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21/07/2024

Number 7: use the word bipolar in conversation with a friend, colleague or family member

Is there anything you would add to the list?

10/06/2024

1986 or 2024? Thatcher loved it in the 1980s do the party political leaders in 2024 also love it? Rish! Keir & Ed check out a BBC clip from Yes Prime Minister Episode 1 Grand Designs https://youtu.be/ahgjEjJkZks “The new Prime Minister is preoccupied with defense issues as he begins to learn some of the details, such as the Russians having six times as many nuclear weapons as the UK or that the armed forces could withstand a conventional attack for 72 hours at best. As only Jim Hacker can do, his "Grand Design" is less than practical and it is left to Sir Humphrey, now Cabinet Secretary, to inject a dose of realism. The PM also wants a cook for 10 Downing St., but wants the government rather than himself to pay.” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751837/

Sir Humphrey, incensed that Hacker is pushing ahead with his “Grand Design”, delivers a masterclass in how to conduct a government opinion poll.Subscribe: ht...

04/06/2024

Re UK General Election 2024; includes my favourites of Diane Abbott and Nigel Farage in this BBC Dead Ringers a 10 minute clip from 2016 is weirdly not out of date in 2024

BBC Dead Ringers fab impersonation in which David Dimbleby hosts Question Time with guests including Jack Straw, Anne Widdecombe, A Lib Dem and Ricky Gervais...

29/05/2024

Trump compares himself to Mother Teresa.
Right after jurors began weighing the former president’s fate, Trump railed against the proceedings and compared himself to a saint, saying in the hallway: “Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. The charges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/29/trump-hush-money-trial-merchan-jury-deliberation

24/05/2024

whoops, fat finger error, now come on, we’ve all done it, haven’t we…no, oh wel, ha ha. When you mean to sell $58 million but it sells $$444bn?
“Citigroup’s internal system blocked $255bn…but the remaining $189bn was sent…selling a total of $1.4bn of equities across European stock exchanges.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/22/citigroup-fined-over-fat-finger-error-mistaken-orders

UK regulators fine bank £61.6m over 2022 trader blunder that prompted flash crash in European stocks

15/05/2024

"Guess who's come to Iceland?" I don’t recognise her, do you, is the woman a Mum?

This Morning star Josie Gibson unveiled Iceland's new slogan in the supermarket's latest advert

24/04/2024

ex President Trump campaigns everyday from the same spot in the court house for this year’s Presidential Election
photo credit to all news agencies, 2024

21/02/2024

Delight as Xabi and Thomas share first kiss
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