Burning an effigy is a pretty ancient English tradition. Nothing unusual in that.
He says it wasn't Trump. The only photo I can see is already burnt. It does look Trump-like though.
I doubt that someone as brash and shouty as Clarkson would do something and then back-pedal about it. If he was prepared to burn a Trump then to my mind he would have followed through and owned it. I guess we'll never know.
Samhain (pronounced something like sou-ain) was the English-Scottish pagan festival of the dead. It's basically a funeral for summer because now it's winter. Mirrored in many other cultures of course like the Mexican Day of the Dead.
Christians didn't like the paganist festival so they tried to stamp it out but the clone disguised as Guy Fawkes night was allowed to continue because it depicted a major Protestant victory over the Catholic Fawkes.
And as we say
"Guy Fawkes - the only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions"
I am extremely picky about my diet and general health and over the years have pretty much profiled foods that do and don't work for me without needing to read the small print on the label every time. I live in UK.
When I visited the US last year (Tempe AZ) I was disgusted at the quality of supermarket food and I was right back to square one reading the label on everything. How can US food be so bad compared to European food which even itself is not great and you have to be careful? How the hell can a bag of salad be marked as containing GMO?
I went out to restaurants a few times and although things sounded great on the menu, in the end I found I was picking at the meal but leaving most of it on the plate. And don't get me started on your insane tipping gouge system.
By the end of the week I was just not bothering to eat and when I got home I had lost bodyfat.
Not hating on the US which is a great place, just the dreadful food.
I'm in UK and have family members in US on green cards. Hard to know which currency horse to back. My opinion is that both GBP and USD will be in a big decline (because BRICS) but USD will not be hit so hard because of the sheer size of the US means it can be self-sufficient if it really has to. UK not so much.
tl;dr You are better off keeping your money in dollars than pounds but anyone naturalised should watch out for the future for global assets they forgot about. Even UK state pension would mean gimmetax.
BRICS now represents about 45% of the world which is more than the G7.
George Galloway is at the annual BRICs conference now on in Kazan. He's a Scottish journalist and political figure so I guess not that well-known in the US but watch him absolutely crush this Sky News TV crew. About 7 minutes long and if it's too much then skip to the final minute when the interview is supposed to be over
Thing is though once you're naturalised it destroys your tax position and you pay $$$ forever on your worldwide income.
I'm baffled at how long it takes to hold USA elections. We had one recently and it was all done,counted, finished and settled in 24 hours. All-paper ballots.
OK so the US population is 345 million in comparison to UK population 70 million. And of course your land area is huge in comparison. But really your elections take weeks?
I'm on vacation with some woke friends who are giving me 24x7 TDS and Putin Man Bad. I'm finding it difficult to keep smiling and ignoring them. One of friends has sniffly cold and blocked sinuses - the rest of them are pestering her to have a covid test and wear a mask. Driving me absolutely nuts.
Heavenly angels do not have trumpets. I know because I have seen them.
I watched from 48:00 to 58:00 and I heard RFK Jr say that according to Trump it was a personal plea from Mike Pompeo not to release anything.
He continues on to talk about the CIA and the U2 spyplane incident but I couldn't connect GHW Bush at all. Maybe if you could help with my line of thought then I could get there.
Seems only temporary suspension though, flights supposedly resume tomorrow
Exactly right. Every February and March I get tired of seeing rogue flyposted signs like "This way for xmas trees"
Cannot disagree with that but he has good info and has contacts.
The US is going to throw UK under the bus about those missiles
And make us pay for it
Not so much because the Britishness but for the general contrast with US commenters. The slightly different angle on everything.
The author is a Scottish longtime ex-diplomat and pro-Palestine anti-Israel guy as are most but not all of the commenters.
I can't quite hear what he says right at the start - "we stand at the birth of a <inaudible> millenium". Anyone help me out?
It's a shame when languages are weaponised,
We have similar thing here in UK; in Wales there are many communities who will shut you out if you don't speak Welsh and if you want to get ahead in politics there you can forget about it unless you are a Welsh speaker.
Spanish is a great language for an Anglo-native to learn. The number one factor to the "effort to value ratio" (bang per buck) for learning a language is the number of places you can use it once learnt, and South America is not exactly a small continent.
Ironically considering the thread topic I would even say that exposure to a foreign language for kindergarten age kids is really valuable because the young mind flips that important switch early on knowing that there can be more than one language. Little kids exposed to other languages will have better ability to learn another language (should they wish to) in adulthood. I know because coming from an airforce family I lived at many foreign bases from age 2 and it really helped me later when I ran up against the school curriculum requiring French.
Incidentally if you just don't like Spanish for ideological reasons and want to stay away from it then my guess is being a Russian or Chinese speaker will give you a definite business edge 10 years from now so maybe try that instead.
The Russian sense of humour takes some getting used to but I really like it.
Looks like fake news UAE has not cancelled anything.
KInd of weird because Finland has huge unpopulated areas which are basically forest. This is how the town of Nokia made its name - timber and paper milling. Maybe Russia was cheaper so Finland let its industry run down too far.
Maybe the title is a bit premature? Could be a street robbery gone wrong or angry ex-boyfriend or who knows.
The scene to which Rowan Atkinson refers re Police Constable Savage
He's right, back in the 1980s it was a joke but now it's become real.
Streeting said there was “zero tolerance” for intimidation, harassment, or racist abuse toward National Health Service (NHS) employees.“People who are abusing NHS staff can be turned away, and should be turned away, if that is the way that they are treating our staff,” he insisted.
Which is fair enough - low-level NHS workers don't get paid much and they shouldn't have to face people attacking them on their way to work.
Streeting is hopeless by the way just like the rest of our new "government".
What does Ivermectin ACTUALLY DO?
It's impossible to find out now with so many claims and counter-claims. Patriots are saying "wonder drug which fixes everything" while at same time cabal is hating on it as dangerous horse paste and so on.
I thought it started as an effective anti-parasitical agent, which is good, but how is it a treatment for everything else?
This is lies. Falkland Isles are thousands of miles from UK they are down almost at the South Pole close (as everyone knows) to Argentina. Makes no sense to use them as an emergency jail. The expense woudl be incredible.
It's either just another crazy fake smoke and mirrors like deporting people to Rwanda, which never happened, or more likely they are building something else down there and want a cover story.
These are some of the politcally most powerful in the UK. Starmer and Lammy particularly so as Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. Both of these two had dinner with Trump a few weeks ago and supposedly had "good relations" but I find it hard to believe considering Trump's long memory for insults and keen ability to hold a grudge.
Our entire government are a depressing bunch. Angela Rayner is pretty much a copy of Kamala Harris, without the cackle. The rest are a horrible woke crew obsessed with LGBT Pride and "renewable energy" and so on.