Woman is a mood. A glance. A lilt of a voice on a soft summer dusk, carrying over the waters. Woman is a dream, a dance, a little death in the night. Woman is night, she is day, she is loss and delay. Woman is want and need, she is appetite unrequited. Always, always
She is the lipstick on the espresso cup, the scent on a silken scarf, she is the faint trace fossil of a sigh, a sigh, a sigh of painful delight. Woman. Is Woman
And that is all we need to know, and that, my friend @kinabalu is all we can ever know
I think booking Zhenya was quite a coup for the Scottish Tories.
Zhenya Jenny Dove @FitMouse I was invited to give a speech at @ScotTories conference, and got lucky to have a private meeting with @BorisJohnson , the person in charge of the decision-making in our country. I am humbled and touched. No political entity showed any interest in what I had to say until now ❤️🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/FitMouse/status/1505179840290377736
So far the Tories’ spring conference has… ✅got people talking about Partygate ✅advertised splits between the PM & Chancellor ✅started a dumb row about the Ukraine-Russia war being like Brexit … while ppl are dying
No, I was second with my "technical definition of a woman"
Indeed. But I was pointing out a potentially farcical situation. Third would not have cut it.
France are going to win, anyway
And by a distance, I fear
Ooooh, Leon going out on a limb there! Perhaps an attempt to supplant the legendary Roger and his famous Barack Obama post?
It is not exactly a daring opinion in the rugby world that France are considerably better than England, at the moment. Hell, Italy are probably better than England, as of this evening
With the simultaneous advance of Kylian Mbappe, we may soon be confronted with the uncomfortable moment when France have the best rugby AND football team in the world, and they win both of the world cups
Second. Is what France will be with a draw. Thanks to the ludicrous bonus points.
If you have to add extra bonus points to guarantee a team that wins every game wins the tournament, it should tell you that there's a problem with your other bonus points...
No, I was second with my "technical definition of a woman"
Indeed. But I was pointing out a potentially farcical situation. Third would not have cut it.
France are going to win, anyway
And by a distance, I fear
Ooooh, Leon going out on a limb there! Perhaps an attempt to supplant the legendary Roger and his famous Barack Obama post?
It is not exactly a daring opinion in the rugby world that France are considerably better than England, at the moment. Hell, Italy are probably better than England, as of this evening
With the simultaneous advance of Kylian Mbappe, we may soon be confronted with the uncomfortable moment when France have the best rugby AND football team in the world, and they win both of the world cups
Second. Is what France will be with a draw. Thanks to the ludicrous bonus points.
If you have to add extra bonus points to guarantee a team that wins every game wins the tournament, it should tell you that there's a problem with your other bonus points...
i am old school and points should be for winning and drawing , nothing else. Not least because people cannot follow it and therefore lose the anticipation of knowing what results will do what .You should not need to be a numerate nerd to follow a sport
Second. Is what France will be with a draw. Thanks to the ludicrous bonus points.
If you have to add extra bonus points to guarantee a team that wins every game wins the tournament, it should tell you that there's a problem with your other bonus points...
i am old school and points should be for winning and drawing , nothing else. Not least because people cannot follow it and therefore lose the anticipation of knowing what results will do what .You should not need to be a numerate nerd to follow a sport
Second. Is what France will be with a draw. Thanks to the ludicrous bonus points.
If you have to add extra bonus points to guarantee a team that wins every game wins the tournament, it should tell you that there's a problem with your other bonus points...
Why not just have a points difference or try difference to determine placings between those with the same number of points?
No, I was second with my "technical definition of a woman"
Indeed. But I was pointing out a potentially farcical situation. Third would not have cut it.
France are going to win, anyway
And by a distance, I fear
Ooooh, Leon going out on a limb there! Perhaps an attempt to supplant the legendary Roger and his famous Barack Obama post?
It is not exactly a daring opinion in the rugby world that France are considerably better than England, at the moment. Hell, Italy are probably better than England, as of this evening
With the simultaneous advance of Kylian Mbappe, we may soon be confronted with the uncomfortable moment when France have the best rugby AND football team in the world, and they win both of the world cups
I think booking Zhenya was quite a coup for the Scottish Tories.
Zhenya Jenny Dove @FitMouse I was invited to give a speech at @ScotTories conference, and got lucky to have a private meeting with @BorisJohnson , the person in charge of the decision-making in our country. I am humbled and touched. No political entity showed any interest in what I had to say until now ❤️🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/FitMouse/status/1505179840290377736
errrm I wonder why Boris found talking to Zhenya quite easy errrm.
Second. Is what France will be with a draw. Thanks to the ludicrous bonus points.
