Wasn’t Macron right that AZ turned out to only be quasi effective?
Even the UK’s given up on it now.
Is that a serious comment? Because he was not even close to being right, and his comments were an absurdity rooted in absurd political distraction going on at the time.
Not a serious comment. Except…there was a grain of truth in it. Just a grain.
No, there wasn’t. I genuinely don’t know what you are referring to.
Yes you do. It’s considered to have inferior efficacy to Pfizer and Moderna, which is why we no longer use it in the U.K.
Considered by whom? Handelsblatt? Macron? The WHO?
It may have lower initial anti-body response - but that's only half the story - there is evidence of a stronger T-cell response - which is what our bodies rely upon longer term.
The FT has done lots of nice charts on real world efficacy from the UK"s own data, and if you are going single vaccine type, AZ is not as good as Pfizer. Indeed, if you are using a two dose of the same vaccine type, it's about twenty percentage points worse than Pfizer at every point on the chart.
That being said, AZ followed by Pfizer seems to offer the very best protection of any two-dose regime, and it's highly likely that AZ-AZ-Pfizer will prove to be significantly more efficacious than Pfizer-Pfizer-Pfizer.
Also there is already evidence that AZ is better against Omicron
The Pfizer trial featured statistically the same all-cause mortality in the experimental group as in the control group. It's a strange definition of 'efficiency' if statistically as many people die if they receive it. But pharma companies are good at complying with the letter of the rules (to avoid litigation) and ignoring all else, like saving lives.
Discussion to this effect between doctors on social media, when the people concerned are senior enough not to get censored or expelled for it (which is absurd ).
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
If you think they are (a) getting six figure salaries and (b) being paid while on strike, you are confusing them with Tory MPs. And I have a bridge to Free Antrim to sell you.
'Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by MyLondon to Transport for London in early 2021, the annual wage of a full-time Tube driver was revealed as £56,496.'
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
You do know that tube drivers work shifts? The idea that MPs have more antisocial working hours is laughable.
I don't recall seeing LT drivers spending their time in the saloon bars of their underground trains. Or being given vast bribes by their passengers to throw off other passengers from the train.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
Bob Crow was also damn good on safety issues. On his watch and in no small part to his work the number of railway workers killed went from 109 in a year to just two.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
A few more strikes like the one today and they would say Tory MPs, after all they elected 365 of them
Count Binface @CountBinface The WHO has given the nasty new variant the Greek letter “omicron”, presumably missing out the previous letter “Xi” to avoid an unfortunate link with China’s President. Because to be associated with such a horrific, unstoppable blight on humanity would be very harsh on Covid-19. https://twitter.com/CountBinface/status/1464296507981578240
Didn’t someone in this thread already say that about 5 hours ago? 🤔
Possibly.
We're on the 8th page of the thread with 100 posts per page. I haven't read all 800 posts, have you?
Either they copied bin face or bin face copied them…
Or one of you IS Count Binface? Posting on this forum.
That's a load of rubbish!
Attention immediately falls on the person who denies it the loudest!
We shall do this Sunil like they do on the board in cop shows. Do you have a sense of humour? Do you have an interest in politics? Do you live in London? How active is the creative side of your mind, Sunil?
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
If you think they are (a) getting six figure salaries and (b) being paid while on strike, you are confusing them with Tory MPs. And I have a bridge to Free Antrim to sell you.
'Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by MyLondon to Transport for London in early 2021, the annual wage of a full-time Tube driver was revealed as £56,496.'
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
You're changing the goalposts again. YOu said SIX FIGURE SALARY.
56,496 is , let me count very clearly for you,
one TWO three four AND fIVE
digits.
The same number of digits (geddit?) as one of youir hands and feet, unless you come from Norfolk I suppose.
And that is only 57% of the smallest possible six figure salary. Which is 100,000.
Whoops, I didn't intend to start a mega-argument on here.
HYUFD would start an argument if he read out aloud the instructions for the TV remote control in the Epping Conservative Club with nobody else in the room.
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 3h [Sir John] Bell: "I've been saying this for nine months, that the biggest threat to us is the emergence of variants. We were pretty slow at trying to get more people vaccinated, particularly in Africa. And guess what's happened, it's come back to bite us".
Except - how often does this have to be repeated - South Africa has ample jabs. They gave away or sold their AZ yet they STILL have 17m doses in warehouses. They can't find arms to accept them
"The psychology of vaccine hesitancy and refusal - Once South Africa secured adequate amounts of vaccines, we were faced with a baffling dilemma. Not everyone wanted to take it"
Re South Africa, it is an entirely bogus narrative
After all the criticism of Leavers for supposedly believing in British exceptionalism, COVID has actually shown British exceptionalism exists and is a good thing. The near absence of anti-vax idiocy among the British people shows them what a sensible populace it is.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
Bob Crow was also damn good on safety issues. On his watch and in no small part to his work the number of railway workers killed went from 109 in a year to just two.
