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Impressively smooth touchdown given the buildup
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And Wolff’s Book seems to suggest Trump is having an affair now
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Trump doesn’t want to cut his hair because he’ll lose his power, and he’s obsessed with Shark Week
http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/stormy-daniels-full-interview-151788
Oh, and he’s shut down the government
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Jeremy likes pretty Excel worksheets (but maybe isn't so interested in what they are telling him)
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And the fact that no-one over here really cares about it (i.e. formally investigating all this mess with a view to taking action if any laws are shown to have been broken) makes my brain hurt.
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The TM Casebook guy is on the Boris story
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The sooner Nigel 'thumb drive' Farage - and his friend Air Bank - are behind bars the better
(From a second transcript from the House Intelligence Committee)
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Another Boris idea
And a response
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An update on the Hawaii situation from a few days ago
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It's all about how you ask the question
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I enjoyed The Shape of Water. Definitely worth a watch. As long as you don't mind surreal stuff.
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If you're a Pi fan you'll probably know the backstory but this is nonetheless worth a listen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ly60f
(I actually bought my first Pi from Eben himself in 2012 when he was giving a talk at Google about the company and his motivations in setting it up)
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The TheresaMayCasebooks are back and on good form
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That's brilliant. There was this on a federal building in SF too. (Great kerning).
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Yes, true. And people wouldn't have expressed relief that the President was on the golf course (i.e. away from his 'big red button') when it happened.
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It turns out it was a drill (despite the "This is not a drill" phrase)!
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Must have been a scary few minutes in Hawaii
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Spiegel cartoons are often excellent
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Farage and Umunna on Trump
https://twitter.com/BBCr4today/status/951730254581850112
You could still hear them arguing in the background when they did the weather afterwards
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On a more serious note there is some interesting content in here (from the over-55s)
https://www.demos.co.uk/project/citizens-voices/
Some random comments:
You go to A&E on any night of the week and a lot of the people going in are on first name terms with the staff because they’re going in time and time again, because really they should be in a care home of some description.
I think it probably started in the 80s, I’m biased, but I can remember Thatcher saying ‘there’s no such thing as society, only the individual’. And I think the balance changed a lot.
Our society has totally lost respect. It’s just got no respect for anyone or anything.
Bring back hanging […] I tell you what, it would stop…this rise in acid attacks. It takes one person to hang and it would stop.
At work we have an equality and diversity team, so I get what they’re doing, don’t get me wrong, it’s brilliant stuff. But there’s an inordinate amount of resources for the needs of two people, when there are 3000 people overall. So think it has to be proportionate.
You have to have a percentage of immigrants. To build your society. But it does need some control over it. Personally, I would go for a system as I say, other countries have, where you have to show what you are going to bring to the country. Just make it fairer.
There’s a lot of people in positions [of power] judging aspects of life that they’ve never experienced. They said we’re all in this together, and they’ve got their noses in the trough ripping off the expenses and it’s us lower beings that have got the runt of it. It’s always been the case.
Rees-Mogg comes across a tough Tory, but I think he’s clued in to more everyday things.
I’d vote for Boris Johnson, because at least he’s an idiot and we can have a laugh. I know he’s probably completely out of touch and he is a bit of a buffoon. But he is quite smart, and I would much prefer him than anyone else I can think of.
My son was absolutely livid [about Brexit]. He texted me to say, “I hope you are happy now”.
When me granddaughter goes to dancing class, she’s only four and she’s not allowed to go in the same dressing room for people above five without having a chaperone there. There’s got to be chaperones there. Now, that’s come from European law, it’s come from that.
It just seemed a little bit futile for so many lives to have been lost in wars, to have been absorbed by the same people that we were fighting against. I know that’s history, but what was the point of it all if we were just going to give into it?
I was in Italy a couple of years ago and I was in a hotel, and the waiter served curly cucumbers, and he looked at me and he smiled and he said ‘Yes, it is only the British that have straight cucumbers’. What it tends to be is: because we are a very honourable nation, what everybody says, we have to get along with the rules, we actually play by the rules. Nobody else does!
We have a farm, and so many of our workers are from Eastern Europe. I don’t know what I’ll do if they stop coming. They won’t stop coming, will they?
You get the picture...
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