I am no Meghan Markle fan, but I do wonder whether the media pundits have got this one right. Reports say that, because Meghan drafted the letter to her father with the possibility of it being leaked in mind, that undermines her claim to 'an expectation of privacy'.
That just does not make sense to me as an argument. I, as a diplomat, drafted many written communications, from internal memos to telegrams to policy documents, that were classified, and hence clearly had an expectation of privacy. But I also wrote them with a view to how I would defend what I had written if it became public. It would be ludicrous to argue that the classification of those documents should be challenged because I wrote them with the possibility of them becoming public in mind. Similarly, on the face of it, it seems ludicrous to argue that Meghan Markle's expectation of privacy should be questioned purely on the basis of her recognition that, despite that expectation, it might be leaked.
What do the lawyers think on this?
Is the bigger issue not, that she has now remembered she was collaborating on a book about herself at the time, therefore has conceded her own right to an expectation of privacy?
I've not been following it, but I wouldn't have thought so. Cooperating with a book doesn't equate to open house. I choose to share some information about my sometimes eclectic life here, for amusement. Doesn't mean that I want Leon to drop by and scrape all the emails I've ever written to include in his next action-packed thriller. (yeah, well...)
I get that you can blame the legacy of communism in East Germany, but you can't do that in Austria or Switzerland
Switzerland is particularly perplexing. The home of so much pharma. The calm, logical land of Rousseau, Paracelsus, Einstein, and Roger Federer. And Le Corbusier. And Nicholas of Flue. And Erich von Daniken
Swtitzerland. 24.4% of over 12s without a single jab
It's weird, isn't it? As you say, Switzerland is particularly odd. This is a country which happily conforms to rules about what flowers you must put in your window-boxes. You'd have thought they'd all dutifully get jabbed when told to.
Maybe the authorities haven't told them to, but that too is hard to understand.
Yes. If asked to name a western country, pre-pandemic, that could hit 90% vax rate without vaxports I'd have said Switzerland. They all obey every rule. They do their national service. They cut privet hedges for an hour on every third Saturday
But life saving vaccines? Nah, fuck that, don't trust the government
On the EU and boosters, no-one learns from their mistakes.
But it is also worth remembering that the EU - first time around - really did get a move on once they had supplies. In their peak week, they got 30 million jabs in arms. That's almost one-in-ten adults.
If they want to, they can certainly get a move on with boosters. And I have no doubt that if things look bad this winter (and they're certainly looking that way in a lot of the continent), then they'll start moving.
Don't forget, at previous rates (and they have the vaccine supply) they *could* get the most vulnerable half of the population done by Christmas.
Bugger, I'm in London for a city break at the end of the month and planned to use Uber Lux a lot. #CostOfLivingCrisis
Uber is raising prices in London amid surging demand and a shortfall of drivers.
Fares will climb by 10pc in the capital and by up to 25pc for airport journeys, the taxi company said. Journeys outside London will not be affected.
Users have complained of long wait times and drivers cancelling journeys, with the minicab app struggling to get enough drivers on the road to meet demand.
Even before the price rise, fares had surged due to Uber’s surge pricing algorithm, which pushes up prices to match demand for rides with supply.
Some users have reported journeys regularly costing more than a black cab ride. The company said the change would make this less frequent.
Uber tried to charge me £20 to get from St Pancras to Camden the other day. The model is broken
The model isn't broken - the issue is they no longer have an endless supply of workers and it's likely that Amazon parcel delivery pays better.
But that's part of the model. It assumed an infinite supply of fairly cheap labour
Nope, Uber's model is based on no labour - the cars were supposed to be self driving by about now...
That's not true.
Uber is just a radio cab service, with the radios replaced by a mobile app. They absolutely don't want a self driving world because then they have to supply the vehicles.
Except that they will tell you they’re defininitely not a cab service.
Oh, and how does a cab service, or a not-a-cab-service, continue to lose $2bn a quarter?
TSLA, NFTs, Shiba-inu, Uber it's all a giant game of pass the inflating bomb.
I wouldn't put Tesla in with the rest of them.
Tesla are legitimately an extremely profitable company with a very bright future.
Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not - But Tesla is definatly in the Meme Stock box.
It is but its also an extremely profitable business unlike almost all the other Meme Stocks which are just bad jokes with nothing valuable behind it.
There's more than just automobiles in Tesla. Their power storage facility side business has a potential to be storing then supplying a considerable proportion of the world's energy in the future so its worth comparing Tesla to energy businesses not just automobile ones.
Yes, but there’s also a pretty good chance they end up as the MySpace of electric technology, the early success story overwhelmed by the rate of innovation in the sector.
I completely agree with that, but there's also a pretty good chance they'll end up as the Facebook or Google of electric technology - and given Musk's track record I suspect actually Tesla will be around even after Facebook.
Tesla's stock valuation is high compared to automobile companies, but its not high compared to eg oil and gas companies. In ten to twenty years time its quite possible that automobiles represent just a fraction of Tesla's revenue stream and if that's the case then they'll be a genuinely sound investment today. Risky but genuinely sound.
Not like Gamestop or NFT's at all.
Ask people where their 'full self-driving' cars are. Ask people where their solar rooves are.
Tesla is behaving abysmally with both of these. In particular, they tried to put up the price of solar roof installations by 30-150% - after contracts had been signed. And told people they could pull out of the contract, but lose their deposit. They only backed down recently, six months later - and after some had paid the new price.
SpaceX is the only part of Musk's empire that could make me believe he isn't a shady sh*t. And that's probably down to Gwynne Shotwell's influence.
I know its a bit gimmicky but I thought it was interesting in the development of the Hornsdale Power Reserve (then the world's largest) that Musk committed to have it delivered within 100 days or it would be free, then it was delivered after 63 days.
Self-driving etc isn't there (and I don't know anything about the solar) but when it comes to actually delivering they're generally pretty good at it.
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Ambulance leading NW news too. Sounds pretty bloody dismal everywhere.
I am no Meghan Markle fan, but I do wonder whether the media pundits have got this one right. Reports say that, because Meghan drafted the letter to her father with the possibility of it being leaked in mind, that undermines her claim to 'an expectation of privacy'.
That just does not make sense to me as an argument. I, as a diplomat, drafted many written communications, from internal memos to telegrams to policy documents, that were classified, and hence clearly had an expectation of privacy. But I also wrote them with a view to how I would defend what I had written if it became public. It would be ludicrous to argue that the classification of those documents should be challenged because I wrote them with the possibility of them becoming public in mind. Similarly, on the face of it, it seems ludicrous to argue that Meghan Markle's expectation of privacy should be questioned purely on the basis of her recognition that, despite that expectation, it might be leaked.
What do the lawyers think on this?
Is the bigger issue not, that she has now remembered she was collaborating on a book about herself at the time, therefore has conceded her own right to an expectation of privacy?
I've not been following it, but I wouldn't have thought so. Cooperating with a book doesn't equate to open house. I choose to share some information about my sometimes eclectic life here, for amusement. Doesn't mean that I want Leon to drop by and scrape all the emails I've ever written to include in his next action-packed thriller. (yeah, well...)
You mean the character of Professor Pick Nalmer was not based on you?
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
The trouble with the next Prime Minister market is you need to factor in that Boris might be replaced before the next election, in which case the next Prime Minister will be a Conservative and not Keir Starmer. We've seen this when going from Cameron to May and from May to Boris. The worse the polls get for the blue team, the more likely it is that Boris will walk, and the more likely it is that backbenchers will send in their letters.
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Ambulance leading NW news too. Sounds pretty bloody dismal everywhere.
It is and the BBC need to make the point it is not just England, indeed Scotland and Wales seem worse
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Independence?
Being serious, I'm worried a lot of shit will hit a lot of fans in such areas pretty soon.
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Ambulance leading NW news too. Sounds pretty bloody dismal everywhere.
