"L'horreur à Nice", à la une du Parisien de ce vendredi. #Nice06 pic.twitter.com/Uim2eIyBKR — Cyril Petit (@CyrilPetit) July 14, 2016 "We heard gunfire, moments later 100s of people started to run from Promenade" – eyewitness https://t.co/e63qWMQ4b6 https://t.co/mnKTtpCR4t — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 15, 2016
By 83% to 15% those sampled by @IpsosMORI say fox-hunting should NOT be made legal again. CON voters split 70-27% against legalisation — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 26, 2015 @IpsosMORI Hunting poll; Rural residents MORE LIKELY to be opposed to legalisation. 84% -12% as opposed to 82-15%. https://t.co/rRHFjueNjv — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 26, 2015 Detail of findings – @IpsosMORI "Should hunting be legalised" polling pic.twitter.com/WQ2bJt5SeF — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) December 26, 2015 There doesn’t seem much support for a…
A welcome return to what was a PB Christmas Day tradition There was a time when Christmas Day on PB wasn’t Christmas Day without the annual crossword by St John. We’ll this year he’s back and here it is. Enjoy and have a great day. Thanks to everybody who had made the site what it is. To my son Robert whose hobby since for nearly 12 years had been keeping the technical infrastructure working a big thanks. Also to TSE…
Merry Christmas to him/her and to all PBers Amidst all the online deliveries to my home this week there was one package for which I have been unable to trace the source. It contained a bottle of vintage champagne- a Dom Perigon 2004 which, as a quick Google search discovered, costs quite a lot of money. Unfortunately there was no card or other means to identify the sender so I am unable to say thank you directly. It was addressed…
Next President & next PM betting On Betfair Corbyn's rated as an 8,3% chance to become next PM. That's almost the same as the 8.6% chance of Trump becoming President — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 20, 2015 IDS’s and JC’s leadership elections Corbyn's 59.5% LAB leadership vote share compares with Duncan Smith's 60.7% in 2001 CON contest. 2 years & 2 months later IDS was booted out — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) November 20, 2015 ComRes favourability numbers coming up but…
Paris is in lockdown: museums, schools, Eiffel Tower closed. More on our live blog: https://t.co/VeAl0Lkz9Z pic.twitter.com/QsZYotOa8q — Financial Times (@FT) November 14, 2015 Friday’s attacks on Paris show that the terror threat remains. It’s time to fight back with every means at our disposal and take the fight to ISIS writes Keiran Pedley. But do we have the stomach for it? I thought quite hard before writing this piece. I wasn’t sure whether or not it was too soon. To…
37 It is time to reaffirm and protect Europe’s values The first duty of the state is to protect its citizens. In that duty, France failed yesterday, as all states do from time to time because that duty can never be held to be absolute. It is impossible to protect against every threat every time, and any attempt to do so would impinge so heavily on other rights and values that it would in itself be an attack on the…
For those who no longer wish to travel on 14/11 please call us for a free exchange we're open 9am-5pm (GMT) over the weekend 03432 186186. — Eurostar (@Eurostar) November 14, 2015 Update – AP: Head of Paris police says all attackers are believed to be dead — Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) November 14, 2015 The Paris attack in photos https://t.co/hieV5M2bi5 pic.twitter.com/VWKaxQw6PG — Financial Times (@FT) November 14, 2015 Paris attacks leave France in trauma, fearing for the future •…