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She looked like she wanted to go full Ian Curtis to me but was using all her will power to reign it in

Thanks,
first Gameron picks a Smiths tune for Desert island Discs,
and,
now I have the image of a teenage TMay 'dance, dance, dance, dance, dancing to the radio'.

Someone with video skillz please make Maybot + Transmission come to life for me

Boris Johnson, the Cabbage Patch Draco Malfoy aka The Great Twatsby

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/03/theresa-may-tory-conference-boris-johnson-marina-hyde

"There was a strong sense among MPs here that they are so very, very tired of Johnson that they can’t even be bothered being artful about it. “As far as I’m concerned,” Henley MP John Howell reflected, “Boris can just fuck off.” The Scottish Tories have launched a campaign to stop him becoming party leader, under the name Operation Arse. As one put it: “We called it that so we’d be clear who we were talking about.” Asked what the big challenge for the Tories was, the former minister Lord O’Neill judged: “I guess key people in this party have to stop being dickheads, really.”"

Yes, the Record ran with it front page yesterday:

Asked what the big challenge for the Tories was, the former minister Lord O’Neill judged: “I guess key people in this party have to stop being dickheads, really.”"

This doesn't seem to be specifically about Johnson, but excellent advice.

Big lol if true

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Radio 2 folk show abd 6 music presenter has lymph node cancer in his tongue and is taking time off .

A friend has similar and now speaks with an imperment but its not the end of his career .

Once I'd seen them compared I couldn't think of May's dancing as anything other than this:

How fucking dare you compare Theresa May to Elaine Benes.

Reported.

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I'll fight you.

(also, lol!)

Exactly this... 😬

+1

One of the best things I've read for a long time.

Deep in the dog days of summer this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a 500-page report on the environmental impact of fuel economy standards. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this document was not widely-read. But on Friday, the Washington Post reported the fact that the paper assumes that if current practices are unchanged, the planet will warm a catastrophic 7 degrees F, or about 4 degrees Celsius.

What’s most alarming about the paper is that it takes this warming as a predetermined fact and, rather than advocating for change, uses it to justify not improving fuel efficiency standards after 2020, resulting in an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The report claims that this would be a negligible contribution to the inevitable warming the agency anticipates.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev7bwp/trump-administration-agency-predicts-7-degree-f-rise-in-global-temperatures-by-2100

This is from last week, but its pretty amazing. The administration is beyond parody at this point

Luke is very special.

If it’s because he’s excited at going to the first bar in an Aldi, I’m with him all day long.

Perhaps he's a bit of an alky.

As I said, with him all day long

But why not be with him in some other bar all day long that isn't in an ... Aldi?

They do good beer in Aldi these days, Oliver, and I have no fear of mixing with my economic peers. #chekyoprivlejshik

In Germany, Aldi's a middle-class shop. How is that developing over here?

I'd never shop there. Dreadful company (companies in Germany).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/06/police-drone-finds-girl-16-who-called-999-to-report