106 Responses to Weekend 29th August 2026

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  1. tomo says:
    August 30, 2026 at 1:25 pm

    Harsh, but (too) fair imho

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  2. tomo says:
    August 30, 2026 at 1:30 pm

    The war on the motorist / anarcho-tyranny (thanks Eddy!)

    Summary: Dozens of drivers have been taken to court after turning around on a closed dual carriageway in Cardiff. One of them, Jenna Langdon, says they were “treated like criminals” for a manoeuvre they believed police had allowed.21088d
    Walesonline
    On 20 February 2026 the Butetown Tunnels (A4232 near Cardiff Bay) were closed after a police incident. Langdon, travelling home from the Wales Millennium Centre with her mother and daughter, sat in standstill traffic inside the tunnel for about 90 minutes to two hours after both ends were blocked.

    I don’t know how it’s organised – but organised it surely is. Police are taking *any* excuse to close roads for trivial reasons, for inordinate amounts of time. Fender bender shunts around here are now closing roads for half a day – it’s policy and an organised group are handing down the instructions….

    National Highways formally apologised in July 2026 for the repeated, lengthy closures that have hit the M5 in Somerset – note that the insufferably officious twerps in Plod employ who’ve done the stupid shit feel that explanation is beneath them. I’ve seen too many small incidents being colossally over-egged and people being subjected to 4 to 5 hour M5 closures when the fire is out and two lanes are totally clear ….

    Infuriating hardly covers it

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    • tomo says:
      August 30, 2026 at 1:53 pm

      I’d add that drivers as a herd can be stupid – but the actions of officialdom surpass anything they manage by several orders of magnitude.

      I hope the lady in Cardiff has dashcam footage of plod waving her through…

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  3. friend of yogi bear says:
    August 30, 2026 at 1:44 pm

    “KING ANDY”..LATEST SURPRISE…….

    King Andy has announced that his brave fight to keep cop killers in prison has been successful. Given he was a P.M. with a large majority and nobody opposed him on this issue, we need to know who on earth he has been fighting…..otherwise this whole story has been a lot of froth and fraud. Concocted to make him a hero.
    Surely not….

    On the larger story the BBC ( who are the media wing of the Labour government, “some people say”) rarely ask any penetrating questions of the Government. The story that the “Prison crisis”is the fault of 14 years of Tory incompetence is repeatedly pushed by the Labours’ Clown cabinet whenever asked anything about criminal justice and never challenged, indeed it is a response that is expected and encouraged.

    The facts are that today’s prison population is 86,500, when Labour left office in 2010 the prison population was 85,000, interestingly ,when Blair and Brown came into power the prison population was 62,000 .

    Well nobody expects much from the BBC, not anymore.

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  4. Sluff says:
    August 30, 2026 at 1:47 pm

    The BBC is gutted.
    Iceland has voted by 52.8 to 47.2 against reopening talks with the EU over closer ties. A result not dissimilar from the Brexit vote.
    What was that? Did I hear comments about having another referendum to give the good people of Iceland a chance to rethink?
    Surely Ed Davey and the Libtards will be on the case.

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  5. Sluff says:
    August 30, 2026 at 1:55 pm

    This morning I visited an elderly relative in hospital.
    There is a skeleton service over the BH weekend. No consultant ward rounds but an on-call Doctor if required.
    One was. He visited a very old frail lady. She could not speak English. Her relatives were there to translate.
    If this very old lady is British how come she speaks no English? Why is she even here? What has she contributed?
    I ask all these questions about the International Health Service because apparently there is yet another black hole in the nation’s finances and any company with the temerity to make a decent profit is set to have a ‘windfall tax’.
    Quite whether the government will offer a ‘windfall repayment’ should they ever make a loss is not clear. Speaking as a long suffering BP shareholder (share price still below what it was 20 years ago) a £50 bn sub from Burnham for the cost of Deepwater Horizon would be much appreciated.

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  6. tomo says:
    August 30, 2026 at 2:20 pm

    Stranger stabbing in German railway station – traveller killed, German man arrested.

    Why is it now that the first response nowadays is to look closer?

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