Dave Clark

I wouldn't rule out Sunderland for Europe. Which hurts to say

He's managing affaires courantes, though?

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

The UK is jailing former MEPs who took bribes. Feel like that's something the EU should try

www.bbc.com/news/live/c8...

Yeah, we should, but we seem to still be working through all the false alternatives

It's the same fight and pretending our institutions or protections are any stronger than theirs were isn't helpful either

I fear we're more likely to "reform" ours to match theirs

Thanks to Brexit the nimble UK can get ahead of the game and our centre left can pivot far right while Brussels is still going through the centre right to far right stage

Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week

They can only be called veggieburgers if they're made in the Veggieburg municipality in Ruritania
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

And it's not a domain where a mistake is easily rectified

What says @ktnf.bsky.social ?

They should specify the breed of pig. Some are quite small and some, as I'm sure @themerl.bsky.social can confirm, are absolute units

How long until Trump orders Pam Bondi to appoint special counsel to investigate why the very biased fake news media wasn't banging ALL the 2020 candidates?

She's out there pounding the Appalachian Trail looking for stories and her co-author's tinkering with the fountains at his Georgetown house and going through her stuff -- and then he's the one complaining to their agent the book is going to be late?

a stuffed monkey is wearing a green shirt and overalls . ALT: a stuffed monkey is wearing a green shirt and overalls .

French outfits reading about US and UK rules for reporters' romances

Not sure we'll enjoy the broader economic consequences but there'd be some fun in watching algorithmic trading bots dumping shares in AI firms

All this reminds me of the time when I was still a Washington reporter, tinkering with the fountains outside my three-storey Georgetown house, pruning my bamboo

And if you open the Guardian front page the other version is the lead news story

I want to know how she likes her Marmite on toast and porridge before I form a view on anything else

And we watched TV

When I was in Washington (DC, not the real one) the lycée that had traditionally been French kids whose expat parents went home was kids of Francophile Yanks and Latin American and African diplomats and that more and more French kids were in US public schools polishing their English to stay on

I'm sure the conkers and Mars bars were bigger, but I did have small hands

Christmas Ale?

I was just lamenting that I walked home after dark in November and got sweaty. Now you're telling me there's no beer?

I say expose yourself to the space storm

Patroclus wasn't a princess.
And that's the cover of The Odyssey

Usually prefer BSky before the Americans are out of bed, but when there's a BBC in crisis story and a former French president legal drama I can't wait until the Yanks wake up and start arguing about why their opposition party is to blame for everything

Does it connect to your fax machine?

His publishers are going to have to use big type in the prison memoir

That'll be the G19 then?