I missed it, but have we done Big John admitting the enquiry found that he was guilty of some of the allegations? Though he maintains that the investigator was a kangaroo:
A parliamentary inquiry will conclude that John Bercow, the former Speaker, bullied three House of Commons members of staff, he has revealed, denouncing it as as “kangaroo court”.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, has found Bercow guilty on 21 counts out of 35 brought by Robert Lisvane, the former clerk of the Commons, and private secretaries Kate Emms and Angus Sinclair, he told the Sunday Times.
The former Speaker, who stood down in 2019, said he is appealing against Stone’s ruling, with a final decision expected by the end of the month.
I linked this report yesterday and Bercow seems to have leaked the report and is appealing
Should Kathryn Stone confirm her findings post his appeal he faces a lifetime ban from Parliament and the House of Lords
I assume he will be unique in this respect as I do not know of any speaker receiving this sanction
During the Commonwealth? IIRC one ran away for a couple of decades, and another one was impeached.
Restoration, too.
I quite like the idea of a kangaroo court. Presumably the judge & jury are kangaroos. Who else? The prosecution? defence barristers? Or are they drop bears?
The Government’s net competency rating is -37% in this week’s poll, decreasing 11 points to the lowest net competency rating we have recorded since we began tracking this question in August 2020. Altogether, 17% find the Government competent (down 5%), 54% find the Government incompetent (up 6%), and 22% find the Government neither competent nor incompetent (down 2%)......
At -31%, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s net approval rating has fallen 12 points to the lowest rating we have recorded for him. This week’s poll finds 56% disapproving (up 6%) of his overall job performance, against 25% approving (down 6%)....
42% think Keir Starmer (up 5%) and 29% think Boris Johnson (down 7%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment, marking Starmer’s largest lead over Johnson in this regard since we began tracking this question in June 2020.
I missed it, but have we done Big John admitting the enquiry found that he was guilty of some of the allegations? Though he maintains that the investigator was a kangaroo:
A parliamentary inquiry will conclude that John Bercow, the former Speaker, bullied three House of Commons members of staff, he has revealed, denouncing it as as “kangaroo court”.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, has found Bercow guilty on 21 counts out of 35 brought by Robert Lisvane, the former clerk of the Commons, and private secretaries Kate Emms and Angus Sinclair, he told the Sunday Times.
The former Speaker, who stood down in 2019, said he is appealing against Stone’s ruling, with a final decision expected by the end of the month.
I linked this report yesterday and Bercow seems to have leaked the report and is appealing
Should Kathryn Stone confirm her findings post his appeal he faces a lifetime ban from Parliament and the House of Lords
I assume he will be unique in this respect as I do not know of any speaker receiving this sanction
During the Commonwealth? IIRC one ran away for a couple of decades, and another one was impeached.
Restoration, too.
I quite like the idea of a kangaroo court. Presumably the judge & jury are kangaroos. Who else? The prosecution? defence barristers? Or are they drop bears?
Like this?
I think we need drop bears.
The security should be handled by salt water crocodiles. The wigs should be replaced with box jellyfish.....
I missed it, but have we done Big John admitting the enquiry found that he was guilty of some of the allegations? Though he maintains that the investigator was a kangaroo:
A parliamentary inquiry will conclude that John Bercow, the former Speaker, bullied three House of Commons members of staff, he has revealed, denouncing it as as “kangaroo court”.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, has found Bercow guilty on 21 counts out of 35 brought by Robert Lisvane, the former clerk of the Commons, and private secretaries Kate Emms and Angus Sinclair, he told the Sunday Times.
The former Speaker, who stood down in 2019, said he is appealing against Stone’s ruling, with a final decision expected by the end of the month.
I linked this report yesterday and Bercow seems to have leaked the report and is appealing
Should Kathryn Stone confirm her findings post his appeal he faces a lifetime ban from Parliament and the House of Lords
I assume he will be unique in this respect as I do not know of any speaker receiving this sanction
During the Commonwealth? IIRC one ran away for a couple of decades, and another one was impeached.
Restoration, too.
I quite like the idea of a kangaroo court. Presumably the judge & jury are kangaroos. Who else? The prosecution? defence barristers? Or are they drop bears?
A criminal court tries criminals, and a family court tries families. So I've always assumed a kangaroo court tries kangaroos.
This polling shows quite clearly that the Tories are heading for big losses to Labour in London in May but the results may not be so bad in the locals elsewhere. Starmer is still very much a North London Labour leader with his strongest appeal in the capital.
If Labour want a leader who can really appeal in the North and Midlands (and not just because he is not Boris), they still probably need Burnham
No, presenting it like this is giving you a false sense of security
London +42 South +39 North +43 Midlands +45 Scotland +64
Starmer is only getting that because Boris is currently unpopular, he is still only popular in London.
If Boris becomes popular again or Sunak replaces him and the Tories get a bound then the North and Midlands will likely shift back in the Tory direction again.
You've put your finger on the essential point. Boris's net approval ratings are bad only because he is unpopular. If he gets popular again he will get more popular.
As always, I'm astonished you don't charge people for the service you provide here.
Not necessarily. They are discussing relative approval. An improvement in the Tories’ performance alone does not necessarily mean they get more popular relative to Labour.
Not necessarily, no, but in this particular case yes. Boris's position changes from the penthouse suite on floor 150 to the basement, SKS is incapable of moving from the 7th floor.
Which may not be a problem now, would be if Boris has a Lazarus like recovery or Sunak becomes Tory leader and moves back into the penthouse suite
You know the former is never going to happen and the latter is very unlikely. The best the Tories can hope for at the next GE is damage limitation
At the moment Starmer is measuring the No 10 curtains, much like Kinnock was in 1990 when Labour had a big lead over Thatcher's Tories. However the Tories had replaced their leader by Christmas and Major narrowly beat Kinnock against the odds in 1992.
It was then only Blair who finally led Labour back into power in 1997. Starmer must be concerned he is Kinnock 2 and maybe Sunak is Major 2 to Boris' Thatcher and Burnham is actually Labour's Blair even if it looks good for now for him against Boris
Glad to see you are beginning to see the potential of getting rid of Boris "albatross" Johnson so that Sunak (or someone else) can pull off a 1992. I would be happy with that.
But I thought HYUFD had been saying that Boris was safe? Is that not your view now @HYUFD ? I said earlier than my view of Boris being deposed this quarter was something between 25% and 50%. But I'd be interested in your view - you know the interior workings of the Conservative Party better than I do.
My view is that Boris should be given until the May local elections to turn it round.
If he does not and the Tories see heavy losses in the local elections then is the time for a VONC, not now
He should do the decent thing and resign. Oh, hang on...do the decent thing? Silly me.
Mollie Malone @Mollie_Malone1 · 10m Steve Baker tells the broadcast pool “my constituents are about 60:1 against the Prime Minister”
Just heard him and he said they are furious
He and his colleagues need to act without delay
Boris is toxic
They will wait til the locals in May, surely.
I doubt many in Westminster will care about hard working local councillors.
It's so unnecessary too. Actual policy matters had created a realignment that favoured the Tories with the closest you can get to a permanent majority. And blown over some naff garden parties.
Listening to Sonia Khan. a special adviser to two recent Conservative Chancellors, it sounds like the staff at 10 Downing Street were permanently drunk or hungover. Absolutely disgraceful, and explains a lot about the disasters of the Cameron and May regimes.
They typically started drinking at lunchtime.
She had a piece in the Graun on Saturday, IIRC.
Sonia Khan was on the World at One today. She said that people unwilling to participate in the alcohol abuse culture at 10 Downing Street were ostracised or their career suffered.
That is horrific from an employment law point of view. Straightforward bullying.
Very difficult too for some folk for immediate health and belief reasons, obvs.
Edit: and an instant win in any dismissal case esp if the employee can plead e.g. pregnancy or religious or philosophical belief.
