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The BBC says it cut a strongly worded political statement during a BAFTA acceptance speech from its coverage of the ceremony on Sunday because of “time constraints.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bbc-edited-siobhan-mcsweeneys-political-bafta-speech-over-time-constraints?ref=home

Like being back in South Africa...

Evi,

15h41 - Teeside grubby deals brought up in the Commons so will be in Hansard.

Teeside - the Private Eye has been reporting about this for quite a while now; I did say recently that GOV should have a Minister responsible for addressing Private Eye allegations.

https://twitter.com/NEBylines/status/1649080894634835969

The tweet includes a screenshot of one of the articles...

I have contacted the Electoral Commission to see if this is considered electoral fraud and how I go about lodging a formal complaint. They say that they aim to reply within 3 days.

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/15/jacob-rees-mogg-says-voter-id-was-attempt-to-gerrymander-elections-for-the-conservatives/

Lukashenko hospitalised; is this the beginning of Russia taking over Belarus?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/15/alexander-lukashenko-belarus-president-sick-illness-speculation

The Dasgupta Review condensed: "Pay for Everything"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/alexander-skarsgard-partha-dasgupta-economy.html

'AeroVironment designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles, including miniature loitering munitions Switchblade that the Ukrainian Army uses extensively against Russian invading forces in Ukraine. AeroVironment has begun the production of a new type of drone for Ukraine, namely the latest tactical unmanned aerial vehicles Jump 20, the Voice of America reported.'

https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/05/14/us-arms-manufacturer-to-provide-ukraine-with-modern-drones/?swcfpc=1

Small and a low heat footprint - not something that conventional radar etc systems are designed to look for.

Biden warns against white supremacists in the US - this photo from his speech looks more like he is addressing a KKK rally:

https://bit.ly/44X8PQS

In the new age of fake media, I had to check the photo was genuine; it is!

'have you ever tried getting a new forest pony in the freezer'

Not only are they free-range, but you could argue that they are organic. Not enough meat on a foal; yearlings are best, preferably after a good summer of grazing.

Mordaunt mania? You cannot be serious: What does it say about the UK’s current politicians that carrying a sword without falling over is seen as leadership material?

https://txtify.it/https://www.ft.com/content/3163dab8-a951-4635-b2f4-43fda85195cb

Too true; just shows how low the Tories have gone

And, the company behind the Utah shale oil plans now produces oil from plastic when they used to produce oil from shale in their native Estonia. A bit like PHE but with operating plants?

https://www.energia.ee/en/uudised/avaleht/-/newsv2/2023/02/06/innovative-enefit-technologies-gives-new-green-life-to-oil-shale-and-waste-plastics

Interesting article about the 'mirage of oil shale riches in Utah':

https://thebulletin.org/2023/05/how-the-mirage-of-oil-shale-riches-in-utah-threatens-the-colorado-river/

Sounds a bit like TOM?

The "Storm" may be more the like Q-Anon Storm. This paragraph from a Daily Beast article is concerning:

"A top adviser to Erdogan, Mehmet Ucum, stated that a change in power would be a risk to the country’s “territorial integrity” and Erdogan’s coalition partner, Devlet Bahceli, said opposition officials could find “bullets in their bodies” or be jailed for life.""

https://www.thedailybeast.com/turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-threatens-not-to-concede-election?ref=home

Things could get quite messy very fast.

Some will like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72uVyVJBJc8

[bloke from 'bikes and beards'; good youtubers]

Yeah, right; no placing has ever leaked?

An extract from the article below:

“My people will not surrender this country to an individual who became president with the backing they received from Kandil,” Erdogan said at a rally last week, referring to a mountainous region in Iraq that the PKK operates from.

Kilicdaroglu has been endorsed by the pro-Kurdish party, the HDP, which has several members behind bars over terrorism charges. The government accuses the party of being connected to the PKK, which the HDP denies.

A top adviser to Erdogan, Mehmet Ucum, stated that a change in power would be a risk to the country’s “territorial integrity” and Erdogan’s coalition partner, Devlet Bahceli, said opposition officials could find “bullets in their bodies” or be jailed for life."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-threatens-not-to-concede-election?ref=home

Could get very messy, very fast. The Foreign Office travel advice does not even mention tomorrows elections!

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/turkey

Evi,

The Torygraph's journalistic standards have fallen a long way; they seem to be writing what they think their audience want to hear. Have a look at this Twitter thread that explains the flaws in their logic:

https://twitter.com/janrosenow/status/1657329516216197120

Lovely - go on holiday to Sunny Spain, get 45 degrees in the shade and then find out there is water rationing so nice refreshing cold showers are limited to 1 minute once a day, hotel rooms charge extra per litre the room consumes, the swimming pool is closed because they can no longer top it up, so the filter system does not work, and it has gone green...

And then there is the unpleasant smell of festering sweat, as people do not wash themselves or their clothes as often.

"I think it is about time you got over the fact that the UK is NOT in the EU"

And you need to appreciate that it might rejoin some time in the future if the Brexit dividend is just more poverty.

Another one:

Answer this question in the style of Donald Trump: Why were 5G nano chips secretly added to the Covid vaccines?

ChatGPT

Look, folks, I've heard some things, okay? And a lot of people, very smart people, they're talking about it. They say, "Donald, there's something fishy going on with those Covid vaccines." Now, I can't say for sure, but people are saying there might be 5G nano chips in those vaccines. And let me tell you, if that's true, it's a tremendous breakthrough. We're talking about cutting-edge technology here, folks. I've always been a big believer in innovation, and if these vaccines can also give you super-fast internet, that's a game-changer. Imagine downloading a movie in seconds right from inside your body. It's incredible, really.

But here's the thing, and this is just a theory, folks. Some people say it's a conspiracy, but I'm not one to judge. They say the chips are there for tracking purposes. Now, I don't know if that's true, but you know, sometimes you have to ask questions. We need transparency, and we need answers. So, I'm calling for a thorough investigation. We need to get to the bottom of this and find out what's really going on. Because that's what I do, folks. I get to the bottom of things, and we're going to get to the bottom of this too. Trust me.