Even imprisoned, emaciated and now murdered, Navalny makes Putin look weak. Nothing screams weakness like the complete inability to cope with dissent. Navalny has always beaten Putin on both charisma and courage.

... Reform, genuine oversight and quality control or defund.

If they were half as bothered about doing their jobs properly as they are about "annoying you", you wouldn't have needed to write the article pointing out their ineptitude in the first place. We shouldn't fund anything so blatantly ineffective...

That looks amazing! And puts me to shame... My last fancy dress was as a stock cube (big cardboard box with Oxo written on it and arms, legs and head sticking out 😕) I'll have to up my game...

Stayed for a while under the misguided assumption that to leave was to capitulate to the toxic haters but it's an unwinnable artificially skewed fight. Just ended up feeling like a pawn being played. I feel the only way to deal with Fake News Fascist Musk is to disengage completely.

Live here, pay taxes here. Simple. If the rules are blatantly injust, change them. While she's at it she can tackle the moral vacuum of British tax havens. The UK has been accountant,moneylaunderer & enabler of the world's riff raff for too long. Time to get more ideological, not less.

And unlike the other two, he has my deepest respect and gratitude.

This statement by Helder Camara is still valid in several countries that are run by right-wing and conservative governments. "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." ~ Helder Camara, Wikiquote.

I so agree. Hypothetically speaking, if I was inclined to give somebody a backhander the easiest way to do so would be to pay them over the odds for a so called "speaking engagement". Hypothetically speaking of course.