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Which was unusual - not just because of Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” or National Front marches, but because talk of “sambos” and “Pakis” was common and “Mind Your Language” was v popular on tv (remember that, with its national stereotypes?).

The evil folly of going back there. Tower of Babel 🙄

We were known for being “Radical”. As an adolescent I hated it - when you’re young you want to conform, to not stand out.

And now I am forever grateful for what by parents were and what they believed.

My mother used to say “leave the World a little better than how you found it”.

Still trying.

I grew up in the 1970s. We weren’t allowed to watch Black & White Minstrels, Bernard Manning or ITV.
My father - senior partner in an accounting practice - had an articled clerk from Pakistan a decade earlier (who went on to be wildly successful in Lahore).

But we were outliers in a small place.

The owner of Reform UK ltd - Farage, has accepted £9m from Thailand resident Harborne.

Dubai Dick Tice in 2018 on George Soros donating to UK organisations:

"He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?"

Vote Refuk - get crypto mafia

I got lucky.

Had a house here since 2000 and the lawyer said “Guy, we Greeks do not believe in Brexit” - if you owned a property here you can get a residence permit. Best thing I ever bought.

I don’t eat meat, eat only fresh food and fish. Nothing processed, no sugary things and my weekly shop is around €50-70.

Petrol is expensive (€1.75 a litre), but it’s rare to drive as much as 20km in a day.

Heating and electricity expensive but lots of solar.

Crete is very good value.

With luck, the media are turning too. Sky reporting more antisemitic behaviour today.

Nigel Farage sang antisemitic songs to Jewish classmates, former Dulwich pupil claims Two former Dulwich pupils have spoken to Sky News about their time at the school with Nigel Farage.

news.sky.com/story/nigel-...

It doesn’t take much digging to show what an unpleasant person Farage is.

Hoping that more scrutiny comes from the media. This lamentable man should never lead the U.K.

TBF, houses in Nairobi suburbs all have very big gardens and security fences. Still, kudos to her for saying.

On a plane from Entebbe to Nairobi, started chatting to the woman next to me. After about 5 minutes she said “you don’t know who I am, do you”.

I didn’t.

It was my next door neighbour.

A tinpot dictator gives another tinpot dictator a tin pot.

The Global Story - The Fifa-Trump bromance - BBC Sounds Fifa’s new ‘Peace Prize’ raises questions about politics in the world’s biggest sport

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What a depressing story this is.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

So tomorrow we find out which city the World’s football fans will be snatched by ICE, put in orange jumpsuits and deported to El Salvador next summer.

#WorldCup

Congratulations to Donald Trump on winning the 2026 World Cup. Surely the greatest football player the world has ever seen.

YouTube video by Scottish Gas Scottish Cup 😆🎱 Rod Stewart's Iconic Cup Draw! #shorts #comedy

www.youtube.com/shorts/sR040...

Let’s be honest, we all wish Rod Stewart was doing the World Cup draw.

Keep 'em coming...

Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize Inaugural prize expected to be handed to Donald Trump but ‘process’ for choosing future winners to be proposed by controversial tycoon’s committee It was the timing that set off the first alarm bells. With Donald Trump brooding over missing out on the Nobel peace prize, and shortly before Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body, Fifa, was due to meet the US president in Miami, an announcement was made. In a press release and a post on his personal Instagram account last month, Infantino said Fifa would launch its very own peace prize, to be awarded each year to “individuals who help unite people in peace through unwavering commitment and special actions”. Continue reading...

Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize

Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy Allies may panic; despots will cheer

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Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy
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In the U.K. it was called “the speaking clock”.

🎶Another one bites the dust. Another one’s gone and another one’s gone 🎶

OK I have read the intro and it's bananas. Start as we mean to go on, I guess.

Now to read the whole thing!

www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

This World Cup and the last two: Russia, Qatar, United States. The next one? Saudi Arabia.

Football long ago sold its soul to the World’s dictators.

Daily mail headline: “Kristi Noem’s ICE hiring chaos laid bare as fat, illiterate and violent misfits ‘not ready to tie their own laces’ are recruited“

Headline du jour

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Family of Novichok poisoning victim 'still has questions', as report finds Putin 'morally responsible' An inquiry into Ms Sturgess' death in 2018 came after an attempt to poison an ex-Russian double agent living in Salisbury.

Putin murdered Dawn Sturgess.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

The whole World seems awash with war crimes.

Wish father thought etc

Yes. And Canada isn’t as big a market.

Crypto is the Tulip Mania of the 17th Century or the South Sea Bubble of the 18th Century all over again.

So much human experience is the triumph of hope over expectations.