Patrick Andrews

DURING dinner at a restaurant recently I told the waiter, "l'd like a glass of water, please. " Imagine my surprise when he simply nodded, then replied "Still?' The idea that I would have inexplicably changed my mind about this drink order just seconds after making it seemed so ridiculous that I decided not to leave him a tip. T Ellen, London

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The thing is, the people pushing harsh immigration policies never take into account that these are human beings. Every one. Not just statistics to get votes.

So Britain's tariff relationship with the USA is no longer considered 'a Brexit benefit'?

Greenland’s capitol city Nuuk has six hospitals serving 60,000 people.

The Des Moines, Iowa, metro area has six hospitals serving 700,000 people.

Sure they need a US Navy hospital ship that's currently in dry dock undergoing repairs.

Why didn’t he just settle in the nearest safe country?

Mentioned at the museum that has Concorde.

Around north Bristol there are several old signposts pointing to a non-existent place named Charlton.
Charlton was a village on the outskirts of Bristol which was demolished in the late 1940s to make way for a runway and factories for the failed Brabazon aeroplane.

Tony Blair: 'psychological flaws' remark was brutal truth about Gordon Brown | Nicholas Watt Tony Blair had been in power for barely a year when Britain was given a taste of a bitter feud between the two neighbours in Downing Street

Whilst Brown was having his character assassinated by Tony Blair’s closest aides, Mandelson was busy emailing convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that he had ‘persuaded’ Brown to step down as leader of the Labour Party …here is some background

www.theguardian.com/politics/win... …/3

Can we agree that America's dominance is over, and Trump has accelerated that. China is now in charge, so we should probably start taking this simple fact a lot more seriously.

Decent Americans like Canada. Assholes don't.

Such a soft touch to disallow a goal for.

Three post from a thread by @emilybell.bsky.social: - This leads me to reflect on how the press (my own paper at the time, The Observer, where I was business editor ) splashed on the ‘psychologically flawed’ briefing, given by a deeply morally dubious Blairite team. The story in some ways holed Brown’s leadership below the waterline 5/ - Where are the psychologically perfect individuals who variously passed judgement on Brown? Peter Mandelson - disgraced ( not the first time) revealed as dishonest, greedy, treacherous to his post and country.Tony Blair - war crimes aside, Board of Peace candidate, undermining UN for 💰7/ - Alistair Campbell - podcaster, whose handwringing isn’t enough to erase his role in the WMD narrative. Nick Clegg - enabled the morally repugnant ‘austerity’ initiatives of the Cameron coalition, then covered for the anti-democratic ethical sinkhole Meta, as head of PR, …8/

The great noticing continues. 👀
Former Observer journalist clocks that Blair, Campbell, Mandelson and Clegg are not great centrist politicians and a safe pair of hands but destructive, warmongering, traitorous money men serving the US Empire.
They never notice at the time though, do they?

UK in talks with US over ‘best possible deal’ for British firms amid higher tariffs threat Business leaders expect UK to ‘double down’ on deal announced by Donald Trump and Keir Starmer in 2025

How long is it going to take Starmer to figure out that Trump is utterly untrusworthy and is opposed to every decent value people in Britain stand for? You can't do a successful deal with the devil
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

An alternative is Ben Webster, especially at his breathiest

Tomasz Stanko?

The real heroes in this class discourse are the brave journalists waiting two, sometimes even three whole replies before mentioning that they went to Oxbridge.

I bet the guitarist from AC/DC is really thrilled with his decision to start wearing a school uniform on stage now that he's 103.

The very same media that scolded starmer for mandelson are now parading someone that killed thousands and is most likely compromised by the Russians. The media can fuck right off if it thinks it deserves an ounce of of respect

Remembering

Hans Scholl 22 Sep 1918 – 22 Feb 1943
Sophie Scholl 9 May 1921 – 22 Feb 1943
Christoph Probst 6 Nov 1919 – 22 Feb 1943
Stadelheim Prison, Munich, 5PM

Is the screen-based bureaucratic management tasks (attendance, record keeping, email torrents, form filling, reimbursement labyrinths, inane video training boxticking, multiplication of online platforms and teaching materials) demanded by Uk university making us dumber and exhausted?
Yes.

Please do not embarrass Farage by reposting his 'Happy Birthday Mr President' tweet. Be careful not to draw attention to the fact that he's holding a bottle of Trump wine, it would make him look like a fawning sycophant, and we wouldn't want to do that ... would we?

FFS, Keir, you're dealing with a madman who can't be trusted to keep his word. Don't even bother. Find another way.

Alistair Campbell - podcaster, whose handwringing isn’t enough to erase his role in the WMD narrative.
Nick Clegg - enabled the morally repugnant ‘austerity’ initiatives of the Cameron coalition, then covered for the anti-democratic ethical sinkhole Meta, as head of PR, …8/

Where are the psychologically perfect individuals who variously passed judgement on Brown? Peter Mandelson - disgraced ( not the first time) revealed as dishonest, greedy, treacherous to his post and country.Tony Blair - war crimes aside, Board of Peace candidate, undermining UN for 💰7/

…and he was turned down as being an unsuitable co-partner for a coalition government by that other paragon of moral virtue Nick Clegg - who instead formed a coalition with David Cameron ..a decision which accelerated Brexit. 2/

And a reminder that in addition to Iran, the US is simultaneously using its military and other power to (1) strangle Cuba; (2) continue to repress daily life in Minneapolis; (3) illegally detain thousands across the country; and (4) implicitly aid Russia by using up/not giving Ukraine more hardware.

This one hits hard.

And Farage’s. Would be good to annoy both.

I am less optimistic about Sheffield United than any of the other games. They are in a false position. I think we have a good chance of winning at Hull and Bristol. Watford looks dangerous