60 thoughts on “Wednesday’s Papers

  1. scottser

    johnson overturns independent commission and appoints tory donor to the lords.
    the tans – they’re never not at it.

  2. Nigel

    Some Trump pardons came through – includes Mueller-related convictions, assorted corrupt politicians (who were early Trump supporters), but also, some horrifying war criminals:
    ‘Mr. Slatten, had been a contractor for the controversial company Blackwater and was sentenced for his role in the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad — a massacre that left one of the most lasting stains on the United States of the war.’
    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/us/politics/trump-pardons.html

      1. Bitnboxy

        I think the Trump supporting part is essential for any criminal, crook, rapist, murderer, war criminal to benefit from mad Don’s “grace”.

  3. Steph Pinker

    To all the lock-down luvvies: your Christmas wishes have come true and will be in place until March at least – enjoy it, because misery really needs company.

    1. Formerly known as @ireland.com

      Nobody is a “lock-down” luvvie. Most people live in reality. Most people can figure out that people dying from a virus is not good for business, is not good for mental health, full hospitals are not good for people with other conditions, it is not possible to ‘protect the vulnerable’, that not everything some fat idiot says on Twitter or YT should be bothered with. You’re welcome.

      1. SOQ

        In Ireland last time around, they dumped sick symptomatic elderly people back into care homes- THAT is how much they care for the vulnerable.

        There is no reason why they cannot protect such people by taking basic measure like proper PPE and training in its use, regular testing and no transfer of staff between facilities- just like the Great Barrington Declaration outlines.

        And there is no reason why they cannot take these measures anyways of course- have they done it?

          1. SOQ

            Filthy rags which haven’t been washed since they bought is the same as head to toe properly worn PPE then is it?

            Grow up.

    2. SOQ

      +1 Steph.

      As I said many times before, they are not the ones losing their jobs and businesses and soon to be homes. It is easy to play down the sacrifices when it is not you making them. We are all in this together?/ Are we frig.

      Me not we is the order of the day.

      1. Bitnboxy

        @SOQ – Surely you are delighted too! This has preserved your “shelf-life” for another fee months at least. Gives you something to do evidently.

    1. Steph Pinker

      Hah! Clever pun, f_lawless – maybe you should take up a martial art, you can start with vaxx on-vaxx off?*

      * with hand sanitiser.

      1. Cú Chulainn

        In a step down facility in Cork more like. The orderlies will give him his phone back later today. With the recent centenary of the burning of Cork city by his man crush Tans, it’s likely that he’s been segregated and his phone confiscated for his own safety. Like Fu Ma Chu.. he will return..

      1. Cheerful Charger

        Good morning Millie.
        All sorted for Christmas or still lots to do ?
        I still need a couple of things for Lady Charger.
        Anything with the name Clarins written on it normally does the trick for my fragrant better half.

        1. Papi

          Anything with clarins written on it? Literally anything? Your poor mother is getting a written-on battered sausage again, isn’t she?

  4. paul

    I think being a parent gives a person some small understanding of where the Daily Express are coming from with their headlines.

  5. ReproBertie

    Christmas 1914

    24 December 1914, Christmas Eve: Both sides sang Christmas carols in their respective trenches. The carols were accompanied by uncalled for bursts of machine gun and rifle fire. It looks bad for the morrow as we were hoping to have a peaceful Christmas Day. Old Jim gets ‘seen off’ just after 11:00 pm by a stray bullet. What a Christmas for his wife and kiddies. Has mankind forgotten the Shepherds, the Magi and the Child that was born in the manger because there was no room for him in the inns of Bethlehem?

    25 December, Christmas Day: At midnight firing ceased as if by mutual consent. As I stood on the fire step, gazing out into no-man’s-land with the point of a spare bayonet underneath my chin in case I might doze, I prayed to God (if there was a God?) in his infinite goodness and mercy to end this slaughter and misery and bring peace and goodwill to all mankind. Someone has started playing ‘Home Sweet Home’ on a mouth organ, away down the trench on my right. Another fellow starts ‘Keep the Home Fires Burning’ on my left. They join in chorus – the mockery of it all.
    At 5:00 am word has passed down the trench that the Hampshires and the Germans were out fraternising in no-man’s-land. ‘Impossible, who’s leg are you pulling?’ ‘If you don’t believe me, go down and see for yourself.’ And there they were, sure enough, British and German warriors in no-man’s-land, unarmed, talking to each other and exchanging souvenirs. There is a Christ after all.
    Presently the Germans on our front get up on their trench parapets and commence to wave their arms to us. We do the same, in twenty seconds we are out in no-man’s-land talking to the Germans, or trying to. They gave us bottles of wine and cigars; we gave them tins of jam, bully, mufflers, tobacco, etc. I annexed a tin of raspberry jam from the sergeant’s dugout and gave it to a stodgy and bespectacled Saxon. In return he gave me a leather case containing five cigars. They were a Christmas present he received from Baden Baden. The line was all confusion, no sentries and no one in possession of arms.
    A party of Saxons has already commenced to bury some of their dead who have been lying in the mangel-wurzel field since we made our first counterattack back in October. We were thankful for that at least, for when the wind blew in the direction of our trenches it made us sick with the foetid atmosphere of decaying bodies.
    The awful slaughter had been unable to check the spirit of Christmas. On Christmas Eve something ‘went west’. Good Will appeared on the battle-field, which had never previously appeared in any other campaign. Would the Spirit of Christmas be maintained? Would friendliness between mankind again be established on the anniversary of the birth of the Redeemer? Would ambitious Statesmen and Warlords, who only think of the Regimental officer and common soldier in terms of mathematics, cast aside their ambitions, stupidity, pride and hatred and allow the angel of peace, instead of the angel of death, to spread his wings over stricken and bleeding humanity. I, or any of my comrades, as far as I can ascertain, bear no malice or hatred against any German soldier. He has got to do as he is told, and so have we. His methods of fighting, his treatment of the inhabitants of occupied territory and the wanton destruction in which he indulges in when forced to evacuate portions of those occupied territories, leave a lot to be desired, but he is only obeying orders. His acts are condoned by the Highest Military Authority, probably by that Apostle of Culture, the all-highest himself (the Kaiser).
    I’m afraid I’m a damn bad soldier. I’m preaching peace in the spirit of Christmas.
    – The War Diaries of Edward Roe from Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath.

