Fixit

Fixit > “If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” -The Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett Well, they only went and

Counting to Two, Free Money, Bins

Counting to Two Britain has voted and they're counting all the bits of paper. If you're reading this in the morning, sure, you'll know better than me what happened. If not, go off to bed. The whole thing was still mad. Free Money There

*Morning Edition* Football, England's Nervous Breakdown, US Sit-In

Football Ireland won against Italy. We get to play again! Irish Fan Status: Still gas. Also, checking on their phones how you apply for a loan from the credit union. England’s Nervous Breakdown The people of the increasingly-misnamed United Kingdom go to the polls to experience a pleasure

Fascists, Football, Failure

Fascists Turns out a man who's accused of murdering an MP while shouting "Britain First" may turn out to be a subscriber to fascist magazines, to behave like a fascist and assert his name is "“Death to traitors, freedom for Britain”" when asked it

GSOC'd, Irish Fans, Popping Pill Prices

GSOC’d If it’s a Friday afternoon, then it must be a difficult report being released from the Department of Justice. This one was the first inquiry of its sort into whether GSOC did things correctly after a lady died in a road traffic accident and before a Garda

Murder

Murder MP Jo Cox, was small, well liked, pleasant and welcoming to immigrants to the UK. She had two small children. A man with a gun shot her dead today after attacking her in public. He shouted out 'put Britain first' as he killed her. Even reduced to

Terrible people, Football, A friend of Ireland

Terrible people "Let's see if we can turn these freshly killed murder victims to our own personal rhetorical advantage." - Terrible people. A day after mass murder of revellers in a gay nightclub in Orlando by a homophobic abusive man with a violent fantasy life that had

Mass murder, Mass media,

Mass murder A gay club in Florida during Pride, running a Latino night. A man whose father said he got angry when he saw two men kissing. He had already come to the attention of the FBI as potentially violent but could still buy multiple weapons of mass murder. Dozens

Not tonight

I will not do a News in Gist tonight. Philip Cairns was 13 when he went missing from my neighbourhood. I was 10. By the time I was 13, I used to cycle down a nearby road to go to my local library. The smiling face from his photo was

NAMA, Hillary v Trump, Fog

NAMA The NAMA Annual Report has been released and, good news!, everything is awesome. NAMA is something something 20,000 new houses as well as in some way going to make a giant profit to make us all rich again at the end. All the jam will arrive every other

Juries, UN, Car Insurance

Juries, juries, juries Serious crime cases have juries, who put in the hours needed to come to decisions. Sometimes, lots and lots of hours. They hear fantastic amounts of evidence and wrestle with legal niceties that baffle experienced lawyers. Today, the reportedly longest jury deliberation in the state's

Lightning, Court Reports, Abroad

Lightning Basically, the main thing you need to know from the news to speak to you fellow humans is that a fella was hit by lightning and that he's alive and hopefully going to recover fully. This is everyone's chance to dust off their personal favourite