If you have to add extra bonus points to guarantee a team that wins every game wins the tournament, it should tell you that there's a problem with your other bonus points...
i am old school and points should be for winning and drawing , nothing else. Not least because people cannot follow it and therefore lose the anticipation of knowing what results will do what .You should not need to be a numerate nerd to follow a sport
No, I was second with my "technical definition of a woman"
Indeed. But I was pointing out a potentially farcical situation. Third would not have cut it.
France are going to win, anyway
And by a distance, I fear
Ooooh, Leon going out on a limb there! Perhaps an attempt to supplant the legendary Roger and his famous Barack Obama post?
It is not exactly a daring opinion in the rugby world that France are considerably better than England, at the moment. Hell, Italy are probably better than England, as of this evening
With the simultaneous advance of Kylian Mbappe, we may soon be confronted with the uncomfortable moment when France have the best rugby AND football team in the world, and they win both of the world cups
UGH
England really aren’t that bad. A stupid moment by one player lost the game against Scotland, away from home. The Irish game was decided by one players poor tackling technique and extremely bad luck - those collisions happen ten times a game but the player gets away with it as no direct head to head contact occurs. The side is rebuilding, and is nowhere near the finished article. We miss tuilagi, but probably should accept he won’t be a regular player ever again. Our back line lacks cutting edge, mainly because we need tuilagi. Up front the side is as good as anyone in the set piece. I expect to lose tonight. The french have been very good, and have the ability to be stunning. They are at home. Most 6 nations games are home wins. But England are not worse than Italy.
Second. Is what France will be with a draw. Thanks to the ludicrous bonus points.
If you have to add extra bonus points to guarantee a team that wins every game wins the tournament, it should tell you that there's a problem with your other bonus points...
i am old school and points should be for winning and drawing , nothing else. Not least because people cannot follow it and therefore lose the anticipation of knowing what results will do what .You should not need to be a numerate nerd to follow a sport
You don't like darts then?
I think in darts it is mainly knock out (easily understood) or in the Premier League just 2 pts for a win and 1pt for a draw - Everyone gets it and no need to be a numerate nerd to know whats everyone is required to do
I think booking Zhenya was quite a coup for the Scottish Tories.
Zhenya Jenny Dove @FitMouse I was invited to give a speech at @ScotTories conference, and got lucky to have a private meeting with @BorisJohnson , the person in charge of the decision-making in our country. I am humbled and touched. No political entity showed any interest in what I had to say until now ❤️🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/FitMouse/status/1505179840290377736
errrm I wonder why Boris found talking to Zhenya quite easy errrm.
I only have a one bed flat but I am nonetheless willing to make the sacrifice, and take Zhenya Dove in, as a refugee. Somehow we will make it work. That's the kind of of guy I am
"“It’s almost like he’s worried he won’t have many more opportunities to play the international statesman and his next tour is going to be on the lecture circuit,” said one unsympathetic Tory MP who also pointed to Johnson being forced to make friends with “second-tier” leaders rather than Biden, Olaf Scholz or Emmanuel Macron."
The point is this: Ukraine is all Boris's Christmases come at once and still not ahead in the polls.
Woman is a mood. A glance. A lilt of a voice on a soft summer dusk, carrying over the waters. Woman is a dream, a dance, a little death in the night. Woman is night, she is day, she is loss and delay. Woman is want and need, she is appetite unrequited. Always, always
She is the lipstick on the espresso cup, the scent on a silken scarf, she is the faint trace fossil of a sigh, a sigh, a sigh of painful delight. Woman. Is Woman
And that is all we need to know, and that, my friend @kinabalu is all we can ever know
Ok, very good, and my fault - I specified no cheap jokes but I didn't say no 'Peter O'Toole on a barstool' lyricizing.
Woman is a mood. A glance. A lilt of a voice on a soft summer dusk, carrying over the waters. Woman is a dream, a dance, a little death in the night. Woman is night, she is day, she is loss and delay. Woman is want and need, she is appetite unrequited. Always, always
She is the lipstick on the espresso cup, the scent on a silken scarf, she is the faint trace fossil of a sigh, a sigh, a sigh of painful delight. Woman. Is Woman
And that is all we need to know, and that, my friend @kinabalu is all we can ever know
Ok, very good, and my fault - I specified no cheap jokes but I didn't say no 'Peter O'Toole on a barstool' lyricizing.
No, I was second with my "technical definition of a woman"
Indeed. But I was pointing out a potentially farcical situation. Third would not have cut it.
France are going to win, anyway
And by a distance, I fear
Ooooh, Leon going out on a limb there! Perhaps an attempt to supplant the legendary Roger and his famous Barack Obama post?
