Let alone cynically categorising the whole area as a conservation zone in the 2000s as part of making it harder to resettle

This whole story is a real lesson in what the UK and US can do to you if they feel like it and think you can’t fight back (and in the 1970s! Hardly a very different historical era)

While obviously it’s good that the UK have been pressured to hand back jurisdiction to Mauritius, the naval base on Diego Garcia still has a lease for 99 years, and seems like no-one will be allowed to move back there

Hadn’t realised thousands of the Chagossians who were relocated to the UK were settled in Crawley. That just feels like adding insult to injury

"the woke mob keeps screaming not to believe the wallet inspector, but I showed them"

GVdavidrvetter.bsky.socialOct 4, 2024 1:42pm

ICYMI: yesterday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer penned an oped in The Sun titled "I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists."

These technologies may not “work”, but they save us from having to make any hard decisions, so who can say of they’re good or not

Someone’s enjoying the fresh sheets

The Met? Taking bribes? Surely not

Met officers allegedly took hampers and cash bribes to help Fayed persecute staff

Exclusive: Scotland Yard faces claims corrupt officers helped Harrods owner quash potential complaints of abuse

Always wanted to see one of these!

I think it might be