The next PM...

[SteveH]

Looks as though Nutella will be sacked again soon.

[Aruntraveller]

I'd like to know just what the heck is going on in the world when Roger Gale sounds enlightened and reasonable:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/31/tory-sir-roger-gale-asylum-seeker-centre-manston-crisis

[Dicky Underpants]

I'd like to know just what the heck is going on in the world when Roger Gale sounds enlightened and reasonable:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/31/tory-sir-roger-gale-asylum-seeker-centre-manston-crisis

I had to do a double-take myself.

[jeremyp]

As far as I understand it the boundary between Africa and Asia runs along the Isthmus of Suez and the Suez Canal meaning that Sinai is in Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundaries_between_the_continents_of_Earth#Africa_and_Asia
But Egypt is like Turkey - a country which spans two continents. So just as most of Turkey is in Asia, with a smaller part in Europe, most of Egypt is in Africa with a smaller part in Asia. Hence:

'Egypt (Arabic: مِصر, romanized: Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [masˤr]), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt

The established border between Asia and Africa is clearly wrong then.

But all of this is not the point. It's a really trivial mistake (if it is a mistake) to pick up on. There are plenty of real reasons to get annoyed with Coffey about. This is just petty.

[Nearly Sane]

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