18 January 2019

Headline of the day

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From Le Monde ( here ): Brexit : les Britanniques bientôt en manque de papier toilette ? Yeah, it means what you think it does ...  
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Ridiculous

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97 years old but still allowed to drive on public roads?  A danger to himself and others. The Duke of Edinburgh has escaped unhurt after ...

Tit for tat

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Like children in the school playground ( here ): US President Donald Trump has postponed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's upcoming trip to...
17 January 2019

Flogging a dead horse

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Kuenssberg of the BBC casts some doubt on the Prime Minister's motivations anent Brexit: Meetings, on their own, are not a Plan B. Co...
09 January 2019

Failing Grayling

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Odd that the parliamentary sketch-writers focus on the Transport Secretary's physical tics (as well as his manifest incompetence): ...
05 January 2019

When the cat's away, the mice will play

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From The Guardian  ( here ): The prime minister may have been regretting her decision to give parliament two weeks off for Christmas at a ...
31 December 2018

So much for the Red Duster

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It speaks volumes for the state of the British merchant shipping fleet that, of the three businesses contracted by the UK Government to fulf...
30 December 2018

African affairs

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The Sunday Times  appears to be more concerned about the opulence of the Home Secretary's holiday accommodation than the migrant crisis...
24 December 2018

Do you ever wonder if the police know what they are doing?

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The Guardian   reports : Detectives were examining a damaged drone for clues on Sunday night after they had to release two people who we...
22 December 2018

Theresa and the drones

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This is the kind of thing that destroys governments.  The Times   reports : Chris Grayling shelved plans to introduce laws regulating dro...
19 December 2018

Music?

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Smells like panic?

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The Times   reports : Theresa May is to start culling Tory manifesto commitments after her cabinet decided yesterday to accelerate plannin...
17 December 2018

Motes and beams

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This would appear to raise some questions: Theresa May  will urge MPs on Monday not to “break faith with the British people” by demanding...
14 December 2018

Huniliation? Or just incompetence?

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The Times   blames the EU: Theresa May was humiliated by European leaders late last night after they rejected pleas for any further conce...
13 December 2018

Quote of the day

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From The Guardian  ( here ): May’s morning hadn’t got off to the best of starts with the announcement the ERG had finally managed to count...
10 December 2018

What is it with right-wingers and their neckties?

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An attempt to compensate for deficiencies elsewhere?  
09 December 2018

"I love Paris in the fall" (?)

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An outcome I did not expect ...

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01 December 2018

Paragraph of the day

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From The Guardian ( here ): It’s right up there among the worst moments of my life. On the way home from a night out at the opera – a firs...
30 November 2018

Deal or no deal?

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When you begin telling fibs, you have to remember which ones you told.  According to The Guardian , President Trump seems to be flounderi...