It is three minutes after 10, and it's almost tempting, isn't it?

Despite the backdrop of tragedy and carnage, it's almost tempting to reflect for a moment longer on that curious sort of sense of unity that hung over the country after Vladimir Putin mounted his illegal invasion of Ukraine.

I can't remember something. I accept

possibly the football. No, the football doesn't work, does it? Because there's no UK or Great

Britain team. I can't remember the last time. Maybe the Olympics in 2012. A couple of weird

Tories were complaining about there being too many. I forget which minority they were

cross about in the opening

ceremony, but generally speaking, when was the last time you felt that the country was speaking

almost as one on a given subject?

It's a really good question that, actually.

Why don't you try to answer it on the on the texts and the

WhatsApp 0346-0-973 for the WhatsApp 84850 for the text? At times the country in your

lifetime has been has been pretty much united, speaking almost as one. There were exceptions.

Of course there were. But even the president of the UK branch of the Vladimir Putin fan club, Nigel Farage, I think, was wise enough to keep his gobs shut rather than speaking out in support of Putin after the invasion in 2022. I think he tried to blame the invasion of Crimea in 2014 on Ukrainians, or possibly on the EU, actually, given that it was

pre-Brexit. I put a few quid on that, even though I'm not certain that I'm right. And then the

terminally online, like the woman I bumped into infamously when I was doing jewelry service,

who truly believed that all of the aid being sent to Ukraine was being spent on luxury yachts

by Volodymyr Zelensky, or that she also believed, of course, that Michelle Obama is actually

in reality a man, but that is a consequence of what we were talking to Elliot Higgins about yesterday.

I don't know that the Queen's death fits into that category because a lot of

Republicans took the opportunity to air their grievances about the existence of the monarchy

in the general hating Liz Truss, Fabio suggests. That's pretty good. Adolescents, the TV

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