[Dave W]

It was the Bulgarian Secret Service who dropped the ricin brolly trick, nothing to do with Mother Russia.

Gordievsky said that the KGB arranged the assassination for the Bulgarians to carry out.

[Paultheparaglider]

We're mostly all old enough here to have lived through the "cold war".

I'm close to the silver anniversary of my current declaration.

[Pete L]

There is at least one rogue state closer to home with nuclear weapons and a demonstrated penchant for extraterritorial action. I'm more worried about the fallout from them than the DPRK.

It took 25 years after Chernobyl for the restrictions on Welsh livestock to be ended*.









(*insert Welsh joke of your choice).

[Dave W]

Bit harsh on the French there, Pete.

[Paultheparaglider]

I thought he meant Scotland.

[Sir Morley Steven]

I thought he meant Scotland.

Irn Bru isnt that bad!

[Paultheparaglider]

I like Irn Bru, and having Scottish parents, used to drink it a long time before it became popular further south. For a while not so long ago, they brought out a fiery version. Just as I became addicted to the stuff, they dropped it. I've not forgiven them.

[JoeC]

I like Irn Bru, and having Scottish parents, used to drink it a long time before it became popular further south. For a while not so long ago, they brought out a fiery version. Just as I became addicted to the stuff, they dropped it. I've not forgiven them.

You can still get the fiery Irn Bru Paul:

https://www.whisky-online.com/

[OCB]

[OCB]

Slag off the Wail if you want, this article is imho quite intelligent.
Maybe written by MI6 since they know The Fat Un reads the Wail?

The stupid graphics are there for click-bait, but the rest isn't so bad.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4834706/How-does-West-neutralise-Kim-without-risking-world-war.html

My worry is that Herr Trump goes for a half baked limited strike in the hope of a decapitation strike. The US can get itself into horrible group think situations- from Bay of Pigs to Saddam=9/11, they don't have great form. The more wizened part of the Special Relationship is counting her days before she gets the Spanish Archer, and trying to cope with her poisoned chalice called Brexit.

We live in interesting times...

Forumites solutions welcome. We will knock the best 3 into shape and send them off to the UN (or SPECTRE) within a few days I reckon.

[Bill McCarthy]

Wait until the North Koreans have a major parade, then drop a 'kin great MOAB in the middle of it !

[Bert Presley]

If we’re to cease as a species in nuclear destruction, it will at least be heartening to know that it was caused by two of the most ridiculous people who ever lived.

That definitely counts me in.

Who's the other one?

[Paultheparaglider]

The cartoon in the South China Morning Post of 2 January 2018 made me smile. Or, should it have worried me?

https://www.scmp.com/photos/comment/har ... nuary-2018

[Chris Martyr]

........Yung Fat Wun would just feel an insect bite.

Or , as Jim Dale would have said back at St Swithins ; "You may just feel a little prick".

Oooh Matron..!

[GrahamB]

The cartoon in the South China Morning Post of 2 January 2018 made me smile. Or, should it have worried me?

I rather liked December 20th's.