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It was always only a matter of time...

The riots will begin when they are all exonerated.

That could potentially stoke some anger in those otherwise mild-mannered heavily armed young officers.

So since nobody's going to sack Cummings because he has dirt on them, is anyone likely to murder him? Or does he have an insurance policy hidden away?

Seeing this reminded me of a post I made nearly 13 years ago: If only Tony Benn had shown the same concern for his offspring...

Let's wait and see if I intend sticking around for a while first PMs are now back at a manageable size. I archived most of them in a safe place. There's still a lot of heavy late-night stuff to trawl through involving one of America's most original moralists, a certain Mr. B. Scream of New York. How is everyone anyway?

My PMs are at 260%. Probably the size of my box was reduced when I was demoted from moderatorship. There's a lot of interesting stuff in there including some grand conversations with Banshees Scream, so I'm slowly working though them, deleting the less interesting ones. It should only be a matter of weeks before I'm reachable by PM.

Is Hein Gone? I have fine, if somewhat unclear memories of getting severely guttered with him in a bar in Utrecht a few years ago. Nice chap.

Hello all. Glad to see my baby (not to say brainchild) is still on the go. I'm still available to judge guilt of Crimes Against Humanity if anyone needs me to. I know I've got it well wrong before in at least one case. Luckily the corpse in question was dead already. Big thanks to Death Impends for keeping the show going. Is it too late to join in?

This bloke https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/george-mcrobie-obituary?CMP=share_btn_link George McRobie has died. Interesting to me because he was my great uncle. I never actually managed to meet him but he was clearly a top fellow. Tomorrow I'm going to visit the house near Moscow where he spent part of his childhood and to meet my cousin three times removed for the first time who was Uncle George's first cousin. All very exciting. It seems I have a few ancestors and distant relatives who were actually good for something.

In his younger days, Grass was in the Waffen SS, a fact which he managed to keep secret for quite a while. After that he had a hard job maintaining his status as honorary citizen of Gdansk.

Nice to see this is still on the go. I trust Rotten Ali is still running it in a suitably prejudiced and arbitrary manner, true to the spirit of its founder?

This is appauling: "quite frankly" is clearly a sub-clause and, therefore, needs commas on either side and "This is more harsh" simply continues the sentence so the "t" should be lower case! This from someone who thinks "peddling" has something to do with riding a bicycle

That's a lucky break for Mary then. Still strictly speaking a breach of the spirit of the rule, but possibly meriting a slightly lesser penalty.

There was a small DL Con held on Tuesday last in the Dutch town of Utrecht. Magere Hein was there and I think I was there too. Much beer was drunk. Of that I am certain. A most enjoyable event, hopefully to be repeated.