Des

Yeah, not fiction at all.

Me two months ago, attempting to order a wrap in a fast food shop in Kazakhstan with limited Russian language skills: "Cow, please."

Have Burnham et al said where the money would come from to do this? Or are they just happy to keep ramping up the debt, interest payments on which are currently costing us about as much as we spend on education?

I imagine anything relating to Trump and his cronies has long since been filleted from the files.

Attacking a rival is traditionally poor tactics, as it tends to rub off on oneself. Instead, Labour is focusing on its own achievements, as they know they will be judged on those in 2029.

I'll laugh when it doesn't happen.

Strategic ones I think not. Too close to home, too emotive. Smaller scale battlefield ones unlikely, yes, but not impossible if Iran were to go full scale.

Once again, Labour clears up the Tory mess and gets the job done.

I don't see US ground forces being deployed anywhere. Trump wants the money for tax cuts, not war. In any case, Israel doesn't need them - nor I suspect would it hesitate to use battlefield nukes to achieve its aim of creating wrecked impoverished Arab states all round it.

Well, we don't know if it damaged their nuclear programme. But as for provoking a war? I don't think so. Israel is still too strong and does have nukes. There will be a response I'm sure, hopefully it'll end these, like before.

Trump didn't strictly "let Iran out of nuclear restrictions." There was a treaty, which Iran had happily signed up to, allowing them to enrich up to a point for peaceful civilian purposes. Trump reneged on the deal and re-imposed sanctions. What should Iran have done?

As an aviation engineer it saddens and frustrates me that social media "experts" crawl out of every corner minutes after the event to deliver their verdicts based on a few seconds of video. Leave it to the investigators.

Lots of trolls and idiots on there. Everything Starmer posts on FB the legions of the brain dead are straight on it.

Some good, some not so good. But an experience! I am in Turkistan right now heading for Aralsk, then Aktobe and then Atyrau. The scale and emptiness of the steppe is mind blowing!

They're not even trying to hide it any more.

Oh wow

Kent State anyone?

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Rode through Shymkent today. That's the second time I've done that, which is two times more than I wanted to, and four times more than I ever intend to do again.
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It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.

Surprised, much? Paul, do you see any similarities between this and Liz Truss's economic tour de force?

I hear what you say bro. While the young lady's ethnicity isn't an issue it's a rather odd thing to say given what happened.

Hmmmm...

The UK as a whole remains a pretty safe place to park up. There are bad hotspots in some big cities though, usually involving the same handful of feral youths. In smaller towns and out in the country it's not a problem. Sorry to hear about your mate, hope he gets his bike back.

It's been a bloody hard ride, and it's not over yet. Couple of days ago I was on the Kaldama Pass, one of the "world's most dangerous roads"

Experience it was, fun it was not.

Got bored talking politics on here with tin eared people so took the motorbike over to 15th century caravanserai Tash Rabat in Kyrgyzstan. Seems reasonable to me.
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You think they're not working enough ot now?

Rejoining EASA would be even better, and the brexit idiots wouldn't even notice.

Point of order, this is a 2021 article and the viewpoint is not universally supported in France due to the pull factor it could create. I'd personally like to see it happen but let's not kid ourselves it'd be as easy as writing a post on social media.

There has historically never been a problem finding money to spend on war. Some of us hoped that might have changed a bit.