There is no prospective president who looks likely to act to pull the nation together like presidents of the past as recently as George W Bush.
strange how it's always joe's fault
Those accusing Biden of being as divisive as Trump are deluded and desperate to find both siderism when there is none . Biden has tried but there’s now no longer a way of trying to unite a country which is fractured beyond repair .
The GOP are a cancer on the USA . The majority of the party should be locked up for sedition.
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
Have you been?
I’ve heard that this might not be true: the language thing. Ie that modern Icelandics can read the Sagas absolutely no problem. Instead they are about as obscure as Shakespeare is to us.
The only new Prime Minister before the next general election who is not Sunak would be Boris.
Though I doubt this changes much, Sunak would just fire Braverman if needed and replace her with Raab and say the breach happened under his predecessor
As I was saying last night, a Truss return is underpriced. It’s going to happen.
It isn't, Truss got the worst poll rating of any Tory leader ever. Sunak is unlikely to go but if he did Boris would likely replace him but even Braverman Badenoch or Rees Mogg are more likely successors as Tory leaders now than Truss
Your continuing campaign for the right wing little Englanders shows no sign of abating, nor do you seem to realise the obvious that they would destroy the conservative party and you and their supporters would join the Corbynites as a cult destined to failure
I'm not sure I'd put Badenoch in the same bucket as Braverman or Rees Mogg on that spectrum.
Actually I agree but it does no alter my critique of @HYUFD who is very much of the right and regularly promotes RefUK and Farage, and even Trump
You keep coming out with this rant but I did not vote for Truss unlike most Tory members, I voted for Sunak. I did not vote for Farage in the European elections, I voted for May's Tories but Farage won most seats anyway. I did not even vote for Brexit unlike 52% of the voters in 2016
You protest too much - your posts tell a different story of where your true allegiance lies and it is with the ERG the right, RefUK, Farage and even Trump
Astonishing to discover that Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, as they prepared for office, met with ANDREW LILICO to be briefed on the economic situation.
He once replied to one of my tweets. It was my 15 minutes. That and when Brian Moore (Rugby Union Footballer) did. Oh, and Graham Rowntree out of Blur was a trainee solicitor in my department. So I guess I’ve had 45 minutes.
The only new Prime Minister before the next general election who is not Sunak would be Boris.
Though I doubt this changes much, Sunak would just fire Braverman if needed and replace her with Raab and say the breach happened under his predecessor
As I was saying last night, a Truss return is underpriced. It’s going to happen.
It isn't, Truss got the worst poll rating of any Tory leader ever. Sunak is unlikely to go but if he did Boris would likely replace him but even Braverman Badenoch or Rees Mogg are more likely successors as Tory leaders now than Truss
Your continuing campaign for the right wing little Englanders shows no sign of abating, nor do you seem to realise the obvious that they would destroy the conservative party and you and their supporters would join the Corbynites as a cult destined to failure
I'm not sure I'd put Badenoch in the same bucket as Braverman or Rees Mogg on that spectrum.
Actually I agree but it does no alter my critique of @HYUFD who is very much of the right and regularly promotes RefUK and Farage, and even Trump
Don’t forget Meloni, Åkesson and Franco.
Meloni currently Italian PM without me being able to vote in Italy, the Swedish government reliant on Akesson to stay in power without me being able to vote in Sweden either.
But you regularly gush over all three. You are a cheerleader for other mini fascists.
It is possible I suppose that Braverman has leaked this, to make her own indiscretions look less disgraceful.
But I agree strongly with the post that says that neither the breach itself, nor this leak, are at all good for a country in a very dangerous security situation.
Meh. It happens all the time. The US hacked Germany.
Funnily enough I had a discussion with a mate in the pub only this week about his forthcoming trip to Iceland in early December. When I queried why go in the depths of bloody winter, he warbled on about the hot springs and the night skies with the northern lights.
Yawn.
Seen the Northern Lights lots of times. They’re ok, but have been blown way out of proportion by the marketing men.
Hot springs. Fairy nuff. But I get bored after 5 minutes.
