Aye, and her husband was one of those leading it, he even wrote an article about it in The Express. She's a pathological liar.

Nonce not Prince

Ooh, hang on

'Prince Andrew will remain a prince'.

As princes tend to do.

Can we just get rid of the lot now?

He's hardly the first wrong 'un. And still, what, eight in line for the throne?

In 1970, after having performed with the band since 1967, original bassist Moriaki Wakabayashi assisted in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351 orchestrated by the Communist League's "Red Army Faction."[10]

this is still one of my favorite facts i’ve ever learned about a band, just unreal stuff. the band is ‘Les Rallizes Dénudés’, really great stuff from them, highly recommend

'Other than bringing up past convictions'? Well, yeah, past convictions are taken into account at sentencing.

CNBC headline: "Elon Musk’s AI-powered Wikipedia competitor goes live after a rocky launch". I've struck through "AI-powered" in red, and replaced it with "Wikipedia-powered"

Grokipedia attribution text: "The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License."

fixed that for you

"Oh no she/he is/isn't"

It's terrible stuff! Thinned out brown sauce used in place of vinegar in Edinburgh and East Lothian.

On Fish and Chips!

Like, ok, on a battered haggis, yeah, maybe.

But on a fish? I've a mind to call the polis.

Nah, Man City did it last December for a start.

Yeah, but from behind.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/national-crime-agency-finds-no-evidence-of-crimes-committed-by-arron-bankss-brexit-campaign/ Responding to the NCA’s statement, an Electoral Commission spokesperson said: “We are concerned about the apparent weakness in the law, highlighted by this investigation outcome, which allows overseas funds into UK politics. We have made recommendations that would tighten the rules on campaign funding and deter breaches. We urge the UK’s governments to act on those recommendations to support voter confidence.” The NCA’s finding does not affect a previous Electoral Commission decision to fine Banks and Leave.EU for a number of breaches of electoral law, including overspending. It also does not affect a separate ruling by the Information Commissioner that Leave.EU and Banks’s insurance firm Eldon breached data protection laws, for which they were fined a total of £120,000 earlier this year. openDemocracy has previously reported that Arron Banks misled parliament about political work carried out by staff at his insurance company, and misled both parliament and the UK Information Commissioner about his contact with the controversial Trump-linked firm, Cambridge Analytica.

Arron Banks you dozy twunt. If you cared at all, you'd know how Banks lied and broke the law throughout, leading the Electoral Commission to state 'We are concerned about the apparent weakness in the law, highlighted by this investigation outcome, which allows overseas funds into UK politics.'

Indeed

Psychopaths and Duping Delight - Psychopaths in Life Duping delight is an expression many people interested in psychology will have heard of, but what exactly is it and how can we spot it?

psychopathsinlife.com/psychopaths-...

Is that Reagan who described UN officials as monkeys uncomfortable wearing shoes? Who defended apartheid in South Africa? Who targeted his war on drugs on black communities? Who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Reagan was a racist to the bone.

'The Fog'
(Dir. John Carpenter - 1980)

Einstein wrote an essay titled "Why Socialism?" for the first issue of the independent socialist magazine "Monthly Review." Published in May 1949, the piece included the following paragraph that said (sentences bolded for emphasis): Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. The bolded quotes in the paragraph above do amount to the same thing as the various paraphrases we found on social media — that it would be difficult for people to make informed, objective decisions because sources of information would be controlled by private capitalists. Crucially, however, Einstein was not writing about something that would happen in the future, but what was happening in 1949. That's a key detail the various paraphrases were wrong about.

True, what Einstein wrote in 1949 wasn't a prediction...

...under existing conditions, capitalists control the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is, in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to make intelligent use of his political rights.

Is there a reason this doesn't include the detail of the 'four-word social media post' she 'very mildly' posted?

Yeah, makes sense. Andy as regent (j/k).

Yeah, fair enough, bad source I used.

All would have had to happen before Betty went I suppose. But now, line through Charlie, yes. Makes sense.

So, George it is. Andrew would just be prince regent 😉

And he's still in line to be King if William dies before Charlie (assuming Harry doesn't change his mind).

As for the Duke of York, this late complaint
Will make but little for his benefit.

A story in the parts

A story in three parts

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Can't spell 'covert' without 'overt'.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Netanyahu

Well, it is an odd one tbf.

Indeed you are.

Remember when Hunter Biden wasn't qualified to be a board member?

Fuck.......and I simply cannot stress this enough.......THAT.