Rapid naval surveillance

The Royal Navy has amazed itself by discovering a long neglected urgency button. It has rushed into service, some marine drones.
    Their job will be to keep an eye on the spy ships sent by Put’nstan to target undersea communications cables in UK territorial waters.

No deterrent

What do you get if you whizz off to Thailand to commit bigamy and you send wedding invitations to family members? Hauled into court to be given a suspended sentence, i.e. away with it.

Reality Bite

President $thump has reduced the price of oil by a significant amount by declaring that the Iran war is effectively over.
    They won and he didn’t, but that’s life. Deal with it.

A way to spend £2 billion

The boss of the Met is beating a drum for a national police service because some of the 43 police forces in England and Wales are not up to the job. Eight of them didn’t mount a single undercover operation against the likes of drug gangs or migrant smugglers last year, and some of them may have forgotten how to do such operations. Hence the need to blow a huge wodge of cash on a huge shake-up.

Today’s Bonus Question

Who is this guy Poch, who looks lkie being lumbered with sorting out Man. Utd. FC? Is he one of the Spice Mob? Sure sounds like he should be.

A fine tangle

Israel, offered constantly as the only democracy in the Middle East, is going to be without a government for quite some time after the Ne10yahoo coalition lost its majority.
    The ex-militlary leader of the next largest party could gather up a majority but he doesn’t want anything to do with the Arab members of the parliament. The biog on offer about him suggests that he sees A-rabs as inconvenient human shields to be blasted to bitz when they get in his way.

Today’s Other Question

If you’re expecting a bill for recent services but the email with the details doesn’t arrive because the wheels have come off the MicroSoft Outlook system, does that mean you don’t have to pay the bill?