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You can't make it up. It's even worse than I thought.

Keir Starmer may have broken rules after Labour donor ‘pays for his wife’s clothes’:

Labour’s foreign secretary David Lammy said Sir Keir relied on donations because he wants himself and his wife to “look their best” on behalf of the British public.
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Ed Davis also complains.

 

Well if you really want to be depressed, try watching this:

1984 - Threads (Remastered) : British Broadcasting Corporation : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

It’s the fortieth anniversary of the making of this film but the background narrative, Russia and Iran versus The USA and The West, could be today. Doubly depressing for me to watch as it was made in my home town and many of the landmarks, streets, shops and factories no longer exist. Thanks Maggie.

Following the film, there are interviews with some of the people involved in making it. The second one, I think, is very funny. Descriptions of the film sets being stolen overnight by local residents etc.

Sit back and be amazed at how little world politics have moved on.

 

It's why I never use predictive text. It comes up with ridiculous suggestions when a standard word gets typed.
I hate the 'paper hankie' problem with washing @ViewAhead. It's always me who's the culprit though! Usually up a sleeve of one of my tops, or a pocket. They go in the compost bin if they're still in one piece - usually just the pocket ones. I had my duvet cover/pillow case covered in bits last week. They've stuck very nicely. I couldn't be *rsed trying to remove them though, and some are no doubt attaching themselves to me when I'm asleep. They'll come off next time they're washed...

 

Your washing problem could be avoided @ViewAhead and @fairygirl if you dispose of those dissolving nasties and use kitchen roll instead - it remains intact after washing, but I wouldn't use it again .

 

£50,000+ for golden wallpaper is perfectly acceptable,though

 

Why do the police describe "receiving images" as "making images"? To "make" something is to be the creator, surely? I have received emails today. I did not "make" these.

 

Yeah but Starmer's got it now,........I presume.

 

I doubt it! It was 4 PMs ago!

 

Oh how very, very disappointing. I really hoped that at long last the UK had a leader that was above that sort of thing. Obviously not.

 

I don't think it is accepting the gifts that is the problem, especially if these are declared. It is what politicians are "giving" in return, which often we have no way of finding out about.

 

My home town too. I remember watching it as a teenager when it first came out. Very scary, particularly at the height of the cold war. I particularly remember a sequence of Regent's Court flats blowing up - I had school friends who lived there.

 

I remember a long row of pigeon lofts running alongside Penistone Road. They have gone now but they and the allotments beside them feature in the film. And the smell from the Bassetts liquorice allsorts factory that wafted around that area. When I was a student I worked for a summer job at Osborn Mushet Tools’ offices, close by, and have fond memories of that. All gone. And the cooling towers at Tinsley viaduct are gone now too.

My only complaint about the film was that the young man, a joiner, sounded far too posh. But I suppose if he’d talked as he should have done nobody outside of Sheffield would have been able to understand him!

 

Well he has stopped the WFP for most pensioners, trying to ban smoking outside, No Fast Food adverts before 21:00, No sweet/candy adverts
Now Keir Starmer has insisted he remains committed to giving MPs a free vote on assisted dying laws

 

We talking good or bad here @Jack McHammocklashing (great handle by the way).