I was going to say that I hope he got a refund but given it was Ryanair they are more likely to invoice him for the cost of replacing the window.
It just shows why it’s a bad idea to charge extra for the seatbelt.
Reminds me of one of my favourite jokes. Michael O'Leary goes into a bar in Dublin and asks how much is a pint of Guinness. "3 Euros" replies the barman. "Wow," says O'Leary, "that must be the cheapest Guinness in Dublin". "Yes indeed," says the barman, "Would you be wanting a glass with that?"
I wonder what broad and general government position and policy on Israel and its relations with the Arab/Islamic world, WRT both words and deeds, would command a reasonable degree of assent from the UK population?
I don't think the general UK population cares about Gaza, nor do they give two hoots about Israel either.
In fairness its pretty mutual. Neither the residents of Gaza nor Israel are likely to spend any time caring what we think.
Though strangely Israel/Israelis seem to expend large amounts of effort and cash to influence opinion in the UK.
Do you think Westminster, Holyrood and Cardiff are the only governments who waste money?
I dare say Bibi considers months and months of Starmer & co wibbling and prevaricating over Gaza as money well spent. Israel having the right to cut off power and water to Gaza would have been a high point.
You are assuming that there is a cause and effect here but wibbling and prevaricating is all that Starmer has done for 2 years. He really doesn't need any help, well he does, but you know what I mean.
I wonder what broad and general government position and policy on Israel and its relations with the Arab/Islamic world, WRT both words and deeds, would command a reasonable degree of assent from the UK population?
I don't think the general UK population cares about Gaza, nor do they give two hoots about Israel either.
In fairness its pretty mutual. Neither the residents of Gaza nor Israel are likely to spend any time caring what we think.
Though strangely Israel/Israelis seem to expend large amounts of effort and cash to influence opinion in the UK.
Do you think Westminster, Holyrood and Cardiff are the only governments who waste money?
I dare say Bibi considers months and months of Starmer & co wibbling and prevaricating over Gaza as money well spent. Israel having the right to cut off power and water to Gaza would have been a high point.
You are assuming that there is a cause and effect here but wibbling and prevaricating is all that Starmer has done for 2 years. He really doesn't need any help, well he does, but you know what I mean.
I wouldn’t be so crass as to suggest that Starmer could be bribed, but lobbying is about getting a voice at the big table. On the cushion that takes the shape of the last arse that sat on him metric, pretty sure Starmer would be shaped by arses that have funded him and his cabinet to the tune of £100,000s.
Though she was discovered by a carer. So if she needed carers, she may have been frail, and it could just be a fall down the stairs for example.
The BBC have promoted to top story. Even as a bit of breaking news that strikes me that it could be something more than 'checking over a fall'. I rather hope I'm wrong and you're right.
EDIT: BBC headline updated to "Police launch murder investigation" - male suspect
Though she was discovered by a carer. So if she needed carers, she may have been frail, and it could just be a fall down the stairs for example.
The BBC have promoted to top story. Even as a bit of breaking news that strikes me that it could be something more than 'checking over a fall'. I rather hope I'm wrong and you're right.
Sadly, it may turn out that naming the house "Widdecombe's rest" with a bloody pig plaque on the garden wall was a poor idea.
Though she was discovered by a carer. So if she needed carers, she may have been frail, and it could just be a fall down the stairs for example.
Regarding stairs, it was a bungalow. But it might have been a split level bungalow. My mother lived in a bungalow but there were three steps between the living room and the kitchen.
Though she was discovered by a carer. So if she needed carers, she may have been frail, and it could just be a fall down the stairs for example.
Regarding stairs, it was a bungalow. But it might have been a split level bungalow. My mother lived in a bungalow but there were three steps between the living room and the kitchen.
The picture in the Sun shows at least part of it had a second story.
Though she was discovered by a carer. So if she needed carers, she may have been frail, and it could just be a fall down the stairs for example.
The BBC have promoted to top story. Even as a bit of breaking news that strikes me that it could be something more than 'checking over a fall'. I rather hope I'm wrong and you're right.
EDIT: BBC headline updated to "Police launch murder investigation" - male suspect
"Our murder enquiry is moving at a significant pace" doesn't sound like a fall investigation. Damn.
Bloody amazing run and came up against the French Open winner playing really well. The key for Fery will be how he kicks on from here. Top 10 is not out the question (and if Draper can get back to fitness we could have two in the top ten).
I wonder what broad and general government position and policy on Israel and its relations with the Arab/Islamic world, WRT both words and deeds, would command a reasonable degree of assent from the UK population?
I don't think the general UK population cares about Gaza, nor do they give two hoots about Israel either.
