- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
That's right, like standing up in Wiltshire 4000 BC and saying what's all this Stonehenge stuff then?
It might take 6,000 years to properly appreciate them.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
LOL
Don’t know why you are laughing. I have it 50/50 wether you survive questioning Putin’s imminent demise. PB has been raised by Dr Who, Babylon 5 and The Carry On films, where the bad guys always come a cropper.
One can easily imagine the reaction of John "Nuke 'em" Sheridan to Putin.......
Consider the last campaign. On anything like those numbers, Yes wins through with a positive message, vs. a dour, negative No campaign.
There is every reason for no to fight a positive campaign
I don’t think I’ve seen a positive case made. In full disclosure I am English and would love the union to survive, but were I Scottish I think I’d vote Yes for similar reasons to why I voted to leave the EU. Sometimes it’s a matter of principle, and if enough Scots “feel” like an independent country and don’t “feel” British then the case is made.
I do think, that the situation in Ukraine might influence Scottish independence. A lot of careless and naive assumptions about defence are not safe. The SNP epitomise this - posturing in their condemnation of Putin and Russia, whilst also wanting to get rid of the UK's nuclear deterrent.
For me, the issue of defence is one of two reasons why I would want to preserve the union. The other is the need to preserve free movement and avoid a hard border - for the sake of family connections and employment more than anything else.
Only 50% of conservatives support the commonwealth
Do you think the Commonwealth should or should not continue in its current form?"
% should
50% Conservatives 42% pensioners 36% 50-64 yr-olds 34% all Brits 32% Liberal Democrats 30% 25-49 yr-olds 25% 18-24 yr olds 25% Labour voters
YouGov Mar 29 #CommonwealthDay
Hmm, there are various interpretations - I'm sure a Tory such has HYUFD, given his views on the mystic unity of the Anglo-Saxon [edit] former Dominions, has a different idea of the correct direction to take than, say, your Labour-voting student.
It might also be that immigrants from Commonwealth countries have a more favourable view than their descendants. It is hard to read too much into that poll. What does the question even mean?
I get the impression that the Commonwealth is much more meaningful to pensioners (like me) because they remember that in their parents' time huge numbers of people from there had come to Europe to save us - which is pretty darned impressive, seeing that they could have sat in Australia, India and so on and observed developments much as we do Ukraine - sympathy, worry, supplies, but no troops.
In recent years I can only think of a few ceremonial affairs plus the Commonwealth Games. I'm not against it at all and hope it continues, much as I feel about UNESCO, but it doesn't seem to do very much any more. The original hope was that it would be an international community of peaceful like-minded countries who would help promote international amity. It's not worked out quite that way, but that's not a reason to abolish it.
ECB considering launch of 12-team Premier League as part of radical new blueprint for English domestic game
I hardly care what they do, except that I'dlike to see any new teams created given sensible names, instead of the piles of crap some PR people sold them for the names of the Hundred franchises.
Nah, they're dressing up a retreat from those two as part of a peace process but it's probably to reinforce other parts of the invasion force that have been hollowed out.
If their frontline units have taken 25-40% losses, as seems to be the case, then even if withdrawn from Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy, they will need some time to regroup before being committed to the front line again. And they will be further attrited during their retreat under fire.
There is some evidence that the Russian forces have already run through their normal reserve units, as T-60 tanks, presumably resurrected from storage, are now turning up dead on the battlefield.
Not withstanding the Russian casualties' witch have been high, as have the Ukrainians. Russia can and indeed appear to be pulling troops back over the boarder in the North east, which lets them rest and maybe even resupplied a bit, for where they can be moved to other parts of the war.
The Ukrainians even when they reach the boarder, cannot properly rest or be redeployed, as they don't know if the Russians will come back over that boarder. Thus giving an advantage to Russia.
I think you are vastly overestimating Russia's capacity to regroup, replace and resupply its mortally damaged elite units.
Vastly I think overstates it.
Yes, Russia is not going to get back full fighting strength in 5 days rest, or whatever, but it does not need to, it just needs a bit of rest, and can then be stronger than it is not, but not as strong as it was a month ago.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainians have also taken a lot of losses, and if they don't know when the Russians will be back cant rest in the same way,
thus comparative advantage to Russia.