That’s some seriously good work. Safety at work is too often not taken seriously.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 3h [Sir John] Bell: "I've been saying this for nine months, that the biggest threat to us is the emergence of variants. We were pretty slow at trying to get more people vaccinated, particularly in Africa. And guess what's happened, it's come back to bite us".
He also said this variant is unlikely to evade T-cells, even if it does happen to evade current antibodies, so for the vaccinated you're looking at lots more colds but not much more hospital use.
Been officially renamed, just as Alpha, Beta and Delta were.
But Nu WAS a greek letter naming. In other news Adele and Ed Sheeran have the UK top 5 locked out between them. Perhaps we do deserve extinction after all.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
It really says something about everyone involved that it's believed to be about popularity rather than morality.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
A few more strikes like the one today and they would say Tory MPs, after all they elected 365 of them
HYUFD, your idea of a rational argument is to assert that A is white when it is in fact black, and defend that by claiming that it is 35% pink and anyway the elephant had a bale of straw for dinner so there.
Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 3h [Sir John] Bell: "I've been saying this for nine months, that the biggest threat to us is the emergence of variants. We were pretty slow at trying to get more people vaccinated, particularly in Africa. And guess what's happened, it's come back to bite us".
He also said this variant is unlikely to evade T-cells, even if it does happen to evade current antibodies, so for the vaccinated you're looking at lots more colds but not much more hospital use.
Quite. We are not a naive population. I think yet again we are seeing who understands how the immune system works, and those who don’t.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
If you think they are (a) getting six figure salaries and (b) being paid while on strike, you are confusing them with Tory MPs. And I have a bridge to Free Antrim to sell you.
'Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by MyLondon to Transport for London in early 2021, the annual wage of a full-time Tube driver was revealed as £56,496.'
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
You're changing the goalposts again. YOu said SIX FIGURE SALARY.
56,496 is , let me count very clearly for you,
one TWO three four AND fIVE
digits.
The same number of digits (geddit?) as one of youir hands and feet, unless you come from Norfolk I suppose.
And that is only 57% of the smallest possible six figure salary. Which is 100,000.
'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary....'
Struggling to buy in to the panic really. Flu circulates and mutates at very high volumes, and it doesn't spontaneously become a more or less new disease all that often, so different that all built up immunity is irrelevant. People seem to be on the lookout for a 2nd once in a century occurance within 2 years.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Hope you get through it relatively unscathed. I still remember the devastation caused by the October 1987 storm in the south.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Must be hard for them managing on £82k or thereabouts, mind.
Is there a reason why the likes of Pfizer haven't already tweaked their vaccine for Delta variant? That has been about for nearly 12 months now and clearly the dominant variety. I presumed like flu, each winter we would be getting an "updated" version to best match what is out there.
Is there a reason why the likes of Pfizer haven't already tweaked their vaccine for Delta variant? That has been about for nearly 12 months now and clearly the dominant variety. I presumed like flu, each winter we would be getting an "updated" version to best match what is out there.
No demand, the original vaccine does well enough against delta to not bother with a new, more expansive, process with a big lead time.
Most impressive French spokeswoman on BBC News. It really is time this country rid itself of this quite dreadful Prime Minister and Home Secretary. They are well beyond embarrassing.
Macron and Boris are equally dreadful and both are embarrassing
Thank goodness you could only vote for one of them otherwise the embarrassment would be excruciating.
Just accidentally caught Neil Oliver on GBNews. Rocking the double denim.
Definite whiff of occupant of cult compound under siege by the FBI about him nowadays.
He’s an arse. What is it about historians? Oliver, Sharkey!
Oi!
Are you an historian?
I read a proper history book about the real Merlin by Gordon Strachan, and was a very wise man, but also apparently a bit haughty though could be very light and funny too.
And I have also looked up you name “ydoethur “ in an old book.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
If you think they are (a) getting six figure salaries and (b) being paid while on strike, you are confusing them with Tory MPs. And I have a bridge to Free Antrim to sell you.
'Following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request made by MyLondon to Transport for London in early 2021, the annual wage of a full-time Tube driver was revealed as £56,496.'
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
You're changing the goalposts again. YOu said SIX FIGURE SALARY.
56,496 is , let me count very clearly for you,
one TWO three four AND fIVE
digits.
The same number of digits (geddit?) as one of youir hands and feet, unless you come from Norfolk I suppose.
And that is only 57% of the smallest possible six figure salary. Which is 100,000.
Whoops, I didn't intend to start a mega-argument on here.
HYUFD would start an argument if he read out aloud the instructions for the TV remote control in the Epping Conservative Club with nobody else in the room.
