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Punters think there will be a Johnson VONC but he’ll win it – politicalbetting.com
Punters think there will be a Johnson VONC but he’ll win it – politicalbetting.com
Inevitably the main betting interest at the moment continues to be whether Boris Johnson is going to survive. Currently on Smarkets punters make it an 80% chance that he will face a VONC amongst Tory MPs in 2022.
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“Between 1901 and 1934 Edward Elgar composed five marches and sketched a sixth, the title he took from Act III, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Othello:
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, th'ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
For the first is set a motto for the whole set of marches, set to a verse from Lord de Tabley's poem "The March of Glory" on assumption the splendid show of military pageantry—"Pomp"—has no connection with the drabness and terror to come —"Circumstance"
Like a proud music that draws men on to die
Madly upon the spears in martial ecstasy,
A measure that sets heaven in all their veins
And iron in their hands.
I hear the Nation march
Beneath her ensign as an eagle's wing;
O'er shield and sheeted targe
The banners of my faith most gaily swing;
Moving to victory with solemn noise,
With worship and with conquest, and the voice of myriads.
As a tune, March number one quickly became very popular, on its Proms debut the audience demanded two encores. There was no singing involved at this stage, just pure appreciation of the music Elgar composed.
Elgar was asked by the King to rework this popular piece into a Coronation Ode, of which the chorus only (and not supplied by Elgar) is now used for Last Night pageantry. It is well known later in life Elgar was uncomfortable with this work morphing into something else, not because of his working class roots or Catholic upbringing during an era it was easier to have influence if you were hindered by neither, Ed was more than capable of looking after himself in that regard, it was more a case of losing control of his artistic soul, seeing his work man handled by those without understanding or good taste.
But what of appreciation and understanding of an artists work, if it is only the pomp cut from the relating circumstance?
Elgar in his own words, in a lecture at Birmingham University
“The commonplace mind can never be anything but commonplace, and no amount of education, no polish of a university, can eradicate the stain from the low type of mind which is the English commonplace,” he declared to a shocked room. “An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white – all over white – and somebody will say, ‘What exquisite taste.’ You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that is not taste at all – that it is the want of taste, that it is mere evasion. English music is white, and evades everything.”
Also, I wonder what he'd have said in about 1995, after 30 years of the Golden Age of British Pop Music, when we gave the world many of the popular songs they will be singing for the rest of time
Loser.
Tri service fly past coming to us out here. I can’t wait! Amazing day.
LITERALLY
Do you mean your computer only has two screens?
How do you cope?
Parkinson brought in for Leach as Potts gets another. To quote what they said about another county bowler who took four for not many on debut, 'He must think this international cricket is a very easy game.'
https://twitter.com/TelegraphNews/status/1532329361696858112
no ...
LOL
https://www.news24.com/Sport/Australias-60-all-out-by-the-numbers-20150806
Interesting signs of the fundamental shallowness of the Johnson government:
(1) That they’ve now identified this as their key target voter
(2) That targeting them means knocking off virtually all of the culture war nonsense they’ve majored on for the last 18 months
They've given up on the Red Wall then and are now targeting the liberal Southern Lib Dem inclined voter. They are in big, big trouble.
Tho the
OK just saw the REd Arrows. Impressed
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-tour-of-new-zealand-1954-55-61780/new-zealand-vs-england-2nd-test-62788/full-scorecard
The list of things wrong with the flight that crashed, before it hit that metal strip on the runway is instructive.
The monarchy probably earns its keep simply by making foreign people want to visit London
It’s small and close, but looks a bit like one that’s big and far away.
And he did set O'Shaughnessy's execrable Ode to music, which is as bad as McGonagall's Tay Bridge Disaster (even if it gave us the phrase "movers and shakers").
I do love Sospiri though.
However if both Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton were lost in the by elections then he could be ousted
https://twitter.com/Daily_Express/status/1532336247007592449?t=97JQsIOLN01TIpmBh8Ny8Q&s=19
Between us can you tell us about the Putin's motivations, inner thoughts and what will persuade him to withdraw?
Stuff on the inner mind of Kim Jong Littlun would be great too.
Her Maj can remember the Blitz, and the Battle of Britain, and the sound of Spitfires defending our island
That’s quite something. Republicanism, pfff
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/02/queen-sends-car-and-security-to-pick-up-harry-and-meghan-after-they-land-in-uk-16754036/
If she really prefers Lilibet's first birthday party to a day at the races, that will be an interesting choice. I suspect both can be done.
Not everyone of course.
There's a couple of promising signs there - an interesting mix of fascination for global religions, a certain cultural open-mindedness, and a slightly more traditional, tweedy ruralism, which taken altogther defies too easy a categorisation.
Of course there are a large number of republics in the Commonwealth, so no big deal really.
Literally.
I knew somebody who had to prepare a report on its future viability. Easy. It had none, even back in the late 80's.
She was on that same Buck Palace balcony with her mum, dad, sister and Winston Churchill when we officially defeated the Nazis on VE Day
The genius of monarchy is that it links a nation to its own past, with a chain of real humanity. No presidency can ever do this, tho some - like the French presidency - aspire to be monarchies. Which shows that constitutional monarchy - if you can manage it, and you don't get too many wrong uns - is a desirable thing
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/your-navigation-skills-depend-on-where-you-grew-up
Going to get food and drink now. 🙋♀️
I didn't understand what people meant by their amazing sound - until I heard it for myself. There must be some acoustic reason why it is so distinct and even emotive
So yes I get the idea. And I can only imagine what sensations these engines must stir if they personally evoke the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, because you actually heard them then
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/58516467
Mrs May won her confidence vote, even though she couldn’t get her flagship policy through Parliament.
We have a small group Brexiteers who moan on and on about Brexit far more than any Remainers do and now we have a small group on Monarchists moaning on and on about Republicans far more than any Republican does and today of all days.
Why don't you just enjoy it. I know I am.
Lords is about 1 mile from my flat.
*existential yearning*
Aviation sector’s difficulties are not just about the speed of the pandemic bounceback
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https://www.ft.com/content/5c8142ed-5a72-4de8-bf89-a6d6323a8b4f