“We’re fucking kicking all the Muslims out of the mosques and turning them into Wetherspoon’s.”

What a silly billy. You can’t turn Muslims into Wetherspoons.

Mmm, they’ve been working on looking like fannies for a while.

I haven’t bought a Brewdog beer for at least a couple of years now since I don’t want to support a company that seems to be run by arseholes. It’s a shame because their Nanny State, in particular, was the first low/no alcohol beer that tasted of something rather than just sweet, bland, lager. But Drop Bear has totally replaced Nanny State as my low-alcohol beer of choice (please don’t tell me they’re arseholes too!).

It seems to me a given that you shouldn’t be able to place bets on outcomes you can directly influence. This is not so different from e.g. a boxer betting on himself to lose.

“A rich, lefty, white male celebrity…" - well, she’s not wrong. Must make a nice change for her.

“… he can’t see the optics of attacking the only Black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end.” - and why hasn’t her government appointed any other black women?

“This is an early example of what life will be like if they win….” - sweet.

“Do not let the bigots and bullies win.” - see above.

“Sunlight is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal sunlight supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring sunlight a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to sunlight. That’s an extreme solution. The other view says that sunlight is stuff like any other stuff, and like any other stuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it’s better to give stuff a value so that we’re all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this sunlight, and there are many different possibilities there.” - that Nestle CEO, probably.

There should absolutely be an enquiry over the contracts awarded for PPE during the pandemic. It seems to me that some companies with no history of, or experience in, supplying medical gear won multi-million-pound contracts. I’d like to know the basis on which those contracts were awarded.