Andy Morton

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Four arrested after Tower of London display case containing State Crown defaced The Jewel House at the Tower of London is closed after the incident, police say.

Thinks: Don't say it

Don't say it

Don't say it

"Were they taken into custardy?'

'And will they get their just desserts?"

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I hate to say it but from the perspective of other Western democracies the US Supreme Court is an unfunny joke. Politicised justice is no justice

A donation from a Thai citizen living in Thailand who runs a corrupto-currency business trading in the UK making a 'donation' to a UK political party. Move along. Nothing to see here

There's always a market for snake oil

Does a politician / president spring to mind?

Another nativity scene that packs a punch

Corrupto-currency

Settling up taxes. Or how to stop billionaires dining and dashing. - Tax Justice UK The UK should join countries like the US,  France, Germany and Japan and introduce a settling up tax— sometimes known as an exit tax.

This idea seems only fair to me
taxjustice.uk/blog/settlin...

In completely unrelated news, Nigel Farage has promoted deregulation of the Corrupto industry

The Good Old Days   Pity the poor children of today, with their calendars stuffed with chocolates,   never to know the thrill of opening a small cardboard door and discovering behind it   a picture of a bell. Brian Bilston

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

He is, of course right here. What he isn't getting is why people voted for the one and seem willing to vote for the other. The fact is that the economics that have underpinned policy for the last 45 years have failed the large majority of British people. Radical change is needed, not tinkering

This appears to be a declaration of war

"It's just banter" has been the cry of the bully down the ages

This is an obvious way to go but you don't need to create a new 'mansion tax'. Simply add additional bands to council tax.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Why the government is nothing like a household

Politicians constantly claim that the government must “live within its means”, just like any family.

In this video, I explain why the household analogy is not only wrong — it is the foundation of austerity.

youtu.be/Q03GKwMxmAo?...

I guess Agent Orange has been reminded of the kompromat

It really needs to be put out of its misery. Time was when it was a proper respectable, if a bit dull, newspaper. It’s been sad to see it decline. (Though not that sad)

But of course you had no option but to write that

YouTube video by VOCES8 VOCES8: Agnus Dei by Samuel Barber

Just beautiful
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LYn...

I'd love to boycott Starbucks. But because their coffeeis hellishly over-roasted I never go there anyway

I think I still have that somewhere

There's a word for someone who cheers on a foreign power attacking his own country's government and institutions

I'm a Christian and I don't believe in Hell either.

But right now, like you, I kind of wish I did. But I rather like Matthew 7:22

"I've met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not a decent cell in his body." (Child rapist and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein)

Let's all let that sink in, shall we?

It rather depends which taxes are raised, doesn't it? The manifesto pledge was to not raise income tax. An obvious alternative would be to raise Capital Gain Tax rates to those of Income Tax: effectively treating all forms of income equally

"Propagandist" is the polite way of saying "swivel-eyed nutcase"

This is the state of UK journalism. The Telegraph illustrates a report on a survey saying that people think life was better in 1975 with a picture of Margaret Thatcher rather than then-PM Harold Wilson