Morning Edition UK check-in, Fans with fans, Troublesome Priests

Simon McGarr

Jun 30, 2016 — 1 min read

UK Check-In
Britain is still stuffed. New ways things have gone wrong since yesterday: Headbanging brexiteers declaring for Tory leadership. Labour MPs demanding their leader go, but with no alternative in mind while leader insists on staying with no plan to heal the split. Countdown to property crash stats becoming known still clicking away in the background, with consequences for UK banks who have lent to build huge buy-to-let landlordism.

Fans with fans
Current status of Irish fans: About to be awarded the Medal of the City of Paris for being gas.

Troublesome Priests
Universities, it turns out, have been spending money on chaplins, but the posts kept being filled mostly by priests. New plan: everyone can apply to be a chaplin. (Likely outcome: just different priests)

Simon Harris sits on a wicker chair as though it is made of thumbtacks and holds up a pint cc Number 10

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