In fairness its pretty mutual. Neither the residents of Gaza nor Israel are likely to spend any time caring what we think.
Though strangely Israel/Israelis seem to expend large amounts of effort and cash to influence opinion in the UK.
Do you think Westminster, Holyrood and Cardiff are the only governments who waste money?
I dare say Bibi considers months and months of Starmer & co wibbling and prevaricating over Gaza as money well spent. Israel having the right to cut off power and water to Gaza would have been a high point.
You are assuming that there is a cause and effect here but wibbling and prevaricating is all that Starmer has done for 2 years. He really doesn't need any help, well he does, but you know what I mean.
I wouldn’t be so crass as to suggest that Starmer could be bribed, but lobbying is about getting a voice at the big table. On the cushion that takes the shape of the last arse that sat on him metric, pretty sure Starmer would be shaped by arses that have funded him and his cabinet to the tune of £100,000s.
Its all around parliament. Plenty of MPs benefit from their friendship with Israel (CFI, LFI) meaning all expenses paid trips to the state and a good wedge for their election funds.
Listened to Jo White, Labour MP for Bassetlaw '24 intake, on WATO. Campaigned as Labour, elected as Labour but wants Reform UK policies, I think because her constituents voted Reform in the council elections but possibly she's also quite Reform minded.
It's disappointing that someone elected on the Labour manifesto isn't prepared to campaign for it once elected, I think she should just join Reform.
But this is the future of UK politics. All parties becoming more like Reform. Even Ed Davey complained about the plans to remove Churchill from banknotes.
Andy, politics is cyclical. What goes around comes around. Team Farage is not the long term future of British politics. Mind you authoritarians only have to win once...
I think you might want to do a bit of research around authoritarianism. Banter bans, shutting down unfriendly media, blashphemy laws, rozzers coming round to warn you off saying anything too fruity, a papers please society - these are some of the accoutrements of actual authoritarianism. If your dictionary definition of authoritarian just says 'someone who once said something nice about Putin', perhaps you should upgrade from the Fisher Price edition.
Indeed. I have no time whatsoever for Farage, and he's far from the 'Libertarian' he once dubiously claimed to be, but the most egregious examples of Authoritarianism are almost always to be found on the left.
Though she was discovered by a carer. So if she needed carers, she may have been frail, and it could just be a fall down the stairs for example.
The BBC have promoted to top story. Even as a bit of breaking news that strikes me that it could be something more than 'checking over a fall'. I rather hope I'm wrong and you're right.
EDIT: BBC headline updated to "Police launch murder investigation" - male suspect
"Our murder enquiry is moving at a significant pace" doesn't sound like a fall investigation. Damn.
Though she was discovered by a carer. So if she needed carers, she may have been frail, and it could just be a fall down the stairs for example.
The BBC have promoted to top story. Even as a bit of breaking news that strikes me that it could be something more than 'checking over a fall'. I rather hope I'm wrong and you're right.
EDIT: BBC headline updated to "Police launch murder investigation" - male suspect
"Our murder enquiry is moving at a significant pace" doesn't sound like a fall investigation. Damn.
Goes up to 36th in the rankings which means, I think, he has a guaranteed entry into events for the next year or so.
Yep - guaranteed entry to the main draw at the slams and all the other events will be after him too. Plus as he has very few points to defend from last year, any he gathers are just lifting him up the rankings. Not impossible he gets seeded at the US Open.
Cripes when I heard about Widdecombe, thought it was going to be another Bonnie Tyler type natural causes story tbh
Well, she was 78, so Widdecombe was three years older than Tyler. But I guess the assumption that they're nearly dead anyway is one of the things that makes old people a bit more vulnerable to murder.
Social media is full of malicious communications regarding the death of Ann Widdecombe. Will anything be done about it, or does that law (which I don't agree with in the first place) only get applied to certain people?
Goes up to 36th in the rankings which means, I think, he has a guaranteed entry into events for the next year or so.
Yep - guaranteed entry to the main draw at the slams and all the other events will be after him too. Plus as he has very few points to defend from last year, any he gathers are just lifting him up the rankings. Not impossible he gets seeded at the US Open.
Before this tournament he was 114th. If he loses every single match between now and the next Wimbledon he would still be ranked about 75th-80th going into it.
Social media is full of malicious communications regarding the death of Ann Widdecombe. Will anything be done about it, or does that law (which I don't agree with in the first place) only get applied to certain people?
For a start, you can't libel the dead. So that cuts some of it out, at least.
Social media is full of malicious communications regarding the death of Ann Widdecombe. Will anything be done about it, or does that law (which I don't agree with in the first place) only get applied to certain people?
