Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1. There is something unbearably sad about a 20 years old desperately trying to look 14, and latching on to every passing bandwagon, in a forlorn attempt to reclaim what she presumably sees as her past glories.
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  2. If Biden causes concern to Americans, he absolutely terrifies the rest of us.
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  3. Isn't it odd how supporters of the Markles always insist upon talking across everyone else?
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  4. 'Harry is living in another place.' Don't you really mean, Harry is living on another planet?
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  5. Alarming! Clinton actually comes across as a better actor/actress than Markle. Though, to be honest, the bar isn't set very high.
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  6. There really is no need to use AI to ridicule Greta. She already does that to herself, and far more effectively.
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  7. Do Social Services in the United States believe that it is appropriate for a drug user to remain in close proximity to two very young children?
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  8. You have totally misunderstood what Harry Markle means. He still wants the privileges and the benefits. He simply doesn't want the duties or responsibilities.
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  9. Wait for the second episode. Apparently, Markle reveals that she diverted a meteor from hitting the earth, using the power of her intellect alone.
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  10.  @v.j.3029  Grossly unfair! In the forthcoming book, Harry has coloured in every picture himself, using his very own crayons, as pencils are dangerously sharp.
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  11. 1). It is sad to see a confused old man in public being allowed to suffer like this. 2). It is terrifying to think that an action by this confused old man might kill us all.
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  12. 'Gross' by name, 'Gross' by nature, perhaps?
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  13. When I saw your headline, I was really concerned, until it became clear that she wasn't coming to the UK. Great relief!
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  14. There is a well known rule in these matters. Those who demand that others 'educate themselves' or 'do their research' are the ones who have done the least of either themselves.
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  15. I always understood that US Presidents invariably used the phrase 'My fellow Americans.' I observe that Biden began 'My fellow Democrats.' Does that mean that Biden believed himself to be responsible only to those who supported him, rather than to the people of the United States as a whole?
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  16. I believe that the crucial moment of the Coronation, when Charles is blessed by the Head Imam from Finsbury Park mosque, and cries out 'Allahu Akbar!' will take place in private.
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  17. Breaking News! Omid Scobie reveals to be an android! The improbable colour of his plastic skin covering has given the game away.
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  18. It does seem odd that, apparently, some people still have faith in a leader who lacks the ability to string more than two words together coherently.
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  19. The nadir is being neared when David Livingstone's statue in Glasgow is facing removal because he 'profited from slavery.' His profit was apparently because, when working for 14 hours per day in a Glasgow cotton mill at the age of ten, he handled wool which had been picked (or might have been picked) by slaves. His 'profit' was the pittance that the owners paid the child. In effect, almost any old dead white man is fair game. It doesn't matter who he was, or what he did.
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  20. A mate of mine told me that Doctor Who was awful, and to check it out I watched a couple of episodes. To my surprise, it wasn't awful at all. It was far, far, worse than that.
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  21. No. They are not sufficiently islamic in appearance.
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  22. I was surprised that Harris didn't claim that she had personally supervised the action.
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  23. Surely, how about an ambitious woman who helps to bring about the death of a monarch, then drives her husband into a series of increasingly evil acts? Lady MacBeth, perhaps, would be a better, if rather more challenging, role?
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  24. I believe that President Biden has chosen to have a week-end break. Fair enough, I suppose. It isn't as if there is much happening in the world at the moment.
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  25. These days, it seems to be a legal requirement, written into the BBC's constitution.
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  26. Yes. Apparently causing someone 'anxiety' is considered a criminal offnce. This opens up opportunities for me which I hadn't previously considered. I open the batting for my local cricket team. Quite often, some nasty fast bowler on a bouncy track causes me considerable 'anxiety.' Does this mean I can have the sod arrested?
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  27.  @mariejo7408  No. Age is not the issue, whether that of Biden or of Trump. What matters is mental health. I know people who, in their eighties, are mentally extremely capable. I also know people in their thirties and forties who are remarkably stupid.
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  28. Perhaps how some people seek to impose their views on the rest of society might be considered a cause for disquiet?
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  29. My youth was stolen when I found out that there were a large number of cricketers in the world, mainly fast bowlers, who were rather better at cricket than I was. Especially the one who removed four of my front teeth with a particularly nasty bouncer. How dare he!? I never got to express my annoyance to the British House of Commons or the UN, though.
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  30. Would Australia really have been better off had it remained undiscovered, and stayed at a mesolithic, hunter-gather, level of culture, where life expectancy was 35 at most?
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  31. Good job he wasn't in Scotland. He would have been accused of Hate Speech.
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  32. Compared to the Vice-President of the United States, let alone the President, my cat is a figure of authority. He is, by the way, a very smart cat.
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  33. As almost everyone expected, South Africa is firmly set upon the same course so proudly pioneered by Zimbabwe. From the Bread Basket of Africa to a basket case in around two generations.
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  34. How dare anyone criticise Queen Galadriel? The thing about luvvies is that many believe that they are the characters they portray. I prefer the Alfred Hitchcock approach. He said all he required of actors was that they remember their lines, and not trip over the props.
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  35. The real tragedy of the British military of today is that a political animal such as Radakin (simply look at his career record) holds a higher position in the British Armed Forces than the great Andrew Cunningham ever did. As a Brit., I wonder how we have managed to fall so far so comparatively quickly.
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  36. No, she can't. She has nothing else to offer.
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  37. Isn't it odd that, every time the poor old chap delivers himself of another outrageous lie, he says 'You think I'm joking, I'm not?'
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  38. More relevantly, how in Heaven's name did the Principal get such a job in the first place?
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  39.  @sharonmccalla9924  What does 'too white' mean? Surely you aren't being RAYCIST!!! are you?
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  40. If Americans are anything like we British, they will know that, when a politician says 'let me be clear' alarms bells ring as quite the opposite is intended.
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  41. The Labour campaign seems to have simply been to chant, endlessly 'vote for us. We aren't the Tories.' By comparison, the Tories have countered with 'vote for us. We are useless, but Labour will be uselesser.'
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  42. It must be difficult for her to grasp the fact that, after a few years of celebrity status, she has now fallen into irrelevance.
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  43. Just to amend your comment slightly 'for saying what the government deem to be the wrong thing on social media.'
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  44. This is very concerning. Who is looking after the President of the United States? He could wander off and take days to find.
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  45. It really doesn't matter what the Queen said, as that won't necessarily be what the Markles will claim she said.
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  46. @Janice Horner It may well prove to be the first nail in the coffin of the British monarchy that Anne was not born first. Unlike Charles, she does appear to have her feet firmly set on the ground. Or, at least, much closer to it than either Charles or William.
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  47. I believe that the BBC are currently producing a six part series explaining how, in around 2,500 BC, Sub Saharan Africans from a highly advanced culture landed in what later became England and, using the heavy lift aircraft they had invented, collected a number of large stones and assembled them into the circles we know today. After completing their task, they returned to Africa in those same aircraft. Any academic who doubts this claim, or tries to rubbish it, will of course be cancelled at once.
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  48. Those of use who live in what used to be Britain aren't keen on the idea either.
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  49. What! Barbra Streisand coming to England? Just when I thought we couldn't have any more problems than we already have.
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  50. You miss the point of the agenda. People like this person are allowed to behave in an openly raycist!!! manner.
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  51. Expecting the Scouserlopithicenes to behave with any dignity is as optimistic a hope as is trying to persuade dung beetles to stop rolling dung.
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  52. Perhaps heroically and single-handedly saving a helpless child from an approaching Lion? With only 35 cameramen to record the incident?
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  53. Don't knock the Cycling Proficiency Certificate! I got one of those when I was twelve or so. Proudest moment of my life! I must have led a very boring life, however.
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  54.  @phillipaclemons7261  You don't perhaps consider that, when the British arrived, they brought huge advances in science, medicine, technology, education, and governance? Would you really suggest that she would have preferred to have been part of a hunter-gatherer culture with a life expectancy of 45-50 at best? She accepts all the benefits of European civilisation, whilst claiming to despise it. There is a term for that attitude. Hypocrisy.
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  55. Don't worry. The elites will continue holding referenda until fatigue produces the result they require. At which point they will cry exultantly 'The people have spoken!' It tends to work for the EU.
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  56. There is a rather different approach in what used to be Britain. A veteran who obeyed orders in Northern Ireland has just been charged with murder, 50 years after the event.
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  57.  @secondchance6603  I know a number of members of these ethnic minorities from my connections through league cricket. The general view most of them express is not that they feel the countryside is 'colonialist' but that they are simply not that interested in it. Perhaps this organisation of entitled white, middle class people would suggest the forcible transportation of diverse people into the countryside, with instructions that they may not go home until they learn to enjoy it?
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  58. Who writes the scripts to which these poor indoctrinated people refer on their phones?
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  59. Hold on a minute! we British don't want the sods here either.
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  60. You are wrong. Ex servicemen are not permitted to wear uniform, according to the Uniforms Act of 1894. If Charles has buckled because the Markles shouted and sulked, then he has diminished his credibility, and insulted every ex serviceman and woman in the United Kingdom. It seems that 'whatever Harry wants, Harry gets.' If this represents the level of respect the new King has for the feelings of his subjects, then it truly is time for Cromwell's return and a new Republic.
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  61. How dare anyone disagree with this living saint? After all, didn't she tell FDR & Churchill how to conduct WW2, as well as being the real commander of the US Navy at Midway?
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  62. My last visit was to watch Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon,' two weeks ago. It was, from start to finish, irredeemably awful. Best described as 'Carry On Boney,' although it would have benefitted from Sid James, and Kenneth Williams, with Barbara Windsor as Josephine. Still, at least Lenny Henry wasn't chosen to play Wellington.
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  63. It is the 'Peter Principle', so called from a 1969 book. The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.
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  64.  @CanabisWhiskeyAnanas  Perhaps the concept of 'balance' in broadcasting passed you by?
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  65. As the late great Spike Milligan once said, 'Being rich doesn't bring you happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort.'
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  66. Unfortunately, in Britain, the old principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' no longer applies. In certain areas, it has been replaced by 'guilty until proven innocent, but still assumed to be guilty anyway.' The BBC, of course, insists on absolute impartiality from staff and presenters. Of course, to paraphrase a famous author, in their world, some forms of impartiality are more impartial than others.
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  67. Surely, it has been accepted for some time that being non-Muslim in a third world city like Londonabad is unwise?
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  68.  @f554uv1  Do your carers know that you have got hold of the laptop again?
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  69.  @IssieLauren  Or, she was scared that he would flee back to the Abbey and claim sanctuary?
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  70.  @coling3957  Unfair. I bought a copy of Meghan's book in a local charity shop and it was wonderful. It fitted exactly under one of the legs of my dining table, which no longer wobbles. Best 20 pence I ever spent.
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  71.  @canadianjaneoriginal  As a historian pointed out to an annoyed US interviewer a week or so ago, the British Empire abolished slavery thirty years before the US did, and didn't need to kill 600,000 of their citizens to do it.
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  72. With Meghan Markle as Vice Presidential candidate, perhaps?
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  73. 'The most important thing is honesty. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.'
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  74.  @williamhudson3366  Good for you. Just don't send the tedious self satisfied twerp back to us!
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  75. Presumably, no-one ever told you that insults are a poor substitute for argument?
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  76. We know. We are being trained to accept our new betters, or face the inevitable consequences.
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  77. You really should not forget the 10 million last minute postal votes which will undoubtedly arrive. Remember, it is not how people vote, but who counts the votes, that matters.
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  78.  @lancehobbs8012  According to Harvard's newspaper The Crimson, Dr. Gay's estimated base salary as president was approximately $900,000 annually. Prior to her presidency, she served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, earning $879,079 in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020.
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  79. Actually, she was accused of 'racist slurs' by one Marlene Headley, who has made considerable profit from (mis)managing a charity which works solely and exclusively for women of black African origin.
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  80.  @f554uv1  'Talked about' indeed. Much as people in the 14th century talked a lot about the Black Death. I, and my friends & family, am a British person, and my only feelings about the malignant Markles are of unlimited contempt. Indeed, I know no-one who regards them as anything other than contemptible. By the way. Last time I looked, Harry Markle's mother was also the Prince of Wales' mother.
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  81. Simply look at the staff who work for the organisation who produced this 'report.' 100% white, middle-class, & entitled.
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  82. The problem is that she has been unchallenged for so long, and seems to control the media in Scotland so absolutely, that she has not had to handle any questions other than fawningly supportive ones. This is what happens to dictators. They come to believe that they no longer need to justify their behaviour.
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  83. South Africa is rapidly heading down the road pioneered by Zimbabwe. As was, of course, entirely predictable.
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  84. Alas, what will probably actually happen is that the teacher will be lionised and promoted to a very senior position within the Education system. This is what seems to happen in what used to be Britain.
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  85. Unfair. She simply said that he 'answered every question' not that the answers made the slightest sense.
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  86. Alas, the bar is set rather low. I suspect that my daughter's pet Gerbil is also smarter than the President of the United States. As for our Cat. There really is no contest.
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  87.  @rightlyso8507  'Nobody cares?' Are you sure about that?
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  88. In what used to be Britain, Christmas Day is seen as offensive to non-Christians. Oddly, Ramadan is not seen as offensive to non-Moslems. Odd, that.
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  89. Perhaps Putin hasn't read Machiavelli, who warned about the dire risks involved with the use of mercenaries?
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  90. Indeed.Letting the inmates out of Bedlam was, and is, never a wise decision.
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  91. Sorry, Angela, but this investigation must be stopped at once. If it proceeds, there is a serious danger that Harry Markle will come back to the UK, and we really don't want that. We already have enough problems without importing another one.
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  92. There is an old saying in Britain ' Them as can, do. Them as can't, teach.' Clearest example I have come across for a while.
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  93.  @drse2546  No, but it is a good idea. After that we can start on the Vikings and the Normans. Should be nice little earners.
