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Flailing lying silly obtuse Johnson makes it worse – politicalbetting.com
Flailing lying silly obtuse Johnson makes it worse – politicalbetting.com
Senior Tory MP tells me: the PM’s statement isn’t enough. It won’t do the trick. He can usually find a small piece of Teflon to help him slip away from trouble. But I think he has finally run out of Teflon
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"Out of 52,000 Omicron patients in California..... not a single person went on a ventilator"
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1481105044258922497?s=20
PA Media
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#Breaking The Duke of York will face a civil sex case trial after a US judge dismissed a motion by Andrew’s legal team to have the lawsuit thrown out
Is it a settlement? Is it a settlement?
See last paragraph.
"A reconstruction of one of the Emperor Caligula's Nemi ships, used by him for work events"
https://twitter.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1481259462010843141?s=20
Surely if you were a resident of the building you would be allowed out in the garden in lockdown as long as socially distanced from others using the communal space. Then if work occupants of the building also use that space (socially distanced) then they are also within the laws?
Not to try and defend our fat friend but there will inevitably be a technical loophole that covers the workers, Boris and Carrie all being allowed to use the garden at same time. And I guess that many people in the country who had communal gardens arranged to sit outside and have drinks (socially distanced) at the same time as other residents - I remember seeing people that summer in the evenings sitting in their own front gardens drinking and chatting to their neighbours without breaking any technical rules……
"European Union regulators warned that frequent Covid-19 booster shots could adversely affect the immune system and may not be feasible."
Which wasn't something I'd heard before. But if that's how the EMA are thinking I imagine it would feed into the JCVI.
Perfectly put and remember this isn't from a leftie.
"The Nemi ships were two ships, one larger than the other, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century CE on Lake Nemi. Although the purpose of the ships is only speculated upon, the larger ship was an elaborate floating palace, which contained quantities of marble, mosaic floors, heating and plumbing and amenities such as baths. Both ships featured technology thought to have been developed historically much later. It has been stated that the emperor was influenced by the lavish lifestyles of the Hellenistic rulers of Syracuse and Ptolemaic Egypt. Recovered from the lake bed in 1929, the ships were destroyed by fire in 1944 during World War II."
"Piston pumps (ctesibica machina: Vitruvius X.4?7) supplied the two ships with hot and cold running water via lead pipes. The hot water supplied baths while the cold operated fountains and supplied drinking water. This plumbing technology was later lost and only re-discovered in the Middle Ages."
"Each ship contained a rotating statue platform. One platform was mounted on caged bronze balls and is the earliest example of the thrust ball bearing previously believed to have been first envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci but only developed much later."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_ships
*boggle eyed emoji*
It won't hurt to suppress omicron either, in terms on other effects. We are not seeing omicron vs a naive population, we are seeing it in the UK where most have protection against serious illness through prior infection/vaccination (B and T cells etc etc).
Not seen the data for this, but presumably omicron is now dominant virtually everywhere. Another variant would need to out-compete or re-infect omicron recovered people, and that may again be at a cost in terms of severity (might not be).
If original covid had been omicron then decisions about lockdown vs shielding may have been interesting. We don't really know what omicron would have been like without trained immune systems.
But right now, it’s a finely balanced decision. The question for Labour is whether a vote now, when the government side will all be saying “wait for the inquiry”, would turn into a damp squib. The counter-argument is that you should strike when the iron is hot.
Some actual modesty from Eagles.
TheScreamingEagles
February 2017
Dick head of The Met now
https://twitter.com/skymarkwhite/status/834409455257268224
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/1446149/#Comment_1446149
It's now the Mail's lead headline: He's lying through his teeth.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10393563/Time-face-music-Boris-PM-braces-Partygate-mauling-Commons.html
Newcastle United are closing in on the signing of Burnley striker Chris Wood.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59960367
Neighbours sitting in their own garden talking to someone in another garden wouldn't be breaking rules, provided the other person was also in their own garden. Someone stepping out of their garden and continuing to speak to the neighbour over the front hedge (for example) would have been breaking the law unless they were leaving home with a reasonable excuse.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10393675/Unjabbed-doctor-challenged-Sajid-compulsory-vaccines-NHS-staff-says-hes-NOT-anti-vaxx.html
Edit: and JJ and I would have been asking for the full tour from bilges to crow's nest.