Catastrophic nurse staffing shortages. I have a friend with chronic epilepsy, who is often in and out of hospital, and he says the chaos and non-responsiveness on the wards are the worst he's seen for ten years. This is at a major London teaching hospital, too.
I am no Meghan Markle fan, but I do wonder whether the media pundits have got this one right. Reports say that, because Meghan drafted the letter to her father with the possibility of it being leaked in mind, that undermines her claim to 'an expectation of privacy'.
That just does not make sense to me as an argument. I, as a diplomat, drafted many written communications, from internal memos to telegrams to policy documents, that were classified, and hence clearly had an expectation of privacy. But I also wrote them with a view to how I would defend what I had written if it became public. It would be ludicrous to argue that the classification of those documents should be challenged because I wrote them with the possibility of them becoming public in mind. Similarly, on the face of it, it seems ludicrous to argue that Meghan Markle's expectation of privacy should be questioned purely on the basis of her recognition that, despite that expectation, it might be leaked.
What do the lawyers think on this?
Is the bigger issue not, that she has now remembered she was collaborating on a book about herself at the time, therefore has conceded her own right to an expectation of privacy?
I've not been following it, but I wouldn't have thought so. Cooperating with a book doesn't equate to open house. I choose to share some information about my sometimes eclectic life here, for amusement. Doesn't mean that I want Leon to drop by and scrape all the emails I've ever written to include in his next action-packed thriller. (yeah, well...)
You mean the character of Professor Pick Nalmer was not based on you?
Wow, I thought it was NickPalmer McNickPalmerFace that was based on him, but now I see that you're quite right
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
You think the Greens could beat the LD's for seats? I'd be surprised if they improved on their 1 tbh.
Brighton Pavilion is quite a funny seat. Lucas squeaked in on a 2.4% majority on only 31.3% of the vote, but the voters there clearly like both her and being 'the' Green seat, and now she has a majority of 34.4%.
I wonder if they'd get a similar situation if they broke through in another seat, but managing that seems, well, hard doesn't begin to describe it - they did well in Bristol West in 2015 but even in 2019 with the LDs presumably stepping asied (in a seat they won in 2010 with 48% of the vote!) they were 28000 votes behind Labour.
Yup. They are only really competitive in seats held by Labour.
On the EU and boosters, no-one learns from their mistakes.
But it is also worth remembering that the EU - first time around - really did get a move on once they had supplies. In their peak week, they got 30 million jabs in arms. That's almost one-in-ten adults.
If they want to, they can certainly get a move on with boosters. And I have no doubt that if things look bad this winter (and they're certainly looking that way in a lot of the continent), then they'll start moving.
Don't forget, at previous rates (and they have the vaccine supply) they *could* get the most vulnerable half of the population done by Christmas.
Germany tots up its Covid case totals through the day. So far it is on 27k
Looking like another big day. Nowhere in Europe should be complacently regarding this (including us). A sense of urgency re boosters should be kicking in NOW, everywhere.
It is too late for parts of Eastern Europe, which got hit before they could vax enough people. Their figures are now trending down, but only because of renewed restrictions, and overwhelming waves of prior infection
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Ambulance leading NW news too. Sounds pretty bloody dismal everywhere.
It is and the BBC need to make the point it is not just England, indeed Scotland and Wales seem worse
You poop out this stuff on reflex. What are the actual verifiable figures for Scotland and Wales being worse?
Has nobody spotted that yesterday had the highest number of first doses of Vaccine since July.
(And highest number of second doses since Sept).
I did. But I was told it is "data catch up" by Max, who normally knows his Covid onions
It's still good because what we thought were poor numbers was just an underreporting error. The booster shots look positively smashing at the moment. Should hit 3m per week next week.
I read that the Netherlands (I think) has only just started boostering over 80s. Madness
Europe hasn't really learned from out failures at all. I read that they aren't planning to start over 60s boosters until Jan 2020, it's not as though they don't have the supply either. Europe is sitting on something like 200m Pfizer doses for it's booster programme.
Hmm.. you're making the classic mistake of thinking that 'Europe' acts as though it were a single country. Ireland, France, Denmark, and Spain are far ahead of the UK in jab take-up despite the botched start, and France in particular is going great guns on the boosters. On the other hand, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are still miles behind the UK, and it's beginning to show in their deaths and hospitalisation figures. Further east it's disastrous.
The Netherlands is about the same as us in total take up, and you can see the protection in the figures. Like us, though, they've got too many cases for comfort:
France is not "going great guns on the boosters". They're only able to bring in the vaccine pass requirement for over 65s from December 15th - more than a month away. They are seriously behind the UK.
They most certainly are not miles behind the UK. We have 13.6% of over-12s completely unvaxxed (i.e. not even the first dose), they are on 8.4%.
Of course, they started later, so applying the same 6-month period that we apply, it's appropriate that the number of triple-jabbed is currently lower than ours. The point is, though, that they are getting on with it, and they are going to enforce it seriously. I fully expect them to get a higher triple-jab rate than us quite quickly.
They've done better in absolute total jabs because they have introduced rigorous, universal vaxports. I regret that the UK did not do the same, but it was an economic and libertarian choice, that we consciously made - supported by many on here
The only way you can drive up vax rates to 85%+ is with mandatory vaxports everywhere
The truly alarming figures in that FT twitter thread is the German-speaking non vaxed proportion of over 12s.
22-25%!! That's a huge reservoir of potential victims. That's nearly 20 million people in Germany
Germany really could be the latest victim of the golden rule of covid hubris. The share of positive tests they have at the moment suggests the true level of current cases is quite dramatic.
I posted the test positivity numbers yesterday, and Germany didn't stand out. It was nowhere near Ireland (14%) or some of South America or Eastern Europe (40+%)
Where are you getting your positivity numbers from?
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
I think Ladbrokes has a market on which of the LDs/Greens get more votes.
That market depends very much on how many deposits the Greens can put up. We know the LDs will be at least 600, last time the Greens sat out more than a quarter of the seats.
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Ambulance leading NW news too. Sounds pretty bloody dismal everywhere.
It is and the BBC need to make the point it is not just England, indeed Scotland and Wales seem worse
You poop out this stuff on reflex. What are the actual verifiable figures for Scotland and Wales being worse?
Not sure the situation in Wales or Scotland is really a matter for the NW news regardless. We won't report on a shooting in Manchester without mentioning everyone shot in the USA.
Greens are strong in Lancaster, don't they have the Council leader in a coalition. The ward is full of students and lecturers and the Greens have polled well there for several years. They should walk it.
Has nobody spotted that yesterday had the highest number of first doses of Vaccine since July.
(And highest number of second doses since Sept).
I did. But I was told it is "data catch up" by Max, who normally knows his Covid onions
It's still good because what we thought were poor numbers was just an underreporting error. The booster shots look positively smashing at the moment. Should hit 3m per week next week.
I read that the Netherlands (I think) has only just started boostering over 80s. Madness
Europe hasn't really learned from out failures at all. I read that they aren't planning to start over 60s boosters until Jan 2020, it's not as though they don't have the supply either. Europe is sitting on something like 200m Pfizer doses for it's booster programme.
Hmm.. you're making the classic mistake of thinking that 'Europe' acts as though it were a single country. Ireland, France, Denmark, and Spain are far ahead of the UK in jab take-up despite the botched start, and France in particular is going great guns on the boosters. On the other hand, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are still miles behind the UK, and it's beginning to show in their deaths and hospitalisation figures. Further east it's disastrous.
The Netherlands is about the same as us in total take up, and you can see the protection in the figures. Like us, though, they've got too many cases for comfort:
France is not "going great guns on the boosters". They're only able to bring in the vaccine pass requirement for over 65s from December 15th - more than a month away. They are seriously behind the UK.
They most certainly are not miles behind the UK. We have 13.6% of over-12s completely unvaxxed (i.e. not even the first dose), they are on 8.4%.