I think you overestimate the ability of the Russian forces to quickly regroup.
For a start, a formation which has taken 20-30% losses, is not going to be in a hurry to get back into the fight. They are going to be shell shocked and desperate to avoid being in the next lot of losses.
Russia needs to pull fresh forces from other parts of the country. But in doing so, they weaken their hold there.
Now: can Russia take Mauripol and therefore hold a narrow sliver from the Donbass to the Crimea? Probably. But holding territory when the locals don't want you there, surrounded by land held by people who don't want you there...
And it's notable that the (admittedly Ukrainian) proposals circulated doesn't include any mention of the coastline.
Russia has an answer to that population Problem, they are deporting the population to camps in Russia, 60,000 from Mariupol, and over 400,000 total. thus problem solved for them, and they now have a bargaining chip, drop the sanctions or we don't give the people back, when they are released, Ukraine needs to find homes for them.
we can get an idea of the areas where the Russians are planning on keeping by where they are deporting people from, very very sad, and echoes, of soviet policy, Puyin is wicked, and sadly winning.
You keep repeating that he is winning.
In my mind, 'winning' would involve his country being in a better position than five weeks ago, and no matter how I strain, I can't see that.
I hope he looses, I really want him to loose, we are all focusing on the way he is loosing, but in a complex pitcher, with things on both scales, and the outcome of many things still uncertain, it looks to me like he is wining. he could have been defeated, but its not happened, he will get a peace treaty more or less on his terms, and lie about the losses.
Early on in this conflict, I assumed that Putin was incredibly smart, and had wargamed every angle. Essentially, this man made tens (or hundreds) of billions, consolidated his hold on Russia, crushed rebellious provinces, etc.
Basically, like many others, I assumed that Putin was playing 5D chess.
We've all been slow to respond to new information. Putin wasn't playing 5D chess: he was woefully ignorant of the capabilities of his own armed forces, and of the likely resistance of the Ukrainians. He massively miscalculated and has taken enormous damage.
I think you are still of the view that Russia is a military superpower that just needs to reorient their forces to deal a knock out blow. And I think that is wrong. Or, at least, it ignores the fact that what remains of the Russian forces outside Ukraine is either (a) conscripts, (b) holding down other rebellious provinces or (c) Putin's own personal security detail in Moscow.
Now, can they grind the Ukrainians into a bloody stalemate in the East? Probably. But that isn't victory for Russia. That's a continued crushing cost, as they tip more men and weapons into a part of a foreign country that doesn't want them.
And every day Russia remains in this fight, the West weans itself a little more off of Russia's energy.
Quite the opposite, I thought that when Putin started this he had made a massive mistake and was going to pay for it, the early Ukrainian resistance was tremendous and there where indications that the west might be bothered enough to make a deference.
But the west in nether united or phatically resolute, we are supposedly sanctioning the nation that we are buying close to a billion euros of fuel of a day. with lots of companies still operating.
Russia is committing terrible war crimes, and when one leader criticises, then Macron gets on his 'high hours' and would rather crises the POTUSA than to day a rude word against Putin.
Putin commits genocide, on millions, but we would rather talk about one actor slapping one comedian in LA. Putin guest that we are not interested in standing up for freedom and on the would he was right.
Germany promises to spend 100 billion Euro on defence soon, but cant/won't give Ukraine the weapons it needs now. just 5 billion of Mig 29s, S-300s and more in the last 2 weeks could have saved themselves and the would so much.
The fighting is at a standstill and Putin holds the bits he really wants. He can now dictate a peace treaty, where the would we recognise his gains, and he will feel no obligation to keep his side of the barging when it no longer souts him.
I don't think Germany has any decent weapons it can ship to the Ukraine. Did you read the NYTimes article on the state of the German army, and how even one of its best equipped divisions in Lithuania lacks the same level of kit as the Brits, Americans, French or even the Lithuanians.
But that's by-the-by.
Russia holds pretty much the same territory, or maybe a little less, than it did one week in. It has lost more than 250 tanks, and 750 APCs.
And if there's one thing we've learned from Afghanistan and Iraq, it's that invasion is usually the easy bit. After that it gets harder.
Lol, Hancock doing some serious BJ rslicking on C4 News. He's desperate to be back 'in government', and given the way things are going it wouldn't be the most unlikely outcome.
