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Do you actually believe that she'll be the person writing the bill herself?!!

Yep, and now the custard pie has landed, only straight in his own face. I don't think he realises that the French don't kid around when it comes to stuff like this. FAFO indeed.

No. Apparently not.

His crimes against fashion and taste are also pretty heinous.

It seems another Trump crony has totally misunderstood his status and position as ambassador. These clowns have no idea what they're doing and are too arrogant to even find out.

And? She's a politician, not a specialist in this field. Leave technical definitions to those who understand the topic in depth, not some politician who's being questions on talk radio.

"Every care must be taken that our auxiliaries, being stronger than our citizens, may not grow too much for them and become savage beasts"... in this case, it seems convenience comes first.

New converts are always the most zealous.

It isn't a proper job, says a man who is "joint production editor for Guardian Opinion and Long Reads", editing other peoples' opinions and longer articles but doesn't even do it all himself. Not even a real journalist then? Spare us your click-bait opinion.

It served them well from a cashing in point of view though.

Fighting-age man flees country of origin, seeks refuge A man of fighting age has run away from his country rather than staying to fight for himself and his family.

NEWS! Fighting-age man flees country of origin, seeks refuge newsthump.com/2026/02/16/f...

Agreed but that's not the point. You said it yourself - having the one section of society with power over the rest hasn't worked before and won't work in the future. The inequality and culture needs changing fundamentally. Changing ends in a game with flawed rules won't make the match fair.

"Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat dismissed calls for a total technological sovereignty in Europe... The French IT services group... is positioning itself as a bridge between Brussels' sovereignty ambitions and the reality of U.S.-dominated cloud infrastructure".
In related news, water is found to be wet.

2/2. The candidate system is screwed up but the answer is to fix it not ban people from standing. "Only the working class ought to rule their lives" makes no more sense than "people from privileged backgrounds ought to rule on their lives".

1/2 Schools must not let bias interfere but who will explain what communism is then? Or Fascism? Or any other political position that is not represented by the current parties? Politicians are skilled lairs. Do you think your average uninformed school student will be able to challenge meaningfully?

Re your 1st bullet point, zero time for political lessons from any party. Teach people to understand the whole spectrum of political views and let them work out where each party lies. 2nd and 3rd points, no. Any/all citizens must be able to stand. Last point equal state cash, zero private cash.

That's a lot of words to say "well, I don't mind the rain". Hooray for you. I'm thrilled. Easy to say that when you don't work outdoors and your house/workplace isn't being flooded though I suppose.
Total waste of column inches.

They're not and their explanation is clear about their position. That said, it doesn't make sense to me - it's pictures of his former Ukrainian teammates on a helmet, not a team strip saying "death to invaders" in huge letters or something. Subtle, tasteful, respectful and apolitical.

‘Immigrants cost UK too much money’ says migrant who moved to tax-free Monaco Sir Jim Ratcliffe has accused immigrants of costing the UK too much money, despite saving himself billions in tax by moving to Monaco.

NEWS! ‘Immigrants cost UK too much money’ says migrant who moved to tax-free Monaco newsthump.com/2026/02/12/i...

In just 7 days, so I'm told, but only if you enlist the help of Mr Furter.

They're just targeting the obvious people currently (hence racism) but you can rest assured that if the UK were totally whites-only, they would soon find another target - the poor, the homeless, the unemployed etc. Some unperson or other. "It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."

... or is misguided. I don't think anyone's paid that many people just to lie. Most people I suspect simply assume it to be the case (but don't know how it would).

As the droning, dull song goes "the drugs don't work, they just make you worse" Musk.
Get off X and get yourself some help man, for heaven's sake.

When do we start with those big wins I heard about?

When do we hear about pressing charges, trial dates etc?

Agreed 100%. The hypocrisy and opportunistic nature of it stinks though. ☹️

Lastly, Mandelson has been fired from his ambassador role and now resigned from the Lords, so has no role at all in government.

Secondly, Mandelson was an ambassador so not in the cabinet. They are high ranking civil servants and thus politically neutral. I appreciate your passion here but let's not get angry. I'm not being condescending.

It doesn't mean that in the UK it doesn't - to bottle it is to chicken out of something. Whatever. Doesn't matter.