Fullerene

I thought it was someone who lived in Cheeseburg.

"America's Back Porch" by Daniel Jeffrey is a great read. It is similar to Louis Theroux and involves encounters with various oddballs in America. A couple of chapters are about people who try to bump off their loved ones but not in a clever way.

Why not go the whole hog and revert to an absolute monarchy. Old Chuck seems less controversial than any of the current government. We pay his wages as it is. All these people complaining about boat people and everything else - he just issues a decree for whatever. The complainers are hardly going to go against the monarchy, are they? Just a thought.

The joke was that she was asked on the radio "what's your name and where are you from?" She missed the first part of the question and replied "I'm fay Fife."

Not my place maybe but if you are his boss, I think you should say it to his face instead of via P&B

Discovering the Ramones were not actually brothers. Oh no, Tommy has left the band. That's okay. Marky is another brother and he can play the drums too!

He called the Referendum and then did a piss poor job campaigning for Remain, enlisted the help of Jeremy Corbyn (who was always ambivalent on the matter) and decided that nobody from the EU should be involved in the campaign - you know the people who actually knew the benefits of the organisation and might have been able to explain things better (except they were foreign - I know).

Interesting. So is New York called the Big Apple because it has more Apple Macs?

.. or if that sounds too retro then just call them thugs.

I would not dispute that. For ordinary Russians he was dangerous to know. I was simply pointing out that in the Cold War both side made excuses for their new German Allies that had only recently been their enemies.

As soon as WW2 came to an end, the Cold War resumed. The West needed ordinary Germans on their side to help them and similarly the Soviets needed their Germans to help too. East Germans were taught that all the bad Germans had fled to the West since they wouldn't like the Worker's paradise in the East. Basically "a big boy did it and ran away" but on a much bigger scale and both sides were at it.

Instead of letting right wing thugs steal the show, they should hire some actors to dress up like Dad's Army and march over to the cenotaph to offer protection.

UK Ambassador to Rwanda. Everyday she could pop down to the airport to greet the migrants who will be processed there. "Oh dear. None today. Maybe tomorrow."

When Thatcher was in power, her cabinet included some really horrible people, including Thatcher herself. Watching Portillo doing all these train journeys nowadays, it is easy to forget what a nasty politician he actually was. However there were also a few MPs, who although still Tory, were a little bit more bearable and it might be possible to hear their side of the argument without feeling the need to switch off the TV or radio. The likes of Chris Patten, Michael Heseltine and even John Major spring to mind. Those sort of milder Tories have been booted out of the party and all that remains are the proven liars and "goad the left" provocateurs that make headlines by showing how low they can go.

Try "I thought Thatcher was the worse politician in history but ..." HTH

Some people credit Thatcher with the creation of the European Single Market. Johnson got rid of any candidate that thought it was something the UK should be part of. Say it quietly but they are the very opposite of what she intended for her party.

Didn't end well for the Egyptians. Can understand why they might not want to do that again.

Nonsense. The company owner once spoke about the time his parents took him on a memorable trip to Glasgow where he went around and around and around and around on the Glasgow Underground until he got really dizzy and had to stop. The planes are a homage to that childhood memory that he has never forgotten.

That sounds like a good idea. I would suggest you also cancel the contract for that number, save some money and be happier still.

It is your handler from the CIA wanting to know how you are getting on with your attempts to infiltrate P&B and see if they are up to anything.

Largely because it became Right-to-buy-to-let, which means it is still rented property but with a private landlord who can charge whatever they like.

I thought it was the Sykes Picot Agreement whereby Britain and France carved up the old Ottoman Empire that caused all the problems.

Be interesting to hear what Suella has to say about that little difficulty that Rwanda had 30 years ago.

That's not fair. They had a lot of help from the French.