investment decisions were not really taking place in the BVI. Instead, one of Abramovich’s closest associates appears to have been controlling the companies from the UK.

I always assumed that’s how all BVI companies worked.

Isotonitazene […] was found to be around 2.5 times more potent than hydromorphone and slightly more potent than fentanyl.[3][15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotonitazene

Wired everything. However many network ports you think you will need in a room, double it.

Grounded wire mesh Faraday cage embedded in all walls.

A tall fence.

I didn’t even think about that interpretation, although a lot of the locals would have preferred that…

I couldn’t think of a worse insult.

praised the US president’s “impressive political theatre” in signing a series of executive orders that range from trade to immigration and civil rights since returning to office on Monday.

Well that’s a very British euphemism.

Better than people assuming it’s a joke about it being full of feds, which I’ve seen before.

James Davies, RPS director for England told BBC News: "It’s really important that regardless of whether it’s online or face to face, these thorough checks are taking place.

“That means that a full medical history is taken, there’s an opportunity to understand the medication that may be prescribed, the side effects, the risks and the benefits.”

Unless it’s available on the NHS, it’s inevitable that people will take shortcuts to save money. The NHS doesn’t generally take men’s health seriously though.

I’m not really sure, it may be to do with how Jiang Zemin got called toad boy a lot.

China is pretty sensitive about depictions of Mao, so it doesn’t surprise me.

I think plebbit works a bit like that

I guess I missed that part out, the “Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention” mentioned here appears to be a synonym for the European Union-Mediterranean Free Trade Area

A customs union is similar to a FTA, but you also agree to set identical tariffs on imports. For example, if we are in the EUCU and they decide to set a 6.9% tariff on Chinese blivets, we also have to set a 6.9% tariff on Chinese blivets.

the different tax treatment of alcohol bought in shops, which does not attract VAT, and drinks ordered in pubs, which does.

I had no idea alcohol didn’t have VAT. I hate to agree with him but it absolutely should.

Unknown, but it’s an anticholinergic, and those are associated with dementia.

The study was only on zolpidem. IMO it can probably be generalised to other Z drugs, and possibly benzos. Drugs that work by entirely different mechanisms like melatonin and orexin antagonists could be completely different.

I think it’s important to preserve the original source for verifiability.

Perhaps require the main link to be to a mirror or screenshot, but allow the original link in the body of the post.

Is it?

In the other, the Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Ed Davey, called for Britain to join the customs union by 2030 as part of a larger deal with Europe.

Would the EU actually accept us joining the EUCU without joining the EEA?

A far worse possibility is that it is “just a cold”, but the common coronaviruses that cause the common cold may not be as harmless as we thought.