I believe a legal distinction is drawn between celebrating the death of a dead person (distasteful, but not illegal unless the death was perpetrated by a terrorist, in which case you would be guilty of glorifying terrorism) and calling for the death of living people.
Social media is full of malicious communications regarding the death of Ann Widdecombe. Will anything be done about it, or does that law (which I don't agree with in the first place) only get applied to certain people?
On the left, on the right you can already imagine who social media posters are speculating carried out this awful murder
Goes up to 36th in the rankings which means, I think, he has a guaranteed entry into events for the next year or so.
Yep - guaranteed entry to the main draw at the slams and all the other events will be after him too. Plus as he has very few points to defend from last year, any he gathers are just lifting him up the rankings. Not impossible he gets seeded at the US Open.
Before this tournament he was 114th. If he loses every single match between now and the next Wimbledon he would still be ranked about 75th-80th going into it.
Although a bad show at Wimbledon would then be catastrophic as he will be defending a lot.
Alternatively: domestic clean energy generation close to large urban population centre and existing transmission, constructed on ecological desert agricultural monoculture adjacent to an industrial estate, rejected by NIMBYs.
This is why we need nodal pricing. NIMBYism is perfectly rational unless people enjoy energy cost discounts for living next to this stuff.
Social media is full of malicious communications regarding the death of Ann Widdecombe. Will anything be done about it, or does that law (which I don't agree with in the first place) only get applied to certain people?
I believe a legal distinction is drawn between celebrating the death of a dead person (distasteful, but not illegal unless the death was perpetrated by a terrorist, in which case you would be guilty of glorifying terrorism) and calling for the death of living people.
Please tell me this is not what the HS means by "speculation". Because for instance labelling her death (As someone has done on bluesky) as entertainment is not speculation.
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Michael O'Leary goes into a bar in Dublin and asks how much is a pint of Guinness.
"3 Euros" replies the barman.
"Wow," says O'Leary, "that must be the cheapest Guinness in Dublin".
"Yes indeed," says the barman, "Would you be wanting a glass with that?"
WTF.
EDIT: BBC headline updated to "Police launch murder investigation" - male suspect
Zverev looks a beast, would fancy him in the final in this form.
7-6, 6-2, 6-4
Damn.
Police officers were called to an address at Haytor, in Dartmoor, at around 11.40am on Thursday.
The force said Widdecombe was found dead at the property and had sustained serious injuries. "
https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-burnham-starmer-labour-tories-badenoch-farage-12593360
Hopefully Sinner or Djokovic will oblige instead.
RIP.
https://www.trackisraellobby.uk/.
Indeed. I have no time whatsoever for Farage, and he's far from the 'Libertarian' he once dubiously claimed to be, but the most egregious examples of Authoritarianism are almost always to be found on the left.
@tomhfh
This isn’t a murder investigation into a former politician.
It’s a murder investigation into the hitherto currently serving Justice Spokeswoman for the Reform Party."
https://x.com/tomhfh/status/2075594931217809733
'A nationwide manhunt has begun for a "white male" as a murder investigation begins into former MP Ann Widdecombe’s death.
Ann Widdecombe was found "covered in blood at her home in Devon after sustaining a serious head wound" according to reports.'
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2075596801286066314?s=20
Meanwhile - could this give Farage the excuse to call off the Clacton by-election as a mark of respect?
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/632c49cd2e26ca0e3f952e9f/6a50bd7b25718b3c35df32cc_Writ received for by-election in Clacton July 2026 TDC JD.JPG
I don't get this.
"Plans for large solar farm rejected"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgdy1x9wglo
On greenbelt. Get to feck.
This is why we need nodal pricing. NIMBYism is perfectly rational unless people enjoy energy cost discounts for living next to this stuff.
“I’ve been stunned to hear this awful news," she says during a visit to Portsmouth.
“To be honest, I’ve really struggled to find the words.
“Ann Widdecombe was a very fun and feisty woman who spoke her mind.
“She was 78 years old. She was an elderly woman. I don’t understand how someone could do something so horrific to an elderly person.
“It was a nasty, horrific attack. My heart is breaking for her family."
Badenoch continues: “It is one thing when someone dies but to know they have been murdered in this horrible way is just awful.
“The Conservative Party is reeling.
“I want to convey my condolences to Nigel Farage and to everyone in Reform on behalf of the Conservatives because we’ve both lost a friend.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp9l8l05vxet
Tory ex-MP #AnnWiddecombe is dead!
She opposed every gay law reform for 40 years, supporting every legal discrimination against LGBTs
She also backed bids to 'cure' homosexuality & said people should have the right to discriminate against LGBTs
BIGOT!
https://x.com/petertatchell/status/2075573480590823652?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
You're a prick.
https://x.com/rupertlowe10/status/2075592256619200641?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q