Night skies? Any sparsely populated part of rural Scotland will do. Ideal in Wigtownshire, the Stewartry or South Uist for example.
Is it true that if you look carefully into the northern lights you can see a city in another world? Always wondered about that.
No.
Not unless you have been accepting narcotics advice from Sean.
A G&T costs £13 in a very average Rejkavik hotel bar
Ugh
I DEMAND HAKARL
Unusually clever understatement on Wiki:
"Hákarl is a national dish of Iceland consisting of a Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. It has a strong ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste, making hákarl an acquired taste."
Interesting observation that private employers are generally avoiding the woke wars that Chambers, think tanks & universities are getting embroiled in (and often coming out worse):
The reaction of some of these organisations comes down to their very nature. Daly explains: “If a moral organisation has been accused of discrimination, it carries so much more weight because it’s not just its actions being criticised but its whole identity. It’s very easy for those organisations to react with extreme prejudice to any complaint or concern of discrimination because it is perceived that the gender-critical woman is attacking the institution’s identity.”
Daly had one case that involved a Plc, rather than the likes of universities, think-tanks and barristers’ chambers: “They were an absolute model of what should be done. They got everybody around the table, had a conversation and resolved it. As far as I know, everybody moved away from that much happier for it. When you’re not kind of blinkered, or when you’re not self-defined as a moral organisation, it’s a lot easier to do that.”
“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.”
I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer’s masala.
This particular inference you make has been called out this week and I would suggest you are being very unwise to repeat it
Must watch 5 minute Russian TV discussion show segment. Panellists openly criticising the approach and Putin. They were told to be quiet but these voices are now speaking live on Russian TV. That is something incredible in itself.
Meanwhile in Russia: several panelists threw some truth grenades at the stunned TV hosts, look how those angry propagandists pummeled the pundit who said that by destroying the infrastructure, Russia is waging a cruel, sadistic war against civilians. He won't be invited back. https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1586395220476039168
A G&T costs £13 in a very average Rejkavik hotel bar
Ugh
I DEMAND HAKARL
Unusually clever understatement on Wiki:
"Hákarl is a national dish of Iceland consisting of a Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. It has a strong ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste, making hákarl an acquired taste."
I once wrote an entire article on the peculiar and comical horror that is Icelandic cuisine
Sheep’s heads, ram’s testicles in whale fat, hakarl, roast puffin, it is endlessly awful
“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.”
I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer’s masala.
This particular inference you make has been called out this week and I would suggest you are being very unwise to repeat it
The Mail on Sunday is repeating it. Go clutch your pearls in their direction.
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
Have you been?
I’ve heard that this might not be true: the language thing. Ie that modern Icelandics can read the Sagas absolutely no problem. Instead they are about as obscure as Shakespeare is to us.
But I’d like it to be true
Poor analogy. The sagas are about half a millennium older than Shakespeare.
“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.”
I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer’s masala.
This particular inference you make has been called out this week and I would suggest you are being very unwise to repeat it
The Mail on Sunday is repeating it. Go clutch your pearls in their direction.
I have made my point and am not getting further involved
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
Have you been?
I’ve heard that this might not be true: the language thing. Ie that modern Icelandics can read the Sagas absolutely no problem. Instead they are about as obscure as Shakespeare is to us.
But I’d like it to be true
Everything you need to know is here, an amazing language channel from an autistic Canadian:
There is no prospective president who looks likely to act to pull the nation together like presidents of the past as recently as George W Bush.
strange how it's always joe's fault
Those accusing Biden of being as divisive as Trump are deluded and desperate to find both siderism when there is none . Biden has tried but there’s now no longer a way of trying to unite a country which is fractured beyond repair .
The GOP are a cancer on the USA . The majority of the party should be locked up for sedition.
I think much of the GOP is awful, yet, they have the support of 49% of the voters. Tens of millions either share Trump's beliefs, or don't care, so long as they're "owning the Libtards". An American friend of mine, who lives in Alabama, says that actually some Red voters do acknowledge that many of their political leaders are batshit, but they get a kick out of winding up their political opponents.
