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With the added advantage that if, like many of us of a certain age, you have hair growing out of your ears, it will be a startling blonde colour!

Well I suppose the offer of a hefty 50% discount would clinch the deal. If the fine is recorded as paid, job done. As for traceable bank transfers, he probably simply never expected anyone to bother tracing them. Imagine it, traffic officer issues fine from pad, "close friend" receives pad, receives money, issues receipt. If there is no independent accounting or cross referencing of tickets issued and receipts issued (and "close friend" is no doubt responsible for reconciling the two) then job is a good 'un! Probably a defamation case pending...

Quick pocket guide - Bannon is the aging rocker who badly needs to wash his hair, Bolton is the one who looks like the fire chief from Trumpton. Alternatively, Bolton is the one who makes rather more sense!

You will be able to tell us come November!

What if he held a MAGA protest at the courthouse. And no one came...

Brilliant!

I dislike Yaxley-Lennon/ Tommy Robinson, and virtually all he stands for. My distrust is compounded by his use of a pseudonim in his political campaigning. But he is entitled to his views, and to move around freely. One must ask why it was necessary to pepper spray and handcuff him - surely not because he was engaged in acts of disorder, pepper spray and handcuffs are not appropriate because he is an irritating little turd! And then having arrested and arraigned him, Plod screws up the paperwork. The very active bias in the way the Met enforces the law in this area is actually quite dangerous for maintaining freedom of speech and freedom for political campaigning. It is only alleviated by the apparent incompetence of the senior police commanders!

I've long suspected that the white parts of zebra crossings (crosswalks) were specifically there to make pedestrians a better target at night!

Evangelists - absolutely classic, brilliant phrase coined!

So all the effort Mr Trump and the MAGA media machine are putting in is working then...

Well yes, of course, it is a Murdoch product!

Well I will admit that I am not a habitue of bars where it is customary to humiliate the dancers by throwing low denomination bank notes for them to scramble to pick up, (I am no plaster saint but I don't stoop to humiliating girls like that); but let us remind ourselves of exactly what you said ( in full and unedited) in your post. No mention of Japanese or Koreans, but a very specific reference to an "anti westerners mood!

I don't suppose we will ever really know the truth behind the allegations of corruption, and the exact details of the conflict between "Big Jok" and his peers. I also am aware that photographs can and are chosen to "add weight" to stories; but the OP photograph, somewhat dishevelled and with that slightly manic grin, doesn't really convince that he is on top of the situation. I suspect that, for the right reasons or the wrong reasons ( probably a mixture of both) he is toast. As Julius Caesar is reported to have favoured: "well fed sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights. Yon Cassius (Surachate Hakparn)has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." The guys at the top are well fed sleek-headed men!

Nothing ridiculous - you talked of the "fun", you made no mention whatsoever of Japanese or Koreans!

"How dare you"!

Hardly surprising really (the anti Westerner mood) if "fun" consisted of throwing low denomination banknotes at girls on stage, to watch them scramble to pick them up!

Crossing the street in Bangkok is a risky undertaking anyway, with or without a Formula 1 race in progress!

Well, somebody shot up his car when it was parked outside a massage parlour... Perhaps not "evidence", but certainly an indication that he is not universally popular!

A very clear breach of the peace - the fellow is very obviously "openly Jewish"!

Two points: 1) Sunak is the Prime Minister not the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 2) Sunak and Cleverly (Home Secretary - the minister responsible for policing) can write as many letters as they wish. The Metropolitan Police Command Structure will ignore them. They know that there is to be an election within the year, they know that this government is toast, and they are looking towards making an accommodation with its successor - maybe already have!

Does the Iranian Embassy in Paris have a convenient balcony...

A comprehensive knowledge of Monty Python's Flying Circus is a great help in understanding the current American political circumstances. Perhaps "Pythonography" should be included in Ivy League University studies?

As long as they only slapped their hands in a proportional way! Imagine if you will, if Israeli gangs had crossed into, say Syria, early in the morning of the Feast of Eid, slaughtered 1500 Muslims in their homes, raped to death female children and burnt alive infants, before dragging several hundred hostages away, never to be seen again, and broadcasting those exploits over the internet. Would there be a "proportional response"? Would Western Media rush to interview, and understand the motivations of those who oversaw such an attack?

The "Mad Mullahs" (what an appropriate term) have been engaged in a slow burn conflict with Israel for decades. They run terrorism throughout that part of the world, with Israel as the main target. They own Hezbollah, are largely in control of Hamas, and are an active, not potential, existential threat to Israel. They do not share a border with Israel, other than by proxy with Lebanon and Syria. If the geography was different, and they did have a border they would have launched full scale conventional war long ago. Their great boast and the great threat is their emerging missile launched nuclear capability. Israel ignoring that will simply make no difference; so Israel has laid down a marker, shown they are aware, and have the capacity to react. In my opinion, and such predictions are just that, opinions, I suspect that Iran will not be able to resist the opportunity to launch nuclear missiles once they have them. They are not constrained by the moral and political constraints which hold sway amongst the worlds other nuclear armed countries (including Israel) which dictate no "first use". So I expect, sadly, Iran to initiate a nuclear exchange. The weapons will not be on the scale or in the quantity which would be involved in the much studied and modelled prospect of a superpower nuclear exchange. Israel has phenomenal (and phenomenally expensive) anti aircraft and anti missile defences, but some will get through, there will still be a lot of damage. Actually, I would argue that Iran's known Chemical and Biological agent capability would probably cause more casualties than the nuclear, albeit less dramatically. Iran's missile and nuclear capacity, along probably with it's communication and IT systems, will be destroyed by the Israeli response. Let's try and look on the bright (?) side, the Mullahs regime may collapse under that damage.

It is not the main issue? He has been charged with embezzlement of party funds - I would say that is fairly central to the issue of umh, embezzling party funds!