Of course, they started later, so applying the same 6-month period that we apply, it's appropriate that the number of triple-jabbed is currently lower than ours. The point is, though, that they are getting on with it, and they are going to enforce it seriously. I fully expect them to get a higher triple-jab rate than us quite quickly.
They've done better in absolute total jabs because they have introduced rigorous, universal vaxports. I regret that the UK did not do the same, but it was an economic and libertarian choice, that we consciously made - supported by many on here
The only way you can drive up vax rates to 85%+ is with mandatory vaxports everywhere
The truly alarming figures in that FT twitter thread is the German-speaking non vaxed proportion of over 12s.
22-25%!! That's a huge reservoir of potential victims. That's nearly 20 million people in Germany
Germany really could be the latest victim of the golden rule of covid hubris. The share of positive tests they have at the moment suggests the true level of current cases is quite dramatic.
I posted the test positivity numbers yesterday, and Germany didn't stand out. It was nowhere near Ireland (14%) or some of South America or Eastern Europe (40+%)
Where are you getting your positivity numbers from?
Rob's right about E Europe tho. Slovenia has a positivity rate of 40%. Bonkers
Also Ireland? Highly vaxed. Significant early waves. Like Belgium. Yet pretty nasty there. Like Belgium
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
The trouble with the next Prime Minister market is you need to factor in that Boris might be replaced before the next election, in which case the next Prime Minister will be a Conservative and not Keir Starmer. We've seen this when going from Cameron to May and from May to Boris. The worse the polls get for the blue team, the more likely it is that Boris will walk, and the more likely it is that backbenchers will send in their letters.
That's the bit I love.
Starmer drifting must point to it being far worse for Boris than I envisioned.
I was a bit wrong-footed by Maggie's departure. I suspect I'll not spot the signs again.
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
The trouble with the next Prime Minister market is you need to factor in that Boris might be replaced before the next election, in which case the next Prime Minister will be a Conservative and not Keir Starmer. We've seen this when going from Cameron to May and from May to Boris. The worse the polls get for the blue team, the more likely it is that Boris will walk, and the more likely it is that backbenchers will send in their letters.
That's the bit I love.
Starmer drifting must point to it being far worse for Boris than I envisioned.
I was a bit wrong-footed by Maggie's departure. I suspect I'll not spot the signs again.
On the EU and boosters, no-one learns from their mistakes.
But it is also worth remembering that the EU - first time around - really did get a move on once they had supplies. In their peak week, they got 30 million jabs in arms. That's almost one-in-ten adults.
If they want to, they can certainly get a move on with boosters. And I have no doubt that if things look bad this winter (and they're certainly looking that way in a lot of the continent), then they'll start moving.
Don't forget, at previous rates (and they have the vaccine supply) they *could* get the most vulnerable half of the population done by Christmas.
Germany tots up its Covid case totals through the day. So far it is on 27k
Looking like another big day. Nowhere in Europe should be complacently regarding this (including us). A sense of urgency re boosters should be kicking in NOW, everywhere.
It is too late for parts of Eastern Europe, which got hit before they could vax enough people. Their figures are now trending down, but only because of renewed restrictions, and overwhelming waves of prior infection
"Germany reports record 50,000 new cases" according to your favourite media outlet...
On the EU and boosters, no-one learns from their mistakes.
But it is also worth remembering that the EU - first time around - really did get a move on once they had supplies. In their peak week, they got 30 million jabs in arms. That's almost one-in-ten adults.
If they want to, they can certainly get a move on with boosters. And I have no doubt that if things look bad this winter (and they're certainly looking that way in a lot of the continent), then they'll start moving.
Don't forget, at previous rates (and they have the vaccine supply) they *could* get the most vulnerable half of the population done by Christmas.
Germany tots up its Covid case totals through the day. So far it is on 27k
Looking like another big day. Nowhere in Europe should be complacently regarding this (including us). A sense of urgency re boosters should be kicking in NOW, everywhere.
It is too late for parts of Eastern Europe, which got hit before they could vax enough people. Their figures are now trending down, but only because of renewed restrictions, and overwhelming waves of prior infection
"Germany reports record 50,000 new cases" According to your favourite paper...
On the EU and boosters, no-one learns from their mistakes.
But it is also worth remembering that the EU - first time around - really did get a move on once they had supplies. In their peak week, they got 30 million jabs in arms. That's almost one-in-ten adults.
If they want to, they can certainly get a move on with boosters. And I have no doubt that if things look bad this winter (and they're certainly looking that way in a lot of the continent), then they'll start moving.
Don't forget, at previous rates (and they have the vaccine supply) they *could* get the most vulnerable half of the population done by Christmas.
Germany tots up its Covid case totals through the day. So far it is on 27k
Looking like another big day. Nowhere in Europe should be complacently regarding this (including us). A sense of urgency re boosters should be kicking in NOW, everywhere.
It is too late for parts of Eastern Europe, which got hit before they could vax enough people. Their figures are now trending down, but only because of renewed restrictions, and overwhelming waves of prior infection
"Germany reports record 50,000 new cases" According to your favourite paper...
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
The trouble with the next Prime Minister market is you need to factor in that Boris might be replaced before the next election, in which case the next Prime Minister will be a Conservative and not Keir Starmer. We've seen this when going from Cameron to May and from May to Boris. The worse the polls get for the blue team, the more likely it is that Boris will walk, and the more likely it is that backbenchers will send in their letters.
That's the bit I love.
Starmer drifting must point to it being far worse for Boris than I envisioned.
I was a bit wrong-footed by Maggie's departure. I suspect I'll not spot the signs again.
Presumably Sunak's odds are tightening?
No - basically unchanged.
PS. Farooq, I need to offer you an apology. Some weeks ago I concluded that you were some sort of a Chinese infiltrator or other. I'm pretty sure I was wrong though. I'm not sure you're quite what you seem, but hey, who is!
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
The trouble with the next Prime Minister market is you need to factor in that Boris might be replaced before the next election, in which case the next Prime Minister will be a Conservative and not Keir Starmer. We've seen this when going from Cameron to May and from May to Boris. The worse the polls get for the blue team, the more likely it is that Boris will walk, and the more likely it is that backbenchers will send in their letters.
That's the bit I love.
Starmer drifting must point to it being far worse for Boris than I envisioned.
I was a bit wrong-footed by Maggie's departure. I suspect I'll not spot the signs again.
Presumably Sunak's odds are tightening?
No - basically unchanged.
PS. Farooq, I need to offer you an apology. Some weeks ago I concluded that you were some sort of a Chinese infiltrator or other. I'm pretty sure I was wrong though. I'm not sure you're quite what you seem, but hey, who is!
It's always disconcerting when someone new turns up and starts posting with the same sort of rapidity we associate with people who have been around for years. Usually it is a bot. Not always though.
Greens are strong in Lancaster, don't they have the Council leader in a coalition. The ward is full of students and lecturers and the Greens have polled well there for several years. They should walk it.
Won by Labour back to 2016. Even in 2015 Lab 1st and 3rd Green 2nd.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Charming. I'd suggest ensuring children have food even if there's a small risk you are taken advantage of by some parents who are slow to cough up, but whatever.
Next up a letter from the local church advising you best clear your debts before you die or you're shit out of luck with the big man upstairs, you filthy sinner.
Pretty sure the letter will be from the 'former' strategic head by this time next week.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
All bar one do put Starmer 20 points ahead of the point before he became leader, and that was 19 points. I am not particularly a fan, but quite some swing.
I've recently backed Starmer to be next PM in a modest way. 5ish BF. If anything though he's been drifting.I don't really get why as surely Boris is in more trouble than he's ever been. Is there some view that Labour would use the opportunity of any Tory leadership change to switch too?
