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Real life spy games being stranger than fiction, 2 facts about the defection of Oleg Gordievsky, former Colonel and Bureau Chief in the KGB; 1) The contact between the British secret service and Gordievsky by which he agreed to the plan to extract him was as follows; he would go to a specific bread shop near the British embassy carrying a Safeway carrier bag. If he then spotted a man with a Harrod's bag, and eating a Mars Bar, the mission was on. 2) During the extraction the British had Gordievsky in the boot of a Ford Sierra and, along with another car, 2 British embassy staff with their wives, and one baby, drove to the Finnish border. At the border they got out of the cars to have their papers checked. During this wait a Russian border guard approached the cars with a sniffer dog. The woman with the baby promptly set the child down on the the boot of the Sierra, changed it's nappy, and dropped the soiled nappy in front of the dog, which skulked off without detecting the defector. Ian Fleming never wrote anything like that.

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John Wayne Bobbit's wife.

Not when it includes DIY tools and supplies 😉

Takes at least 20 minutes to/from the shops to where we got past / met the CRV, and it includes lunch, hence "2 hours later".

Getting stuck for 5 miles on country roads behind a black Honda CRV being driven at 22 in 30mph zones, and 34 in 50mph zones. Finally getting past him and going to do some shopping, only to find the self same nuisance going back 2 hours later and being stuck behind him again.

Why should the main headline slot be reserved for acts from the 60s and 70s, especially as most of the audience, or possibly even their parents, weren't alive then ? It would be like you and I, in our 20s, going to a festival to watch Glenn Miller.

Not sure Alex's Twitter feed picked up on this; https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/26/politics/trump-classified-documents-audio/index.html

Don't worry JB, I'm sure he'll put some pictures in it so that you don't feel excluded.

A right wing US 'journalist' quoting a Republican Party media channel and deliberately misinterpreting something Biden said. Alex really has his finger on the pulse.

How long is 'long established' ? The Foos have been around for 29 years. Given the technology is now established, how long before we see Elvis Presley or some other dead 'legend' playing a holographic CGI set ?

You said that you wanted "a mix of education and experience of normality." after stating you didn't see Angela Raynor as being suitable as an MP because her election in her early 30s was "too quick to be able to claim educational pros (as she dosent have them) or enough time to claim a “normal life” benefit to electorate". Those statements contradict each other. You also said that she had "no qualifications", so I asked what qualifications you expected. I clearly did read what you posted.

What 'qualifications' do you expect ? Prep school, Eton, and a PPE at Oxbridge ? Being a rich investment banker ? Being the son of a Lord and former Cabinet member ? Having been a researcher for and assistant to an existing MP before being parachuted into a safe seat ? Woe betide having an MP who has lived a 'real' life. Or is there an age qualification ? The youngest current MP was elected at the age of 23, and at the last election 21 MPs were under 30, what life experience did they have, eh ?

Lisa Nandy is MP for Wigan and Angela Raynor is my son's MP in Ashton-under-Lyne, so both are Northern, and Raynor Is most certainly not 'thick'.

Should he get rid of all the Northern women in the shadow cabinet ?

After Elton I had a major switch in styles and watched Queens Of The Stone Age rocking the Other Stage.

Ours is the same.

Glenn Matlock playing bass for. Blondie following on from the Pistols / Generation X fusion of 'Generation Sex'. Glastonbury, where old punks go to top up their pensions.

And then buggered up the start of "Some girls.......", perhaps it was the Jaeger chaser.

Everybody else seems to have done the same. Probably uncertainty with the Kookaburra ball. Edit: everybody bar Surrey.

This round and the next are using it to gather 'performance data' to see if it impacts bowling, particularly slower seamers and spinners. https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/countycricket/kookaburra_balls_two_rounds_county_championship_high_performance_review_changes.html

Can't see many batting points for Hants, again. Only consolation is Middx have only picked up 1 in their 6 matches so far...........we all know how this one pans out.

Vince gets what the BBC reckon was a very dodgy LBW.