Usually there would have been an instruction to do so. They're keeping their heads down in case he has to quit and they haven't dipped their fingers in the blood.
https://twitter.com/IainDale/status/1481270467365412865
Harry Cole
@MrHarryCole
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Deputy PM Raab about to hit the airwaves in operation shore up the boss...
Senior Tory who knows the PM well texts: “He wants to fight.”
Adds that Boris Johnson’s appearance in the tea room post-PMQs shows “operation fight back underway”.
“His greatest strength is that no one believes Rishi or Liz are the solution.”
https://twitter.com/theousherwood/status/1481273849606033412
So all we need to see is the list of names off the top of the email...
So it just adds legitimacy to a) he is a doctor and b) he can't be a total crackpot because he is on mainstream well known shows.
https://www.eenewsanalog.com/news/destroy-tsmc-if-china-invades-make-taiwan-unwantable-says-us-military-paper?fnid=143295 which goes to https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol51/iss4/4/
An R of 10 (which I think is the lower bound estimated) in a naive population basically makes a mockery of the notion of "doublings"
Dear Key Worker - Please attend 10 Downing Street and don't forget a bottle.
If I liked Boris I could make a coherent argument for working in the garden, politics isn't behind a desk which all relate to the post press conference meeting the week before.
However I cannot get around why anyone networked would need an invite. Finally how cheap is Boris asking people to bring their own booze?
No 10 seem to be saying the PM simply stumbled across a “bring your own booze” event with pubic food in his own garden and assumed it was a work event so joined in.
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1481273371358896132
"pubic food" sounds.. hairy
MP doesn’t know whether she attended Downing St Party https://twitter.com/RosieisaHolt/status/1480932023929823244/video/1
Here is the PM real life spokesperson...
PM's spokeswoman is asked if she attended the party, she says 'that's a matter for the independent review'...farcical
https://twitter.com/MrDanDonoghue/status/1481270578870833154
Even if Chona set out with a ludicrous plan to avoid damaging them then Taiwan could simply park a couple of SAM sites on the roof of every fab and then China has a decision to make.
The most realistic way that China "invades" Taiwan is by seizing 1 or more of its little outer islands and then implies an mainland invasion and Taiwan folds.
"He (Raab) wasn't invited and didn't attend."
https://twitter.com/singharj/status/1481276168615641091
Were they mentioned in I, Claudius, or am I confusing them with the games held on an artificial lake with ships manned by gladiators?
This line is curious from the end
But that ft says nothingof the reasonableness ofreviving claims ofothers who were over
seventeen but less than eighteen when they were abused.
A quick glance says Prince Andrew isn't just screwed he is royally screwed
The Colosseum is mix - lots of rubble infill (with mortar) between walls. Quite a bit of concrete. Lots and lots of bricks...
EDIT: The Pantheon is the astounding one, for concrete. Complete with variable density concrete used to lighten the loads in the right places....
If they had just provided some glasses and white wine it might have passed off as a work thing more easily….
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/my-agent-ticked-the-wrong-box-djokovic-tries-to-explain-mistake-on-australia-entry-form/ar-AASGrtZ?ocid=entnewsntp
Perhaps Johnson "ticked the wrong box" on whether to have a party or not?
How is this even possible if (paging @FrancisUrquhart) man walks into a bar and 200 people catch it?
The deep freshwater preserved them. The Romans did have their limits - they sheathed the ships in lead as protection against fouling/wood worm. Which wasn't required in fresh water.
Mohammed Ben Sulayem is quoted as saying:
“Johnsons proven ability to skirt around rules, regulations and their interpretations means he’s the perfect man for the job”
https://twitter.com/EngineMode11/status/1481247982515281924
5 to ten mins per table trying to turn the mood.
https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1481272671107170307
I have a friend whose kids have had it twice, she is a teacher who has never stopped face to face tuition throughout the pandemic, basically every kid in her classes has had it, she tests every day, and nothing.
So that's what they get up to on our roof.
Robert Peston
@Peston
Just to return to the party-invite email, ahead of the PM’s first PMQs since it was leaked to @PaulBrandITV, it is marked “OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE-No10 only”. Which means it is classified information. But it could only have been sensitive if the party broke the rules. Surely
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1481197686330064896
Now back to work in endless back to back meetings - even more typical of the civil service!
The unnamed patient told doctors he “slipped and fell” on the 17cm by 6cm armour-piercing projectile taken from his private arsenal of military collectables.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16923295/bomb-squad-hospital-bottom-shell/
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.