I missed it, but have we done Big John admitting the enquiry found that he was guilty of some of the allegations? Though he maintains that the investigator was a kangaroo:
A parliamentary inquiry will conclude that John Bercow, the former Speaker, bullied three House of Commons members of staff, he has revealed, denouncing it as as “kangaroo court”.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, has found Bercow guilty on 21 counts out of 35 brought by Robert Lisvane, the former clerk of the Commons, and private secretaries Kate Emms and Angus Sinclair, he told the Sunday Times.
The former Speaker, who stood down in 2019, said he is appealing against Stone’s ruling, with a final decision expected by the end of the month.
I linked this report yesterday and Bercow seems to have leaked the report and is appealing
Should Kathryn Stone confirm her findings post his appeal he faces a lifetime ban from Parliament and the House of Lords
I assume he will be unique in this respect as I do not know of any speaker receiving this sanction
During the Commonwealth? IIRC one ran away for a couple of decades, and another one was impeached.
Restoration, too.
I quite like the idea of a kangaroo court. Presumably the judge & jury are kangaroos. Who else? The prosecution? defence barristers? Or are they drop bears?
Like this?
I think we need drop bears.
The security should be handled by salt water crocodiles. The wigs should be replaced with box jellyfish.....
Just thinking of the punishments for Speakers in the 1660s. Like being dug up if already dead and then executed. Which was better than being hung, castrated, drawn and quartered alive, though. I wonder if some Tories are in that sort of mood at prsent.
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
Yes. A few months ago I decided to master Singapore chicken laksa, a quite complex but amazing dish if done properly
I browsed BBC food, but all their recipes were way too simplistic. I looked at a couple of famous tv chefs - just didn’t seem right. Quirky yet misguided
Then I found this. A woman in Australia who has basically dedicated her life to creating THE recipe for Singapore chicken laksa. Free on the internet along with explanatory videos
I followed the recipe and Wow, it is superb. Exactly what you’d get in a brilliant laksa restaurant in Singapore (I added dashi)
Incredible specialisation. Fantastically well done. No one can compete with that - in terms of laksa. Tho I wonder how the writer makes any money?!
Again, is on YouTube, 70 million views. Sells e-books. Also contributor to Good Food Australia and quite big social media following.
Its the new model. Be a specialist, be bloody good at it, and there is money to be made.
Aha! That totally makes sense
She deserves it. Her laksa is THE BIZ
I think I am going to have to try it.
You have to like those S E Asian hot spicy slightly sweet umami-filled coconutty curries. But if you do Laksa is maybe the peak. The most complex. A work of art
WTF did S E Asians eat before the Portuguese brought them chilis from the New World?
Basically. There were plenty of other spices. Indonesia. Spice Islands.
Ah! Interesting. I'm not sure pepper quite replaces chili but that makes sense
Also, tomatoes and potatoes, which likewise come from the Americas. What did they without them? Tomatoes are especially important in Asian cuisine (and European for that matter)
In short, imperialism may have been really bad for some conquered countries, but it was fucking great for global cuisine
That reminds me of the stand up on the silver lining to gender inequality:
This polling shows quite clearly that the Tories are heading for big losses to Labour in London in May but the results may not be so bad in the locals elsewhere. Starmer is still very much a North London Labour leader with his strongest appeal in the capital.
If Labour want a leader who can really appeal in the North and Midlands (and not just because he is not Boris), they still probably need Burnham
No, presenting it like this is giving you a false sense of security
London +42 South +39 North +43 Midlands +45 Scotland +64
Starmer is only getting that because Boris is currently unpopular, he is still only popular in London.
If Boris becomes popular again or Sunak replaces him and the Tories get a bounce then the North and Midlands will likely shift back in the Tory direction again.
Burnham has positive appeal north of Watford, Starmer doesn't.
See also the 2021 locals where Starmer Labour won London but lost ground in the North and Midlands to the Tories and also fell behind the Scottish Conservatives again at Holyrood. Labour's hold in Wales was more Drakeford than Starmer. Tory losses in the South were more to the LDs and Greens than Labour.
I suspect once Johnson has been dispatched, UK politics will become less presidential.
Starmer mirrors Welsh Labour in many ways.
Labour are seen as moderately useless, but by no means as bad as the Welsh Conservatives, who are, mainly through their personnel, an absolute laughing stock. One would have expected Johnson's spring sheen to have rubbed off on them. It didn't.
UK politics seems to go in waves, preferring the Presidential (Thatcher), then the Cabinet government (Major), Presidential (Blair), confused (Brown), cabinet (Cameron), confused (May), Presidential (Johnson).
I think we're due a cabinet style leader.
Thinking about it, this means Starmer's chances are good against Johnson, but poor if the Conservative Party has dumped him for a more consensual leader.
Yep. Those who would prefer not to see a Labour government need to hope Johnson is ditched asap. Those that would prefer a Labour win will need to hope Johnson stays in place. Johnson is now the Tory Corbyn.
I'm afraid I want to eat my cake and have it. Really want the Tories gone, really REALLY want to see Johnson driven out by scandal.
In which case for maximum lols for you, you need Johnson replaced by someone at least as equally terrible as Johnson. As I am moderately right of centre I hope he is replaced by someone credible
Yes. He's kicked out, they go for Mogg, GE24 is 97 with chips & brown sauce, I like that very much, Nigel, I must say.
Possibly as true today as it was then: although the Internet had transformed things further.
There is a significant aspect to my career that owes a lot to this programme in the 1980s. I grew up with Acorn computers (BBC B, initially) and learnt to program on them with my final Acorn a "Risc PC" before Acorn sadly went out of business. Although I am not a pure programmer now, there have been aspects in all my job roles where a solid technical foundation and being able to get one's hands dirty with coding have been extremely useful. I am sure there are many, many people like myself.
I know lots of people who had exactly that sort of experience. Then again, I worked for Acorn.
It would not surprise me if the BBC's computer literacy program in the 1980s, with the government's help, had generated billions of revenue for the UK over the past four decades.
A small number of Acorn shares generated my new conservatory...
Yes, a possibly larger number of Acorn shares has done me well.
(I think the government made a bad move allowing SoftBank to buy ARM. But I cannot complain, as it made a nice income for me.)
I missed it, but have we done Big John admitting the enquiry found that he was guilty of some of the allegations? Though he maintains that the investigator was a kangaroo:
A parliamentary inquiry will conclude that John Bercow, the former Speaker, bullied three House of Commons members of staff, he has revealed, denouncing it as as “kangaroo court”.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, has found Bercow guilty on 21 counts out of 35 brought by Robert Lisvane, the former clerk of the Commons, and private secretaries Kate Emms and Angus Sinclair, he told the Sunday Times.
The former Speaker, who stood down in 2019, said he is appealing against Stone’s ruling, with a final decision expected by the end of the month.
I linked this report yesterday and Bercow seems to have leaked the report and is appealing
Should Kathryn Stone confirm her findings post his appeal he faces a lifetime ban from Parliament and the House of Lords
I assume he will be unique in this respect as I do not know of any speaker receiving this sanction
During the Commonwealth? IIRC one ran away for a couple of decades, and another one was impeached.
Restoration, too.
I quite like the idea of a kangaroo court. Presumably the judge & jury are kangaroos. Who else? The prosecution? defence barristers? Or are they drop bears?
A criminal court tries criminals, and a family court tries families. So I've always assumed a kangaroo court tries kangaroos.
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
Possibly as true today as it was then: although the Internet had transformed things further.
There is a significant aspect to my career that owes a lot to this programme in the 1980s. I grew up with Acorn computers (BBC B, initially) and learnt to program on them with my final Acorn a "Risc PC" before Acorn sadly went out of business. Although I am not a pure programmer now, there have been aspects in all my job roles where a solid technical foundation and being able to get one's hands dirty with coding have been extremely useful. I am sure there are many, many people like myself.
I know lots of people who had exactly that sort of experience. Then again, I worked for Acorn.
It would not surprise me if the BBC's computer literacy program in the 1980s, with the government's help, had generated billions of revenue for the UK over the past four decades.
A small number of Acorn shares generated my new conservatory...
Yes, a possibly larger number of Acorn shares has done me well.
(I think the government made a bad move allowing SoftBank to buy ARM. But I cannot complain, as it made a nice income for me.)