I'd really like to find a bet that focussed on the LD/Green race - perhaps "3rd party seatwise"? Would you 1000 on either the Tories or Labour? (Normally probably yes, but currently - not so sure)
The trouble with the next Prime Minister market is you need to factor in that Boris might be replaced before the next election, in which case the next Prime Minister will be a Conservative and not Keir Starmer. We've seen this when going from Cameron to May and from May to Boris. The worse the polls get for the blue team, the more likely it is that Boris will walk, and the more likely it is that backbenchers will send in their letters.
That's the bit I love.
Starmer drifting must point to it being far worse for Boris than I envisioned.
I was a bit wrong-footed by Maggie's departure. I suspect I'll not spot the signs again.
Presumably Sunak's odds are tightening?
No - basically unchanged.
PS. Farooq, I need to offer you an apology. Some weeks ago I concluded that you were some sort of a Chinese infiltrator or other. I'm pretty sure I was wrong though. I'm not sure you're quite what you seem, but hey, who is!
It's always disconcerting when someone new turns up and starts posting with the same sort of rapidity we associate with people who have been around for years. Usually it is a bot. Not always though.
Real people ease up over time too. They try, albeit often slightly, to fit in.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Has nobody spotted that yesterday had the highest number of first doses of Vaccine since July.
(And highest number of second doses since Sept).
I did. But I was told it is "data catch up" by Max, who normally knows his Covid onions
It's still good because what we thought were poor numbers was just an underreporting error. The booster shots look positively smashing at the moment. Should hit 3m per week next week.
I read that the Netherlands (I think) has only just started boostering over 80s. Madness
Europe hasn't really learned from out failures at all. I read that they aren't planning to start over 60s boosters until Jan 2020, it's not as though they don't have the supply either. Europe is sitting on something like 200m Pfizer doses for it's booster programme.
Hmm.. you're making the classic mistake of thinking that 'Europe' acts as though it were a single country. Ireland, France, Denmark, and Spain are far ahead of the UK in jab take-up despite the botched start, and France in particular is going great guns on the boosters. On the other hand, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are still miles behind the UK, and it's beginning to show in their deaths and hospitalisation figures. Further east it's disastrous.
The Netherlands is about the same as us in total take up, and you can see the protection in the figures. Like us, though, they've got too many cases for comfort:
France is not "going great guns on the boosters". They're only able to bring in the vaccine pass requirement for over 65s from December 15th - more than a month away. They are seriously behind the UK.
They most certainly are not miles behind the UK. We have 13.6% of over-12s completely unvaxxed (i.e. not even the first dose), they are on 8.4%.
Of course, they started later, so applying the same 6-month period that we apply, it's appropriate that the number of triple-jabbed is currently lower than ours. The point is, though, that they are getting on with it, and they are going to enforce it seriously. I fully expect them to get a higher triple-jab rate than us quite quickly.
They've done better in absolute total jabs because they have introduced rigorous, universal vaxports. I regret that the UK did not do the same, but it was an economic and libertarian choice, that we consciously made - supported by many on here
The only way you can drive up vax rates to 85%+ is with mandatory vaxports everywhere
The truly alarming figures in that FT twitter thread is the German-speaking non vaxed proportion of over 12s.
22-25%!! That's a huge reservoir of potential victims. That's nearly 20 million people in Germany
Germany really could be the latest victim of the golden rule of covid hubris. The share of positive tests they have at the moment suggests the true level of current cases is quite dramatic.
I posted the test positivity numbers yesterday, and Germany didn't stand out. It was nowhere near Ireland (14%) or some of South America or Eastern Europe (40+%)
Where are you getting your positivity numbers from?
According to the UK coronavirus dashboard England's 7 day positivity rate is 9.2% and scotland is similar if not higher so I don't see how they have 4%
I am no Meghan Markle fan, but I do wonder whether the media pundits have got this one right. Reports say that, because Meghan drafted the letter to her father with the possibility of it being leaked in mind, that undermines her claim to 'an expectation of privacy'.
That just does not make sense to me as an argument. I, as a diplomat, drafted many written communications, from internal memos to telegrams to policy documents, that were classified, and hence clearly had an expectation of privacy. But I also wrote them with a view to how I would defend what I had written if it became public. It would be ludicrous to argue that the classification of those documents should be challenged because I wrote them with the possibility of them becoming public in mind. Similarly, on the face of it, it seems ludicrous to argue that Meghan Markle's expectation of privacy should be questioned purely on the basis of her recognition that, despite that expectation, it might be leaked.
What do the lawyers think on this?
IANAL but presumably it is whether they were drafted with the *intention* they would be leaked or the possibility they *might* be leaked
On the EU and boosters, no-one learns from their mistakes.
But it is also worth remembering that the EU - first time around - really did get a move on once they had supplies. In their peak week, they got 30 million jabs in arms. That's almost one-in-ten adults.
If they want to, they can certainly get a move on with boosters. And I have no doubt that if things look bad this winter (and they're certainly looking that way in a lot of the continent), then they'll start moving.
Don't forget, at previous rates (and they have the vaccine supply) they *could* get the most vulnerable half of the population done by Christmas.
Germany tots up its Covid case totals through the day. So far it is on 27k
Looking like another big day. Nowhere in Europe should be complacently regarding this (including us). A sense of urgency re boosters should be kicking in NOW, everywhere.
It is too late for parts of Eastern Europe, which got hit before they could vax enough people. Their figures are now trending down, but only because of renewed restrictions, and overwhelming waves of prior infection
Eastern Europe is infected (so to speak) with antivax propaganda. People who push vaccinations are people like George Soros. Therefore, vaccinations are bad.
I hope they work it out now. But it's amazing how well cognitive dissonance holds up, even when hospitals are full and people are dying.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Has nobody spotted that yesterday had the highest number of first doses of Vaccine since July.
(And highest number of second doses since Sept).
I did. But I was told it is "data catch up" by Max, who normally knows his Covid onions
It's still good because what we thought were poor numbers was just an underreporting error. The booster shots look positively smashing at the moment. Should hit 3m per week next week.
I read that the Netherlands (I think) has only just started boostering over 80s. Madness
Europe hasn't really learned from out failures at all. I read that they aren't planning to start over 60s boosters until Jan 2020, it's not as though they don't have the supply either. Europe is sitting on something like 200m Pfizer doses for it's booster programme.
Hmm.. you're making the classic mistake of thinking that 'Europe' acts as though it were a single country. Ireland, France, Denmark, and Spain are far ahead of the UK in jab take-up despite the botched start, and France in particular is going great guns on the boosters. On the other hand, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are still miles behind the UK, and it's beginning to show in their deaths and hospitalisation figures. Further east it's disastrous.
The Netherlands is about the same as us in total take up, and you can see the protection in the figures. Like us, though, they've got too many cases for comfort:
France is not "going great guns on the boosters". They're only able to bring in the vaccine pass requirement for over 65s from December 15th - more than a month away. They are seriously behind the UK.
They most certainly are not miles behind the UK. We have 13.6% of over-12s completely unvaxxed (i.e. not even the first dose), they are on 8.4%.
Of course, they started later, so applying the same 6-month period that we apply, it's appropriate that the number of triple-jabbed is currently lower than ours. The point is, though, that they are getting on with it, and they are going to enforce it seriously. I fully expect them to get a higher triple-jab rate than us quite quickly.
They've done better in absolute total jabs because they have introduced rigorous, universal vaxports. I regret that the UK did not do the same, but it was an economic and libertarian choice, that we consciously made - supported by many on here
The only way you can drive up vax rates to 85%+ is with mandatory vaxports everywhere
The truly alarming figures in that FT twitter thread is the German-speaking non vaxed proportion of over 12s.
22-25%!! That's a huge reservoir of potential victims. That's nearly 20 million people in Germany
Germany really could be the latest victim of the golden rule of covid hubris. The share of positive tests they have at the moment suggests the true level of current cases is quite dramatic.
