I was into that stuff then, I'm sure your friend was excellent. However I think top of the tree was the one into Little House on the Prairie, who could recite the Wizard of Oz and was obsessed by silent film stars. They were on a don't need to impress, uber-cool plane of existence. Still awed

On Thursday he'll imply we can't pronounce aluminium properly

That does look weak. Musk's comments weren't misjudged, he was lying so Americans are subdued by the fear of a 'fallen' UK happening to them; and to keep us weak and fractured to disrupt Europe as they go to a tariff-based economy. Our govt. aren't responding, they think he's just mischievious

Not sure why I've just written a lecture. Anyway...

He can't risk a strong leadership developing. If we had a Thatcher or Blair (in the sense of someone much of the world admires) this wouldn't work. We could actually be in quite a lot of trouble in the next year or so

Also in a tariff-based economy, because we've split from the EU we have no defence and are no threat. If our politics is disrupted and govt. weak then he can use us to further disrupt Europe

We're the fictional bogeyland which is what happens if you don't do that. The US is the audience and we can't refute him because of his control of the narrative. He's taken control of our 'brand', and he has Farage and Tommy etc. to confirm his stories.

Trying to work it out - why? Over on Twitter, Trump is making little speeches about the threat of immigrants, and the comments are full of people (probably Musk-bots) begging him to put the army on the streets to protect them. I think he might be planning to institute marshal law...

I can do an excellent impression of her. Now Cheryl from the X Factor isn't really a thing it's all I've got. Not sure I've ever watched an episode all the way through though

...sideways. I've left today because of it and there's suddenly 99.9% less racism in my life