This polling shows quite clearly that the Tories are heading for big losses to Labour in London in May but the results may not be so bad in the locals elsewhere. Starmer is still very much a North London Labour leader with his strongest appeal in the capital.
If Labour want a leader who can really appeal in the North and Midlands (and not just because he is not Boris), they still probably need Burnham
No, presenting it like this is giving you a false sense of security
London +42 South +39 North +43 Midlands +45 Scotland +64
Starmer is only getting that because Boris is currently unpopular, he is still only popular in London.
If Boris becomes popular again or Sunak replaces him and the Tories get a bounce then the North and Midlands will likely shift back in the Tory direction again.
Burnham has positive appeal north of Watford, Starmer doesn't.
See also the 2021 locals where Starmer Labour won London but lost ground in the North and Midlands to the Tories and also fell behind the Scottish Conservatives again at Holyrood. Labour's hold in Wales was more Drakeford than Starmer. Tory losses in the South were more to the LDs and Greens than Labour.
I suspect once Johnson has been dispatched, UK politics will become less presidential.
Starmer mirrors Welsh Labour in many ways.
Labour are seen as moderately useless, but by no means as bad as the Welsh Conservatives, who are, mainly through their personnel, an absolute laughing stock. One would have expected Johnson's spring sheen to have rubbed off on them. It didn't.
UK politics seems to go in waves, preferring the Presidential (Thatcher), then the Cabinet government (Major), Presidential (Blair), confused (Brown), cabinet (Cameron), confused (May), Presidential (Johnson).
I think we're due a cabinet style leader.
Thinking about it, this means Starmer's chances are good against Johnson, but poor if the Conservative Party has dumped him for a more consensual leader.
Yep. Those who would prefer not to see a Labour government need to hope Johnson is ditched asap. Those that would prefer a Labour win will need to hope Johnson stays in place. Johnson is now the Tory Corbyn.
I'm afraid I want to eat my cake and have it. Really want the Tories gone, really REALLY want to see Johnson driven out by scandal.
In which case for maximum lols for you, you need Johnson replaced by someone at least as equally terrible as Johnson. As I am moderately right of centre I hope he is replaced by someone credible
Yes. He's kicked out, they go for Mogg, GE24 is 97 with chips & brown sauce, I like that very much, Nigel, I must say.
You say you would, but the idea of Rees Mogg being PM is as horrific for you as it is for me.
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
Listening to Sonia Khan. a special adviser to two recent Conservative Chancellors, it sounds like the staff at 10 Downing Street were permanently drunk or hungover. Absolutely disgraceful, and explains a lot about the disasters of the Cameron and May regimes.
They typically started drinking at lunchtime.
If I worked directly for Boris Johnson, I would be permanently either drink or hungover. That would be a necessary survival mechanism.
I know it is tempting to joke about this, but it is actually deadly serious. Alcohol abuse in an individual is tragic and often has life changing consequences. In an organisation such a culture is crippling and means missed goals. At the heart of government it has a detrimental effect on the entire population and on international relations.
This polling shows quite clearly that the Tories are heading for big losses to Labour in London in May but the results may not be so bad in the locals elsewhere. Starmer is still very much a North London Labour leader with his strongest appeal in the capital.
If Labour want a leader who can really appeal in the North and Midlands (and not just because he is not Boris), they still probably need Burnham
No, presenting it like this is giving you a false sense of security
London +42 South +39 North +43 Midlands +45 Scotland +64
Starmer is only getting that because Boris is currently unpopular, he is still only popular in London.
If Boris becomes popular again or Sunak replaces him and the Tories get a bounce then the North and Midlands will likely shift back in the Tory direction again.
Burnham has positive appeal north of Watford, Starmer doesn't.
See also the 2021 locals where Starmer Labour won London but lost ground in the North and Midlands to the Tories and also fell behind the Scottish Conservatives again at Holyrood. Labour's hold in Wales was more Drakeford than Starmer. Tory losses in the South were more to the LDs and Greens than Labour.
I suspect once Johnson has been dispatched, UK politics will become less presidential.
Starmer mirrors Welsh Labour in many ways.
Labour are seen as moderately useless, but by no means as bad as the Welsh Conservatives, who are, mainly through their personnel, an absolute laughing stock. One would have expected Johnson's spring sheen to have rubbed off on them. It didn't.
UK politics seems to go in waves, preferring the Presidential (Thatcher), then the Cabinet government (Major), Presidential (Blair), confused (Brown), cabinet (Cameron), confused (May), Presidential (Johnson).
I think we're due a cabinet style leader.
Thinking about it, this means Starmer's chances are good against Johnson, but poor if the Conservative Party has dumped him for a more consensual leader.
Yep. Those who would prefer not to see a Labour government need to hope Johnson is ditched asap. Those that would prefer a Labour win will need to hope Johnson stays in place. Johnson is now the Tory Corbyn.
I'm afraid I want to eat my cake and have it. Really want the Tories gone, really REALLY want to see Johnson driven out by scandal.
In which case for maximum lols for you, you need Johnson replaced by someone at least as equally terrible as Johnson. As I am moderately right of centre I hope he is replaced by someone credible
Yes. He's kicked out, they go for Mogg, GE24 is 97 with chips & brown sauce, I like that very much, Nigel, I must say.
You say you would, but the idea of Rees Mogg being PM is as horrific for you as it is for me.
That's true. And for 2 years. I couldn't stand that. I take it back.
I think I might have found a very rare beast indeed. A Tory who sounded both honest and impressive. Tom Tugendhat. I know nothing about him other than he sounds so many heads and shoulders above Nadine Dorries that only a Johnson Tory Party wouldn't notice the oddity of her being in the Cabinet and he not being.
Could he be a leader or is he too honest and normal for the current bunch of spivs?
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
Lev 16: 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
I think I might have found a very rare beast indeed. A Tory who sounded both honest and impressive. Tom Tugendhat. I know nothing about him other than he sounds so many heads and shoulders above Nadine Dorries that only a Johnson Tory Party wouldn't notice the oddity of her being in the Cabinet and he not being.
Could he be a leader or is he too honest and normal for the current bunch of spivs?
I would vote for him if I were still in the party.
The mood of the nation is clearly very angry, evidenced by the reaction the mps received in their constituencies and the total collapse in the opinion polls
Meanwhile, Boris and his supporters seem to have come up with the magic formula that by sacking no 10 civil servants and banning booze he will be able to ride out the storm
What on earth can go wrong
Boris, if you think sackings will solve this you are living in a fantasy world of your own making, and for once just do the right thing and apologise wholeheartedly, and then resign
No other action is justified and it is the only tenable action for the country and the party's interest
The country is politically paralysed until this happens
And of course @HYUFD will fully support your decision
Listening to Sonia Khan. a special adviser to two recent Conservative Chancellors, it sounds like the staff at 10 Downing Street were permanently drunk or hungover. Absolutely disgraceful, and explains a lot about the disasters of the Cameron and May regimes.
They typically started drinking at lunchtime.
She had a piece in the Graun on Saturday, IIRC.
Sonia Khan was on the World at One today. She said that people unwilling to participate in the alcohol abuse culture at 10 Downing Street were ostracised or their career suffered.
That is horrific from an employment law point of view. Straightforward bullying.
Very difficult too for some folk for immediate health and belief reasons, obvs.
Edit: and an instant win in any dismissal case esp if the employee can plead e.g. pregnancy or religious or philosophical belief.
This culture of drinking alcohol at lunchtime has disappeared from trade and industry, for the simple reason that it damaged achievement of goals (eg profit, sales etc). Ditto local government, charities and other sectors. People just do not do it. So why has this outdated culture not only survived, but thrived at 10 Downing Street?
This is not just a BJ issue. Khan says that she is aware that it has existed for 10 to 20 years.
Listening to Sonia Khan. a special adviser to two recent Conservative Chancellors, it sounds like the staff at 10 Downing Street were permanently drunk or hungover. Absolutely disgraceful, and explains a lot about the disasters of the Cameron and May regimes.