We took a vote on which channel was on in 2014. There will be no re-vote for a generation! (Fingers pistol).
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Hope you get through it relatively unscathed. I still remember the devastation caused by the October 1987 storm in the south.
Not too bad here as opposed to the coast but very glad my new shed is strapped and screwed to the concrete base with steel brackets reinforcing the roof/wall and wall/floor joints.
Wasn’t Macron right that AZ turned out to only be quasi effective?
Even the UK’s given up on it now.
Is that a serious comment? Because he was not even close to being right, and his comments were an absurdity rooted in absurd political distraction going on at the time.
Not a serious comment. Except…there was a grain of truth in it. Just a grain.
No, there wasn’t. I genuinely don’t know what you are referring to.
Yes you do. It’s considered to have inferior efficacy to Pfizer and Moderna, which is why we no longer use it in the U.K.
Considered by whom? Handelsblatt? Macron? The WHO?
It may have lower initial anti-body response - but that's only half the story - there is evidence of a stronger T-cell response - which is what our bodies rely upon longer term.
The FT has done lots of nice charts on real world efficacy from the UK"s own data, and if you are going single vaccine type, AZ is not as good as Pfizer. Indeed, if you are using a two dose of the same vaccine type, it's about twenty percentage points worse than Pfizer at every point on the chart.
That being said, AZ followed by Pfizer seems to offer the very best protection of any two-dose regime, and it's highly likely that AZ-AZ-Pfizer will prove to be significantly more efficacious than Pfizer-Pfizer-Pfizer.
Also there is already evidence that AZ is better against Omicron
The Pfizer trial featured statistically the same all-cause mortality in the experimental group as in the control group. It's a strange definition of 'efficiency' if statistically as many people die if they receive it. But pharma companies are good at complying with the letter of the rules (to avoid litigation) and ignoring all else, like saving lives.
Discussion to this effect between doctors on social media, when the people concerned are senior enough not to get censored or expelled for it (which is absurd ).
Wasn’t Macron right that AZ turned out to only be quasi effective?
Even the UK’s given up on it now.
Is that a serious comment? Because he was not even close to being right, and his comments were an absurdity rooted in absurd political distraction going on at the time.
Not a serious comment. Except…there was a grain of truth in it. Just a grain.
No, there wasn’t. I genuinely don’t know what you are referring to.
Yes you do. It’s considered to have inferior efficacy to Pfizer and Moderna, which is why we no longer use it in the U.K.
Considered by whom? Handelsblatt? Macron? The WHO?
It may have lower initial anti-body response - but that's only half the story - there is evidence of a stronger T-cell response - which is what our bodies rely upon longer term.
The FT has done lots of nice charts on real world efficacy from the UK"s own data, and if you are going single vaccine type, AZ is not as good as Pfizer. Indeed, if you are using a two dose of the same vaccine type, it's about twenty percentage points worse than Pfizer at every point on the chart.
That being said, AZ followed by Pfizer seems to offer the very best protection of any two-dose regime, and it's highly likely that AZ-AZ-Pfizer will prove to be significantly more efficacious than Pfizer-Pfizer-Pfizer.
Also there is already evidence that AZ is better against Omicron
The Pfizer trial featured statistically the same all-cause mortality in the experimental group as in the control group. It's a strange definition of 'efficiency' if statistically as many people die if they receive it. But pharma companies are good at complying with the letter of the rules (to avoid litigation) and ignoring all else, like saving lives.
Discussion to this effect between doctors on social media, when the people concerned are senior enough not to get censored or expelled for it (which is absurd ).
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Hope you get through it relatively unscathed. I still remember the devastation caused by the October 1987 storm in the south.
It was epic. Awake in the night listening to the wind. A clump of trees near us was half felled and has only really recovered now, more than 30 years on.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Wasn’t Macron right that AZ turned out to only be quasi effective?
Even the UK’s given up on it now.
Is that a serious comment? Because he was not even close to being right, and his comments were an absurdity rooted in absurd political distraction going on at the time.
Not a serious comment. Except…there was a grain of truth in it. Just a grain.
No, there wasn’t. I genuinely don’t know what you are referring to.
Yes you do. It’s considered to have inferior efficacy to Pfizer and Moderna, which is why we no longer use it in the U.K.
Considered by whom? Handelsblatt? Macron? The WHO?
It may have lower initial anti-body response - but that's only half the story - there is evidence of a stronger T-cell response - which is what our bodies rely upon longer term.
The FT has done lots of nice charts on real world efficacy from the UK"s own data, and if you are going single vaccine type, AZ is not as good as Pfizer. Indeed, if you are using a two dose of the same vaccine type, it's about twenty percentage points worse than Pfizer at every point on the chart.
