Sandringham is one of the King’s private residences. So who he chooses to invite there and how they are received is up to him.
A state visit is commissioned by the government and the King has no choice in who is invited or how they are received.
Why are egg prices high? A Bird flu epidemic that has run since 2022.
Trump’s DOGE fired several key USDA officials working on containing the bird flu outbreak. So that’s directly going to increase egg prices. It’s also going to reduce the efficiency of the only process that’s going to reduce egg prices - getting the bird flu epidemic under control.
To fill the shortfall, eggs would usually be imported from Canada. Trump started a trade war with Canada. Again that’s going to directly increase prices.
The price of eggs can’t be reduced by economic policy, only by agricultural policies. But we also know from his choice of Health Secretary how much Trump values vaccines.
On the other hand, Trump’s economic policies will increase the price of eggs and prolong the effects.
So Trump wandered into a house fire that was already burning, shot himself in the foot, then opened fire on firemen and paramedics attempting to rescue him. And the American consumer is meanwhile trapped upstairs.
They are legally obliged to refuse to carry out illegal orders. “Just following orders” is no defence against war crime charges.
It’s uncommon there too. But stupid people turn up everywhere.
Acting like a grotty, backward, small-minded country again.
Then people will just do direct bank transfers.
No, it wasn’t.
The difference between the word and the ideology.
According to the in-universe history, the railways on Sodor were first built to facilitate coastal naval batteries in WWI. So not far off.
Hold up. She was tired of the Nazi association with a Tesla, so she traded in for a Mercedes?
Indeed, longbowmen can be identified as their skeletons are significantly deformed over years of training.
They’ll still vote for him though.
Huh. I guess it’s high time for the Norwegians to develop a sense of humour then.
They’re fierce competitors.
Trump has been craving a Nobel ever since 2016. Sweden can do something extremely funny right now.
So that they can process all your input.
As ever, you can drop in wherever you want.
Olaf Scholz fighting a mysterious urge to get a pistol and a cyanide capsule and wander into the basement. Those who ignore history are doomed etc etc.
I think you mean series 41…
And the one thing Oliver Cromwell should have taught you all is that when you set clear precedent for what happens when the head of state takes the piss, it doesn’t tend to reoccur.
American politics is built around worshipping the cult of the presidency, and whipping the office holders into shape has been repeatedly rejected on the basis of “harming the dignity of the office”.