Gravel should be fine with weight of the raised bed on it and would aid drainage. Dropping the base slightly below the finished gravel level will improve the appearance
Nettie won’t get re elected if he doesn’t deliver a new regime and remove the missiles threat. He will carry on until Trumpf stops him, until such time there can’t be an election, so he remains in power.
He’s in charge but unlike the first term he no longer has any independent minded advisers to give him objective advice, and there is no one to counter the poison that is dripped in his ear from the war mongers and yes men.
Gotta hand it to Osborne for setting it up, a political bribe with a built in backlash if anyone tried to remove it. Needy veterans were never going to suffer.
I suspect the organisers of the festival were in the sights of the cancellation team as well. They had promoted the other controversial acts at Glassto.
I think pakkkistan was more phased than Irann. Japan in Ww 2 was happy for its citizens to die kamakasi style until the A bomb made them realise they were in line. Teyran won’t shift imo as it’s leadership remains shielded.