That being said, AZ followed by Pfizer seems to offer the very best protection of any two-dose regime, and it's highly likely that AZ-AZ-Pfizer will prove to be significantly more efficacious than Pfizer-Pfizer-Pfizer.
Also there is already evidence that AZ is better against Omicron
The Pfizer trial featured statistically the same all-cause mortality in the experimental group as in the control group. It's a strange definition of 'efficiency' if statistically as many people die if they receive it. But pharma companies are good at complying with the letter of the rules (to avoid litigation) and ignoring all else, like saving lives.
Discussion to this effect between doctors on social media, when the people concerned are senior enough not to get censored or expelled for it (which is absurd ).
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Prudhoe Legion has lost its roof.
We're up a hill and its been *bad*. But have seen some pictures and video down in Fraserburgh where Arwen tore the roof off the Heritage Centre chunk by chunk, and removed the big TESCO sign off the store roof into the carpark.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
Specifying the party opens up an interesting line in differential pay for MPs. The other week someone was saying anyway who wouldn't do it for 80k is a rotter. Clearly the real attractiveness and virtue in accepting that figure depends on what they're coming from.
Why not pay MPs 90% of what they earned on average in the prior 5 years, then they could all be equally virtuous, with the best paid suffering the largest fall in income.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
Crow was born in Epping but fortunately his family moved to Hainault shortly after.
As well as being a Communist strike leader on a large salary, he also got on well with Farage surprisingly as both were anti EU
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Stay safe @Rochdale_Pioneers. My son has lost two slates so far, and told me that Fraserburgh Heritage Centre has lost its roof. I hope @Gallowgate and @Dixiedean are considering warm t-shirts if they are visiting the Toon tonight.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Mrs Stodge was out and about on the tube today on the Jubilee and Central lines.
Reported a 5 minute service on the Jubilee and similar on the Central at Stratford. I do gather it's deteriorated to a 10 minute service this evening which isn't brilliant but not quite the meltdown some were predicting.
This dispute is only affecting some lines - for example, the District and Hammersmith & City are unaffected. The dispute about the Night Tube is affecting only the Central and Victoria lines.
It's obviously frustrating for businesses trying to recover from the virus - I read somewhere the TfL pension scheme was unviable and needless to say with commuter service still less than 2/3 of pre-virus levels the operating model for TfL is no longer viable either.
There are already cuts in services on the tubes, buses and TfL rail but, as I've said before, the whole public transport operating model needs to be re-thought.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
So there you go. You missed the drivers. If the Tory MPs had all been taken a duvet day it would have had no impact on your plans.
Most impressive French spokeswoman on BBC News. It really is time this country rid itself of this quite dreadful Prime Minister and Home Secretary. They are well beyond embarrassing.
Macron and Boris are equally dreadful and both are embarrassing
Thank goodness you could only vote for one of them otherwise the embarrassment would be excruciating.
Just accidentally caught Neil Oliver on GBNews. Rocking the double denim.
Definite whiff of occupant of cult compound under siege by the FBI about him nowadays.
He’s an arse. What is it about historians? Oliver, Sharkey!
Oi!
Are you an historian?
I read a proper history book about the real Merlin by Gordon Strachan, and was a very wise man, but also apparently a bit haughty though could be very light and funny too.
And I have also looked up you name “ydoethur “ in an old book.
I was bottom of the class for punctuation and spalling and gramarye always, and they tested me for dyslexia twice in two different schools and both times said no, not that, you’re just rubbish. And one teacher gave me a book on Venice by Ruskin, do you know it, and said read this and what he is doing with punctuation and gramarye will subconscious sink in. And the first thing I noticed was he would use every punctuation excuse not to use a full stop. But that didn’t work either. Look in this example, whole paragraphs and no full stops. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Two_Paths/Lecture_V
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
At least 15 people on 2 flights from South Africa test positive for coronavirus at Amsterdam Airport; number expected to rise, variant not yet known - NOS
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
So there you go. You missed the drivers. If the Tory MPs had all been taken a duvet day it would have had no impact on your plans.
If the trains were all automated I would not have missed them at all and TfL would have a much healthier balance sheet.
The more they demand ever higher pay for fewer hours and the more they strike the sooner automation will come
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
Most impressive French spokeswoman on BBC News. It really is time this country rid itself of this quite dreadful Prime Minister and Home Secretary. They are well beyond embarrassing.
Macron and Boris are equally dreadful and both are embarrassing
Thank goodness you could only vote for one of them otherwise the embarrassment would be excruciating.
Just accidentally caught Neil Oliver on GBNews. Rocking the double denim.
Definite whiff of occupant of cult compound under siege by the FBI about him nowadays.
He’s an arse. What is it about historians? Oliver, Sharkey!
Oi!
Are you an historian?
I read a proper history book about the real Merlin by Gordon Strachan, and was a very wise man, but also apparently a bit haughty though could be very light and funny too.
