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I see the PM is in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast today, presumably rearranging deckchairs, as a record 76th Conservative MP announces he is standing down.

It's not just Brexit. Pretty much every company that did mail order in Canada or USA would ship to the other. Now that's no longer true, either way. There was an expanding business in small towns on either side of the border doing accommodation addresses and parcel holding, but in the last 9 months ...

I used to joke that my main skill is shooting down Russian aircraft, which isn't much use any more.
Almost everyone now replies with something on the lines of "That may come in handy again soon!"

Same in Canada.
What happened to make rail the most expensive form of passenger transport?
It's cheaper to drive across Canada and pay the stupidly high accommodation and fuel prices than take the train these days.
It's happened in the last 10 years.

The Russian ruble appreciated past the 90.5 per USD mark in May, its strongest in over three months, amid continued support from capital controls, foreign currency sales under the budget program, and a hawkish Bank of Russia. Moscow is set to sell RUB 6.3 billion worth of foreign exchange per day i...

I think the success of ATACMS will be worrying putin mightily, especially against S400. Unlike the delays with other systems, I think the US Army had good grounds for delaying ATACMS transfer, as they had very limited stocks and needed to get the latest ATACMS missiles made in sufficient numbers to ...

Thanks. Looks like a satellite comms Earth station, but others here know more about this than me. Suchominus has more on the Tsiklon maybe going down in Sevastopol harbour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdxGk2u2vMQ I agree with him that it's on the bottom. The clearout in the Russian MoD is just a ...

They normally make the wheelchair people deplane last, for perfectly sensible reasons. This could be people exploiting the system, but as I said; if the onward connection is tight, and a short distance, then even genuine mobility-problem people may be OK without the wheelchair when deplaning. The ai...

The Frontier CEO needs to get his head out of his backside. From people I know who occasionally request wheelchair service (e.g. my mum). 1. They may only need it at one airport due to long transits between gates, or short times between connections. 2. They may not want it at another airport because...

You seem to be assuming that corporate legal would have done something different. And your evidence for there actually being decent, honest lawyers is.....? Indeed, perhaps the reason the airline uses insurance lawyers and corporate legal doesn't do oversight is precisely so they have deniability fo...

Tory election campaign music announced
"Things can only get wetter" The Scottish Tories will be using 'Wishing I was Lucky' by Wet Wet Wet.

Find me an article these days that doesn't blame 'climate change' for something major. Although they aren't doing their argument for Anthropogenic Climate Change any good. In any case, the pre-modern 'changes' to climate were just normal climate variation , not a thousand year change. And what cause...

Speaker Johnson, and others in Congress, have pointed out that it is not Congress putting restrictions on the use of US weaponry supplied to Ukraine. This is not, of course, the first US President to put idiotic restrictions on weapon use, nor is Biden the only western leader currently doing it. Sti...

Firefox on Linux - pics now work! (didn't yesterday).

Any more news from Drowning Street?
I was expecting floods of it!
Maybe it'll just be a daily drip-feed for the next 6 weeks.

Highly likely.

Rishi can think?!
He's been keeping that quiet..

Leaders who picked May 22nd to take on the opposition

334BC Darius III, Battle of the Granicus
1455 Henry VI, Battle of St Albans
2024 Rishi Sunak, Snap Election

..and the result is always the same!

Cameron will be so pleased.
No longer will his calling of the EU Referendum be spoken of as The Biggest Ever Tory Political Mistake!

"Daddy, is that what they mean by a Tory 'Wet'?
"No, it means they are all an absolute shower!"

So, bigger or smaller wipeout than 1997?

HUUGE wipeout!