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Because the French have snubbed his Board of Peace for Gaza, Trump has threatened to impose 200% tariffs on imports of French wine and champagne. He really doesn't like it when somebody says "no", ( or "non" ). Typical behaviour for a three year old.

Regarding the captaincy I agree, but I'm not sure who to give it to instead - THB ? Our options at striker are rather limited to start with; if Stewart starts he is likely to go off injured after 15 minutes, and Archer is hardly a goal "threat".

So we don't play the division's leading scorer ?

Without Congressional support, which he wont get, it would be. But the Republicans would block the impeachment process, despite mostly opposing Trump's actions. He might be an unhinged lunatic, but he is their unhinged lunatic, and MAGAstan still has power over them.

Donnie has just turned up at the White House press conference with his Record of Achievement. ( Remember them ? )

Very 1984, the UK reduced to "Airstrip 1".

Agent Trump is delivering as instructed.

Our Krugerrands are doing very nicely.

Trump is a deluded, unpredictable, childish bully. Unfortunately he is also in control of the most powerful military in history. This is a dangerous combination.

Do you agree with what Farage said when Douglas Carswell MP left UKIP, that when an MP switches from his party there should be a bye-election ?

If we go down we won't be coming back up for a while.

Deflection. Should Trump be allowed to take Greenland by whatever means if the population reject his advances ?

I know, and the agreement with Mauritius has dubious validity, but there is no way they will be allowed to return, either by the US or UK, so to an extent their opinion is ( sadly ) moot.

But would Trump allow them to return ? The population were originally removed by the UK at the request of the US.

Greenlanders don't want to join the US, Trump is threatening to take it by coercion, if not force. How would he react if the Chagossians were given a vote, and decided that they wanted to return home and the US had to give up Diego Garcia ? In his own words, "we had a boat that sailed there".

It was wrong, but the US supported the move at the time, and last year supported the agreement with Mauritius, which Trump has now done a complete 180 on. However, linking this to Greenland is a false equivalence.

The Chagossians are not on the islands. The only residents are US and UK military, and civilan defence contractors. The islanders are mostly on Mauritius or in the UK. The civilian population were removed as a security measure for the Diego Garcia base. The issue for the US, which leases the base, is that the UK is transferring the archipelago to Mauritius, which has close economic ties to China.

I doubt if any of these defecting Tories are doing so out of conscience. It's all about self preservation, as they see Reform out performing the Conservatives at the next election.

I built myself a gravel bike, but then our son bought a "wheel off" TT and that bike is now a permanent indoor fixture. As for Zwift etc, we use MyWhoosh. It is limited, but free. And there is always the fact that once you get the bug, you always NEED n+1. ( Both our son and I have 4, my wife has 2 ).

Posting links to paywalled articles means that we only get to read the headline.

Correct, but the US won't let them because they "need" the base on Diego Garcia. They perceive a threat due to Chinese influence in the Indian Ocean.

We got it off the French in 1814, and administered it as part of Mauritius until it was formally made into an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in 1965.

The only people on the Chagos Islands are US and UK military personnel and civilian contractors. The native population were dispersed many years ago. The annexation of the archipelago was the last dying spasm of British colonialism.

Trump makes great play out of his ability as a deal maker. One thing clearly and publicly goes against this - whatever he paid for his hair, he was robbed.