And I have also looked up you name “ydoethur “ in an old book.
I was bottom of the class for punctuation and spalling and gramarye always, and they tested me for dyslexia twice in two different schools and both times said no, not that, you’re just rubbish. And one teacher gave me a book on Venice by Ruskin, do you know it, and said read this and what he is doing with punctuation and gramarye will subconscious sink in. And the first thing I noticed was he would use every punctuation excuse not to use a full stop. But that didn’t work either. Look in this example, whole paragraphs and no full stops. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Two_Paths/Lecture_V
Why the private profile? I've neverseen anyone else on PB elect to have a private profile.
Why did I notice? I was looking to see if it was you that posted the same Ruskin lecture a day or so ago... Assuming it was, why the obsession with this Ruskin lecture?
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commuters
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
Crow was born in Epping but fortunately his family moved to Hainault shortly after.
As well as being a Communist strike leader on a large salary, he also got on well with Farage surprisingly as both were anti EU
Hopefully, the good citizens of Epping think that you moving to the town was a good swap for Bob Crow moving out.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
At least 15 people on 2 flights from South Africa test positive for coronavirus at Amsterdam Airport; number expected to rise, variant not yet known - NOS
Meanwhile the UK just let them in. Another major failure by HMG
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commuters
British vaccine could give strong protection against new super-mutant Covid strain: Tweaked version of AstraZeneca jab is in final trial stages and may be ready within weeks
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
Crow was born in Epping but fortunately his family moved to Hainault shortly after.
As well as being a Communist strike leader on a large salary, he also got on well with Farage surprisingly as both were anti EU
Hopefully, the good citizens of Epping think that you moving to the town was a good swap for Bob Crow moving out.
Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan was also born in Epping. (though he moved to Basildon when he was a young boy).
At least 15 people on 2 flights from South Africa test positive for coronavirus at Amsterdam Airport; number expected to rise, variant not yet known - NOS
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commuters
They used to be miners in the villages in County Durham. I don't think many of them turned to farming.
Most impressive French spokeswoman on BBC News. It really is time this country rid itself of this quite dreadful Prime Minister and Home Secretary. They are well beyond embarrassing.
Macron and Boris are equally dreadful and both are embarrassing
Thank goodness you could only vote for one of them otherwise the embarrassment would be excruciating.
Just accidentally caught Neil Oliver on GBNews. Rocking the double denim.
Definite whiff of occupant of cult compound under siege by the FBI about him nowadays.
He’s an arse. What is it about historians? Oliver, Sharkey!
Oi!
Are you an historian?
I read a proper history book about the real Merlin by Gordon Strachan, and was a very wise man, but also apparently a bit haughty though could be very light and funny too.
And I have also looked up you name “ydoethur “ in an old book.
I was bottom of the class for punctuation and spalling and gramarye always, and they tested me for dyslexia twice in two different schools and both times said no, not that, you’re just rubbish. And one teacher gave me a book on Venice by Ruskin, do you know it, and said read this and what he is doing with punctuation and gramarye will subconscious sink in. And the first thing I noticed was he would use every punctuation excuse not to use a full stop. But that didn’t work either. Look in this example, whole paragraphs and no full stops. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Two_Paths/Lecture_V
Why the private profile? I've neverseen anyone else on PB elect to have a private profile.
Why did I notice? I was looking to see if it was you that posted the same Ruskin lecture a day or so ago... Assuming it was, why the obsession with this Ruskin lecture?
Yes. Me. Last night before bed. Yesterday we were talking about geology, someone said they come here to talk geology so I posted it. If it wasn’t for rust the landscape wouldn’t look as it does, and paintings wouldn’t look as they do. That’s a bit of geology I know from art. But truth is it is good writing as well as good knowledge isn’t it? Are there any better examples of how to write than Ruskin?
I don’t know about private profile or not when I set up just pressed buttons. Should I go back and unpress it now if it helps?
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · 44m ⚠️FIRST #OmicronVariant EUROPE CASE DID **NOT** TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN AFRICA—Tracing details of the Belgium #B11529 case reveals only travel to Egypt🇪🇬 & Turkey 🇹🇷—but not Sub-Saharan Africa at all. I’m concerned #Omicron is global 🌍 already—very worried. 🧵
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commuters
Yes, and with US trading truncated due to the holiday.
If you think this new variant will prove a storm in a teacup - perhaps infectious but not harmful - then buying CCL might be a good play.
But maybe not just yet.
Invest generically enough and you still win even if it's horrific. Anyone buying an S&P 500 tracker after the first sell off has doubled their money now.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commuters
They used to be miners in the villages in County Durham. I don't think many of them turned to farming.
