Does anyone have an estimate of surviving Bears? They must be endangered, if not, sadly, critically so

Poorer and less populous regions have become key production sites for export-oriented manufacturers seeking cheaper land and labour. Access to intra-EU goods trade helps these regions climb the manufacturing value chain — as the blistering growth of CEE shows (the UK used to understand that).

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“We are all distinct and individual Hawker biplanes”

That deserved a meme crossover

Alan Sked has alleged Farage used various n-word slurs in 1997, aged 33, not 13 or 17. It would be useful to get a categorical denial or a more equivocal one to be clear about what Farage in 2025 is saying & denying about his use of racial insults as so-called "banter" & when that had ended

If it helps, I think I can get her address. She lives over the road from my wife’s great aunt. There’s a pistol range in the basement and the walls are TALL

There is a way for Truss to be allowed back into society, but she’s just not capable of it:
* complete silence for several years
* contrition upon reemergence
* A heartfelt apology to the British people

Narcissism will keep getting in the way.

Im no politician but the single market access would be the single most effective handbrake release on the UK economy. Perhaps that’s in the next tranche, but salami-slicing a solution to our economic failure seems almost negligent, given our dire economic outlook

Can’t do any of that, but the Tomcat looks like it should see a doctor- what’s that hanging under its nose?

I think Zack Polanski was right to make this point, it highlights the gross inequality between the super rich and the rest of us.