I posted the test positivity numbers yesterday, and Germany didn't stand out. It was nowhere near Ireland (14%) or some of South America or Eastern Europe (40+%)
Where are you getting your positivity numbers from?
According to the UK coronavirus dashboard England's 7 day positivity rate is 9.2% and scotland is similar if not higher so I don't see how they have 4%
One includes lateral-flow tests, the other doesn't?
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Has nobody spotted that yesterday had the highest number of first doses of Vaccine since July.
(And highest number of second doses since Sept).
I did. But I was told it is "data catch up" by Max, who normally knows his Covid onions
It's still good because what we thought were poor numbers was just an underreporting error. The booster shots look positively smashing at the moment. Should hit 3m per week next week.
I read that the Netherlands (I think) has only just started boostering over 80s. Madness
Europe hasn't really learned from out failures at all. I read that they aren't planning to start over 60s boosters until Jan 2020, it's not as though they don't have the supply either. Europe is sitting on something like 200m Pfizer doses for it's booster programme.
Hmm.. you're making the classic mistake of thinking that 'Europe' acts as though it were a single country. Ireland, France, Denmark, and Spain are far ahead of the UK in jab take-up despite the botched start, and France in particular is going great guns on the boosters. On the other hand, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are still miles behind the UK, and it's beginning to show in their deaths and hospitalisation figures. Further east it's disastrous.
The Netherlands is about the same as us in total take up, and you can see the protection in the figures. Like us, though, they've got too many cases for comfort:
France is not "going great guns on the boosters". They're only able to bring in the vaccine pass requirement for over 65s from December 15th - more than a month away. They are seriously behind the UK.
They most certainly are not miles behind the UK. We have 13.6% of over-12s completely unvaxxed (i.e. not even the first dose), they are on 8.4%.
Of course, they started later, so applying the same 6-month period that we apply, it's appropriate that the number of triple-jabbed is currently lower than ours. The point is, though, that they are getting on with it, and they are going to enforce it seriously. I fully expect them to get a higher triple-jab rate than us quite quickly.
They've done better in absolute total jabs because they have introduced rigorous, universal vaxports. I regret that the UK did not do the same, but it was an economic and libertarian choice, that we consciously made - supported by many on here
The only way you can drive up vax rates to 85%+ is with mandatory vaxports everywhere
The truly alarming figures in that FT twitter thread is the German-speaking non vaxed proportion of over 12s.
22-25%!! That's a huge reservoir of potential victims. That's nearly 20 million people in Germany
Germany really could be the latest victim of the golden rule of covid hubris. The share of positive tests they have at the moment suggests the true level of current cases is quite dramatic.
I posted the test positivity numbers yesterday, and Germany didn't stand out. It was nowhere near Ireland (14%) or some of South America or Eastern Europe (40+%)
Where are you getting your positivity numbers from?
According to the UK coronavirus dashboard England's 7 day positivity rate is 9.2% and scotland is similar if not higher so I don't see how they have 4%
World In Data seems to have UK positivity rates exactly half the numbers on the UK Government's own website.
Has nobody spotted that yesterday had the highest number of first doses of Vaccine since July.
(And highest number of second doses since Sept).
I did. But I was told it is "data catch up" by Max, who normally knows his Covid onions
It's still good because what we thought were poor numbers was just an underreporting error. The booster shots look positively smashing at the moment. Should hit 3m per week next week.
I read that the Netherlands (I think) has only just started boostering over 80s. Madness
Europe hasn't really learned from out failures at all. I read that they aren't planning to start over 60s boosters until Jan 2020, it's not as though they don't have the supply either. Europe is sitting on something like 200m Pfizer doses for it's booster programme.
Hmm.. you're making the classic mistake of thinking that 'Europe' acts as though it were a single country. Ireland, France, Denmark, and Spain are far ahead of the UK in jab take-up despite the botched start, and France in particular is going great guns on the boosters. On the other hand, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are still miles behind the UK, and it's beginning to show in their deaths and hospitalisation figures. Further east it's disastrous.
The Netherlands is about the same as us in total take up, and you can see the protection in the figures. Like us, though, they've got too many cases for comfort:
France is not "going great guns on the boosters". They're only able to bring in the vaccine pass requirement for over 65s from December 15th - more than a month away. They are seriously behind the UK.
They most certainly are not miles behind the UK. We have 13.6% of over-12s completely unvaxxed (i.e. not even the first dose), they are on 8.4%.
Of course, they started later, so applying the same 6-month period that we apply, it's appropriate that the number of triple-jabbed is currently lower than ours. The point is, though, that they are getting on with it, and they are going to enforce it seriously. I fully expect them to get a higher triple-jab rate than us quite quickly.
They've done better in absolute total jabs because they have introduced rigorous, universal vaxports. I regret that the UK did not do the same, but it was an economic and libertarian choice, that we consciously made - supported by many on here
The only way you can drive up vax rates to 85%+ is with mandatory vaxports everywhere
The truly alarming figures in that FT twitter thread is the German-speaking non vaxed proportion of over 12s.
22-25%!! That's a huge reservoir of potential victims. That's nearly 20 million people in Germany
Germany really could be the latest victim of the golden rule of covid hubris. The share of positive tests they have at the moment suggests the true level of current cases is quite dramatic.
I posted the test positivity numbers yesterday, and Germany didn't stand out. It was nowhere near Ireland (14%) or some of South America or Eastern Europe (40+%)
Where are you getting your positivity numbers from?
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
I booked a Covid test for foreign travel with a major provider of Covid tests, which was very competitively priced. After doing so I read their terms and conditions and privacy policy and 'fair processing notice'. It transpired from this that they appear to be collecting DNA samples from the swabs for the purposes of 'research', for which they declare an intention to share with companies and government agencies. They also set out in the privacy policy that there is no unconditional opt out of this research programme. It appears that the intention is to use the data from Covid testing to create a private DNA database. Looking further in the legality of this, they appear to be relying on 'legitimate interests' under the GDPR to avoid having to explicitly seek their customers consent for doing so - it was not mentioned at any point on the website, nor in the standard terms and conditions: only in the privacy policy which of course people are very unlikely to ever read.
I have complained to them asking for comments on the above, and they immediately refunded my test fee. Some people may not be concerned about this type of activity, but if you are, then I suggest you are extremely careful about non NHS covid testing. Unless the company in question come up with a very convincing explanation, I will be pursuing this privately with a complaint to the ICO.
This is outrageous & I suggest you also forward your concerns to your MP & maybe to any interested journalists you can track down?
There is no way that this is an appropriate use of the material provided to this company & they cannot possibly have acquired the appropriate permissions. If anyone within the NHS or UK research community tried to do this, the ethics ctte would string them up.
Yes indeed. I am waiting for their reply. They may be able to convince me that it is an innocent mistake, but otherwise I will be doing exactly that. The ICO is the first stop.
I have done a little digging & according to the MRC, the law does permit the use of tissue samples taken as part of diagnostic procedures in certain circumstances. They’re not very clear about what those circumstances are however.
I do not think that a note buried in a company T+Cs counts as valid consent according to the Human Tissue Act 2004 - I would imagine getting your MP to query the HTA about the behaviour of this company would be a good way to get some action taken on this. You could complain to the HTA directly yourself, but I suspect they might take some time to respond.
Looking in to this guidance, the Human Tissue Authority say that they do not deal with DNA, so it may not fall within their remit. From what I can see however, DNA is dealt with in the Human Tissue Act and its any storage and analysis of it relies on consent, which I would say does not meaningfully exist here.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Old timers on here may remember that the first meaningful investment I made was backing a friend to build a new vaccine company. It’s taken 10 years, but we just listed Vaxxinity on Nasdaq today 😁
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
What on earth is a 'Strategic Headteacher', and do they have tactical ones as well?
There are strategic, tactical, and operational head teachers.
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
Ah, showing my age!
Lloyds Mayfair Banking have recently given me a Strategic Private Banking Manager as well as a regular Private Banking Manager.
