Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.

Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.

Someone must explain to Sunak about the time bomb ticking beneath his £1,000 loafers.

The pandemic preparation timebomb detonated to devastating effect; a number of other timebombs are on the shortest of fuses. The government has now reached a state of perfect vicious cycle, when the only thing worse than the things it does are all the things it didn’t get round to doing.

Time bomb

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