'I've invited Matt back into government because all of us need to put COVID, and all that occurred during those challenging times, behind us.' would be a great line for Boris to bang out.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
I generally read the thread backwards, from the newest post first to the oldest. Then I come across a gem like this, without quotes, and wonder what on earth has triggered it...
Lol, Hancock doing some serious BJ rslicking on C4 News. He's desperate to be back 'in government', and given the way things are going it wouldn't be the most unlikely outcome.
Didn't hear it. Did he get past the 'Why are you talking about this stuff? Don't you know there's a war on?' line that has been reeled out by all the rest of them?
Kind of, but BJ's heroic 'leadership not just for this country but for frankly the effort of the West' during said war was part of his schtick. That little wanker was an excellent counterpoint to the sobbing widow on just before angrily stating that she should have broken the rules and broken down the hospital doors so she could see her dying husband.
Consider the last campaign. On anything like those numbers, Yes wins through with a positive message, vs. a dour, negative No campaign.
Yes lost by a 10% margin last time against an Alistair Darling led No for goodness sake.
For Yes to be on just 47% post Brexit is pathetic. Though of course the Tory government will continue to refuse indyref2 for a generation, the SNP will need Starmer as PM reliant on them to get one
What is this, ****ing blue whale generations now??
"Greenland sharks are now the longest-living vertebrates known on Earth, scientists say. Researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of 28 of the animals, and estimated that one female was about 400 years old."
But only one of you prodded Nogbad the Bad with it?
Talking of which, now you have evoked him like the naughty Shaman, and it will now rise in the East and slouch towards us, I’ve got Stuart’s new avatar.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
I think we'll see a lot more of these and mined roads as the Russians start pulling back from entrenched positions towards* the Belarus and Russian borders. Ambushes and harrying actions.
PS * i.e. along predictable routes towards ...
If they can even get the equipment back along the roads. There’s plenty of blown up bridges between (for example) Irpin and Chernobyl. Loads of opportunities to ambush the Russians as they retreat.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
The head of Chechnya republic Kadyrov desperately wants people to think he is fighting in #Ukraine. First, he lied about being near #Kyiv when he was seen in Chechnya. Now he says is in Mariupol and posts this picture, not realizing, but there are no Rosneft stations in Ukraine.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
Reports of an ammo dump going up in Belgograd across the border in Russia. Russian incompetence, Russian sabotage, or Ukraine getting more confident in taking the fight to the enemy?
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
Aliens? Lab bats? Lady’s with willys?
It’s a 7% waning crescent - does that help?
Perhaps it was a woke alien transgender bat who voted remain, supports devolution and finds Starmer quite intriguing?
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
QED
Total Denial there is even a problem
Have to admit, this is the funniest I've seen you in a long while, Sean.
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
Yes! Even those PBers who detest (or at least deplore) Malmebury's politics respect his graphics!!
Even - or is it especially? - when we don't know what the heck they mean!!!
And that’s why you can’t say they are wrong.
They have a Pavlov dog trigger with me, soon as I see them I start mixing cocktails.
If you only despise my politics, I'm doing it wrong.
The graphs are pretty simple - mostly about showing relative shifts in the data. What's going up and what's going down.
As to cases going up or down - so far, case R is still above 1. That data is delayed by a few days, but is considerably more reliable than comparing days over intervals...
They are very beautiful. Especially the green one.
I think we'll see a lot more of these and mined roads as the Russians start pulling back from entrenched positions towards* the Belarus and Russian borders. Ambushes and harrying actions.
PS * i.e. along predictable routes towards ...
If they can even get the equipment back along the roads. There’s plenty of blown up bridges between (for example) Irpin and Chernobyl. Loads of opportunities to ambush the Russians as they retreat.
It would be nice if a sizable force of Ukrainians with anti-tank weapons could do a flanking movement through Belarus territory to meet the retreating Russians coming north while others harry them from behind.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
Aliens? Lab bats? Lady’s with willys?
It’s a 7% waning crescent - does that help?
Perhaps it was a woke alien transgender bat who voted remain, supports devolution and finds Starmer quite intriguing?
Then I fear the poor alien trans bat set for a huge disappointment with its Starmer vote
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
Yes! Even those PBers who detest (or at least deplore) Malmebury's politics respect his graphics!!
