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According to the Wall Street Journal a Ukrainian F-16 was shot down by friendly fire from a Ukrainian operated Patriot missile system because when the Patriots were supplied they had the Link-16 IFF system, which identifies the F-16 as a friendly asset, disabled, and when Ukraine started receiving F-16s nobody thought to turn it on.

So said The Smartest Guy In The Room. Then again he is a product of the US education system, which among other achievements has produced hundreds of millions of people who cannot spell or pronounce Aluminium.

Last week at a Q&A with the White House press corps, Trump was bemoaning the cost over run in developing the latest US Navy aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford. His claim was that the cost had climbed from an original $3M to $18M, ( it is actually $13M ), and that this escalation was due to the carrier using electro-magnetic aircraft catapults and lifts. Trump reminded the journalists that he pointed out last January that magnets don't work when wet, so cannot be used on ships. Why did the people building and commissioning the carrier not know this ?

Does Trump have plans to rebuild the Donbas with casinos and nightclubs ?

"Unfortunately, the agency finds that you are not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the agency's current needs, and your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment at the agency," Almost all Federal employees serve a 1 year, and sometimes longer, probationary period, during which they have even fewer employment protections than other US workers. As an easy way to cut staffing levels, Trump seems to be pruning out all such staff; https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5298182/trumps-probationary-workers-federal I wonder how many of them voted for Donnie.

So the bloke sharing a house with the gay couple doesn't want to be a fruit picker ?

Regicide

We are only 5 places behind Manchester United.

Is that because there is no central 'Leader' guiding the faith, unlike the Pope or Archbishop of Canterbury ?

A dead coward if anything. If Russia is nuking the UK, Spain won't be exempted.

You win the, rather puerile and pathetic, semantic point. Grab yourself an MLG badge.

He is a Huguenot.

Rinse and repeat ?

Not for the 13 teams yet to be gifted another 3 points by us.

Generally it is the nutters distorting and interpreting scripture for their own personal ends, managing to find malleable people to influence into doing something for some nebulous conceptual reward. You get 40 virgins in Paradise, I get to live out my power trip.

Only if there is such an agreement between them.

To be specific, the bit that circumcision discards.

You misunderstood my post, there is nothing that states a refugee has to seek asylum in the first "safe" country they enter.

I don't think there is any international agreement or treaty that establishes that concept.

The UK was bound by International Law to uphold the ECHR, other than Article 4 which we did not ratify. The HRA simply meant that UK Courts could judge relevant cases, rather than their having to be taken to the European Court of Human Rights, and also placed new responsibilities on Public bodies to ensure they complied with their responsibilities.

The only people at the conference who applauded Vance were the US delegation. The rest just sat back in stunned silence.

We have all the necessary legislative tools to control immigration, have had since before Brexit. The issue, which to be fair LD has touched on, is why successive Governments of either main party have failed to acknowledge they have the power.

The UK was one of the first countries to ratify it, in 1951.

The ECHR IS BritishLaw.