his parents into the country today.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 54,949
    Sandpit said:

    Scott_xP said:

    Sandpit said:

    Musk was invited loads but never went

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    I don't think either of those statements is true
    Go on then, evidence for Musk ever going to the island, or for Trump having any relationship with Epstein after I think 2007?
    Are you completely uninterested in what Trump and his buddy Epstein got up to before their 2007 fallout over a real estate deal?
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 42,102
    Sandpit said:

    Scott_xP said:

    Sandpit said:

    Musk was invited loads but never went

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    I don't think either of those statements is true
    Go on then, evidence for Musk ever going to the island, or for Trump having any relationship with Epstein after I think 2007?
    It's the 'invited loads' bit

    @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social‬

    So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.

    https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3mdoahiqm5c2b

    @SarahLongwell25

    Trump swore he cut off contact with Epstein before he was arrested in 2006. So why would Epstein be calling Trump in 2011?

    https://x.com/SarahLongwell25/status/2017323769245700581?s=20
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 21,324
    Sandpit said:

    Scott_xP said:

    Sandpit said:

    Musk was invited loads but never went

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    I don't think either of those statements is true
    Go on then, evidence for Musk ever going to the island, or for Trump having any relationship with Epstein after I think 2007?
    Whether or not he cut ties with Epstein after 2007 does not exonerate all the other allegations against Trump before that date. I am not saying they are true because we don’t know but the absolute lack of transparency in respect of the release of the files and the redactions is not exactly a great look. The allegations are horrifying.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 54,949
    Derek Guy nails it once again:

    "every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds"

    https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social/post/3mdoj24kqqs2r
  • ThomasNasheThomasNashe Posts: 5,489
    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sajid Javid
    @sajidjavid
    The original online headline on my Sunday Times interview last week was incorrect and attributed words to me that I did not say.
    The paper has now corrected this and added the clarification below. I’m grateful that the record has been set straight.

    https://x.com/sajidjavid/status/2017531846041522568?s=20

    Mr Javid now wishes it to be known that he doesn't know whether he would let people like his parents into the country today.

    I was actually quite impressed by that piece. His background was much tougher than I thought it'd been. And, unlike many others, he really didn't ever make that much of his personal backstory while in government.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 133,507
    edited 11:12AM
    Sean_F said:

    Andrew Windsor is saying, “I have you now, my pretty.”

    Though to be fair to Andrew there is no actual sex act going on. Indeed the latest release seems worst for Bill Gates, claiming he caught sexually transmitted diseases from sex with Russian girls and having to cover it up from his then wife. Though Gates strongly denies the claims.

    Trump, Mandelson and his partner and Elon Musk also mentioned
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 34,935
    rottenborough said:

    Russia is losing. The West cannot back down now:


    "The Russian Armed Forces are in a state of profound decay. Reports now confirm that wounded convicts, many missing limbs, are being forced back to the front line to fill critical manpower gaps. Some have not even been provided prosthetics and are expected to return to combat on crutches. This is not resilience; it is desperation."

    ...

    "if this truly reflects the state of the modern Russian Army, a relatively modest increase in Western support would almost certainly allow Ukraine to prevail."

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/30/russian-army-amputees-casualties-ukraine-war/



    MoD estimates at current rates it will take another FOUR years for Russia to get Donbas - which they want handed to them by Donny.

    Russia might be losing but the trouble is that no-one is winning. Russia does not need boots on the ground to fire rockets and drones against Ukraine's civic infrastructure, and Ukraine cannot attack Moscow in the same way and that is the city Putin cares about. President Trump is right to call this a horrible war.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 42,102
    Foxy said:

    Derek Guy nails it once again:

    "every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds"

    https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social/post/3mdoj24kqqs2r

    @capitolhunters.bsky.social‬

    Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, settled with Trump only six days after getting Trump's crazy demands. No fight at all. The New Yorker, baffled, thought the issue might be that a Paul, Weiss partner had worked for Robert Mueller. But maybe it's all even simpler.

    https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3mdodi2c6f22i
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 18,437
    edited 11:18AM
    Deleted - already covered above
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 18,437
    edited 11:18AM
    Deleted - already covered above
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 133,507
    HYUFD said:

    Sean_F said:

    Andrew Windsor is saying, “I have you now, my pretty.”

    Though to be fair to Andrew there is no actual sex act going on. Indeed the latest release seems worst for Bill Gates, claiming he caught sexually transmitted diseases from sex with Russian girls and having to cover it up from his then wife. Though Gates strongly denies the claims.

    Trump, Mandelson and his partner and Elon Musk also mentioned
    Plus US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    ThomasNashe said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sajid Javid
    @sajidjavid
    The original online headline on my Sunday Times interview last week was incorrect and attributed words to me that I did not say.
    The paper has now corrected this and added the clarification below. I’m grateful that the record has been set straight.

    https://x.com/sajidjavid/status/2017531846041522568?s=20

    Mr Javid now wishes it to be known that he doesn't know whether he would let people like his parents into the country today.

    I was actually quite impressed by that piece. His background was much tougher than I thought it'd been. And, unlike many others, he really didn't ever make that much of his personal backstory while in government.
    As the grandson of humble immigrants to this country I find it a bit weird when people try and use their personal backstory to make it sound they had a rough time growing up.

