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Couple of weeks ago we went to see A Murder is Announced, a couple of months ago we went to the RSC's travelling production of Hamlet, which transposed the setting to the Titanic. ( How far back are we allowed to go ? ) Have been a few times to Stratford for RSC productions, the show I've seen most often is Jesus Christ Superstar - have seen 4 different presentations through the years, starting when I was at KES and we had a school trip up to London to see it. Have seen many musicals at Blackpool Grand Theatre or the Winter Gardens when one or other of our kids have been playing in the pit.

Look what YouTube just popped into my "recommended" list

Shillelagh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_University

Also, the Justice Department have again filed tenuous criminal charges against her father. Having failed twice with other cases to convince a Grand Jury that there was any actual evidence, this time they are bypassing a GJ and trying to prosecute him on charges that have twice previously been investigated and dismissed as lacking in substance. One former prosecutor has said "The charges against Comey were a "revenge-fuelled attempt by Donald Trump to have his Department of Justice find something that might stick"." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckly0xqjnlwvo

But that "someone" is POTUS, and his acolytes and enablers will do anything to please him.

There are many statisticsl twists to this. One is that males between 18 and 35 commit proportionally far more sexual assaults than the total male population, and a large proportion of the immigrants fall into that category, but whether any individual immigrant is more likely to offend than a Brit, I don't know. It is certainly more likely to be reported in the media.

From a REDDIT discussion - quotes taken from the Economist article ; "This suggested Afghans are convicted of sex crimes at seven times the British rate—a far cry from Mr Timothy’s “over 20 times”, but disturbing nevertheless (see chart)." "here age-standardised analysis exists for those countries, the over-representation shrinks, as in Britain, but it does not vanish. Looking at convictions by ethnicity, rather than nationality, is more reassuring. The Ministry of Justice produces detailed data on prosecutions and convictions by age, sex and ethnicity. We used these to repeat our age-standardised analysis, for the same 2020-22 window. Our results suggested that Pakistani, other Asian and other non-black minority men were no more likely to have been convicted of sex offences than white British men." "And the numbers need to be kept in perspective. In 2010-12 Afghan nationals were convicted of 92 sex crimes; in 2022-24 the total was 102. Ten additional sex crimes, after the Afghan population has roughly tripled, is not an epidemic." "

22 yards, also known as a cricket pitch.

Also known as the Pole or Perch. 40 square rods is a Rood, which is a quarter of an acre.

Ramaswamy is a total shit, and hopefully this ends Vance's chances of being the Presidential candidate for 2028.

Here's hoping.

Beer in pints, hoorray !

On the basis that an extension to voting time was granted - which his party requested.

Another blow for Donnie as left wing candidate Lula da Silva beats Trump's preferred option in the Brazilian Presidential run off vote.