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So, the Chancellor (finance minister) may be a big tax cheat. A few days ago it was even revealed that his wife is non-domicile and doesn’t pay UK tax on her millions, despite living at 11 Downing Street...

This isn’t good — Hungarian quasi-dictator Victor Orban has won another supermajority in last weekend’s election. This was with the opposition doing the unprecedented step of uniting as one bloc, everyone from the centre-left Socialists, Democrats and Greens to the right-wing JOBBIK. Even then...

Slight aside, but given this is a generally left-leaning forum, I’m relieved that I’ve not seen any pro-Russia, “it’s neoliberal EU/imperialist NATO’s fault” missives and rants here, unlike every UK based forum I frequent.

Vlad: “It’s all the fault of the trans lobby for their cancellation of JK Rowling.”

Not really a funny take from r/news, given Germany and Poland have cooperated bilaterally since the end of the Cold War, have been partners in Nato since 1999 and the EU since 2004. (Luftwaffe literally means Air Force, incidentally; it’s not some special Nazi term.) Greece and Turkey have been...

Even evil has standards, so to speak!

Italy’s far-right former deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini was publicly humiliated by a Polish mayor for his history of wearing Putin t-shirts: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2022/mar/09/see-what-you-friend-putin-has-done-matteo-salvini-confronted-in-poland-video

I bought Magmatron off eBay with first pay packet from a part-time job. Loved that figure, for all its quirks.

My minor grails are Universe 1.0 Razorclaw (the Tigerhawk recolour), Cybertron Dark Scorponok and Armada Predacon. Don’t laugh. (CybDarkScorp’s probably off the list now due to possibility of gold plastic syndrome).)

Just started watching this as it’s on Disney+, and hadn’t had access to it before… I wish I’d seen it sooner, to be honest. After the cringeworthy pilot episode, it improves massively. I can’t see why anyone would prefer any of the modern Trek series over this, well, unless they’ve been blinded...

One of my girlfriend’s former colleagues (who’s since left the UK due to Brexit) drove to Berlin station yesterday to take in some of the Ukrainian refugees arriving into Germany by train. Proud of her for doing that.

To be fair for balance, you can add a load of the DSA-type Hipster Left to that 25%.

Russia owns our two main political parties, so of course the UK isn’t bothering with sanctions.

And people who can tolerate Jeremy Corbyn, Russell Brand and Nigel Farage.

The Stupid Wing of the Left here in the UK seems to be aghast at RT being taken off air here, claiming that the BBC is equally as bad. Now, I’ve got severe problems with the BBC and in particular its news coverage, but comparing it with RT and Sputnik and other one-sidedly propaganda based...

The speech with live English interpreting.

Last time I had this sort of dread was during the Nato intervention in Serbia back in 1999, when Yeltsin was ranting similar threats.

January 1. SS86 Sweep (£34.99) 2. Selects Lift Ticket (£22.99) 3. Selects Mutant Tigatron (£33.99) February 4. SS86 Perceptor (£21.99) 5. Selects DK-2 Guard (£20.95) March 6. Legacy Blaster & Eject (£26.99) 7. Selects Ramjet (£24.99) April 8. Legacy Bulkhead (£29.99) May 9. Legacy Buzzsaw...

This… Isn’t great.