Trying to live my best life as the world goes to hell in a handcart
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2000km of undefined and disputed border between India and China doesn’t just go away. These border tensions, including a war fought in 1962, lie at the heart of their long term distrust of one another. Maybe friendship will blossom, but it looks like India is the needy party here.
Maybe he’s going to announce the pardoning of Ghislaine.
My heart bleeds for him
No and no
Hit the crude units. They are what keep it operating. Storage tank strikes make for large, impressive fires but the actual damage to production is much more limited.
India the self proclaimed leader of the non-aligned world
Pay tribute to the Orange god king, even if he can now only dribble as he watches daytime television
Trump the silent figurehead takes us even closer to Orwell’s Big Brother
Being an outsider adds a certain piquancy to our situation though. The others can at least share their problems between 27. And the proposed solution for us of leaving the ECHR is an even deeper isolation.
UK business investment has been poor throughout my lifetime and I am now close to retirement. Our problems have very deep roots
All that government debt we have accrued- all £2.5 trillion of it, with most of it added by the last Tory administration- is just taxation deferred. Your kids and grandchildren will eventually be paying it back.
India has picked its side and it isn’t on the side of the angels. So much for all this non-aligned country nonsense. Money is its only principle. Cheap oil from Russia is the trump card.
I keep thinking of the ending of Porterhouse Blue with Trump in the role of Skullion for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on.
A debilitating stroke would explain a lot, especially if he is unable to speak.
The best that can be said about Council Tax is that it is fairer than the Poll Tax it replaced. Successive governments (mostly Tory) too afraid of upsetting middle class voters, especially older ones in big houses, by uprating valuations. Another muddle left to fester.
MAGA will drive their local restaurant into bankruptcy and in so doing deny themselves the utility of a local restaurant. This is winning
A wooden stake through the heart and shoot with a silver bullet to make doubly sure. Don’t stint on the crucifixes and garlic either.
This Putin seems to have less hair than Trump’s Putin.
Is it the same Putin that Trump met?
My education is lacking, I only saw the Peter Cushing films.
One of Victor Frankenstein’s secrets. Probably why he succeeded where others would have failed. 😜
It was the power of electricity. Then still a strange and wonderful thing. A bit like how AI today is going to do all our work for us.
Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
A penny farthing
Is this like the boy she allegedly reported for cheating in an exam in the UK while she was attending an all girls school in Nigeria? Kemi can bend space time at will.
I guess a terminal diagnosis is a bit of a shock
Not much sign of leadership on any topic. Not much sign of understanding on any topic. The decline of the Tory Party accelerates.
The ‘partnership’ that lasts until the next border dispute
Glow worms in a cave in New Zealand: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...
You mean that the last lot did loads of sleazy stuff so we should too as long as we’re not as greedy as them isn’t a winning strategy?
Distraction from his ailing health
A sick, old dictator. Events will move quickly
More careless smokers
He’s going to die soon?
An expeditionary force?
Not enough capital letters. Grammar and vocabulary aren’t Trump. Where are the quotation marks he likes to use freely?
That she doesn’t even have the spine to face her electorate. Running away is cowardice
The raw gas processing capacity (if it got built after Western companies pulled out) was for 42BCMa, which would be somewhere around the 38 you mention after shrinkage. 61 is probably a pipe dream. I don’t think China pays much for the gas either.
Badenoch’s problem is how do you make a party whose heyday was 40 years ago, which mostly appeals to over 70s into a modern, outward looking, mass appeal party? She seems to believe that dragging up failed policies of the past and fighting a culture war on behalf of her 70+ year olds is the answer.
Kemi has always been a source of stupid and ill thought through ideas. She is another leader deficient in either intellect or charisma in the Tories spiral of decline.
You pay to worship the great Orange god king
I hope the people of Alaska enjoy having this useless, craven shapeshifter as their representative. Does she sufficiently represent their philosophy and their morals?
The Tories have completely lost the plot. This is running stark naked into the desert screaming level idiocy. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
This makes Liz Truss look almost sane
Grim on so very many levels
It looks like her political career died very quickly
Picture of youthful vigour
Don’t forget the other 6 (or is it 7?) wars and the 3 pre-wars he has single handedly stopped. He’s oil on troubled waters, bringing peace, love and harmony wherever he goes.
I thought he was stepping back from life too.
One who wants money out of the old Scrooge
We will be lining the streets to see his coffin go by for sure.
