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In the last decade the UK has given some £2.3 billion in aide to India and some £665 million to Pakistan. Now I have no problem with, in fact I actively concur with, aide to help with for example, health, extreme poverty, clean water, child nutrition in the poorest countries of the world. I do really object to it going to countries which can afford nuclear weapons programmes, and whose bearded loonies in their militaries are enthusiastically threatening to use them on each other. In fact, on Foreign Aid, I think we should seriously rethink it. Not cutting the amount dedicated to it, but seriously targeting it to those who really need it.

1 am not an economist, but even I can see that putting tarrifs of multiples of 10% on imported goods means that the prices of those imported goods rise - inflation? If in the long term manufacturing "returns to the US" it will require massive investment in factories. Wages and production costs for the goods will be higher, investment will have to be paid back, therefore the goods will be more expensive ( the whole reason the manufacturing moved abroad) - inflation?

Of course he would - the boy scouts have adult leaders!

How jolly diverse!

Bezos has the money to buy himself a bit of peace and quiet!

Having paid through the nose, and probably every other orifice, for the "privilege".

Is there any ideology - or is it just a mismash of constantly changing "concepts of plans" driven by his grotesque ego, greed and rampant narcissism?

The Flat Earth thing has at least been empirically disproved!

Whilst it certainly pulls no punches, and leaves one in no doubt as to his feelings about Mr Trump, @spidermike007 creates a remarkably accurate précis of his character : "Unappealing, unattractive, idiotic, incompetent, hateful, hurtful, abrasive, rude, blowhard, liar, cheater, thief, infantile, failure, loser, fraud, sexual abuser, incestuous, tax cheat, insurrectionist, un-American, dictator-loving dictator wannabe, out of control, sociopathic, convicted felon, toxic narcissist & brutish A-hole." It pretty well covers all the bases! Incidentally, apropos taking up tennis, in "King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France", a highly fictionalised account of Henry 5ths campaign in France in 1415, the French Dauphin sent Henry a gift of tennis balls. Intended as an insult - take up tennis instead - it rather annoyed Henry and led to the French being comprehensively defeated at the Battle of Agincourt. The French ( of course) maintain we cheated! Just an idle thought!

I use one of those padded " banana bags" ( Lazada flog them), and keep them in the fridge.

Perish the thought - entirely grounded in reason!

I rather get the impression ( may be wrong of course but...) that there is very much a "Higherarchy" in US "law enforcement". Perhaps the Secret Service, FBI are at the top, then the major metropolitan Police Forces, State Police Forces, local Police Forces and Sheriff Departments, then, way down the food chain, Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs (ICE).

Looking at the pictures, and judging by his cowardice, I would doubt he has a good <deleted> in him!

JD Vance - very senior Republican as Vice President, makes much of being a Catholic; anything to say to her? No, I didn't think so! If I had a pet chameleon I think I would call it JD!

Evil is being defeated by God': Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates after Pope's death: She really is a piece of work isn't she?

He went on to claim on camera that "as you know the Catholics were all for me in the election" He really does think it is all about him!

No, it is absolutely a fair point. Starmer, his government and the courts are doing themselves absolutely no favours, in respect of maintaining apolitical judicial fairness, in allowing the contrast between the treatment of Mrs Lucy Connelly and Mr Ricky Jones to continue. It is an open sore which will continue to fester.

Being a cynical so and so, whenever religion is the topic, and people rush to declare as atheist, I am always reminded of this:

My mistake, sorry.17.7% of the worlds population - so about 1.4 billion.

For you maybe. There are over 17.7 billion Catholics worldwide who may disagree. I am one of them, I believe he laboured to make the world a better place.

May perpetual light shine upon his soul.

Yes. White supremacy and racial hatred are deeply engrained in many parts of the US. Trump tapped into that, made it politically mainstream, and now pursues policies which please them. It will not be easy to put that particular genie back into the box.

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Absolutely going to raise the international standing of The United States to a new high!

Personally, I understand the "sad emoji", either to indicate that something really is sad, or perhaps as an ironic comment on someone's view. The "confused emoji" - well often I find myself looking at a post (one of my own, or someone else's) and thinking " that couldn't be clearer, what on earth is confusing about that?" Perhaps we need an "I don't agree emoji", or even a range, from expressing"mild disagreement" to "you are talking absolute <deleted> again"!