Rob Jacques

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.

If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

Beware The Early Gloat

FT Crossword: Number 18,312

I set the cryptic crossword in this weekend's edition of The @financialtimes.com.
Solve the puzzle on the swazzy FT app or print the pdf here:
www.ft.com/content/481d...

Ma Baker
she taught her both sons
(ma ma ma ma)
Ma Baker
to handle their guns

Nonpareil.

That's AXEL SPRINGER (A=ace +rev of Lex (FT column) + [Jerry] Springer)

Ace FT column backing Jerry buyers of The Telegraph (4,8)

“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”

“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”

"Did you not hear me? Get yourselves over to Tehran and make the country proud"

such a duckhead

Rubbish team playing at Portsmouth then? (9,7)

The sledgehammer will be out at half time right enough

Igor looking a bit Peter Gabriel there
#TOTCRY

Masculine Klan luminary we made Homeland Sec (9,6)

Don't use the Klaus Barbie sobriquet.
It isn't big and it isn't funny.

Derek needs to retune to Medium Wave

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Amoeba is back in the Independent today, with clues including:

Washington police finally arresting target involved in scandal (9)

Solve for free here: puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

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Sample clue from my puzzle on the back page of today's Telegraph:
Beery yobbo Elgar sozzled, left unconscious (5,4)
Disclaimer:
Any relevance or resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental

Might need to uncork another bottle of Solidarity Rioja

The Oval Office looks like the display window of a darts trophy shop I once saw in Withernsea

"listen Freddie, nominate me for the Nobel and I'll buy you something pretty"

well, the lad's name is a tl;dr portmanteau of Mercedes-Benz...

I mean, just imagine dear old Denys Thatcher rocking up at the UN in his golf togs sucking on a Senior Service and sipping at a nice Glenlivet while chairing a sesh at the UN

This lady's sad to be leaving Dubai but is very much looking forward to hosting duties at Mansfield v Arsenal in the FA Cup 5th round

a dream built on sand

Trump's rambling, disrespectful babbling about his ballroom drapes during a supposedly solemn ceremony marking the loss of US military personnel should mean curtains for his presidency

PSA: Matt Goodwin simply won't stop whining and moaning - he's such a *loser*
Bobby Jenrick has lost a fair bit of timber after snarfing all that Ozempic - his trousers are a bit *looser*.
Thank you for coming to my frustraTED Talk.

Starts to doubt undermining Britain after Isabel Oakeshott stuck here (5)

Don Draper