It is not exactly a daring opinion in the rugby world that France are considerably better than England, at the moment. Hell, Italy are probably better than England, as of this evening
With the simultaneous advance of Kylian Mbappe, we may soon be confronted with the uncomfortable moment when France have the best rugby AND football team in the world, and they win both of the world cups
UGH
England really aren’t that bad. A stupid moment by one player lost the game against Scotland, away from home. The Irish game was decided by one players poor tackling technique and extremely bad luck - those collisions happen ten times a game but the player gets away with it as no direct head to head contact occurs. The side is rebuilding, and is nowhere near the finished article. We miss tuilagi, but probably should accept he won’t be a regular player ever again. Our back line lacks cutting edge, mainly because we need tuilagi. Up front the side is as good as anyone in the set piece. I expect to lose tonight. The french have been very good, and have the ability to be stunning. They are at home. Most 6 nations games are home wins. But England are not worse than Italy.
No, we're not worse than Italy. Wales are. Lol
However we have gone backwards in the last 3 years. Jones has run out of ideas
He needs to be replaced.
We still have a lot of talent, if not quite as much as the French, right now. Needs to be used better. And why on earth did we let Shaun Edwards, the best defence coach in the world, and an Englishman, go to Paris?
Well I'm still hoping that we'll find ourselves in a 1945 moment. When once war was ended a prime minister was turfed out of office.
Incorrect. We didn't wait for the end of the war. Churchill resigned on the 26th July and Japan surrendered on the 15th August.
Good point. I hope you get the jist though.
Also, we aren't at war. Also also, why does a crisis mean that a knave and fool should stay in post? It's an argument for him to be gone yesterday.
It's not like we're spoiled for choice. Throw a tennis ball at a group of MPs, and you've probably got a 95% change of hitting someone who'd be better the job than he is.
I think booking Zhenya was quite a coup for the Scottish Tories.
Zhenya Jenny Dove @FitMouse I was invited to give a speech at @ScotTories conference, and got lucky to have a private meeting with @BorisJohnson , the person in charge of the decision-making in our country. I am humbled and touched. No political entity showed any interest in what I had to say until now ❤️🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/FitMouse/status/1505179840290377736
errrm I wonder why Boris found talking to Zhenya quite easy errrm.
I only have a one bed flat but I am nonetheless willing to make the sacrifice, and take Zhenya Dove in, as a refugee. Somehow we will make it work. That's the kind of of guy I am
Inherently mean-spirited, I'm afraid. A true philanthropist like me is hoping she is one of identical triplets, so there's a whole family to welcome
Woman is a mood. A glance. A lilt of a voice on a soft summer dusk, carrying over the waters. Woman is a dream, a dance, a little death in the night. Woman is night, she is day, she is loss and delay. Woman is want and need, she is appetite unrequited. Always, always
She is the lipstick on the espresso cup, the scent on a silken scarf, she is the faint trace fossil of a sigh, a sigh, a sigh of painful delight. Woman. Is Woman
And that is all we need to know, and that, my friend @kinabalu is all we can ever know
Ok, very good, and my fault - I specified no cheap jokes but I didn't say no 'Peter O'Toole on a barstool' lyricizing.
It was irresistible, tho I was thinking more Charles Aznavour on xanax and armagnac. But a drunken Peter O Toole (is there, conceptually, a sober Peter O'Toole?) is apt, as well
I suspect that Boris said it to distract from something else.
Don't think so. Point is, if he had a moral compass a little voice would tell him, not the right thing to say. Unfortunately Johnson is the kind of person who would also imply the leader of the opposition protects paedophiles
Well I'm still hoping that we'll find ourselves in a 1945 moment. When once war was ended a prime minister was turfed out of office.
Incorrect. We didn't wait for the end of the war. Churchill resigned on the 26th July and Japan surrendered on the 15th August.
Good point. I hope you get the jist though.
Also, we aren't at war. Also also, why does a crisis mean that an knave and fool should stay in post? It's an argument for him to be gone yesterday.
It's not like we're spoiled for choice. Throw a tennis ball at a group of MPs, and you've probably got a 95% change of hitting someone who'd be better the job than he is.
While watching Oliver Dowden explain away a 250-seat loss for the Conservatives would be the highlight of my General Election, the fact is none of this should be of any surprise.
The Conservative "record" i9s being defined by events beyond its control - Covid and now the Ukraine. The rest of the domestic agenda, beyond Brexit, has been largely forgotten or sidelined. The economics of a second term looks very different with inflation back on the table and the scope for tax cuts much reduced.
