In the news

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/nov/27/mps-attack-david-davis-for-handing-over-redacted-brexit-reports

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.a183e13a8628

^ a twitter thread detailing the various ways in which James O’Keefe has owned himself
https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/935272597520076803

My favourite remains this one
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself

This makes for painful reading

http://jackofkent.com/2017/11/the-early-history-of-the-58-brexit-sector-analyses/

Radio 4 seem to have picked this up this morning interestingly.

In their usual "implicitly defend the conservative position in the tone of our questions."

I can't see how Davis isn't in contempt of parliament. Either by repeatedly lying about the '58' or by now not coughing them up. Lock him up in the Tower, I say.

Festive greetings!

Anyone hear Carmina Burana?

The Guardian: The US sanctions bill is a timebomb for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwrMCogDc

Looks a bit sub-Narnia to me.
(But, I do appreciate the scales of justice. Nice touch).

That's a weird link.

Used the share function on my phone to copy the URL. Google wants all the data.

Poor old Melania. All she wanted was a rich husband now look what's happened.

ditto miss markle

niche

BRB

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/nov/29/un-war-crimes-defendant-claims-to-drink-poison-at-trial-in-hague-slobodan-praljak?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Quite the statement.

My first reaction is not one of "oh, he'll be sorely missed" but I do wonder how the poison was smuggled in and if the security is good enough. No doubt we'll find out in weeks/months...

Slobodan Praljak, shouted out angrily: “Praljak is not a criminal. I
reject your verdict.”

The 72-year-old then raised a small brown bottle to his lips, and
drank it in full view of the cameras filming the hearing.

Solid referring to himself in the third person

"You can't fire me, I quit!"

https://apnews.com/a471efc6700f406c9d8ac2e5037cfe9b Garrison Keillor fired for inappropriate behaviour.

The Predatory Home Companion.

Airport type of security - 100ml max
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdQsDopZfS4

Yay it's already on YouTube....faces of death volume xxxxxx anyone? :/

I guess they didn't consider the risk of suicide high. I doubt this guy will be missed but I rather not see genuinely innocent people do this and this man may set a trend :(

This clip was shown earlier this afternoon on mainstream media (Guardian etc) before he died.
The poison was still a threat by him at that time.

We do a lot of handwringing in the UK over our slow de-industrialisation.
I think 1840 is the date typically used as the 'start' of the UK's Industrial Revolution,
so we had a good hundred years,
and,
since, we've been losing out to other Nations.

One of those Nations, always used as an example of how the UK has declined, is South Korea.
http://splash247.com/sungdong-verge-liquidation/
Sungdong only started building (complete) ships in 2004,
got into the Top10 worldwide,
and is now on the verge of liquidation.