Could someone kindly remind me what happened to the climate protestors that blocked roads? Presumably the same will happen here as we are a middle-of-the-road, centre-ground, non-extremist country that treats everyone the same?

Isn’t he the one who sat smiling and laughing at something going on in his head at the Queen’s funeral?

Check https://open-slum.org/

Signed on Monday, the deal makes Britain the first international partner to access Ukraine’s Avengers AI Labs database, described in a government press release as a “goldmine of battlefield data”.

Have I fallen through the multiverse into some shit Disney-themed world? Next, Burnham will be declaring that Captain Britain will be patroling the channel to help stop the boats!

Mr Vibes will get his guitar out and make everyone feel happy, though. That’s the important thing.

It’s almost as if the purpose of a Reform government is to bankrupt Britain and cause economic and social crisis… so that the disaster capitalists can profit from our misery.

Excellent point. One of the great sleight-of-hands of parliamentary democracy in the UK is to convince people that a system where the candidate who a majority of voters don’t want is a legitimate winner. Then make a lot of noise about “landslides” and “victories” for governments elected by barely 30% of the electorate.

Snore. Zzzzzzzz.

I thought I’d answered it in a previous comment about Bentleys and Players. The last time I read anything about this was John Higgs’ recent book, Love and Let Die (the book about the Beatles and Bond). In the past books like Kingsley Amis’ Bond Dossier has covered stuff like this. It’s a long time since I read anything about Fleming and I’m not a Bond scholar so don’t have this stuff indexed in some zettelkasten in a shoebox, sorry.

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One example is that Bond drove a Bentley in the first six novels and then Fleming changed it to an Aston Martin for Goldfinger. The most famous is Bond smoking Players Cigarettes where there was advertising inserted into copies of Thunderball. The movies did much more to include product placement, though.

It was also because Fleming was paid by the companies to use their product names.

Fleming was paid for product placement in the Bond novels in the way that tv and movies do now.

I watched a video where people in Clacton were interviewed about who they were going to vote for. They were all voting for Nigel. None of them had a clue why he’d called the election. They ALL had missing teeth.

It’s a Trump/Orban/Milei move to try and convince voters that he’s being picked on by the Establishment. Sadly, for many it works.

Excellently explained.

That’s alright then.

I’m still looking forward to the Borg/My Little Pony crossover episode set in the Mirror Universe. This is what fans need!

Has anyone noticed how many Americans work in and around Westminster? How many hold leading academic and influential lobbying positions in the UK? This is nothing new.

Thought this was going to be another “bash the shoplifters” report but, no, it’s about

food substitution, false labelling and document fraud, where products are deliberately misrepresented for financial gain

I wonder if this’ll get picked up in the mainstream press… of course it won’t.