People may at this stage (and we are barely half way through the parliamentary term) may not look back on this period of Government with much affection and in lieu of fighting the past or current war, the question of how any Government is going to manage a much more uncertain world in the mid to late 2020s isn't an easy one to answer.
Concentrating on "culture wars" about which the vast majority are, I suspect, in the context of falling living standards, rising costs and global uncertainty, fairly ambivalent seems a waste.
British volunteer fighters are feared to have triggered a deadly airstrike on a Ukrainian military base after their phones were detected in the area, the Telegraph can reveal.
At least 35 people were killed, potentially including three British ex-special forces troops, when 30 Russian cruise missiles pulverised the Yavoriv facility, near the Polish border, on March 13.
The target on the base is believed to have been the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, where Ukraine has been training foreign civilian recruits for its international brigade.
Now, the Telegraph has learned that around 12 to 14 phone numbers starting with +44 were visible to surveillance equipment in the area in the hours before the missile strike.
Security sources said mercenaries paid by the Wagner Group, a secretive military company with links to the Kremlin, were suspected of operating on the ground at the time.
While watching Oliver Dowden explain away a 250-seat loss for the Conservatives would be the highlight of my General Election, the fact is none of this should be of any surprise.
The Conservative "record" i9s being defined by events beyond its control - Covid and now the Ukraine. The rest of the domestic agenda, beyond Brexit, has been largely forgotten or sidelined. The economics of a second term looks very different with inflation back on the table and the scope for tax cuts much reduced.
People may at this stage (and we are barely half way through the parliamentary term) may not look back on this period of Government with much affection and in lieu of fighting the past or current war, the question of how any Government is going to manage a much more uncertain world in the mid to late 2020s isn't an easy one to answer.
Concentrating on "culture wars" about which the vast majority are, I suspect, in the context of falling living standards, rising costs and global uncertainty, fairly ambivalent seems a waste.
But if your record of making life better for people is poor, a negative culture war campaign is probably your best bet.
"Ask yourself this- are you better off now than at the last election?"
British volunteer fighters are feared to have triggered a deadly airstrike on a Ukrainian military base after their phones were detected in the area, the Telegraph can reveal.
At least 35 people were killed, potentially including three British ex-special forces troops, when 30 Russian cruise missiles pulverised the Yavoriv facility, near the Polish border, on March 13.
The target on the base is believed to have been the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, where Ukraine has been training foreign civilian recruits for its international brigade.
Now, the Telegraph has learned that around 12 to 14 phone numbers starting with +44 were visible to surveillance equipment in the area in the hours before the missile strike.
Security sources said mercenaries paid by the Wagner Group, a secretive military company with links to the Kremlin, were suspected of operating on the ground at the time.
While watching Oliver Dowden explain away a 250-seat loss for the Conservatives would be the highlight of my General Election, the fact is none of this should be of any surprise.
The Conservative "record" i9s being defined by events beyond its control - Covid and now the Ukraine. The rest of the domestic agenda, beyond Brexit, has been largely forgotten or sidelined. The economics of a second term looks very different with inflation back on the table and the scope for tax cuts much reduced.
People may at this stage (and we are barely half way through the parliamentary term) may not look back on this period of Government with much affection and in lieu of fighting the past or current war, the question of how any Government is going to manage a much more uncertain world in the mid to late 2020s isn't an easy one to answer.
Concentrating on "culture wars" about which the vast majority are, I suspect, in the context of falling living standards, rising costs and global uncertainty, fairly ambivalent seems a waste.
To me everything has changed and how each party faces the huge problems going forward will decide GE24
I do expect problems for labour and the SNP if they object to the development of oil and gas fields within the UK as we becoming self sufficient in the transition to net zero and stop importing energy, not just from Russia but elsewhere when we can provide it ourselves and with high paid UK jobs
"“It’s almost like he’s worried he won’t have many more opportunities to play the international statesman and his next tour is going to be on the lecture circuit,” said one unsympathetic Tory MP who also pointed to Johnson being forced to make friends with “second-tier” leaders rather than Biden, Olaf Scholz or Emmanuel Macron."
The point is this: Ukraine is all Boris's Christmases come at once and still not ahead in the polls.
I think there is actually a Brexit angle here. This is the first significant international event since Brexit, so we can see how the UK is likely to fit into the international setup from now on. I think G7 will be the main multilateral platform for the UK in a category that could be described as "other important Western countries" that consists of Canada and Japan, and now the UK, and which should also probably include Australia even though it's not part of G7.
