lucabrasi comments

No Halloween in England in my day.

Anybody else remember “Mischief Night”?

@wallace

You’re quite right, unfortunately. Public support is necessary for any meaningful change in government policy.

I hope it comes through a gradual, self-interested awareness of what needs to be done, rather than the deaths of thousands of people somewhere in the developed world (deaths in other places don’t seem to concern folk in the west) after some climate-related catastrophe.

Meanwhile, the activists (rightly or wrongly) do what they see as necessary….

@wallace

Difficult to conceive of anything as “serious and deadly” as the eventual effects of climate change.

In fact, it has mostly taken on the worst that the West has ever come up with and pursued it to a ridiculous degree.

> Reminds me of somewhere a lot closer to home....

@Tomi

Indeed!

The vine at Don Quite is fino!

@Hiro

Yep. Wise words.

@Pukey2

That’s why I started with “People with special dietary requirements aside…”

And no, I’ve never complained about airline food. I’m too timid by nature and too drunk by habit to care, every time ; )

I don’t like Tories on principle; Johnson is a nasty piece of work. But his economic ideas seem that tiny bit more rational and compassionate than Truss’s extreme nonsense. For the sake of the most unfortunate in UK society, his re-emergence might just be seen as a good thing….

@Paul

A bit unfair on those of us in the north of England who prefer not to be associated with the Little Englanders down south….

How lucky we are to live in a country that bans public drinking in one place for only a couple of days in the interests of safety.

There are certain religiously-inspired regimes than ban it completely….

Well said, Mr Kipling. The same folk never liked Meghan Markle, either….

Thanks, rainyday & Confusius.

I’m basically computer/internet illiterate, so excuse my ignorant question: Aren’t likes/dislikes generally anonymous on most sites?

Now they just elected another sorry member from BJ's party.

What do you mean? Do you expect the Tories to elect somebody from another party?

There’s going to be a huge backlash at some point against fossil fuel companies, their employees and their families: Mobs, riots and lynchings.

Simple human nature in the face of unpleasant reality.

Maybe they could use the money to retrain the incompetent security staff that were supposed to be protecting him

It's what he would have wanted....

Just like Queen Street train station in Glasgow, where a genuine Scotsman will greet all arrivals with a cheery “ Bite mah bawsack, yer radge numpty”, especially on Saturday nights.

No charge.

Interesting to read about the concern for Japanese hungry, homeless people coming from the “charity begins at home” brigade.

How much were you bothered about homeless locals before the government started handing out money to foreigners?

Lots of posts on JT and letters to newspapers, right…?

Just shoot some missiles into Russia, and you will see how fast the things will change.

@Monty

The problem is that shooting directly at Russia would provide Putin with exactly the pretext he wants to say that the existence of the Russian state is under existential threat, thus justifying the use of nuclear weapons. And say he fires a "small" nuclear missile and devastates Kyiv...Is the West really going to respond in kind, risking the end of civilisation?

 I think the canal system could be used to move water from north to south.

Nah. This is a perfect chance to try out the Tories' "trickle-down" theories. Remember how they said that wealth generated in the richer parts of the country (the South) would magically find its way to the North?

Well, let's see how it works with the shoe on the other foot, with real "trickles"....

@Jim

Remember the early-eighties horror, with the two curly vertical stripes?

It’s back….

All good, mate. And good luck to the blue Scouse this year!

That said, I’m buying a (purple) Coventry away shirt this season, as the home kit’s bloody awful.

Not that I buy kits much. Every six years or so….

’Hull Tigers’. Sounds like some tin-pot baseball team. Tacky.

I must have been about five or six when I realised "Sunderland Nil" wasn't their full name... ; )

Capitalism in all its nasty, naked glory…,

Having said so, how many out there are skilled drivers?

Everyone thinks they're good, but few truly are.

Just like love-making, according to the wife.

A car that could very well be our crowning achievement.

Was that supposed to be funny?

FIFA World Cup fans will be able to enjoy Budweiser….

A historic first, then….

England shouldn’t be complacent.

Religious fundamentalism, an undeveloped economy and a generalised intolerance of modern attitudes don’t mean that Scotland or the USA can’t play some good football….

If Russian aims have genuinely become more modest, that’s got to be good news for everyone: the chances of a peace deal are now that much closer.

The problem is that the creation of such an impression would be a clever tactic to take pressure off the Russians for the moment, allowing a chance to regroup before launching a reinvigorated attack on the capital.

Hope that’s not the case….

@Antique

I’m very sympathetic towards the Russian mistrust of the West in general, given the American (in particular) role in messing up half the world in their self-interested pursuit of oil and the installation of despotic, US-friendly regimes.

But Putin seems to be going about remedying the problem all the wrong ways. Shelling civilians isn’t the behaviour of anyone civilised.

Can’t trust anything the Russian government says these days….