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That's the problem isn't it. When a governement proposes something the Nazis did - even if it's not the worst thing the Nazis did - the optics are terrible. Obviously nobody was prosecuted at Nuremburg for jewellery theft, but like using language that echos Enoch Powell, why risk those comparrisons?

BBC News headlines are getting blunter since the Trump thing ...

He's still around and playing.

I've never heard anyone else mention this album, but it's really good. She Wants So Many Things is one of the best Dylan songs that isn't by Dylan.

He's 8th in line - and The King and William never fly on the same plane just in case. I think they've decided it's not worth creating new laws to change the succession when Andrew has no chance of becoming King unless there is the world's most unlikely sequence of 7 freak accidents.

How could the Royal family possibly have predicted this 30+ years ago when his nicknames were Randy Andy and the Playboy Prince?

Ann Summers are missing a trick if they don't start marketing sex toys as 'vagina-compatible bullets'.

Oh wow. We haven't changed a bit!

Yes, random reference, but I couldn't think of anything more famous that happened in 1946. One year earlier and it would have been easy.

Bloody hell. So that was closer to the start of the Nuremberg trials than to today.

The positive is Reform were favourites to win, but there was a bigger turnout than the GE because of the tactical vote against them. It would be a lot easier to have a nationwide tactical vote agaist Reform if Labour gave progressives something they could vote for, though.
24 October 2025 at 09:30

@stevehyett.bsky.social Were you aware of this 'fact' about Klingons? Really? How exactly was this information revealed in an episode of Star Trek?

He continues to claim he has done nothing wrong. Whether he genuinely believes it may be a different matter.

Nowadays you'd have to pay £30 for Nigel Farage to do it on Cameo.

... while Elon Musk is playing it.

I think we all decided that fewer people would have heard of Queen Luisa de Guzman of Portugal. Happy 412th to her, though.

Happy 488th birthday to Lady Jane Grey, though. That's a lot of candles to blow out, even if your head hasn't been chopped off.

Excellent trolling. 5 stars.

I see Louis CK is doing a two-hander with Jimmy Carr in Riyadh. Makes a change from his usual one-handers.

Glad to hear that she got back from Riyadh safely.

As someone who has been very unimpressed with him, I thought it was a good speech. Better than I expected him to be on standing up for immigrants and against racism. Makes me more likley to give him the benefit of the doubt for now. And he did 'toolmaker' for the fans.

I didn't even buy a ticket and I still ended up 10p better off than you. #cisprivilege

Oh bloody hell, they are calling it a Brit Card!

Me too. It seems like one of those things they only have in America like grits, corndogs and Christian fundamentalism.

How are you going to convince shop assistants that you are over 18 then?

It's all very vague, but it seems like something that, say, an employer would access online, rather than something you have to show on your own phone.

Oh I don't know ... there are lots of celebrity autobiographies that were not actually written by the subject.

I'm sure he could make it today. He did write his own autobiography, which I read a very long time ago.

Did you ever see Les Dawson live? I saw his summer season show in Blackpool maybe 45 years ago and remember him being good. One of the few of that ilk who wrote much of his own material.

Exactly this. If he was arrested by police who had guns on their belts just because they work in an airport, it's a non story. If they pointed guns AT him, it was probably excessive. I strongly suspect it was the former but the papers want us to assume it was the latter.

The lighter haired actor who is always at the back while the other two swap top billing has got to be pissed off, though. He'll be out there now, campaigning for the return of TV Quick.

The Welsh for 'danger' is 'peril' said in the voice of Gollum.