I'll check that, thanks.

How was Thatcher doing at this point in her time in office? My recollection is that it took the Falklands war to restore her and her party's popularity and a publicly unpopular Labour leader to give her the next GE victory.

Do you put oil in the pan?

President Trump said “fight” 20 times in that speech. Not exactly a distortion to quote him. A montage may have been better if more boring but this was not a distorted misrepresentation of normal political rhetoric.

Hopefully this will becomes a well known alternative term for "wanker".

I find it inconceivable that they didn't know.

Forgive for not breaking out the champagne, this is all rather underwhelming.
Thankfully I'll be dead before it really hits the fan.

Fluffer in gay S&M porn?

Thing is, he won't be standing again so he can do all the unpopular things that a President seeking re-election could never do.

I think it's more the Google environment. I'm pretty sure that Google is checking up when I ask for directions on Google maps. I've forbidden most apps from accessing any location data but if you want to get directions the phone needs to know where it is and where you want to go.

Also, probably 90% of drones do get shot down. I imagine the Russians don't have enough air defence to defend every target and the valuable ones will be attacked by maybe 10 drones simultaneously in the hope that 1 or 2 get through.

But what people believe and what is actually true can be two different things. The latter being more important.

Yes I have the AI and as many surveillance "features" as I can turned off on my phone but I still end up with Google asking me for a review of a restaurant I visited the day before. Actually, it's no one else's business where I've been or what I've been doing.

The trouble is detecting them then tracking them in order to send a plane to shoot them down.
These drones are designed to have low visibility to radar and will travel along routes that avoid missile batteries so you can't see them until it's too late.

Could they ban the NBC from government news conferences etc?

That's my thinking. The "crisis" is a reason for the culture secretary to make urgent and pressing changes. You'd like to think she knows exactly what she wants to do.