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Wow - that's cool. I found the whole thing fascinating - particularly about how much of the stuff they'll be doing just isn't really in living memory any more.

I'm no royalist and won't be involved in any of the processions or whatever; I'm sure there'll be loads of people that will go on about how it shouldn't be treated any different to any other old woman dying. But the event itself is obviously immense and there must be such a cascade of planned 'stuff' to be done, exactly like you're describing.

The newspaper said Mr Osborne would work as editor an "average of four days a week" and its schedule would enable him to "continue to fulfil his other commitments, including as an MP; giving him the time to vote and contribute in Parliament in the afternoon after the paper has gone to print, and be in his constituency".

nah, he just will do he MPing in his spare time. Like he gives a fuck anyway.

shilling for blackrock, editing a paper owned by an ex KGB agent and being a part time MP must be exhausting! how ever will he find the energy to keep up with that 24 hour a day lifestyle??

Isn't the evening standard just a series of reposts and plant puff pieces anyway, you could make that "paper" with an algorithm. Not that it'll be around for too much longer anyway. They are massively over selling their circulation and it's only a matter of time before the advertisers cotton on.

problem is it's a redoubtable tory shit rag that just so happens to be free. want to further normalise NHS privatisation amongst the chattering classes? cocknose is your man.

Epic WTF thread >>>>

(Although someone else has just posted it there).

How can someone who's journalistic experience amounts to working as a freelance for a few months for the Daily Telegraph be appointed as an editor of a daily paper?

about as absurd as someone with a modern history degree and a few 0 levels being appointed chancellor of the exchequer.

it's almost as if there's a revolving door of entrenched white male privilege at work ...

When Di's body (#forevainRhearts #englandsrose) was going up to be buried, we popped down to watch it go past as it was 5 mins away from where we were living in the midlands and it was a chance to cycle on the M1 in the middle of the day. Good picnic and a few beers IIRC.

/csb

Lunches and back slaps, he'll have to watch it or he'll get fat again.

how ever will he find the energy to keep up with that 24 hour a day lifestyle??

well yes, precisely.

#theeveningtony

Yup, one of the unspoken rules of my job is that we will be expected to be at work throughout the lying-in-state. Even if we are abroad on holiday, we are expected to drop everything and be on the first flight home.
Whatever your opinion on the royals, the attention to detail of the plan is very impressive. When the Queen Mother died, the queues to see the coffin went out of Westminster Hall, split left and right down the pavement and over Westminster and Lambeth bridges, and were so long that they met on the other side of the river.

they should dig her up and put her on display again and charge people a fiver a go for a gawp. nice little earner, right there. could even put the cash towards some new castle drapes those overindulged shits are expecting us to shell out for.

i guess open casket wouldn't work as she'll have resumed her normal lizard form

how much is all this shit going cost ?

about 1000 nurses.

bet george osbourne gets a free lunch out of it somehow

cheeky blighter

If he or she pops their clogs in Sandringham, Balmoral, Windsor or London each of those forces has an operation order for their responsibilities. As the days go by the geographical responsibility changes until the internment at Windsor. It will be a time of "great mourning" and even greater overtime earned. Each Christmas one or other of them has a funny turn so the op order gets dusted off and edited.

Great, give the wingnuts ammunition why don't you Erdogan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/europe/erdogan-turkey-future-of-europe.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&smtyp=cur&_r=0

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Trump meets Merkel, they get on really well...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/mar/17/donald-trump-angela-merkel-no-handshake-video

Watching it on c4 news now, it's incredible how awkward it is. The bewildered expression on Merkel's face throughout is amazing.

The double-take she does when he calls the German journalist 'fake news' is pretty telling.

Meanwhile Coulter tries some pretty pathetic rabble-rousing off the back of a snarky Politico headline

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And in other Merkel news, a Turkish newspaper today...

As I posted a short while ago about Osborne, no depth is too low. That the question even arises whether he should resign as an MP or not is a massive scandal, let alone him not resigning. Unbelievable even if you've been following him for a while.

Lebedev is a shameless social climber and it's little more than a vanity appointment, another entree in to the circles he is desperate to be taken seriously by.
I was more disgruntled that Sarah Sands, Lebedev's current obliging puppet, should get the Today job.