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SpaceX to fly two tourists around the Moon next year
Please God, let one of them be a 70 year old bloke with a huge ego and an orange bouffant.
http://news.sky.com/story/spacex-to-fly-two-tourists-around-the-moon-next-year-10784703
Hold the front page!
I am delighted to announce that after scrutiny by PwC it was actually me who won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, for the film version of Skinner’s Rules starring Oz Blackstone.
David Miliband: Labour at its weakest for 50 years under Corbyn
He needs to go back further than that. Fifty years ago Harold Wilson was PM, having been elected with an increased majority.
Truth is Labour has never been weaker. Proof? Scotland.
http://news.sky.com/story/david-miliband-labour-at-its-weakest-for-50-years-under-corbyn-10780822
Sacked Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri: ‘My dream has died’
A ship called Dignity.
http://news.sky.com/story/sacked-leicester-boss-claudio-ranieri-my-dream-has-died-10780353
Claudio Ranieri sacked by Leicester less than a year after winning Premier League
I’m so glad that none of my family work in football. There was more class and honour in Fagin’s kitchen than in the boardroom of Leicester City.
Maybe it was the owners’ hardest decision, maybe not: but for crassness, ingratitude, cowardliness and sheer stupidity it’s unchallenged.
New TV channel for BBC in Scotland
Isn’t that magic! London is giving us our own BBC4. ‘No you can’t have a Scottish Six News but you can have a Scottish Nine, broadcast in direct competition with peak hour programming.
Gee, thanks.
John Oliver on Trump: ‘He dominates the news like a fart dominates a car’ | Television & radio | The Guardian
Never mind fingerprints : this is a pigeon print, left on my garden room window. Don’t worry, he survived.
Southern rail users face more strikes as drivers reject Aslef-backed deal
When Ronald Reagan became President, air traffic controllers went on strike. He fired 11,000 of them. He had the power to do that, but he also had the balls. If I lived in the Southern Rail area, I’d be looking for someone to follow his example.
Gyan has ‘unethical hair’
As my friend Mira would have said, ROFL.
I wonder where President Orange’s coiffure would place on the ethical scale.
Jesus suffers broken foot
For anyone confused by that heading let me explain: it’s not that Jesus; this one is a footballer.
Brexit Secretary David Davis ‘very sorry’ for Diane Abbott jibe
The man has gone up in my estimation.
http://news.sky.com/story/brexit-secretary-david-davis-very-sorry-for-diane-abbott-jibe-10765239
Rolf Harris cleared of new child sex charges spanning four decades after second trial – The Telegraph
What was the cost to the public purse of the show trial of an 86 year-old man who is already in prison?
Who decided to prosecute?
Will that person be sacked?
Killer
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?
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
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.
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