So past tense then, the former miners will be pensioners now if still alive
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · 44m ⚠️FIRST #OmicronVariant EUROPE CASE DID **NOT** TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN AFRICA—Tracing details of the Belgium #B11529 case reveals only travel to Egypt🇪🇬 & Turkey 🇹🇷—but not Sub-Saharan Africa at all. I’m concerned #Omicron is global 🌍 already—very worried. 🧵
Already been posted....individual was neither vaccinated nor previously infected...but allowed to travel...shakes head.
It was also 11 days after their return they developed symptoms, so it might not be from their travels.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
All the best - where are you incidentally?
New Pitsligo
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
All the best - where are you incidentally?
New Pitsligo
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.
Most impressive French spokeswoman on BBC News. It really is time this country rid itself of this quite dreadful Prime Minister and Home Secretary. They are well beyond embarrassing.
Macron and Boris are equally dreadful and both are embarrassing
Thank goodness you could only vote for one of them otherwise the embarrassment would be excruciating.
Just accidentally caught Neil Oliver on GBNews. Rocking the double denim.
Definite whiff of occupant of cult compound under siege by the FBI about him nowadays.
He’s an arse. What is it about historians? Oliver, Sharkey!
Oi!
Are you an historian?
I read a proper history book about the real Merlin by Gordon Strachan, and was a very wise man, but also apparently a bit haughty though could be very light and funny too.
And I have also looked up you name “ydoethur “ in an old book.
I was bottom of the class for punctuation and spalling and gramarye always, and they tested me for dyslexia twice in two different schools and both times said no, not that, you’re just rubbish. And one teacher gave me a book on Venice by Ruskin, do you know it, and said read this and what he is doing with punctuation and gramarye will subconscious sink in. And the first thing I noticed was he would use every punctuation excuse not to use a full stop. But that didn’t work either. Look in this example, whole paragraphs and no full stops. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Two_Paths/Lecture_V
Why the private profile? I've neverseen anyone else on PB elect to have a private profile.
Why did I notice? I was looking to see if it was you that posted the same Ruskin lecture a day or so ago... Assuming it was, why the obsession with this Ruskin lecture?
Yes. Me. Last night before bed. Yesterday we were talking about geology, someone said they come here to talk geology so I posted it. If it wasn’t for rust the landscape wouldn’t look as it does, and paintings wouldn’t look as they do. That’s a bit of geology I know from art. But truth is it is good writing as well as good knowledge isn’t it? Are there any better examples of how to write than Ruskin?
I don’t know about private profile or not when I set up just pressed buttons. Should I go back and unpress it now if it helps?
Well, it feels a bit unfriendly.
It's sometimes nice to be able to look back at an indivudual's previous posts and you markng your profile as private prevents that.
Click on you name where it appears against any post, clikc the settings wheel, edit profile, uncheck the private profile box.
As I say, I have not come across anyone else who has a private profile on PB.
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
Crow was born in Epping but fortunately his family moved to Hainault shortly after.
As well as being a Communist strike leader on a large salary, he also got on well with Farage surprisingly as both were anti EU
Hopefully, the good citizens of Epping think that you moving to the town was a good swap for Bob Crow moving out.
Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan was also born in Epping. (though he moved to Basildon when he was a young boy).
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
All the best - where are you incidentally?
New Pitsligo
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commuters
You haven't lived round here obviously.
Or indeed on this planet, judging by many of his posts.
British vaccine could give strong protection against new super-mutant Covid strain: Tweaked version of AstraZeneca jab is in final trial stages and may be ready within weeks
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · 44m ⚠️FIRST #OmicronVariant EUROPE CASE DID **NOT** TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN AFRICA—Tracing details of the Belgium #B11529 case reveals only travel to Egypt🇪🇬 & Turkey 🇹🇷—but not Sub-Saharan Africa at all. I’m concerned #Omicron is global 🌍 already—very worried. 🧵
Already been posted....individual was neither vaccinated nor previously infected...but allowed to travel...shakes head.
It was also 11 days after their return they developed symptoms, so it might not be from their travels.
Even £56,496 puts them in the top 10% of earners and most Tory MPs have to work part of the weekend on constituency visits as well as often long days and part of the evening in the House in the week.
Plus 'Transport for London has now admitted that Tube staff are paid up to £100k a year in salary, pension contributions, allowances and perks including season ticket reimbursements' so in total some earn more than Tory MPs do
I dare you to commission Survation to add a question to their next poll (it doesn't cost much): "Who should earn more - Tube drivers or Conservative MPs?"
The country would miss tube drivers. Conservative MPs, not so much.
Would they? I was supposed to go into London today but couldn't because they were on strike while Tory MPs were still working for their constituents in the Commons as they will work in their constituencies tomorrow
You could have taken the bus to Harlow and taken Greater Anglia into Liverpool Street, you know!
