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I wonder how keen he is to repeat that outside parliament?

Get the sweat buckets out again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8qz22dqdzo

Some of these are genuinely impacted by the recent budget, but others will be other factors. For example, I'm willing to bet Morrisons is more down to being asset stripped by its private equity owners, they've certainly been going downhill since that takeover a few years back. WHSmith is a shithole business that hasn't adapted to modern times, survives only through its captive train/airport market, so besides the workforce, I doubt there will be many mourning that closing down. The budget will, like covid, be used as an excuse to cover up actions that were already in the pipeline, and/or cover up the business' own shortcomings. I also wouldn't mind betting we still have a load of zombie companies leftover from the years of cheap money when the Bank of England had ultra-low interest rates and printed money like it was going out of fashion. Maybe increasing NI employer contributions is the wrong way to bring these businesses down, but there are companies overdue going bust. If however the demand for their products is there, new opportunities will take over.

Looks like the cocaine cartels will need to find an alternative to banana crates to disguise their "goods".

Photo released for Burns' night, he looks more frail but could be ageing as much as the cancer effects:

Princess Anne says she has no memory of last year's accident, while also ruling out retirement as it's "not really an option": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87d34rq541o

This strikes me as being opportunistic. If Biden had pardoned himself, Trump would be the first one out the gates slamming the move.

A good warning to everyone in government/Congress who's kissing Trump's arse right now: you will fall out with him and he will throw you under a bus when it happens. The infamous Oval Office photo from 2017 is proof, then the fact Vance is VP, not Pence, and now John Bolton here.

This is a belter:

Trump said "the golden age of America begins now". He forgot to add the word shower in there.

Putin will be getting body double tips from this "Melania" appearance.

Free market but not when the free market favours others; free speech but not when the free speech is critical of them. Those who shout "freedom" more often than not are hypocrites.

You'd think Trump would know how to handle cold matters considering his marriage with Melania.

Surely all the hot air generated could counteract that?

The official portraits have been released. Trump looks like he's about to tell a ghost story, while Vance looks like M3gan if she became transgender: