The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Then Starmer would need to lead remain and would be remembered as the person who lost Scotland if he failed
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
It’s really annoying watching a match that’s ‘sold out’, played in front of half a crowd.
Come on sponsors, national associations, and all the other hangers-on sitting on piles of tickets, if you’re not going to use them, then hand them back for general sale.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
If the Union side were to win again the next day you'd have indyref3 trending on twitter.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
You won't kill Sindy off unless a second vote is held a genuine generation after 2014, which is at minimum 10-15 years after. Canada proved that when the second Quebec independence referendum was only held in 1995, 15 years after the first in 1980.
Otherwise the SNP would demand indyref3 the next day you already having given in to them once and held indyref2 within a generation of indyref1, unless No won by a landslide
I hope soon a Labour lead will appear to lift me up
You should be much cheered by the goings on of yesterday.
The fiasco may not gain immediate traction (although, I may be surprised) but Johnson removed quite a lot of his Teflon yesterday. Not only did he damage himself but he raised questions about the Conservative brand. If voters start to struggle (one of my customers in Gloucester went bang on Monday morning with the loss of 300 jobs- Complete Utilities- I just lost about a grand) the Three Line Whip nonsense will bite the party hard.
Sorry to hear that. Hope your business life improves soon.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
I think they need to appoint me Chief Executive and Executive Chairman of YCCC and I'll fix all the problems.
A strong Yorkshire means a strong England.
I have always found Yorkshire kind of annoying, for a few reasons:
1. Claiming to be in the North, even though parts of it are closer to London than to the Scottish border 2. Yorkshire Tea, which self-evidently isn't produced in Yorkshire 3. Being referred to by its residents as God's own Country, which seems rather boastful and potentially blasphemous, especially if you've ever spent time in some of the ropier bits 4. Geoffrey Boycott.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
You won't kill Sindy off unless a second vote is held a genuine generation after 2014, which is at minimum 10-15 years after. Canada proved that when the second Quebec independence referendum was only held in 1995, 15 years after the first in 1980.
Otherwise the SNP would demand indyref3 the next day you already having given in to them once and held indyref2 within a generation of indyref1, unless No won by a landslide
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
I think they need to appoint me Chief Executive and Executive Chairman of YCCC and I'll fix all the problems.
A strong Yorkshire means a strong England.
I have always found Yorkshire kind of annoying, for a few reasons:
1. Claiming to be in the North, even though parts of it are closer to London than to the Scottish border 2. Yorkshire Tea, which self-evidently isn't produced in Yorkshire 3. Being referred to by its residents as God's own Country, which seems rather boastful and potentially blasphemous, especially if you've ever spent time in some of the ropier bits 4. Geoffrey Boycott.
William the Bastard and Henry VIII the Engexit Pope certainly agreed with you.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
Family pornography? Is he talking about stepmom porn?
The campaign to make it illegal to photograph breastfeeding without consent met an obstacle in the Lords when Lord Wolfson of Tredegar argued it could spoil family pornography. The minister said it would be rough on a man who photographed his wife on the beach “for his own sexual gratification” and “unintentionally” included a woman he didn’t know with her breast out suckling. Wolfson’s holiday snaps must be fascinating.
This is the most batshit insane thing I have ever heard.
One does wonder if he thinks it's OK to sort of accidentally in the background snap a lady whose mammaries are out purely for the purpose of getting the vitamin D in.
I had to check which Wolfson Lord he is, and he's the one in the MoJ, of all places. Interesting.
Presimably we are agreed that "pornography" is a Hansard (Lords' version) typo for "photography", and that this is the Times Diary going all carry on - or imitating that Blair video that @TSE posted, which succeeded in demonstrating that Clue has precisely one joke, in total?
The word pornography was not used by Lord Wolfson, but it's not an inaccurate description of what he was talking about.
"I will try to use the initials from the amendment. A takes a photo of his wife, partner or girlfriend on a beach in her bikini, intending to use that image for his own sexual gratification. Another woman, B, is on the same beach, breastfeeding her baby, and is unintentionally caught by A in the picture."
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
I think they need to appoint me Chief Executive and Executive Chairman of YCCC and I'll fix all the problems.
A strong Yorkshire means a strong England.
I have always found Yorkshire kind of annoying, for a few reasons:
1. Claiming to be in the North, even though parts of it are closer to London than to the Scottish border 2. Yorkshire Tea, which self-evidently isn't produced in Yorkshire 3. Being referred to by its residents as God's own Country, which seems rather boastful and potentially blasphemous, especially if you've ever spent time in some of the ropier bits 4. Geoffrey Boycott.
There's so much wrong with that, I don't know where to start.
My fellow Yorkshiremen and women are as modest and self effacing as myself.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Surly the problem would also go away if the pro-Indy side won?
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
Would it be cynical to draw a connection between his income from pornography and his charity donations to Moorfields ensuring a continued market by protecting people's sight? Or is it simple atonement as he knows that viewing pornography makes you go blind?
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Surly the problem would also go away if the pro-Indy side won?
It would be brexit many times over with opponents wanting to rejoin RUK
You guys know about this stuff. If the FDA and its brethren accelerate approval of the Pfizer drug, how long before they can ramp up production and these pills reach Europe? What's a likely time-scale?
It feels like Europe - the mainland anyway - is now in a sprint between the winter wave and the arrival of these antivirals
I’ve just returned from Spain, where they had a mask mandate in the middle of summer / warm bit of autumn. That to me seem unwise, as presumably it’s better to munch your exit wave when the weather is good, as masking simply delays it?
We have a mask mandate in Los Angeles County - it's basically shops, public transport, the communal areas of office building (lifts), plus the ridiculous dance in restaurants when you get up to use the bathroom.
The US still has very onerous Federal rules on airplanes (where they get very annoyed with you if you remove your mask for more than a few seconds), and in airports.
I’ve just come back from Greece where nobody minded too much about masks.
Nor did anyone on the Ryanair flight back. I mean, you are of course supposed to wear them but nobody is going to make you.
On flights in the US, if you refuse to wear a mask, you will be told to, and if you refuse you will get put on the No Fly List. Compliance is therefore basically 100%.
The USA land of the free, provided you don't upset someone enough to make a list.
Their special freedom seems to mainly consist of the freedom to own a huge arsenal of death weapons.
There's much credence given over there to the notion that an armed citizenry is the best ultimate safeguard against the government itself. Ironically, if Donald Trump was to get back, I could start to see a germ of sense in that!
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
I think they need to appoint me Chief Executive and Executive Chairman of YCCC and I'll fix all the problems.
A strong Yorkshire means a strong England.
They need a serious clearout of the top echelons of the club, including the coaching staff, the board and the permanent executive. The whole lot of them need to go, to retain the confidence of the members and sponsors.
The way they've been performing recently, a clear-out of the playing staff wouldn't go amiss either.
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Surly the problem would also go away if the pro-Indy side won?
It would be brexit many times over with opponents wanting to rejoin RUK
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
Even back in the late seventies I was aware that paki and yid were offensive terms.
Yes, I lived in Leeds in the 70s and 80s, near Headingley. The local skinheads, loosely affiliated to the National Front, had a favourite sport. It was called "Paki-bashing", and was, sadly, quite widespread. The idea that anybody in Leeds, even back then, didn't know that 'Paki' was offensive is ludicrous.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Surly the problem would also go away if the pro-Indy side won?
It would be brexit many times over with opponents wanting to rejoin RUK
It would make things like the NI Protocol look like child's play.
Just huge value on him staying in post. The bar for Tory MPs to turn on a sitting PM with this kind of majority and any poll lead at all is vast.
Hmmm.
What's the first likely date for an election? And could he fluff it?
(When will the boundary commission report, and that be implemented.)
In terms of likely last possible date of the next election, a periodic reminder that the repeal of FTPA would set this as 23rd January 2025 (parliament automatically dissolving on 16/12, 5 years after first sitting, and the election taking place, 25 working days later plus 4 Bank Holidays later). (Can't remember if dissolution counts as day one in this, but I count day 25, including Scottish New Year BHs as Fri 24/1 if not).
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not expecting the next GE to take place in 2025, it's just a curiosity I'm rather taken by.
Are you sure?
I thought all the previous legislation relating to parliament length had been repealed, and furthermore the prerogative power of the Queen to agree (with her ministers) to dissolve parliament. Therefore if you simply remove the FTPA, you end up with no mechanism for dissolving parliament, and no limit on the lengths of parliament.
Which is why the current Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill doesn’t just repeal the FPTA but purports to revive the royal prerogative to dissolve Parliament "as if the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 had never been enacted".
Which is interesting, as I understand most constitutional and legal scholars believed that once a royal prerogative was extinguished it could not be revived. However the current bill also has provisions to make any question of the legality of its provisions non-justiciable. So that’s alright then.
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
I got some 3 weeks ago - a pair of Lennon style little round photochromics. If you have the face for them they look pretty good. Wish I'd done lazer eye when I was younger though and got the problem fixed at source. Unless you're also too old that's what I'd recommend. Lazer eye. Then a life without glasses, just pure unadorned face.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Surly the problem would also go away if the pro-Indy side won?
As the Tories would have won a majority in England and Wales, that would just mean Starmer's majority went away when Scottish MPs left the Commons
Quite funny if you're into trains: they're getting quite agricultural in their efforts to get the crashed trains out of the tunnel at Salisbury. finesse? Nah. Just yank it out ...
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
You won't kill Sindy off unless a second vote is held a genuine generation after 2014, which is at minimum 10-15 years after. Canada proved that when the second Quebec independence referendum was only held in 1995, 15 years after the first in 1980.
Otherwise the SNP would demand indyref3 the next day you already having given in to them once and held indyref2 within a generation of indyref1, unless No won by a landslide
You will never kill off indyrefs
I have lived with them since the early 1950s
Quebec has not had another since 1995, despite No winning that just 51%-49%
Today's England cases reported the lowest for over a month, and it's not even a weekend reporting day, and testing is back up after half term. Can only be 7-10 days from journalists stopping saying cases are rising now!
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
I think they need to appoint me Chief Executive and Executive Chairman of YCCC and I'll fix all the problems.
A strong Yorkshire means a strong England.
I have always found Yorkshire kind of annoying, for a few reasons:
1. Claiming to be in the North, even though parts of it are closer to London than to the Scottish border 2. Yorkshire Tea, which self-evidently isn't produced in Yorkshire 3. Being referred to by its residents as God's own Country, which seems rather boastful and potentially blasphemous, especially if you've ever spent time in some of the ropier bits 4. Geoffrey Boycott.
Boycott, I'll concede. You can have YCCC too.
As a southerner naturalised in Yorkshire I answer the others as follows: 1. Anything north of Watford Gap is north. Plus Yorkshire folk say bath, not barth. 2. Yorkshire tea is indeed produced in Yorkshire. The raw ingredients come from elsewhere. Next you'll be claiming that BP petrol isn't really British! 3. God's Own Country? Well Jacob Rees-Mogg says it isn't.[1] Case closed?
Quite funny if you're into trains: they're getting quite agricultural in their efforts to get the crashed trains out of the tunnel at Salisbury. finesse? Nah. Just yank it out ...
I was actually going to suggest we needed some Deltic photos in view of the track today's discussion has taken, but this will do very nicely. But I wouldn't want to stand downrange of the likely debris trajectory if something went pop - never mind a whiplashing cable. Ooh.
I hope soon a Labour lead will appear to lift me up
You should be much cheered by the goings on of yesterday.
The fiasco may not gain immediate traction (although, I may be surprised) but Johnson removed quite a lot of his Teflon yesterday. Not only did he damage himself but he raised questions about the Conservative brand. If voters start to struggle (one of my customers in Gloucester went bang on Monday morning with the loss of 300 jobs- Complete Utilities- I just lost about a grand) the Three Line Whip nonsense will bite the party hard.
Sorry to hear that. Hope your business life improves soon.
No, I'm OK.
A grand lighter than expected but no harm done.
I feel for those 300 people working directly for Complete Utilities who were notified by email on Monday morning not to come into work because they had no job. These people might think twice about voting for the likes of Owen Paterson whining that life is unfair because he had to take a 30 day HoC ban because he was busy trousering £100K a year instead of fighting the corner for his constituents.
Including your truly. My wife and I reached the 6-month period since 2nd jab on Wednesday. We hadn't had a letter or other communication inviting us to apply, and still haven't, but I logged on to the NHS booking website on Wednesday afternoon, and it said we were eligible. We were able to get appointments for the next morning, at Boots in Fleet St. All highly efficient.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
Even back in the late seventies I was aware that paki and yid were offensive terms.
Yes, I lived in Leeds in the 70s and 80s, near Headingley. The local skinheads, loosely affiliated to the National Front, had a favourite sport. It was called "Paki-bashing", and was, sadly, quite widespread. The idea that anybody in Leeds, even back then, didn't know that 'Paki' was offensive is ludicrous.
The argument seems to be that although "Paki" was offensive in the 70s / 80s by 2010 it was merely banter.
No, sorry that's only true if you are completely stupid, I can't think of any word that has become less offensive over time.
You guys know about this stuff. If the FDA and its brethren accelerate approval of the Pfizer drug, how long before they can ramp up production and these pills reach Europe? What's a likely time-scale?
It feels like Europe - the mainland anyway - is now in a sprint between the winter wave and the arrival of these antivirals
I’ve just returned from Spain, where they had a mask mandate in the middle of summer / warm bit of autumn. That to me seem unwise, as presumably it’s better to munch your exit wave when the weather is good, as masking simply delays it?
We have a mask mandate in Los Angeles County - it's basically shops, public transport, the communal areas of office building (lifts), plus the ridiculous dance in restaurants when you get up to use the bathroom.
The US still has very onerous Federal rules on airplanes (where they get very annoyed with you if you remove your mask for more than a few seconds), and in airports.
I’ve just come back from Greece where nobody minded too much about masks.
Nor did anyone on the Ryanair flight back. I mean, you are of course supposed to wear them but nobody is going to make you.
Infections are getting bad in Greece, and rising fast. The death rate is now twice ours (and we're already bad compared with other western European countries):
India smashing the runs at quite a rate! 70/1 after five overs.
That's quite a run rate.
Rahul got 50 from 18 balls. Then was out the next ball!
All over now, India 89/2, with a massive six to finish, in only 6.3 overs.
All rather late given they already lost to the only 2 real teams in their group. Even the fortune of being in the soft group full of minnows wasn't enough to save them.
Jesus.. didn't realise it was (allegedly) this bad
Adil Ray OBE @adilray Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger. 9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
Today's England cases reported the lowest for over a month, and it's not even a weekend reporting day, and testing is back up after half term. Can only be 7-10 days from journalists stopping saying cases are rising now!
Still saying it just now on Sky and just do not seem to want to acknowledge they could be wrong
You guys know about this stuff. If the FDA and its brethren accelerate approval of the Pfizer drug, how long before they can ramp up production and these pills reach Europe? What's a likely time-scale?
It feels like Europe - the mainland anyway - is now in a sprint between the winter wave and the arrival of these antivirals
I’ve just returned from Spain, where they had a mask mandate in the middle of summer / warm bit of autumn. That to me seem unwise, as presumably it’s better to munch your exit wave when the weather is good, as masking simply delays it?
We have a mask mandate in Los Angeles County - it's basically shops, public transport, the communal areas of office building (lifts), plus the ridiculous dance in restaurants when you get up to use the bathroom.
The US still has very onerous Federal rules on airplanes (where they get very annoyed with you if you remove your mask for more than a few seconds), and in airports.
I’ve just come back from Greece where nobody minded too much about masks.
Nor did anyone on the Ryanair flight back. I mean, you are of course supposed to wear them but nobody is going to make you.
Infections are getting bad in Greece, and rising fast. The death rate is now twice ours (and we're already bad compared with other western European countries):
Brisk trade in Bath today. Interestingly they were accepting walk-ins, sadly its at the race-course, so three miles out of the city. Useful though. Still no side effects. Starting to wonder if she missed the arm...
Including your truly. My wife and I reached the 6-month period since 2nd jab on Wednesday. We hadn't had a letter or other communication inviting us to apply, and still haven't, but I logged on to the NHS booking website on Wednesday afternoon, and it said we were eligible. We were able to get appointments for the next morning, at Boots in Fleet St. All highly efficient.
Us too this morning, letter from the health board (in Scotland) a week or two back, appointment today for flu plus booster, one in each arm. Moderna booster (after AZ mains).
Seemed to be very high turnout indeed - the staff were busy, none of the slack that comes when a proportion don't respond.
Today's England cases reported the lowest for over a month, and it's not even a weekend reporting day, and testing is back up after half term. Can only be 7-10 days from journalists stopping saying cases are rising now!
And NO RESTRICTIONS. Will all the idiots who were gunning for Plan B or worse admit they were wrong?
You guys know about this stuff. If the FDA and its brethren accelerate approval of the Pfizer drug, how long before they can ramp up production and these pills reach Europe? What's a likely time-scale?
It feels like Europe - the mainland anyway - is now in a sprint between the winter wave and the arrival of these antivirals
The site will already have been inspected and approved. Little white pills can be churned out very quickly. It only depends if there is any bespoke equipment needed, which I doubt
Ta. So it's all about approval. And then they arrive days later? Could be a total game-changer
Pfizer say they will seek approval in the USA by Thanksgiving: November 25
I imagine that approval will be miraculously swift, if the pills are as good as they seem. So they *could* be in European mouths by Christmas, if the EMA is as nimble?
You need the site inspection by the EMA as well as the dossier review.
So what's a likely time-scale, in your opinion? How long before these arrive at a GP near you or Kamski?
Depends how quickly Pfizer file with the EMA but they are not quick. Travel logistics for the site inspection will be tricky as well
Could you put a figure on it? Sorry to harangue you but you have expertise
Ten weeks? Twenty?
The difference could be utterly crucial as cases and deaths begin to rise in Europe
There's a very curious north-south divide in Europe right now: Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark (which had previously been completely spared) are all seeing soaring cases, while in the South the numbers have barely budged. I wonder how much of this is weather related.
I think the long period of good late summer/early autumn weather here in Germany played a big part in keeping numbers relatively low up until recently. But there's also:
Vaccination rates in Portugal and Spain and Italy are higher than in Germany. I blame the strong German tradition of "alternative" medicine.
Regulations are stricter in some places (definitely in Italy), and seem to be much more strictly enforced in both Italy and Spain. Enforcement of the few rules (mainly 3g rules) is very lax in my experience round here. It's the freedom-loving Germans again!
Numbers with immunity from prior infection are probably also quite a bit lower.
What happened to that guy with the immunological dark matter theory?
The vaccine split in Germany is almost entirely East-West.
Today's England cases reported the lowest for over a month, and it's not even a weekend reporting day, and testing is back up after half term. Can only be 7-10 days from journalists stopping saying cases are rising now!
And NO RESTRICTIONS. Will all the idiots who were gunning for Plan B or worse admit they were wrong?
Of course not. Even by saying that you're just showing yourself to be calously indifferent to the suffering of others. They are moral heros we can all learn from.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Surly the problem would also go away if the pro-Indy side won?
That opens up a slightly different problem. Labour would be starting trying to win with a majority approaching 120 rather 80.
Jesus.. didn't realise it was (allegedly) this bad
Adil Ray OBE @adilray Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger. 9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
Jesus.. didn't realise it was (allegedly) this bad
Adil Ray OBE @adilray Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger. 9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
The thing I'm wondering, is whether this is really only a YCCC problem or whether this was much more widespread in cricket and, indeed, other sports. I fear the latter.
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
If the Union side were to win again the next day you'd have indyref3 trending on twitter.
No doubt. But the SNP would have to drop it as a front & centre commitment otherwise they'd shed loads of support in the middle and lose office. Another clear No would take the issue off the table for a long time as regards serious politics.
Just huge value on him staying in post. The bar for Tory MPs to turn on a sitting PM with this kind of majority and any poll lead at all is vast.
Hmmm.
What's the first likely date for an election? And could he fluff it?
(When will the boundary commission report, and that be implemented.)
In terms of likely last possible date of the next election, a periodic reminder that the repeal of FTPA would set this as 23rd January 2025 (parliament automatically dissolving on 16/12, 5 years after first sitting, and the election taking place, 25 working days later plus 4 Bank Holidays later). (Can't remember if dissolution counts as day one in this, but I count day 25, including Scottish New Year BHs as Fri 24/1 if not).
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not expecting the next GE to take place in 2025, it's just a curiosity I'm rather taken by.
Are you sure?
I thought all the previous legislation relating to parliament length had been repealed, and furthermore the prerogative power of the Queen to agree (with her ministers) to dissolve parliament. Therefore if you simply remove the FTPA, you end up with no mechanism for dissolving parliament, and no limit on the lengths of parliament.
This would severely limit future betting opportunities, so I oppose it.
Yes, clause 4 of the Draft Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011 (Repeal) Bill deals with automatic dissolution and the Commentary states that the 25 day gap remains (I'm not sure if some of the other provisions do provide some wiggle).
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
If the Union side were to win again the next day you'd have indyref3 trending on twitter.
No doubt. But the SNP would have to drop it as a front & centre commitment otherwise they'd shed loads of support in the middle and lose office. Another clear No would take the issue off the table for a long time as regards serious politics.
SNP were campaigning the next day last time round - why would they do anything different from that?
You can tell it's a good day of data as some of the more prominent self-appointed covid-centrists have avoided updating the graphs which appear without fail when it goes the other way.
Jesus.. didn't realise it was (allegedly) this bad
Adil Ray OBE @adilray Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger. 9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
The thing I'm wondering, is whether this is really only a YCCC problem or whether this was much more widespread in cricket and, indeed, other sports. I fear the latter.
The latter I fear, I posted when this story happened, live on TV, nobody seemed fussed.
Essex captain Tom Westley has publicly apologised on behalf of the team after a Muslim player had beer poured on him.
Batsman Feroze Khushi was on the balcony at Lord's with the rest of the squad as Essex displayed the trophy following Sunday's draw with Somerset.
Khushi, 21, was 12th man for the five-day final at the home of cricket.
"As a group, we have come together and discussed the event, and on reflection, we are disappointed we let this happen," Westley said on social media.
"On behalf of myself and the team, we would like to apologise for any offence that was caused during our celebrations at Lord's on Sunday.
"At Essex we believe we have built a strong dressing room culture that supports one another both on and off the field."
Westley added that the squad would in future be more responsible and aware of their actions and will "continue to learn and develop" with the help of the England and Wales Cricket Board and Professional Cricketers' Association.
Excellent fall in cases today. 28k in England on a weekday is well below expectations, if we see this drop continue the national strategy since our full unlockdown in July is fully vindicated. I just wonder whether the constant critics will ever admit that the UK got it right and the other European countries addicted to NPIs didn't.
Quite funny if you're into trains: they're getting quite agricultural in their efforts to get the crashed trains out of the tunnel at Salisbury. finesse? Nah. Just yank it out ...
I was actually going to suggest we needed some Deltic photos in view of the track today's discussion has taken, but this will do very nicely. But I wouldn't want to stand downrange of the likely debris trajectory if something went pop - never mind a whiplashing cable. Ooh.
I was wondering exactly that about the cable. Enough tension in that to seriously injure someone.
I guess that unit of the train at least isn't going to be salvageable: it must be getting some forces through it at odd angles...
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
Even back in the late seventies I was aware that paki and yid were offensive terms.
Yes, I lived in Leeds in the 70s and 80s, near Headingley. The local skinheads, loosely affiliated to the National Front, had a favourite sport. It was called "Paki-bashing", and was, sadly, quite widespread. The idea that anybody in Leeds, even back then, didn't know that 'Paki' was offensive is ludicrous.
The argument seems to be that although "Paki" was offensive in the 70s / 80s by 2010 it was merely banter.
No, sorry that's only true if you are completely stupid, I can't think of any word that has become less offensive over time.
Fuck? As in, a word that's become less offensive over time. When I were a lad, it was a complete no-no, whereas these days - well, I believe it's very common, even on television and in the cinema......
Jesus.. didn't realise it was (allegedly) this bad
Adil Ray OBE @adilray Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger. 9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
Err, that doesn’t sound good, especially given that there appears to be a pattern of behaviour rather than isolated incidents.
You guys know about this stuff. If the FDA and its brethren accelerate approval of the Pfizer drug, how long before they can ramp up production and these pills reach Europe? What's a likely time-scale?
It feels like Europe - the mainland anyway - is now in a sprint between the winter wave and the arrival of these antivirals
The site will already have been inspected and approved. Little white pills can be churned out very quickly. It only depends if there is any bespoke equipment needed, which I doubt
Ta. So it's all about approval. And then they arrive days later? Could be a total game-changer
Pfizer say they will seek approval in the USA by Thanksgiving: November 25
I imagine that approval will be miraculously swift, if the pills are as good as they seem. So they *could* be in European mouths by Christmas, if the EMA is as nimble?
You need the site inspection by the EMA as well as the dossier review.
So what's a likely time-scale, in your opinion? How long before these arrive at a GP near you or Kamski?
Depends how quickly Pfizer file with the EMA but they are not quick. Travel logistics for the site inspection will be tricky as well
Could you put a figure on it? Sorry to harangue you but you have expertise
Ten weeks? Twenty?
The difference could be utterly crucial as cases and deaths begin to rise in Europe
There's a very curious north-south divide in Europe right now: Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark (which had previously been completely spared) are all seeing soaring cases, while in the South the numbers have barely budged. I wonder how much of this is weather related.
I think the long period of good late summer/early autumn weather here in Germany played a big part in keeping numbers relatively low up until recently. But there's also:
Vaccination rates in Portugal and Spain and Italy are higher than in Germany. I blame the strong German tradition of "alternative" medicine.
Regulations are stricter in some places (definitely in Italy), and seem to be much more strictly enforced in both Italy and Spain. Enforcement of the few rules (mainly 3g rules) is very lax in my experience round here. It's the freedom-loving Germans again!
Numbers with immunity from prior infection are probably also quite a bit lower.
What happened to that guy with the immunological dark matter theory?
The vaccine split in Germany is almost entirely East-West.
Not entirely. Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg have fewer vaccinated than Meck-Pomm and Berlin. Also I would be a bit suspicious of how accurate the numbers are.
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
If the Union side were to win again the next day you'd have indyref3 trending on twitter.
Boris has a good political reason not to hold Ref2 - if he loses it it is bad for the union and for Boris, but if he wins it it is good for Labour, and therefore bad for the Tories, because the SNP will be for a few years a harmless centre left party that can ally with Labour against the Tories. Which would make voting Labour much easier for unionists who want a stable government. Ref2 is lose/lose for Boris.
Jesus.. didn't realise it was (allegedly) this bad
Adil Ray OBE @adilray Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger. 9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
The thing I'm wondering, is whether this is really only a YCCC problem or whether this was much more widespread in cricket and, indeed, other sports. I fear the latter.
The latter I fear, I posted when this story happened, live on TV, nobody seemed fussed.
Essex captain Tom Westley has publicly apologised on behalf of the team after a Muslim player had beer poured on him.
Batsman Feroze Khushi was on the balcony at Lord's with the rest of the squad as Essex displayed the trophy following Sunday's draw with Somerset.
Khushi, 21, was 12th man for the five-day final at the home of cricket.
"As a group, we have come together and discussed the event, and on reflection, we are disappointed we let this happen," Westley said on social media.
"On behalf of myself and the team, we would like to apologise for any offence that was caused during our celebrations at Lord's on Sunday.
"At Essex we believe we have built a strong dressing room culture that supports one another both on and off the field."
Westley added that the squad would in future be more responsible and aware of their actions and will "continue to learn and develop" with the help of the England and Wales Cricket Board and Professional Cricketers' Association.
I can't help but feel that the sort of culture you have been highlighting at Headingly and Chelmsford is promoted when politicians claim their dog-whistles are nothing more than "satire".
Fucking hell, next he'll admit to not knowing 'Paki' is an offensive term.
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale is being investigated by bosses over anti-Semitic social media messages, it has emerged amid the club's deepening racism crisis.
In a now deleted post on Twitter from November 2010, the then club captain told Paul Dews, who was head of media at Leeds United Football Club at the time, to "Button it y--!"
Gale told the Jewish News website, which first reported the tweet, that he was “completely unaware” of the offensive nature of the term at the time he sent the message.
I am starting to think Yorkshire CCC won't survive this.
I think they need to appoint me Chief Executive and Executive Chairman of YCCC and I'll fix all the problems.
A strong Yorkshire means a strong England.
I have always found Yorkshire kind of annoying, for a few reasons:
1. Claiming to be in the North, even though parts of it are closer to London than to the Scottish border 2. Yorkshire Tea, which self-evidently isn't produced in Yorkshire 3. Being referred to by its residents as God's own Country, which seems rather boastful and potentially blasphemous, especially if you've ever spent time in some of the ropier bits 4. Geoffrey Boycott.
Boycott, I'll concede. You can have YCCC too.
As a southerner naturalised in Yorkshire I answer the others as follows: 1. Anything north of Watford Gap is north. Plus Yorkshire folk say bath, not barth. 2. Yorkshire tea is indeed produced in Yorkshire. The raw ingredients come from elsewhere. Next you'll be claiming that BP petrol isn't really British! 3. God's Own Country? Well Jacob Rees-Mogg says it isn't.[1] Case closed?
On the basis that JRM is always wrong I will concede 3. On 1. you are basically denying the existence of the Midlands, where I think most of Yorkshire is located. On 2., I think the petrol refining process is a more substantive procedure than mixing up tea leaves from several countries and putting them in a perforated bag. Yorkshire tea is not from Yorkshire (it is from India, Sri Lanka and Kenya).
Excellent fall in cases today. 28k in England on a weekday is well below expectations, if we see this drop continue the national strategy since our full unlockdown in July is fully vindicated. I just wonder whether the constant critics will ever admit that the UK got it right and the other European countries addicted to NPIs didn't.
Jesus.. didn't realise it was (allegedly) this bad
Adil Ray OBE @adilray Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger. 9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
The latest polling still has the Tories comfortably winning most seats and most polls still have Boris preferred as PM to Starmer.
Unless that changes, Boris will survive up to 2024. Plus of course the longer he stays as PM the more his valued on the lecture circuit increases post Premiership. If he wants to be in the Blair and Thatcher league of speakers and earning millions on the lecture circuit he needs to be there for a decade at least
How many points ahead do Labour have to be for most seats crossover?
40 to 37 just manages it on new boundaries if everyone else stays the same.
Ominously, no majority is possible on those numbers without the SNP. Except Grand Coalition of course.
Labour's SNP problem never seems to go away. The only way it would is if somehow another independence referendum is held before the next election and the pro-Indy side loses it, which would mean they wouldn't be able to demand another one from Labour so soon.
Yeah. Although the really interesting thing about 40-37 is that there would be no combination which would produce a majority at all. Apart from 3. Lab SNP. CON SNP LAB CON.
You would feel the SNP would be in a strong position. Would not like to speculate what might happen. And how would voters behave if that were the prospect? Difficult to say.
Labour have been soft on the indyref2 for a while now. A Lab-SNP coaltion doesn't seem that unlikely.
Starmer would likely give the SNP indyref2 if he needs their confidence and supply to become PM in a hung parliament.
Probably with devomax as a carrot to Scots to try and get them to vote No again
I agree with this analysis apart from the devomax bit (although you may be right there too)
Us Yoons know that Tories/Bozo are best for the union.
Why don't you want to have the vote, win it, and kill Sindy off good and proper instead of this 'delay delay' approach?
You won't kill Sindy off unless a second vote is held a genuine generation after 2014, which is at minimum 10-15 years after. Canada proved that when the second Quebec independence referendum was only held in 1995, 15 years after the first in 1980.
Otherwise the SNP would demand indyref3 the next day you already having given in to them once and held indyref2 within a generation of indyref1, unless No won by a landslide
Nope. Disagree. If it were another No and the SNP went into the next Scottish election demanding another one they wouldn't win it. These are massive massive events. The Scots won't want to keep holding them. They'd be nuts to want that. So the SNP choice at the next election would be (i) demand another Ref and lose or (ii) drop it to try and win. Either way, Sindy over for now. That's the prize that unionists should target. This way it just drags on and on and makes Sindy more likely as the ultimate outcome.
Today's England cases reported the lowest for over a month, and it's not even a weekend reporting day, and testing is back up after half term. Can only be 7-10 days from journalists stopping saying cases are rising now!
And NO RESTRICTIONS. Will all the idiots who were gunning for Plan B or worse admit they were wrong?
Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico · 16m There's a highly non-trivial chance cases will be below 25k/day in England before the broadcasters even start to acknowledge that cases aren't still rising!
Boosters now on track to crack the 15m level before the end of this month, which was the benchmark for covering the vast majority of potential deaths and hospitalisations during the first wave of jabs last January.
Only trick now will be the government avoiding being sppoked by the usual NHS winter pressure, now several interested parties have megaphones and know how to use them.
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Come on sponsors, national associations, and all the other hangers-on sitting on piles of tickets, if you’re not going to use them, then hand them back for general sale.
Don’t recall anyone being called ‘Paki’ before the late seventies.
Otherwise the SNP would demand indyref3 the next day you already having given in to them once and held indyref2 within a generation of indyref1, unless No won by a landslide
1. Claiming to be in the North, even though parts of it are closer to London than to the Scottish border
2. Yorkshire Tea, which self-evidently isn't produced in Yorkshire
3. Being referred to by its residents as God's own Country, which seems rather boastful and potentially blasphemous, especially if you've ever spent time in some of the ropier bits
4. Geoffrey Boycott.
Hopefully it will start to drop eventually.
I have lived with them since the early 1950s
Richard Desmond, the billionaire former owner of adult television channels and top-shelf magazines, has spent years having his Wikipedia edited in a failed attempt to remove any suggestion he is a “pornographer”.
The former owner of the Daily Express and Channel 5, and one of Britain’s richest men, appears to have become fixated with his biography on the open-source encyclopedia. To this end, an account operating on behalf of Desmond has repeatedly edited the article to replace the description of him as a “pornographer” with the term “philanthropist”.
According to legal documents seen by the Guardian, Desmond says he cannot factually be described as a pornographer because that term applies only to individuals who publish illegal and obscene material. Desmond says the top-shelf magazines and television channels he owned for decades were instead in the legitimate “adult material” category distributed in high-street shops and on Sky.
The former owner of the magazines Asian Babes and Readers’ Wives, who owned adult outlets from the 1980s until 2016, has now hired lawyers to demand Wikipedia permanently deletes any mentions of the word “pornographer” from his biography.
Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Wikipedia administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the page.
“The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
His lawyers claim that Wikipedia editors who describe Desmond as a pornographer may be commercial motivated as part of a “strategy by business competitors to harm his public image”.
“Attempts have been made to rectify the factual errors by Mr Desmond numerous times. Despite this, each time, editors have reinstated the term ‘pornographer’,” the lawyers wrote.
As part of Desmond’s legal threat, the lawyers confirmed he has spent three years having his own Wikipedia page edited through an account with the username NewsEditor1959. Although it is unclear who is operating the account, it has been used to remove references to Desmond’s work in the adult industry and add substantial sections about his donations to charities such as Moorfields eye hospital.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/nov/05/richard-desmond-in-legal-battle-with-wikipedia-over-term-pornographer
"I will try to use the initials from the amendment. A takes a photo of his wife, partner or girlfriend on a beach in her bikini, intending to use that image for his own sexual gratification. Another woman, B, is on the same beach, breastfeeding her baby, and is unintentionally caught by A in the picture."
Is a direct quote from Hansard.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2021-11-03/debates/5311B2A0-EF1E-404F-AF74-A7ED540B04DE/PoliceCrimeSentencingAndCourtsBill?highlight=wolfson#main-content
(6th mention of Wolfson on the page)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY4tD2Hbg_A
My fellow Yorkshiremen and women are as modest and self effacing as myself.
Some of the things I have read on twitter are really disgraceful
Not sure if Yorkshire CC will survive this to be honest
Which is interesting, as I understand most constitutional and legal scholars believed that once a royal prerogative was extinguished it could not be revived. However the current bill also has provisions to make any question of the legality of its provisions non-justiciable. So that’s alright then.
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1456654298503385089
Not much support for him staying on.
334,000 in a day. Good work
Probably because some of them realise the damage he's doing to the party. Interesting to know which kind of voter, mind.
Quite funny if you're into trains: they're getting quite agricultural in their efforts to get the crashed trains out of the tunnel at Salisbury. finesse? Nah. Just yank it out ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsHXWUMsLdM
As a southerner naturalised in Yorkshire I answer the others as follows:
1. Anything north of Watford Gap is north. Plus Yorkshire folk say bath, not barth.
2. Yorkshire tea is indeed produced in Yorkshire. The raw ingredients come from elsewhere. Next you'll be claiming that BP petrol isn't really British!
3. God's Own Country? Well Jacob Rees-Mogg says it isn't.[1] Case closed?
[1] https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-rees-mogg-yorkshire-is-not-gods-own-country-somerset-is-3146769
A grand lighter than expected but no harm done.
I feel for those 300 people working directly for Complete Utilities who were notified by email on Monday morning not to come into work because they had no job. These people might think twice about voting for the likes of Owen Paterson whining that life is unfair because he had to take a 30 day HoC ban because he was busy trousering £100K a year instead of fighting the corner for his constituents.
Thanks anyway.
All over now, India 89/2, with a massive six to finish, in only 6.3 overs.
No, sorry that's only true if you are completely stupid, I can't think of any word that has become less offensive over time.
Adil Ray OBE
@adilray
Allegations that a Muslim prayer mat was used by Yorkshire cricket players to clean up the mess from having sex with a woman on her period and players p**sed on an Asian players head are vile. We need answers & action now. I fear a DCMS review won’t cut it. This is much bigger.
9:56 AM · Nov 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/adilray/status/1456561106147758084
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Not least because it's complicated. Germany has no national retrictions at all, leaving it all to the individual Lander.
Seemed to be very high turnout indeed - the staff were busy, none of the slack that comes when a proportion don't respond.
It is just horrific
Essex captain Tom Westley has publicly apologised on behalf of the team after a Muslim player had beer poured on him.
Batsman Feroze Khushi was on the balcony at Lord's with the rest of the squad as Essex displayed the trophy following Sunday's draw with Somerset.
Khushi, 21, was 12th man for the five-day final at the home of cricket.
"As a group, we have come together and discussed the event, and on reflection, we are disappointed we let this happen," Westley said on social media.
"On behalf of myself and the team, we would like to apologise for any offence that was caused during our celebrations at Lord's on Sunday.
"At Essex we believe we have built a strong dressing room culture that supports one another both on and off the field."
Westley added that the squad would in future be more responsible and aware of their actions and will "continue to learn and develop" with the help of the England and Wales Cricket Board and Professional Cricketers' Association.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/54337950
I guess that unit of the train at least isn't going to be salvageable: it must be getting some forces through it at odd angles...
Disband the club and start again?
https://impfdashboard.de/
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There's a highly non-trivial chance cases will be below 25k/day in England before the broadcasters even start to acknowledge that cases aren't still rising!
Just when you thought they couldn't be in a worse mess...
Only trick now will be the government avoiding being sppoked by the usual NHS winter pressure, now several interested parties have megaphones and know how to use them.