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by peter
Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:42 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

In a day or two's time, the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race will take place down a stretch of the Thames between Putney and Mortlake, but this year's event will not end with the traditional chucking of the rowers into the water because there's too much shit in it. Environmental watchdogs have ...
by peter
Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:01 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

I think that the decision to deny Shamima Begum the opportunity to have her appeal heard (against having her UK citizenship stripped from her) at the Supreme Court is questionable at best. Earlier this year, three judges denied her appeal to have her citizenship reinstated, prompting her application...
by peter
Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:49 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
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Views: 669221

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Of course it is impossible for our printed press, so spiteful and contumely under normal circumstances - the worst offenders in spreading conspiracy nonsense about the royals when given so much as a sniff of scandal to root about in (like a dog rolling in shit) - not to become lachrymosal to the poi...
by peter
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:39 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

Figures from the Jacob Rowntree Foundation show that around thirty percent of adults live in poverty (as defined by having an income less than 60 percent of the median) in the UK, and a quater of all children live in absolute - not relative - poverty.. Our government is spending 500 million pounds t...
by peter
Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:37 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
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Views: 669221

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I'm sure that despite the obvious signs that something was clearly amiss with the Princess of Wales, last night's heart-rending statement on the Six o'clock News will have come as a shock to most people who saw it. Princess Kate sat alone, looking vulnerable and tired, to give us the news that the m...
by peter
Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:50 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
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Views: 669221

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:wave: Hi Av! Greetings from sunny Cornwall (raining as usual ;)) "Labour say 'Time is needed to reflect upon the report' ". What the fuck is that about? Reflect on what? The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has taken seven years to consider the inappropriate manner in which the ...
by peter
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:19 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill received fresh drubbing in the House of Lords yesterday, when seven votes on the thing all went against the government. This will put off any intended departures until June at the earliest, and possibly for longer than this if the bill's opponents have anything to do with i...
by peter
Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:13 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

Nasty little piece in the Telegraph this morning that I think I'll quote in full (which incidentally, is a pain in the arse, because when you use the quotation symbol, the words you type in between the markers on the posting board, if you are using predictive text, don't come out separately. You the...
by peter
Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:04 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

A couple of weeks ago we were treated to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt doing daylight robbery on Labour's proposed policy of taxing non-doms to raise a few billions for the Exchequer - and doing it openly in the actual budget speech itself no less - and today, not to be beaten, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Ree...
by peter
Mon Mar 18, 2024 7:01 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

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Embattled Rishi Sunak tells us this morning that, "This is the year that Britain will bounce back!", that, "There is a real sense that the economy is turning the corner." What world is he living in? Is he pissed? On drugs? Growth, just about the most important indicator of econom...
by peter
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:58 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

I'll admit SD, I'd come up with a couple of alternative ideas that were too near the knuckle for even me to suggest. ;) -----0----- Who comes up with these ridiculous names for training exercises and operations etc in Nato and the like. 'Operation Steadfast Defender.' That's the latest cringe induci...
by peter
Sat Mar 16, 2024 5:14 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
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Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

(Continued from above, but freestanding if you get me.) Did anyone else see that 'hot mic' incident with Biden following his state of the nation speech? Surrounded by congratulatory politicians and in the presence of Blinken and one or two others, he was being pressed to keep up the pressure on Neta...
by peter
Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:23 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

Here we (might) go again. Panicked by poll figures that put them 20 points behind Labour as they approach the general election, tories are gathering themselves into a cabal to mount a challenge to the Sunak premiership and replace him with the middle-of-the-road candidate Penny Mordaunt, who you may...
by peter
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

Don't exactly know what is going on in Ukraine, but it doesn't sound good. There's a dearth of news these days on the ongoing conflict, now into its (what) third year? But such news as does filter through, despite our media having lost interest in the conflict as a result of the Israel-Gaza massacre...
by peter
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:58 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

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Now let's have a look. A Conservative Party donor is shown to have historically said in a meeting that the sight of Labour MP Diane Abbot's face makes him want to hate all black women and that he thinks that she should be shot. Accepting that these comments were probaby made with a degree of hyperbo...
by peter
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:37 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

:lol: Absolutely Av. I mean, WTF! Those are certainly values, but British values? It's been a long time since we could place any claim on any of them as the values we hold to. It beggars belief that this stuff is reported in serious media outlets without them ever raising the point that if you are g...
by peter
Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:29 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

Michael Gove, the Levelling Up Secretary, is currently working on a new definition of what constitutes extremism, and this has elicited a dual warning from both the Archbishops of Canterbury and York that he risks "vilification of the wrong people" as well as threatening freedom of speech ...
by peter
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:51 am
Forum: Flicks
Topic: Oscar's 2024
Replies: 1
Views: 104

Oscar's 2024

Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer. Not Barbie, not Barbie, not Barbie. No Saltburn, no Saltburn, no Saltburn. And in what world can Sandra Huller's magnificent portrayal of Hedwig Hoss not have won the Best Actress Award (never mind The Zone of Interest not winning Best Film)? Her performance go...
by peter
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:34 am
Forum: Flicks
Topic: The Menu
Replies: 5
Views: 2226

The Menu

I saw it and enjoyed it up to a point.

Not enough however that on discovering this thread, I can recall enough (many months later) to make a worthwhile response to the posting. This in itself perhaps says all that needs to be said about the film.

:)
by peter
Tue Mar 12, 2024 5:57 am
Forum: General Discussion Forum
Topic: What Do You Think Today?
Replies: 4783
Views: 669221

What Do You Think Today?

Now let's look at the Legacy Independent Funeral Directors stor (and the important twist in the tail that I promise, you are not going to see reported anywhere else in the damn country!) The story started with the police turning up at the business for a look-see, following the receipt of a number of...

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