They typically started drinking at lunchtime.
She had a piece in the Graun on Saturday, IIRC.
Sonia Khan was on the World at One today. She said that people unwilling to participate in the alcohol abuse culture at 10 Downing Street were ostracised or their career suffered.
That is horrific from an employment law point of view. Straightforward bullying.
Very difficult too for some folk for immediate health and belief reasons, obvs.
Edit: and an instant win in any dismissal case esp if the employee can plead e.g. pregnancy or religious or philosophical belief.
This culture of drinking alcohol at lunchtime has disappeared from trade and industry, for the simple reason that it damaged achievement of goals (eg profit, sales etc). Ditto local government, charities and other sectors. People just do not do it. So why has this outdated culture not only survived, but thrived at 19 Downing Street?
This is not just a BJ issue. Khan says that she is aware that it has existed for 10 to 20 years.
Possibly as true today as it was then: although the Internet had transformed things further.
There is a significant aspect to my career that owes a lot to this programme in the 1980s. I grew up with Acorn computers (BBC B, initially) and learnt to program on them with my final Acorn a "Risc PC" before Acorn sadly went out of business. Although I am not a pure programmer now, there have been aspects in all my job roles where a solid technical foundation and being able to get one's hands dirty with coding have been extremely useful. I am sure there are many, many people like myself.
I know lots of people who had exactly that sort of experience. Then again, I worked for Acorn.
It would not surprise me if the BBC's computer literacy program in the 1980s, with the government's help, had generated billions of revenue for the UK over the past four decades.
A small number of Acorn shares generated my new conservatory...
Yes, a possibly larger number of Acorn shares has done me well.
(I think the government made a bad move allowing SoftBank to buy ARM. But I cannot complain, as it made a nice income for me.)
Next big decision, do they let Nvidia buy it.
Only when there’s a net surplus of RTX 3090Tis in the UK.
I think I might have found a very rare beast indeed. A Tory who sounded both honest and impressive. Tom Tugendhat. I know nothing about him other than he sounds so many heads and shoulders above Nadine Dorries that only a Johnson Tory Party wouldn't notice the oddity of her being in the Cabinet and he not being.
Could he be a leader or is he too honest and normal for the current bunch of spivs?
Tom Tugendhat is 6th place at time of writing: 25/1 to be next Con leader.
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
I notice that when I explained about the PM trying to go see the Queen when he might have been infectious and I stopped him, No10 issued a total denial and I was told that ‘Martin is supporting the PM’s denial’. This episode was also witnessed by others who will tell the official inquiry that what I have said is true and the official denials are false.
Bloody game over if true. Answer to @kinabalu s plea for something beyond parties
also
The PM’s PPS invited people to a drinks party.
The PPS was told to cancel the invite by at least two people.
He checked with the PM whether the party should go ahead.
The PM agreed it should.
They both went to the party.
It was actually a drinks party.
The PM told MPs repeatedly that he had no idea about any parties.
The events of 20 May alone, never mind the string of other events, mean the PM lied to Parliament about parties.
Not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time would swear under oath this is what happened.
I notice that when I explained about the PM trying to go see the Queen when he might have been infectious and I stopped him, No10 issued a total denial and I was told that ‘Martin is supporting the PM’s denial’. This episode was also witnessed by others who will tell the official inquiry that what I have said is true and the official denials are false.
Bloody game over if true. Answer to @kinabalu s plea for something beyond parties
also
The PM’s PPS invited people to a drinks party.
The PPS was told to cancel the invite by at least two people.
He checked with the PM whether the party should go ahead.
The PM agreed it should.
They both went to the party.
It was actually a drinks party.
The PM told MPs repeatedly that he had no idea about any parties.
The events of 20 May alone, never mind the string of other events, mean the PM lied to Parliament about parties.
Not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time would swear under oath this is what happened.
That Sunak poll (best PM) might actually change things in the PCP –– suggests there's a stand out candidate. And implies that they'd be better off by far knifing Bozzatron forthwith.
If it cuts through, and is supported by other polls, I might revise my view that Bunter is going nowhere...
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
One might wish to see something like this as Sue Gray's 'executive summary' but I fear not.
It's all a bit silly though isn't it. Ignore how people define party, or the drinks aspect - all that matters is whether these were entirely staff who have been working together all day anyway. This is what this will turn on.
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
42% say Rishi Sunak (up 4%) and 24% say Boris Johnson (down 5%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment—the largest lead we have recorded for Sunak over Johnson on this topic. This week’s poll also finds Boris Johnson’s narrowest lead over Rishi Sunak for better Prime Minister among 2019 Conservative voters, with 41% of this demographic saying Johnson and 40% saying Sunak would be better.
Time to quote Leo Durocher: Stick a fork in him; he's done.
Need to be careful when doing that, all that hot fat squirting out....
Time to quote Michael Flanders
I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the Eye-level grill This means that without my having to bend down The hot fat can squirt straight into my eyes!
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
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Not outstanding for LD is it? Perhaps my whole SKS on the 6th floor world picture was mistaken and he has edged up to the 6/7 mezzanine level.
No point trying to placate me that poll has cheesed me off and I’m going to bed early 😤
Is there a reason the guy behind wordle hasn't monetarised it?
It's absolutely bonkers how popular it is. Everyone is doing it across 4 WhatsApp groups, approx 40 people
I wondered if it was too close to some other game and worried about getting legal claims if he tried to turn it into a commercial product, but then i read he has been going after copycats demanding they take down their apps.
I know the story is supposed to be he made it for his family, but surprised not pay $1 a month and get extra wordles or even an ad or two.
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
BBC Good Food is trying to make their app a subscription based model. I think they are in big trouble.
NYTimes manages it. But then again, it's about 100x better than the BBC version.
Are you sure about NYTimes involvement. I can't see any mention to that anywhere. Its owned by Immediate Media which in turn is owned by a Germany media group.
I noted you said "managed", but I can't see any reference to that.
I think Robert means that NYT manages to have a successful food subscription channel. They do. I subscribe
Yeah, that's the model of the future, videos from professional chefs, monetised recipes, monetised videos and (low) subscription fees. I've been tempted by the £25 annual option, is it worth it? Seems a snip at that price for professional level cooking videos and recipes.
Also key question -
Do they have an imperial to metric converter for measurements? I have no clue what cups are or do.
No.
They seem utterly oblivious to the fact that not all the world using fluid ounces, cups, quarts and gallons.
Living in America, I've adjusted. But it may take a bit of getting used to for you.
My daughter, who is quite into baking, showed me a recipe containing cups and asked which size cup she should use. When I explained the US has specifically sized "cups" for it she began lecturing me on what a stupid system it was. I'm still not quite sure why it was my fault. When a 12yo realises the measurement system is stupid then quite why the whole of the US can't realise this is a mystery.
For baking it's a nightmare as everything needs to be fairly precise. I've essentially given up using US imperial recipes and I've not found it an issue. There's plenty of recipes from the UK and across Europe for the same dishes, often a lot better unless it's something like bbq meat or a US speciality.
The idea that a specific measurement system is stupid is rather odd. They are all arbitrary.
While that may be true, the metric system makes sense, 1 gram is 1 ml of water at room temperature, essentially. Imperial weights and measures should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Metric is scientific (mostly), but Imperial is human-friendly.
Who knows how much a gram is? But an ounce is roughly a handful - and similarly for many Imperial measurements.
I advocate metric for science and Imperial for everyday.
An ounce is a handful? Feathers? Iron? Handful of what?
Of most baking ingredients, which are near-enough the same density. For most human day-to-day applications close enough is good enough. Encouraging people to obsess over weighing out half a pound of flour to the nearest gram (by giving the ingredient quantity as 225g instead of as 8oz) is entirely unnecessary.
I see so many baking recipes where you can tell that the measurements have been awkwardly and inconsistently converted from imperial measurements to a pretence of more precise metric measurements and it's just so much simpler and more intuitive to use imperial measurements. And then a lot of baking things make so much more sense.
