Michael Kilpatrick

If Trump actually goes ahead and recognises the Russian annexation of Crimea and the Donbass, the USA needs to be expelled from NATO immediately. #NAFO #Ukraine

Zelensky's chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigns after anti-corruption raid Yermak, 54, has been Zelensky's closest adviser throughout Russia's full-scale war.

The fact that Ukraine is on the edge of a precipice yet has two anti-corruption agencies going at it hammer-and-tongs is why we should double our support. #NAFO

BBC News - Zelensky's chief of staff resigns after Ukrainian anti-corruption raid on his home
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Additional work in a shredder.

Seriously, who can say such a monstrous act of appeasement is a good starting point for anything other than humiliating capitulation?

Classic British Understatement

To be fair to Chamberlain, he wasn't appeasing from a position of total strength, and the survival of the UK and all Europe was at least helped by buying time for the UK to rearm. Trump, on the other hand...

A peace deal
A peace meal
A peace meat
A pease meat
Appease meat
Appeasement

Ed, are you stating categorically that, given Zelensky's previous rejection of territorial loss, there are no current circumstances in which Europe can accept ANY territorial gains by Russia, which is including Crimea? I seriously hope so.

It just required 4 extra voters.

UK expected to approve plans for Chinese mega embassy A final decision has not yet been formally taken but the controversial project is expected to be given the go-ahead.

Just what is it about China being our actual enemy that people don't understand?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I hope you've got more sense than to watch that tedious programme that follows QT. Yacking dullards.

I've gone off you now, old chap.

It looks as if you've got the whisky out.

#bbcqt Boy turns up straight from a cricket pitch to say Farage should be in charge, but not actually saying how he sees Farage as not being establishment.

#bbcqt Flipping heck, this mad woman thinks that investing in technology related to Net Zero is bad and that this, and not the stupid mechanism that ties energy costs to the price of gas-powered generation etc, is responsible for high domestic energy costs.

Luckily, you're in your living room, not round that table...

It helps to stare into a glass of whisky while watching it, old chap.

His only saving grace is having a boring, sensible suit. As much as I love Josh.. that green? And Mr Kinnock's suit is strobing on the TV.

#bbcqt To paraphrase the Tory MP:

"Some people wanted to lock down sooner. Other people didn't care how many people died."

Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.

I think you'll find that it's hate and victim-blaming that are tearing the UK apart, you silly cow, not immigrants of any sort.

BBC News - Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Next, mayors, hopefully.

Bonkers.

A bit too far from South Cambs.

I /think/ there is still one in Cambridge that has been there for decades, but these things gradually vanish.

Gosh, you can actually find cobblers who do that sort of thing?

The TVs in the American hotels I've been to seem to get stuck on the adverts.

I hope you weren't too shaken by it. People react differently to abuse which is just words and without anything physically threatening, but it's still horrible.

Saying "BICOH and taking all our abuse" might not be funny on this occasion. Hmm. I'm sorry to hear that happened, Giada. I hope this American couple getting extradited for the assault and use of a prohibited firearm (pepper spray).

Precisely. It's rather a moot point whether Panorama edit was ridiculous.

What would be the best mechanism, looking into the future, for the selection of the BBC Board? We have to have that suggestion in place in order to give real meaning to the call to remove biased people such as Gibb.

Quite right. We have to remember there's another mother who won't see her son, and it's highly likely that neither he nor she wanted or chose this path. Only Putin did. It's a shame he couldn't/wouldn't surrender so his mother would see him again one day.

Unfortunately, repair cafes don't generally extend to welding, and my vintage baritone saxophone stand has a stress fracture at the bend in the peg. I need to find someone to give this a zap with a welder!