Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One reason for not getting my DNA analysed (apart from data privacy) is the fear that I might not have any neanderthal at all, which would be a huge disappointment 221
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's what I thought. She seems to be a mass of contradictions 010
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And not too bright, if they didn't expect to be apprehended beside a US air base. Though on the other hand, I think the woman who reported it didn't get any reply when she called the base, obviously all in bed at that time 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not exactly innocent, but obviously nothing to do with terrorism, or they wouldn't be out on bail 111
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 29/09/2026They, and their followers, ignore the "proven wrong" bit. They've added to their narrative 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You surely can't be suggesting that Trump isn't telling the truth? 040
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When has he been seen in Parliament at all? If Reform are using "the boats" at every opportunity it's because they have no other policies that don't involve enriching their donors 040
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don't think they'll have much of a problem in ascertaining in whose territorial waters it took place. Apart from satellite technology, which seems able to locate every daisy on your lawn, it wasn't exactly a clandestine event 020
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is it not just straightforward criminal damage, and not giving the police his phone PIN? 110
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Did they seize the camera? If so could the location of the recording be ascertained? 031
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026He wants to have his day in court and be centre of attention, before going down for, one hopes, a lengthy stretch 020
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Nonetheless, I'm not happy about people being prosecuted or not for political reasons, or the CPS being leaned on by the Home Secretary (looking back with a shudder at some who've had the job). The CPS should be basing its decisions on what the law is and what can be proved 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Isn't it the CPS who decide what people will be charged with? 110
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is that not like the Eye adding "allegedly" to thwart Messrs Sue Grabbit & Runne? 001
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As I remember Euston it has huge ad screens that dwarf the actual information. My real beef with London stations is that they hoard platform info until the last minute. Here in Switzerland you just find that on your mobile app, then as stations are open you just go to the platform when it suits you 120
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I like Marylebone. Human scaled, and anyway if I'm passing through I'll be on my way to Stratford upon Avon 130
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm not talking about hanging Nazis, my only point was that capital punishment is not a deterrent - to any criminal- because they don't expect to get caught 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026No, I am talking about the deterrent effects of capital punishment, with a historical example of why it doesn't work, whatever the crime may be 210
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I was referring to the non-deterrent effects of capital punishment. 130
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Um, www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comMore than 200 countries endorse Infantino for fourth Fifa term despite Balogun scandalFifa’s president is poised for re-election, with Germany the highest-profile FA yet to provide official backing 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I think the best deterrent to crime is a high probablity of getting caught. After all, when pickpockets were publically hanged, other pickpockets would work the crowd, taking advantage of their being distracted by the spectacle. In my opinion it's simply wrong to kill anybody in cold blood 200
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Logical, if you believe that executing people is a deterrent to crime 130
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Actually it would be quite funny to see his reaction if they did give one of the Reform crew a peerage, only not Farage. 020
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 17/07/2026But he'd have to turn up, however briefly, to sign in for the day's expenses 130
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 16/07/2026They could all take part in a tv debate. I'm not saying I'd watch it 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I always think of Ernie Wise saying he was feeling romantic, so went to look at the bank by moonlight 020
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 13/07/2026France as we know it didn't exist, except for a bit round Paris (which I suppose is why we still have the Île-de-France). The same goes, of course, for Germany and Italy. The Normans were basically Vikings (also active in Sicily) 010
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 13/07/2026When we were about 14 one of the nuns tried to teach us that anybody who wasn't Catholic was going to hell ("extra ecclesia nulla salus"). To our credit, we all said that couldn't be true, and she went away and found the doctrine had been modified since she was at school 030
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I remain firmly in the "he was nuts" camp, but that's where the current lot just start 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Yes, when we ask "What do you do?" it's as if the job was the only thing of significance 3280
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Yes, reducing the tax burden on the less-well-off would save a lot of jobs in retail and hospitality (and bring in VAT returns) 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 13/07/2026He ran under "In your heart you know he's right" to which the reply was "In your guts you know he's nuts". I think of this quite often now, though Goldwater seems quite moderate by modern standards 100
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Well that's sexist! I'm as useless at wrapping as any man, and have resorted to the JLP'S wrapping service more than once 010
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Well, that and an enormous parasitic health insurance system 010
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 11/07/2026And return quite a lot of it in VAT on the stuff they can now afford 120
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I don't think that would be automatic. In the olden days the MP would have resigned as a matter of corse, but now shame is outmoded. It would make a recall move possible, but what would be the point if he had just been re-elected 000
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A pedant writes: France was just the bit round Paris in 1066 120
Jo Lonergan @joml.bsky.social · 06/07/2026And the Rimet Cup will be gracing Trump's mantlepiece. Possibly even if they don't win, in fact 000
