It still called back to RotJ, just not strongly because it couldn’t even do that right.
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It still called back to RotJ, just not strongly because it couldn’t even do that right.
Oh my god! Han Solo just shot that guy! Unprovoked!
Still a genuinely incomprehensible choice. What were they thinking?
And you can’t pin it entirely on JJ either, since all three films were thematic remakes.
The social media video with which the White House has promoted its attack on Iran is, even by the standards we’ve come to expect from the Trump administration, grotesque on a level that still manages to be flabbergasting.
✍️ Sam Leith
Article | spectator.com/article/trum...
"Some folke arte born, mayde to wave thee flage..."
Normally I'm pretty sceptical about stories like this.
But after the Russian gas shock, which, from 2022 to 2025 cost the UK ~£90bn in additional cost of gas over 2021 prices...
Remember all that talk about how Ukraine could become World War 3 from a certain D.J. Trump?
The way a war becomes a world-war is not just that people, Michael Scott-style, emerge from their offices shouting "I declare world war!!!". It is that leaders spread conflicts they have no idea how to end.
Lord Arran was a hereditary peer, and introduced the Sexual Offences Act 1967 legalising homosexuality.
If there is a link between good speeches and good legislation, that might be something (not saying there isn/isn't, but it would be interesting thing to look at if it were at all possible to analyse).
Not bothered either way about the departure of the remaining Hereditaries, but parliament's job is not ultimately to make speeches either.
Fascinating article on the treatment of gas casualties in WW1.
The TL;DR version is that the psychological effect of gas really cannot be underemphasised even if you think you know all about it already.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
She also did LLB.
As far as I can tell she never got a job requiring either degree.
In as much as I can work it out I appear to have overlapped with Badenoch at Sussex and (assuming that’s true) very likely sat in the same lecture theatres as her at least once or twice since we would both have been in the same part of the University.
Absolutely no memory of her. Didn’t stand out.
Political party membership is not a protected characteristic under the HRA 2010, but yeah, other factors can come into play depending on the case.
Golding?
Up to you, but a business that had Robinson or similar as a customer wouldn’t have me as one.
I for one would welcome living in a one-off Turtledove novel.
(Not any of the extended serieses as world wars aren’t my thing)
Like, if you do what they tell you to do and turn up for your two-hour-flight two hours early, you just halved your average speed for the trip versus boarding straight away and flying.
I can near-enough just drive straight on to the Eurostar. Why not that, but for flying?
If they could take your (electric) car with them at the same time, that might be something.
100MPH in a straight line can work for some use-cases (short flights across geographical obstacles). A lot of flying time is just sitting around waiting, so cutting down on that might even things up.
Operation Eagle Claw was the result of exactly this kind of thinking … though the guy ultimately behind it was at least military veteran and had some kind of idea of what he was trying to achieve. Trump doesn’t even have that.
Who would have been their equivalents in 1986?
The Jack White equivalent would have had to have been famous in the 1960’s and 70’s but still alive in 1986 so … McCartney or Dylan? Ray Davies?
The 1986 Taylor Swift would have to also have debuted in the 1960’s. Cher maybe? Dunno.
I guess if you’re already sold on the idea of giving people what appoints to pointless hazing in order to gain citizenship, then the CoE question - not something I needed to know going to a CoE school - probably doesn’t seem too off.
But from my perspective this whole policy was bad from the start.
When kids get pocket money? establishment date of the CoE?
Here's some Q's from a practise exam published circa April 2010.
Happy to believe that it may be different tonally now, but the questions were daft then too.
Correct answer.
This is a Gordon Brown policy. It was stupid then. It is stupid now.
Brown glazing really has gone too far in recent years and is due a correction.
The government should see every summer being treated by the papers as “Racism Is OK Now Actually” season and have a strategy ready to counter it.
This about those warships the Israelis broke out of a French port?
My vague impression is that Oryx thought he should have been paid for what he was doing (which was completely correct BTW).
You mean Trent Telenko wasn’t legit? My world is crumbling before my eyes!
Do… do… do they think these playgrounds don’t exist any more?
I remember, circa 2003, watching the students of NUAA (a Chinese military-funded university) walking around campus with miniature radios trying to get VoA, BBC World Service etc., and then speaking along with them to practise their English.
