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Dear Prime Minister, the trend is not your friend – politicalbetting.com
Dear Prime Minister, the trend is not your friend – politicalbetting.com
By 69% to 22%, Britons continue to think Boris Johnson should resign as PMTory voters are now split 46/46, however, having supported him going by 54% to 33% at the beginning of Julyhttps://t.co/CJw0fYpc57 pic.twitter.com/IdeGuIbxtO
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Biden tests negative, will end Covid isolation
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/27/biden-tests-negative-will-end-covid-isolation-00048160
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/132/5/1396/354862
1.2 Liz Truss 83%
6 Rishi Sunak 17%
Next Conservative leader
1.19 Liz Truss 84%
6.2 Rishi Sunak 16%
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11042775/And-favourite-Boris-Grassroots-backlash-putsch-growing.html
Start of July: Pro-Boris by 54-33
Now: Tied 46-46.
A very good explainer on the #AllisonBaileyWins case emphasising the consequences for employers & other organisations who implement so-called diversity schemes that don’t respect all the protected characteristics of the #EqualityAct.
https://twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1552328425800699904?s=20&t=3SuGEi6DsYQ39rLoSrPqNw
How a prominent American composer lost his Wikipedia page—and got entangled in a Kafkaesque nightmare trying to get it back
https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1552317962928984065
Note, Gioia does still have his own Wikipedia entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia
And for those who enjoy trivia, had one of his compositions feature on Better Call Saul a week ago.
Keir Starmer sacks shadow transport minister who backed rail strikes
Yes, Keir Starmer is being advised by Blair
"Barty" has decided to take Malcolm's long held title of PB Psychological Projection Award. Barty calling someone else "thick"!! lol. You couldn't make it up. Your lack of intellect is something we realise you can't do much about Barty, but why not get some real life experience instead of spending night and day on here and you might actually have something useful to say. Otherwise fuck off dimwit.
https://twitter.com/patrickkmaguire/status/1552331136336121857?s=20&t=3SuGEi6DsYQ39rLoSrPqNw
'We are not the disaster people think we are'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/62286363
'Rishi Sunak is less unpopular than Liz Truss among those 2019 Tory voters the party is currently losing to Labour
Sunak: -25 net favourability
Truss: -45
Johnson: -90'
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1552328071025500163?s=20&t=6S4yuxTcTIF5QBJUUn6o0g
And there are rare cases of individuals who are not clearly male or female, like those suffering from the androgen insensitvity syndrome. They deserve our tolerance and, if they need it, help of various kinds.
But I don't believe in magic, and I do believe in the theory of evolution -- which is inconsistent with osme of he more extreme "trans" ideology.
(As for the "distressed" jeans, what I have been seeing here in the last year of two is a bit different. The jeans are not worn all over, as if they were a really old pair, but instead have one or more holes in them, about 3 inches across.
Incidentally, when distressed jeans became a thing years ago, manufacturing them sometimes caused significant damage to the environment. That was important enough to be desribed in one of Tony Hillerman's detective stories, though I forget which one.)
I have sympathy with those wishing to support the strikers, but Tarry knew precisely what he was doing.
And reinforces what TSE has in the header.
Summarily dismissing Tarry for doing what he was told not to do may be right or may be wrong... but it isn't "weak".
Also, the "one of his better predecessors" in question is Tony Blair, who I have little doubt would agree with Starmer on this.
Gosh. Have they doubled? Or at least gone up by a double-digit percentage?
Actually... "gas prices rose almost 2%"
Hyperbolic headline of the day.
I thought the tories were losing because their voters are abstaining.
Jeez
Tarry's relationship with Angela Rayner could, however, make this tricky for Starmer - though she may of course agree with his decision.
Gardenwalker said:
Did it happen before? Sure.
Did it happen at such scale? No.
I’ll repeat (and perhaps correct) the stat.
Only 4 in 16 identified as cis and straight.
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The plural of anecdote, alas, is not data.
For the last 4-5 years I've worked at a university in outreach, working with dozens of schools across all age ranges; literally thousands of young people between the ages of about 10 - 18 have interacted with the team I'm in. We have spoken to 1 student who has identified themselves as trans.
Young people are in the process of coming to terms with their identity - they will explore different things and consider what is available to them. We live in a society that is somewhat less strict in our acceptance and understanding of gender and sexuality than when even I was in school 15-20 odd years ago. So, yes, children will consider their identity. Some may socially transition, others may try puberty blockers. Some of those will decide they don't want to transition because, actually, that time of interest and self discovery showed them they are comfortable identifying with their assigned gender. That's fine - when I was 10 I knew I fancied girls, when I was 14 I was sure I was gay, when I was 16 I learned bisexuals existed and understood myself better.