Even - or is it especially? - when we don't know what the heck they mean!!!
And that’s why you can’t say they are wrong.
They have a Pavlov dog trigger with me, soon as I see them I start mixing cocktails.
If you only despise my politics, I'm doing it wrong.
The graphs are pretty simple - mostly about showing relative shifts in the data. What's going up and what's going down.
As to cases going up or down - so far, case R is still above 1. That data is delayed by a few days, but is considerably more reliable than comparing days over intervals...
They are very beautiful. Especially the green one.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
QED
Total Denial there is even a problem
I do not know what the problem you refer to is so I’m unable to deny it.
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
Yes! Even those PBers who detest (or at least deplore) Malmebury's politics respect his graphics!!
Even - or is it especially? - when we don't know what the heck they mean!!!
And that’s why you can’t say they are wrong.
They have a Pavlov dog trigger with me, soon as I see them I start mixing cocktails.
If you only despise my politics, I'm doing it wrong.
The graphs are pretty simple - mostly about showing relative shifts in the data. What's going up and what's going down.
As to cases going up or down - so far, case R is still above 1. That data is delayed by a few days, but is considerably more reliable than comparing days over intervals...
They are very beautiful. Especially the green one.
I've just put in an order for a new entry level Toyota Yaris (hybrid). Got a 10% discount on the list price and 0% finance for 42 months with a low deposit. Presumably some end of financial year panic on the part of the dealer. The price of used cars is too high - may as well buy a new one if you can wait 4 months for delivery.
Reports of an ammo dump going up in Belgograd across the border in Russia. Russian incompetence, Russian sabotage, or Ukraine getting more confident in taking the fight to the enemy?
Especially the bit where he compares the maximum itheortriecal size of the Ukrainian army if they called up all their reserves and conscripts with the actual Russian invasion force.
Poor Liddle Wussians were outnumbered it seems. But not to fear.....
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
Reports of an ammo dump going up in Belgograd across the border in Russia. Russian incompetence, Russian sabotage, or Ukraine getting more confident in taking the fight to the enemy?
looks big, hope its not that white prosperous stuff.
BR I know and respect the fact that you are dyslexic, I am very glad it doesn't stop you posting here, but can I just say that some of your deviations from standard spelling are bloody genius?
I've just put in an order for a new entry level Toyota Yaris (hybrid). Got a 10% discount on the list price and 0% finance for 42 months with a low deposit. Presumably some end of financial year panic on the part of the dealer. The price of used cars is too high - may as well buy a new one if you can wait 4 months for delivery.
We have a 2016 Yaris, also a hybrid. I love it. Easy to drive as electric drive chain, decent economy 62 mpg in summer, 58 in winter on unleaded. However, despite the hybrid hype, it’s just an efficient petro car. You can’t charge it up other than from the petrol engine, plus regenerative braking etc. It’s also slightly too small, so next model up would suit us better. But still love it.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
QED
Total Denial there is even a problem
I do not know what the problem you refer to is so I’m unable to deny it.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
Someone has had a few too many glasses and is amusing themselves.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
QED
Total Denial there is even a problem
I do not know what the problem you refer to is so I’m unable to deny it.
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
Even in a Market Garden, some people don't know their onions.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
Someone has had a few too many glasses and is amusing themselves.
Happy,Shopper Polish Liebfraumilch can have that affect.
Reports of an ammo dump going up in Belgograd across the border in Russia. Russian incompetence, Russian sabotage, or Ukraine getting more confident in taking the fight to the enemy?
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
There is a rather long history of trying to do that - IIRC the first attempts at detonating a line of mines when one is hit were tried in the American Civil War.
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
Someone has had a few too many glasses and is amusing themselves.
Presumably a strained wrist is preventing the standard way of doing that.
The head of Chechnya republic Kadyrov desperately wants people to think he is fighting in #Ukraine. First, he lied about being near #Kyiv when he was seen in Chechnya. Now he says is in Mariupol and posts this picture, not realizing, but there are no Rosneft stations in Ukraine.
There are however 2 groups of anti-Kadyrov anti Russian Chechens fighting alongside the Ukrainians in Ukraine, the problem is problem one are hard line Islamic purists that don't like Kadyrov because he is not a good enough Muslim and the other is a more liberal/western group.