If tRump is seriously ill, I PRAY Really Hard he's getting medical advice Only from RFK Jr🤣👍
He looks like a walking corpse
I guess the state visit to Britain might be in question.
Dead, stroke, heart attack, or major surgery. One of these seems likely
But he is also replacing all the statisticians, so GDP growth will continue unimpeded and inflation will remain very low.
It’s only the first of anything when Americans do it.
Starmer is lubricating the path for Farage to become PM What I don’t get is why he is doing this.
Performative stupidity
Soon no vaccine
No it’s just being whipped up by right wing press barons, a Tory dominated BBC and a bunch of cheap, opportunistic politicians. And it’s still August with not much else to report.
67m in 2021 according to census estimates- 4m in 11 years. You are claiming 2.5m more in 4 years Looks fishy
The knockers and the gloomsters will always criticise change.
The positive, upbeat messages and the wide range of policies to help ordinary people are what we will remember of Kemi’s brief leadership.
Profits before people; and Guns before people. All you need to know
It doesn’t mean lower lending if they are still earning above their cost of capital on loans. Maybe more responsible lending and not feeding a property price bubble.
What took him so long? Remember all those Dems voting for Trump’s appointees in the spirit of bipartisanship?
Then we should lock up the children of criminals using this ghastly logic. Do these people listen to themselves?
The ridicule factor
Kill it’s news and current affairs output and leave it with purely factual documentaries and entertainment
Bang them all up for life for joint enterprise. Isn’t that how it’s done these days?
‘Look Daddy! I can see some fat bloke with a fag in his mouth painting a St George’s Cross on a mini roundabout down there…’
Rifkind always was a twerp
Colder and drier
Eating raw chicken should be encouraged amongst Trump’s supporters - so much healthier than cooked.
Maybe we should intern all Russians and Russian dual nationals to be on the safe side.
He and his mate Vlad can carve up Europe like a blueberry pie.
Free power from the sun is dangerous lefty woke nonsense. Exxon isn’t going to pay for share buybacks if you use free stuff.
Odd how most of them are in one hemisphere
Other countries typically don’t allow the widespread possession of semi automatic assault rifles with high capacity magazines, Just sayin’
The North Vietnamese overran the South as I recall. Americans ran to the helicopters, dodging the bullets and negotiating as they went.
He’s not embarrassed or ashamed to display his ignorance
🤡
So sad for all those German companies and banks. Sup with the Devil and you need a long spoon.
Red sky at night, Russian refinery alight.
30 large refineries with a very rough replacement cost of say $200bn. Refineries are physically large, especially in Russia, with units widely separated. It is probably difficult to damage more than 10% of the capital stock. The major impact is going to be the disruption of supply of oil products
Plus smug, self satisfied Sarah Vine being condescending to a working class girl for enjoying herself, vaping and not being on Mounjaro like she is
Tom Clancy’s Sense and Sensiblity
OAPs and religious leaders are threatening the state by supporting a terrorist organisation. The government looks more and more stupid on this. It’s a 2 year custodial sentence for supporting a terrorist organisation
UK police arrested Baptist minister James Grote outside his church in London after he held a sign that read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”. That’s how powerful the Israel lobby is.
Life expectancy ain’t too great either (I haven’t bothered looking it up as I an sure the official figures are pure fiction. You can use the evidence of your eyes.)
Rather telling that the only place he sees ordinary people is in airports. That’s how strange and dysfunctional his life is.
🔥🛢️/1. The second Russian oil refinery attacked tonight is the Afipsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar region with the capacity of 7mln tons of oil per year.
Looks like something significant is on fire and not just tanks. Tank fires look impressive but tanks are isolated and refineries have lots of them, so losing a few is not so problematic. Burning down a major processing unit might look less spectacular but causes long term harm.
No one knows more about monetary policy than Donald Trump. His uncle was a university professor and he is a self proclaimed genius. Plus he’s the most popular president ever. What could possibly go wrong?
Allow the general public to own assault rifles and large capacity pistols without any let or hindrance and then act surprised that they use them against one another. Guns before people is a choice.
They can shoot recalcitrant pieces of litter
Daddy what did you do in the litter wars?
Alexa show me a moral void
ID cards are something, like high speed rail, new airport runways and nuclear power, that Britain could only manage after huge expense, much soul searching, and being years behind schedule. Even then it would be full of bugs.