(0557) Morning all. (0617)

 

7. The spaghetti tree

1 April 1957. BBC TV broadcast the famous “April Fool’s Day spaghetti tree hoax” on Panorama, narrated by Richard Dimbleby. At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK with most British people unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water.
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— Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) April 1, 2025

6. Andy at 1010

After losing a mouthful of beer I checked the date. |  https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/britain-to-introduce-new-inflatable-warships-to-expand-fleet/ | Then again…

5. Steve at 1010

• Evidence Reveals Corrupt DOJ Threatened and Punished Key Jan 6 Witnesses for Not Implicating President Trump in ‘Insurrection’
• The Ghost of Jimmy Carter Comes Back to Haunt America: China Blocks Panama Canal Sale to Blackrock — Setting Up Major Confrontation with President
• Globalists Panic as Romanian Right-Wing Leader George Simion Widens His Lead in Opinion Polls, Five Weeks Before the May Presidential Election Repeat
• Arrest Is Imminent ‘Today’ in Massive Social Security Theft Involving 400,000 Stolen Identities and Financial Fraud Scheme
• Harvard May Lose Up to $8 Billion in Federal Funding as Part of Trump’s Civil Rights Review
• Various Uke sit-reps
• HHS Ousts Dr Peter Marks with Biopharma Lamenting Loss of ‘Ally’ at FDA
• The current trajectory of mass migration will polarise and destabilise the UK
• Much more.

4. DAD at 1010

a) In the puppet comedy film Team America, the counter-terrorist protagonists defeat a group of Islamic terrorists in Paris, accidentally destroying the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, and the Louvre in the process. A Paris judge has now done something strikingly similar.

b) EU Paris summit breaks up with little achieved, highlighting Europe’s increasing irrelevance in Ukraine conflict.

c) Anti-nuclear Greens’ MP to oversee French nuclear security.

d) The mind-boggling magnitude of Britain’s ‘wasted’ foreign aid spending was laid bare in extraordinary detail in a dossier published by the Daily Mail yesterday.