A G&T costs £13 in a very average Rejkavik hotel bar
Ugh
I DEMAND HAKARL
Unusually clever understatement on Wiki:
"Hákarl is a national dish of Iceland consisting of a Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. It has a strong ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste, making hákarl an acquired taste."
I once wrote an entire article on the peculiar and comical horror that is Icelandic cuisine
Sheep’s heads, ram’s testicles in whale fat, hakarl, roast puffin, it is endlessly awful
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.”
I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer’s masala.
This particular inference you make has been called out this week and I would suggest you are being very unwise to repeat it
The Mail on Sunday is repeating it. Go clutch your pearls in their direction.
I have made my point and am not getting further involved
Strikes me if this is the Finland Rumour (originally billed as a scandal which would bring down a senior Cabinet Minister), then it will be the actual contents of the "personal" texts between Liz and KK. Which may not prove to be "disappointingly boring." If.
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
Have you been?
I’ve heard that this might not be true: the language thing. Ie that modern Icelandics can read the Sagas absolutely no problem. Instead they are about as obscure as Shakespeare is to us.
But I’d like it to be true
Poor analogy. The sagas are about half a millennium older than Shakespeare.
And? What is incredible about different languages evolving at different rates?
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
The only new Prime Minister before the next general election who is not Sunak would be Boris.
Though I doubt this changes much, Sunak would just fire Braverman if needed and replace her with Raab and say the breach happened under his predecessor
As I was saying last night, a Truss return is underpriced. It’s going to happen.
It isn't, Truss got the worst poll rating of any Tory leader ever. Sunak is unlikely to go but if he did Boris would likely replace him but even Braverman Badenoch or Rees Mogg are more likely successors as Tory leaders now than Truss
Your continuing campaign for the right wing little Englanders shows no sign of abating, nor do you seem to realise the obvious that they would destroy the conservative party and you and their supporters would join the Corbynites as a cult destined to failure
I'm not sure I'd put Badenoch in the same bucket as Braverman or Rees Mogg on that spectrum.
Actually I agree but it does no alter my critique of @HYUFD who is very much of the right and regularly promotes RefUK and Farage, and even Trump
Don’t forget Meloni, Åkesson and Franco.
Meloni currently Italian PM without me being able to vote in Italy, the Swedish government reliant on Akesson to stay in power without me being able to vote in Sweden either.
You still cheer them all on here.
Your regular assertion that Franco was perfectly legitimate and respectable in his violent crushing of Socialists is up there and on topic with Fox News.
One of your favourites is, according to BBC R4 news closing in on the communist Lula in tomorrow's election. A celebration for the righteous and the good no doubt, if not the planet.and the relatives of 700,000 Brazilians who died (many directly as a result of his incompetence) of COVID.
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
Wales gets ignored again.
Not sure what the Basques have done to be left out either.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.”
I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer’s masala.
This particular inference you make has been called out this week and I would suggest you are being very unwise to repeat it
The Mail on Sunday is repeating it. Go clutch your pearls in their direction.
I have made my point and am not getting further involved
They've been shagging like stoats since forever.
I don’t believe that. She’s far to clever to be that reckless.
There is no prospective president who looks likely to act to pull the nation together like presidents of the past as recently as George W Bush.
strange how it's always joe's fault
Those accusing Biden of being as divisive as Trump are deluded and desperate to find both siderism when there is none . Biden has tried but there’s now no longer a way of trying to unite a country which is fractured beyond repair .
The GOP are a cancer on the USA . The majority of the party should be locked up for sedition.
That second paragraph is remarkably healing and non-divisive
“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.”
I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer’s masala.
This particular inference you make has been called out this week and I would suggest you are being very unwise to repeat it
The Mail on Sunday is repeating it. Go clutch your pearls in their direction.
I have made my point and am not getting further involved
They've been shagging like stoats since forever.
I don’t believe that. She’s far to clever to be that reckless.
It would not be that reckless these days. Whether true or not, it played no part in the destruction of both their careers. More time playing hide the salami would have meant less time playing economics, in fact...
