Please just believe us when we promise to save you loads of money in government. Whatever you do, don’t look at what we have actually done in practice with the local authorities we run, which is increase taxes, cut services and lose 1 in every 10 councillors.
"Just imagine the chaos if Nige had been in Downing Street. He’s just not a serious politician for serious times."
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Tree next to clock tower, Coronation Park, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
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Come on then! 🙏
Any real photos of you in the fez?
#askingforafriend
Timeline cleanser.
Robinson Falls, Tanah Rata.
They'd had their fill in Kuala Lumpur and Melaka.
A pleasant path through the high jungle, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
Abseiling ropes along Path 9, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
How I imagined trekking in the Cameron Highlands vs the reality. 🥵
From the sketchbook
Indeed. 6350 miles in a straight line.
Brave.
Best behaviour.
A street sweeper in Melaka, Malaysia.
Thankless task, but after sweeping the leaves, does he (a) collect in his shovel and place in his refuse sack, or (b) brush them through the railing down to the street below?
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
I think you put in the same cupboard as the salt tears of the Dubai expats?
Or a sabbatical...
Politics on the pavement, Malacca.
Toes left in for scale.
No venue, I'm afraid. And of course they couldn't do it without me (Malaysia for a month)! 🤣
A tree in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur. It is surrounded by pavement tiles which have been cast asunder by the roots.
"Ha, I see your puny, pathetic pavement trying to tame me, and I have only scorn!"
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Been threatening all day in KL. And just four minutes away from my hotel...⛈️⚡
@saints1890.bsky.social would be good to see a bit more posted on this site
If only they could ban playing video on phones without using earphones...
Lots of "don'ts" on Kuala Lumpur public transport. Which may be why it is a pleasant experience. 👍
On the one hand, firing off random, racist,witless utterances cannot be condoned and it must have caused pain. On the other hand we need to understand the medical context. The president has dementia.
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Martin Rowson on the arrests of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Peter Mandelson – cartoon
POPULAR SONG
The shadow of your simile
Is like
Something else
Crocus display, Greenfield, Saddleworth
For once, it's not raining. 😁
Graeme Keyes @KeyesGraeme on #AndrewMountbattenWindsor #Trump #EpsteinFiles – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