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
Mollie Malone @Mollie_Malone1 · 10m Steve Baker tells the broadcast pool “my constituents are about 60:1 against the Prime Minister”
Just heard him and he said they are furious
He and his colleagues need to act without delay
Boris is toxic
They will wait til the locals in May, surely.
I doubt many in Westminster will care about hard working local councillors.
It's so unnecessary too. Actual policy matters had created a realignment that favoured the Tories with the closest you can get to a permanent majority. And blown over some naff garden parties.
It’s all so needless and self inflicted. When labour starts to put together a coherent policy Platform then the Tories really are going to be in trouble.
Wick doesn't make it into the top 5 - but neither does London. Rather surprisingly, at first sight, No 2 is Pompey - but it does have a lot of museums for its size.
[Obvs depends on how one defines culture, and the methodology ...]
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
Not quite now - after 1 April please so my bet drops in.
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
But what happens if (a) Mr J sits on it and (b) edits it? It does go through him.
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
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Not outstanding for LD is it? Perhaps my whole SKS on the 6th floor world picture was mistaken and he has edged up to the 6/7 mezzanine level.
No point trying to placate me that poll has cheesed me off and I’m going to bed early 😤
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
They might not. Things have calmed down a touch during the last few days, give it another two weeks until she completes the report and the scene may look even calmer.
Most importantly: today was my fourth ever Wordle, and I got it in 3.
My progression has been 6, 4, 4, 3
I got my first wordle in 2...its been downhill ever since.
Been thinking about best opener. Been using atone and adieu.
Those seem good for yellows rather than greens. I use saner which has worked pretty well for me.
If your goal is getting it in 4/5, you are best off just having three words that contain the most common 15 letters. That means - most of the time - you'll know all the letters after three guesses. And then it's just an anagram.
But if you want to push it to 3/4, you need to be a bit smarter and more aggressive.
If Labour gets 43% of the vote, with a 13 point lead over the Conservatives, and doesn't win a comfortable majority, I will eat my hat.
Not if I get to it first. Ridiculous although their failure in Scotland really doesn't help them.
Doeasn't it? If that 43% includes a collapse in Scotland of the level of 10-11% locally, and that is a Scottish average, then it concentrates the votes usefully elsewhere.
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
But what happens if (a) Mr J sits on it and (b) edits it? It does go through him.
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
They might not. Things have calmed down a touch during the last few days, give it another two weeks until she completes the report and the scene may look even calmer.
That's why I think Cummings will want to act sooner, if he has any more to add.
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
But what happens if (a) Mr J sits on it and (b) edits it? It does go through him.
He won't get away with concealing the report
Doesn't have to, just sit on it for as long as he can.
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
His mps need to act immediately (Can't bear that ftfy thing). Gray's report is a figleaf and a nullity and a nonsense and anyone waiting for it is playing the FLSOJ's game.
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
BBC Good Food is trying to make their app a subscription based model. I think they are in big trouble.
NYTimes manages it. But then again, it's about 100x better than the BBC version.
Are you sure about NYTimes involvement. I can't see any mention to that anywhere. Its owned by Immediate Media which in turn is owned by a Germany media group.
I noted you said "managed", but I can't see any reference to that.
I think Robert means that NYT manages to have a successful food subscription channel. They do. I subscribe
Yeah, that's the model of the future, videos from professional chefs, monetised recipes, monetised videos and (low) subscription fees. I've been tempted by the £25 annual option, is it worth it? Seems a snip at that price for professional level cooking videos and recipes.
Also key question -
Do they have an imperial to metric converter for measurements? I have no clue what cups are or do.
No.
They seem utterly oblivious to the fact that not all the world using fluid ounces, cups, quarts and gallons.
Living in America, I've adjusted. But it may take a bit of getting used to for you.
My daughter, who is quite into baking, showed me a recipe containing cups and asked which size cup she should use. When I explained the US has specifically sized "cups" for it she began lecturing me on what a stupid system it was. I'm still not quite sure why it was my fault. When a 12yo realises the measurement system is stupid then quite why the whole of the US can't realise this is a mystery.
For baking it's a nightmare as everything needs to be fairly precise. I've essentially given up using US imperial recipes and I've not found it an issue. There's plenty of recipes from the UK and across Europe for the same dishes, often a lot better unless it's something like bbq meat or a US speciality.
The idea that a specific measurement system is stupid is rather odd. They are all arbitrary.
While that may be true, the metric system makes sense, 1 gram is 1 ml of water at room temperature, essentially. Imperial weights and measures should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
BBC Good Food is trying to make their app a subscription based model. I think they are in big trouble.
NYTimes manages it. But then again, it's about 100x better than the BBC version.
Are you sure about NYTimes involvement. I can't see any mention to that anywhere. Its owned by Immediate Media which in turn is owned by a Germany media group.
I noted you said "managed", but I can't see any reference to that.
I think Robert means that NYT manages to have a successful food subscription channel. They do. I subscribe
Yeah, that's the model of the future, videos from professional chefs, monetised recipes, monetised videos and (low) subscription fees. I've been tempted by the £25 annual option, is it worth it? Seems a snip at that price for professional level cooking videos and recipes.
Also key question -
Do they have an imperial to metric converter for measurements? I have no clue what cups are or do.
a cup is 8 fl oz. So half a US pint, or 0.4 an imperial pint.
PS The quality of the recipes is uniformly high. I don't watch the videos, but just follow the recipes (the first time, adapt to my own taste thereafter). Not all are do-agains, but a very high percentage are.
The comments section on the recipes resembles PB at times, and you sometimes realize the username of the person criticizing elements of the recipe is themselves a well known chef.
Though the best comments are always the ones that go something like this - "I didn't use chicken but goat, and substituted beets for potatoes and vinegar for wine. I also boiled rather than broiled the meat. This recipe sucks."
I once read a lengthy online review of an excellent fish restaurant by someone who hated fish, and thought it disgraceful that the venue in question didn't offer meat options. He gave it one star and pledged never to visit it again!
I have no sympathy with that review writer. However, I do think that fish restaurants, even renowned ones, should have a least a couple of meat dishes on the menu, to accommodate larger parties where there is likely to be one or two who are not that keen on fish.
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
☹️
The list of Famous Rules, continued.....
Rule 4: A rogue poll is any poll where you don't like the result.
No don’t misunderstand me, I’m not picking and choosing polls I don’t like and saying they are rogue, i’m calling a whole batch of polls rogue. I’m saying if Tories are dropping like this the polling is flawed to plonk it all on Labour and drop Libdems too. It make no sense. The polls should pick it up as it would be in real elections. If in reality Libdem can hover up Disenchanted Tory votes In places Labour can’t, they should be going up a bit not down. Look, this poll puts greens up two and libdems down 3. The Greens party on the M25!
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
BBC Good Food is trying to make their app a subscription based model. I think they are in big trouble.
NYTimes manages it. But then again, it's about 100x better than the BBC version.
Are you sure about NYTimes involvement. I can't see any mention to that anywhere. Its owned by Immediate Media which in turn is owned by a Germany media group.
I noted you said "managed", but I can't see any reference to that.
I think Robert means that NYT manages to have a successful food subscription channel. They do. I subscribe
Yeah, that's the model of the future, videos from professional chefs, monetised recipes, monetised videos and (low) subscription fees. I've been tempted by the £25 annual option, is it worth it? Seems a snip at that price for professional level cooking videos and recipes.
Also key question -
Do they have an imperial to metric converter for measurements? I have no clue what cups are or do.
No.
They seem utterly oblivious to the fact that not all the world using fluid ounces, cups, quarts and gallons.
Living in America, I've adjusted. But it may take a bit of getting used to for you.
My daughter, who is quite into baking, showed me a recipe containing cups and asked which size cup she should use. When I explained the US has specifically sized "cups" for it she began lecturing me on what a stupid system it was. I'm still not quite sure why it was my fault. When a 12yo realises the measurement system is stupid then quite why the whole of the US can't realise this is a mystery.
For baking it's a nightmare as everything needs to be fairly precise. I've essentially given up using US imperial recipes and I've not found it an issue. There's plenty of recipes from the UK and across Europe for the same dishes, often a lot better unless it's something like bbq meat or a US speciality.