The moral panic, specifically around children, regarding transgender people is exactly the same as the ones against gays and lesbians in the 70s and 80s - painting people as deviant predators out to harm your children, or turn them gay as part of a gay agenda.
After he's already been knocked to the canvas twice.
It was forty fucking degrees C. You literally could not go out
And now it's a pathetic grey overcast 22C with a nagging breeze which makes it feel like 18C. Autumnal
BOLLOCKS
Meanwhile the forecast in Paris is endless sun and 30C. How can 200 miles make so much difference?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2988507
(Though sadly am heading to London right now for some work and also a social event this weekend.)
Sunak -12
Truss -16
Johnson -22
Though Starmer is on -59 with them compared to +57 amongst 2019 Tory voters now backing Labour
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1552328071025500163?s=20&t=9RbN8B3awlRGN4J9vA4Y4g
I'd suggest he's more likely to do so than a Rishi win
Not sure we needed YouGov to inform us of that.
What's wrong with fifty times higher?
If you want to make it sound big why fuck around with percentages? Go with basis points - FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND basis points higher. That's a proper fucking scary number.
Burn
RIP.
RIP. I remember unofficially learning about his Gaia theory in a geography lesson in school...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62322575
No room for nuance in climate science I guess.
Labour “Hold my beer”
If you see Keir Starmer out and about, call him what he is - a conman and a liar - and film it.
Enough of letting our politicians getting away with this grotesque level of dishonesty.
https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1552345276077277186?s=21&t=9i154HFpWLmrsk_KKnkSXA
The fact Sam Tarry is in a relationship with Angela Rayner is of course entirely immaterial to everyone except the Daily Mail - I suspect Rayner is going to be subject to even more negative and vitriolic coverage if it seems likely she will become a significant part of the next non-Conservative Government, which of course Messrs Sunak and Truss are doing their best to facilitate.
Interesting to read the vox pops on the strike today - of course, plenty of awful stories with people not able to get to work, attend funerals and the like for which of course one can only sympathise. It also seems those queuing at Orpington this morning were fairly supportive of the strikers.
Truss is of course hoping to build on anti-strike and anti-union feeling to justify her planned curtailing of people's rights. Apparently the line from the Right is "people are allowed to strike if it doesn't disrupt anything, inconvenience everyone or anyone notices".
Wind up and close down the Conservative Party - no one will notice.
But what of Sam Tarry you say?
I said once Johnson had dedicated his whole life and career to becoming Prime Minister. The unfortunate truth was consequences meant the job he expected and wanted wasn't what was on offer. He won the election but ran straight into a global pandemic which changed everything.
Instead of inculcating the nation with post-Brexit optimism, he was faced with the awful (for him) prospect of shutting us all in our homes and suspending normal life and frivolity.
The thing for which he dreamt was in reality a nightmare and now he will live his life in the past tense. Some Conservatives may want him back (not surprising considering the choices on offer as his successor) but there's no mood in the country for him at present and it's hard to see how he could return. Would he want to be leader of a much reduced Parliamentary Party facing a triumphant Starmer? I suspect not - in truth the next Conservative leader after Truss (or Sunak) is probably Kemi Badenoch but whether she will end up the Hague de nos jours remains to be seen.
Give me this: any day over 38 degrees.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/has-the-lab-leak-theory-really-been-disproved-
Anyone seen Matt and Leon in the same room?
Marie Chantrait
@mchantrait
A des jeunes sportifs au lycée français de Cotonou, Emmanuel Macron souhaite bonne chance aux Bleues en demi-finale ce soir « Jai une pensee pour les joueuses de l’équipe de 🇫🇷 et je leur dis merde » cc @TF1Info
To young athletes at the French high school in Cotonou, Emmanuel Macron wishes Les Bleues good luck in the semi-finals tonight “I have a thought for the players of the 🇫🇷 team and I tell them shit” cc @TF1Info
https://twitter.com/mchantrait/status/1552352534173458432
Is there any weather state we won't whinge about?
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/federal-reserve-raises-key-interest-rate-to-fight-inflation-rcna40142
Britain's weather has always been variable and unpredictable. I rather like it that way.
He seems to have been driven mad by his flirtation with Corbynism.
I might regret the fact that Labour are no longer promising to nationalise the water utilities, but it’s also true to say it’s not the number one priority for the next government.
Owen lives in Islington, not far from a Waitrose which is very likely his preferred supermarket.