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As a country we aim to spend 0.5% of Gross National Income on Foreign Aid, or Overseas Development as I think it is now called. It used to be 1%. Cut to 0.7 for austerity and 0.5 for Covid. We also count the money we spend on an asylum seeker in the first 12 months as part of this foreign aid...

I think it is more like £12Bn, but you have demonstrated my point about it being a hard sell. Your position is that it doesn't do much good and ends up in the wrong hands, so we shouldn't do it, or do it less. The US spends $51Bn as you say, but much of that is military aid, particularly to...

Seems it is time to post this again.

I read him moaning about attacks on bridges in Crimea not being responded to by Russia with enough force. He said something like, "We don't have red lines, we have brown streaks in our underpants"

The drivers are stoppable, but requires governments to work together and be able to persuade their populations that they need to give more in Foreign Aid. It is a tough sell, especially in countries like ours, where even when the benefits of paying into something are clear and direct, like EU...

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She is a lovely person, just upset that her roofers had to use safety gear and hence cost her more money. The reason that safety rules are enforced better in UK construction is that the HSE started going after individual directors for gross negligence and not just have a company fined. Until...

Generally the roughest bunch of blokes in construction, then groundworkers, then brickies and their labourers, then plasterer, chippies and sparks usually almost civilised. Plumbers a mixed bunch and painters usually stoned, or just high on the fumes. I was a brickie, but with a sparkie level...

A bit Brighton Palace really, or maybe Brighton Orient. Crawley and AFC came into the league together, Crawley as National League champions and AFC via the play offs after finishing second, a bit of rivalry from that season and the one before. Nearest thing to a local derby most seasons, so...

How do we know they were crucified, stoned to death, burned at the stake and fed to lions?

CTFC fans and AFC Wimbledon have beef, Crawley fans won't be wishing him well there.

So your not saying anything like it must be true because, it says so in the New Testament, your saying it must be true, or they would not have bothered writing the new Testament? 'Kinell Kuzushi.

Gis a job, go on, gis a job.

I see it as, how can we know what the New Testament says is true, and your answer seems to be, because it says so in the New Testament.

Trips to visit the wreck of the Titan on sale soon.

It is an interesting item, but there are a number of things from the past that surprise us and we cannot understand how they were created. I am pretty sure that men have known a pinhole in a sheet can produce an image on the wall for a lot longer than we have had cameras, and that light can...

No, no, no. No one here as put forward a group hallucination theory except you, in reference to a scholar that you otherwise seem to agree with. You have had numerous alternatives and you choose to ignore them, in preference to your straw man of a mass hallucination.

Not a part of the puzzle if it is a fake. It has been dated to about the time of when it first appeared Ok, it has blood on it, but the science was not conducted well enough to conclude that it was human blood. No, I have looked at the picture you are painting and see fallacies in your logic, we...

Why include the shroud of Turin? It is most commonly thought to be a fake, with good reasons. Even if it were 2000 years old, (it isn't), had blood on it, (it doesn't), and was wrapped around the body of a man to get those marks, it does not mean that the man was dead. Already had plenty of...

Entirely naked, hands placed to cover his cock, the geezer with the orange hat appears to have a thumb and 3 fingers, this is proof that he is Dan Burn. The guy rubbing lotion onto the naked man has no visible thumbs either, what does this mean?