Oh, you is definitely "working class"
Well, he does bank with Lloyds...
Well I had to leave Coutts, shocking service.
Honestly opening a new bank account these days is so much hassle.
I hope to one day sign up with C. Hoare and Co, just so I can say out loud 'My bankers are Hoares'.
I can say that already.
Nothing to do with C Hoare and Co, I just bank with the NatWest Group.
I used to work for a partnership who banked with Hoares. (Because the founder was such a rogue that no normal bank would touch him.) Endless fun. "I'm going down to London to visit Hoares." etc.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
What on earth is a 'Strategic Headteacher', and do they have tactical ones as well?
There are strategic, tactical, and operational head teachers.
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
Ah, showing my age!
Lloyds Mayfair Banking have recently given me a Strategic Private Banking Manager as well as a regular Private Banking Manager.
Please just think of your Private Banker though - in a previous life as a Private Banker it was always the smallest clients who were the hardest work - the few hundred grand they had was more work than it was worth and they were kept on just in case they “made it” or they had great contacts so they were a good intro to people with serious money but they always had a majorly inflated belief in their importance to the banker and bank.
Be nice and not too demanding - Private Bankers are humans too.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
What on earth is a 'Strategic Headteacher', and do they have tactical ones as well?
There are strategic, tactical, and operational head teachers.
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
Ah, showing my age!
Lloyds Mayfair Banking have recently given me a Strategic Private Banking Manager as well as a regular Private Banking Manager.
Oh, you is definitely "working class"
Well, he does bank with Lloyds...
Well I had to leave Coutts, shocking service.
Honestly opening a new bank account these days is so much hassle.
I hope to one day sign up with C. Hoare and Co, just so I can say out loud 'My bankers are Hoares'.
I can say that already.
Nothing to do with C Hoare and Co, I just bank with the NatWest Group.
I used to work for a partnership who banked with Hoares. (Because the founder was such a rogue that no normal bank would touch him.) Endless fun. "I'm going down to London to visit Hoares." etc.
It's disappointing that when Cox was taken over in 1923 it was by Lloyd's, not Hoares.
Otherwise my thesis would have contained the line 'Hoares absorbed Cox.'
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
What on earth is a 'Strategic Headteacher', and do they have tactical ones as well?
There are strategic, tactical, and operational head teachers.
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
Ah, showing my age!
Lloyds Mayfair Banking have recently given me a Strategic Private Banking Manager as well as a regular Private Banking Manager.
Oh, you is definitely "working class"
Well, he does bank with Lloyds...
Well I had to leave Coutts, shocking service.
Honestly opening a new bank account these days is so much hassle.
I hope to one day sign up with C. Hoare and Co, just so I can say out loud 'My bankers are Hoares'.
I can say that already.
Nothing to do with C Hoare and Co, I just bank with the NatWest Group.
I used to work for a partnership who banked with Hoares. (Because the founder was such a rogue that no normal bank would touch him.) Endless fun. "I'm going down to London to visit Hoares." etc.
It's disappointing that when Cox was taken over in 1923 it was by Lloyd's, not Hoares.
Otherwise my thesis would have contained the line 'Hoares absorbed Cox.'
Absorbed? Surely it'd be a partnership under the new name "Hoares and Cox".
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
What on earth is a 'Strategic Headteacher', and do they have tactical ones as well?
There are strategic, tactical, and operational head teachers.
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
Ah, showing my age!
Lloyds Mayfair Banking have recently given me a Strategic Private Banking Manager as well as a regular Private Banking Manager.
Please just think of your Private Banker though - in a previous life as a Private Banker it was always the smallest clients who were the hardest work - the few hundred grand they had was more work than it was worth and they were kept on just in case they “made it” or they had great contacts so they were a good intro to people with serious money but they always had a majorly inflated belief in their importance to the banker and bank.
Be nice and not too demanding - Private Bankers are humans too.
I vaguely recall hearing something about TSE's modesty. Can't quite put my finger on it though.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
Can you expand? Do you mean this was always a minor issue at a teen coming-of-age event and is of no particular concern?
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Ambulance leading NW news too. Sounds pretty bloody dismal everywhere.
Catastrophic nurse staffing shortages. I have a friend with chronic epilepsy, who is often in and out of hospital, and he says the chaos and non-responsiveness on the wards are the worst he's seen for ten years. This is at a major London teaching hospital, too.
Hence, presumably, the emergency tax NI increase for the NHSSocial Care sod it, we know the money is going to the NHS and staying there.
Healthcare needs a lot of staff to make it work, and staff have just got more expensive.
Relative of mine just got notice for their booster, but the nearest place to receive it is 25 miles way. Things are much better, but there's room for improvement.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
What on earth is a 'Strategic Headteacher', and do they have tactical ones as well?
There are strategic, tactical, and operational head teachers.
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
Ah, showing my age!
Lloyds Mayfair Banking have recently given me a Strategic Private Banking Manager as well as a regular Private Banking Manager.
Please just think of your Private Banker though - in a previous life as a Private Banker it was always the smallest clients who were the hardest work - the few hundred grand they had was more work than it was worth and they were kept on just in case they “made it” or they had great contacts so they were a good intro to people with serious money but they always had a majorly inflated belief in their importance to the banker and bank.
Be nice and not too demanding - Private Bankers are humans too.
BBC news report on NHS ambulance crisis re England and ITV Wales are reporting on the serious state of Wales NHS ambulance crisis and a patient attacking the Welsh Government
I believe Scotland is as bad if not worse
I do not have an answer
Ambulance leading NW news too. Sounds pretty bloody dismal everywhere.
Catastrophic nurse staffing shortages. I have a friend with chronic epilepsy, who is often in and out of hospital, and he says the chaos and non-responsiveness on the wards are the worst he's seen for ten years. This is at a major London teaching hospital, too.
Hence, presumably, the emergency tax NI increase for the NHSSocial Care sod it, we know the money is going to the NHS and staying there.
Healthcare needs a lot of staff to make it work, and staff have just got more expensive.
Did Javid say to Johnson, "Oh f*ck, not healthcare!" on appointment?
@darkage - Did you find a test provider that doesn't make you consent to DNA analysis?
I did; and they said when taking the test that the sample would be destroyed. However, it was a vague outfit operating out of a portacabin, so I don't trust them enough to make any recommendation.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
Can you expand? Do you mean this was always a minor issue at a teen coming-of-age event and is of no particular concern?
Yes mostly that. Concern of course yes. Police time is the worst of it.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
Can you expand? Do you mean this was always a minor issue at a teen coming-of-age event and is of no particular concern?
I'm 50 years out of date, but this stuff happened in my day and the head sorted it out. Invariably that involved a lot of shouting at assembly and various punishments. No police involvement. Seemed to work.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
What a nightmare for all concerned. I think given the boy's behaviour it is hard to see how the authorities could simply ignore it. As to why nobody intervened, I guess it's hard to see what is happening at a disco.
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
What on earth is a 'Strategic Headteacher', and do they have tactical ones as well?
There are strategic, tactical, and operational head teachers.
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
Ah, showing my age!
Lloyds Mayfair Banking have recently given me a Strategic Private Banking Manager as well as a regular Private Banking Manager.
Please just think of your Private Banker though - in a previous life as a Private Banker it was always the smallest clients who were the hardest work - the few hundred grand they had was more work than it was worth and they were kept on just in case they “made it” or they had great contacts so they were a good intro to people with serious money but they always had a majorly inflated belief in their importance to the banker and bank.
Be nice and not too demanding - Private Bankers are humans too.
I am always super nice to bankers who I don't not have to supervise and regulate.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
What was the status of the PTA involvement? Could the invitation has reasonably been interpreted to mean there would be extensive supervision? Realistically, I'd expect alcohol and probably drugs at any teenage party nowadays, unless strictly supervised. Kids at my school (international, in Denmark) certainly had boozy parties with no particular age limit - I remember one kid drinking 16 cans of beer and feeling pretty sorry for himself next day - and nobody thought anything outrageous about it (but he was regarded as an idiot rather than a hero). The sex pest sounds more out of the ordinary and I'm surprised other kids didn't tell him to get lost.
