Purdey

Helping to advise the PM is the point of civil servants.

Off topic a bit. Has anyone noticed that no one cries it is BMW's (or any other car manufacturer's) fault for the accident, stop blaming the drivers; that the manufacturers overproduce cars and need to be held responsible for all the deaths they cause? No? But that's exactly what they say about plastic bottles. 🤔

Digitizing the paper residence certificates so that they are linked to a passport or passport owner is making more sense. That way, it wont be necessary to go to immigration to get a reentry permit but get one online and that is linked immediately to the passport holder. Should speed everything up at the airport.

Now that Biden is protected by the Supreme Court for official hits against an enemy of the people, time to call SEAL Team 6.

I still don't understand how anyone can be prosecuted for something they haven't done yet. Yes, the MFP had said it will make adjustments to the lese majeste law, but have not done that yet. Perhaps wait until MFP is the government before bringing the case? It all sounds like a thought crime today.

I second that question. Haven't been out the country for a year but the machines used to take just the passport with a little sticker. Just guessing that as the passport needed no stamp the white book didn't need one.

Refreshing story

If found guilty she should be imprisoned. I suppose she could be slippery if as viscous as someone mentioned, so dry her off first.

I can think of some schools that would benefit from a couple of cell towers and base stations. Give generously, Generals

In the immortal words of David Bowie, "Boys keep swinging." And if they are swinging, go into the men's rooms.

Benefits move around like pass the parcel in Thailand.

No oxygen through blood vessels to keep the skin fresh? Surely the skin will become dry and wrinkled?

Who voted him into Congress?

I feel curious about this whole saga. Maybe someone knows more than I. Regarding the US diplomatic cables, the whistleblower never disclosed information to the public directly but to Wikileaks, a whistleblower outlet. Wikileaks is Australian (I think) so the whistleblower might have been accused of treason if the information went to an enemy country. Australia is not an enemy so treason was off the table but espionage laws were employed. Wikileaks then gave their information to newspapers like The Guardian, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel, and didn't actually release anything to the public directly. The public had never even heard of Wikileaks. Those newspapers were never charged with anything. Yes, Wikileaks provided the information given them by a whistleblower but the decision to publish was made by the media involved. They, or their editors, were never charged. For some reason, Daniel Ellsberg was not charged with anything in 1971 for his release of the damaging Pentagon Papers. Mark Felt provided information on the Watergate scandal in 2005 to Woodward and Bernstein and neither he nor they were ever charged with anything. Why was only Assange charged and not Wikileaks as an organization and the other media who did the actual publishing?

Thanks. I was thinking that Pete Buttigieg is quite respected.

Can the Democratic Party actually name a different candidate at this point?

Bring back the Liberal party. At least they used to get important things done: social insurance and the reduction of the power of the House of Lords; the establishment of a national system of education, voting by secret ballot, the legalization of trade unions, the enfranchisement of the working class in rural areas, reconstruction of the army (involving the abolition of the purchase of commissions), reform of the judicial system and the foundations of the British welfare state. Now they look pathetic and parties like Reform offer no change, just more bull, racism and help-yourself mentality.

A secret, tiny part of me wants Trump to win. Then I wake up and the thought disappears.

I am surprised she has not seen any archive film of the camps when they were liberated, or interviews with camp inmates. I suppose she thinks they are all fake. So many loonies these days wont accept first hand evidence or film/video.

Setting dogs on old people is a horrible way of behaving. I don't know what this Mario guy thinks but he must know that he doesn't own the beach. I can't imagine what an old gentleman cycling for exercise is doing to disturb anyone. If Mario has resort customers, which is more likely to hurt them, an old guy exercising or vicious dogs snapping at them?

I read about how AI can help medical diagnosis speed up and how it can help medical science. In such cases, the AI is not likely to nuke the world. I understand that many thought Bill was injecting microchips in the COVID vaccine but those are not the people to decide about this. He sounds sensible.

You are correct that 20 is the average in a good school today but I was thinking about 15 being recommended. According to the NEA, a good number to target is 15, which lies in the middle of their studies based on the 13-17 students per classroom. https://www.raymondgeddes.com/blogs/news/determining-the-best-classroom-size

I thought it was spelled Phoenix in the Harry Potter books.

Sleep comes in between being awake. Being alive is like being dead but shorter. Novels require good spelling. (He seems to write drivel - just based on the quotes given by the OP)

A traitor has to be an American national. No foreigner than be a traitor.