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Better news for Farage than Badenoch. https://news.sky.com/story/robert-jenrick-vows-to-bring-coalition-together-to-end-tory-reform-fight-13354004

MLG is a pedant and clearly cannot help himself. What is your excuse?

Didn’t bother with The Last of Us first series when it came out as not into zombies but after reading several favourable reviews we gave it a binge watch before series 2 started last week. Totally hooked now and the second episode of the new series last night went total GoT. Gripping stuff with an unexpected twist so early on (if you aren’t familiar with the game).

Trump, financial genius??? https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/apr/22/us-dollar-yen-pound-gold-stock-markets-trump-attack-powell-imf-growth-forecast-business-live

The poor old boy didn’t look at all well when they wheeled him out yesterday. Still, you can’t let the faithful down, especially on Easter Sunday.

It’s the Deep State, I tell you!! 😎

Pope Francis died yesterday, hours after meeting JD Vance. Everything the Trump administration touches turns to crap, it seems. Charles might want to rethink that state visit. 🤔

I refer to him by his name. I mentioned here that he had transitioned (trans male) because it is pertinent to the discussion. Transgener people refer to themselves as “trans” as an abbreviation. If it doesn’t bother them I’m surprised that it is an issue for you.

Will it mean that men who have transitioned to women will now have to use men’s toilets and vice versa? I know a trans man with a beard and male pattern baldness. If he was to walk into a women’s toilet they would freak out, yet according to the law he is a (biological) woman.

Condemnation by their own people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/members-of-leading-british-jewish-body-condemn-israels-latest-actions-in-gaza

So much for free speech. https://news.sky.com/story/amp/harvard-university-defies-trumps-demands-as-it-risks-billions-in-federal-funding-13349116

You have a problem with an opposing view about Trump and his actions being nasty? Two posters have told us that Trump is some kind of genius instead of an unstable lunatic. I don’t have a problem calling out anyone who thinks Trump is in anyway remotely normal. And you don’t have a problem calling out people who have opposing views to you do you Whelk?

Liz Truss and GM/eaststandnic separated at birth? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/14/trump-bold-action-defeat-quangocracy/

Good to see this issue reaching main stream news. Vets bills have been ridiculously high for some time now. We had a bill for £7,500 after our dog had treatment last year including having a stomach operation that wasn’t, in hindsight, required. We would get a morning call from the night staff each day giving us an update on the dog’s condition but the staff would be more concerned in taking our credit card details (we had to pay for treatment daily) rather than talk about the dog’s condition. One of the older Vets we spoke to talked about how attitudes had changed since he worked for a family vet’s practice (it was taken over by a corporate business) and that he felt it was now more about generating income than pet care. They have you over a barrel. Who is going to say no to treatment despite facing a massive bill for a beloved pet when they are poorly? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zzegvk33o.amp

In his world if your country is invaded then it is your fault it happened. Just as US soldiers killed or wounded are, in his words, losers (probably because they didn’t have the foresight to develop bone spurs. Every day this moron displays just how unsuitable he is for office and in all probability, for his sake and for the sake of the rest of the world, should probably be in an institution with padded cells. Strangely we still have some posters on here who call this man a genius! Go figure. They way that his administration are also ignoring court orders is chilling. We also have posters here who believe that we should turn our backs on the European Court of Human Rights. No surprise that they support hard right politics and vote for people like Farage. He himself shares Trump’s disdain for basic humanity and human rights. People are being taken off of the streets in the US and being placed in jails in foreign counties without any recourse to a fair, judicial procedure. We still have people here who think it ok to deport people to Rwanda. Just let that sink in for a moment. Gary Lineker took all kinds of shit for stating the fact that a certain type of rhetoric had parallels in Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. We have moved even further along that path since then but where is the outage? Trump, and to a lesser extent Farage, are both very skilled operators at normalising things that would have been dismissed as unacceptable a few years ago. We clearly learn nothing from history.

They certainly did. https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-what-is-the-budapest-memorandum-and-why-has-russias-invasion-torn-it-up-178184

Billy Sharp sent off 53 seconds after coming on as a sub for Doncaster on Saturday.

Cheer up. We are only 6 places under the mighty Manchester United!

Maybe if he agreed to stop making the libellous claims that resulted in his incarceration in the first place, that might help his appeal? Failing that, he ought to employ nic to head up his appeal team on the grounds that a Somalian doesn’t have to go back to Somalia.

That’s what I thought initially, but apparently they are still trading with Russia at a level significantly higher than a number of countries who have been hit with tariffs of 10% (at the start of the announcement of tariffs) so that argument doesn’t hold true. https://amp.dw.com/en/donald-trump-tariffs-russia-belarus-sanctions-imports-trade-goods/a-72150328

Don’t bite. He is the forum version of Joey Barton. Strong prospect Rohl is mid table himself in the Chsmpionship but he is a bloke so that’s ok I guess.

Will Still being mentioned now.

Anyone know what the tariffs are imposed on Russia and North Korea?

You do know that Donald Ducks didn’t actually write it don’t you? Who would want to kiss his flabby orange ass (apart from GM)? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/09/they-are-kissing-my-ass-trump-says-countries-are-pleading-to-negotiate-tariffs-video Japan selling bonds…the art of the deal working well there then. 😂 I remember a SWF sage telling us a while back that “socialism is dangerous”. If that is the case, what does it make capitalism under someone like Trump?

How many of the 14 in Eco’s test do Trump and his administration tick? https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html