A law so formulated by the excellent Simon Hoggart, which states that, 'if the converse of an announcement is inane, the announcement is superfluous', an example he gives is; "See if you can break...
. . . “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to...
Johnson will be a permanent nightmare for the new P/M. Johnson wants revenge on Sunak whose resignation triggered a ministerial exodus leading to the ousting of Johnson. Truss will face the same...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1646046/diane-abbott-keir-starmer-nationalisation-labour-civil-war-corbyn-uturn-policy TBF though if Sir Beer is upsetting the Abacus he's doing something...
Anyone watching? Quite feisty from the off. Sunak has gone straight for the jugular, Truss actually looking competent for once. How on earth did these two ever get on at government meetings? Safe to...
One for disabled travellers in Europe to keep an eye on. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62287752 Conversely …. //The British government allows the use of French blue badges in disabled parking spaces...
Not my view, that of Iraqi people smugglers.....
https://news.sky.com/story/rwanda-policy-could-deter-migrants-heading-to-the-uk-people-smugglers-admit-12658288
Watch the interview....
Why do Conservative Party members need six weeks to decide on who the new leader, and new PM, should be? Surely it's possible to members to make their minds up in a week?
Morse had a Jaguar, Bergeraic an Alvis, I think, and the chief character in Murder in Provence drives a stylish old Citroen.
Any others come to mind?...
Another speech by Starmer in which he refers to himself as the former Director of Public Prosecutions. Slightly different this time because he referred to it twice. I think we all know by now, and it...
Only 1% of the current crop of Tory Party MPs came from working class jobs or familys , showing a growing represention Gap in Parliament Which shows it's a party for the rich and they intend keeping...
Queues at Dover: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62263176 I wonder how many of those caught up in the queues voted for Brexit. We travelled to France dozens of times when we were in the EU...
We used to have just a few genders, then LGB, then LGBT. Recently, I heard something like LGBTQ+. Can't we have a word to describe all these conditions? How about 'parasexuals'?
Robot breaks child's finger. Bloody bully. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62286017 Obviously not built in accordance with Asimov's 3 laws*. *For those not familiar with these here is a link...
I was just listening to the inimitable Roy Orison's 'Crying' - and singing along of course - but then a thought occurred to me. One of the funniest episodes Del Boy, Rodney & co ever filmed but one...