The idea that a specific measurement system is stupid is rather odd. They are all arbitrary.
While that may be true, the metric system makes sense, 1 gram is 1 ml of water at room temperature, essentially. Imperial weights and measures should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Metric is scientific (mostly), but Imperial is human-friendly.
Who knows how much a gram is? But an ounce is roughly a handful - and similarly for many Imperial measurements.
I advocate metric for science and Imperial for everyday.
An ounce is a handful? Feathers? Iron? Handful of what?
Of most baking ingredients, which are near-enough the same density. For most human day-to-day applications close enough is good enough. Encouraging people to obsess over weighing out half a pound of flour to the nearest gram (by giving the ingredient quantity as 225g instead of as 8oz) is entirely unnecessary.
I see so many baking recipes where you can tell that the measurements have been awkwardly and inconsistently converted from imperial measurements to a pretence of more precise metric measurements and it's just so much simpler and more intuitive to use imperial measurements. And then a lot of baking things make so much more sense.
Just to point out that the Imperial System has gone metric these days with Imperial units now being defined in terms of the Metric system. For example, the inch is now defined as being precisely 25.4mm
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
☹️
The list of Famous Rules, continued.....
Rule 4: A rogue poll is any poll where you don't like the result.
I think moon unit is probably correct that, if an election were to be held, the libdems would end up in double figures. But I think that's more the consequence of tactical voting, rather than a great swell of support for them.
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
Yes. A few months ago I decided to master Singapore chicken laksa, a quite complex but amazing dish if done properly
I browsed BBC food, but all their recipes were way too simplistic. I looked at a couple of famous tv chefs - just didn’t seem right. Quirky yet misguided
Then I found this. A woman in Australia who has basically dedicated her life to creating THE recipe for Singapore chicken laksa. Free on the internet along with explanatory videos
I followed the recipe and Wow, it is superb. Exactly what you’d get in a brilliant laksa restaurant in Singapore (I added dashi)
Incredible specialisation. Fantastically well done. No one can compete with that - in terms of laksa. Tho I wonder how the writer makes any money?!
Again, is on YouTube, 70 million views. Sells e-books. Also contributor to Good Food Australia and quite big social media following.
Its the new model. Be a specialist, be bloody good at it, and there is money to be made.
Aha! That totally makes sense
She deserves it. Her laksa is THE BIZ
I think I am going to have to try it.
You have to like those S E Asian hot spicy slightly sweet umami-filled coconutty curries. But if you do Laksa is maybe the peak. The most complex. A work of art
WTF did S E Asians eat before the Portuguese brought them chilis from the New World?
Basically. There were plenty of other spices. Indonesia. Spice Islands.
Ah! Interesting. I'm not sure pepper quite replaces chili but that makes sense
Also, tomatoes and potatoes, which likewise come from the Americas. What did they without them? Tomatoes are especially important in Asian cuisine (and European for that matter)
In short, imperialism may have been really bad for some conquered countries, but it was fucking great for global cuisine
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
BBC Good Food is trying to make their app a subscription based model. I think they are in big trouble.
NYTimes manages it. But then again, it's about 100x better than the BBC version.
Are you sure about NYTimes involvement. I can't see any mention to that anywhere. Its owned by Immediate Media which in turn is owned by a Germany media group.
I noted you said "managed", but I can't see any reference to that.
I think Robert means that NYT manages to have a successful food subscription channel. They do. I subscribe
Yeah, that's the model of the future, videos from professional chefs, monetised recipes, monetised videos and (low) subscription fees. I've been tempted by the £25 annual option, is it worth it? Seems a snip at that price for professional level cooking videos and recipes.
Also key question -
Do they have an imperial to metric converter for measurements? I have no clue what cups are or do.
No.
They seem utterly oblivious to the fact that not all the world using fluid ounces, cups, quarts and gallons.
Living in America, I've adjusted. But it may take a bit of getting used to for you.
My daughter, who is quite into baking, showed me a recipe containing cups and asked which size cup she should use. When I explained the US has specifically sized "cups" for it she began lecturing me on what a stupid system it was. I'm still not quite sure why it was my fault. When a 12yo realises the measurement system is stupid then quite why the whole of the US can't realise this is a mystery.
For baking it's a nightmare as everything needs to be fairly precise. I've essentially given up using US imperial recipes and I've not found it an issue. There's plenty of recipes from the UK and across Europe for the same dishes, often a lot better unless it's something like bbq meat or a US speciality.
The idea that a specific measurement system is stupid is rather odd. They are all arbitrary.
While that may be true, the metric system makes sense, 1 gram is 1 ml of water at room temperature, essentially. Imperial weights and measures should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Metric is scientific (mostly), but Imperial is human-friendly.
Who knows how much a gram is? But an ounce is roughly a handful - and similarly for many Imperial measurements.
I advocate metric for science and Imperial for everyday.
Just shift everything to metric (except pints, I'm not losing 68ml of my beer) and people will just get used to it. A handful becomes 125g, rather than whatever an ounce is.
But it won't be as good. There was something about people's inherent understanding of numbers which found that young children have an inherently logarithmic understanding of numbers, but after a few years of being drilled on the number line at school they start to think about numbers linearly.
Now the trouble with metric is that the numbers are too large and it just becomes awkward to use and it's more difficult for people to work out variations, because adding an extra 50% to 225g is harder than adding an extra half to 8oz.
This is also why we need to rebase the currency and abandon decimilisation. Inflation means that the numbers are getting too big, and if you divide your basic unit of currency into more subdivisions then you have a greater range of units of currency that can be used with reasonable numbers depending on the context.
I missed it, but have we done Big John admitting the enquiry found that he was guilty of some of the allegations? Though he maintains that the investigator was a kangaroo:
A parliamentary inquiry will conclude that John Bercow, the former Speaker, bullied three House of Commons members of staff, he has revealed, denouncing it as as “kangaroo court”.
The parliamentary commissioner for standards, Kathryn Stone, has found Bercow guilty on 21 counts out of 35 brought by Robert Lisvane, the former clerk of the Commons, and private secretaries Kate Emms and Angus Sinclair, he told the Sunday Times.
The former Speaker, who stood down in 2019, said he is appealing against Stone’s ruling, with a final decision expected by the end of the month.
I linked this report yesterday and Bercow seems to have leaked the report and is appealing
Should Kathryn Stone confirm her findings post his appeal he faces a lifetime ban from Parliament and the House of Lords
I assume he will be unique in this respect as I do not know of any speaker receiving this sanction
During the Commonwealth? IIRC one ran away for a couple of decades, and another one was impeached.
Restoration, too.
I quite like the idea of a kangaroo court. Presumably the judge & jury are kangaroos. Who else? The prosecution? defence barristers? Or are they drop bears?
A criminal court tries criminals, and a family court tries families. So I've always assumed a kangaroo court tries kangaroos.
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
They might not. Things have calmed down a touch during the last few days, give it another two weeks until she completes the report and the scene may look even calmer.
That's why I think Cummings will want to act sooner, if he has any more to add.
He signs off his latest with "I’ll say more when SG’s report is published." I believe bridge players call this finessing her.
If Labour gets 43% of the vote, with a 13 point lead over the Conservatives, and doesn't win a comfortable majority, I will eat my hat.
Not if I get to it first. Ridiculous although their failure in Scotland really doesn't help them.
By contrast if a Sunak led Tories got 38% and Labour got 37%, mirroring the Sunak and Starmer best PM numbers from Redfield this evening, then the Tories would win most seats in a hung parliament but Starmer would likely still be PM if he got SNP confidence and supply.
As I said before while Labour winning a big majority is near impossible thanks to Scottish SNP MPs, it is actually relatively easy for Starmer to still become UK PM thanks to Scottish SNP MPs
Possibly as true today as it was then: although the Internet had transformed things further.
