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Yeah, that was disappointing at the time. Possibly Graham was having more issues at the time with Trump licking Putin’s arse and trying to get Zelensky to do the same with Trump to keep him sweet, but I agree that he should have stood up to Trump and Vance there. Ironically the guy who kicked it off, MGT’s husband and her are now anti-Trump! Overall he was one of the biggest US backers of Ukraine though and said to Trump - lose in Ukraine and lose Taiwan (and all of the chips Trump prizes).

Initial studies have found some correlation and overlaps, especially to autism, it’ll be interesting to see how that topic develops over time.

Didn’t agree with Graham on many issues but he was a staunch ally of Ukraine’s, in fact he was there just before he passed.

It’s almost as if we’ve been warned previously that there are some very dangerous individuals and groups active in the social media age from a spectrum of different ideologies. The common denominator as that they’re all as warped as each other.

When it started to become mainstream, we were given a briefing at work as we were expected to use it to promote and generate income, but with a clear warning from the media and legal teams ‘whatever you post on there, nothing is ever truly deleted’. That stayed with me and you look at the likes of Ollie Robinson in the cricket, various politicians and pretty much every Reform council candidate and it’s still true.

It’s vile and they’ll (the pronouns they love) be having a meeting with HR soon. Cheerio 👋

Grow up sunshine. It’s a trans activist who is about to get the sack from their job, become unemployable and rightly so. Seen their poor behaviour at University of Sussex with the Kathleen Stock case and they’re politically toxic because of that and SM posts like this. Not even Corbyn’s oddballs want them on board. I don’t have any issues with trans people in general at all and the level of press focus on what is probably 0.05 of the population is weird, but the activists are a really unpleasant bunch on the whole from experience. Nothing to do with left/right/centre though (I vote Lib Dem and have voted Tory as well, never Labour). Shall I call you far right and a flag shagger as a comparative and equally stereotype?

This is a bit of variation on What House? And What Car? as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Whatmuff

In paper assets https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/article/the-definitive-networth-of-donaldtrump/ Cant find the original article about his debts, but he’s certainly doing a lot better than the mugs who invested in him https://www.seattletimes.com/business/nearly-a-million-investors-lost-a-total-of-3-8-billion-on-trump-crypto-coin/

He’s halved his debts to $1bn.

He’s given England fans a taste of what we’ve enjoyed in Hampshire for many years. Sensible, quality cricket with Root, the two adults in the side assessing conditions and adapting. Liam can whack it too but shot selection miles better than the so-called top order of Bazball boneheads. Superb India attack but some of the shots on 5th stump were horrible with a bit of pace and bounce.

At work we avoid any dispute resolution on Anglo-US contracts defaulting to either Florida or California law out of all the states, to a certain extent New York, Louisana and Illinois although less so than those two. Florida is very unpredictable in terms of plaintiff liability especially.

I agree with the social media posts there. When I met her, she reminded me of family members I have - different views but a good heart behind it all which you never get with most politicians, or people these days. The ghouls celebrating her death are vile, full stop.

I’ve met her, so my post will naturally be a bit more relevant to topic. As I’ve posted before, I liked her when I met her, and some views I’d have had in common with her like animal rights (she was very anti fox hunting for example). Some of her views I agreed with on law and order as well (I’m more to the right on that than the average because of my background) but others I disagreed. The views on LGBT, even as a happily married hetrosexual man were beyond reasonable debate though and even Farage admitted that.

If people want to go down the whataboutery route, then Hitler and the Holocaust is politics, so is Stalin and the purges. Pol Pot etc. The line has to be drawn somewhere. I met Ann and liked her, but this view as one example was going to draw conflict. She was entitled to say it but it’s not part of normal or acceptable political discourse. Not in Europe, in America at the moment with the MAGA fanatics it would be. Neither does it excuse the appalling act of violence which killed her https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48491731