[Youngian]

Fire’s out thankfully. It took a battering on D-Day as well as lightening induced fire in the 19th century.

[Youngian]

Has Tommeh an interest in medieval architecture? Not really, his supporters think there’s a Muslim conspiracy to torch cathedrals in France
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/18 ... 0541322328

[soulboy]

French train network hit by 'massive attack' ahead of Paris Olympics opening ceremony, rail company says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cxe24vg59lzt

Details still emerging but it appears coordinated and the timing is unlikely to be a coincidence.

Puns of a Safe From Harm/Protection nature welcomed from those familiar with the Bristol music scene.

[RedSparrows]

Infrastructure attacks are but part of the inertia creep...

[Andy McDandy]

If there's anything unfinished, sympathy to those who have to do the last minute things.

[kreuzberger]

If they are blaming Bristolians, it might be Tricky.

[soulboy]

Well they are a Wild Bunch.

[Abernathy]

This is bizarre. The blue geezer in the Olympic opening ceremony had fuck all to do with Jeebus or the last fucking supper, and watching it, such a thing didn’t even remotely occur to me (I just thought it was a bit fucking mad and weird).

Yet suddenly, it ‘s being treated as a grotesque and deliberate insult to Christianity, and WOKE BLASPHEMY !!!!!!!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/a ... exwq_namtA

[mattomac]

Banged on for years that it is a secular country and that it had the right to dictate religious headwear but apparently this is wrong.

Can’t have it both ways.

[kreuzberger]

I would laugh my tits off if Barnier declared war. " We sail at dawn and storm the beaches of Clacton."

[Philip Marlow]

After the appointment was announced Ian Dunt put out a tweet describing Barnier as ‘top calibre people.’

https://newleftreview.es/sidecar/posts/the-gravedigger

Who would have guessed that at the end of his career – at age 73 ­– Barnier would be moving into Matignon? Following his appointment, an archival clip from 1971 circulated on social networks, showing a young Barnier delivering a speech so vapid and anodyne that he already sounded like a seasoned politician. One gets the impression that he has never changed, that he was born, Athena-like, fully armed with political cant. A typical careerist of the conservative bourgeois political class, he has known no other profession: elected to public office in his home region of the Savoie at the age of 22, he was a member of parliament by the age of 27. The viral clip betrays his essence: an ambitious yet second-rate statesman, who has spent his life navigating the troubled waters of the French right without ever rising to the top – until now.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Think foreigners who speak English rather over impress some British people. Marine Le Pen speaks English, after all.

He’s a bad choice for Prime Minister but he was the chief Brexit negotiator. Wasn’t that rising to the top?
This is all reminds me of stuff said about Neil Kinnock, where his EU Commissioner work is felt not to count.

I also don’t really get the problem with people having long career in politics. See Joe Biden.

[kreuzberger]

The cojones on Gisèle Pelicot are the eighth wonder of the world. This woman's sheer grit is beyond measure.

[Youngian]

The cojones on Gisèle Pelicot are the eighth wonder of the world. This woman's sheer grit is beyond measure.

The horror of her life makes for grim reading. Hope her bravery brings her some peace.