I can see that the school and even the police can't ignore it once it's been raised, but I doubt if they actively pursue it. I remember talking to the secondary head in a fairly posh school in my patch - she said resignedly that she knew kids were giving each other blow jobs in the nearby park, what could you do?
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Relative of mine just got notice for their booster, but the nearest place to receive it is 25 miles way. Things are much better, but there's room for improvement.
Indeed, Mrs Stodge and I have to go to Barking (some would say as I'm in East Ham, I'm nearly barking anyway!) as there is nowhere in East Ham offering boosters.
It doesn't bother us but it will deter some inevitably and regrettably. It's clear the protection offered by the initial two vaccinations does fade with time and we have to get as many triply-vaccinated as possible.
On a complete tangent, we were talking about the Bullingdon Club last evening.
A few years ago, I attended the Kingston Blount Racing Club (KBRC) point to point meeting on a cold March afternoon. KBRC is the successor to the Oxford University Hunt Club and one of the races left over from the University was the Bullingdon Club race. About a dozen members of said organisation were in attendance - their dress sense was, to this observer's eyes, more like something out of Brideshead Revisited than practical clothing for an afternoon with the sleet falling horizontally.
Nonetheless, they had come prepared with picnic hampers and a gazebo - the problem was between the dozen of them they couldn't put it up (no sniggering in the cheap seats). I was left with the thought, pace my old physics teacher, if they were the cream of England, God help the milk.
They were no trouble, kept themselves to themselves except when they presented a rather ornate trophy to a rather bemused owner of an equally bemused looking horse who had plodded through the mud to win the race. I knew the Hunt secretary and he complained they were more trouble than they were worth but it was all about the tradition etc even though they paid nothing for the race but it was a condition the race kept being run as long as the Bullingdon Club was in existence.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
What was the status of the PTA involvement? Could the invitation has reasonably been interpreted to mean there would be extensive supervision? Realistically, I'd expect alcohol and probably drugs at any teenage party nowadays, unless strictly supervised. Kids at my school (international, in Denmark) certainly had boozy parties with no particular age limit - I remember one kid drinking 16 cans of beer and feeling pretty sorry for himself next day - and nobody thought anything outrageous about it (but he was regarded as an idiot rather than a hero). The sex pest sounds more out of the ordinary and I'm surprised other kids didn't tell him to get lost.
I can see that the school and even the police can't ignore it once it's been raised, but I doubt if they actively pursue it. I remember talking to the secondary head in a fairly posh school in my patch - she said resignedly that she knew kids were giving each other blow jobs in the nearby park, what could you do?
Bloody hell - now I'm even more worried.
Should this silly boy, age 17, have this on his police record (as I assume it now will be)? Given that my daughter was one of the affected girls you may be surprised that I have some sympathy for the boy - but I do given the extent to which this has escalated. I certainly do not think the police should have been involved.
And why are the authorities so keen on making victims out of the girls and pursuing the boy when no-one seems concerned about 17 year olds taking drugs?
I think I'm naive and out of touch on this. But common sense seems lacking to me.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
What was the status of the PTA involvement? Could the invitation has reasonably been interpreted to mean there would be extensive supervision? Realistically, I'd expect alcohol and probably drugs at any teenage party nowadays, unless strictly supervised. Kids at my school (international, in Denmark) certainly had boozy parties with no particular age limit - I remember one kid drinking 16 cans of beer and feeling pretty sorry for himself next day - and nobody thought anything outrageous about it (but he was regarded as an idiot rather than a hero). The sex pest sounds more out of the ordinary and I'm surprised other kids didn't tell him to get lost.
I can see that the school and even the police can't ignore it once it's been raised, but I doubt if they actively pursue it. I remember talking to the secondary head in a fairly posh school in my patch - she said resignedly that she knew kids were giving each other blow jobs in the nearby park, what could you do?
A gaffe today, mind you I remember watching the coverage of the 1974 election on BBC Parliament and a commentator on the BBC referred to one candidate in those terms and he is 78
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
What was the status of the PTA involvement? Could the invitation has reasonably been interpreted to mean there would be extensive supervision? Realistically, I'd expect alcohol and probably drugs at any teenage party nowadays, unless strictly supervised. Kids at my school (international, in Denmark) certainly had boozy parties with no particular age limit - I remember one kid drinking 16 cans of beer and feeling pretty sorry for himself next day - and nobody thought anything outrageous about it (but he was regarded as an idiot rather than a hero). The sex pest sounds more out of the ordinary and I'm surprised other kids didn't tell him to get lost.
I can see that the school and even the police can't ignore it once it's been raised, but I doubt if they actively pursue it. I remember talking to the secondary head in a fairly posh school in my patch - she said resignedly that she knew kids were giving each other blow jobs in the nearby park, what could you do?
Bloody hell - now I'm even more worried.
Should this silly boy, age 17, have this on his police record (as I assume it now will be)? Given that my daughter was one of the affected girls you may be surprised that I have some sympathy for the boy - but I do given the extent to which this has escalated. I certainly do not think the police should have been involved.
Any why are the authorities so keen on making victims out of the girls and pursuing the boy when no-one seems concerned about 17 year olds taking drugs?
I think I'm naive and out of touch on this. But common sense seems lacking to me.
I think when we were young a lot of behaviour was put down to "boys will be boys" and girls had to put up with a lot of nasty crap as a result. The pendulum has swung the other way now and anything in the region of sexual assault is treated very seriously. I think I mostly prefer the current approach. Teenage years are messy though, people will do dumb stuff, just like we all did. My eldest daughter is 15 and quite sensible compared to me at her age. But maybe this kind of stuff is just around the corner...
I love this lefty response to Biden using the OTHER N word
"Typically it’s not acceptable but here he was clearly talking about the Negro Leagues which is what the African American segregated baseball league was called at the time. The outrage here in this thread is entirely misplaced."
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present? 2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this? 3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost? 4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Nothing to see.
What was the status of the PTA involvement? Could the invitation has reasonably been interpreted to mean there would be extensive supervision? Realistically, I'd expect alcohol and probably drugs at any teenage party nowadays, unless strictly supervised. Kids at my school (international, in Denmark) certainly had boozy parties with no particular age limit - I remember one kid drinking 16 cans of beer and feeling pretty sorry for himself next day - and nobody thought anything outrageous about it (but he was regarded as an idiot rather than a hero). The sex pest sounds more out of the ordinary and I'm surprised other kids didn't tell him to get lost.
I can see that the school and even the police can't ignore it once it's been raised, but I doubt if they actively pursue it. I remember talking to the secondary head in a fairly posh school in my patch - she said resignedly that she knew kids were giving each other blow jobs in the nearby park, what could you do?
Bloody hell - now I'm even more worried.
Should this silly boy, age 17, have this on his police record (as I assume it now will be)? Given that my daughter was one of the affected girls you may be surprised that I have some sympathy for the boy - but I do given the extent to which this has escalated. I certainly do not think the police should have been involved.
Any why are the authorities so keen on making victims out of the girls and pursuing the boy when no-one seems concerned about 17 year olds taking drugs?
I think I'm naive and out of touch on this. But common sense seems lacking to me.
I think when we were young a lot of behaviour was put down to "boys will be boys" and girls had to put up with a lot of nasty crap as a result. The pendulum has swung the other way now and anything in the region of sexual assault is treated very seriously. I think I mostly prefer the current approach. Teenage years are messy though, people will do dumb stuff, just like we all did. My eldest daughter is 15 and quite sensible compared to me at her age. But maybe this kind of stuff is just around the corner...
No girl will ever have to endure 'nasty crap' should I be aware of it. No woman either.