The strike included between Liverpool Street and White City and I needed to get to Oxford Circus
Unable to get to where you want by public transport? Welcome to everyday rural life.
Most people in villages now are pensioners or farmers, not commuters
They used to be miners in the villages in County Durham. I don't think many of them turned to farming.
So past tense then, the former miners will be pensioners now if still alive
Yes. Their sons and daughters look after the farms these days. Or perhaps they commute to their jobs in Newcastle and Sunderland?
Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing · 44m ⚠️FIRST #OmicronVariant EUROPE CASE DID **NOT** TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN AFRICA—Tracing details of the Belgium #B11529 case reveals only travel to Egypt🇪🇬 & Turkey 🇹🇷—but not Sub-Saharan Africa at all. I’m concerned #Omicron is global 🌍 already—very worried. 🧵
Already been posted....individual was neither vaccinated nor previously infected...but allowed to travel...shakes head.
It was also 11 days after their return they developed symptoms, so it might not be from their travels.
Unvaccinated person catches Covid. 😱
Even worse, they're suffering mild symptoms at home!
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
All the best - where are you incidentally?
New Pitsligo
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.
Did you get to The Kyle of Lochalsh?
Not from Aberdeenshire I expect.
The one time I went I thought it was via Inverness. I am probably mistaken.
Most impressive French spokeswoman on BBC News. It really is time this country rid itself of this quite dreadful Prime Minister and Home Secretary. They are well beyond embarrassing.
Macron and Boris are equally dreadful and both are embarrassing
Thank goodness you could only vote for one of them otherwise the embarrassment would be excruciating.
Just accidentally caught Neil Oliver on GBNews. Rocking the double denim.
Definite whiff of occupant of cult compound under siege by the FBI about him nowadays.
He’s an arse. What is it about historians? Oliver, Sharkey!
Oi!
Are you an historian?
I read a proper history book about the real Merlin by Gordon Strachan, and was a very wise man, but also apparently a bit haughty though could be very light and funny too.
And I have also looked up you name “ydoethur “ in an old book.
I was bottom of the class for punctuation and spalling and gramarye always, and they tested me for dyslexia twice in two different schools and both times said no, not that, you’re just rubbish. And one teacher gave me a book on Venice by Ruskin, do you know it, and said read this and what he is doing with punctuation and gramarye will subconscious sink in. And the first thing I noticed was he would use every punctuation excuse not to use a full stop. But that didn’t work either. Look in this example, whole paragraphs and no full stops. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Two_Paths/Lecture_V
Why the private profile? I've neverseen anyone else on PB elect to have a private profile.
Why did I notice? I was looking to see if it was you that posted the same Ruskin lecture a day or so ago... Assuming it was, why the obsession with this Ruskin lecture?
Yes. Me. Last night before bed. Yesterday we were talking about geology, someone said they come here to talk geology so I posted it. If it wasn’t for rust the landscape wouldn’t look as it does, and paintings wouldn’t look as they do. That’s a bit of geology I know from art. But truth is it is good writing as well as good knowledge isn’t it? Are there any better examples of how to write than Ruskin?
I don’t know about private profile or not when I set up just pressed buttons. Should I go back and unpress it now if it helps?
Well, it feels a bit unfriendly.
It's sometimes nice to be able to look back at an indivudual's previous posts and you markng your profile as private prevents that.
Click on you name where it appears against any post, clikc the settings wheel, edit profile, uncheck the private profile box.
As I say, I have not come across anyone else who has a private profile on PB.
Evening all. Hope that Arwen isn't treating you too badly - the best/worst storm I can remember. Have only ever heard wind roar on tornado chaser programs until tonight, now I have video of it outside my house.
There is something primal about the power of nature. I have some treasured memories of storms, such as 1987, and also of the best snowfalls. Hope you are well and no damage to your house!
Lost at least one roof slate, will assess the rest in the morning. Its not pretty out there, trees down everywhere and loads of garages with roofs off.
All the best - where are you incidentally?
New Pitsligo
Ah, Aberdeenshire. I was in Aberdeen visiting relatives just before the first lockdown. Managed to do the Aberdeen to Inverness rail line.
Did you get to The Kyle of Lochalsh?
Sadly, no! And I didn't get to do the Thurso/Wick line either! If it weren't for the pandemic, I would have done those some time during spring or summer 2020.
Yes, and with US trading truncated due to the holiday.
If you think this new variant will prove a storm in a teacup - perhaps infectious but not harmful - then buying CCL might be a good play.
But maybe not just yet.
Invest generically enough and you still win even if it's horrific. Anyone buying an S&P 500 tracker after the first sell off has doubled their money now.
We’re hardly in that territory - a 1000 self off with probably the same tomorrow barely takes the US back a few weeks, given how high the market is. Many think a correction overdue and if this variant is more dangerous, who knows…
Fine if they work for it, not fine when they are on strike like today and holding up commuters from getting to work while still pocketing 6 figure salaries
Read the article linked to. No tube drivers are 'pocketing 6 figure salaries'.
