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He also apologised to ITV for being late for the interview because the D-Day commemorations overran.

A great British invention;

BBC interviewer Jo Coburn asking Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake questions at the manifesto launch; "You have already announced policies on National Service, on closing Mickey Mouse degrees, on the pensioner triple-lock plus, and now this 2 pence cut in National Insurance, but all of these policies I have just announced haven't changed the polls. So what's going to change ?" "Well, this isn't about the polls for us, it's about doing the right thing..." "So how are you going to win then if you don't change the polls ?"

When they stop having politically aligned and appointed judges and prosecutors.

https://news.paddypower.com/football-news/2024/06/11/luke-shaw-out-of-england-squad-as-hes-refused-travel-insurance/ ''Reports have emerged from the England camp appearing to suggest Luke Shaw has been cut from the Euro 2024 squad after being refused travel insurance by his provider. Having made Southgate’s final 26 for Germany, it appears there will now be a reshuffle after the left-back, known only as “sicknote” to staff at insurers Touring Lions, was described as “the most obvious risk since a somebody handed a drunk Jack Grealish a microphone”. The provider has since officially confirmed they are unwilling to offer coverage to a player who could injure himself in a pillow factory.''

I see that the corrupt and politically motivated legal system in the US has found Hunter Biden guilty.

£5Bn gained by closing down tax loopholes, ( as if ), and up to '£16Bn saved by welfare reform, mainly removing the mentally ill from PIP. The only problem is most of that is double counted as it has already been announced and factored into forecasts.

Chances are Russia's don't either.

The above post is courtesy of the Daily Telegraph. ( Far too many words and coherent sentences for it to be a GM original . )

1) Do you honestly think that the West should have used nuclear weapons to stop Putin ? However, there is a reason he hasn't used them in Ukraine. 2) If a terrorist organisation carried out a dirty bomb attack, who would we nuke in response ? They are not intended as counter-terrorism tools. 3) Deterrence is NOT about who fires first, it is the promise of massive retaliation. Teacher didn't cane you in anticipation of your being naughty.

For calling him a fool ? Years of experiencing his rambling drivel.

If you think the rise of nationalism in Europe is reaction to net zero then you are a fool. Oh, you are !

If he can find it.

OK lads, let us all ignore the last decade-plus of Tory misrule and fall for their blatant illusory bribe of an apparent 2p cut in NI. They also say they will cut the welfare bill by over £12Bn with 4 main courses of action. However, the IFS has aleady debunked this by saying 3 of these plans were in previous government proposals and so have already been included in OBR forecasts - they cannot be counted twice.

Nulear deterrence is exactly what it says on the tin - a deterrence against nuclear attack. Israel maintains second strike capability because it doesn't trust Iran, there is no circumstance under which Israel would use a nuclear first strike or retaliatory weapons launch against any of it's immediate neighbours.. Our having nukes didn't stop Argentina from invading the Falklands.

What sort of signal would UK unilateral nuclear disarmament send to Putin in the current climate ?

No they are not BECAUSE there is a deterrent capability within the alliance. Would you want to rely on France ?

Why does having nukes make us more of a target ? All the countries Russia has invaded since 1945 have been non-nuclear. If Ukraine hadn't given up their nuclear weapons in the 1990s for Russian security guarantees I don't think they would be fighting now. We don't have to compete with Russia, we are allied with the USA and France.

Selected edit from Sunak interview with the BBC: Nick Robinson - "Having your own home has got harder under the Conservatives, hasn't it ?" Rishi Sunak - "It has..."

Sunak and Hunt say they have sorted inflation, so it shouldn't be 'raging'.

In the latter 2 series there have been too many 'with one bound Jack was free' escapes, particularly with the engineering crew. Not a bad branch of the Trek universe, but not the best.

Depends on why you gave up on S4. I think S5 was better, but it isn't a high bar, and some of the cliffhangers stretched credulity, even in relation to what Disco had given us before. I think that overall, after moving into the far future, they struggled with the continuing story threads through S3-5. I would give the whole run a solid 6.5/10.

Any opinion on Luke Akehurst ? Labour candidate and very supportive of Israel's actions in Gaza.