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  94. Isn't the reality more mundane? These 'commentators' and 'academics' cocooned in their conviction that they are the leaders of popular thought, have been horrified to observe the outpouring of grief, or at least respect, emanating from the vast majority of ordinary people, and the subsequent realisation that they are, in reality, a tiny, self-regarding, minority has alarmed them. Hence, the need to comfort themselves by making increasingly bizarre and extreme commernts.
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  95. Isn't this somewhat akin to White Star line announcing on 17 April, 1912 that Titanic's condition had 'stabilised.'
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  96.  @9eleven1877  Indeed. Didn't something similar happen at the Battle of Philippi in 42 B.C.? Brutus was doing quite well against Octavian and Antony, until Cassius offered him a plate of Steak Pudding and chips, thus distracting him at a critical moment. Sorry, I appreciate that some people actually take tennis seriously, however odd the concept might be to many of us.
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  97. I wouldn't be so sure about Keir Starmer, still less about David Lammy.
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  98. Grossly unfair to describe her as a 'lightweight.' Many real lightweights will take offence at being compared to her.
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  99.  @diannemorris8690  Many years ago, the writer George Orwell wrote this of 1930s Britain. It certainly still applies, and now seems to have extended to the great nation formerly known as the United States of America :- ‘England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during ‘God save the King’ than of stealing from a poor box. All through the critical years many left-wingers were chipping away at English morale, trying to spread an outlook that was sometimes squashily pacifist, sometimes violently pro-Russian, but always anti-British’.
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  100.  @junescoular292  Apparently the book will include at least 20 pages of pictures. And a pack of felt-tip pens with which to colour (color?) them in.
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  101. Is really calling half of the US population 'crazies' a clever move? Oh, I apologise for using the word 'clever' when referring to the vice president of the United States.
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  102.  @Spartan-oj9dc  What is really despicable is the manner in which Harry Markle and his keeper deliberate made his grandparents' twilight years miserable.
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  103.  @lechatel  So long as it isn't to Britain. We have troubles enough.
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  104. For those who saw Blackadder III, I swear his personality is modelled on that of the Prince Regent, as played by Hugh Laurie.
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  105. Is there some rule in the United States, of which a foreigner like myself may be unaware, that senior politicians in the Democrat party must be either incoherent, mentally impaired, or both?
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  106. As a Briton, I also wish that British settlers had never landed in Australia. If you lot hadn't taken up cricket, I would never have misjudged a bouncer from a very quick Aussie professional in a club game a few years ago, and lost four front teeth as a result. Mind you, I would probably have been equally capable of misjudging a similar delivery from a West Indian or South African instead. My ineptitude as an opening bat knew no limits!
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  107. Anyone remember the 'My Lovely Horse' episode of 'Father Ted' where the organisers are desperate to ensure that Ireland doesn't win, and thus pick the worst possible entry? It seems that the BBC took it as their inspiration.
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  108. The most amusing part was that he initially began nodding agreement, until it slowly dawned on him what she was actually saying.
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  109. Isn't it odd that few, if any, transgender women demand the right to compete in mens boxing?
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  110. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  111.  @karenboden2560  Isn't it more disrespectful to allow people with these advantages to beat up women boxers in pursuit of underserved prizes?
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  112. The BBC at the time said that the Markles received a warm reception.
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  113. Showing the clips from 2020, where Biden seems both coherent and rational, only shows, when compared with the Biden of today, how much his mental state has deteriorated.
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  114. Shouldn't the band have played 'Liberty Bell?' That was the Monty Python theme tune, wasn't it?
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  115. Of course not. They got precisely the sort of response they (or rather their leaders) desired,
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  116. How odd that the President of Brazil has a better grasp of English than the President of the United States. Mind you, I think my cat could run Biden close.
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  117.  @cerovk6000  You think that these images are restricted to one channel? If anyone is being silly, it is you.
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  118.  @thatotlhowe  'Clearly?' The Royal Family were more intent upon ignoring them than attacking them.
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  119.  @Spartan-oj9dc  So was every ex serviceman & woman in the UK. They however, are not permitted to wear uniform.
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  120. Poor lass! Imagine turning up at a prestigious event in a second-hand frock?
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  121.  @Lee-kg7ze  Perhaps you don't grasp the concept of sarcasm?
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  122. How dare you insult the Dear Leader? You will be taken to a Kangaroo Court, where a tame Judge will impose upon you whatever sentence the Leader decides is appropriate.
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  123. 'Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.' Friedrich Schiller
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  124. Actually, for part of the time he looks almost only vaguely aware of where he actually is.
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  125. I wonder if Mr. Campbell feels any guilt about the removal of Dr. Kelly, or does he simply believe that doing the bidding of his master excused him of responsibility?
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  126.  @englishciderlover7347  Wasn't the statement something along the line that Caribbean immigration helped to make Britain the society it is today? If so, that is capable of more than one interpretation.
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  127.  @shezza2191  If by 'we' you mean 'maori' then presumably you would not extend rights to European settlers? By extension, I assume you would also discard European medicine, science, and education? Or would you simply choose to retain the benefits of western culture, whilst bleating incessantly about it?
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  128.  @Bobblers07  Netflix must be getting twitchy if this is the quality of her produce.
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  129.  @kevwiz369  It does seem odd that Azeem Rafiq's memory was considerably sharpened when his contract with Yorkshire ended. I notice, also, that Michael Holding is on Vaughan's case. Equally odd that he was happy to sit in the commentary box with him for years.
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  130. @robertoNcognito Perhaps the earth is flat, as well?
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  131. Frankly, if Harvard feel the need to appoint another Black Woman as President, I think I have just seen Mr. Murray interviewing an excellent candidate.
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  132. 'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.' Attributed to either Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain. Having watched Harris deliver her comments, it appears that she likes to say 'work together' a lot.
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  133. @Blue You think that the Queen had any involvement in 'colonisation?' Indeed, have you any idea of what colonialism actually involved? I assume you are from the United States? If European settlers had never reached the Americas, what would the New World have looked like today? A largely agrarian land, sparsely occupied by peoples with a neolithic level of culture, science, and society. I assume you benefit from the results of the colonialism you affect to detest? You are clearly a hypocrite. Or perhaps simply an ignoramus?
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  134.  @turnerfamilyinozi  Largely because the colour of the constructors (actually, Stonehenge was built in several phases over hundreds of years) was never an issue, of course. Have you heard of Aristotle? A maxim attributed to him says :- 'Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.' Teachers are using books of this sort to indoctrinate children at nursery & primary schools. That is why people should care.
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  135. I have one of my old cricket bats (a Gunn & Moore Maestro, cracked years ago when I, for once, managed to middle one of my shots) by the door. I wonder if this intellectual giant would have thought it quite such a prank if I had used it on him had he entered my house. I would, of course, have rolled my wrists first, to keep the shot down. I wouldn't, of course, have used a new bat. Far too expensive to replace!
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  136. But his career within the BBC is absolutely secure.
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  137. I also come from the UK. We are not permitted to be patriotic any more. We are told that patriotism & right wing extremism are the same thing.
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  138. What have elementary school children done to upset you? They don't deserve that.
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  139. Perhaps Mr. Biden keeps dialling the wrong number?
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  140. You are being unfair. She is too modest and unassuming to reveal the true facts, which are that the building was a blazing inferno, the Fire Services thought it too dangerous to enter, yet she bravely rescued, single handedly, 45 people from certain death, without even chipping a nail. There is a movie in production at the moment, starring Meghan Markle.
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  141. It was actually built in several phases, over several hundred years. It must have been hard work for the Africans, having to fly backwards and forwards bringing in new materials.
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  142. Remarkable! Probably the least sincere and most contemptuous 'tribute' since our very own Tony Blair used to refer to any British lieutenants killed in action in one of his wars as 'lootenants' in the House of Commons. By the way, is it my mistake, or do her eyes look 'odd?'
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  143. If this Harris person is considered, potentially, to be fit to be President of the United States, then my decision to let a nine year old re-wire the house looks increasingly like a sensible one. I must go now, as I can smell burning.
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  144. Isn't it fortunate that, when the alleged text from William arrived, a Netflix cameraman just happened to be filming? Does anyone really believe, by the way, that William would be stupid enough to send something to the Markles which they could later use against him?
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  145. I suspect that was more to protect Charles from the risk of being alone with Harry Markle. Who knows what RAYCIST!!!! remarks Harry could have claimed Charles made, without independent witnesses?
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  146. Perhaps his wife could play herself, if no real actor/actress is available?
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  147. When interviewed on BBC Radio 4 the following day, she was assured that 'no-one' was offended. There must have beeen a hell of a lot of 'no-ones' viewing, then.
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  148.  @pineappleonpizza395  Yet it is almost certain that, once back home, she will reveal that, at an unspecified occasion, an unspecified person made an unspecified remark of a RAYCIST nature to her.
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  149. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  150. The audience, such as there was, looked like a crowd of clerical staff and cleaners, taking the advantage of a few extra dollars and a comfy chair.
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  151.  @Malik16-mk6ty  'Bruh Arabs, Muslims and Africans are celebrating in the streets this great victory for this great girl.' Perhaps you are unaware of the first rule of lying? However outlandish your lie might actually be, you should at least give it a vague semblance of credibility.
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  152. Keir Starmer is. He frequently cadges free tickets to her performances.
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  153. Grossly inappropriate complaints. The Dear Leader has simply replaced the portrait with one of Pol Pot, whose political views more closely align with his own.
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  154.  @turnerfamilyinozi  Simple. Just read any proper academic study of Stonehenge and how it came about.
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  155. No. Only to President Biden.
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  156. Perhaps there are other parts that might also be cut off?
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  157. You think that the Pope is a problem? The Archbishop of Canterbury does little except wade into non-religious issues.
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  158.  @robot336  I fear that describing the typical Woke individual as 'kind' is as accurate as describing hitler as a pacifist.
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  159.  @marijolivitzky4336  The British people can view him as they choose. Please don't try to tell people what they may think.
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  160. As Dr.Samuel Johnson might have said about President's speeches :- "Sir, Biden's speaking is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."
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  161.  @GIBBO4182  Yes. Saw it. It seems the driving force was a Green Party councillor. Entirely predictable of course.
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  162. Logic suggests that, if you 'rarely watch the 'news' ' you cannot reasonably claim that 'it's always the same.' Something of a contradiction here, I submit?
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  163. Good to see that the Secretary of State for Culture, Media, & Sport has her priorities right. After all, it isn't as if the UK has any more important problems at the moment, is it? How many people today know that the Chamberlain premiership collapsed in May, 1940 because of the inflated cost of tickets to hear Myra Hess play at the National Gallery, in Trafalgar Square? As one of Chamberlain's rivals said, 'Never in the field of Concert Recitals have so many been so overcharged by so few.' Quite right. I did make it up.
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  164. Yes, but presumably in a compassionate manner?
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  165. Please take him to your heart! By which I mean that we don't want the whining sod back!
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  166. This is what happens when actors are taken seriously. Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that all he expected of his actors was that they remember their lines and not trip over the sets.
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  167.  @linda6987  'Guys' don't. Harry Markle, however, needs a constant stream of things to feel annoyed about.
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  168. Captain Smith displayed courage and integrity to the end. Biden never seems to have displayed either.
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  169. It is quite remarkable how these luvvies think that they are hugely intelligent because that repeat, parrot-fashion. lines written for them by people who may well be more intelligent. Alfred Hitchcock was right when he said that all he expected of his actors was that they should remember their lines and not trip over the scenery.
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  170.  @bunyip250  It depends which channel you watch. Almost identical pictures, obviously take at the same time, have widely differing sounds on them.
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  171.  @paddy2875  'I am Irish and I could not careless, more important things to worry about.' The obvious question which comes to mind is, 'If so, why did you even take the trouble to post?'
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  172. Unfair! She didn't lose, she simply came second.
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  173. I am looking forward to the play-off, between him and the men's winner.
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  174. You evidently haven't bothered to look at the voting numbers in recent elections. It is, for good or ill, a fact.
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  175. Much like much of the British media, particularly the BBC.
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  176. Don't worry. The possible Dior deal should be a nice little earner for Meghan, even if it may well mean getting shot of her mad husband/lackey as part of it.
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  177. But surely someone in her role should have been able to come up with a comment that was both coherent and respectful? Had she managed that, there would have been nothing to 'pick apart,' surely?
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  178. She is wasting her time. The United Nations has been utterly unfit for purpose for years.
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  179. How can opinions be lies?
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  180.  @chattonlad9382  You should see the denture I now wear following the loss of four front teeth to one of these menaces a few years ago!
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  181.  @alexwillis7093  Perhaps, but do you think an inane grin was the correct response?
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  182. Presumably just drugged to make his wanderings more controllable?
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  183. Please stop criticising the Markles. If it continues, they might be obliged to leave the US, and return to Britain. Losing the First Test was bad enough; we couldn't cope with that as well!
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  184. Sunak's recent behaviour, and his presentation of his 'arguments' concerning why people should vote Conservative, cannot have been so utterly inept by accident. Either he wishes to escape what is coming, or he is a double agent working for Starmer.
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  185.  @hemaiananiseni5132  At least you have, potentially, light at the end of the tunnel. Britain has 4.5 more years of the Dear Leader and his 'everyone who denies my greatness must be a far right extremist' rampant insanity. Although, in 4.5 years, I worry about how much of Britain will be left.
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  186. You miss the point. In the eyes of these people, only British Slavery was ever Bad Slavery. That practised by others was simply an early form of social service. The Portuguese transported more slaves to the New World than the British ever did, but cries of 'Henry the Navigator must fall' seem conspicuous by their absence. Moreover, modern slavery doesn't seem to concern them much either. After all, who cares if child labour is used to produce the cheap trainers, clothes, and smartphones that they desire? However, becoming excited about something which ended, in Britain's case, almost 200 years ago, is much more fun. Isn't virtue-signalling wonderful!!