There is no prospective president who looks likely to act to pull the nation together like presidents of the past as recently as George W Bush.
strange how it's always joe's fault
Those accusing Biden of being as divisive as Trump are deluded and desperate to find both siderism when there is none . Biden has tried but there’s now no longer a way of trying to unite a country which is fractured beyond repair .
The GOP are a cancer on the USA . The majority of the party should be locked up for sedition.
I think much of the GOP is awful, yet, they have the support of 49% of the voters. Tens of millions either share Trump's beliefs, or don't care, so long as they're "owning the Libtards". An American friend of mine, who lives in Alabama, says that actually some Red voters do acknowledge that many of their political leaders are batshit, but they get a kick out of winding up their political opponents.
I get this from the GOP inclined US colleagues too. Many of them are happy to see Trump laughed at by Europeans, most don’t look like MAGAs and they acknowledge there are bonkers types in the Republicans, but when pushed they go all both-sidesy about the Democrats and shrug at 6th January on the basis it was just a few over enthusiastic red necks.
Yes the temperature is lower here in the UK but before we get too self congratulatory, many otherwise sensible people voted for Boris despite all the lies and corruption for fear of Labour getting close to power, and many supposedly enlightened self-identifying progressives voted for the man with a planet sized anti-semitism blind spot who thought we should send Salisbury novichok samples to Russia for testing.
One of Cummings' worst mistakes in a field of remarkably strong competition.
Because of the Truss story? Its part of his job not to let the media go round advertising security breaches to all and sundry.
That's one. Also his bungling over Partygate, including his own breaches of the rules, his appalling choice of permanent secretaries, his lack of understanding of procedures...
If there hadn’t been a weird omertà in the British press about the appropriateness of appointing one’s lover to Chancellor, we might have been spared the unfortunate incidents of the last six weeks.
Astonishing to discover that Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, as they prepared for office, met with ANDREW LILICO to be briefed on the economic situation.
Julian Jessop, who also briefed her, claims they tried to tell her the markets would need to be carefully coaxed, not blindsided, and they were ignored:
One of Cummings' worst mistakes in a field of remarkably strong competition.
Because of the Truss story? Its part of his job not to let the media go round advertising security breaches to all and sundry.
That's one. Also his bungling over Partygate, including his own breaches of the rules, his appalling choice of permanent secretaries, his lack of understanding of procedures...
Certainly some of those, yep. But definitely not tonights story
One of Cummings' worst mistakes in a field of remarkably strong competition.
Because of the Truss story? Its part of his job not to let the media go round advertising security breaches to all and sundry.
Yes, but also to ensure that Truss has a meeting with some smartly-dressed, well-built but anonymous gentlemen, whose names don't matter but they work for the Queen. Who make it clear that she should withdraw from the race to be Prime Minister and will support her in developing a face-saving excuse.
Oh, and here is your new mobile phone, we will ensure that it remains secure.
🤝 Keir Starmer suggested this week that Sunak had done a “grubby deal” with Braverman
👀 One Conservative MP and ally of Braverman even hinted this was the case to PoliticsHome, claiming that circumstances of her return meant it had been orchestrated “on her own terms”
One of Cummings' worst mistakes in a field of remarkably strong competition.
Because of the Truss story? Its part of his job not to let the media go round advertising security breaches to all and sundry.
Yes, but also to ensure that Truss has a meeting with some smartly-dressed, well-built but anonymous gentlemen, whose names don't matter but they work for the Queen. Who make it clear that she should withdraw from the race to be Prime Minister and will support her in developing a face-saving excuse.
Oh, and here is your new mobile phone, we will ensure that it remains secure.
A G&T costs £13 in a very average Rejkavik hotel bar
Ugh
I DEMAND HAKARL
Unusually clever understatement on Wiki:
"Hákarl is a national dish of Iceland consisting of a Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. It has a strong ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste, making hákarl an acquired taste."
