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They've had it for 7 years and they get to the Med just like all the other ships do, every day.

edit: " The Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, together with the adjoining Marmara Sea, are known collectively as the Turkish Straits and provide the only access between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. More than 40,000 vessels passed through these waters in 2019, transporting almost 650 million tons of cargo, and reaffirming the Turkish Straits as one of the most important maritime trade corridors in the world. "

https://cimsec.org/let-me-get-this-strait-the-turkish-straits-question-revisited/

At last, some good news:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59766719

Ha, just came top post that myself!

early Christmas present (or 25 years late, depending on your outlook)

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Disappointing turn of events:

Chris Martin says band will continue to tour in interview with Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2

Fuck.

So what he's saying is he can't be arsed writing anymore music. Why couldn't he have done that years ago?

So what he's saying is he can't be arsed writing anymore music. Why couldn't he have done that years ago?

The last one was album 9, he said they will finish after 12.

You'll have to grin and bear it for a couple of years.

Every silver lining has a cloud...

(or three)

Anyway. Myself and plenty of my friends got paid very well working PA/LX/Videot/Crew/Catering etc, etc for Coldplay gigs so I'm sorry that you feel that way.

Does every hater have a cunty lining?

It's a bit tongue-in-cheek (I hope it came across that way - but fear it didn't). I worked the outside bar once at a gig, a good few years ago. It was hearing their album on loop for the 28th time that night that did it for me.

Same for Oasis.

I resemble this remark.

Sorry but as the Live Music Industry has been proper fucked up the arse recently I had a gripe with that.

As much as you dislike a certain brand of music there are plenty who do. The Live Music workers are all, pretty much, self-employed and really need the work now.

I think that Brain Harvey is a complete prick, and yes, I've done gigs with him. The cunt had a go at me at a Hull Student Ball about monitors because he turned up 5 minutes before and didn't soundcheck.

But... It's a paying job and you have to bite your tongue.

If you don't like a band then don't stream it (I'd say don't buy the CD/LP but so 90's!), don't buy a ticket for a gig but...

Hey. Plenty of peeps do and fund other peoples jobs.

UK Live music was fucked with Brexit over EU access. Now local UK music is also screwed.

Didn't mean to offend. Live music is the best music.

I have some mates who agree about Brian Harvey. They met him in Nottingham, the night he was allegedly attacked with a hatchet outside some club (nobody deserves that) and said he was pretty obnoxious. CSB, etc, etc.

David Lammy says he wishes he'd never nominated Corbyn to be party leader in 2015! Love it. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-lammy-jeremy-corbyn-labour-b1983207.html

A bit of abject grovelling is always a good look. Thank goodness for the miracle of the 12th of December 2019 when Labour antisemitism simply ceased to exist. Overnight it went from a daily occurrence to something you hardly hear about. Awe inspiring really.

I like Lammy because he speaks from the heart and is not stupid. He's a reminder of how public servants are meant to be. If Corbyn hadn't contaminated Labour for the last n years, Lammy would probably be in the cabinet.

I like Lammy, also Corbyn.

Don’t remember him issuing such a grovelling apology for his vote for the Iraq war. Obviously having nominated Corbyn is the far more serious crime.

This seems acceptable to me:

Do I regret supporting the Iraq war? I had been in Parliament for less than three years when it broke out. I was representing Tottenham, the biggest Kurdish population in the country. And they had very strong views about Saddam Hussein because he’d gassed them. I remember a lot of those families coming to this country seeking asylum in part because of how they were treated by Saddam Hussein. So they were very keen for me to support Tony Blair. Obviously in hindsight, if I’d known then what I know now in terms of the weapons of mass destruction, the way that we did not prepare properly for life after the military action, then of course I wouldn’t have supported the endeavour. And actually I haven’t supported any interventions since and I’ve been in Parliament for 20 years so I think I’ve done pretty well. I wasn’t keen on Libya, I wasn’t keen on Syria, I voted against a lot of those.

https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/david-lammy-i-have-to-be-robust-in-public-but-i-dont-feel-that-way-inside/

I don't dislike Lammy, I just think he's a blatant fony.

That’s not an apology, it’s a rationalisation. I’d have more respect for him if he’d just said “nah, I couldn’t give a fuck” than this disgusting mealy mouthed shite.

He should make his mind up whether it was his constituents or his ignorance about WMD that combined with his parliamentary inexperience. And if that lack of experience was so influential in 2003, what led him to be, as he now says he was, wrong about Corbyn in 2015 when he'd been an MP for 15 years?

If only the UK and Germany hadn't helped Sadam Hussein create a WMD programme, including providing the ingredients and expertise to weaponise them.

Have we ever armed another country and not come to regret it?