Doesn't it just

Oh come on, wind has to get home like everyone else. What do you want, shift work ?

Oh, pheasant *feather* rucksacks. Please ignore earlier post about pheasant rucksacks, which may have envisaged something more... visceral ?

Yes - unfortunately yet more proof that Starmer's instincts are not political. He could probably have got away with saying that he wanted Mandelson because Mandelson understood Trump - because that would have deflected anything nefarious onto Trump. You can't be PM and behave like the DPP.

Does anyone still read Google's AI summary and act on it without cross-checking? I deeply resent having this misleading and hallucinating thing foisted upon me.

Typical. I could never find a pheasant rucksack when I needed one, and now this.

This is a very good way of reclaiming, or semi-reclaiming, the word 'content'. 'Content' is absolutely *not* creative and/or original work. It is the flamming-up of said work.

I want a photo of your appropriately sized scissors, even though they would have been useless.

YES

Social media in particular. Longest and loudest, as in the cartoon.

Blimey though, how to chuck a decade in the bin 🙄, and all of it was predicted.

Everyone in UK politics from the 1990s onwards had a view about Mandelson. It doesn't matter what that view was; it matters that someone looked at it.

Yes indeed - but Starmer didn't need the deep vetting to tell him that Mandelson came with red-flag risks

Keir Starmer is an intelligent person.

I wouldn't say it's foreign policy driven by impulse rather than strategy. I'd say it's foreign policy ignored, and domestic policy extended into realms about which its instigator is ignorant.

Have you been posting about bluetits ? HAVE YOU ?

Yes, I too was Forbidden. Occasionally it seems we are both Allowed again, although for how long no-one knows.

Do we know the nature of BlueSky's illness, btw ? It hasn't been bitten by a muskrat, has it ?

I remember the Lucozade but had forgotten the taking of the telly into the bedroom ! Sometimes only the portable radio though - depending on severity and duration of illness.

Oh hello. It's back. For how long ? *taps screen*

More please

... which it definitely is.

Fake tagine

I saw your original Brentry and was raising you Bre-entry because of its being the 2nd time, but Brentry would work particularly well if the Br that was entering the 2nd time was different from the Br that left (e.g. minus a country or two), as well it might be by then.

I (Lancastrian) have always said 'ee' but not the rest...

Bre-entry ?

Yep, said this. After the rehearsal of his first term, Trump now knows exactly how power enables him to get money to dance for him. How many years still to go ?

That is *so* much better than I manage.

Hey Brexit benefits ! (Yes, I know...)

EasyJet passengers describe new EU border controls 'nightmare' Airlines warn of further disruption due to the introduction of a new EU digital border control system.

Hello BBC News (for which I used to work). This is not an 'EU border nightmare'. This is the logical result of Britain's separation from the EU and treatment as a third country. Yes, people are suffering delays. That's what being outside the EU means. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...