Chris Terry-Enescu

Bulgaria president denies drone pics of PM Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has accused President Rumen Radev of using a drone to take photos of...

Important for being able to photograph your PM.

6 years ago the long time PM, Boyko Borisov, was photographed by drone asleep on vacation with a gun and a wad of euros visible on his bedside table. Boyko claims Radev doctored the photos lol.

www.9news.com.au/world/bulgar...

That sounds like Bulgarians alright

Radev is pretty pro Russian so I don't greet the possibility of Bulgaria's recent political instability ending with him becoming PM with a huge amount of joy

Look, if I want to depress myself every week then I will simply check what election results have happened to social democratic parties around Europe.

Do yer remember when Henry used to support Chelsea, what were that all about

Yes, I enjoy lurking on the Ireland Simpsons Fans FB group and Liverpool pops up a lot, unsurprisingly

I suspect it's also because BANES and North Somerset were part of Avon until 1996.

Dan, what have we agreed about saying bad sounding things about the near future where Ruth can see.

Keep the flights cancelled

Which gels with North Yorkshire having the highest identity of its own.

One part of it may be, in fairness, that the official name of the region is 'Yorkshire and the Humber' it might be that you'd get a better result for just 'Yorkshire' but equally, from what I understand there's a lot of people in North Yorkshire who distrust the more urban parts

Yeah the Cornish have hilariously strict definitions of what counts as Cornish.

Yeah I keep thinking about the Corbyn era lines about how he had 'seen off' two Prime Ministers even while his polling was in the tank.

The new one is funny in a way because I'd assumed that the prior two were because the East Midlands was a bit of a mishmash and people might be identifying with county more.

Yeah I suspect the ceremonial and political counties are probably a bit fungible in terms of people's mental map of the world in that part of the UK (unlike say GM vs. Lancashire)

As I got legally married in a registry office in Dorchester my legal wedding photos feature a little Dorset flag

Tbf he changed his definitions as time went on 😂, but yeah as a kid I was basically taught that Dorset and Wessex were coterminous and was really shocked when I went to Winchester and saw them declaring themselves the capital

They have quite a big university to be fair.

Dorset is the only bit of Wessex (Thomas Hardy definition) which is the only bit we recognise.

Yeah, see Will, they're taking our identity away from us

If he did I also doubt he would admit to it too. Cummings is many things, an honest documenter of his own role in things who doesn't care if the very online right love him or not is not amongst them

If so it's the greatest piece of #impact by the social sciences ever. But, to be frank, given Cummings general antipathy towards the social sciences and love of doing his own research I suspect he built his own evidence base and misinterpreted it all on his own.

They're already trying Bun, they've already taken Poole.

What is more Yorkshire than moving to Manchester?

As a Westcountry man fundamentally unsurprised to see Cornwall, Devon and Dorset doing so well. I have no doubt that Dorsets numbers are being dragged down by those Bournemouth entryists who should go back to Hampshire where they belong.

And it's also why I doubt overall numbers coming down will improve the government's position

Yeah and IIRC if you look at what the public thinks about migration they often think the majority is irregular, so even though small boats is and was a small proportion I struggle to imagine that that stuff wasn't driving a lot of the irritation.

I think one thing about this poll is given the salience around migration rose around the time small boats became a big issue there's an argument it was the 'control' point that broke down. Similar is true of people's perceptions of the hotel stuff, I think.

You just get a different level of service outside the West

As someone who regular flies to Eastern Europe, critical support to the Revolutionary Guards as they try to defeat Wizz Air.