I once wrote an entire article on the peculiar and comical horror that is Icelandic cuisine
Sheep’s heads, ram’s testicles in whale fat, hakarl, roast puffin, it is endlessly awful
Astonishing to discover that Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, as they prepared for office, met with ANDREW LILICO to be briefed on the economic situation.
Julian Jessop, who also briefed her, claims they tried to tell her the markets would need to be carefully coaxed, not blindsided, and they were ignored:
@leon - I know nothing about the economics of journalism so if not impertinent can I ask you some questions. I assume you do these trips alone without support staff, etc? I struggle to understand how it is financially viable. Your expenses must be high and I assume you aren't cheap and you are often away for sometime and we only see a couple of articles per trip. That seems very expensive per article. Am I wrong in my assumptions or is each article a lot of money?
I suspect I did, but I was simply parroting your "never turn down sex or travel" line. Iceland has one big drawback, which is cost. If you are on expenses though, I refuse to sympathise. Even bleak can be spectacular. And there is plenty of spectacle too. Next Autumn, though, go to Perthshire. For the trees. Europe's New England.
I’m in Perthshire. The woodlands are magnificent, but unfortunately the drizzle detracts from the classic autumn atmosphere.
I was in Perthshire Mon-Fri this week, in Dunkeld. In all honesty not the best of weather but far better than forecast. We were dry most of the week and didn't feel like it was only through strategic indoorsing. When the cloud was high it was glorious; when the cloud hung low it was still pretty atmospheric. I was thinking, actually, of your weariness about the conversation of which English county was loveliest, and where I would slot the Scottish counties. I didn't pursue the exercise for long - which counties do I use, for a start - the historical ones, for a direct comparison, ideally, but many of them are very small (how lovely is Clackmannnanshire?) and I'm not necessarily overly familiar with a lot of the smaller ones - but I did decide that Perthshire was probably the loveliest county in Scotland and would rank damn high in an Anglo-Scottish list.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
@leon - I know nothing about the economics of journalism so if not impertinent can I ask you some questions. I assume you do these trips alone without support staff, etc? I struggle to understand how it is financially viable. Your expenses must be high and I assume you aren't cheap and you are often away for sometime and we only see a couple of articles per trip. That seems very expensive per article. Am I wrong in my assumptions or is each article a lot of money?
I think it’s usually the hospitality providers who pay - cheap advertising.
I think a problem is that a lot of politicians have been promoted very quickly into very senior government roles and so have less of a sense of how important those jobs are , certainly more important than the individual holding them. Maybe going back to old school ways of appointing high profile government jobs to those that have been groomed for them over many years is the best way
🤝 Keir Starmer suggested this week that Sunak had done a “grubby deal” with Braverman
👀 One Conservative MP and ally of Braverman even hinted this was the case to PoliticsHome, claiming that circumstances of her return meant it had been orchestrated “on her own terms”
The growth visa in that article is hilarious . I love the spin put on what was just a huge increase in immigration but they decided to just throw in growth instead of just the term work visa to dupe the plebs .
It’s often been the case that high growth is correlated with higher immigration levels in developed countries That’s why Japan with very little immigration has stagnated for decades.
🤝 Keir Starmer suggested this week that Sunak had done a “grubby deal” with Braverman
👀 One Conservative MP and ally of Braverman even hinted this was the case to PoliticsHome, claiming that circumstances of her return meant it had been orchestrated “on her own terms”
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Sauvignon Blanc” is such a wide category that I can only assume she’s a fan of chain pub style NZ Sauvignon. She probably claims she hates Chardonnay (“too buttery”) but doesn’t mind Pinot Grigio. Those are the 3 standards on the pub menu before you move up to Chablis. Plus a picpoul de pinet or an Albariño if they’re being a bit fancy.
It was you, wasn't it? Fairly sure someone on pb advised us to visit Iceland because its geology meant it was the nearest thing on Earth to walking on an alien planet. Are you sure that wasn't you?
If I visited Iceland it would be for the archaeology, food and the only modern language of Europe to have survived pretty much intact in its medieval form. A treasure trove.
Have you been?
I’ve heard that this might not be true: the language thing. Ie that modern Icelandics can read the Sagas absolutely no problem. Instead they are about as obscure as Shakespeare is to us.