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But life saving vaccines? Nah, fuck that, don't trust the government
Weird
But it is also worth remembering that the EU - first time around - really did get a move on once they had supplies. In their peak week, they got 30 million jabs in arms. That's almost one-in-ten adults.
If they want to, they can certainly get a move on with boosters. And I have no doubt that if things look bad this winter (and they're certainly looking that way in a lot of the continent), then they'll start moving.
Don't forget, at previous rates (and they have the vaccine supply) they *could* get the most vulnerable half of the population done by Christmas.
Self-driving etc isn't there (and I don't know anything about the solar) but when it comes to actually delivering they're generally pretty good at it.
Being serious, I'm worried a lot of shit will hit a lot of fans in such areas pretty soon.
Looking like another big day. Nowhere in Europe should be complacently regarding this (including us). A sense of urgency re boosters should be kicking in NOW, everywhere.
It is too late for parts of Eastern Europe, which got hit before they could vax enough people. Their figures are now trending down, but only because of renewed restrictions, and overwhelming waves of prior infection
What are the actual verifiable figures for Scotland and Wales being worse?
We won't report on a shooting in Manchester without mentioning everyone shot in the USA.
The ward is full of students and lecturers and the Greens have polled well there for several years.
They should walk it.
Also Ireland? Highly vaxed. Significant early waves. Like Belgium. Yet pretty nasty there. Like Belgium
Starmer drifting must point to it being far worse for Boris than I envisioned.
I was a bit wrong-footed by Maggie's departure. I suspect I'll not spot the signs again.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/nov/11/coronavirus-news-live-europe-covid-deaths-rise-10-in-a-week-10-us-states-sue-over-vaccine-mandates
I'll go back to my afternoon nap!
PS. Farooq, I need to offer you an apology. Some weeks ago I concluded that you were some sort of a Chinese infiltrator or other. I'm pretty sure I was wrong though. I'm not sure you're quite what you seem, but hey, who is!
Pupils whose meal accounts are more than a penny in debt at a school will be left without food at lunchtime.
The severe warning was issued in a letter to parents sent by Neil Foden – the strategic head of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle in Penygroes, Gwynedd – as part of an approach recommended by the local council.
The ultimatum said the school cook had been instructed not to give food to any pupil ‘if their debt has not been cleared, or, in the future, to children whose accounts do not have enough money to pay for lunch’.
A deadline of November 19 has been set for parents to get their children’s accounts up to date.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/11/wales-head-refuses-to-feed-kids-more-than-a-penny-in-debt-to-school-15582048/
Next up a letter from the local church advising you best clear your debts before you die or you're shit out of luck with the big man upstairs, you filthy sinner.
Pretty sure the letter will be from the 'former' strategic head by this time next week.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/nphet-to-advise-government-people-should-work-from-home-wherever-possible-1.4726117
The strategic ones I believe not only look at issues for the school but as part of the wider area.
I hope they work it out now. But it's amazing how well cognitive dissonance holds up, even when hospitals are full and people are dying.
Which I see is 14 days out of date.
Looking in to this guidance, the Human Tissue Authority say that they do not deal with DNA, so it may not fall within their remit. From what I can see however, DNA is dealt with in the Human Tissue Act and its any storage and analysis of it relies on consent, which I would say does not meaningfully exist here.
Hopefully not Rachael?
Honestly opening a new bank account these days is so much hassle.
I hope to one day sign up with C. Hoare and Co, just so I can say out loud 'My bankers are Hoares'.
Nothing to do with C Hoare and Co, I just bank with the NatWest Group.
My daughter's (age 17) school organised (or rather the PTA organised) a Halloween fancy dress disco at a village hall.
After the event my daughter told us that there was alcohol available and many pupils were drunk. She said there were some drugs too.
One of the boys was a sex-pest, walking round drunk/drugged pinching a dozen or so girls' bums and in one case, at least, squeezing a tit.
My daughter thought the boy a prat, doesn't like him, but was otherwise not overly bothered.
Her friend happened to talk about it at school within earshot of a teacher. And OMG the beaurocracy, cover-our-arses, wheels have been turning.
The teacher reported it to the Head and the school safeguarding officer. The girls were talked to. The school called in the Police. The school called us twice - very keen to say how they were following their safeguarding protocols - asking for our permission for my daughter to be interviewed (even though we were told that parental consent was not actually needed legally). The police called us too.
The police (two of them) visited the school and pulled my daughter plus one other girl (the only two affected girls who were sober during the party they said) interviewed them and took notes.
The police came back to the school a second time saying that their superiors had said they hadn't done enough and actually needed written statements. These took two hours. My daughter and her friend were pulled out of classes to do this.
The police have said that my daughter would be asked to appear at court to give evidence should it go that far. They seem, at this stage, to think this unlikely.
Points that I have noted from this extraordinary experience:
1) Why were pupils allowed to get drunk at a school (PTA) organised event and how come there were drugs present?
2) How many police hours and resources have been expended on this?
3) How many school hours/lost teaching has this cost?
4) And the boy - why did no organiser notice this boy's behaviour towards the girls - and his drunkenness - and intervene?
I am left as concerned about 1), 2) and 3) as I am about 4).
Am I wrong?
Be nice and not too demanding - Private Bankers are humans too.
Otherwise my thesis would have contained the line 'Hoares absorbed Cox.'
Healthcare needs a lot of staff to make it work, and staff have just got more expensive.
The mind boggles.
I can see that the school and even the police can't ignore it once it's been raised, but I doubt if they actively pursue it. I remember talking to the secondary head in a fairly posh school in my patch - she said resignedly that she knew kids were giving each other blow jobs in the nearby park, what could you do?
It doesn't bother us but it will deter some inevitably and regrettably. It's clear the protection offered by the initial two vaccinations does fade with time and we have to get as many triply-vaccinated as possible.
On a complete tangent, we were talking about the Bullingdon Club last evening.
A few years ago, I attended the Kingston Blount Racing Club (KBRC) point to point meeting on a cold March afternoon. KBRC is the successor to the Oxford University Hunt Club and one of the races left over from the University was the Bullingdon Club race. About a dozen members of said organisation were in attendance - their dress sense was, to this observer's eyes, more like something out of Brideshead Revisited than practical clothing for an afternoon with the sleet falling horizontally.
Nonetheless, they had come prepared with picnic hampers and a gazebo - the problem was between the dozen of them they couldn't put it up (no sniggering in the cheap seats). I was left with the thought, pace my old physics teacher, if they were the cream of England, God help the milk.
They were no trouble, kept themselves to themselves except when they presented a rather ornate trophy to a rather bemused owner of an equally bemused looking horse who had plodded through the mud to win the race. I knew the Hunt secretary and he complained they were more trouble than they were worth but it was all about the tradition etc even though they paid nothing for the race but it was a condition the race kept being run as long as the Bullingdon Club was in existence.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1458845922515951625
Should this silly boy, age 17, have this on his police record (as I assume it now will be)? Given that my daughter was one of the affected girls you may be surprised that I have some sympathy for the boy - but I do given the extent to which this has escalated. I certainly do not think the police should have been involved.
And why are the authorities so keen on making victims out of the girls and pursuing the boy when no-one seems concerned about 17 year olds taking drugs?
I think I'm naive and out of touch on this. But common sense seems lacking to me.
https://twitter.com/dominic2306/status/1458790261614592008?s=21
My eldest daughter is 15 and quite sensible compared to me at her age. But maybe this kind of stuff is just around the corner...
"Typically it’s not acceptable but here he was clearly talking about the Negro Leagues which is what the African American segregated baseball league was called at the time. The outrage here in this thread is entirely misplaced."
https://twitter.com/rawcrawjaw/status/1458848614655016965?s=20
I mean, fuck off. Anyone using this term on TV will get cancelled. Except, it seems, a Democrat American President
Imagine if Trump said it