Making the news today....

[Darrin Turnbull]

Vicky Barnes: British sprint cyclist on her recovery from horrific crash

http://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/41940925

Respect [emoji110]

[Stubby]

Hammond risks small business backlash with VAT shake up .

 

https.//wwwgoogle.co.uk/amp/s/am./ft.com/content/Saa111ce-c633-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656

Edited November 14, 2017 by Stubby

[richy_B]

Hammond risks small business backlash with VAT shake up .
 
https.//wwwgoogle.co.uk/amp/s/am./ft.com/content/Saa111ce-c633-11e7-b2bb-322b2cb39656

Diesel duty increase is more worrying.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

A madman and despot confined to house arrest - decades overdue.

[Gary Prentice]

Reports this morning, now denied, said that Gucci Grace had already taken exile in Namibia.

 

Interesting program today on his attempts to put his family in power when he died. Looks like he left things a little late.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

There was a fantastic interview with General Sir Mike Jackson on LBC this afternoon.  Unfortunately this clip (http://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/shelagh-fogarty/general-sir-mike-jackson-warns-of-putins-plans-for/) as anyone that heard the entire conversation - in context - would recognise, does no justice to the broader context in which he described the former Soviet Union, the Russian people and more specifically Putin.

 

The clip paints a rather dark picture whereas what he said - in context - was that it was likely the failings of Western democracies, post WWII, to more enthusiastically embrace and engage; preferring, in his view, to portray the USSR as the bogey man and route of all evils which may well have accelerated the self fulfilling prophecy despite there being much to respect and admire and much in common with the people of the former Soviet block countries.

 

Looking back at the recent history and diplomacy between the 1989 fall of the Berlin wall and the 2014 Russian annexation of the Crimea, it's easy to see how none of the lessons that could have been learnt post WWII viz-a-viz potential relations with Russia have been applied within the EU which has maintained it's determined, insidious creep East engulfing (and emasculating) weaker economies in order to subjugate them, addict like, to reliance and dependency upon EU funding to survive (bribery and extortion by any other name) whilst simultaneously antagonising the Russian state by creeping ever closer to it's national borders.

 

EU = peace and stability in Europe?  Pull the other one!!  It's the most destabilising factor for peace and stability in Europe and you didn't see that on the side of a bus!  

 

General Sir Mike addressed a course I was attending in 2006, been a big fan ever since.     

[Vespasian]

Google news

 

Man has eel removed from his bottom...  WTF..   

[WesD]

Germany’s not looking too stable. 

[Haironyourchest]

2 hours ago, Vespasian said:

Google news

 

Man has eel removed from his bottom...  WTF..   

Old news now, but there was a comparable event some time back where they fished a fish out of a guy's throat. He'd been arsing about with the live fish for a photo and it got lodged in his throat - he nearly died. Ah jeez, just had to Google it...this carry on happens regularly in China, it's a folk remedy for constipation. 

Edited November 17, 2017 by Haironyourchest

[Mark Bolam]

2 hours ago, Vespasian said:

Google news

 

Man has eel removed from his bottom...  WTF..   

Apparently a dance move had gone wrong.

He was trying to do the conger.

 

I'll get me coat....