The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

We're lucky this was a southern rather than a northern airport so the weight difference wasn't that huge.

[The Larch]

Birmingham is southern now?

[Sheilbh]

Midlands erasure

[DGuller]

Infantilization of women at its worst. 

[Sheilbh]

Inquest hears that a Russian exiled critic of Putin (and friend of Berezovsky and Litvinenko) who apparently committed suicide in his London home was, in fact, murdered and it was made to look like a suicide:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/murder-kremlin-critic-london-made-look-like-suicide-nikolai-glushkov

No suspects

[alfred russel]

Or more accurately, no suspects beyond those that we can't mention out loud for diplomatic reasons?

[Sheilbh]

Not sure. The Met identified the guys they think is behind the Litvinenko and Skripal murders (not least to sanction them).

I just think it's easier to trace individuals carrying polonium or a chemical weapon than people who just strangled someone and then made it look like a suicide.

[DGuller]

I hate to put out conspiracy theories, but is there any possibility that this was a hit sanctioned by Kremlin?

[Caliga]

R.I.P. D.M.X. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Midlands erasure

The Heart of England is gone?!

[Grey Fox]

R.I.P. D.M.X. 

*poors 40oz*

[Eddie Teach]

R.I.P. D.M.X. 

Is there any possibility this was also a hit sanctioned by the Kremlin? No? Ok.   

[Sheilbh]

Via Ben Judah - this poll's a disaster for the French Left:


Only candidates of the centre (to please Yi) and centre-right can win. I feel like I've read a lot about the risk of the left abstaining in the second round v, say, Macron. You can see the impact of that on his numbers v his election. I've read far fewer articles about the risk of the centre/centre-right voting for Le Pen against a left-wing candidate

Again - European centre right liberals as the gateway drug to the far right

[Duque de Bragança]

Again - European centre left liberals as the gateway drug to the far right

Fixed!
If that's a potshot at Macron. 

[Sheilbh]

Again - European centre left liberals as the gateway drug to the far right

Fixed!
If that's a potshot at Macron. 

At Macron - but also Dutch liberals, Danish liberals, Spanish liberals - the FDP's pitch for AFD voters too. There's a trend.