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  187. I was quite alarmed until I realised you weren't talking about the International Cricket Council.
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  188. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  189. I wonder if she also believes in the Loch Ness monster? Or that Scotland will win the European Soccer Championship? A mate of mine with a slight stammer tells me that it sometimes makes it difficult for him to pronounce words. It doesn't cause him to invent them. As President Biden famously remarked, 'America can be summed up in one word :- Esprzzxerllinwq.'
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  190.  @shezza2191  Why, then, are you writing in English? Is there a Maori word for 'hypocrisy?' The origin of the word is Greek, by the way, via ecclesiastical Latin. hupokrisis. Literally, ‘acting of a theatrical part’, as you, of course, are doing now.
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  191. Who said 'every one?' Isn't a 96th birthday rather out of the ordinary?
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  192. By 'the first' I assume you mean the first to convert to Islam?
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  193. Please No! The Dear Leader will bring them all to Britain before the week is out.
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  194. Just when Sunak thinks things can't get any worse, one of the most detested figures in British politics (and there are plenty to choose from!) comes out in support of him! Still, Rishi doubtless has his Green Card, and will be off to America shortly.
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  195. The best way to react is not to react.
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  196. Please don't get any crazy ideas. Like sending them back to us!
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  197. I doubt he has even remembered that an Election is taking place.
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  198. But surely all the best weddings end in a family punch up?
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  199.  @meredithisme3752  Princess Anne holds a whole host of military titles. As with most Royals, they are honorary, of course.
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  200. The picture looked just like one of relatives visiting an elderly member of the family in his care home. Perhaps it was?
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  201. If a 'reliable source' aka Omid Scobie, says so, then it must be true. Mustn't it??
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  202.  @Tayl-top  Perhaps you confuse 'drama' with 'comedy'?
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  203.  @user-mv9tt4st9k  Freudian slip, perhaps?
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  204.  @AV-fo5de  Oh for the old days. Superfluous Royal princes were encased in armour, placed on a large horse, and sent off to get killed by the French.
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  205. I think Americans should be more concerned about the fact that someone in his condition claims to own shotguns.
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  206. Indeed, and she will be punished for it.
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  207. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  208.  @stephenveltman9474  Thanks! We openers didn't bother with helmets in those days. We were tough. Correction : for 'Tough' read 'Stupid.'
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  209.  @jasperhorace7147  I don't doubt that many of these young men would indeed be willing to fight. My concern would be who for?
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  210.  @danieledmunds588  'I was being polite.' Then I would respectfully submit that you concept of 'politeness' is not the commonly held one.
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  211.  @shezza2191  Precisely. Thank you for making my point for me, even if I rather led you into it. By writing in English, you are able to communicate with a large per centage of the world's population. Had you had the courage of your supposed convictions, you would have been restricted to a few thousand in one part of the planet. Of course it is your opinion. You have my deepest sympathy.
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  212. Perhaps only people with Maori ancestry will be permitted to vote?
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  213. Is Charles Saxe Coburg Gotha a closet republican? His every word and action seems intended to overthrow the monarchy.
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  214. Difficult to do in a six minute interview, I suggest.
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  215. Perhaps for money, until the reality became intolerable?
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  216. Harris & Markle. The Dream Ticket!!!
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  217.  @TheWhitehawker  She isn't, but she may well be the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
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  218. @1JohnnyUTAH Perhaps the obvious has escaped you? Contempt for Harry Markle does not in itself equate to adoration of other members of the Royal Family.
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  219. @Blue You do realise that, alone of any imperial or former imperial power, Britain alone gave independence to former colonies, and retains to this day friendly relations with them. Tell mev any other power which has accomplished this. At the same time, you might perhaps explain what the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and most of Africa would have been like without the arrival of western settlers. Are you a fan of the stone age way of life?
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  220.  @scorpionking4012  For an example look at the recent by-election in what used to be Britain. In Rochdale, a constituency with a large, immigrant, population, some 50% of the votes cast were postal ones, and almost all were for the same individual. Odd, that, wasn't it?
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  221. Yet large numbers of veterans who took greater risks during their period of service are not, by law, permitted to wear their own uniforms? You consider this fair?
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  222.  @kermitthehermit9588  In what way has the Industrial Revolution been a disaster? It's true that we don't share the benefits very well with poor people, especially poor people in Third World countries. But societies were no more equal or caring before industrialization, so why is it the fault of the Industrial Revolution?
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  223.  @craignelson3361  You saw a white family in a TV commercial? Congratulations!
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  224.  @WE-WUZZING-KANGS-N-SHEEOYT  How does that explain why she dresses like a fourteen years old?
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  225. In what used to be Britain, she would probably be employed as CEO of an NHS Trust.
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  226.  @wuper2270  Isn't an Australian channel broadcasting facts to the people of the USA, given the attitude of much of the media there, akin to the BBC of 1940-1945 broadcasting to the poor oppressed peoples of Western Europe?
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  227. I remember seeing that 'revelation' and Winfrey's reaction to it. This Oprah person is not really much use at acting, is she?
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  228.  @josefhotahi  As I am now past my best as a batsman (sorry, batter, as I must now apparently say) I asked our club's head coach if I might be permitted to self-identify as a thirteen year old girl, in order to open the batting for the under 15's girl's team. I am not as light on my feet as I used to be, but I hope that the bruises will fade with time.
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  229.  @paulmccloud9395  Ah, but modern slavery is needed, to produce the smartphones, cheap clothes, and trainers these people like. Far easier to virtue-signal relentlessly about something which ended around 200 years ago, and which can't possible inconvenience them.
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  230. You mean he shouldn't express an opinion because you don't like it?
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  231. No. Most of us would never have been born, after our parents had been either exterminated or deported for short, unpleasant, lives as slave labour in the fatherland.
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  232. A 4th term for hubby! Isn't she wealthy enough already?
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  233. Her comment, on fleeing her office, that she wanted to be remembered as someone who was 'kind' was comparable in unconscious irony with hitler, in his bunker in April. 1945, telling his staff that he hoped to go down in history as 'ein pacifist'.
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  234.  @paulsara9694  'We people' didn't vote for him. Only less than one in five of the UK electorate, 19%, actually voted Labour. The last election was the result of our outdated first past the post system. This worked when there were two major parties, initially Tory/Liberal and then Tory/Labour, but it cannot cope when there are four or five parties, as there are now. What was in essence a protest vote ended up putting the equivalent of a high school debating society into power. In addition, I wonder how many of those who voted Labour would have done so if they had known that the Labour Election Manifesto was a complete pack of lies?
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  235. I must confess I haven't been paying much attention recently. How are you colonists faring on your own? Best regards, Lord North.
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  236. Please don't refer to 'Rhodes.' There is a Rhodes in Greece, and one near Manchester, England. She might get confused.
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  237. 'Disaffected Tory Voters?' After Sunak's antics, isn't that every one of them?
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  238.  @RedWaveGraphics  Actually, it was. 'The monarch broke with centuries-old tradition following the 9/11 attacks, directing the Coldstream Guards to play the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace as a show of solidarity.'
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  239.  @robnunurbiznezz7618  Thank you for, as we say over here, 'Explainin' the bleedin' obvious!!!' Sarcasm does seem to have evaded the grasp of some people, alas.
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  240.  @simongross3122  'I don't like your opinion. Therefore it should not be permitted.' Is that really what you are saying? Musk did not create the disturbances in Britain.
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  241.  @Malik16-mk6ty  Have you ever heard of metaphor? Looks like I'm going to give you a lesson about metaphor.' Had you actually used a metaphor, you post would perhaps have made some slight sense. As you didn't, then alas it doesn't. If it helps, this is what a metaphor actually is :- 'A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.' You should really stop digging, as the hole you have made for yourself is already rather deep.
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  242. Of course they are 'bothered' about the Queen. She is a woman in her mid 90s, and there might be something for them in her will.
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  243. @Blue Your ignorance is astounding. Where were cultures destroyed, other perhaps than human sacrifice in places like Benin, and Suttee in India? What makes you think that a country with a population of 10.1 million (1801 Census) already at war with the largest military power in Europe, was able, militarily, to invade and conquer a place like India, with a population of around 150 million? By the time of the Raj, around 25,000 British administrators administerered an Indian population which had grown to almost 200 million. How did the evil British manage that without the support of a vast, Indian, civil service and the consent of the existing Indian States? As to the Americas, New Zealand, Australia, and most of Africa, as western settlers in the 17-19th centuries found them in the same sort of condition that Europe had been in in around 4000 B.C., the peoples there hadn't made much progress on their own. What makes you believe that they would have made sudden startling advances? The fact is, the progress they made is due almost entirely to western science, philosophy, engineering, education, and law. Are you actually a troll? You really cannot be as stupid as you pretend?
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  244. There's bin a muhder!
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  245. Lord Debden? In an earlier life, wasn't he the celebrated John Seldom-Glummer? I recall that, during the 'Mad Cow Disease' scare of a few years ago, he rammed a burger down the throat of his young daughter in front of cameras. Good to see him still coining it in the House of the Living Dead.
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  246.  @BeautifullyMixed72  Please promise me that you will keep the pair of them, together with their progeny. Believe me, they are not wanted back in Britain.
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  247.  @artstocker60  I'm sure that I read that, in the early years of the United States, the vice-president was actually the losing candidate in the Presidential election. Now wouldn't that have been entertaining?
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  248. I remember Dylan when he played second row forward for London Irish. Oh, wait. I must be thinking of someone else.
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  249. Perhaps the Chinese will retaliate by concluding a mutual defence pact with their New Zealand friends?
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  250. Quite why two prominent politicians feel the need to shove their respective oars in is a mystery. It rather reminds me of a cartoon in a UK newspaper after the 2005 Ashes, which has Cherie Blair saying to Andrew Flintoff ' My Tony is a great fan of yours. He has a video of every one of your goals.' The reality is that, within the laws, Carey was quite entitled to do what he did. The argument, which really serves no purpose, is whether this idea of the 'Spirit of Cricket' applies. People who debate that should experience a grudge match in local league cricket!
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  251.  @lukemckean6155  'Weird question.' Not really. Isn't that what these demonstrators are actually saying?
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  252. At least part of Macron's statement was true. The one where he said 'I don't think.'
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  253. I assume the Markles are hoping for a few quid from the will.
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  254. Ever heard the phrase 'Roi fainéant, or"do-nothing king"?' It is a French term primarily used to refer to the later kings of the Merovingian dynasty after they seemed to have lost their initial powers of dominion. It is usually applied to those Frankish rulers approximately from the death of Dagobert I in AD 639 (or, alternatively, from the accession of Theuderic III in 673) until the deposition of Childeric III in favour of Pepin the Short in 751. It appears to have been first used by the historian Einhard. 'There was nothing left for the King to do but to be content with his name of King, his flowing hair, and long beard, to sit on his throne and play the ruler, to give ear to the ambassadors that came from all quarters, and to dismiss them, as if on his own responsibility, in words that were, in fact, suggested to him, or even imposed upon him. He had nothing that he could call his own beyond this vain title of King and the precarious support allowed by the Mayor of the Palace in his discretion, except a single country seat, that brought him but a very small income.' The Mayors of the Palace, who really governed the Frankish state, were the ancestors of Charlemagne, by the way. Although, of course, Biden's income is anything but 'small'.
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  255.  @matthewdanko4064  Not when the 'look' is a carefully cultivated part of the image.
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  256. I know people who can, and have, done all three. Some of them I would not trust to remember to feed my cat. The problem with Biden is not physical fitness, but his obvious mental deterioration.
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  257. He isn't the only Charles who needs to keep out of politics.
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  258.  @goldfish2379  Likewise. We have been buying Australian and South African wine instead of French or German for years. How, however, will we cope with the glories of French cheese? In point of fact, quite easily.
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  259. Meghan's 'The Bench' was an excellent book. My dining table is no longer wobbly as it fitted perfectly under the short leg. Best charity shop 25 pence I ever spent.
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  260.  @Tyronepeader  Indeed. Britain's economy is in almost as much difficulty as that of the EU Member States.
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  261. Ever heard of Napoleon Bonaparte! One of his maxims was 'never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake.' I suspect that Trump's team are following the same route. Kamala Harris can destroy her credibility without outside help.
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  262.  @yolandascholten2012  I believe that concern was expressed that any child might inherit Charles' ears, until Meghan was reassured by being told that Charles wasn't Harry's father.
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  263. Some of the words in your headline are superfluous. 'Joe Biden ‘not aware’ ' would be sufficient in itself.
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  264. I doubt that people have many qualms about voting for a woman. Perhaps voting for someone who consistently shows herself to be utterly incapable might be another matter, however.
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  265. The reason that neither the police nor the council chose not to act was, apparently, concern over 'community relations.'
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  266. Cruel. Even Putin doesn't deserve that.
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  267. Sorry, but I stopped reading at the point where you suggested that Harry should read something. Far too far-fetched a concept.
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  268. Sadly, that happened in Britain, at all levels of education, some time ago.
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  269. I wonder what he was a 'Professor' of?
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  270. In Britain, before our election, consideration was being given to a single-wicket match between Starmer and Sunak. The idea was abandoned when Starmer was advised that Sunak's Indian ancestry probably meant that he would be a skilled leg-break bowler with a cunningly disguised Googly (Bosie). Angela Raynor believed that Starmer's straight up and down medium pacers would not be able to compete, In any case, Angela refused to make the butties for the lunchtime interval. As you are American, I suspect this entire post sounds like gibberish to you!
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  271.  @Malik16-mk6ty  Another definition for you to consider :- 'Fact - Noun. A thing that is known or proved to be true.' Presumably you know all about me, my life & career, and my depressing weakness against leg-spin?
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  272.  @Malik16-mk6ty  'You have to be the unpopular type that no one wants to be friends with and no girl cares about him.' Was that another attempted metaphor?
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  273. But Minnie Mouse is a possibility, perhaps?
