I wonder if we’ll get some Bell Riots, too this coming year… 
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Still heckling from the sidelines, I see.
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I noticed they changed the headline for something more, related to reality.
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The special Daily Express map, where Britain is at least as big as France or Spain… 
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You think so? It looks like an EU map to me. I dont see why they would make UK larger?
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Great Britain. It’s right in the name.
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The Optigan’s greatest hit!
(Actually the smaller Mattel toy version IIRC)
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…announced at the same time as the New Year Honours list, but Downing Street sources denied this was an attempt to limit coverage of Ms Truss’s list
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“The register of MPs’ financial interests shows that he donated £50,000 in two separate transactions to Ms Truss’s Tory leadership campaign.”
Cost of a peerage has gone right down from a century ago. That’s bargain basement corruption from the party literally named after thieving from the poor to give to the rich.
How much money do you get from them anyway?
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Over £1,000 per day. Think how much salad that could have bought.
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Nah, France is significantly bigger, it’s just a weird projection.
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I thought it was the natural distortion of using a flat map as opposed to a globe.
Here we are on Google Earth:
And I thought (falsely) that France was about 5x the size of the UK. (Can’t remember where I learnt this fallacy.)
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Hmm, my little thumbs-up looks like Corsica-in-a-mirror.
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Another by-election incoming
And this time it’s somehow not because of a scandal, it’s because this guy actually cares about environmental policy, and is resigning in protest at Sunak’s pro-oil moves.
Huh. Wasn’t expecting that.
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