Hugh Edwards

It's bloody boring.

It's rubbish. Is that what passes for entertainment nowadays?

My vape ran out about 2 months ago and, due to a broken leg, I was unable to buy a new one. I've been sucking on an empty one since. Just as satisfying and it's even given me a great smoker's cough!

He'll insist on changing it's name to the River of America.

I thought that after the first chapter.

Shouldn't it be you, as you're the one announcing it?

There are still plenty of foreign firms operating successfully in Russia. I guess you have to have the right connections (or roof as it's called)

Do you expect the reader to be able to correctly pronounce names as a native would? If so, I advise you to avoid Russian authors.

It changed for this year.

I see they ran out of Ms

And?

Isn't it a (long standing) legacy of closing them to prevent the risk of bombs being hidden in them during The Troubles?

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Is there no escape?

Sir Edmund Du Cane has entered the chat.

You're joking. Came here to get away from them.

If I understand correctly what is written, the author suggests that contrails from 3% of flights have a greater global warming effect than that which results from all flights burning fossil fuels. Is that a deliberate misdirection?

Surely it doesn't need a pandemic. Low vaccination rates will be enough to cause catastrophe.

Government should keep the Telegraph occupied by making small but increasingly radical changes to Downing Street's art every week.

So by 2029 there's a 20 foot Robert Mapplethorpe in the cabinet room.

The modern role of journalists is to create, or at least comment on rumours of mayhem in government. Competent administrations don't create headlines. There's very little objective evidence of how well Labour are governing.

I was married to one.

Because, I'm sorry to say this, Jews see themselves as a race apart. Catholics, Buddhists, etc. are not defined by their religion and, therefore, can be viewed as individuals. Jews seem to want to be defined by their faith and that carries with it certain misconceptions.

It will have zero impact. It could, actually, increase his support amongst young men. He's not stupid.

Mine doesn't include either. iPaper at £20 a year makes sense

I can think of lots of reasons to stop reading the Guardian but hadn't included that one.

Which icon? The Madonna of Salford?

I'm not sure Isaacson's hagiography is truly objective. I gave up reading the hero worship after the third chapter.

You have much more experience than I but I think it is never a good idea to conduct negotiations in public. Even expressing the challenges out loud puts the UK on the back foot.

Bingo!