    1. ReproBertie

      Christmas is stressful enough at the best of times and these are far from the best of times. We’re all facing Christmas without seeing friends or family for one reason or another. We’ve had almost a year of playing Internet Links Top Trumps and, while there’ll be no Damascene conversions based on any links posted today, we have no way of knowing how the constant bickering and sniping is impacting on the mental health of people reading. For their sake and our own, give it a miss for a few days.
      More Christmas pets.
      More music by Nick.
      Every one of us has the choice between posting negativity or positivity.
      Choose positivity.

          1. Charger Salmons

            The Brits by their very nature are cheery optimists.
            None of that self-flagellating Catholic guilt or EU-ordered lemming-like conformity.
            We face life’s obstacle course with a cheery whistle and jaunty stride.
            As the ever-sensible Millie remarks upthread it’s time people got a grip, got up off their knees and got on with life.
            Although to be honest after a ten hours Christmas lunch yesterday I’m straying no further than a bottomless pot of tea and Lady Charger’s soothing ministrations until Tiffin time.

          2. Charlie

            “The Brits by their very nature are very arrogant and possibly the most miserable folk on the planet”. Fixed that for ye. Marrrvellous!

          3. ReproBertie

            Did you get out for the lunch? I managed an evening in the pub on Friday with some work colleagues and a meal with friends on Monday. It was nice to get a touch of normality, especially with the closures returning at 3pm tomorrow. I even appreciated the hint of a hangover.

          4. Charger Salmons

            Yes.
            It lasted 10 hours.
            Not all in the restaurant obvs but we managed a pretty decent nosebag.
            I meet up with the same old chums every year to organise a little roster we have to check up on lonely, mostly elderly people over the holidays.
            Pop round with some cake or biscuits for a cup of tea.Our wives do the baking.
            We also organise transport for their church visits over the holidays too.
            I look forward to it every year.

        1. Brother Barnabas

          this made me smile ->

          Replying to

          @v_j_freeman

          I’m from Essex let me translate… “I’m elated, truly. I was burdened with the possibility of enduring a day with my wife’s mother, with whom I am not overly fond. However, given the current predicament I shan’t be able to go. I’m left brimming with joy” “Good day to you”

  6. johnny

    Guess who just got back today?
    Them wild-eyed boys that’d been away
    Haven’t changed, had much to say
    But man, I still think them cats are crazy

    “A FATHER and three sons who run one of the largest property businesses in the State transferred their shareholdings to their wives in 2008, according to filings in the Companies Registration Office.”

    https://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/developer-and-sons-in-2008-share-transfer-1.1279967

    oh dear.

    “According to the SEC order, between September 2014 and April 2016, three Oaktree associates made campaign contributions to candidates for elected office in California and Rhode Island with influence over selecting investment advisers for public pension plans in those states”

    https://www.pionline.com/article/20180710/ONLINE/180719981/oaktree-capital-management-settles-with-sec-over-pay-to-play-charges

    1. Toby

      What? After centuries of treating Indians like your colonised slaves, you now try to curry favour with some patronising tripe. You are truly shameless and disgusting. And no one believes you give a hoot.

    2. ReproBertie

      I was watching the news report on the lads stuck in Dover and going wandering looking for food and I just knew there’d be people bringing them something to eat.

      Fair play.

      1. johnny

        …like some third world hellhole,a dystopian and post-apocalyptic nightmare.

        fast track-HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

        “If the freeze continues, it could mean Biden’s USTR team will come into office without the latest information on the agency’s pending tariff investigations or negotiations with foreign countries, like ongoing trade talks with the U.K. and Kenya.”

        https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/trump-trade-appointees-delay-biden-transition-449889

        civil unrest/riots next.

      2. Charger Salmons

        The Sikhs are legendary for their charity work – they’re normally first there with the Salvation Army
        But to be fair Begorrah the whole Kent community is rallying around.
        The M20 stack is not a new phenomenon. Bad weather in the Channel or French fishermen blockading ports means this is not their first rodeo.
        Here’s hoping the many Irish lads stuck in there get something sorted for the holidays.
        http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/community-rallies-to-help-stranded-truckers-239689/

        1. johnny

          …lived/worked in Rochester one summer while a student,totally agreed on the community,shout out to the nurses, and yes of course best wishes to all the stranded drivers,perhaps some bathroom facilities will get provided…

          on my feed it certainly looks like the wrong side the border to be on that’s for sure,hopefully someone has a ball and on xmas day everyone can have a kick about for the cameras…..:)

    1. Nigel

      Uh, is that… Russia Today? Anything at all on the funding and proliferation of anti-vaxx/covid-denier misinfo?

  7. Nigel

    Good, work, independent media outlets who have been promoting voter fraud theories!
    ‘A top employee of Dominion Voting Systems, who has gone into hiding after becoming the subject of conspiracies on the right since the election, is suing the Trump campaign, a number of campaign surrogates and pro-Trump media outlets, alleging defamation.’
    https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1341722725757411331

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