No Tube drivers should be pocketing any salaries. The entire network could be automated and made driverless tomorrow. No more strikes. It is only union power that means they cling on, like the print workers in Fleet Street in the 70s
Gosh. A union looking after the interests of its members.
How very dare they.
I have a right-wing Tory friend who says cheerfully that if he'd been a Tube driver he's have voted for Bob Crow - "He understands how the free market works - not his job to be popular but to make his members rich."
Crow was born in Epping but fortunately his family moved to Hainault shortly after.
As well as being a Communist strike leader on a large salary, he also got on well with Farage surprisingly as both were anti EU
Hopefully, the good citizens of Epping think that you moving to the town was a good swap for Bob Crow moving out.
Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan was also born in Epping. (though he moved to Basildon when he was a young boy).
That’s another bonus for Epping!
As was Ben Shepherd, Philip Hammond, the children's author Jill Barklem and the actor Jason Merrells and Griff Rhys Jones went to primary school in Epping. Winston Churchill was of course Epping's former MP
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I don't recall seeing LT drivers spending their time in the saloon bars of their underground trains. Or being given vast bribes by their passengers to throw off other passengers from the train.
We shall do this Sunil like they do on the board in cop shows. Do you have a sense of humour? Do you have an interest in politics? Do you live in London? How active is the creative side of your mind, Sunil?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/26/new-covid-variant-less-worrying-delta-says-prof-chris-whitty/
There will be no re-vote for a generation!
(Fingers pistol).
* actually the Trio combination with an isox, moxi and pyrantel but what the f**k do I know about animal drugs**
** probably more than the average bear, but whatever
Why not pay MPs 90% of what they earned on average in the prior 5 years, then they could all be equally virtuous, with the best paid suffering the largest fall in income.
As well as being a Communist strike leader on a large salary, he also got on well with Farage surprisingly as both were anti EU
Prof Francois Balloux
@BallouxFrancois
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Nov 25
OK, it looks like we may have a Nu Variant of Concern on our hands ... Confused face
Mrs Stodge was out and about on the tube today on the Jubilee and Central lines.
Reported a 5 minute service on the Jubilee and similar on the Central at Stratford. I do gather it's deteriorated to a 10 minute service this evening which isn't brilliant but not quite the meltdown some were predicting.
This dispute is only affecting some lines - for example, the District and Hammersmith & City are unaffected. The dispute about the Night Tube is affecting only the Central and Victoria lines.
It's obviously frustrating for businesses trying to recover from the virus - I read somewhere the TfL pension scheme was unviable and needless to say with commuter service still less than 2/3 of pre-virus levels the operating model for TfL is no longer viable either.
There are already cuts in services on the tubes, buses and TfL rail but, as I've said before, the whole public transport operating model needs to be re-thought.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you about NovaVax over a year ago
And one teacher gave me a book on Venice by Ruskin, do you know it, and said read this and what he is doing with punctuation and gramarye will subconscious sink in. And the first thing I noticed was he would use every punctuation excuse not to use a full stop.
But that didn’t work either.
Look in this example, whole paragraphs and no full stops. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Two_Paths/Lecture_V
The more they demand ever higher pay for fewer hours and the more they strike the sooner automation will come
XR activist up some scaffolding outside Amazon.
Why did I notice? I was looking to see if it was you that posted the same Ruskin lecture a day or so ago... Assuming it was, why the obsession with this Ruskin lecture?
Welcome to everyday rural life.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10247587/British-vaccine-strong-protection-against-new-super-mutant-Covid-strain.html
If you think this new variant will prove a storm in a teacup - perhaps infectious but not harmful - then buying CCL might be a good play.
But maybe not just yet.
I don’t know about private profile or not when I set up just pressed buttons. Should I go back and unpress it now if it helps?
https://twitter.com/team_luftwaffe/status/1464249421697269761?s=21
Eric Feigl-Ding
@DrEricDing
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44m
⚠️FIRST #OmicronVariant EUROPE CASE DID **NOT** TRAVEL TO SOUTHERN AFRICA—Tracing details of the Belgium #B11529 case reveals only travel to Egypt🇪🇬 & Turkey 🇹🇷—but not Sub-Saharan Africa at all. I’m concerned #Omicron is global 🌍 already—very worried. 🧵
It was also 11 days after their return they developed symptoms, so it might not be from their travels.
It's sometimes nice to be able to look back at an indivudual's previous posts and you markng your profile as private prevents that.
Click on you name where it appears against any post, clikc the settings wheel, edit profile, uncheck the private profile box.
As I say, I have not come across anyone else who has a private profile on PB.