Basically the US and European countries hammer out a position where the EU acts as the forum for European countries to come to a consensus. Then they turn to the G7 to try to bring the remaining three countries into the fold
I think booking Zhenya was quite a coup for the Scottish Tories.
Zhenya Jenny Dove @FitMouse I was invited to give a speech at @ScotTories conference, and got lucky to have a private meeting with @BorisJohnson , the person in charge of the decision-making in our country. I am humbled and touched. No political entity showed any interest in what I had to say until now ❤️🇺🇦 https://twitter.com/FitMouse/status/1505179840290377736
errrm I wonder why Boris found talking to Zhenya quite easy errrm.
I only have a one bed flat but I am nonetheless willing to make the sacrifice, and take Zhenya Dove in, as a refugee. Somehow we will make it work. That's the kind of of guy I am
And you have a gender-neutral toilet indoors, so it will be ideal.
I thought OGH could come up with a better headline than this. BBC and ITV not reporting this aspect of his speech at all. Who really cares what the Guardian thinks?
Boris - " And I pressed my finger on the red button for Russia and boom ... the next oligarch was on the phone quicker than you could say Tory donor."
"I had these IT lessons, from a girl. Youngish. Similar to you, but blonde. Nice girl. Lovely flat. Anyway, I was told if I pressed crt-z the screen would go blank, or copy something, or... I don't know. I can't remember.
what is everyone drinking tonight - i am on the red wine
Red wine too, a 2017 Malbec.
Am entertaining this weekend, so just popped in to say good luck to England, and that Alanis Morisette would have liked that Bottas out qualified Russell.
Under fire from whom? I have only heard about it on here and it doesn’t appear to have troubled the news.
Actually Sky have just covered it but to an onlooker the reception he received from conservatives was extraordinary and Sky highlighted how his claim about 8 current shadow cabinet members recently voted to abolish the UK's independent nuclear deterrent has been angrily rejected by labour
Woman is a mood. A glance. A lilt of a voice on a soft summer dusk, carrying over the waters. Woman is a dream, a dance, a little death in the night. Woman is night, she is day, she is loss and delay. Woman is want and need, she is appetite unrequited. Always, always
She is the lipstick on the espresso cup, the scent on a silken scarf, she is the faint trace fossil of a sigh, a sigh, a sigh of painful delight. Woman. Is Woman
And that is all we need to know, and that, my friend @kinabalu is all we can ever know
Ok, very good, and my fault - I specified no cheap jokes but I didn't say no 'Peter O'Toole on a barstool' lyricizing.
It was irresistible, tho I was thinking more Charles Aznavour on xanax and armagnac. But a drunken Peter O Toole (is there, conceptually, a sober Peter O'Toole?) is apt, as well
It was quite nice actually. But this stunt of yours - constantly talking about trans on here in order to complain how the left are constantly talking about trans - is due a snip. So that'll be it for now and indeed for a while.
It's dwarfed by the main topic - Johnson. Relating Ukraine's fight against Putin to Brexit. How the fuck can anybody even contemplate voting for this simultaneously absurd and disgusting individual if he's still there at the GE?
Suggest you think a bit about that one. Seriously, I think you should.
Under fire from whom? I have only heard about it on here and it doesn’t appear to have troubled the news.
It's the lead item on Fox News here in LA.
[Edit to add: not really. Only on CNN.]
Fake news. CNN will be showing adverts about watches or travel companies, punctuated by three milliseconds of headlines every two hours. Or is that only CNN International?
To me everything has changed and how each party faces the huge problems going forward will decide GE24
I do expect problems for labour and the SNP if they object to the development of oil and gas fields within the UK as we becoming self sufficient in the transition to net zero and stop importing energy, not just from Russia but elsewhere when we can provide it ourselves and with high paid UK jobs
Net Zero is one thing - being self-sufficient in energy is another. We can ramp up oil and gas production but that won't make us net zero - investing more in renewables seems the obvious way forward and it wasn't that long ago we had 0% of our energy derived from coal on some days.
The other side of the equation is how much energy we use and whether a few simple measures could reduce our energy consumption but that will depend on the degree to which we are prepared to change (or compromise) our lifestyle to reduce energy consumption. That's going to be the harder sell.
what is everyone drinking tonight - i am on the red wine
Tesco Cotes du Rhone Villages, preceded by Barra gin and Fevertree
A rubbish white wine that Sainsburys replaced my red wine order with. I mean who picks the stuff at Sainsbury's? We haven't got the red wine he wanted so we will replace with white?
what is everyone drinking tonight - i am on the red wine
Red wine too, a 2017 Malbec.
Am entertaining this weekend, so just popped in to say good luck to England, and that Alanis Morisette would have liked that Bottas out qualified Russell.