    The privately educated son of a doctor just doesn't elicit much sympathy.
  • The_WoodpeckerThe_Woodpecker Posts: 535
    rottenborough said:

    Peter_the_Punter said:

    PB COMP....

    1. House gains 22
    2. Senate gains 2
    3. MSPs 51
    4. AMs 33
    5. Poll lead Reform 18
    6. Labour PNV 13%
    7. Reform MPs 8
    8. PM 31.12.26 Starmer
    9. A Burnham will not be an MP
    10. UK orrowing £111 billion
    11. UK Growth 2.2 %
    12. World Cup winner - Argentina! (Please don't cry.)


    You need to add #competition

    Another Argentina vote. I said same. As did a lot of PBers. Will we turn out to be football sages as well as political rune readers?

    No, probably not.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 125,994
    Holy fuck sticks.

    The Find Out Now Gorton & Denton 'poll' VI was based on just 51 people.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 26,584
    Scott_xP said:

    Sandpit said:

    Musk was invited loads but never went

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    I don't think either of those statements is true
    They become alternatively true if they are parroted millions of times on social media. That is sufficient for those on kool aid.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 69,887

    ‪Sunder Katwala (sundersays)‬
    ‪@sundersays.bsky.social‬

    Advance UK will stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

    https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mdpm6lfnhk2m
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 63,454
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Holy fuck sticks.

    The Find Out Now Gorton & Denton 'poll' VI was based on just 51 people.

    The margin of error must be a little on the large side.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 69,887
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Holy fuck sticks.

    The Find Out Now Gorton & Denton 'poll' VI was based on just 51 people.

    Greens now heading to clear favourite on BF.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 26,584
    rottenborough said:


    ‪Sunder Katwala (sundersays)‬
    ‪@sundersays.bsky.social‬

    Advance UK will stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

    https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mdpm6lfnhk2m

    Is Advance UK not another of those parties who would like us to, err, go back to the 1950s?
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 69,887
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    ThomasNashe said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sajid Javid
    @sajidjavid
    The original online headline on my Sunday Times interview last week was incorrect and attributed words to me that I did not say.
    The paper has now corrected this and added the clarification below. I’m grateful that the record has been set straight.

    https://x.com/sajidjavid/status/2017531846041522568?s=20

    Mr Javid now wishes it to be known that he doesn't know whether he would let people like his parents into the country today.

    I was actually quite impressed by that piece. His background was much tougher than I thought it'd been. And, unlike many others, he really didn't ever make that much of his personal backstory while in government.
    As the grandson of humble immigrants to this country I find it a bit weird when people try and use their personal backstory to make it sound they had a rough time growing up.

    The privately educated son of a doctor just doesn't elicit much sympathy.
    Yeh, but were you allowed to but the shoes you wanted as a child?
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 59,629
    Gallowgate said:

    Sandpit said:

    Scott_xP said:

    Sandpit said:

    Musk was invited loads but never went

    Trump kicked Epstein out of his club two decades ago, when he worked out what he was up to.

    I don't think either of those statements is true
    Go on then, evidence for Musk ever going to the island, or for Trump having any relationship with Epstein after I think 2007?
    Whether or not he cut ties with Epstein after 2007 does not exonerate all the other allegations against Trump before that date. I am not saying they are true because we don’t know but the absolute lack of transparency in respect of the release of the files and the redactions is not exactly a great look. The allegations are horrifying.
    I stand by my previous comments that if there was any serious evidence of impropriety involving Trump, something serious enough to be disqualifying, it would have found its way to the papers before the election.

    Biden’s DOJ was willing to throw anything and everything at putting him in prison, they wouldn’t have overlooked anything they thought they could stand up in court.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 46,419
    ThomasNashe said:

    Theuniondivvie said:

    Sajid Javid
    @sajidjavid
    The original online headline on my Sunday Times interview last week was incorrect and attributed words to me that I did not say.
    The paper has now corrected this and added the clarification below. I’m grateful that the record has been set straight.

    https://x.com/sajidjavid/status/2017531846041522568?s=20

    Mr Javid now wishes it to be known that he doesn't know whether he would let people like his parents into the country today.

    I was actually quite impressed by that piece. His background was much tougher than I thought it'd been. And, unlike many others, he really didn't ever make that much of his personal backstory while in government.
    I guess if you're minister in a Tory government increasingly dealing with anger over immigration and culminating in the Boriswave, you may not want to draw attention to your child of immigrants humble background.
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 9,699
    edited 11:30AM
    Morris_Dancer said:

    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Holy fuck sticks.

    The Find Out Now Gorton & Denton 'poll' VI was based on just 51 people.

    The margin of error must be a little on the large side.
    Barnesian Posts: 9,696 3:15AM
    Looking at the data spreadsheet, when don't know and will not vote are eliminated, the sample size is 51.
    So the MOE is 14%..
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 18,437
    rottenborough said:


    ‪Sunder Katwala (sundersays)‬
    ‪@sundersays.bsky.social‬

    Advance UK will stand in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

    https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mdpm6lfnhk2m

    With Nick Buckley, MBE, the Reform UK mayoral candidate in 2021 and independent candidate in 2024.

    Tommy Robinson is in Advance UK, so should theoretically withdraw his endorsement of Goodwin to back Buckley.

    Advance UK has approximately one third the number of councillors that Your Party do.
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