Definitely Over Thirty

Are you thinking about vitamin-A overdose, or copper overload? (Also, how much meat do the people around you eat daily?)

There's nothing wrong with a nice bit of liver, and the French do a surprisingly good tripe gallette (specifically, gallette d'andouille) although I draw the line at lung.

The avoidant turning-away of the senator's gaze was enough to give me pause all on its own: I'm unsure that he's all there. The way that the young man rolled him into the lift, though - his body-language - made it seem as though he didn't think of his charge as someone who'd have anything to say.

Why would he wants to regenerate Clacton when it serves his purposes to have the people there poor and angry? Happy, safe, prosperous people don't fear foreigners.

"Deny, deflect, dismiss" - it seems that he hasn't evolved much over the years, except in his refined ability to create a distraction from his own failings. Don't devote overmuch attention to antics like this, and you'll soon see him impeached and held to account for what he did to those poor girls.

I grew up with that continual threat. In the end, one becomes strangely numb to such fear.

If Russia starts a nuclear war, then the last action of France and Britain will be to scorch them off the map as a favour to the rest of the world. But that's Russia's choice to make.

Or perhaps he was there to burn the evidence, like the incinerator that was supposedly installed at the Zorro Ranch?

And have there been any consequences for the officers who trumped up charges against innocent people?

Companion pieces, you say? I wasn't aware of them - thanks for the pointer. The context might shift the way I see the film.

Or, like in the ending of Inception, the audience is left to consider both ideas. (To an extent, it's also like Besson's later The Big Blue: Resolving the outcome of its events isn't the important part.)

Edward's the other brother. I don't think that he's gotten himself into trouble like the Party Prince.

are starting to be revealed now.

TL;DR: Andrew is probably just a patsy who got played by a monster. If he turns out to be worse, then he gets punished according to the law. No exceptions, I hope.

spy agencies don't have encyclopedic knowledge of everybody. Rumours circulating in the last couple of days indicate that the misconduct in public office charge might derive from passing secret documents to Epstein, which is a small mercy if true. Better that than some of the grotesque horrors that

at the time nobody was aware of just how awful Epstein really was - and while sex with a 17 year old is illegal in Florida, the age of consent in the UK is 16. Whether MI6 actually investigated Epstein is one of those questions that we can only speculate about - he was probably on their radar, but

Cherub, shouting isn't going to do a thing. (If it makes you feel better, then go ahead.)

As for the facts of the matter, Elizabeth II paid damages to Ms. Giuffre and stripped Andrew of his privileges. More of a slap on the wrist for the favourite son instead of proper punishment, it's true, but

Especially if Andrew is willing to talk.

How is showing that the law applies to everyone in the UK "failing at his job"?

That's really not what the UK expected back in 1986 when "Dead Head" was airing on the BBC... It's odd to think that the country with an established royal family is the one allowing justice to take its course, whereas in the USA the opposite seems to be happening.

The first thing that came to mind was, "So that would be like Twitter?" More seriously, though, it seems that they are setting up a new Voice Of America with truly dark overtones. I hope that it can be blocked from the European side, because we can do without the plague of racism spreading further.

It would be very, very interesting to see Donald Trump's autopsy when he finally keels over: I suspect that some of the people who are signing off on his fitness to be president are very much afraid of the state of his brain being revealed. Can one be accused of treason for such false certification?

Many artists don't see appreciation for their work in their own lifetimes. But the ones who choose to do their thing anyway lay the seeds for future joy... Just so long as they don't, like Franz Kafka, tell their friends to burn their works after their death. (I'm glad Kafka's friend disobeyed.)

One has to admit that their coming up with the Kobayashi Maru test is at least evidence of thinking - or reasonably good taste in SF.

Oh, I absolutely agree - but I think that people who believe in eugenics won't. I'm trying to make them think enough to wake up from the sentimental dreams that Farage and his ilk peddle.

political group fails even by the low standards of Nazi logic and the disgraced pseudo-science of eugenics, it's a shame that they will neither wake up to reality nor be claimed quickly by their own inherited weakness.

I must admit to a certain cynical amusement when the likes of Reform PLC decide that women must only be passive vessels for their seed: There's an implicit admission that no strong woman would want them, and - as their studies of eugenics must surely show - weak people breed weak children. When a

May I suggest Git version control, especially if you're working with simple text files? Programmers use it to save their work and maintain a history of changes over time.

Buying raid passes? My goodness, the makers of that game (whatever it is) really are gouging you for money.

Probably the Vogons.

Blair ordered the creation of the "dodgy dossier" whose lies about WMDs enabled the Second Iraq War, and so he has a lot of blood on his hands. Joining up with a wannabe dictator seems in character for him.

It's a lawless action, and I think that there may be harsh consequences to follow. Not for this tanker, because those threatened by Russia will rejoice in its loss, but at some point the USA will run out of friends willing to host its navy and missile detection radars.