But I’d like it to be true
Everything you need to know is here, an amazing language channel from an autistic Canadian:
I very much like the sound of Icelandic. I like the way it reads, too, once you get to grips with thorns and ashes. For an English speaker, it's the most comfortingly right-sounding - and indeed right-looking - of languages.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Sauvignon Blanc” is such a wide category that I can only assume she’s a fan of chain pub style NZ Sauvignon. She probably claims she hates Chardonnay but doesn’t mind Pinot Grigio. Those are the 3 standards on the pub menu before you move up to . Plus a picpoul de pinet or an Albariño if they’re being a bit fancy.
It’s always annoying to be trapped in such places. I either go for the Albariño or the Chenin Blanc, they usually have one of either.
I think a problem is that a lot of politicians have been promoted very quickly into very senior government roles and so have less of a sense of how important those jobs are , certainly more important than the individual holding them. Maybe going back to old school ways of appointing high profile government jobs to those that have been groomed for them over many years is the best way
I think a problem is that a lot of politicians have been promoted very quickly into very senior government roles who are shits.
🤝 Keir Starmer suggested this week that Sunak had done a “grubby deal” with Braverman
👀 One Conservative MP and ally of Braverman even hinted this was the case to PoliticsHome, claiming that circumstances of her return meant it had been orchestrated “on her own terms”
🤝 Keir Starmer suggested this week that Sunak had done a “grubby deal” with Braverman
👀 One Conservative MP and ally of Braverman even hinted this was the case to PoliticsHome, claiming that circumstances of her return meant it had been orchestrated “on her own terms”
I'd stick with the earlier two words, "grubby" and "deal".
It’s been discussed on here many times that FPTP means large parties that are coalitions, whereas PR systems tend to coalitions of smaller parties. The latter usually means lots of grubby deals after an election to form a government. FPTP just means those deals are done before elections.
If there hadn’t been a weird omertà in the British press about the appropriateness of appointing one’s lover to Chancellor, we might have been spared the unfortunate incidents of the last six weeks.
There is no prospective president who looks likely to act to pull the nation together like presidents of the past as recently as George W Bush.
strange how it's always joe's fault
Those accusing Biden of being as divisive as Trump are deluded and desperate to find both siderism when there is none . Biden has tried but there’s now no longer a way of trying to unite a country which is fractured beyond repair .
The GOP are a cancer on the USA . The majority of the party should be locked up for sedition.
I'd be interested if you have some examples of his attempts to unite America.
One of Cummings' worst mistakes in a field of remarkably strong competition.
Part of the Johnson-led Great Debauch of the Institutions.
Simon Case has royal connections. He's also the first cabinet secretary for ~50 years to be on the Privy Council. (He joined it shortly after the king's accession.)
Funnily enough I had a discussion with a mate in the pub only this week about his forthcoming trip to Iceland in early December. When I queried why go in the depths of bloody winter, he warbled on about the hot springs and the night skies with the northern lights.
Yawn.
Seen the Northern Lights lots of times. They’re ok, but have been blown way out of proportion by the marketing men.
Hot springs. Fairy nuff. But I get bored after 5 minutes.
Night skies? Any sparsely populated part of rural Scotland will do. Ideal in Wigtownshire, the Stewartry or South Uist for example.
I keep missing out. 6 miles away from me on the north coast of Aberdeenshire.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Sauvignon Blanc” is such a wide category that I can only assume she’s a fan of chain pub style NZ Sauvignon. She probably claims she hates Chardonnay but doesn’t mind Pinot Grigio. Those are the 3 standards on the pub menu before you move up to . Plus a picpoul de pinet or an Albariño if they’re being a bit fancy.
It’s always annoying to be trapped in such places. I either go for the Albariño or the Chenin Blanc, they usually have one of either.
If you are in a pub then drink beer. The wine is never good.
