Yes, the smoke and mirrors campaign is only just beginning - and a lot of the electorate will buy it. He's probably asked Kate and William if they could pop out another sprog so we can get the bunting out and forget about more pressing matters.
Got back from 5 day cycling tour in Tuscany. It was described as moderate to challenging and I probably should have gone for something a bit easier and done more training before I went. We covered about 320 km in the 5 days and there were 3 road bikes (including me) and 5 ebikes. I alternated...
As the oldest surviving MLB ballpark it just oozes history and class and you can feel the ghosts of the previous Red Sox giants. By comparison I found the new stadiums for the Yankees and the Mets very sterile and corporate.
I was in Colorado shortly after marijuana was legalized there. A group of us went into a store called the Green Dragon, which was a chain I believe. They checked everyone's ID and there was CCTV everywhere. There was a huge choice with notes about the type of weed, CBD and THC content, and what...
I watched that programme and it is scary. How the Sackler family is not behind bars is beyond belief. Once addicts found out how much heroin was in Oxycontin tablets they stole or did whatever was necessary to get hold of them - as you say it basically legalized disribution of heroin. One of the...
I lived in NYC before they legalized it and the stench of cannabis was pretty much everywhere then, especially places like Union Square, Times Square and 42nd St. I think they just took the view that usage was widespread anyware so they may as well legalize it and free up the NYPD and get some...
When I lived in the States I remember a store called Target, a sort of upmarket Walmart, had a huge shoplifting problem. I was in their store in Harlem and shoppers were brazenly walking out with unpaid for goods. Nobody approached them so I assume they had a similar policy
I think Ian Hislop does a grand job with Private Eye. I saw him in an interview on BBC saying that when he gets threats of legal action he knows he must be doing something right. Long may he wind up the Royals, the Tories and all the others with their snouts in the trough.
It'll probably turn into another Last of the Summer Wine which plodded on for over 30 years. At the end nobody really wanted it but some one in the BBC kept commissioning another series. It's a peculiar form of masochism unique to the Brits.
I don't think it's just going to be prices increasing, it will be actual availabilty of flights / Eurostar spaces / hotel rooms which will become much scarcer