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  274.  @keithhoss4990  Why not ask the mother of the person after whom the award was named for her opinion? It carries far more weight than either mine or yours.
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  275.  @keithhoss4990  As did the United States to British servicemen. How is that relevant in this case, however?
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  276.  @willowtree9291  Everyone has a tale about a relative who smoked 100+ cigarettes a day, and lived to be 115, before being knocked over and killed by a bus when out jogging.
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  277.  @fredsmith5473  The essence of the problem seems to be that he hasn't yet grasped that he is no longer Leader of the Opposition, where his comments didn't really matter, but is now Prime Minister, where they most certainly do. If ever there was a time to call for unity & calm, this was that time. Instead, he called for division and violence by labelling vast numbers of ordinary people as 'right wing racist thugs.'
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  278. Actuallu Marlene Headley.
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  279. @Blue You continue to demonstrate your ignorance of history.
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  280.  @deadboltzz5199  What might that have been? I thought it was on the principle of 'No taxation without representation?' Are you saying it was for another reason?
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  281. I fear that, in a few years' time, Christians will not be safe in many parts of Britanistan.
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  282. In reality, I expect Charles to 'have a quiet word' with those who pull the strings. After all, his little boy is rather 'special' and he wouldn't want him to be humiliated further than he has been.
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  283. Imagine Old Joe as Prime Minister of Great Britain in September, 1939. 'I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been given, and consequently, this country is now at war with France...'' Oh, er...'
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  284. I bought a new Gunn & Moore bat towards the end of last season. He can have the old one, which is in excellent condition apart from a number of red marks down the outside edge. Dammit!
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  285.  @garydurandt4260  I'll tell him. We are in the middle of a game of chess, and he has the advantage. He keeps knocking the board over.
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  286. You are missing the point. In HarryMarkleWorld, he is the only person ever, in the history of the planet, to have lost a parent.
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  287. When I took early retirement from my company, I was shocked to discover that my salary was not paid into my bank the following month. Obviously, I intend to sue.
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  288. Many who live in what used to be Britain ask similar questions about the hatred similar people show here.
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  289. Next season I will try shouting 'I DIDN'T EDGE IT' over and over again, until the umpire finally changes his mind. It might work?
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  290.  @gfersurvived6622  Perhaps you are not aware of British law?
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  291. What makes you think that you will get the opportunity?
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  292. But as any senior British Civil Servant, about to retire early on a gold-plated pension, will explain to you, 'So what? It is only public money.'
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  293. Is there anything in the US constitution which requires that a President actually be alive during his/her presidency? If not, I suggest Theodore Roosevelt might make a suitable candidate.
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  294. It really isn't fair. No matter how many lies Harry Markle tells about his family, and how many insults he throws at them, they still won't apologise.
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  295. At least she appeared to be the only person in the room, so presumably no-one heard her ramblings.
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  296. In Britain, the Dear Leader and his cabinet are trying to tread very carefully over this issue. Too much overt support for Israel, after all, and Lord Alli might want his generous 'gifts' back.
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  297.  @yapandasoftware  All Jewish religious movements agree that a person may be a Jew either by birth or through conversion. According to halakha, a Jew by birth must be born to a Jewish mother. Halakha states that the acceptance of the principles and practices of Judaism does not make a person a Jew.
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  298. The manner in which he sat there, staring into the camera, seemingly frozen with horror at being challenged, was worth watching in itself. That's an interesting discussion!!!
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  299. BBC news treated the event as a tragedy. The presenters didn't actually wear sombre clothes with black armbands, whilst solemn martial music played in the background, but it seemed to come rather close to that. I thought her announcement was akin to Captain Smith handing over command of RMS Titanic to Chief Officer Wilde about 90 minutes after her disagreement with the iceberg.
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  300. Quite the reverse. She will probably end up with a peerage.
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  301.  @Chris-wyt  Easily. Simply look at the people who dominate this organisation. It isn't my duty to spoon feed you.
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  302. Something similar happens in Britain. I am having a DNA test at the moment. If I am lucky enough to have a bit of Sub Saharan African in me, it could be a nice little earner in the near future. I need to buy a new helmet before April, following an 'incident' in September of 2023, and it could be of considerable assistance. I must learn to duck. Or bat lower down.
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  303. Perhaps he had indeed consulted with his doctors, but between the consultation and the press conference had forgotten what they had said to him?
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  304. Much as the US & British/Commonwealth referred to the German & Japanese populations in WW2 as rge enemy. With equal justification.
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  305.  @snelgrave101  Boney expressed the idea as 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake.'
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  306. Perhaps when they commit some?
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  307. Please, please! Have Prince William's bestest chum Dame Jacinda Ardern taken back to NZ.
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  308. Fact Checking Joe Biden? That must be a full time job for dozens of staff.
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  309. Personally, I am looking forward to booking my ticket for the next time England Women play India Women in a Test Match at Old Trafford, just to watch Jennifer Archer & Mary Wood opening the bowling, with Jenny Anderson & Shirley Broad returning to International Cricket as change bowlers. In more ways than one!
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  310. Even when Mr. Biden's mind still worked, he was a career politician. Isn't 'lying' what these people do?
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  311. As a foreigner, it seems to me extremely odd that Trump's age should now suddenly be an issue, when up until around two weeks ago, age was not an issue at all. Perhaps you might explain this change to an ignorant Limey?
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  312. It wouldn't work in Britonistan. Tell those of conscriptable age that they must be willing to put their lives on the line in order to protect those poor lads in the hotels, and see what happens. I suppose we could always arm the lads themselves. I wonder which way their weapons might point, however?
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  313. Nor did my British ones.
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  314. The reality is that these leftists have become aware of how much of a tiny (if inordinately influential) minority they are, and are becoming increasing hysterical and irrational as a result.
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  315. This hasn't crossed the pond well. I doubt that Whoopi knows what a 'working girl' is in a British context.
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  316.  @shemarmoore5292  How, then, do you explain his popularity ratings?
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  317.  @JerryBagus-ul4pj  As Spock would have said 'It's English, Jim. But not as we know it.'
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  318. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  319. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  320. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  321. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  322. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  323. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  324. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  325. Perhaps Bruce Ismay should have tried the same approach in 1912? 'The Titanic isn't sunk until I say she is sunk, and I'm not going to say that.' Biden's carers seems to think this approach might work.
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  326.  @peyofox  Wandering around the place telling everyone how wicked the British have always been, and how he, like daddy, really dislikes the native peasantry who fund their unassuming lifestyles, was always something of a clue.
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  327. “Whom the gods wish to destroy….. they first make mad.” A 17th century version, by Jacques Duport. of a comment first attributed to Euripides. You think you have concerns? Look at Britain, and Sir Keir Starmer, the Dear Leader.
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  328.  @DennisMcCoy-b2r  Oh dear. It seems that you are totally unaware that Kaur is one of Markle's team?
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  329. Only just under one in five actually did. Another triumph for First Past the Post.
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  330. There is a similar character in Britain called David Lammy, who also has a Law degree. He is currently the shadow Foreign Secretary, but appeared in a celebrity general knowledge show in which, when asked which monarch succeeded Henry VIII, said, after thinking about it, 'Henry VII.' Some people simply meet certain quotas. It seems that writing their names at the top of the exam paper with only one spelling error guarantees a pass.
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  331. 'Intends?' Does Fred think there is someone on the bridge, steering it?!
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  332.  @shezza2191  'like you said normally.' My reply wasn't to you. You are already confused enough without making things even worse.
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  333. Normally, an answer bears some relevance to the question asked.
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  334.  @paulveenings6861  It was simply a question.
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  335. Aren't these English Language experts such a treat when they post on here?
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  336. If he is re-elected for a second term, will he actually know that he has been re-elected?
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  337.  @juliansydney9819  'Everyone in the world has staff turnover. How old are you?? If you mean me, and you haven't made it clear, I am a retired Regional Manager who worked in the Logistics Industry since leaving University. I had, at the time of my early retirement, a staff of around thirty office employees and over 100 vehicle crew employees. Staff turnover was higher among the crews, probably around four to six or thereabouts per year. In the office, two per year on average, generally by transfer to other sites, or for career progression. Does that answer your question?
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  338.  @nomahope3182  Obviously you have a credible source? Of course you do.
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  339.  @keithhoss4990  'He was an Apache gunner in Afghanistan.' So were many others, who have not received any awards.
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  340.  @tkAusfrom4492  Supporters of my club team used to tell me that my batting style (leave as much as possible and block everything else) was responsible for the serious reduction in attendance at our matches during my time there. I think (hope) they were being complimentary about my sound defensive technique, but I agree that I would not have excelled at 20/20.
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  341.  @michelebourke4340  Have you ever considered writing your posts in coherent English?
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  342. 'Sociology.' That brings back memories. We used to encounter Sociology students quite often in my days at Manchester. They were generally the ones who needed help finding their lecture rooms.
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  343.  @MatovuJob  Quite. Critical comments based on someone's political views are acceptable. Vile personal attacks, particularly on someone who the speaker has never met, are not.
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  344.  @frogsoda  Which hasn't answered my initial question.
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  345. Wasn't Biden's greatest moment commanding the US fleet at the Battle of Midway? Or the US army during the Argonne offensive in 1918? Just like him, I get confused rather easily these days.
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  346. I wonder if his resignation agreement means that he is given a shiny new Camper Van? Perhaps a caretaker First Minister will be appointed? Nicola Sturgeon?
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  347. We have come to expect this sort of thing in the UK. You have my sympathies.
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  348.  @lindarowley4972  Expect him to use his standard, all-purpose, answer when things go against him. 'A big boy did it, then ran away.'
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  349. Ah, but modern slaves produce the cheap clothes and trainers, as well as the smartphones, which these people covet. Far easier to express indignation about something which ended almost 200 years ago than to do anything about modern slavery.
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  350. You don't consider that Africans were anything other than innocent victims? You believe that slavery was an entirely British phenomenon? The first western ships arrived on the west African coast as explorers/traders. Only the ready supply of slaves made available by tribal leaders and Arab slavers generated the market. Moreover, Arabs and African chieftains had been involved in slavery for at least 1500 years before any westerners arrived. How sad that education has been superseded by indoctrination.
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  351. Kiddie Hawk is a small charity whose mission statement claims that it seeks to introduce 6 - 9 years old children to the joys of aviation. Doubtless worthy enough, but hardly worth all the fuss being made, surely? Simply look them up on line for confirmation.
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  352. Originally a Hindi word, meaning 'zany, dunce, dodo, duffer, nut, dunderhead.' It means much the same in English.
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  353. Small grumble from a foreigner. A 'Radicle' is part of a plant embryo. I will go away now.
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  354.  @channahnoyb4803  Having heard his comments, I wonder what sort of career he might have, except possibly as an organ donor?
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  355. It appears that the press has the Freedom to ask questions. It would also appear that the President has the Freedom not to answer any. Democracy in action?
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  356. Boris Johnson is a politician. Like every other politician on the planet, he is not 'good.'
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  357.  @randimcbeth2982  You have more confidence than I do!
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  358.  @simonkevnorris  Might I propose a solution? Sentence these people to community service. In this case a few hours of training with one of the packs!
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  359. Am I totally in error, or is Trump consciously (or even unconsciously) trying to copy the famous WW2 photograph of Churchill?
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  360. Hasn't Blinken come up in the world since he was Robin Hood's sidekick in 'Robin Hood - Men in Tights?'
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  361. Isn't the most concerning thing of all that, for still more than two months, that sad demented old man is the leader of the Free World? Or, at least, we are expected to believe that he is.
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  362. I think that Harris was a wonderful actor, who died far too soon. You do mean Richard Harris, don't you?
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  363. Perhaps that will be the one he turns up in.
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  364. Yet the many thousands of veterans in the UK are barred, by law, from wearing their own uniforms? You consider that fair and just?
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  365.  @gweilospur5877  A useful alternative is to say that your opponent is RAYCIST!!!! That immediately makes debate impossible.
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  366. I remember seeing an old documentary about a young Biden leading a charge up somewhere called San Juan Hill. At least, I think it was San Juan Hill, although it might have been about his defeat of something called Pickett's Charge. Like Winston Biden, I do get confused at times.
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  367. I suspect that a 6' 4" white man who chewed tobacco, carried a shotgun, and talked about football would still have lost had he shown himself to be clueless when asked about political matters.
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  368. I didn't know that the UN committee which came up with the two state eolution rejected by the arabs were Royal.
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  369. Harry will posture and sulk until his weak and ineffectual grandfather backs down, as has just happened over the uniform issue. The Markles, through their lackey Scobie, are already mocking him. What a shame the crown couldn't have passed to Anne, who at least seems to have a backbone conspicuously absent from her older brother.
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  370.  @mountainoflight1.392  Mindlessly repeating the same comment does nothing for your spurious argument.
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  371.  @davidsawyer6003  Well, I identify as the greatest second row forward ever to play the game of Rugby Union. No one believes me either, dammit!
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  372.  @klaasdykstra8127  You want a truly professional left wing propaganda machine, just tune in to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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  373.  @miltonhollis703  You do know that 'Doctor' Jill is a Doctor of Education, I suppose??
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  374. At least she didn't seem to be drunk this time. However, that gives her even less excuse for this nonsense.
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  375.  Wrath of Kali  Chamberlain left Churchill's war cabinet in September, 1940. He was dying of bowel cancer, and passed away on 9 November, 1940.
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  376.  @marksimmonds2353  Well, bully for you. Perhaps you are the exception which proves the rule?
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  377. The saddest things of all were the expressions of what only could be described as tolerant bewilderment on the faces of the poor soldiers having to listen to her. I never thought the day would come when I actually felt sorry for members of the US military!
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  378. Hardly surprising. The left have been systematically infiltrating the education system since they realised that they could never win power through the ballot box. From the 1980s, if not earlier. Children coming through the system now are only presented with one view. Conflicting ones are systematically cancelled. If those who are, supposedly, educators, are allowed to continue in this manner then the end result is a thoroughly indoctrinated population. Or, as Aristotle said “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.”
