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Gaps on supermarket shelves. Fast food outlets pulling milkshakes and bottled drinks from their menus. Restaurants running out of chicken and closing. Empty vending machines. Online grocery orders...
2001-09-11. The catastrophe of this day triggered Blair's signing up with Bush to invade Afghanistan. Yet again. What followed was a textbook case of Aldous Huxley’s adage that the only thing you...
Hire UK workers to drive lorries, minister tells firms https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58364308 Oh do I have to come back here and point out the inevitable consequences of B'exit.. yes I suppose I...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58364743 It is the only way to exercise authority in such a lawless country and ought to and no doubt will become the norm No more boots on the ground for Biden...
Now that Brexit is History, and Britain has taken back control of it's own Borders and surrounding Sea. Stopped freedom of movement, Stopped immigration and curtailed refugees. Everything in the...
They have caused chaos for long enough and compared to what's going on in Afghanistan, they just look like spoilt middle class brats. Why can't the police move them by force if nessasary?...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/take-white-privilege-test-to-help-decolonise-schools-teachers-urged-f67tr55qd \\Teachers have been urged to “decolonise” the Scottish curriculum in new anti-racism...
So sir nick Carter and boris Johnson say There’s a “great sense of regret” for the 1000 (prob more in reality) Afghans who had helped our troops that will be left behind (to face certain torture and...
My understanding is that last year Donald Trump signed a deal with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan by May 1st 2021. This was delayed until now by Biden - so why isn't the previous American...
.....perhaps it's a good time to see if any S N P types have any answers to the famous 10 questions regarding Scotland potentially leaving the UK, never have yet but hope springs eternal..... 1) How...
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/26/us-officials-provided-taliban-with-names-of-americans-afghan-allies-to-evacuate-506957 ....Ostensibly to aid the evacuation but basically they've provided a...
1. Under 22s will be able to access free bus travel in Scotland from January 31 2022, the government has announced. 2. Young people in Scotland under the age of 26 are now eligible for free NHS dental...
explosion at kabul airport i hope the civilians are ok and that they get extracted this is just awful i cant imagine how scary it would be to be at an airport with bombs going off i am a nervous flyer...
1. Set up a Company 2. Board Members then take out far more remuneration than is viable. 3. Company fails, owing millions. 4. Directors walk away unscathed (to do it all over again). 5. Dozens of...
Just listened to the news and the who ha about those on Universal Credit that received and extra £20 a week during the pandemic. Now it will end in October and all and sundry are on the bandwagon...