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
Yes! Even those PBers who detest (or at least deplore) Malmebury's politics respect his graphics!!
Even - or is it especially? - when we don't know what the heck they mean!!!
And that’s why you can’t say they are wrong.
They have a Pavlov dog trigger with me, soon as I see them I start mixing cocktails.
If you only despise my politics, I'm doing it wrong.
The graphs are pretty simple - mostly about showing relative shifts in the data. What's going up and what's going down.
As to cases going up or down - so far, case R is still above 1. That data is delayed by a few days, but is considerably more reliable than comparing days over intervals...
They are very beautiful. Especially the green one.
As much as they have been informative during the pandemic, and I am thankful for the hard work @Malmesbury puts into them, it’s not clear to me what value daily government statistics add now, beyond contributing negatively to the nation’s already fragile mental health.
People are trying to get on with their lives, covid is now lower risk than influenza. What exactly is the advantage of offering daily infection data offered to a granular local level? “We are riddled with it around here…”
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
QED
Total Denial there is even a problem
Leon, just wondering, is the problem the lack of westered support for Ukraine and are you about to depart to join the Ukrainian Forin Legion?
If - or rather WHEN - it turns out I was right about that, the naysayers on here are going to look total fools. I’m not going to name them, they know who they are. We all know who they are, they don’t need any more celebrity
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
What are you speaking about ?
QED
Total Denial there is even a problem
Leon, just wondering, is the problem the lack of westered support for Ukraine and are you about to depart to join the Ukrainian Forin Legion?
Quite obviously a shaved parmesan shortage in his deli.
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
Yes! Even those PBers who detest (or at least deplore) Malmebury's politics respect his graphics!!
Even - or is it especially? - when we don't know what the heck they mean!!!
And that’s why you can’t say they are wrong.
They have a Pavlov dog trigger with me, soon as I see them I start mixing cocktails.
If you only despise my politics, I'm doing it wrong.
The graphs are pretty simple - mostly about showing relative shifts in the data. What's going up and what's going down.
As to cases going up or down - so far, case R is still above 1. That data is delayed by a few days, but is considerably more reliable than comparing days over intervals...
They are very beautiful. Especially the green one.
As much as they have been informative during the pandemic, and I am thankful for the hard work @Malmesbury puts into them, it’s not clear to me what value daily government statistics add now, beyond contributing negatively to the nation’s already fragile mental health.
People are trying to get on with their lives, covid is now lower risk than influenza. What exactly is the advantage of offering daily infection data offered to a granular local level? “We are riddled with it around here…”
agree, some people seem to have become addicted to them, stopping the updates at weekends was a good start, the would did not end, I think we could/should go to weekly and then monthly repotting.
I've just put in an order for a new entry level Toyota Yaris (hybrid). Got a 10% discount on the list price and 0% finance for 42 months with a low deposit. Presumably some end of financial year panic on the part of the dealer. The price of used cars is too high - may as well buy a new one if you can wait 4 months for delivery.
We have a 2016 Yaris, also a hybrid. I love it. Easy to drive as electric drive chain, decent economy 62 mpg in summer, 58 in winter on unleaded. However, despite the hybrid hype, it’s just an efficient petro car. You can’t charge it up other than from the petrol engine, plus regenerative braking etc. It’s also slightly too small, so next model up would suit us better. But still love it.
Yeah we've currently got a '17 Yaris, but it is a 1.5 Manual. It is the wrong engine for stop start round town driving which is all we basically do aside from the odd longer weekend trip. It gets about 37 MPG. The regenerative battery with the hybrid is better for stop start driving, more efficient, less air pollution also. We don't have an accessible domestic charging point so electric isn't an option. The size is ok - we used to have a big, very comfortable saloon but it was a pain to park and manouvere around town.
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
Even in a Market Garden, some people don't know their onions.
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
Yes! Even those PBers who detest (or at least deplore) Malmebury's politics respect his graphics!!
Even - or is it especially? - when we don't know what the heck they mean!!!
And that’s why you can’t say they are wrong.
They have a Pavlov dog trigger with me, soon as I see them I start mixing cocktails.
If you only despise my politics, I'm doing it wrong.