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  379. As Harry Markle regularly says, 'It doesn't matter how often, how crudely, and how falsely, I insult my father, he still refuses to apologise.'
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  380. Or, in Cynthia Nixon's memorable words : LOOK AT ME!!! LOOK AT ME!!!!!!
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  381.  @turnerfamilyinozi  'Jan 26 is the day that UK colonisation of Australia began.' Presumably, you believe Australia would have been far better remaining at a Mesolithlic level of culture, with the average life expectancy at 30 for the most fortunate?
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  382.  @turnerfamilyinozi  I have nothing to lose, as I checked the item on other channels. Your attempt to patronise me has failed, little chap.
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  383. Alfred Hitchcock, who was also 'terribly white' once said that all he expected of his actors was that they remember their lines and not fall over the sets. That person rather confirmed his opinion.
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  384. A lesson is being taught in what used to be Britain. If you are in public life and dare to criticise the faithful, you will be removed from it.
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  385. Perhaps you confused Powell quoting from a Roman writer with his actual words? Oh, sorry, no 'perhaps' about it.
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  386. Perhaps you are unaware of events later in the day? I wouldn't be surprised, as the BBC carefully avoided mentioning them.
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  387. You think you have problems? In the UK we are in the middle of what amounts to a coup.
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  388. If anyone is interested in the attitude of the Senior Management of the NHS, or at least the Nursing and Midwifery Council, search for a post by the 'Equality, Diversity & Inclusion' Lead, Aishnine Benjamin, titled 'Dear White People in the U.K.' As one of the detested indigenous population in the UK, I dare not comment further myself.
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  389. Islands are not safe either. I live on Britanistan.
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  390. Hello dad, it's me Harry. Harry Markle. Can I ask you to speak clearly so that the recording device can pick up your words? Now, please say something insulting about dear Meghan's ethnicity Hello dad? Are you still there?
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  391. To be more specific, the public are tired of the media shoving this nonsense down our throats at every opportunity.
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  392. They probably did, and concluded that, whilst the planet was capable of sustaining intelligent life, there appeared to be none actually there.
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  393. Every time the sad old chap emerges, the horror in the Harris camp must be tangible.
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  394. Only this morning, Sunak has been advised by a special Committee that he must take action against the increasing Islamophobia in Britain.
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  395. People are being unfair to Biden. After all, didn't he command the US Navy at Midway, and then go on to become the Allied Supreme Commander in Europe in 1944? I'm sure he will remind everyone about this soon.
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  396.  @Garfield-l5m  Woodrow Wilson didn't board either. What does that prove? Morgan, according to newspapers from March, 1912, had an engagement in Venice, at St. Mark's which he could not have attended had he boarded Titanic. Which, of course he never intended to do.
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  397. If the American public are tired of being taken for suckers, why is he still President?
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  398. As poor old Joe doesn't seem to know much about anything, does that mean he is afraid of almost everything?
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  399. Or like the Dear Leader in Britain. Problem is, it seems to involve trying to kill pensioners.
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  400. Perhaps not. But it must be immensely profitable.
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  401.  @pindapoy214  Some would say that France was in breach of contract, by steadily pushing back to completion dates for the boats, and at the same time increasing the cost of the contract itself.
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  402. Monty Python & the Holy Grail :- 'I thumb my nose in your general direction!'
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  403. A 'colonialist thief' who actually invested a fair proportion of his personal fortune in purchasing the marbles from the governor of the Ottoman province of Greece, after the building upon which they were displayed had been used, at various times over the previous 350 years, as a munitions store and a gunnery practice target, and some of the stonework was being broken up for road fill by an administration which had no interest in artwork not of Islamic origin. Your knee jerk reaction, of 'Someone British did it so it must be wrong' is so tedious.
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  404. Ironic that the Grrek PM should use as an argument the Mona Lisa. An artwork created in Italy, now securely locked away in a museum in France.
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  405. It was once, indeed, integral to the Parthenon, but the remaining Frieze is no longer in situ, but was removed some time ago because of pollution damage.
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  406. Don't you know the rules. Only white people can ever be racist.
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  407.  @tonybennett638  Definitely no, as I don't live in Australia.
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  408. Our cricket season has just finished. Next year, I intend to identify as a 14 year old girl in order to open the batting for our under 15 girl's team. I anticipate considerable success, and probably a nice trophy for winning the batting averages.
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  409. Perhaps. But he also lacks a spine, as his surrender over the uniform issue has demonstrated. What Harry wants, Harry gets, apparently. Even if this means insulting every ex serviceman and woman in the UK.
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  410. Poor Greta. It seems to be becoming increasingly hard to look relevant.
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  411.  @TunguskaTerma  Indeed, but only after a series of military victories, fifteen years in power, and with the whole of Europe combining against him.
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  412. I have some sympathy with the airhead at 4.45 as I felt the same when I heard that James Anderson was being retired. However, I doubt that Joe Biden was ever that good a bowler.
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  413. Don't be cruel. David Lammy is convincing proof of the theory that, in politics, wisdom & intelligence only hold you back.
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  414. Only nine corrections? Was it a very short speech?
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  415. It seems that getting arrested is this little girl's increasingly desperate attempt to appear relevant. I write 'little girl' because, even though she is twenty, she tries to look fourteen at the most.
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  416. Perhaps I am being unfair, but President Biden reminds me more and more of the Peter Sellers character in the 1979 movie 'Being There.'
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  417. Is there any point in sending so long a letter to Mr. Biden? Won't he have forgotten most of it by the time he reaches the end?
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  418. Is there anything in the US constitution which requires that the President must still be alive? If not, I nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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  419. I asked my son, who would be of conscription age, of his opinion. He said that he had no intention of sacrificing himself for the lads in the four star hotels, and that his view was more or less universal among his mates.
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  420.  @evaristus4821  You must be very old, and very wedded to mesolithic levels of development.
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  421.  @joemoody7440  'Barbaric Colonial History?' Compared to most Empires, the British were almost saintly, whatever idiots or ill-educated people might think. Name any other Imperial Power which voluntarily gave independence to colonies, and still maintained friendly relations with them 80 years later.
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  422. You think that it is possible to debate several hundred years of history in three or four minutes? How charmingly naive. Especially when the interviewer chose to talk over the historian for most of the time.
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  423.  @tracyshute5399  Actually, giving them the benefits of Western technology, medicine, education, and law., as had been happening for almost 100 years. Why do you think the population of India increased so rapidly during the Raj? A tiny number of Britons administed India, generally through a large network of Indian civil servants. The tragedy of the deaths from Partition should be placed at the feet of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who insisted upon a separate Moslem nation. Needless to say, it won't be, of course. Not when there are easier, if incorrect, targets. What, by the way, do you think the British were 'doing to the people of India in the 1940's?'
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  424. That isn't the way it works. When a left-winger makes an outrageous statement, they use the 'Freedom of Speech' argument to justify it. However, when someone else makes an argument which disagrees with them, the same left-wingers scream hysterically for cancellation of the villain concerned. Since the idea of education was abolished in favour of indoctrination, this will become increasingly the norm. George Orwell predicted it years ago.
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  425.  SUTTYMCFC  I would like to believe that, but have doubts.
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  426. The left are never able to leave politics out of anything.
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  427.  Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace  'The British killed many more than 600k people in their quest for colonialism.' That is rather a bold statement. I assume that you can support it with a credible source?
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  428. The vast majority of people would agree with you. Unfortunately, a clique of embittered leftists seem to hold positions in the media and education out of all proportion to their numbers. It seems that, as they realise how small a group they truly are, they feel the need to become increrasingly irrational.
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  429. The President of China had a telephone conversation with Joe Biden which lasted for two hours? POOR SOD! I expect he needed a strong drink afterwards.
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  430. I take anything James Anderson says very seriously. He is, after all, perhaps the finest seam bowler England has ever produced. What? Not THAT James Anderson? Oh dear! Sorry I spoke.
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  431. I suspect that you have the same problem that exists in both the UK and the US. You no longer have education, you have indoctrination.
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  432. Actually, she is having no effect at all on the Royal Family, as she continues to destroy her own credibility.
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  433.  @Terry-g9j  Are you? Is it uncomfortable, or have you got used to it?
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  434.  @SebsWorld  I won't comment further. You are clearly an idiot, or simply ignorant of what happened in WW2.
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  435. Could I please apply to be Greta's assistant? i have been highly skilled at sitting down for years.
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  436. τὸ κακὸν δοκεῖν ποτ᾽ ἐσθλὸν τῷδ᾽ ἔμμεν' ὅτῳ φρένας θεὸς ἄγει πρὸς ἄταν; translated as "Evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction." From 'Antigone' by Sophocles. Or, in Latin, 'Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.' Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason.
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  437. I wonder if a form of government which seems to have worked quite well in the Agora of a small Greek City-State in the 5th Century BC is really appropriate to a 21st century where opinions are entirely dictated by those who control the media.
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  438. Glory to our Dear Leader President-For-Life Starmer! He will triumphantly lead a grateful nation to a wonderful future in which the People's Republic of Britain will become a Paradise on Earth! (Just thought I should put that in case the police check my e-mails and posts.)
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  439. Possibly, Trump's advisors referred him to Napoleon's old maxim, 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake?'
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  440.  @BBBrasil  Isn't it obvious? I want the most powerful nation in the Western World to be run by someone who isn't so clearly mentally disadvantaged that he might accidentally trigger off the end of the world with his penchant for bizarre off the script ramblings.
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  441. No. They are simply drones obeying orders. The problem cannot be addressed until those who give the orders are confronted.
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  442.  @stephfelis7355  In Oldham, one of the gang leaders was a council employee.
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  443. The drones who appear in this video are not the problem, although the WPC with the permanent smirk, who seemed to find what was happening amusing, was rather disconcerting. The problem lies with their seniors, who have abandoned traditional policing in favour of an 'agenda.' The drones will, of course, always act as required, just as similar ones did in 1930s Germany. After all, in their minds, BEFEHL IST BEFEHL.
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  444. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  445. @@youtubemusic1790 Someone who is entitled to an opinion, perhaps?
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  446. No, it should have been 'The Liberty Bell,' now known as the Monty Python theme.
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  447. I understand that an arrest warrant has been issued for Trump, apparently for 'Bleeding in a Public Area.'
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  448. Since when was wearing an outfit which degrades the flag of your nation 'Patriotic?'
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  449. Did the 'actress' about 2.50 in seem 'odd?' Perhaps drunk, or had she sniffed something. Her speech seemed slurred.
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  450. Please stop publicising suggestions that Harry Markle 'go home.' THe Americans allowed him in. He is their problem. IN SHORT, WE DO NOT WANT HIM BACK. WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH WASTRELS HERE!!
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  451. In ther next series of the Crown, I believe he is to be played by Hugh Laurie, in the same style as he played the Prince Regent in Blackadder III.
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  452. Likes the word 'literally' doesn't his speechwriter?
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  453. Isn't what this woman was saying akin to claiming that she put her life savings on a horse in the 3.30 at Kempton Park, because a bloke in a pub told her it was a dead cert?
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  454. Yes he will. The British system of governance has been described, correctly, as an elective dictatorship. With around 33.7% of the actual vote, equating to around one in five of those eligible to vote in the UK, the Dear Leader has a huge majority. For so long as his MPs continue to troop mindlessly through the voting lobbies (and, for £91,000 per year, expenses which are effectively unlimited, and the opportunity to make lots of 'contacts' who wouldn't?) he is untouchable, whatever the irrelevant 'little people' and their petitions might hope.
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  455. Surely you know the first think you are taught at Secret Service school? If the person you are protecting is under attack, make sure your dark glasses are on straight.
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  456.  @DennisMcCoy-b2r  It should be reasonably clear. Kaur, apart from being a notorious race baiter, is part of the Markle team.
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  457. This Kaur person is a notorious race grifter who has wandered around the new outlets for years, generally shouting, and interrupting anyone who tries to debate with her. It is her vile outbursts which keep her in business.
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  458. Your caps lock has jammed. You should tell your carers and they will have it repaired for you.
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  459. As Dr. Samuel Johnson might have said had he been around today, and before he was cancelled, of course :- ''Sir, Sir Keir Starmer's Premiership is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It's not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all. ''
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  460.  @peterraidal6659  I don't know if your post is addressed to me personally. However, if it is, I have a First Class Honours Degree from Manchester University, in Modern History. I fail, however, to understand why this might be relevant.
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  461. I look forward to the day when two politicians in an election debate on British TV argue about who has the better batting average, and who is the better player of spin on a worn wicket. Of the present crop, my money would be on Sunak, whose Indian ancestry might give him a natural advantage.
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  462. Charles & William, or at least their advisors, seem to have instituted a policy of attempting to ingratiate themselves with the new racial superiors of the indigenous white native population of Great Britain. It will not work, but will probably destroy the post Elizabeth II monarchy. I can't recall when either last said anything positive about we peasants, even though we are the ones who fund the modest lifestyle the pair enjoy. Oh well. Off to Naseby I go.With my pike!
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  463. It does seem odd that Ngozi Fulani, aka Marlene Headley, should be able to remember the exact words of a longish conversation. I suspect most people assume that she deliberately engineered this 'incident' but I wonder if she was recording it as well. Couldn't someone running a charity exclusive of white women be considered rather 'RAYCIST!!!' herself?
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  464. As Maori invaders eradicated the people they encountered when they landed, are the effects of Maori colonialism being addressed as well?
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  465. One assumes that all people living there who cannot prove Maori ancestry will be given a reasonable amount of time in which to leave?
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  466. How dare you use the word 'dark?' You are a shameless RAYCIST!
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  467. Harris should have asked the British MP and mathematic genius Diane Abbott to read out the result. In her world, Harris would have been deemed the winner.
