Questions Of The Day (Politics)

[Mick Harper]

Have you got round to my position? Abolish universities.

[Wile E. Coyote]

Sorry I can't agree, the idea of 26 years of hell is just too much for the average parent, you need that three year break.

[Mick Harper]

The rapprochement between Britain and France in the new post-American European security set-up opens up a new vista in the small boats saga.

* It is not disputed that the migrants are able to cross the Channel with such facility because the French are only too pleased to be rid of them and make no strenuous attempts to stop them.

* It is not disputed that 'asylum-seekers and refugees' cannot shop around when seeking safe havens by becoming illegal migrants willy-nilly.

* It is not disputed that by a strict interpretation of the various treaties and legislation, migrants can/should be returned to the 'last safe country they were in'.

* It might be disputed by France, but could not be by lawyers, that Britain could insist, as a price for security co-operation, that any migrant setting out from France can be returned forthwith to France.

* This would halt the traffic at once.

[Mick Harper]

[Boreades]

[Boreades]

But that three year break is only a three year break.

After the wee bairns have finished their living-away-from-home education, and maybe got a degree as well, they have this appalling habit of wanting to come home again.

Then it's a new era of "job hunting".

[Wile E. Coyote]

I didn't go to Uni, so it's difficult to say. I have had lots of graduates work for me, and they seemed to have gained something, in general, good on computers, good at accuracy, good team players, but tended to worry a lot. The ex army types I appointed would always just crack on if you asked them to do it, they would always complete. It might very well be a monumental fuck up, or monumental brilliance, but they would always, always complete.Your graduates tended to give goodish reasons for not doing things.

[Mick Harper]

[Wile E. Coyote]

Pilgrimages are deeply rooted in religious traditions and often involve visiting specific places or landmarks along the way, which can involve detours from a more direct route. There is also the need to identify high quality inns, and other services (hey ho, here we go) available for weary travellers. I applaud CNN for identifying and taking clearly the best route available.

[Mick Harper]

I stand abashed.

[Mick Harper]

And don't forget, like Anderson, the late Pope was gay. He's featured in the song Frankie Goes to Hollywood. (Agencies)

[Mick Harper]

While idly looking up direct flights from Atlanta to Rome (they're every fifteen minutes) I discovered there is a Rome, Georgia quite near Atlanta, Georgia so he might have gone there first by mistake. Everyone being distraught and all.

[Wile E. Coyote]

We need a papal candidate. My vote goes with Gareth Southgate. Conservative, safe, would bring through younger clergy, without abusing his position. He would look good in a Papal mitre.

[Mick Harper]

And how many of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics would this... er... Signor Southgate of yours represent? But, yes, the footballing tradition of John Paul II and Pope 'Maradona' Francis would be maintained.

For several hundred years the Pope had to be an Italian. Then he had to be either on the liberal wing or the conservative wing. Now he has to represent a geographical ethnicity.

But why a 'he' at all? So many other genders have been opening up lately. And they are all God's creatures. Mmm... creatures... Does the Pope have to be a life-form in this age of AI?

[Mick Harper]

So Trump turning the world over has led to British GNP's growth rate prediction having to be cut from 1.6% to 1.1% but that is 'mostly for domestic reasons'. I'm trying to work out whether the Trump Revolution is more or less important than going to the lavvy. Back in a mo'.