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That wasn't tears, too much Ajax in the Charlie

Yep absolutely, if I can’t be arsed walking it’s three stops on the bus and walk up Lark Lane But thunder and lightning doesn't make for a great atmosphere for African music no matter how legendary

Was going to nip up the road tonight to Sefton Park to see Fela Kuti's son Sean Kuti lead Fela's band Egypt80 at the Africa Oye festival. It’s free entry and there’s no gates or anything but…. It’s currently lashing it down with added thunder and lightning. Off licence for wine and chocolate it is then

They were never mates, they just happened to be on the same side over the B word. And having watched, I think he was sent out to say that. It wasn’t done in the way you suggest.

Now there’s a band that divides opinions… I’ve seriously seen people fall out with others big style over VdGG Im decidedly on the fence

talking of citizenship.... Guardian English mother, lived here 74 years, married to an English man for 44 years... The evidence is all in the public record you dimwits

@Milfnersay something FFS, use the power

That would be an offence under Section 5 (1) of the 1967 Criminal Law Act, concealing evidence legislation.gov.uk which would add a whole new layer of amusement if the Mirror were prosecuted for that

It's not really capable of defending its own borders right now. If China really wanted to take back its disputed territories it could pretty much walk in there with little opposition

Three CD Compilation... Dave Brock presents This Was Your Future, Space Rock (and other psychedelics) 1978 - 1998 Brock compiles an album of Hawkwind and their fellow travelers. Most of the ones I knew about are on here and loads more. Hawkwind, Ozrics, Here and Now, Robert Calvert, Poisoned Electrick Head but Gong conspicuous by their absence

The people in that video, having that conversation absolutely know who took the video and whoever took that video is as guilty as the rest of them, so surely that must come out in any investigation. But it's also possible that the person who passed that video on to the Mirror wasn't the person who took it The reason could be absolutely anything from the above speculated jealousy at some of the others getting gongs, through to someone from Sunak's side doing it to find the excuse to completely dump all of Johnson's honours list ("We're at rock bottom anyway....")

Well yes but then again no. There is a parallel for sure but whilst Georgia and Chechnya are Austria and Czechoslovakia, that makes Ukraine Poland in this situation, where the Allies / West said enough is enough and didn't stand-by. But unlike WW2, the place of Russia in the invasion of Poland is taken by Belarus and this time the Allies / West are by far the more superior equipped but here's the crucial difference. Poland had defensive treaties with France and the UK. The modern equivalent of that would be NATO I guess but Ukraine weren't able to join. And that is crucial because NATO has no reason to put boots on the ground.

Well I didnt see a lead of 7 before play started today, great mopping up of the tail Handily right on lunch too. Lunch talk will about batting, not getting the last wickets and then batting

Letting it get to the care homes in the first place by discharging people from hospital to care homes whilst they had COVID was the real scandal here. Once they'd done that they had to do what you've described as a bad idea, there would be countless thousands more dead people if they hadn't done that

Cried that one in, well done

That really doesn't appear to be the purpose of this conversation at all. You said it didn't exist, now it does. You are just proving everything said previously

I thought it didn't exist, you just disagreed with yourself

No, what you mean is there isn't a doctrine, a philosophy, not that it doesn't exist If it doesn't exist stop attacking it otherwise you are tilting at windmills

And that is the other difficulty with centre ground politics, you get attacked from both extremes and usually with more vigour One side will call it watered down Marxism, the other will call it weak Libertarianism or even not even the weak version

yes that was oddly satisfying Wordle 729 4/6

Putin doesn't fire missiles

I opened my Fathers Day card last Sunday because someone told me last Sunday was Fathers Day (by some miracle my Daughter was organised this year, it normally arrives on the Wednesday after)

You've hit the jackpot, Jack, with your new pop cack

I've changed my mind on Mid-Beds, having looked at the percentages, it actually isn't as big a mountain to climb as Tiverton and Honiton nor North Shropshire. In a by-election, with the Tories even lower in the polls with a much deeper crisis its perfectly possible. Comparing those two constituencies 2019 results and Mid-Beds, the starting points are very similar but Mid-Beds is a slightly easier win as long as the Labour vote collapses