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  468.  @joannashworth2396  Exactly how many times do I need to explain what sarcasm is?
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  469.  @robnunurbiznezz7618  Thank you! Those bruises on my forehead are from banging it against a brick wall trying to explain what sarcasm is?
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  470.  @Tucknroll88  I will try again. As you seem unable to grasp the concept of sarcasm, I will give you the Merriam-Webster definition :- 'Sarcasm refers to the use of words that mean the opposite of what you really want to say, especially in order to insult someone, or to show irritation, or just to be funny.' Does that make my original comment clearer?
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  471.  @joannashworth2396  Alas. You must be American and thus do not understand the concept of sarcasm!
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  472. Is the Mayor Far Right, then?
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  473. You need to look a little more deeply into German politics in the 1930s. In November, 1932, the nazi party won 33.1% of the vote. Even after a campaign of violence, by March 1933, immediately after the Reichstag fire, it had only increased to 43.9%. There was opposition, which was systematically crushed by the German police, and by 'Peoples' Courts, set up in 1934 to try those accused of “crimes against the state”. Protective custody was introduced for those who 'might' commit a crime. This meant people could be arrested and interned. even if they had not broken the law. You might think that this has a familiar ring to it. I could not possibly comment.
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  474.  @PJRayment  I know he didn't say "Musk did not create the disturbances in Britain" because I did. 'Apparently' is an adverb meaning "evidently" or "obviously." Nowhere in that definition is any suggestion that it is an explanation of what others thing or feel.
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  475.  @simongross3122  Then feel free to state the source of your 'reference.'
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  476.  @simongross3122  So you didn't write 'to observe is to disturb, apparently' after all, then? Perhaps you need to attempt more clarity in your comments?
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  477. Hasn't the young lad done well?
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  478. If he was Hitler, and it was 1940, then the United States would be neutral, although happy to sell arms and supplies to the British & Commonwealth, albeit at the full market rate.
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  479. I would have thought that the one thing any bridge is intended to do is to help people get over things. Seemingly not?
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  480. As the famous Eccles once said in a long ago episode of 'The Goon Show,' 'I like chips with gravy.' That, at least, made sense.
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  481. Hic. You're my best mate you are. I really love you. Hic.
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  482.  @ithamarlowe6158  Which was averted when a staffer gave her a third bottle of Vodka, of course.
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  483.  @keithhoss4990  As I said. How are medals awarded in WW2 relevant?
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  484. @1JohnnyUTAH Read the comment again. Contempt for Harry Markle should not assume admiration for Prince William. I really cannot make it much clearer.
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  485. @1JohnnyUTAH I wasn't trying to help. I was simply explaining.
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  486. The traditional British term for that condition is 'Tired and emotional.' Several glasses of vodka, or pints of beer, tend to create the condition.
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  487. Sod that! We don't want her either. We already have enough problems.
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  488. This is what generally happens when people who have failed in their own countries seek refuge somewhere where the imagined 'authority' they gain is totally beyond their actual abilities or intellect. Perhaps it is time that rational states withdraw from the clown show that is the United Nations and the many offshoots thereof.
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  489. However, a Domestic Servant with an upper class English accent will probably go down well in the White House.
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  490.  @nyscersul42  I urge you to listen to his comments again.
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  491. Interestingly, within a month Britain might well be a pseudo Marxist state off the coast of a predominantly right of centre Europe.
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  492. What a racist comment!
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  493. I had assumed that President Biden would have been, in a few weeks time, found dead in bed, and the democrats would initiate a campaign of 'he died for YOU. Support Kamala in November to honor his memory' in order to grab a sympathy vote in the election. An unpleasant and perhaps unworthy thought, but we should always bear in mind that these people are politicians, not normal human beings.
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  494. Wasn't Biden with Teddy Roosevelt during the charge at San Juan Hill, as well?
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  495. Of course she turned up looking for trouble. That berk Prince William has simply made things significantly worse. Why is it that both the Prince of Wales and his younger brother are such irredeemable idiots? Genetic, perhaps?
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  496. What are those creatures called who leave sinking ships? Please inform me.
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  497.  @trickyboy1517  I am sorry that you don't understand how 'First Past The Post' actually works. There was a similar situation in 1933, when the nazi party won power with only 43% of the vote. Didn't that work out well? The number of seats does not often represent overall sentiment within a nation, as FPTP was designed for a two party state, and cannot cope properly when there is a greater number of parties. In 1979, the Tories won 13,697,923 votes. Labour & the Liberals won a total between them of 15,846,022 I wonder if, given your fairly clear political opinions, you would have been celebrating the glories of FPTP then? Perhaps when you become a little more mature, you will begin to learn that any FPTP system usually leaves, in many cases, the majority of people in a nation feeling that their opinions are not represented. That comment applied just as much to Thatcher's government in 1979 as it does to Starmer's in 2024.
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  498. The Left in France won sufficient seats to become the largest party, but the Right won much more of the popular vote. Similarly, in Britain, the most successful party won only 34% of the popular vote. Like it or not, support for right of centre parties is increasing. Falsely calling them 'fascists' does not alter this fact.
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  499.  @michelebourke4340  I would give you a reasoned reply, but it is evident that you are so profoundly ignorant of history that it would be akin to trying to teach my cat to play chess.
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  500. @Blue 'of course you think like that.' Sorry, old chap but I really don't need a half-wit like you to attempt to tell me how I feel or don't feel.
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  501. It is exactly the same in the UK. This is what happens when the left secure control of the education system, and replace it with an indoctrination system.
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  502. Tragically, he passed the torch without remembering to put any batteries into it.
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  503. Saying that the UN is 'not fit for purpose' is much like saying 'it goes dark at night.' So damned self-evident that it can simply be assumed.
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  504. Or for the good old days, when younger sons of royalty were put into armour, lifted onto a large horse, and sent to France to get themselves killed.
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  505. Perhaps he is stressed at the behaviour of his disreputable 'father?'
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  506. Oh great! Just what Britain needs. Doubtless she will be getting her very own show on BBC soon? Haven't we got enough problems with a government made up of members of a sixth form debating society??
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  507. You are frightened? How do you think the rest of us feel?
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  508. The term used in the UK is 'tired & emotional' which means 'drunk' of course.
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  509. Ironically, Partition occurred because of the behaviour of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who was, ironically, threatening civil war if a separate Islamic state was not established'
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  510. Hasn't anyone ever told you that the words 'actors' & 'integrity' are mutually exclusive? the same applies to the word 'politician.'
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  511. I hope Mr. Trump has sufficient maturity to judge people on their current ability rather than their past behaviour. Unfortunately, if he takes this approach to Mr. Lammy, we British are totally done for.
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  512. Don't you people know how the British system of governance works? A back bench MP cannot simply become a Minister. He or she is required to undertake a complex IQ test first. Anyone who exceeds a certain level is, of course, barred from a Ministerial post. Fortunately, this was never a danger where Mr. Lammy was concerned.
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  513. Perhaps Biden's carers wrote the speech to protect him. 'If you get rid of poor Joe, look what you get instead.' I thought we British had problems, but ours pale into insignificance!
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  514. Eat your heart out, Demosthenes! A Phillipic had nothing on that for inspired eloquence. Oh dear, is that really the standard of oratory in the United States?
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  515. Phew! What a relief to see that uncontrolled insanity is not exclusive to GB.
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  516. Good to see that many Australian politicians are just as intellectually lacking as most of the ones we have in Britanistan.
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  517. Apparently, Greta graciously allowed some of her disciples to touch the hem of her gown, and even laid hands on the heads of those who begged a blessing!
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  518. In Britain my wife is showing her support by only wearing her left shoe as a protest against right-wing politics. She keeps falling over.
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  519. Breaking news. A box containing 7,000,000 uncounted votes has just been found under a desk in Philadelphia.
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  520.  @baraskparas9559  I had hoped for better, but you clearly aren't educated enough to grasp the way a constitutional monarchy works.
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  521. Australia became a 'Commonwealth' with control over her government and internal policies in 1901.
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  522.  @AITrademarket  You don't know much about the history of the slave trade, clearly. Perhaps you are unaware that slavery in Africa preceded the arrival of Europeans by at least 1500 years? The typical slave ship had a crew of 30 to 40 men. The slaves were handed over to these crews in exchange for trade goods shipped out from Britain. There was rarely any force involved, because the chieftains and Arab slavers were eager to do deals, and the small crews could not possibly have used force, because if they did the source of the slaves would cease. As for 'strongest and most viable assets,' the slaves were generally excess population, or individuals captured in inter-tribal conflicts. Do you really believe that hoards of evil westerners rampaged across Africa kidnapping noble Africans? Either you are poorly educated, or simply a victim of the current enthusiasm for indoctrination instead of education.
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  523. She wasn't making an argument, she was simply stating facts. Without the enthusiastic co-operation of African rulers and Arab traders, the trade as it evolved would simply not have been possible.
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  524. I blame the Beaker People, who arrived in the British Isles around 4500 years ago, and brought their damned silly pots with them.
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  525. Clearly, you don't like the facts about the origins of the slave trade.
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  526.  @mastere2460  It is always fascinating to read the comments of a fantasist who personal prejudice prevents him from accepting the facts of the slave trade, and the important roll that Africans and Arabs played in it. Indeed, the role they had been playing for over 1500 years before westerners arrived, and benefitted from African & Arab greed.
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  527.  @mastere2460  Firstly, the western traders did not enslave anyone. They simply purchased existing slaves from their owners, who were African chiefs of Arab slavers. The Triangular Trade itself only developed because of the easy market made available by co-operative Africans and Arabs. Had they chosen not to co-operate, the trade could not have grown as it did. Sorry if historical facts annoy you, but they are, nevertheless, facts.
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  528. African rulers didn't 'help to keep it going,' they largely created it. They, and Arab slavers, had been heavily involved in slavery for at least 1500 years when the first westerners arrived.
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  529. No, it wasn't. There are around 45 million slaves in the world today. Actually, the historian merely responded, with accurate facts, to a ludicrous comment by a poorly educated reporter.
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  530.  @kanyamajaja2583  You don't actually seem to know any of the facts of the slave trade, or indeed of the history of slavery. Or, possibly, your personal prejudices prevent you from accepting these facts?
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  531. Perhaps you don't know, or lack the integrity to admit, that slavery in Africa, and many other places, pre-dated the arrival of Europeans by at least 1500 years?
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  532. Correct. But be careful about expressing this fact. Since indoctrination replaced education, these programmed people get very angry very easily.
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  533. The lady is entirely accurate in her comments. Without the co-operation of African rulers and Arab traders, the trade would not have been possible. A typical slave ship had a crew of 30 - 40. It arrived with trade goods, which were enthusiastically accepted in exchange for slaves, generally either the excess population, or prisoners from local wars. Moreover, slavery in Africa pre-dated western involvement by at least 1500 years. As the discussion was about British involvement, by the way, how are the excesses of Belgium and Germany relevant? I don't hear any criticism of any other country than Britain.
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  534. Perhaps you didn't listen, or simply blanked her comments? The slave trade only flourished because African tribal rulers and Arab slavers were eager to profit from it. Indeed, it pre-dated western involvement by at least 1500 years. Latin writers from the time of the Roman Empire sometimes referred to slaves as 'Aurum Arabicum' or Aurum Infelix.' - Arab gold, or wretched gold. The typical slave ship had a crew of 30 - 40. The ships transported trade goods from Britain to Africa, where they were exchanged for either prisoners taken in tribal wars, or members of the excess population. It simply could not have happened without the complicity of African rulers, and the indoctrinated myth that it was entirely the product of vast numbers of evil Britons rampaging across Africa kidnapping innocent and peaceful locals is ludicrous.
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  535. You don't consider that African rulers and Arab traders were involved then? Without them, the trade (which pre-dated European involvement by at least 1500 years) would not have been possible.
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  536. Nice? He hadn't got a credible response to her facts. Actually, the source of the slave supply has been known for centuries. Short answer, Yes Africans did sell off their own people in exchange for profit, and really didn't care in the slightest what happened to them.
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  537. What 'slaving raids?' A typical slaving ship had a crew of 30 to 40. Are you really daft enough to believe that these rampaged across Africa?
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  538. You don't consider that the many American and British pilots who served their respective countries were equally worthy of awards, albeit not ones as tinselly as this one?
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  539. Aren't 80 years old pop stars so absolutely sure that they know everything about everything?
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  540. Don't concern yourself. Harry will stamp his little foot down incessantly until his spineless amoeba of a grandfather grants him everything he demands. After all, hasn't that just happened over the uniform issue? What Harry wants, Harry gets. Doesn't he, Charles?
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  541. I liked the supposed expression of 'shock' on Oprah's face. Not exactly a natural actor, is she?
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  542. This news is personally worrying to me. As Charles is spineless enough to welcome Harry back into the bosom of his family, I am deeply concerned for my future. Can you offer me any reassurance? Yours anxiously, The Fatted Calf.
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  543. The difference, which the woman in the middle refuses to see, is that the demand has not been for a public apology, but for a public National apology. If a very wealthy upper middle class family choose to virtue-signal, that is their right, but please do not try to impose such a requirement on ordinary people as part of state policy.
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  544. Harry Markle's frustration is understandable. No matter how many lies he tells about his family, either directly or through acolytes, no matter how many insults he throws at them, they still refuse to apologise.
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  545.  @amialal4510  That is a vile calumny shamefully spread by we disgusting white RAYCISTS!!! Actually, when David Livingstone began exploring the Dark Continent, he found Africans living in zero carbon mansions, using anti-gravity vehicles to move around, and curing every known disease and ailment within days of identifying it. Disgracefully, his diaries and notes confirming all this were, of course, entirely destroyed when they were returned to Britain. Furthermore, don't forget that the Laws of Cricket were originally drawn up in Nairobi.
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  546. That is a dangerous attitude. Have you never heard the maxim, 'Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man,' attributed to Aristotle? Books containing such drivel are routinely used to indoctrinate children at nursery and primary schools by teachers who themselves have been indoctrinated.
