If I were a drug kingpin, collapse in international intelligence sharing is the sort of thing I'd support. Plus you can always get rid of rivals cleanly by leaking their location to the US government.

What if your personal Optimus stops you doing insider trading

Why is Robbie Gibb on the BBC Board? It's like putting Herman Goering in charge of RAF Fighter Command

Sure, but then what EU company would want to invest in business ties with the UK when they could get rug-pulled by a Reform government triggering the guillotines?

Their salary and perks will convince them otherwise. There's a reason these mediocrities keep quiet, they'd never thrive in an organisation that promotes talent and independence.

Hence why Trump's interest. Any competing source of dissent - or reality - has to be bought off or sued out of existence.

As opposed to Rachel Reeves, who intends to tax it

British Labour Party: hold my pint

Laura Kuenssberg. Fanbase will lose their minds and hope it gets explained in the Christmas special.

Question is whether it's a 2000 bubble or 2008 bubble

This is what happens when you have a secret police making arrests based on quotas, like the NKVD under Stalin.

The US Democrats are the equivalent of the Russian Communist Party. Not because they are in any way communist, but because they provide a useful fig-leaf of democratic legitimacy to the regime, as the RCP does for Putin.

TDD maybe?

If it's a Thursday the air supply drop will be cans of pea soup

Probably going to have more tweedy inbreds than a fox hunt

Makes me think of the Bond villain Hugo Drax, but he was an environmentalist

I remember reading Shirley Temple was US ambassador to Czechoslovakia, which sounded weird because in my mind she was still 6 years old like in the old movies, like a little kid negotiating with Vaclav Havel

A shithole police state, doesn't deserve to be considered a peer democracy

US is really selling itself as a tourist mecca. Choose between its favourite theme parks, Airport Departure Lounge World or ICE Detention Center World

On the plus side their readership are dying like flies

Hard to say whether due to pandering to their increasingly unhinged ownership or their increasingly insane readership or both

My mum reports that Esztergom was lovely

*Does not apply when in charge of a moving vehicle or attempting surgery

Not surprising that the number 1 site for human slop becomes the number 1 site for AI slop

What if Dan Dare, but the Treens win

Can we retire "low information" and just call them stupid?

Proper directors should wear a ball gown

Welsh futurism certainly

Even the most authoritarian dictators wouldn't be stupid enough to starve their most loyal followers and leave their bureaucrats and soldiers go without pay.