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The succession of politicians willing to defend the indefensible is astonishing. Anyone who understands the vetting process will know the civil servant has been treated unfairly. If Starmer doesn’t like the current rules, might I suggest he change them.
I’ll never be invited on but occasionally I come up with a funeral three. The issue is whether I chose my favourite songs and ruin them for my loved ones forever, or just pick three crappy tunes that nobody cares about.
He was also a bigamist, but we don’t talk about that!
My 4 x g grandfather fought in Barrell’s regiment and was injured. Thankfully he survived, otherwise I would not have existed.
You are cheating yourself. Your grade will be meaningless.
I think it’s a universal truth that politicians don’t tell the truth until they are out of office.
Media training teaches how to obfuscate and not answer a question. I felt Robinson’s frustration because both he and I knew what the interviewee was doing. I yearn for someone to have a stab at answering a question so that I don’t have to frighten the cat by shouting at the radio.
The older I get, the less right wing I become. If I make it to 80, I’ll be seen wearing a Mao tunic, while carrying a little red book.
He claims he was only being a doctor. When I’ve had my prostrate check the doctor never looked like this. No rays of light coming from his fingers, no soldiers in the consultation room, no action figures in the sky. I feel I’m being shortchanged by the NHS.
His grip on reality is slipping by the second. I’m not sure he can afford to alienate another 1.4 billion people.
The cross marks the appropriate spot it happened. Alas, there are now just a few lumps and bumps left in the ground.
US bases in Europe are less about protecting us and more about projecting American power in some hegemonic fantasy. If they leave NATO, their influence diminishes; that will be unpalatable, therefore they will not pull out and go home. Either way, enough about us hiding behind the US.
If we all live 12-16 months!
I recall my parents telling me how the world held its breath during the Cuban missile crisis. With the Iran deadline looming I now understand what they meant, only this time we have an unrestrained lunatic calling the shots.
There are a lot of commentators dissecting Trump’s profane tweet and trying to explain it as part of a deeper strategy, the logic of which is hidden from the unworthy. I prefer the Occam’s razor approach - perhaps the man is just a dangerous criminal idiot.
That aged me more than was healthy.
How is it possible to get enthused by the FA Cup when it’s not on terrestrial tv or Sky?
I should be more excited by Artemis but, having seen Apollo go to the moon, it seems we haven’t progressed very far in the last 50 years. When asked what was different this time, I heard a NASA spokesman say: ‘We have better health and safety’.
Love the exclamation mark on line two. Seems weirdly out of place in a legal document.
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There’s a little bit of the spoiled teenager about all of this: ‘Dad, I’ve crashed the car - can you sort out the mess for me?’
Curious name of the day: Frogmore Cumming, rector of Cardington 1796.
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My old Latin teacher/cricket master is retiring, having spent the last 35 years as Essex’s cricket commentator. He’s lived an interesting life and qualified for his own BBC retrospective. When he taught he he’d have been in his 20s, though I thought he was about 45.
I saw this map but by southern wife wouldn’t allow me to buy it.
It’s a shame the UK seems unwilling to say something similar. I’m still struggling with allowing the US to use our bases when the govt agrees that the war is illegal.
Nothing like asking accepting the manuscript subject to the proviso that the figures are recoloured. You are just the sort of reviewer we all love.
Without the full context of the document I’d take a guess at uccsia (killing or murder).
As someone who works with early modern documents, I feel your pain. But if you think we have it hard today, spare a thought for the palaeographers of tomorrow who will have to decipher my handwriting. (Hence the drunken spider comment).
You’re joking! As my old mum used to say, ‘it looks like a drunken spider has fallen into an ink well and has staggered across the page’.
