Sounds really interesting and I would love to be there but am I the only one who thinks these tickets cost a ridiculous amount of money?
Too expensive for me.
Can't help but think that a cheaper online option would help make the world a better place too.
The book's on my christmas wishlist though.

The line between legitimate payments and bribes is indeed very blurred.
I used to say that about Johnson's overpaid speaking engagements too.
They always struck me like a moneylaunderers'dream.

And also, if we're going to use contributing to society-ie. giving rather than taking- as our yardstick, algorithmic logic would most likely place a lot of our political class and most of the shadow cabinet on the very first deportationplane out.

The loonies are well and truly running the asylum over there.

The first FIFA peace(?!) prize. Awarded to a man (?!) who shamelessly facilitates a genocide.
Why am I not surprised.
The whole thing has been reduced to a corrupt freakshow.

War, recession, chaos, unrest.
And people will not blame the orange buffoon, the complicit media, the confusion between politics & entertainment, the derision of experts,the fact the US system was only a pseudo democracy to start with. They will blame democracy itself. Trump's just the Trojan horse.

AND he's facilitated a genocide.
Who can take this freakshow seriously.
It's one big corrupt mess.

The mind boggles.

I bet Putin won in at least 4 categories:
Literature, economics, peace and bear wrestling.

Yes, these are pathological fringe fanatics and not representative of the British people.
That isn't emphasised hardly enough.
Unfortunately the British media seems to have a bit of a fetish for them.