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Don't worry, bach. Wales will tear the English apart next week. Back to Blighty with their tails between their legs. Happy Christmas (or Nadolig Llawen).

Pray do inform me and all the listening masses on AN where I should turn to obtain these "better sources". I tremble in anticipation. Where will he send me? CNN? BBC? Guardian (god forbid?); NYT? (again, god forbid) and so on and on...nowhere to turn? More to the point: where do I turn to find journalists who ask awkward questions, not powder-puff questions that are easily swatted aside?

Pathetic to the nth degree.....

Maga cap???? Shudder. Patriot? <deleted> is a patriot? Not, I hope, someone who advocates for war at every opportunity...

Neither could I (care less about Markle bull$hite) nor am I a Trumpist, but I would assert (just an opinion) that about 98% of what passes for news and comment is just BS, and at worst, plain old lies. I mean, when a politician (of any party, anywhere) starts yapping about X or Y, you'd have to be very dumb not to be able to "read his lips" and see how much he actually says is (not) based upon some Platonic "Truth" that exists, somewhere, out there in the ether..... Lying does not make a politician evil....it's just that there are agendas more important than him or her that must be served. And of course all politicians are "perfect" and "stable" (until they're not).

Thank you, Liz Cheney, for reminding us of that terrible day...

Which is why alternative facts are not real facts. I look forward to some softball interviewer on some future occasion challenging Ms Markle and her "truth", saying "but, Ms Markle, surely you're not saying that your truth is just alternative facts?"

Sorry, Squire, but I'm feeling a bit dumb today, but how about this sentence: "I hate white people who behave like devils". Is that hate speech? if not, why not?

"alternative facts" is what Her Majesty the Queen characterised as "others will have different recollections" and what Megan Markle calls "my truth."

Excellent insight (for once). So, now you see why Musk wanted to take over Twitter and maybe discover precisely how many bots there are in that quagmire.

Never thought I would ever hear anyone on Asean News confessing to "cognitive problems"....

Excellent article. spiked is one of the best sources of independent radical thought available in the English-speaking world.

Not clear, Joe. If you do not have a multi-entry visa (but simply a single-entry visa...different costs between the two types), then you would need a re-entry permit to use your still-valid visa before December 31 (in the example given).

Get a O-A (retirement) visa. For example: apply for this Visa and enter Thailand on Jan 1. Return to Oz on June 30, but get a re-entry permit as leaving the country. Return to Thailand on (say) December 28, original visa still valid for 3 days.. Stamped into country for whole year till Dec 27, 2024. You get two whole years for the price of one. I wait to be corrected.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pretty+pass Fairly well-known phrase in the English-speaking world outside California.....

Pure comedy, and a wonderful summing up of the pass our world has come to.

Here is what I hear her saying (to the Thai PM): Hello, Thailand is a country, yes, a country, next to another country, named Burm...er..me and ma husb; my husband and I are very happy to be in this lovely country, Bangkook...and we look forward to getting a special welcome here.... Sound of cackling fading into the distance.....

The quality of the WC as a "spectacle." (Ridiculous to compare different eras in playing quality.) Anyone who saw Spain drag their asses through the borefest final against Holland in 2010 will know what I am talking about. About the only thing memorable about the 1986 WC in Mexico is Maradona's Hand of God. Whereas, as a spectacle, the Mexico WC of 1970 contained Gordon Banks's miraculous save against Pele and also a brilliant final between Italy and Brazil showcasing some of the best footballers ever to walk the planet. Those were spectacles I don't expect to be repeated in Qatar.....

If you want to see the woke development of the BBC (and woke generally) look for Silent Witness (available on BBC iPlayer). This police/pathology whodunnit series began in 1995 and continues to this day. In 1995 there was never a single black face to be seen. By 2000 you could see minor police officers of "bame" provenance, and by 2010 you began to see blacks in senior police positions (nearly always female). It's all basically woke in outlook, but it doesn't go out of its way to make men (especially white men) look dumb. In these truly modern times, the show has Clarissa (of the "ableist" community) who, despite her physical infirmity, manages to help solve the most complex of crimes. So far we have not seen a trannie. (However, I have only seen the show up to 2019.)

I have been watching the World Cup since 1954, when it was in Switzerland. Sad to see the quality of football decline since then, now that all the "world" takes part at some stage. For those who know nothing about football, the only way you can enjoy (even minimally) the World Cup is if you choose a country or countries to follow, support, for whatever weird reason you yourself might have. Thus a game between a Sunni Moslem state and a Shia might have some ooomf to it. Or Wales to beat England. Or Canada to beat USA. Above all, the first stage will be interesting for these non-soccer reasons: Also, USA to play one of George Bush's axis of evil, Iran. Lots of non-football reasons to enjoy a game. The heat in Qatar will, even now, be overwhelming, so....slow games no doubt.

Not as bad as "bigly" though.....

What exactly is a "soft power asset"? Anything special?

"Equity" (which has now been transformed to mean "an outcome that reflects things like racial or gender composition") ensures that a "real man" can compete all he likes, but he ain't going to get anywhere if he happens to be white and of sound mind and body.

"gross" and "creepy" (for starters).

2 million entered US illegally since Uncle Joe took charge and on his first day in office shut down the main pipeline that would have spared Americans from the hideous energy inflation they now suffer from. So, over-population will soon be making native-born Americans look longingly at Thailand as a place to live. In Thailand they do take care of their borders (even if it causes us falang a lot of trouble at Immigration).