French, or New World?
This matters, I find the Argentinian ones too syrupy.
To me everything has changed and how each party faces the huge problems going forward will decide GE24
I do expect problems for labour and the SNP if they object to the development of oil and gas fields within the UK as we becoming self sufficient in the transition to net zero and stop importing energy, not just from Russia but elsewhere when we can provide it ourselves and with high paid UK jobs
Net Zero is one thing - being self-sufficient in energy is another. We can ramp up oil and gas production but that won't make us net zero - investing more in renewables seems the obvious way forward and it wasn't that long ago we had 0% of our energy derived from coal on some days.
The other side of the equation is how much energy we use and whether a few simple measures could reduce our energy consumption but that will depend on the degree to which we are prepared to change (or compromise) our lifestyle to reduce energy consumption. That's going to be the harder sell.
what is everyone drinking tonight - i am on the red wine
Tesco Cotes du Rhone Villages, preceded by Barra gin and Fevertree
A rubbish white wine that Sainsburys replaced my red wine order with. I mean who picks the stuff at Sainsbury's? We haven't got the red wine he wanted so we will replace with white?
First world problem obs.
Probably tipped Putin over the edge when Ocado-ski did that to him.
what is everyone drinking tonight - i am on the red wine
Red wine too, a 2017 Malbec.
Am entertaining this weekend, so just popped in to say good luck to England, and that Alanis Morisette would have liked that Bottas out qualified Russell.
French, or New World?
This matters, I find the Argentinian ones too syrupy.
French one. Clos La Cotale.
Everyone gone to bed (midnight here), leaving me on my own to watch the rugby.
what is everyone drinking tonight - i am on the red wine
Tesco Cotes du Rhone Villages, preceded by Barra gin and Fevertree
A rubbish white wine that Sainsburys replaced my red wine order with. I mean who picks the stuff at Sainsbury's? We haven't got the red wine he wanted so we will replace with white?
First world problem obs.
Weird, though. Unless it was a cabernet sauvignon/sauvignon blanc thing or similar.
what is everyone drinking tonight - i am on the red wine
Innis and Gunn Lager for me. Decided to boycott the Brew Dog since they're pretty rotten to women, and there's not much choice at the Co-Op otherwise. Tesco's have a decent selection of 'fancy cans' but I've not been out.
To me everything has changed and how each party faces the huge problems going forward will decide GE24
I do expect problems for labour and the SNP if they object to the development of oil and gas fields within the UK as we becoming self sufficient in the transition to net zero and stop importing energy, not just from Russia but elsewhere when we can provide it ourselves and with high paid UK jobs
Net Zero is one thing - being self-sufficient in energy is another. We can ramp up oil and gas production but that won't make us net zero - investing more in renewables seems the obvious way forward and it wasn't that long ago we had 0% of our energy derived from coal on some days.
The other side of the equation is how much energy we use and whether a few simple measures could reduce our energy consumption but that will depend on the degree to which we are prepared to change (or compromise) our lifestyle to reduce energy consumption. That's going to be the harder sell.
It is a balance but it is a 20 year transition
I would recommend that HMG makes energy efficiency in homes a statutory requirement with a minimum rating of C required on the sale of property, thereby making improving energy efficiency a real positive but also that house sales will need to reflect in negotiations the costs and no doubt the owner reducing the price or the buyer greeing to make the investment
I understand some mortgages are available at at lower interest rates already for energy efficient homes
The cost according to X rebellion is one trillion to insulate all our homes and that is not possible from the government purse
To me everything has changed and how each party faces the huge problems going forward will decide GE24
I do expect problems for labour and the SNP if they object to the development of oil and gas fields within the UK as we becoming self sufficient in the transition to net zero and stop importing energy, not just from Russia but elsewhere when we can provide it ourselves and with high paid UK jobs
Net Zero is one thing - being self-sufficient in energy is another. We can ramp up oil and gas production but that won't make us net zero - investing more in renewables seems the obvious way forward and it wasn't that long ago we had 0% of our energy derived from coal on some days.
The other side of the equation is how much energy we use and whether a few simple measures could reduce our energy consumption but that will depend on the degree to which we are prepared to change (or compromise) our lifestyle to reduce energy consumption. That's going to be the harder sell.
It is a balance but it is a 20 year transition
I would recommend that HMG makes energy efficiency in homes a statutory requirement with a minimum rating of C required on the sale of property, thereby making improving energy efficiency a real positive but also that house sales will need to reflect in negotiations the costs and no doubt the owner reducing the price or the buyer greeing to make the investment
I understand some mortgages are available at at lower interest rates already for energy efficient homes
The cost according to X rebellion is one trillion to insulate all our homes and that is not possible from the government purse
It won't cost anything like a trillion. XR are dickheads.
