How can one tell if interference has had an impact? There is no control group against which to compare. It is agreed that in general advertising works (else why pay for it) so how is this different?

I always regarded Emily as one of the sane ones, but this is just bollocks. FOM is part and parcel of membership and is anyway desirable in its own right.

I don’t think influence is the point. You can’t just say “they interfered but it didn’t work so it doesn’t matter”. If they interfered in any way it is unacceptable.

Why is this even a question? Fuck off, Trump.

I think the polite response is “Thank you for coming”.

Putin is safe as long as he has the film of Trump raping children.

Not attention span, hypocrisy and deviousness because it appears he must have made the Russia oil agreement at about the same time, just delaying the announcement.

There has been a permanent shift of perception of the US whatever happens.

If you’re feeling down in the mouth you’ll soon be spitting feathers.

If it were a Musk rocket it would just blow up on the launchpad anyway.

Like a hall of mirrors.

Painful but unsurprising.

Just give them the frozen Russian assets.

How I wish that none of us had heard of Trump.

And the circus has only got clowns.

Oh yes he was.

Donny Crookett

And there was me thinking it was Europe’s town.