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Tomo,
You think Zalensky found some of Hunters stash??
The left seems particularly determined to keep the war in the Ukraine going. I think this is more them being against a peace deal arranged by Trump than peace itself but yeah, they are determined to keep this war going.
Mailman
Robert
Letby - what grinds my gears is stuff like the utter berk of a health minister choosing to declare her guilty and the assorted functionaries essentially agreeing that it might take years to reverse up and re-evaluate but Letby can moulder in prison in the meantime.
I thought the attitude of the prosecution star expert witness was simply putrid - he deserves nothing but enough scorn to drive him out of society - what an utter dirtbag. It was good to see Phil Hammond taking a stand - I feel though, that the language needs to be ratcheted up to the point where the various perpetrators get angrily litigious - that used to be a Private Eye specialty ... Hislop's misplaced his testicles and spine.
Rewatching some of Zelensky in the Oval Office - and having some experience of coke heads, he was high as a kite.
tomo
tomo,
Letby case is a disgrace. Much the same arrogance/insolence as the Post Office shambles: we are above your questions.
That stems from what you highlighted in that VDH talk (also a Yes Minister thing): the people writing the laws don't understand that they're just laying out a smorgasbord that the bureaucrats will pick and choose from.
The Zelenskyy thing ... certainly was ill-advised:
The cameras are rolling, you can't deny me.
Oh yeah? Watch me.
I see he skulked off to the warm (and generous) embrace of Sir Keir.
The conflict is still baddies v. baddies in my book, but it doesn't look very promising for the side with the dumber leader.
Robert Swan
VDH's description of the US EPA rings true for the UK's EA
https://youtu.be/ame9WiKo3aw
tomo
Seems Zelensky was prepped for the Oval Office meet
https://nypost.com/2025/03/01/opinion/dems-lead-zelensky-ukraine-off-a-cliff-with-pressure-to-reject-mineral-deal/
All the UKR flag shaggers scampering around calling it the "Trump Vance minerals deal".... I had to go digging as that ain't my recollection .... Ah, September 2024 Zelensky offered it at a meeting in NY with the candidate Trump.
https://t.co/q44TVdy0o1
tomo
The UK Environment Agency is a Quango, a NDPB independent of ....
erm, hang on a minute...
No wonder they want to keep that quiet.
tomo
IF true....
https://x.com/amuse/status/1895744457108303889
tomo
F88k me we really don’t deserve the media we have, or do we? 🤔
The amount of vapours from the media over Zelensky being an absolute dumb ass is just over the top. Personally the sooner America walks away from the Ukraine and leaves them to Europe the better 🙄
Mailman
A rotten system protecting itself
https://youtu.be/_tgzG0Sj_6s
tomo
tomo,
Letby might just be on the wrong tail of Blackstone's Ratio. (think how many innocent people are in prison if the ratio is at all close — it was meant to be rhetorical wasn't it?)
Mighty rich of Streeting to pull on the mantle of champion of the bereaved and say: "I would ask people to consider those grieving parents who've lost their babies." I'm guessing his ego may have got in the way of noticing that "people" includes him. How much comfort will the bereaved take from knowing that this woman might be in prison merely as scapegoat for a system that was doing a poor job. A system that Streeting happens to be responsible for.
Zelenskyy: could have been high. Metaphorically or literally, it turned out to be a bad trip.
Looking at what Streeting said about Letby put me in mind of Australia's defence minister's assurances that three Chinese warships frolicking in the Tasman Sea were "not a threat". When I first heard it, I wondered if he might be meaning that they were a *promise*.