There is a significant aspect to my career that owes a lot to this programme in the 1980s. I grew up with Acorn computers (BBC B, initially) and learnt to program on them with my final Acorn a "Risc PC" before Acorn sadly went out of business. Although I am not a pure programmer now, there have been aspects in all my job roles where a solid technical foundation and being able to get one's hands dirty with coding have been extremely useful. I am sure there are many, many people like myself.
I know lots of people who had exactly that sort of experience. Then again, I worked for Acorn.
It would not surprise me if the BBC's computer literacy program in the 1980s, with the government's help, had generated billions of revenue for the UK over the past four decades.
A small number of Acorn shares generated my new conservatory...
Yes, a possibly larger number of Acorn shares has done me well.
(I think the government made a bad move allowing SoftBank to buy ARM. But I cannot complain, as it made a nice income for me.)
That is what I was alluding to in the previous thread. My remark about "early computers" was more directed at the ICL era and the early mainframes rather than the BBC Micro which was a great success after BBC2's Horizon programme caused a govt panic on the future of IT
This just up: "The House of Lords commissioner for standards has launched an investigation into the Conservative peer Michelle Mone, relating to the PPE company awarded £203m government contracts via the “VIP lane” after she referred it to the Cabinet Office in May 2020."
It's sobering to realise that in November we were all debating whether a Labour poll lead was possible in 2021.
If a week is a long time in politics, two months is close to an eternity!
Yep, truly exciting times for politics geeks. I am one and I am genuinely excited. I think we all are on here. It's palpable. I can feel the whole board pulsing. Let's have a suitable climax now please! Go, Boris, go now.
His mps need to act immediately after Sue Gray's report
They might not. Things have calmed down a touch during the last few days, give it another two weeks until she completes the report and the scene may look even calmer.
That's why I think Cummings will want to act sooner, if he has any more to add.
He signs off his latest with "I’ll say more when SG’s report is published." I believe bridge players call this finessing her.
Hmm. Although perhaps SG's report may be sooner than we think.
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
☹️
The list of Famous Rules, continued.....
Rule 4: A rogue poll is any poll where you don't like the result.
I think moon unit is probably correct that, if an election were to be held, the libdems would end up in double figures. But I think that's more the consequence of tactical voting, rather than a great swell of support for them.
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
☹️
The list of Famous Rules, continued.....
Rule 4: A rogue poll is any poll where you don't like the result.
No don’t misunderstand me, I’m not picking and choosing polls I don’t like and saying they are rogue, i’m calling a whole batch of polls rogue. I’m saying if Tories are dropping like this the polling is flawed to plonk it all on Labour and drop Libdems too. It make no sense. The polls should pick it up as it would be in real elections. If in reality Libdem can hover up Disenchanted Tory votes In places Labour can’t, they should be going up a bit not down. Look, this poll puts greens up two and libdems down 3. The Greens party of the M25!
The LibDems are currently invisible to the man/woman on the street.
This may be bad media, bad politics or bad Lib Dems.
But it is the reason they are not profiting from the situation.
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
☹️
The list of Famous Rules, continued.....
Rule 4: A rogue poll is any poll where you don't like the result.
I think moon unit is probably correct that, if an election were to be held, the libdems would end up in double figures. But I think that's more the consequence of tactical voting, rather than a great swell of support for them.
And potentially, that's fine for them. Compare '92 and '97; the LibDem vote went down, but their sest count more than doubled.
(Theory: when Labour are in the doldrums, Lib Dems pick up some of their votes, mostly in places they can't win either. When Conservatives are in trouble, Lib Dems lose useless votes to Labour, whole gaining votes from Conservatives in places they can be competitive. For Lib Dems in particular, where the votes are matters a lot more than their number.)
As I said before while Labour winning a big majority is near impossible thanks to Scottish SNP MPs, it is actually relatively easy for Starmer to still become UK PM thanks to Scottish SNP MPs
BBC Food/Goodfood is an interesting one - I think they're both not long for this world. They're both being destroyed by YouTubers who have monetised their channels with adverts and click through revenue. I was watching a video for making some kind of Japanese beef, it had a few ads that I just lived with and it also had affiliate links to all of the equipment used in the video in the description where the recipe ingredients are typed out. I had a look and the chef probably makes somewhere in the region of $20-30k per month in advertising plus whatever he gets from click through. That's just one moderately successful chef specialising in Japanese dishes. He does them really well though and shows the exact method of how to make it well. Static web pages will never do that very well.
I don't see how BBC Food can compete with these people on any kind of scale, there's no way they can buy up the channels, they could hire chefs and monetise the videos but to get all kinds of cuisines they'd need an army of them and the channel just becomes cluttered or they need a network and there's no guarantee that they would be able to get their subscribers to cross subscribe.
In an age where my phone has got an almost 7" screen and there's chefs on YouTube offering advertising funded masterclasses why would I bother with a BBC Food written recipe from a chef who doesn't even specialise in the cuisine?
BBC Good Food is trying to make their app a subscription based model. I think they are in big trouble.
NYTimes manages it. But then again, it's about 100x better than the BBC version.
Are you sure about NYTimes involvement. I can't see any mention to that anywhere. Its owned by Immediate Media which in turn is owned by a Germany media group.
I noted you said "managed", but I can't see any reference to that.
I think Robert means that NYT manages to have a successful food subscription channel. They do. I subscribe
Yeah, that's the model of the future, videos from professional chefs, monetised recipes, monetised videos and (low) subscription fees. I've been tempted by the £25 annual option, is it worth it? Seems a snip at that price for professional level cooking videos and recipes.
Also key question -
Do they have an imperial to metric converter for measurements? I have no clue what cups are or do.
No.
They seem utterly oblivious to the fact that not all the world using fluid ounces, cups, quarts and gallons.
Living in America, I've adjusted. But it may take a bit of getting used to for you.
My daughter, who is quite into baking, showed me a recipe containing cups and asked which size cup she should use. When I explained the US has specifically sized "cups" for it she began lecturing me on what a stupid system it was. I'm still not quite sure why it was my fault. When a 12yo realises the measurement system is stupid then quite why the whole of the US can't realise this is a mystery.
For baking it's a nightmare as everything needs to be fairly precise. I've essentially given up using US imperial recipes and I've not found it an issue. There's plenty of recipes from the UK and across Europe for the same dishes, often a lot better unless it's something like bbq meat or a US speciality.
The idea that a specific measurement system is stupid is rather odd. They are all arbitrary.
While that may be true, the metric system makes sense, 1 gram is 1 ml of water at room temperature, essentially. Imperial weights and measures should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Metric is scientific (mostly), but Imperial is human-friendly.
Who knows how much a gram is? But an ounce is roughly a handful - and similarly for many Imperial measurements.
I advocate metric for science and Imperial for everyday.
An ounce is a handful? Feathers? Iron? Handful of what?
Of most baking ingredients, which are near-enough the same density. For most human day-to-day applications close enough is good enough. Encouraging people to obsess over weighing out half a pound of flour to the nearest gram (by giving the ingredient quantity as 225g instead of as 8oz) is entirely unnecessary.
I see so many baking recipes where you can tell that the measurements have been awkwardly and inconsistently converted from imperial measurements to a pretence of more precise metric measurements and it's just so much simpler and more intuitive to use imperial measurements. And then a lot of baking things make so much more sense.
Just to point out that the Imperial System has gone metric these days with Imperial units now being defined in terms of the Metric system. For example, the inch is now defined as being precisely 25.4mm
Doesn't matter. My argument is that the Imperial system is best for those circumstances where absolute precision isn't required, so it doesn't matter what the precise definition is, as long as they don't do anything absurd like change an oz to 30g, which would make a difference once you get up to a lb or two.
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
☹️
The list of Famous Rules, continued.....
Rule 4: A rogue poll is any poll where you don't like the result.
No don’t misunderstand me, I’m not picking and choosing polls I don’t like and saying they are rogue, i’m calling a whole batch of polls rogue. I’m saying if Tories are dropping like this the polling is flawed to plonk it all on Labour and drop Libdems too. It make no sense. The polls should pick it up as it would be in real elections. If in reality Libdem can hover up Disenchanted Tory votes In places Labour can’t, they should be going up a bit not down. Look, this poll puts greens up two and libdems down 3. The Greens party of the M25!