If there hadn’t been a weird omertà in the British press about the appropriateness of appointing one’s lover to Chancellor, we might have been spared the unfortunate incidents of the last six weeks.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Sauvignon Blanc” is such a wide category that I can only assume she’s a fan of chain pub style NZ Sauvignon. She probably claims she hates Chardonnay (“too buttery”) but doesn’t mind Pinot Grigio. Those are the 3 standards on the pub menu before you move up to Chablis. Plus a picpoul de pinet or an Albariño if they’re being a bit fancy.
Read a sommelier's story the other day about a diner indignantly rejecting a bottle of blanc de blancs champagne on being told it was made of nasty common chardonnay grapes.
Wouldn't hurt to say Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé. Though of course the jury is out on France.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Sauvignon Blanc” is such a wide category that I can only assume she’s a fan of chain pub style NZ Sauvignon. She probably claims she hates Chardonnay but doesn’t mind Pinot Grigio. Those are the 3 standards on the pub menu before you move up to . Plus a picpoul de pinet or an Albariño if they’re being a bit fancy.
It’s always annoying to be trapped in such places. I either go for the Albariño or the Chenin Blanc, they usually have one of either.
If you are in a pub then drink beer. The wine is never good.
If there hadn’t been a weird omertà in the British press about the appropriateness of appointing one’s lover to Chancellor, we might have been spared the unfortunate incidents of the last six weeks.
"Liz Truss's personal phone was hacked by Putin's spies for top secret details of negotiations with allies and private messages she exchanged with Kwasi Kwarteng"
I have to say, this phone business seems a missed opportunity. If they'd handed those phones over to @Ishmael_Z and me, think how much fun we could have had punning backwards and forwards pretending we were speaking in code for 'so what do we do with these photos of Putin fucking eight year old boys then?'
Just think of the meltdown in the St Petersburg Collective Botfarm...
“Private messages with her close friend Kwasi Kwarteng.”
I’m old enough to remember when Big G was suggesting I was foul of libel law, having recently concluded his campaign to persecute Keir Starmer’s masala.
This particular inference you make has been called out this week and I would suggest you are being very unwise to repeat it
The Mail on Sunday is repeating it. Go clutch your pearls in their direction.
I have made my point and am not getting further involved
Your point appears to be that you do jot understand defamation. Sorry.
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup 🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation 🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
“Sauvignon Blanc” is such a wide category that I can only assume she’s a fan of chain pub style NZ Sauvignon. She probably claims she hates Chardonnay but doesn’t mind Pinot Grigio. Those are the 3 standards on the pub menu before you move up to . Plus a picpoul de pinet or an Albariño if they’re being a bit fancy.
It’s always annoying to be trapped in such places. I either go for the Albariño or the Chenin Blanc, they usually have one of either.
If you are in a pub then drink beer. The wine is never good.
In Slug and Lettuce type places, the beer is also quite suspect.
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The GOP are a cancer on the USA . The majority of the party should be locked up for sedition.
Ugh
I DEMAND HAKARL
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/29/suella-braverman-secretive-meetings-antiwoke-mp-officials?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1667065572
I’ve heard that this might not be true: the language thing. Ie that modern Icelandics can read the Sagas absolutely no problem. Instead they are about as obscure as Shakespeare is to us.
But I’d like it to be true
Not unless you have been accepting narcotics advice from Sean.
"Hákarl is a national dish of Iceland consisting of a Greenland shark or other sleeper shark that has been cured with a particular fermentation process and hung to dry for four to five months. It has a strong ammonia-rich smell and fishy taste, making hákarl an acquired taste."
The reaction of some of these organisations comes down to their very nature. Daly explains: “If a moral organisation has been accused of discrimination, it carries so much more weight because it’s not just its actions being criticised but its whole identity. It’s very easy for those organisations to react with extreme prejudice to any complaint or concern of discrimination because it is perceived that the gender-critical woman is attacking the institution’s identity.”
