JonnyF

Well, as the Mayor of Bangkok said a few years ago. "It's not flooded, it's just water waiting to be drained". ????

They're staying quiet and hoping it all gets buried until after the next election. You know, the same as the laptop.

Here are some actual results for you from your beloved left wing Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/germany-economy-falls-into-recession-high-prices-take-toll https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/31/uk-avoids-recession-as-economy-stronger-than-first-thought-at-end-of-2022

Ninja 250R might be a good choice. I still have my 2008 model and it's been rock solid. Bullet proof, upright seating position (for a faired bike), 17 litre tank. I dis a fair bit of touring on it back in the day. BKK to Samui, BKK to Nan etc. Great bikes IMO.

I hope you're right.

Why would we want to do that? We're already outperforming the German economy from outside the EU. Looks like they really did need the UK after all. Imagine that!!! https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1795054/uk-economy-jeremy-hunt-germany Still looking for that cliff edge. ????????????

I've been here 17 years, but if Thaksin teams up with the coup leaders to oust MFP and return home, it might be the strangest thing I've seen yet. Are the Thai people really going to stand for this?

More economic pain for normal, hard working American people. Hopefully they will think very carefully before re-electing Biden.

100% correct. Fake news? Quite often later proved to be factual. The whole article smacks of Orwell's "Ministry of Truth". Who can forget Ardern's chilling statement during Covid.

It all seems to be crashing down on Hunter and his dishonest attorneys. Better late than never.

Great news. Hunter Biden needs to be treated like everyone else. No sweetheart deals because of his father's position. It's great to see this travesty of an arrangement fall apart at the seams. There's hope for the US justice system yet. Well done Judge Noreika.

Indeed. What he said was correct. Unfortunately he isn't fluent in NewSpeak. “Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” Orwell, 1984.

That's fine, we all have our opinions and outlook on life. But mainly, I just wanted to introduce some facts to counter the alarmist notion that climate change is killing so many people when as my link showed, climate related deaths are at an all time low and life expectancy at an all time high. Personally I think it's a great time to be alive and I don't feel "my generation" needs to apologize for anything.

I'm pretty sure they still exist. Actually we're safer from climate related deaths than ever before. https://www.wsj.com/articles/climate-activists-disasters-fire-storms-deaths-change-cop26-glasgow-global-warming-11635973538 Life expectancy is much higher than 50 years ago. Maybe stop reading all the doom and gloom in the MSM and you'll be a lot happier.

So stop trying to terrify everyone then. Could. Might. Would. Trying to terrify people into giving up their rights and handing over their money.

They should really pay her severance pay and then re-hire her in the new position (assuming she wants the new position). She should refuse to accept the demotion and pay cut and see an employment lawyer. Courts generally side with the employee rather than the employer here and the law is pretty clear.

There's an awful lot of "coulds" and "possibles" and "at risks" in those headlines. ???? Not sure about your Hunter Biden obsession, you might want to get that looked at...

No surprise this is a BBC article. They're absolutely obsessed with climate change. I rarely go to their website now. It's generally doomsday cult propaganda. They've moved on from Covid Emergency to Climate Emergency. Oh and the occasional "entertainment/interest" story about the latest Woke issue, or maybe hiding women's sport under misleading, vague headlines in the hope people click on it by mistake. As for climate change, yes the climate changes over time - history shows us that. If they think Mrs Smith from Number 10 separating her rubbish into green bags and black bags (which won't be collected anyway as they're on strike) will save the planet then they might want to check what's happening in Asia instead of trying to get everyone to feel guilty about drinking mineral water from a plastic bottle and pretending it is news.

Presumably you're not living in the UK paying obscene amounts of tax while being unable to find suitable housing or schools for your kids. Pontificating on forums is a long way off my idea of reality.

Exactly. Solve one problem, create multiple other problems. No wonder there's a housing crisis and a shortage of school places. I'm glad I got out when I did. On the plus side, my rental properties are easy to fill, just have to separate the wheat from the chaff at the application stage.

Seems like a strange decision. However, Musk is an extremely successful businessman so it's reasonable to assume that he has a plan in place for his free speech platform.

A bit like selling someone a blunt knife as they walk into a gun fight. http://english.scio.gov.cn/chinavoices/2023-03/06/content_85146919.htm#:~:text=The world's second largest economy's,last year was 7.1 percent.

So not only are you are mind reader, but you are able to read minds in the future ????. Quite the skill for someone who can't even post on the correct thread .

Yep that's sure to stop them taking over Taiwan ????.

Biden has done nothing about China except spout a load of drivel. All mouth no trousers.