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  547. I fear that, in Britain, many people hope that, if they keep quiet and don't make a fuss, the new elite will come for them last.
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  548. Why is this 20 years old seemingly desperate to look 14 years old?
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  549. Why are you people so vindictive towards a war hero who clearly remembers leading the air strike which sank four Japanese aircraft carriers at Midway, and then acting as Supreme Commander for the Allied landings in Normandy in June 1944?
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  550. In the UK, a pre-school teacher promoting something similar could expect promotion.
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  551.  @BornFree6664  I did refer to 'postal votes.'
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  552. Clearly I need to have a DNA test as soon as possible. If I can find a bit of African ancestry, It could be a nice little earner for me.
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  553. It is part of the embryo of a plant.
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  554. Ever read 'The Marching Morons?' It was a science fiction short story, published in 1951, about a future world populated almost entirely by total idiots. Amazing how, less than 75 years later, it has become fact.
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  555.  @nicholasadams3894  Johnson is seeking to protect the interests of the United Kingdom (whether some people agree with his policies or not is not the issue) and clearly understands that saying what he probably has long realised about President Biden is not the way to achieve do this. Quite probably, Scott Morrison ( 'that guy from Down Under') and other leaders are fully aware of the reality as well, but as long as Biden is, at least nominally, the man in charge, nothing would be gained by annoying those behind him who are pulling the strings by rocking the boat.
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  556. Bai Gum, I remember when Gracie Fields campaigned for Arthur Henderson in the British General Election of 1931. I said to me mate Neville Chamberlain that nowt good would come aht of showbiz folk gettin involved in politics. I wuz reet. Owd Stanley Baldwin won in a landslide. Nowt changes, duz it?
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  557. Perhaps Harris has a future in British politics? In view of the quality of the current British government, the Dear Leader might well see her as someone capable of bringing gravitas, dignity, sound political judgement, and credibility to his cabinet?
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  558.  @randimcbeth2982  I agree absolutely. However, having seen the manner in which in the UK the BBC and many elements of the media spin events to project their own particular bias, I expect a concerted campaign to portray the events as a triumph orchestrated by a great President.
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  559. I expect that Biden's 'advisors' are confident that, in three months' time, the American people and America's allies will have forgotten all about it.
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  560. I suppose it can be assumed that, if Harris wins, US policies will not change much, as the same people who ran things behind the figurehead of a demented old man will continue to do so, but this time with a half-witted giggler to the fore.
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  561. Reminds me of two differing opinion when, long ago, Dennis Lillee kicked Javid Miandad's backside during a Test Match. Some said he shouldn't have done it, Others said he didn't kick him hard enough. I must confess that I was in the latter camp!
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  562. Please tell us that this isn't true. If it is, there is a clear & present danger that this freeloading prat will return to the UK. We have enough problems without allowing one more to be added.
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  563. Well, at least President Biden (or, whoever is working him) has managed to drag we loyal and uncomplaining British into yet another Middle-East war. Considering he is openly contemptuous of us, what passes for our political leadership always seems to do exactly what he tells them.
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  564. You are being gtossly unfair. The Clan Yousaf fought bravely at Culloden, for Bonnie Prince Ahmed.
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  565. There was an equally awful travesty, 'The ABC Murders' about five years ago. Starring John Malkovich as the detective, brutally mistreated by the RAYCIST!!!' British. It is almost compulsory these days.
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  566. What? No reference to David Lammy? Shame on Time!
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  567. If this Karine person is worried about job security in view of impending events, perhaps she needs to know that Britain's Dear Leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is looking for a new Chief of Staff who doesn't worry much about integrity, nor honesty? She should get in touch, as she appears to tick most if not all of the required boxes. Furthermore, her suit resembles some of the free ones kindly given to the Dear Leader by his owner, Lord Alli.
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  568. Oh please! The whole idea, that Harry Markle has a 'friend,' is utterly absurd.
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  569. Does this perhaps explain why, within the Democrat Party in the US, Kamala Harris is regarded as a powerful intellect?
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  570. Perhaps because hearing her words is the modern equivalent of visiting Bedlam to stare at the inmates. In those days, people used to take sticks to poke them into activity. With Meghan, no stick is required.
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  571. May I respectfully suggest that how people actually vote on such issues is less important than how those employed to count the votes say that they voted?
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  572. How does this affect Joe Biden? His defence team will simply contend that his incipient dementia render him unfit to plead. He can then return to being President of the United States.
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  573. Wasn't Bosie Oscar Wilde's 'friend?' Give it a week and Joe will be claiming he wrote 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'
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  574.  @sdub7045  They hold honorary positions in the military. There is something of a difference.
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  575. The conclusion must be that someone in 'authority' has concluded that Rowling is rather to high profile, and too wealthy, to take the risk. Instead, the boys, girls, & others, in blue will simply set their sights on the little people, who are both much easier targets and not as well resourced to defend themselves.
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  576. Indeed, and if Charles thinks that bowing down to Harry over the uniform issue will moderate the comments which will shortly be made by the malignant markles, he is even more hopeless than many Britons already believe him to be. Hasn't that strange Scobie creature already been boasting about how the Palace buckled to Harry's demands? A monarch, even a largely ceremonial one, is in need of a spine. It seems that Charles III is sadly lacking in this regard.
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  577. Well, I'm convinced! After over 20 years opening the batting for my club side, I intend to identify as a 14 years old girl in order to play in our under 15s women's team next year. I bet none of the opponents I meet will try to knock my head off with short pitched bowling in 2024. Wearing a frock for the Trophy Presentation Night might be a bit awkward, however.
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  578. As a cricket fan, apparently racist, sexist, and classist, I am told, I would like to interview Marnus Labuschagne & Steve Smith. Providing that it stops them playing in the next test, of course. Dammit ! Too late.
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  579. I am not standing for this!! I have been repairing the floor of my garden shed, and two of the planks have taken great offence at being compared to Harry Markle. Legal action may well follow!
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  580. Well done Mr. Obama. If you are going to patronise someone, do it 100%.
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  581. Number One Issue? Hardly. The Prime Minister, and the (alleged) Home Secretary are not even vaguely interested in it. Apparently, Boris has asked for a 'Report' on the problem, which is what politicians generally do as an easy alternative to taking any action.
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  582.  @mcfcguvnors  Or, come to that, among Sir Kiers' coterie of Islington thinkers.
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  583. Shame on you! How dare you criticise the new messiah!
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  584.  @birgittabirgersdatter8082  Many years ago, a writer called Cyril Kornbluth wrote a science fiction short story called 'The Marching Morons.' At least, it started out as a short story. Now it appears to have been more of a prophecy.
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  585. I don't doubt that Kamala Harris thinks that Biden is smart. I imagine that, given her level of intelligence, she would consider my cat to be an intellectual giant.
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  586. I wish the Australian government would ban cricket as a 'white, elitist' sport. We might finally get the bloody Ashes back. I'm going away now!
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  587. My mother had hopes that I would take up ballet. At 6 feet 4 inches and 15 stones, I went for Rugby Union instead. I don't need to feel guilty anymore!
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  588.  @catherina2611  Which, I assume, was that you sought to criticise me for posting a comment on a site you define as right wing, by yourself commenting on a site that you define as right wing?
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  589.  @catherina2611  No. But clearly you thought that you were.
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  590.  @catherina2611  Aren't you also writing on 'the most right-winged news channel in Australia?' Or am I mistaken?
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  591. What happened to previous occupants of the land the Zulus invaded? Perhaps you wouldn't want to know?
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  592. Unfortunately, Charles' knee jeck reaction to anything is to say sorry for the role of Britain in it. Any day now, I expect him to apologise for the callous way the British exterminated the dinosaurs. He is an odd person, who openly despises the British peasantry who fund his modern and unassuming lifestyle. I may be biased, however, as one of my Forebears, Major General Lambert, served with Cromwell during the Civil War, and suffered life imprisonment following the restoration of Charles II. My sympathies have always been with John Lambert, not Charles Stuart.
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  593.  @mountainoflight1.392  Mindlessly repeating the same comment does nothing for your spurious argument.
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  594.  @mountainoflight1.392  You would first need to find a number of academic historians willing to create such a course, and I doubt that you could. Unlike the Florida course, which involved a number of such people.
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  595.  @mountainoflight1.392  Perhaps you are too blinded to understand that the two events were utterly different? Indeed, perhaps you didn't even watch the video at all?
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  596.  @mountainoflight1.392  Mindlessly repeating the same comment does nothing for your spurious argument.
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  597. Mindlessly repeating the same comment does nothing for your spurious argument.
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  598.  @mountainoflight1.392  Mindlessly repeating the same comment does nothing for your spurious argument.
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  599.  @mountainoflight1.392  Mindlessly repeating the same comment does nothing for your spurious argument.
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  600. Wasn't the leader of the Free World holding the card the wrong way round? Perhaps the other side simply read 'TURN CARD ROUND, MR. PRESIDENT.'
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  601. Be fair. Biden was quick to contact the late Queen when he heard her husband had died. He might have called him Prince Albert, but at least he tried.
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  602. Of course he is. Harry Markle and his carer want to incite the Royal Family into a slanging match. The more frustrated little Harry gets at his failure, the more extreme his claims will become. I am waiting for the horrific account of when Prince Philip killed and ate Mortimore, his pet Guinea Pig, in front of him. Book two, perhaps, along with his account of William's time as Head Warlock of a satanic coven?
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  603.  @marknovak8471  Japanese boats performed poorly in WW2, and were outclassed by the impressive American boats in the Pacific. Bagnasco, the leading authority on submarine operations in WW2, credits the Japanese submarine fleet with sinking 184 merchant ships of 907,000 GRT. This figure is far less than achieved by the Germans (2,840 ships of 14.3 million GRT), the Americans (1,079 ships of 4.65 million tons), and the British (493 ships of 1.52 million tons).
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  604. Why not simply build Ships of the Line? It worked for the British in the 18th Century. This should be the official Green Party defence policy.
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  605.  @kermitthehermit9588  Merely being honest.
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  606.  @kermitthehermit9588  Actually sunshine no I didn't. One of the drawbacks of having a First in Modern History is that you tend to pick up lots of useless information about useless people along the way.
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  607.  @kermitthehermit9588  I know who you are quoting. However, quoting such an individual without attribution is either intellectual cowardice, or at best a misplaced attempt at irony.
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  608.  @kermitthehermit9588  "Take note of the quotation marks." I did, mon vieux. My comment was questioning the validity of the quotation. Surely you were able to grasp that?
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  609. To hear some of the media comments about the speech, one would believe that Biden was the modern Demosthenes, delivering a particularly brutal Philippic. Or should that be 'Donaldic' perhaps?
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  610. So, an elderly man is being treated for cancer, and a younger woman is recovering from surgery. Hardly the October Revolution (except in what passes for your mind), is it?
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  611. The BBC has had a fairly obvious RAYCIST!!! agenda for some years. However, as this is racism against the white majority, it is accepted and indeed lauded by many parts of the media as a whole.
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  612.  @jaydee9124  Oh dear. The use of the term "Moor" as a racial identifier for Charlotte's ancestor Madragana ( born around 1230) is inconclusive as during the Middle Ages the term was not used to describe race but religious affiliation.
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  613.  @bert454  I assume you would be equally perplexed that the Japanese Royal Family is entirely Japanese? Why 'too white' by the way? Isn't that a RAYCIST!!! comment?
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  614. Perhaps she would have been happier if a couple of minor royals appeared in 'Blackface' and appropriate costumes?
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  615.  @--Traveler--  By then there will almost certainly be a Labour government. Starmer is most unlikely to permit this to happen to his propaganda ministry.
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  616. It is hardly news that the UN is populated almost entirely by extremists and chancers. It has been for years. Quite why supposedly intelligent political leaders treat it (or at least pretend to treat it) with the respect it does not deserve is a total mystery.
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  617. I understand that Sir Keir Starmer has already invited Kamala Harris to Britain to become part of his Cabinet, as he believes that she will add intellectual rigour and gravitas to it.
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  618. From the point of view of the people running things, they have.
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  619. The way it works is that, shortly after returning to California, Markle will make the 'shocking' revelation that, during the course of the visit, an 'unspecified' member of the royal household made, at an 'unspecified' time, an 'unspecified' racist remark to her. Whoever she informs of this will, as that Oprah person did, look appropriately appalled.
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  620. I see you have fallen for the plan. 'The English' did nothing of the sort. A small group of half-wits fell into the obvious and carefully planned trap set for them. Your reasoning is as crass as saying 'Myra Hindley murdered children. Therefore all women murder children.'
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  621. I am sure I recognise that Nun. Didn't she used to play for London Irish as a scrum half?
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  622. You Australians should immediately give up imperialist sports like cricket, and send the Urn back to Britain. p.s. PLEASE!!!!
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  623. Unfair, Sunak and his family have made a mountain of money from being Globalists. Doubtless, this will remain the same after the next Election, when they abscond to the United States, taking advantage of his Green Card. I doubt that the cataclysm most of we 'little people' left in Britain will subsequently face will concern in the slightest someone whose attachment to the UK is tenuous at best.
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  624. Perhaps her first act as President will be to have the white settlers illegally occupying America forcibly deported? Presumably, the black descendants of the slaves who also came over must also be dealt with in a similar manner?
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  625.  @richardlong7291  She hasn't to the best of my recollection ever demonstrated this 'knowledge.'
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  626. Perhaps he thought that the imaginary person he shook hands with the other day had returned?
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  627. 'Who cares?' We in Britain care. Some of them might try to come here, and we have enough problems alreafy.
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  628. Debate can hardly be 'nuanced' when incorrect claims as extreme as yours are expressed. Like it or not, the indigenous people were existing at a level little advanced fro that of the Neolithic when western explorers arrived. What might Australasia and the Americas have looked like today had Europeans not settled there?
