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Rather (tragically) a recipe for a "perfect storm": An easily controllable epidemic of a childhood disease which should have ( and has, to all intents and purposes elsewhere has) been eliminated through vaccination. A buffoon of a Health secretary pushing quackery. Gullible parents.

Unfortunately the tariff regime has rendered them prohibitively expensive!

Perhaps we should ask the Soy bean farmers who went bust the last time Mr Trump played his tariff game with China?

If Thursday was "Liberation Day", is today (Friday) " Slow Motion Train Crash Day"?

If you look at the bizarre mathematical gymnastics which Trump and his administration have used to decide the size of the tarifs applied to various countries, it rather seems that the Trump Administration doesn't either. Still, 'twill show those pesky penguins that they can't mess around with the United States! The total absence of tariffs on Russia? A testament to the enduring power of old VHS tapes?

If you walk into a location whose prosperity depends on exporting goods to the USA then it is likely you will face some hostility. Otherwise I doubt it.

Of course you are Bob!

At which point he will disappear from AN for 24 hours before he reinvents himself under another identity, funnily enough, based in Pattaya!

Well, I suppose if the aircraft smells like the back door of the municipal market food court it might provide a clue!

The "rest of the world" is rather more than debris scattered around the fringes of the United States. I can't personally think of anything that we trade with the US that cannot either be obtained or sold elsewhere. Let us just leave the US to crack on alone, and concentrate on trading with the rest of the world.

It certainly is and they certainly are. Just perhaps not in the way in which you fondly imagine!

Consumers queuing to withdraw deposits...

Don't take that badly @theshu25, after all, Bob's ( sorry I mean "The Don's") circle of acquaintances is limited to assorted restaurant and bar owners who have thrown him out, white skinned flat stomached "escorts" who are prepared to indulge him with group sex, and of course his conquests amongst ladyboys!

Windmills are being dealt with by our great leader - replaced as I understand it by beautiful clean coal! Personally I am more concerned by the battery powered sharks that are swimming around our cars ...

Golly, one of the best streams of racial (semi) consciousness heard on this forum for a long time! And of course, it is all the fault of the Jews!

He is the King of the United Kingdom (not the King of England). There are a considerable number of Muslims in the United Kingdom. That's why he is doing this. He does things to celebrate/mark Easter, Christmas and Divali as well, for his Christian and Hindu subjects.

Alex Belfield's sentence was a reflection of the fact that he attempted to use the trial as a platform to continue his campaign against Vine and the BBC. That is why the judge gave him a sentence at the top end of "the range".

Pedantic I know, but he is the King of The United Kingdom (England, Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland), rather than "King of England". Also of course 15 other Commonwealth Realms, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps easier to refer to him in International columns as "The British King".

There are certainly some distinct and deliberate parallels.

All at the same time? Blimey, talk about multitasking!

I knew Andrew Wakefield - rather well ( unfortunately as it happens). He was at school with me, a couple of years ahead of me. He was a liar, a bully and a cheat back then. I make no claim to being "Tom Brown" but he was definitely the prototype for Flashman. I was one of his favourite victims, and for several months he made my life a living hell. Things rather came to a head when he beat the living daylights out of me in a park on the way home from school. It required a visit to casualty, a lot of dental treatment and the loss of 3 teeth. He was the headmasters favourite, and the headmaster wanted to dismiss it as " high spirits". My father (also a schoolmaster) threatened prosecution, and the headmaster caved - he was a magistrate and the chairman of the Youth Bench. He (Wakefield) was allowed to stay at the school for his last 6 months to complete his A levels - he was clever and had very influential parents. The Headmaster was in something of a cleft stick, I suspect that he would have rather I left, ( my father threatened to take me out) but I had just won a scholarship to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst for my last two years which would have greatly embarrassed the school! When Wakefield came unstuck with his fraudulent research I must confess I opened a bottle of Champagne! Central to his fraud was that he had bullied parents into allowing him to use their children for research. Leopards and spots and all that!

Recidivism rates for women are approximately 20%, for men approximately 26% (UK Home Office figures). It is also generally the case that the prison regime for women is not so harsh. This suggests ( heaven help me - this is going to upset some) that longer and harsher sentences are not particularly effective!

Deep sigh, breathe regularly before responding; NOT AS SEVERELY!

Budget constraints my dear chap. Burglars, shoplifters and thievery will always be with us, but these sort of people, who question the actions of their establishment betters, must be stamped on and hard! Scruffy bugger mincing around with his hands in his pockets wasn't he?

"The left wants to destroy the Greatest country on Earth." How dare they, that is Trump/Musk's job!