The graphs are pretty simple - mostly about showing relative shifts in the data. What's going up and what's going down.
As to cases going up or down - so far, case R is still above 1. That data is delayed by a few days, but is considerably more reliable than comparing days over intervals...
They are very beautiful. Especially the green one.
As much as they have been informative during the pandemic, and I am thankful for the hard work @Malmesbury puts into them, it’s not clear to me what value daily government statistics add now, beyond contributing negatively to the nation’s already fragile mental health.
People are trying to get on with their lives, covid is now lower risk than influenza. What exactly is the advantage of offering daily infection data offered to a granular local level? “We are riddled with it around here…”
There is a rather long history of trying to do that - IIRC the first attempts at detonating a line of mines when one is hit were tried in the American Civil War.
It sounds like a good idea, however in the video it does look like most (maybe all of the vehicles cared on driving. so maybe not as effective as it looks.
- Cases - UP. R is close to 1. - In hospital - UP - MV beds - UP - Admissions UP. R is reducing slowly. - Deaths - UP
Don't you mean cases does? only very slightly, but if you compare todays number with same day last week, or this week with last week, then cases are down, all be it by only 3%, but down is down.
You may be big Rich, you may have taken on PBs collective agreement of Putin heading to defeat, but you can’t take on the Malmesbury Monoliths.
Yes! Even those PBers who detest (or at least deplore) Malmebury's politics respect his graphics!!
Even - or is it especially? - when we don't know what the heck they mean!!!
And that’s why you can’t say they are wrong.
They have a Pavlov dog trigger with me, soon as I see them I start mixing cocktails.
If you only despise my politics, I'm doing it wrong.
The graphs are pretty simple - mostly about showing relative shifts in the data. What's going up and what's going down.
As to cases going up or down - so far, case R is still above 1. That data is delayed by a few days, but is considerably more reliable than comparing days over intervals...
They are very beautiful. Especially the green one.
As much as they have been informative during the pandemic, and I am thankful for the hard work @Malmesbury puts into them, it’s not clear to me what value daily government statistics add now, beyond contributing negatively to the nation’s already fragile mental health.
People are trying to get on with their lives, covid is now lower risk than influenza. What exactly is the advantage of offering daily infection data offered to a granular local level? “We are riddled with it around here…”
I think there is now an understanding among people who are realising that it’s mostly not dangerous now.* They’ve had it and recovered. All their friends and family the same. There is disruption at school/work etc as people are off sick. The pandemic is over, unless an unthinkable variant arrives.
*People are dying every day, and still getting admitted to hospital. But with 1 in 11 testing positive at any time according to the ONS this wave will subside soon, and the numbers going to hospital are minuscule in comparison. So yes stop the daily doom data. It only upsets the iSAGE crowd and their sycophants “Of course I Still wear an ffp3 on the one occasion a month I leave the house, at 2 am to visit the 24 h Tesco. You can all thank me and worship my virtue signalling”
A Tory MP asked a teenager if he was "a true Scotsman" and lifted the youth's kilt before sexually assaulting his 15-year-old brother in a bunkbed, a court has heard.
Oryx's numbers going up quite rapidly now. Wondering if this is that he has got some help with the backlog, or if, as would be expected, and army on the run is losing more kit than it was when attacking.
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
Even in a Market Garden, some people don't know their onions.
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
Paratroopers are very lightly armed, aren't good against tanks or heavy ordnance, and are only good for 2-3 days before they run out of ammo.
Then, it's an easy job to round then up.
They're talked about like they're some sort of hyperpowerful mechanised supermarines but they're really just mobile light infantry and it's silly to drop mobile light infantry way behind enemy lines, and leave them to it, anywhere.
24 full-sample Westminster voting intention polls were conducted* in Scotland during 2021.
To date in 2022: zero.
Something’s up.
(*published)
Hmm. Niot having [edit] 6 in 3 months feels like it's getting more than a stat fluctuation, especially as you'd expect spacing to be non-random to begin with (ie more evenly spaced than the null hypothesis).
In 2021, what proportion of the - as you say - published polls were funded by Unionist parties or media, do you know?
87.5% of the 2021 polls were published by Unionist media. That they appear to have suddenly desisted (or at least desisted from publishing the findings) speaks volumes.