In the section headed "Patients and the public: your rights and the NHS pledges to you" it says this -
"You have the right not to be unlawfully discriminated against in the provision of NHS services including on grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity or marital or civil partnership status."
Anyone like to tell me what's wrong with this pledge?
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Ah, that is the very devil of a question
Woman is a mood. A glance. A lilt of a voice on a soft summer dusk, carrying over the waters. Woman is a dream, a dance, a little death in the night. Woman is night, she is day, she is loss and delay. Woman is want and need, she is appetite unrequited. Always, always
She is the lipstick on the espresso cup, the scent on a silken scarf, she is the faint trace fossil of a sigh, a sigh, a sigh of painful delight. Woman. Is Woman
And that is all we need to know, and that, my friend @kinabalu is all we can ever know
Is what France will be with a draw. Thanks to the ludicrous bonus points.
Zhenya Jenny Dove
@FitMouse
I was invited to give a speech at
@ScotTories
conference, and got lucky to have a private meeting with
@BorisJohnson
, the person in charge of the decision-making in our country.
I am humbled and touched.
No political entity showed any interest in what I had to say until now ❤️🇺🇦
https://twitter.com/FitMouse/status/1505179840290377736
Asking for
Carriea friend.✅got people talking about Partygate
✅advertised splits between the PM & Chancellor
✅started a dumb row about the Ukraine-Russia war being like Brexit … while ppl are dying
Maybe cancelling is ok in some circs, no?
https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1505247924703436813
The UK voted to leave the EU in a referendum, the UK was not fighting for freedom from the EU following an EU invasion of the UK.
The Ukrainian resistance to Russian invasion is therefore rather different
Third would not have cut it.
Unfortunately our PM isn't very sensible.
And by a distance, I fear
With the simultaneous advance of Kylian Mbappe, we may soon be confronted with the uncomfortable moment when France have the best rugby AND football team in the world, and they win both of the world cups
UGH
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1505201788533846020?t=b4KXaPyFHYsENZs0LNLYsA&s=19
France are joint favourites to win the FIFA world cup, with Brazil, 6/1
France are joint favourites to win the rugby world cup, with NZ: 5/2
In both cases I'd have France as actual favourites, because Mbappe in the first, and home advantage in the second
What odds England?
Not just the conclusion, with which I agree, but far more relevant (as agreeing with me doesn't make it right) a very clear explanation and analogy.
Impressed.
BoZo thinks the purpose of the war is to keep him in the job.
In his head it makes sense to conflate them
Rugby world cup, about the same, maybe longer
The side is rebuilding, and is nowhere near the finished article. We miss tuilagi, but probably should accept he won’t be a regular player ever again. Our back line lacks cutting edge, mainly because we need tuilagi.
Up front the side is as good as anyone in the set piece.
I expect to lose tonight. The french have been very good, and have the ability to be stunning. They are at home. Most 6 nations games are home wins.
But England are not worse than Italy.
"“It’s almost like he’s worried he won’t have many more opportunities to play the international statesman and his next tour is going to be on the lecture circuit,” said one unsympathetic Tory MP who also pointed to Johnson being forced to make friends with “second-tier” leaders rather than Biden, Olaf Scholz or Emmanuel Macron."
The point is this: Ukraine is all Boris's Christmases come at once and still not ahead in the polls.
Xander King of the wolds 🇺🇦
@Xander_has_an_X
Replying to @RachelWilde13 @Baroness_Nichol and @mcgilead
Which is it? Six? Or seven?
Emma Harriet Nicholson
@Baroness_Nichol
Now ten
https://twitter.com/Baroness_Nichol/status/1505257331218690053
https://twitter.com/FitMouse/status/1505179840290377736
Boris - " And I pressed my finger on the red button for Russia and boom ... the next oligarch was on the phone quicker than you could say Tory donor."
However we have gone backwards in the last 3 years. Jones has run out of ideas
He needs to be replaced.
We still have a lot of talent, if not quite as much as the French, right now. Needs to be used better. And why on earth did we let Shaun Edwards, the best defence coach in the world, and an Englishman, go to Paris?
Pfff!
Also also, why does a crisis mean that a knave and fool should stay in post? It's an argument for him to be gone yesterday.
It's not like we're spoiled for choice. Throw a tennis ball at a group of MPs, and you've probably got a 95% change of hitting someone who'd be better the job than he is.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1505227149225205764?s=20&t=8fHHm4G30EQv-dnaS_xTyQ
Video of Azov soldiers sabotaging a railroad bridge to hamper Russia’s resupply efforts.
