Tuesday 30th May 2023

[refitman]

Morning all.

[frog222]

Morning refit !



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rs-cartoon

""" cman @ labourgooner14h ago
Indeed. A program on C4 yesterday or day before about living on a North London housing estate juxtaposed the comparative squalor of the tower blocks on the estate with the massive gleaming new Spurs stadium just next to them. It was quite something. """

JG Ballard's dystopian future is ..... here .

[frog222]

Checked this one out --

"" madmonty @ labourgooner13h ago

Trump apparently is lobbying the Irish Government to build a sea wall to protect his golf course in Southern Ireland from rising sea levels .

You couldn't make this shit up. ""

He's been on about it since 2016, citing among other reasons ....climate change.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Of course he has, loads of the grifters actually know very well that climate change is real.

[refitman]

It's certainly a defence

[refitman]

And you'll never guess who came to his defence (you will)

[AnatolyKasparov]

Don't really want to be "that guy", but Cohen really *was* on the left once - he had a big turnaround in the 2003-05 period.

(intriguingly it was Iraq that did it, he repeatedly critiqued the previous military action in Afghanistan that had rather more public support)

[frog222]

Don't really want to be "that guy", but Cohen really *was* on the left once - he had a big turnaround in the 2003-05 period.

(intriguingly it was Iraq that did it, he repeatedly critiqued the previous military action in Afghanistan that had rather more public support)

Me too AK , but couldn't put a date on it .

THREE TIMES --

[AnatolyKasparov]

I'm old enough to recall when Tories ripped the proverbial out of Ed M for his "these strikes are wrong" thing (OK, it was just a tad excruciating)

Our current PM matches that on close to a daily basis.