Sod's Law

And of course, there's the obligatory emails from Jimbo Wales himself reminding you that your £5 donation is the only thing stopping the last fading shreds of the 'free internet' collapsing into a subscription-based add-riddled corporate hellhole forever. I love Wikipedia but it does get a bit over-the-top. BTW foreign languages tend to have many sounds which don't have English equivalents, which makes it kind of difficult to translate phonetically with any accuracy. Wonder how you write something like 'Sairrrrj Gons-bore' without it looking awkward on a serious article?

As someone who's a bit of a misanthrope, New Zealand's always appealed to me with its emptiness and wide open spaces. Unfortunately, the only barrier for me is surviving a twelve hour plane flight in close proximity with strangers (and their kids)...

Jesus, do all US Senators have 5 million word essays on their political beliefs on Wikipedia? You guys should have the best informed voter base in the world if everyone took the time to read that before casting a ballot. I know more about her political positions in one paragraph of that article than I know about my own local MP's views on everything through scraping through his entire social media accounts.

The crystals told him.

Trouble at John Lewis? The company is considering cutting 11,000 jobs as it slashes redundancy pay: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/27/john-lewis-waitrose-jobs-cuts-redundancy-pay I know the last few years have been difficult for them, but I always found them the perfect place to go to look for birthday presents for people I had no idea what to buy for, so I hope they don't go anytime soon.

Bet he wishes he didn't spread so much awareness now.

While I'd agree with you there, the US seems to be blessed with a good amount of safeguards to protect against the incompetence of its own leaders which would be the envy of most countries, a lot of which is the result of its economic clout and the whole separation of powers thing. For example, a Liz Truss-type figure being president would never be in a position to damage the US economy in the same way the UK economy was damaged under Truss. There ironically seems to be even more at stake in the world outside of the US than in the US itself if Trump gets back in and starts opening the floodgates for Putin in Europe. Kind of a shame the rest of the 'free world' doesn't get to vote for the leader of it in a way.

That melting block of ice that stood in for Boris Johnson at the 2019 Election debate would probably be a more inspiring choice for leader than anything with a pulse in the current Tory party tbh. Would probably bag them more votes in the next election for one.

That would explain the celibacy, I guess.

In the same way Slovenians don't claim Melania?

They can't open a new account and come back, can they? Everyone knows this is meant to be a respectable site for decent law-abiding death-watching folk.

Cancer is so slow-acting on the body of a 99 year old man. I don't think it would noticeably lower his life expectancy more than him not having cancer at this point would.

The others might as well just be jostling to be his running mate at this point. Ramaswamy possibly most likely as he seems to have the most in common with Trump out of the other candidates (and has a less acrimonious relationship with Trump than someone like DeSantis).

Tory MP Lee Anderson did not vote against Rwanda bill because Labour MPs 'giggled' at him: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-lee-anderson-tory-mp-b2480667.html Aw, diddums.

If he has multiple homes and he's moved between them regularly then the lengths his family must have gone through to hide him from any outdoor exposure must defy logic. Does he have to be shipped around in a crate?

Scary thing is that a sizeable percentage of American voters find this behaviour hilarious and endearing.

I can't believe we actually know more about the state of the king's prostate than about what caused the death of the Queen. Buckingham Palace has a weird idea of what counts as 'public interest' here.

Jesus, this entire thread is having a schizophrenic episode. I wonder if Jimmy knows quite what he's triggered here?

Hunt losing his would be priceless. The Arnold Rimmer of politics, I call him. Rees-Mogg is also a potential Portillo moment although he hasn't been politically relevant in any sense since Johnson left office.

Indeed, it's like people who complain about India sending rockets into space instead of treating the grinding poverty in its cities. They forget that there isn't some finite amount of money in existence which can only be spent this way or that way.

I agree it is kind of pointless in the end, but hey, at least we did get a bank holiday out of it, something we are sorely lacking in in this country compared with our European cousins (and even the US). And I read that the UK and Denmark are incidentally the only two countries in the world which don't have a national day of any kind (the UK's separate nations each have their own national days but nobody's taking to the streets to celebrate St George's Day for instance) so even republican countries clearly throw lavish expensive ceremonies every year for Bastille Day, 4th of July, etc.

Kind of a shame. I thought the whole point of a monarchy in the modern world was that we could have these kinds of gaudy over-the-top parties which never happen if your country only has a fusty boring president?

I live in one of those red wall seats and everything the newspapers were scaring people into thinking would happen under a Corbyn government (record tax burden, startled volatile markets, record high debt) has come true under the Tories instead, so people have now woken up.

At this point, I'm really not sure why he doesn't go around everywhere with a respirator permanently strapped on. And having his ring finger kissed so many times by anyone he comes across can't be hygienic for someone with one lung who doesn't always have access to soap.

So in 10-15 years time, we can expect Southgate to pop up on here with some very bad news?