Patrick, traversed by lizards

I too enjoy getting cross at things that haven't been heard of since the 1970s.

Labour MPs Challenge Shabana Mahmood’s Immigration Plans Labour MPs urge Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to soften Danish-style immigration reforms, calling her tough policies “hardcore” and “far-right.”

Den bekymring kan dog gå i begge retninger! parliamentnews.co.uk/labour-mps-u...

The 'Web' tab and this once-and-for-all fix still work, too, although for how much longer is anyone's guess: tenbluelinks.org

'All the key provisions on sovereignty...have been...removed [from the Constitution]. Even the ref to Tatarstan's non-participation in armed conflicts is gone. Still...it remains a symbol of the Tatar people's striving for state sovereignty' -Constitution Day msg by deputy PM in exile Marat Akhmerov

Yes it was, except that for completeness he should have included the unknown knowns such as, erm, xenolalia.

Two people's ideas.

I've put myself off my dinner now.

Just me, or is it hard to find the sex appeal in someone conjecturally unable to wipe their arse without injury?

That's not Russian. It's just a lot of squiggles.

No, it's just gibberish.

Exiled Russian oligarch: Putin has sent signal to Trump that he's ready for Ukraine deal Mikhail Khodorkovsky thinks a deal could be struck between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump over Ukraine, but it might involve ceding the Donbas region to Russia.

That Sky interview with Khodorkovsky isn't going to dispel the accusation that the Russian opposition wants to reform the empire, not to dismantle it. news.sky.com/story/putin-...

God's Own Country Diary innit.

And Will.i. am must become Will.i.was.

Actual robot wars. Presumably the Ukrainians (and NATO??) are far ahead of the Russians, despite the boasting.

Unsure whether I love this thread despite, or because of, having no clue what it means.

Don't be too hard on him. It's an easy mistake to make when you're listening from a saloon bar in Swindon.

Was looking forward to reading about people sent to give seminars there, but no.

Imagine if it'd been three shredded wheat, though. Different story.

Asetek delivers waste heat to the Aalborg district heating network - Asetek

Depending on where you live, it may even heat your front room on the way. www.asetek.com/press-releas...

Thanks! Well worth a read - and the Riddle site is new to me, so I'll be keeping an eye on that.

This is the thought that should end all those 'films misrepresent my job' threads before they start, but it never does.

Or just merge the languages - blend Portuguese into Spanish, Danish into Norwegian - who'd notice?

Lucy Mangan: 'The greatest mystery in any French mystery drama is how the characters look so much better than any English person has ever looked.'

1. No it isn't, and
2. No they don't.

In March, D. Medvedev said 'Russomania (Russophobia)' could be treated with 'nuclear neuroleptics such as [Russian missles] Yars and Sarmat'. In June, he was unrepentant about 'whipping up nuclear hysteria'. Nobody cared. I wonder why Trump is getting het up about the alcoholic Underground Man now?

Just read that Stalin insisted on adding 'In the USSR' to the title of the official History of the Civil War. You'd think he'd have known it was the RSFSR then, not the USSR.

Hats off to the Archbishop of Wales, not too proud to carry on delivering groceries for Ocado.

I thought that was a convex mirror borrowed from the Arnolfini wotsit.

As I undertand it, if you don't get your age verified, you won't receive any DMs and you won't see any pr0n. Those seem like incentives not to do it.

If French entries are allowed, how about Boris Vian/Vernon Sullivan? And Romain Gary, who got 2 Concourts under different names and whose manoeuvres included having a manuscript posted back from Brazil to France, and renting a house in Copenhagen for a relative to give interviews in as 'Émile Ajar'.

Thank you. I'd heard of one or two other tricks, such as adding "-ai", but this is better.