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  629.  @edthebumblingfool  Just as 99.8% of North Koreans voted for Kim Jong Un?
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  630. Heresy! Heresy! You dare to criticise the new Messiah!!!
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  631.  @pamelafarmer3426  By dressing like poor Greta does.
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  632. Weren't show trials in the past generally restricted to countries like those in the Warsaw Pact? It seems that they are making a comeback.
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  633. I recall watching a documentary about the Battle of Waterloo which was preceded by 'May contain scenes of violence.' I was deeply shocked, as I had expected scenes of charming kittens playing with balls of wool.
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  634. You are criticising someone who will doubtless be made a Life Peer, and a Special Advisor on Islamic affairs, after the Next General Election.
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  635. Oh dear. The old conspiracist myth from the mid 1990s has emerged again. Reuters have already answered this nonsense, so I will let you read what they say:- A widely-shared meme has taken several facts about the Titanic out of context to make unsubstantiated claims that imply the ship’s sinking was a deliberate act. This is not true – experts widely agree the sinking of the Titanic was an accident.  The meme was posted to Facebook  and has been shared many times. It consists of two images: one of the ship and a second of American financier John Pierpoint (J.P.) Morgan. These sit alongside a wall of text that suggests Morgan had motive to sink the Titanic because it was hosting three powerful people who opposed his idea for a centralised banking system, ie: the U.S. Federal Reserve. It reads as follows. “DID YOU KNOW? The man who funded the building of the titanic, J. P. Morgan, cancelled his long-awaited journey just hours before its proposed departure,” the meme reads. “3 of the wealthiest men on earth, whom (sic) were against the creation of the federal reserve bank, happened to be invited aboard for its maiden voyage (John Aster, Isador Strauss & Benjamin Guggenheim).  “It then headed full speed into a known iceberg-field, with less than half the required lifeboats, no red signal flares, no Rothschild or Rockefeller on board, and sank to the bottom of the north Atlantic Ocean. Less than a year later, now that the wealthy opposition was out of the way, the federal reserve was created and USA was turned into an incorporated business, with its own business ID number, ’28 U.S.C. 3002 15.” J.P MORGAN CLAIMS   While it is true that J.P. Morgan owned the Titanic and did not sail on its doomed maiden voyage, there is no evidence to suggest he deliberately missed the trip because he knew the ship would sink. Historians have debated several reasons for Morgan to cancel his trip, but none is related to the Federal Reserve.  “I've never been able to find an authoritative 1912 source explaining the exact reason why J. P. Morgan cancelled his passage on the Titanic, but he definitely didn't do so mere ‘hours’ before the ship's departure,” Titanic expert George Behe said in an email to Reuters.  Meanwhile, Don Lynch, a historian at the Titanic Historical Society (THS), said: “One of J.P. Morgan's biographers said that France was changing its laws to prevent Americans from exporting art treasures from that country, so Morgan went to Paris to oversee getting his purchases out of the country before the new laws went into effect.”   Also from THS, advisory board member Ray Lepien, said that as well as the art treasures theory, “the ‘official’ explanation was that he (Morgan) fell ill and wanted to take the ‘cure’ at a spa in France with his mistress.” Lepien added: “It could have been both reasons.”  STRAUS, ASTOR AND GUGGENHEIM’S OPINIONS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE PROPOSAL  While it is also true that Isidor Straus, Macy’s Department store owner; John Jacob Astor, a property tycoon, and Benjamin Guggenheim, a mining boss, died in the 1912 disaster, there is no evidence to suggest they were the target of deliberate sabotage. There is also no evidence that these three men were against Morgan’s centralised banking ideas.  Firstly, Titanic’s maiden voyage had attracted many prominent names, and was dubbed the “Millionaire’s Special” as a result.  Secondly, George Behe told Reuters he was unable to find any documents in his 45 years of researching the Titanic that proved the three men opposed the Federal Reserve. In fact, a Washington Post investigation found that while Astor and Guggenheim did not take a public stance on the matter, Straus reportedly spoke in favour of the proposal.' Is that hissing sound your balloon deflating?
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  636. Oh? What is the 'real story' then?
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  637.  @___________________121  Really? What by?
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  638. Nonsense. A smouldering bunker fire had been extinguished 24 hours before the collision. You appear to have fallen for a modern myth.
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  639. No it doesn't. It does lend credence to the fact that Titanic had been on the seabed for over 110 years, and is breaking up, though.
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  640. A pity for your comment that no one fron Harland & Wolff or White Star ever made such a comment.
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  641. I don't really pay much attention to American politics, but are these two trying to suggest that Trump has been in charge for four years?
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  642. I suspect that, were you to declare yourself unswervingly loyal to Biden, in the post democratic USA, you would be perfectly safe.
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  643. I fear that the opinions of the father about the 'gay' baby don't much matter, as within three months he will probably have moved on anyway.
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  644. Flood Wales? Sounds like a good idea to me. I am being facetious, by the way.
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  645.  @wandpman  Actually, when someone makes such a claim, the onus is on the claimant to prove himself right.
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  646. Quite possibly. The level of proof in a civil case is lower. The 'balance of probability' applies, rather than the actual evidence, which would be required in a criminal case.
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  647. The saying 'Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,' sometimes given in Latin as 'Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat' (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) first seems to have appeared in literature in the 17th century. Odd how appropriate it still is, isn't it?
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  648. The Biden of 2018 did at least seemed able to speak coherently. Whereas the Biden of 2024 seems barely able to speak at all.
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  649.  @jeroldparker7766  Which 'lies' do you think I have love?
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  650. I suspect that the first person on your video was a senior Democrat Election strategist.
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  651.  @Diana-yn2ho  Were you in Scotland?
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  652.  @linejumper8204  Eunuchs are surgically altered males, not a separate sex. Hermaphrodism is a natural condition, affecting around 0.018% of Earth's human population. It is not a sex.
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  653. With parents like that, I would have withdrawn & become depressed as well.
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  654. That's odd. Usually you neos are replying to these sites more quickly than you have.
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  655. If Kamala Harris is not 'running for perfect' then she has certainly managed that.
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  656. Unfair! A sad little creature longing to be fourteen again, heartbroken that she is no longer relevant, and willing to jump on to any passing bandwaggon in increasingly forlorn attempts to recreate what she sees as her glory years.
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  657. His carers really need to stop him talking at all.
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  658. In Britain, the extreme left long ago realised that it would never win power through the ballot box but, as it works to very long time scales, it took the view that 'Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man,” a maxim attributed to a variety of sources, including Aristotle & the Jesuits. Accordingly, they have been steadily infiltrating the British education system since, at least, the 1980s. Consequently, the UK is now dominated by people brought up to have a blinkered view of the world, reinforced by the ability of the same 'cancel culture' to dictate what may, or more importantly, may not be said. In short, you pay at least, lip service to this received wisdom, or you pay the price. Within the education system of today, alleged academics can happily issue threats that, unless certain statues are removed, they will refuse to lecture students attending those colleges, and the supposed management of those colleges generally accede to their demands. It would appear that the United States is proceeding steadily down the same path. As George Orwell (hardly a screaming right-winger, by the way) wrote so presciently, 'The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.'
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  659. Do you seriously advocate nuclear war?
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  660. Breaking news. James Anderson has always hoped to take 1000 test wickets. In order to achieve this, after the upcoming Ashes series, he intends to change his name to Ethel. Please don't tell him I posted this, as he doesn't live far from me, and can run faster than I can!
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  661.  @NordieJ  I believe that Shapps is sending Britain's remaining Challenger 2 battle tanks as part of the exercise. That means both, one of which has a working engine.
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  662. Professor Andrews. A professor in an invented subject, and a professional race grifter. I imagine he gets on well with the BBC's pet race propagandist, David Olusoga, of 'Beachy Head Lady' infamy.
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  663. What branch of Christianity would consider Sharpton suitable for ordination?
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  664. Frankly, what remains of the Tory Party is still squabbling among themselves like rats in a sack. I do apologise, as that is totally unfair. To the rats, that is.
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  665. Why is the word 'progressive' used in this context? By & large, 'progress' benefits society, whereas this does rather the reverse.
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  666. I wonder if anyone even believes that Joe Biden knows that there is an election taking place?
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  667. I believe the boats are to be nuclear powered but not nuclear armed. If they are anything like the Astutes, they could expect to carry something like Spearfish torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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  668.  @pindapoy214  'My country?' What makes you think I am Australian? The nearest I have ever been to Australia is, as an opening bat, facing a couple of their fast bowlers who were proing for opposing teams, and doing it rather well, dammit! Read the post to which I referred earlier.
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  669.  @pindapoy214  View this :- 'Australia in ‘a terrible lot of trouble’ with $90b ‘con-job’ submarine program' from June, 2021. This shows firstly that the Australians were having increasing misgivings about the contract, and also the President Macron knew all about those misgivings, but doesn't seem to have shown any inclination to act.
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  670. What persuaded the Australian government to conclude an agreement with France which would have provided them with such outdated boats in the first place?
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  671. Rather like going to watch a Test Match, and instead having to listen to the opening bowler's political opinions for the whole of the pre-lunch session.
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  672. 'Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.' Friedrich Schiller ·
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  673.  @501sqn3  True. The 1980s version, even so, was vastly superior to the current drivel,
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  674.  @ElledieWildAndFree  Certainly the two new ones.
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  675. Didn't she, at the age of three, advise FDR and Churchill about strategy in WW2? I am sure I heard somewhere that she thinks she did.
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  676.  @kiranholt3296  Except that the monarchy in the UK achieves approval ratings that politicians could only dream about. Two words immediately silence any support for a Republic here. 'President Blair.'
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  677. Forgive me for whinging! You do not refer to a Royal Navy warship as 'The HMS' as this means that you are saying 'The Her Majesty's Ship Astute.' A similar comment would apply, equally, to an Australian warship. As USS is short for 'United States' Ship' you can say 'the USS,' of course. Grumble over!!
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  678.  @thehighlander959  The RN never tells anyone where any of the nuclear boats actually are. I suppose, however, that one docking in Perth might be something of a clue!
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  679. She has a job. It involves being 21 years old and desperately trying to look 14 in order, at least in her mind, to recall her glory years.
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  680. Alas, given the stranglehold these people seem to have over Britain at the moment, the Report will be trashed, and the author cancelled, very quickly. Expect to hear cries of 'Heresy!' followed by 'Burn the witch!' in the very near future.
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  681.  @Chris.Davidson99836  Elgin had been a Lord since the deathn of his older brother, in 1771. Always a pleasure to educate an ignoramus.
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  682.  @FLORA43899  Perhaps you need to do a little reading yourself? There was no 'Greece' at the time, and there had not been one for over 350 years. Elgin purchased the marbles from the accepted government of the Ottoman province, which had no interest in pre-Islamic art and which had allowed them to decay, even using some of them as roadfill. Indeed, the arrival of such wonders in the west resulted in an upsurge in Philhellenism, and thus to the Anglo-French-Russian military expedition which expelled the Ottomans from Greece after they had defeated a Greek revolt. Battle of Navarino, 1827, anyone?
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  683.  @byJessCh  Elgin paid the administration which had governed Greece for over 350 years, and had de facto control of the items. Perhaps it would have been better had he left them to be broken up by an administration which had no interest in them?
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  684.  @Ancaruin  Correct. He paid the administration which had been in situ for over 350 years.
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  685.  @douglasmegson3739  If Slaves may be considered 'part of our heritage' then the Romans certainly did take some. You could add to thhat raw materials from Roman mining, of course.
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  686.  @tomfav5540  'where exactly I did insult you?' You didn't insult me. I don't recall ever suggesting that you did. You did, however, insult someone else.
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  687. ​ @tomfav5540  Insults in Greek are still a poor substitute for answers. Οι προσβολές στα ελληνικά εξακολουθούν να είναι φτωχό υποκατάστατο των απαντήσεων.
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  688. It is, however, an insult to every ex serviceman and woman in the UK.
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  689.  @erlitacollison7253  You mean apart from the fact that it insults every ex serviceman & woman in the UK, none of whom are permitted a similar privilege?
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  690.  @jeremyharrington8310  It is a matter of the law. The Uniforms Act states that no ex serviceman or woman may wear uniform. Simple as that.
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  691. I hope that the Dear Leader doesn't let Lammy out on his own. He might well agree to anything.
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  692. Is there anything in the Constitution of the United States which actually states that a President is not permitted to hold office and lie in a Sarcophagus at the same time?
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  693. Just as 99% of North Koreans always vot for Kin Jong Un? Do you believe that, as well?
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  694. Didn't you know that Joe Biden led the attack on the Japanese carriers at Midway, before being Allied Supreme Commander on 6 June 1944? What, he hasn't told you yet? Don't worry, I expect he soon will.
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  695. Don't blame him for walking out. The local McDonald's closes in fifteen minutes.
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  696. You have more faith in the gang of extremists and chancers who comprise the current UN than most people do.
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  697.  @sp6450  Was giving money to France to supply, or at least to claim an eventual intention to supply, outdated boats of this type a better use of money? Incidentally, the word on the streets is that the Australian government had become increasingly disillusioned with French performance, and approached the US/UK. Not, as you suggest, the reverse.
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  698. Be fair to him. Being a Markle lackey is his only source of income. He might as well milk it for as long as it lasts.
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  699. Why does Nikki Haley feel the need to hide the fact that she is actually a Sikh?
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  700. Unfair. Harris has already demonstrated that she can climb the steps into an aircraft without falling over. How much more do Americans expect of their President?
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  701. And 38 cents, presumably?
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  702. I have no idea whether this is true or false. But I do know that Elvis worked at our local chip shop in Preston. He and Princess Diana shared a shift between them.
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  703. Hello there, your Holiness. Good to hear from you!
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  704. I cannot tell you how relieved I am! Until I saw this, I had assumed that Councils consisting entirely of half-wits were a uniquely British phenomenon.
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