The LibDems are currently invisible to the man/woman on the street.
This may be bad media, bad politics or bad Lib Dems.
But it is the reason they are not profiting from the situation.
This just up: "The House of Lords commissioner for standards has launched an investigation into the Conservative peer Michelle Mone, relating to the PPE company awarded £203m government contracts via the “VIP lane” after she referred it to the Cabinet Office in May 2020."
Because of Partygate, few people have seemed to notice that last week a judge ruled that two 'VIP lane' PPE contracts had been awarded illegally.
This looks like another one, and there will be more to come. Bring on dodgycontractgate.
Libdem down three… but…. There’s not even enough of us to party on that industrial scale.
ANOTHER ROUGUE POLL it’s a whole batch of rough polls klaxon noise from me. 🤬
Cra crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
I think the pollings crap.
I can explain it. The uniqueness of the situation their polling process can’t handle.
Libdems double digits right not sinking now ignore rougue polls! I know better than they do. Libdems take Tory votes in reality, in ways Labour can’t. Therefore these polls not realistic
☹️
The list of Famous Rules, continued.....
Rule 4: A rogue poll is any poll where you don't like the result.
No don’t misunderstand me, I’m not picking and choosing polls I don’t like and saying they are rogue, i’m calling a whole batch of polls rogue. I’m saying if Tories are dropping like this the polling is flawed to plonk it all on Labour and drop Libdems too. It make no sense. The polls should pick it up as it would be in real elections. If in reality Libdem can hover up Disenchanted Tory votes In places Labour can’t, they should be going up a bit not down. Look, this poll puts greens up two and libdems down 3. The Greens party of the M25!
The LibDems are currently invisible to the man/woman on the street.
This may be bad media, bad politics or bad Lib Dems.
But it is the reason they are not profiting from the situation.
No Malmsy. If this were real elections in Tory areas who don’t like labour, Libdems would get the votes the opinion polls ain’t acknowledging. I’m sure of it.
I think I’m sure of it. Pollsters earn money for being clever about this, I need to respect that.
If Manchester United had any dignity they would sack Nemanja Matic, they don't need to become the football club choice of the antivaxxers. Hopefully the PL will deduct points from Manchester United if they don't sack him.
Man Utd's Nemanja Matic sends message to Novak Djokovic after deportation "shame"
Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic has shared a message of strong support for world No. 1 tennis star Novak Djokovic after he was deported from Australia on Sunday
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At -31%, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s net approval rating has fallen 12 points to the lowest rating we have recorded for him. This week’s poll finds 56% disapproving (up 6%) of his overall job performance, against 25% approving (down 6%)....
42% think Keir Starmer (up 5%) and 29% think Boris Johnson (down 7%) would be the better Prime Minister for the UK at this moment, marking Starmer’s largest lead over Johnson in this regard since we began tracking this question in June 2020.
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-gb-voting-intention-17-january-2022/
The security should be handled by salt water crocodiles. The wigs should be replaced with box jellyfish.....
I don't know what a civil court does.
Edit: and an instant win in any dismissal case esp if the employee can plead e.g. pregnancy or religious or philosophical belief.
https://youtu.be/bHnfbGyoa6o
(I think the government made a bad move allowing SoftBank to buy ARM. But I cannot complain, as it made a nice income for me.)
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-gb-voting-intention-17-january-2022/
Sunak 38%, Starmer 37% compared to Starmer 42% Johnson 29%.
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/latest-gb-voting-intention-17-january-2022/
Updated Blog : PM was told about the invite, he knew about the drinks party, he lied to parliament.
https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1483129651975315459?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1483129651975315459?s=20
10 Downing Street is not fit for purpose.
I assume it's different for each person?
Could he be a leader or is he too honest and normal for the current bunch of spivs?
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/scapegoat
Lev 16: 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Meanwhile, Boris and his supporters seem to have come up with the magic formula that by sacking no 10 civil servants and banning booze he will be able to ride out the storm
What on earth can go wrong
Boris, if you think sackings will solve this you are living in a fantasy world of your own making, and for once just do the right thing and apologise wholeheartedly, and then resign
No other action is justified and it is the only tenable action for the country and the party's interest
The country is politically paralysed until this happens
And of course @HYUFD will fully support your decision
This is not just a BJ issue. Khan says that she is aware that it has existed for 10 to 20 years.
There's an apparently full archive at https://www.devangthakkar.com/wordle_archive/
Lab 41 +1
Con 32 -3
LD 11 +1
And the Midlands split?
I notice that when I explained about the PM trying to go see the Queen when he might have been infectious and I stopped him, No10 issued a total denial and I was told that ‘Martin is supporting the PM’s denial’. This episode was also witnessed by others who will tell the official inquiry that what I have said is true and the official denials are false.
Bloody game over if true. Answer to @kinabalu s plea for something beyond parties
also
The PM’s PPS invited people to a drinks party.
The PPS was told to cancel the invite by at least two people.
He checked with the PM whether the party should go ahead.
The PM agreed it should.
They both went to the party.
It was actually a drinks party.
The PM told MPs repeatedly that he had no idea about any parties.
The events of 20 May alone, never mind the string of other events, mean the PM lied to Parliament about parties.
Not only me but other eyewitnesses who discussed this at the time would swear under oath this is what happened.
Parties, dear boy, EventsIf it cuts through, and is supported by other polls, I might revise my view that Bunter is going nowhere...
https://twitter.com/archrose90/status/1483132093869735941?s=21
There are many other photos of parties after I left yet to appear.
I’ll say more when SG’s report is published.
He is toast. Gone by end Jan.
I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the
Eye-level grill
This means that without my having to bend down
The hot fat can squirt straight into my eyes!
I see so many baking recipes where you can tell that the measurements have been awkwardly and inconsistently converted from imperial measurements to a pretence of more precise metric measurements and it's just so much simpler and more intuitive to use imperial measurements. And then a lot of baking things make so much more sense.
Wick doesn't make it into the top 5 - but neither does London. Rather surprisingly, at first sight, No 2 is Pompey - but it does have a lot of museums for its size.
[Obvs depends on how one defines culture, and the methodology ...]
And Delta poll:
Lab 41 +1
Con 32 -3
LD 11 +1
Apparently. Can't find conf online.
But if you want to push it to 3/4, you need to be a bit smarter and more aggressive.
https://twitter.com/chriscurtis94/status/1483132346077523968
Now the trouble with metric is that the numbers are too large and it just becomes awkward to use and it's more difficult for people to work out variations, because adding an extra 50% to 225g is harder than adding an extra half to 8oz.
This is also why we need to rebase the currency and abandon decimilisation. Inflation means that the numbers are getting too big, and if you divide your basic unit of currency into more subdivisions then you have a greater range of units of currency that can be used with reasonable numbers depending on the context.
As I said before while Labour winning a big majority is near impossible thanks to Scottish SNP MPs, it is actually relatively easy for Starmer to still become UK PM thanks to Scottish SNP MPs
This just up: "The House of Lords commissioner for standards has launched an investigation into the Conservative peer Michelle Mone, relating to the PPE company awarded £203m government contracts via the “VIP lane” after she referred it to the Cabinet Office in May 2020."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LArv-sEQU
This may be bad media, bad politics or bad Lib Dems.
But it is the reason they are not profiting from the situation.
(Theory: when Labour are in the doldrums, Lib Dems pick up some of their votes, mostly in places they can't win either. When Conservatives are in trouble, Lib Dems lose useless votes to Labour, whole gaining votes from Conservatives in places they can be competitive. For Lib Dems in particular, where the votes are matters a lot more than their number.)
This looks like another one, and there will be more to come. Bring on dodgycontractgate.
I think I’m sure of it. Pollsters earn money for being clever about this, I need to respect that.
Man Utd's Nemanja Matic sends message to Novak Djokovic after deportation "shame"
Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic has shared a message of strong support for world No. 1 tennis star Novak Djokovic after he was deported from Australia on Sunday
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/novak-djokovic-deported-nemanja-matic-25962721