Daly had one case that involved a Plc, rather than the likes of universities, think-tanks and barristers’ chambers: “They were an absolute model of what should be done. They got everybody around the table, had a conversation and resolved it. As far as I know, everybody moved away from that much happier for it. When you’re not kind of blinkered, or when you’re not self-defined as a moral organisation, it’s a lot easier to do that.”
https://www.thelawyer.com/the-poisoned-debate-forstater-and-baileys-lawyer-on-defending-gender-critical-beliefs/
Meanwhile in Russia: several panelists threw some truth grenades at the stunned TV hosts, look how those angry propagandists pummeled the pundit who said that by destroying the infrastructure, Russia is waging a cruel, sadistic war against civilians. He won't be invited back.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1586395220476039168
I might have to shoplift some Black Death*
*Brennivin
Sheep’s heads, ram’s testicles in whale fat, hakarl, roast puffin, it is endlessly awful
Go clutch your pearls in their direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKl1orAWIao
☕️ Double espressos served in a flat-white-sized takeaway cup
🍾 A bottle of sauvignon blanc in the fridge of any overnight accommodation
🥪 Absolutely no mayonnaise on anything, ever
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-truss-team-tour-book-extract-r7jj8rs6s?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1667063950-1
Which may not prove to be "disappointingly
boring."
If.
One of Cummings' worst mistakes in a field of remarkably strong competition.
I find that incomprehensible. Utterly unfit on that basis alone.
You still cheer them all on here.
Your regular assertion that Franco was perfectly legitimate and respectable in his violent crushing of Socialists is up there and on topic with Fox News.
One of your favourites is, according to BBC R4 news closing in on the communist Lula in tomorrow's election. A celebration for the righteous and the good no doubt, if not the planet.and the relatives of 700,000 Brazilians who died (many directly as a result of his incompetence) of COVID.
Yes the temperature is lower here in the UK but before we get too self congratulatory, many otherwise sensible people voted for Boris despite all the lies and corruption for fear of Labour getting close to power, and many supposedly enlightened self-identifying progressives voted for the man with a planet sized anti-semitism blind spot who thought we should send Salisbury novichok samples to Russia for testing.
😂
Something to think about.
https://archive.ph/VspHv
"Liz Truss: my part in her downfall"
When your own ideological bedfellows are telling you to slow down...
It's the third leak inquiry into the Home Sec this year.
With @kateferguson4
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/20264308/home-secretary-suella-probed-leaked-protocol/
Oh, and here is your new mobile phone, we will ensure that it remains secure.
👀 One Conservative MP and ally of Braverman even hinted this was the case to PoliticsHome, claiming that circumstances of her return meant it had been orchestrated “on her own terms”
https://twitter.com/politicshome/status/1586420593662263296
In all honesty not the best of weather but far better than forecast. We were dry most of the week and didn't feel like it was only through strategic indoorsing. When the cloud was high it was glorious; when the cloud hung low it was still pretty atmospheric.
I was thinking, actually, of your weariness about the conversation of which English county was loveliest, and where I would slot the Scottish counties. I didn't pursue the exercise for long - which counties do I use, for a start - the historical ones, for a direct comparison, ideally, but many of them are very small (how lovely is Clackmannnanshire?) and I'm not necessarily overly familiar with a lot of the smaller ones - but I did decide that Perthshire was probably the loveliest county in Scotland and would rank damn high in an Anglo-Scottish list.
It’s often been the case that high growth is correlated with higher immigration levels in developed countries That’s why Japan with very little immigration has stagnated for decades.
Towards the end he said he hoped he'd be re-elected to Congress.
He also seemed to have a bee up his a*se, but perhaps he's always like that.
As someone else said - politics.
Mystery as top Putin general ‘found dead in Moscow River’ hours after he was sacked for ‘surrendering’ in Ukraine.
Seems unmysterious to me.
He's also the first cabinet secretary for ~50 years to be on the Privy Council. (He joined it shortly after the king's accession.)
I rather fear retirement.
Wouldn't hurt to say Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé. Though of course the jury is out on France.
Am struggling to think of a reason why the FSB might do that. Disappear him or suicide him in his residence, maybe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11368619/Liz-Trusss-personal-phone-hacked-Putins-spies-secret-details-negotiations.html
Just think of the meltdown in the St Petersburg Collective Botfarm...