Rob Jacques

My little dog keeps biting on my guitar pedal. Well, he is a chewwahwah.

Dire Strait Post Deleted by Trump's Sultan of Schwing

come and have a go if you think you're hard enough

there might be a Dire Straits/ Sultans of Schwing gag in here somewhere

Suboptimal.

all that careful planning gone up in smoke

Is that a bit like a lobotomy?

The spike in crude has got Trump over a barrel.
ba-dum tish.

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Professional work at the end of term (9)

Mechanical process available to repair recalled clutches (4)

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This week, I've been mostly singing "Mojtaba Khamenei" to the intro riff of Get Your Freak On

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People are saying Farage's trip to the US was a disaster because Trump blanked him but he got free flights food and grog, got paid a cartload for trotting out a speech at some Silk Sash Fash Bash and he didn't have to answer Mrs Snodgrass's letter complaining about dogshit in Clacton

Tate visit to Dubai off.
State visit to US on.

Fox sake

Grow a pair of rudders mate

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception

No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.

I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.

If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.

Beware The Early Gloat

FT Crossword: Number 18,312

I set the cryptic crossword in this weekend's edition of The @financialtimes.com.
Solve the puzzle on the swazzy FT app or print the pdf here:
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Ma Baker
she taught her both sons
(ma ma ma ma)
Ma Baker
to handle their guns

Nonpareil.

That's AXEL SPRINGER (A=ace +rev of Lex (FT column) + [Jerry] Springer)

Ace FT column backing Jerry buyers of The Telegraph (4,8)

“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”

“Oh, lovely—just the hundredth time you’ve managed to cut everyone’s head off.”

"Did you not hear me? Get yourselves over to Tehran and make the country proud"

such a duckhead

Rubbish team playing at Portsmouth then? (9,7)

The sledgehammer will be out at half time right enough

Igor looking a bit Peter Gabriel there
#TOTCRY

Masculine Klan luminary we made Homeland Sec (9,6)

Don't use the Klaus Barbie sobriquet.
It isn't big and it isn't funny.

Derek needs to retune to Medium Wave