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A frood who really knows where his towel is. 🚶🏻

Pizza on a pizza stone on a bbq
Sunset over the fjord in Oslo Norway. 6 pictured 1-2 mins apart showing the sun setting.
CAIL BRUICH sea trout, taramasalata, king's platinum caviar mushroom lart old winchester gougère west coast crab orkney scallop, apple, kohlrabi, thai green curry brittany quail périgord foie gras, garden pea, black truffle wild halibut isle of skye langoustine, tomato, courgette scottish borders sika deer girolles, chicory, plum, sauce poivrade or perthshire grouse girolles, chicory, fig redcurrant colbeggie farm strawberry mascarpone, lime, basil cheflornas childhood favourite chocolates raspberrymacaron wild cherry & pistachio brown butter madeleine A ١ ١٠ B R
16:56 GMT US House foreign affairs panel urges Iranians to "make regime change inevitable" The US House Foreign Affairs Committee has also pushed out a strong message on X following Trump's missive earlier. The tone from US officials has escalated. «To the Iranian people: Ayatollah Khamanei has butchered your people, made rial the weakest currency in the world, and squandered your country's resources. "Make regime change inevitable."
To Patrick’s question: in my darker moments I do sometimes wonder if a Reform win is needed to kill radical right populism. But then we had one disastrous term of Trump in the US and he won again, despite attempting a coup. More to the point, Reform being in power would cause enormous misery for a lot of people both intentionally (e.g. asylum seekers) and unintentionally via incompetence and economic failure. And it wouldn’t be me, or people like me, who suffer most but those who can least afford it. As for whether they’d accept democratic votes: based on the experience of other radical right leaders in democracies they do tend to allow free votes and adhere (eventually) to election results, but they also try to rig systems in their favour (see Orbán’s constitutional changes and now Meloni’s attempted referendum to change the Italian voting system to directly elect PMs). And yes Farage could absolutely do anything he likes with a majority, assuming backbenchers support him. We do not have any proper safeguards in our system. The courts can’t overrule primary legislation (or at least have never tried). They could try and interpret legislation in ways that mitigated the worse impacts but then it can be rewritten to clarify the intention. The Lords couldn’t stop anything in the manifesto, or anything passed in two consecutive sessions (except an attempt to extend a Parliament beyond five years). The King can’t stop anything. We have no filibuster process or anything like that. In practice we’d be dependent on public pressure to block anything heinous.
A very tight parking turn in French parking lot
Newspaper screenshot of the Telegraph with the headline “‘It’s open season for corruption’: How Trump turned the White House into a cash cow” and the opening saying “Naked profiteering by the US president and his family has triggered alarm bells in the Maga movement Donald Trump caught his first sight of the so-called “palace in the sky” in February as he climbed the red-carpeted steps of the Boeing 747-8.”
The hot dog meme man "we're all trying to find who did this" but with AI replacing the person with Elon Musk