Mm, that's about 7/8 - so that leaves just 3 polls with non-Unionist funders. One every four months on average. And we're only three momths into 2022. Barring posh Bayesian analysis, a very rough conclusion is that we can't legitimately rule out the null hypothesis that the non-Unionist funders are behaving normally, all other things equal. Which is a massive contrast.
I’d argue the unionist funders are behaving rationally too
Polls are a relatively cheap way to produce a front page story.
There’s been quite a lot of other stuff going on. Another poll saying 48/52 one way or the other wouldn’t create many waves right now so isn’t worth the money
Hey Tim T, the Fox Weather Channel tells me that Maryland is gonna start thawing out Wed or Thurs.
Connected with massive upsurge from Gulf of Mexico of super-heated air NOT directly related to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Cancun).
Inshallah. It has been a bit brass monkeys here for the last few days, and we've had to put up 300' of 7' deer fencing in the howling frigid winds as Mr. Foxy has managed to run off with 10 of our 19 chickens in a matter of a few days. Saw the little bugger two days ago taking one from right by the swimming pool. Fucking load of use the German Shepherds were - falling down on their job duties considerably.
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
Paratroopers are very lightly armed, aren't good against tanks or heavy ordnance, and are only good for 2-3 days before they run out of ammo.
Then, it's an easy job to round then up.
They're talked about like they're some sort of hyperpowerful mechanised supermarines but they're really just mobile light infantry and it's silly to drop mobile light infantry way behind enemy lines, and leave them to it, anywhere.
Although certainly in WW2 for the 101st, they were probably the fittest and best soldiers the Americans had, so rigorous was the selection. Highly motivated, extremely fit and well trained. But lacking in firepower.
Hey Tim T, the Fox Weather Channel tells me that Maryland is gonna start thawing out Wed or Thurs.
Connected with massive upsurge from Gulf of Mexico of super-heated air NOT directly related to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Cancun).
Inshallah. It has been a bit brass monkeys here for the last few days, and we've had to put up 300' of 7' deer fencing in the howling frigid winds as Mr. Foxy has managed to run off with 10 of our 19 chickens in a matter of a few days. Saw the little bugger two days ago taking one from right by the swimming pool. Fucking load of use the German Shepherds were - falling down on their job duties considerably.
What's @Foxy doing in Maryland? Shouldn't he be at that hospital in Leicester?
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
Paratroopers are very lightly armed, aren't good against tanks or heavy ordnance, and are only good for 2-3 days before they run out of ammo.
Then, it's an easy job to round then up.
They're talked about like they're some sort of hyperpowerful mechanised supermarines but they're really just mobile light infantry and it's silly to drop mobile light infantry way behind enemy lines, and leave them to it, anywhere.
Their other use is of course the element of surprise. Seize a lightly defended target or destroy stuff when least expected. No one at all anticipated them at an airport near the capital of a country you'd been saying you're going to invade for months.
Hey Tim T, the Fox Weather Channel tells me that Maryland is gonna start thawing out Wed or Thurs.
Connected with massive upsurge from Gulf of Mexico of super-heated air NOT directly related to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Cancun).
Inshallah. It has been a bit brass monkeys here for the last few days, and we've had to put up 300' of 7' deer fencing in the howling frigid winds as Mr. Foxy has managed to run off with 10 of our 19 chickens in a matter of a few days. Saw the little bugger two days ago taking one from right by the swimming pool. Fucking load of use the German Shepherds were - falling down on their job duties considerably.
What's @Foxy doing in Maryland? Shouldn't he be at that hospital in Leicester?
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Fact that Beltway bandits up & down the line are saying it ain't so totally for purposes of semi-plausible deniability.
One time when reputation as gaffe machine is working in his favor. And not just his,
I’m tempted to call them scum, but that’s not the way I operate, I don’t easily resort to abuse, even tho in this case it would be entirely justified, because they are exactly that. Scum.
It’s not a nice word is it? SCUM
But that’s how bad things have got. That is the state of play. They try to deny, they flail and lie, they are - tho I have no desire to use the word, and will restrain myself - SCUM.
And very soon I will not be the lone voice pointing out that things have become like this, when for so long they weren’t, but they are now
For me, the issue of defence is one of two reasons why I would want to preserve the union. The other is the need to preserve free movement and avoid a hard border - for the sake of family connections and employment more than anything else.
