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yougov has done some polling among US voters on the capitol attack... some astonishing results https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll "In fact, many...
Here's an extract from Anthony Summers' book on Nixon. 'In private Nixon never did accept that Kennedy defeated him. The election had been stolen. Nixon started to sob'. All eerily prescient methinks....
We regularly hear at this time of year that the NHS is overwhelmed with cases of flu, but this year I've heard no mention of it. The only figures we get are those related to Coronavirus. Has flu...
The Covid Superspreaders were out in force today then. Carrying it from Coventry to Norfolk, from Liverpool to Yorkshire, from Reading to Luton, from Wales to Nottingham, from London to Derbyshire,...
President Trump getting banned on social media just locked in his next move....... Some are predicting that he launches his own social media platform. Running the numbers - If he converts 5% of his 75...
Why are they bothering when he's leaving in 10 days anyway ? If they do, would he still be called Mr.President with all the security etc. after he leaves as other ex presidents are ?
//West Midlands Police has been accused of wasting taxpayers' cash on creating a "woke" new job role for an assistant director of fairness and belonging. The force will pay the new diversity chief...
As the well informed AB reader knows the dems on capitol hill are having a hoolie thinking about impeaching Donald Trump. and fixated and unable to think of anything else Here are the draft articles...
In a pathetic attempt to spread 'bad news' about what they consider to be the 'mistake of Brexit', the Beeb has been showing 4-month old pictures of hold-ups at the channel ports, hold-ups which at...
i wonder what how much he will proft from his shares...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8961355/Will-Rishi-Sunak-PROFIT-new-Moderna-coronavirus-vaccine-Hedge-fund-set-major-investor.html...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/how-safe-is-it-to-hack-the-ageing-process/p093919p
I recall Michael Jackson (he of pop-star fame) making a similar claim – can someone remind me how that went?...
...with a potentially powerful arsenal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55598880 What 'hostile forces' would the Biden administration use against him? Why is he making threats? Or is he just...
Why do we have to wait till next week for inbound travellers to be Covid tested at airports? Why wasn’t this done months ago? It’s obvious how the South African strain got here. And when next week?...
While he has less than two weeks before he vacates the White House - expect a very long list of presidential pardons to be announced within 24 hours of his departure. Some are suggesting that besides...