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1505233928872935433?s=20&t=8fHHm4G30EQv-dnaS_xTyQ
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/conservatives-oliver-dowden-speech-labour-b2039578.html
The Conservative "record" i9s being defined by events beyond its control - Covid and now the Ukraine. The rest of the domestic agenda, beyond Brexit, has been largely forgotten or sidelined. The economics of a second term looks very different with inflation back on the table and the scope for tax cuts much reduced.
People may at this stage (and we are barely half way through the parliamentary term) may not look back on this period of Government with much affection and in lieu of fighting the past or current war, the question of how any Government is going to manage a much more uncertain world in the mid to late 2020s isn't an easy one to answer.
Concentrating on "culture wars" about which the vast majority are, I suspect, in the context of falling living standards, rising costs and global uncertainty, fairly ambivalent seems a waste.
Even HYUFD is coming over to the dark side.
At least 35 people were killed, potentially including three British ex-special forces troops, when 30 Russian cruise missiles pulverised the Yavoriv facility, near the Polish border, on March 13.
The target on the base is believed to have been the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, where Ukraine has been training foreign civilian recruits for its international brigade.
Now, the Telegraph has learned that around 12 to 14 phone numbers starting with +44 were visible to surveillance equipment in the area in the hours before the missile strike.
Security sources said mercenaries paid by the Wagner Group, a secretive military company with links to the Kremlin, were suspected of operating on the ground at the time.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/19/british-volunteer-fighters-may-have-triggered-deadly-strike/
"Ask yourself this- are you better off now than at the last election?"
I do expect problems for labour and the SNP if they object to the development of oil and gas fields within the UK as we becoming self sufficient in the transition to net zero and stop importing energy, not just from Russia but elsewhere when we can provide it ourselves and with high paid UK jobs
But, oh no, back in Putin's kremlin the Ukr people would throw flowers at the russian troops as they were liberating them from Hitler.
Basically the US and European countries hammer out a position where the EU acts as the forum for European countries to come to a consensus. Then they turn to the G7 to try to bring the remaining three countries into the fold
"I had these IT lessons, from a girl. Youngish. Similar to you, but blonde. Nice girl. Lovely flat. Anyway, I was told if I pressed crt-z the screen would go blank, or copy something, or... I don't know. I can't remember.
Do you offer IT lessons?"
[Edit to add: not really. Only on CNN.]
Am entertaining this weekend, so just popped in to say good luck to England, and that Alanis Morisette would have liked that Bottas out qualified Russell.
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-putin-in-a-panic-over-revolution-in-moscow-as-he-seeks-to-snuff-out-freedom-in-ukraine-boris-johnson-says-12570095
It's dwarfed by the main topic - Johnson. Relating Ukraine's fight against Putin to Brexit. How the fuck can anybody even contemplate voting for this simultaneously absurd and disgusting individual if he's still there at the GE?
Suggest you think a bit about that one. Seriously, I think you should.
I'm playing scrabble with Midge Ure, I've only got four letters left, but they mean nothing to me.
The other side of the equation is how much energy we use and whether a few simple measures could reduce our energy consumption but that will depend on the degree to which we are prepared to change (or compromise) our lifestyle to reduce energy consumption. That's going to be the harder sell.
First world problem obs.
This matters, I find the Argentinian ones too syrupy.
Everyone gone to bed (midnight here), leaving me on my own to watch the rugby.
still weird, though
a) Scottish?
b) Anyone of whom I should have heard?
On your question.
Are websites applicable? I am sure there is a telecomms one called VONR .
Or if you can find an E on the board, ROVEN is available.
(Roven is the past tense for reeve, which is a nautical term for passing a rope through a hole or ring.)
I would recommend that HMG makes energy efficiency in homes a statutory requirement with a minimum rating of C required on the sale of property, thereby making improving energy efficiency a real positive but also that house sales will need to reflect in negotiations the costs and no doubt the owner reducing the price or the buyer greeing to make the investment
I understand some mortgages are available at at lower interest rates already for energy efficient homes
The cost according to X rebellion is one trillion to insulate all our homes and that is not possible from the government purse
Copy-catting Boris Johnson in appeasing Putin then, while condemning him now.
And for same self-serving crap-politico motivation.
Am I weird?
In the section headed "Patients and the public: your rights and the NHS pledges to you" it says this -
"You have the right not to be unlawfully discriminated against in the provision of NHS services including on grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity or marital or civil partnership status."
Anyone like to tell me what's wrong with this pledge?