In recent years I can only think of a few ceremonial affairs plus the Commonwealth Games. I'm not against it at all and hope it continues, much as I feel about UNESCO, but it doesn't seem to do very much any more. The original hope was that it would be an international community of peaceful like-minded countries who would help promote international amity. It's not worked out quite that way, but that's not a reason to abolish it.
But that's by-the-by.
Russia holds pretty much the same territory, or maybe a little less, than it did one week in. It has lost more than 250 tanks, and 750 APCs.
And if there's one thing we've learned from Afghanistan and Iraq, it's that invasion is usually the easy bit. After that it gets harder.
So, what is this 'victory' of which you speak?
https://twitter.com/Liveuamap/status/1508874225393754114
Here he explains how the Russian plan is going brilliantly:
https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1508813631311466496
But only one of you prodded Nogbad the Bad with it?
Talking of which, now you have evoked him like the naughty Shaman, and it will now rise in the East and slouch towards us, I’ve got Stuart’s new avatar.
no need to thank me Stu 😌
Total Denial there is even a problem
https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSE/status/1508776500367138818?s=20&t=afbZIQJw_OzByqoNwt7BWQ
It’s a 7% waning crescent - does that help?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49249504
And they also cause them in foreign countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrbětice_ammunition_warehouses_explosions
https://twitter.com/tinso_ww/status/1508875630083022856
I don't think he's got his script from Moscow yet on that one ...
That's a 120% on the Lib Dem bar chart
Especially the bit where he compares the maximum itheortriecal size of the Ukrainian army if they called up all their reserves and conscripts with the actual Russian invasion force.
Poor Liddle Wussians were outnumbered it seems. But not to fear.....
And if the Russian's hadn't lost a quite ridiculous amount of materiel, and seen an elite paratroop unit completely wiped out at Kyiv airport, then it would be quite plausible.
Because dropping 1,000 paratroopers at an airport, and then failing to get regular troops anywhere near the airport before they were killed, seems like an odd feint. Or, at the very least a rather unnecessary one.
However, despite the hybrid hype, it’s just an efficient petro car. You can’t charge it up other than from the petrol engine, plus regenerative braking etc. It’s also slightly too small, so next model up would suit us better. But still love it.
That was my audition to be next Foreign Minister of Russia.
https://www.joe.co.uk/amp/sport/non-league-modern-slavery-326232
People are trying to get on with their lives, covid is now lower risk than influenza. What exactly is the advantage of offering daily infection data offered to a granular local level? “We are riddled with it around here…”
http://stainestownfootballclub.co.uk/urgent-club-statement/
I rarely find myself in total agreement with a commenter, on this scale, but there it is. Some of you should be ashamed
But I feel like I'm banging my head against a very very brick wall. Too many on here don't even want to acknowledge the issue.
What can you do? Being proved right will be no consolation
The pandemic is over, unless an unthinkable variant arrives.
*People are dying every day, and still getting admitted to hospital. But with 1 in 11 testing positive at any time according to the ONS this wave will subside soon, and the numbers going to hospital are minuscule in comparison.
So yes stop the daily doom data. It only upsets the iSAGE crowd and their sycophants “Of course I Still wear an ffp3 on the one occasion a month I leave the house, at 2 am to visit the 24 h Tesco. You can all thank me and worship my virtue signalling”
Connected with massive upsurge from Gulf of Mexico of super-heated air NOT directly related to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Cancun).
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/29/tory-mp-sexually-assaulted-teenage-boy-party-court-told/
Doesn't look a slam dunk conviction to me
333 tanks down ...
https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html
Then, it's an easy job to round then up.
They're talked about like they're some sort of hyperpowerful mechanised supermarines but they're really just mobile light infantry and it's silly to drop mobile light infantry way behind enemy lines, and leave them to it, anywhere.
Is the writing on the wall for Leon?
Polls are a relatively cheap way to produce a front page story.
There’s been quite a lot of other stuff going on. Another poll saying 48/52 one way or the other wouldn’t create many waves right now so isn’t worth the money
No one at all anticipated them at an airport near the capital of a country you'd been saying you're going to invade for months.