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Two KNOWN cases of a highly infectious virus with an incubation period of up to 2 weeks and a fatality rate of 40-75 %.

I was thinking the Stasi. Must be worried that US competitors might try to defect.

A simplistic style of impartiality is not going to do the job when what should be the authoritative source becomes the least reliable. I think BBC News online have a difficult task ahead.

Trump and his administration lie blatantly and constantly. They don't care that it's obvious, nor whether anyone believes their lies, so every word coming from the US government at the moment has to be regarded with suspicion.

Which country? Are you supposed to be a British newspaper or does everything have default to USA-ism these days?

I suppose it's the equivalent of a perpetual 'no comment'. If you can't trust a single thing they say, they are telling you nothing and there's not even any point in asking. Anyone with a scrap of decency would find it difficult to live like that, but...

Fiona?

...or is 'abduct' perhaps more a neutral term?

Why are young people leaving Britain to work abroad? Three young Britons explain why they are building their futures overseas.

So if immigration is 'bad' then increased emigration must be 'good'? Or is that not how it works?
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I'm guessing that this action happening on Venusulan territory is subject to Venusulan law. So where is the dividing line between 'capture' and 'kidnap' ?

@jeevunsandher.bsky.social It would be nice if there could be some indication from the UK government that Britain is, at very least, somewhat uncomfortable with Mr Trump's actions this morning.

Liz Truss isn't even the past. Liz Truss was a prize winner in the PM-for-a-day competition.

So even before the latest set of erm - curious - pardons, is Trump a credible witness in ANY legal action?

Could I contest the no-such-thing-as-a-bad-idea thing? cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/...

YouTube video by johnreynolds71 Lord Rockinghams xi - hoots mon - stereo remix

I'm surprised that in all the talk of Rockingham's rockers and the like, this entirely inoffensive and not-at-all stereotypical tribute to Lord Bute hasn't had a mention yet. youtu.be/vlzPnae2Dak

It's a first step, but if this is now the official US advice coming from a neutered FDA it's going to need stamping down quickly and officially, across the world, by people who are still allowed to share genuine expertise.

But I've yet to hear a rational explanation of why this is the case. There's one really obvious one - 'we' don't like people who aren't like 'us' - but politicians seem very quick to dismiss the idea that that's what's behind this.

I'm finding more and more that I'm not even an expert on the podcast I just listened to.

It makes it effectively pointless to vote in safe seats/wards, and in marginals it forces us to guess who will be first and second, and compromise accordingly. The present system isn't even helping the Tories and Labour any more, it just favours the largest minority, presently the Faragists.

Really disappointed in today's result, not least because I would have preferred ANY candidate to Reform. However, it surely is time to accept that the misnamed first-past-the-post system (what post?) does not work in a 5 or 6 party environment.

And my first use of Android's Gemini resulted in it refusing to turn itself off, giving me an interminable spiel about Google policy, and interrupting my response at the first hint of a comma, for another corporate rant.

"Coward"? Honestly?? I'm not sure anyone in the UK begrudges Martin taking a break to spend time with his family. I'm aware that probably sounds like communism to some in the US, but it's entirely mainstream here.

Thin picking here so far...

Because Scottish Britons voted for unity? (Don't blame the rest of us: nobody cares what we think.)

And yet it's well known that Keith had a close relationship with former UK Prime Minister James Hacker.

And if someone in a position of power could just remind everyone - once in a while - just how much we've lost from the act of self-harm that is Brexit, that would be nice.

Honestly, what is the point of voting for a party that seems only interested in further impoverishing the poorest and weakest, both at home and abroad. In pursuit of what? A handful of misanthropic voters in the potteries?

That's a big stick.

Nice, if it happens. Can you just remind us: Just how much Comic Relief etc will have to raise to plug the gap in this latest frankly sub-Johnsonian move.

As if cutting aid to impoverished people is something neither of them is ashamed of.