EBU membership is open to broadcasters in the ITU Europe region, which is based on telecom infrastructure (particularly the telegraph cables of the British Empire) rather than geography or politics. As such Europe is the continent + North Africa + the Levant.

Good. Churches only interaction with the government should be to pay taxes.

one particular country.

And how would escalation do that? It would do the very opposite.

Despite?

And why would the UN piling in make that better? It’s already offering materiel and intelligence to Ukraine.

Why do I get the feeling you think “accordingly” means escalate the military conflict? The exact opposite of what the EU is about.

Sir Kier Starmer, Prime Minister of the UK, First Lord of the Treasury, MP for Holborn and St Pancras, Privy counsellor, Leader of the Labour Party would get a lot more sleep if he had only 4 roles. The Washington system seems to give politicians far too much free time. Maybe that’s why so many of them are swivel-eyed loons.

It’s an analysis piece, an interesting or provocative headline is the thing to have.

People really have forgotten how to read news media in the past few years.

You’d have to be trying hard to forget your media literacy to think that was spin.

It’s a device that’s saying the Trump issue is the major one in the election. Trump, and how voters feel about him, is what is driving one party or the other to victory.

Or we could stop gamifying slaughter and stop giving soldiers medals, and use the money to pay for healthcare.

Ah yes, the mentally ill are literally Hitler. Or literally insects. What a well-rounded person’s opinion.

So you’re advocating a regression to 19th century mental asylums? Discarding humans as “hopeless” cases with no attempt to reintegration? That’s a bit sick.

[citation needed, unlikely to materialise]

A rare lucid moment

You’d have to work pretty hard to get drunk on small beer.

She tried to claim there wasn’t any sewage in the Seine for the Olympics. She swam in it for a press event, and a website told people upriver what time to flush to make sure it all got there for her big moment.

You almost like the Fr*nch for that sort of thing.

Then they’ll still need border guards, soldiers, police, judges. The “good German soldier” myth was created because if every Nazi were to be prosecuted, the nation would be paralysed.

The Twilight / Fifty Shades of Grey gambit.

They were part of a land grab that took it from the Spanish along with Guam and some other places. Gained independence in 1946.