badgerx16

In principle the provision of a dignified consensual end for somebody approaching the end of palliative care makes humanitarian sense, but as with all things that 'professionals' or politicians get involved with, there will always be the risk of "mission creep".

From a New York Times article; "An Ohio sheriff has been stripped of his role providing security at his county’s early voting location, members of a local elections board said, after he compared immigrants to insects and urged residents to record the addresses of people who have yard signs supporting Vice President Kamala Harris. In a Facebook post earlier this month, the sheriff, Bruce D. Zuchowski of Portage County, called Ms. Harris a “Laughing Hyena,” and described immigrants as locusts, the crop-destroying pests that were said in the Bible to have caused a plague in Egypt. “Write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!” Mr. Zuchowski, a Republican who is running for re-election, said of Ms. Harris’s supporters, according to a screenshot of the since-deleted post. Then when immigrants “need places to live,” he wrote, “we’ll already have the addresses of their New families.”"

Too late

Ukraine finally starting to hit Russia where it will really hurt - 2 distilleries have been blown up by Ukrainian drones.

Because Russ says that statistically we aren't as bad as our results suggest.

Sack him now.

Saints player gives ball away to an opposition player in dangerous position - standard situation.

Prune

I have just borrowed the TARDIS and corrected the timeline.

Desperate to cling to the last vestiges of the Empire.

Negotiations that started when Truss was Foreign Secretary and May was PM, continued and supported by Cleverly when FS and Sunak when PM. A treaty that would have been signed by the Tories had they got back in. ( And Diego Garcia is not being handed back, the naval base is being retained on an initial 99 year lease ). Strange how some details seem to be missing from the Mail's front page rant. EDIT; this from a BBC news item in 2022 - "In a written ministerial statement, Mr Cleverly announced: "The UK and Mauritius have agreed to engage in constructive negotiations, with a view to arriving at an agreement by early next year. "Taking into account relevant legal proceedings, it is our intention to secure an agreement on the basis of international law to resolve all outstanding issues, including those relating to the former inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago." The foreign secretary confirmed the negotiations would include "the exercise of sovereignty"."

Adkins was sacked in January, just after drawing 2-2 away at Chelsea. We were 3 points clear of the bottom 3 and had lost only 2 of our previous 12 matches, having 22 points from 22 games, with SRL being the then top English striker in the PL. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1491188-nigel-adkins-shockingly-sacked-as-southampton-manager

"Out, out, damned Russ"

Donnie in default mode.......( Bullshitting )

Courtney

It has been claimed that there were 22 dead, including 13 children, with many more injured in an IDF bomb strike on a school sheltering displaced people. The attack was meant to take out 1 member of Hamas. Of course they are minimising collateral damage. ( They even incorrectly identified the school in their press briefing ).

Just think about them; you travel away to such mystical places as Stoke, Grimsby, or Walsall, you gaze in awe at all the amazing and exciting features of modern life, yet at the final whistle you have to turn your back on these wonders and return to the septic isle.

Thinking Israel is unnecessarily aggressive does not preclude supporting it's right to exist.

No defence is completely impervious, and ballistic missiles are incredibly difficult to neutralise. This was entirely Iranian posturing, and knowing the level of damage and casualties would be low. They now wait in anticipation of Israel's "proportionate" response - which will be much more restrained than would have been initiated had they launched a larger, more serious, strike.

What point are you trying to make ? Iran launched a load of missiles more in hope than expectation, and Israel's defences worked pretty much as intended.

No, they launched the missiles knowing that Iron Dome and other defences would deal with most of them. Aiming was probably nothing more than pointing them West. It was a PR exercise for local consumption. Interesting to note that the RAF and US forces were also involved in intercepting the missiles.

Iranian long range ballistic missiles are thought to have an accuracy radius of three quarters of a mile - that means that 50% will land within 1200 yards of the aiming point.

Better to trash it in mid-air than let it impact and explode the payload.

A missile that is intercepted in mid air does not vapourise. The rocket sent to kill it does not impact it directly, it explodes in close proximity and is intended to shred the target - most ground to air anti-aircraft missiles work on the same principle.

The missiles can weigh over 15 tons at launch, allowing for fuel burned in flight there will be a large amount of potential scrap metal coming into Israeli airspace.