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While the Medway Towns absolutely could do with them, the steep valley sides in Chatham (and to a lesser extent Strood) might limit the scope of where they operate. If it's possible though to have a system go south towards Walderslade and Lordswood to the south, plus St Marys Island to the...

Mark Menzies' scandal just keeps getting worse: https://twitter.com/billykenber/status/1781381491727192428

The Olympic's opening ceremony will be fun: in alphabetical order you have the following: Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel. Ireland are essentially a UN buffer zone, or a row of stewards separating different football fans in a stadium.

I can't link an article due to being on phone, but Sturgeon's husband has been charged with embezzlement. 1713467784 EDIT: Link now here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68850088

Anywhere that's a safe seat(s) is higher risk I think, as MPs there take being elected for granted and can be complacent after a while. Swing seats, while not immune, the MP has to deliver much more to remain in office.

You could ask that of the selection process generally, given some of those still in job despite clearly not being fit for it irrespective of where in the country they sit.

Given that he had the whip suspended almost as soon as the story first broke, you're probably right there's more to this than is currently known, especially considering how slow the whip was removed for others like Wragg (who ended up giving it up himself).

Talk about a trivial dismissal case: https://www.bbc.co.uk/articles/cw07nep0ek4o

Whatever happens with the Rayner investigation, the Tories have lost any moral highground they may have had to attack Labour over it after this story came out.

Basically what Sir Humphrey said all those years ago: EDIT: Just realised I shared the same clip last year upthread.

Guys, I think we have a winner for the "describe Truss in a nutshell" award.

One vegetable endorsing another vegetable: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68821646

This number is on a downward trajectory though, with quite a few countries normalising relations with Israel in recent decades. Saudi Arabia were close to joining them until Hamas kicked off (the cynical view is the attack was timed in connection to this). Granted some nations are still a...

If we're doing that everyone should go back to East Africa ;)

He is the latest in a long line of autocrats/leaders who has resorted to war in order to retain power by distracting from internal struggles: Putin and the Iranian regime are other current examples; if China do invade Taiwan, Xi is another leader presiding other relative economic struggles...

They're expected to be a bloodbath for the Tories: firstly because their national polling is currently dire, and second because, as mentioned above, the vaccine bounce among other things made the Tories do better than expected in 2021, so improved on already high numbers, but this means the only...

Religion is the facade these regimes use to justify their actions. It's really about land, power, control, etc., but good luck getting your populations to get on board with those reasons for war.

I'm of the belief that the winner of WW3 will be nature. Even if nukes are not used and humanity survives the conventional warfare, the conflict will expedite climate change, both through other priorities and the war itself being a big polluter, to the point humanity will be in real trouble...

Fair enough, I can see Russia taking a large deal of Ukraine, but then being stuck with a USSR in Afghanistan-style guerrilla war that makes further advances more difficult. Iran seems to be powerful through proxies, but if it got into direct conflict with someone like the US they would be in...

An embassy/consulate is not the sovereign territory of the country represented in it, that's a myth. That doesn't mean what Israel did was justified, but that's the technicality here.