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There’s a psychologist woman on Sky News trying to tell older people how to be happy. She’s telling me I should sing and dance. Guess what I’m telling her?
Since you’ve been gone . . .
A top White House official told the media to ‘keep its mouth shut’. That’s a threat | Francine Prose | Opinion | The Guardian
Trump doesn’t worry me. I know people who voted for him, I understand why they did and I respect that. (That means you guys, Kendra)
But they didn’t vote for nutters like Mr Bannon.
Zlatan racking up the records
In Fergie’s era Man U had Hughes, McClair, Giggs, Cole, Yorke, Van Nistelrooy, Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldinho, Scholes, Beckham, prolific or regular scorers all, and great club men.
Today we have a 35 year-old football tourist and nobody else who even knows what shape the goals are.
Jeremy Hunt urged to ban GP fees for ‘immoral’ domestic violence letters
Boors
Watching US golf on Sky, play-off between US and Japanese golfers. Half the crowd seem to be bevvied.
I’d like to blame it on Trump, but these guys were arseholes before he arrived.
Kellyanne Conway blames refugees for ‘Bowling Green massacre’ that never happened | US news | The Guardian
Pressure mounts on François Fillon as jobs inquiry widens to include children
It gets better for Mme Le Pen every day.
Amazon pledges legal support to action against Trump travel ban
President Trump is upsetting some powerful people
For those who don’t know about churros and chocolate
Thank you, but …
Yesterday I shared an opinion piece from the Guardian attacking President Trump for signing an order denying US funds to any organisations that support abortion. Note that word: opinion. This morning in my mailbox I found a tirade from someone called Ed . . . that’s all, just Ed . . . instructing me to stop reading the Guardian and start thinking for myself. Mystery man, having thought about it, I can’t decide whether that was more insulting than stupid, or vice versa. Close run thing.
Ed suggests that the time to think about wanting a baby is before you think about having a relationship. While it might inspire a debate about carts before horses, he’s entitled to that view, as is the Guardian columnist to hers. But he also believes that contraception is the only way to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Well, Ed, it’s not; that would be abstinence. It would also be rather difficult for practising Catholics. Where he really consigned himself to the trash can, though, was in offering in support of his belief . . . a belief to which he is entitled and which I respect . . . a story line from Coronation Street.
They make it up, Ed. Best avoid Holby City, for the good of your health.
Jeremy Corbyn criticised for Northern Ireland ‘dead’ police officer gaffe
McCluskey disciplined Unite rival for speaking to group of Labour MPs
This photo sums up Trump’s assault on women’s rights
Browned off
Chips give you cancer.
Burnt toast gives you cancer.
My message to the stony-faced humourless count on BBC Breakfast. You go to your church and I’ll go to mine; we’ll all go to heaven together.
Reunited
Match of the Day: Gullitt and Shearer side by side in the studio? Remarkable given their history.
Some day
A guy at the inauguration just attributed ‘We shall overcome’ to Mahalia Jackson. Not exactly true; she may have sung it but she didn’t write it.
It’s actually an old hymn adapted and made into a civil rights anthem by Pete Seeger, who sure as God made wee green apples would never have voted for President Trump.
Brave new world
‘American carnage stops right here and right now.’ How?
Rhetoric? Bullshit? What’s the difference?
Nearly all white on the night
Watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir : let’s just say it doesn’t seem to be too inclusive.
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