If it's a 'request', Bags, surely that confers the choice to either comply or not.
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WORD ASSOCIATION - 9th May 2026
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The Foreign Office has requested that all flags are flown at half mast. You'll know why, and if I had a flag I'd be flying it at half mast today.
But WHY does the FO think it needs to ask? Nanny statism gone mad. Scowl.
As a balance to that, I loved seeing a tweet which showed a photograph of voting queues in the South African presidential elections. Awesome. People who haden't had freedoms we take for granted appreciated the freedom to vote deomcratically.
But I still managed to have a grumpy thought, which was: "Stick that in your pipe Russell Brand."
Well, I did warn you 
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