Trial questions for would-be agony aunts/uncles/piblings etc.

Q:  Can everyone see what total knobs Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and Elon Musk are, or am I wearing magic glasses?

Q:  My wife assured me her 'Mrs Always Right' mug was microwave safe.  It turns out it wasn't.  How does one proceed from a marital point of view?

Q:  Given that wars are generally fought over invisible things - borders, gods, principles etc. - can I invade the Houses of Parliament over my pension?

Q:  I am putting out a petition calling for the OED to redefine the word 'celebrity' - any takers?

Q:  It struck me that the European response to any world conflict would be doomed if it was centred around EU or NATO military collaborations.  Would it be better to proceed with a Eurovision Alliance?

Footnote: Pibling is a word. Google it.

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Unwavering support as wobbly as f*ck

Translators have explained to Ukraine that the verbal support offered by their NATO allies, should be taken with a massive pinch of salt and a distint hint of irony. Explained one linguist: 'It's like when the Man Utd board give you a vote of confidence, it's not meant to be taken literally.

'Everyone knows when Keir Starmer makes a pledge or promise, then he is definitely going to do the exact opposite. Just ask his wife.

'When NATO says it will protect your borders, it means it will steal your land. When it says it will protect your democracy, it will steal your land. When it says it will steal your land, it means it's going to ignore the land because its after the oil underneath it.

'If it's support you want, buy a hernia belt.'

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Prince Harry emphasizes importance of vagus nerve therapy to NATO

The Duke of Sussex has spoken of the need for the world’s foremost military alliance to look toward alternative healing therapies as it confronts revisionist states around the world. ‘As a former member of the armed forces, I know it is all too easy for senior officers to focus on weapons training and small arms drills,’ the duke intoned. ‘Tragically, vagus nerve exercises get little attention.’

The prince, unable to attend in person because wife Meghan Markle’s schedule always takes precedence, talked movingly of how he looked up diagonally as far possible to the left, held the fixed stare for 30 seconds, then did the same looking to the right.

‘We should make it the scope of our mission at the forefront of global aggression-deterrence to understand that the vagus is actually a cranial nerve that goes all the way down into your viscera. Movement in the ribcage can break up tension there and, I believe, in parts of the world where bad actors are meddling to promote discord.’

The prince’s admonitions, however, have not been met with universal accord. One attaché, speaking on condition of anonymity, questioned whether it was a good idea to ‘discourage hypervigilance in frontline troops.’ The 40-year-old quasi-royal, whose social rank seems increasingly shady, spoke on a giant screen to leaders seated around a Kubrickesque horse shoe, well-meaningly superimposing his face into relevance.

Prince Harry addresses the NATO bigwigs at a time of increasing global tension. ‘Holding the human spine in a gentle C-shape while exerting slight downward pressure on the head with either hand reduces thoughts of impending doom,’ he declared. Although Harry has stepped back from public life in recent years, this bold advancement into geopolitics is expected to further diminish his viability as anything worth keeping.

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