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.
There's a 45% chance the party is going to win control of both houses of Congress in a few days' time according to 538.
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.)
Too young and inexperienced, and then totally compromised by his work covering up for Johnson.
See also, Rishi, Liz, Braverman, Cleverly etc etc.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
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.
There's a 45% chance the party is going to win control of both houses of Congress in a few days' time according to 538.
And if so, Putin gets to tick off another item in the checklist.
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.
The first Sugarcubes album with Bjork singing in Icelandic sounded like it was from another galaxy in the eighties.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
Lol! "I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam"
I can see why Russia would want to finish off someone they’ve just sacked. Potential tell-all / Western intelligence asset. Disgruntled former employees can be a headache. At worst a potential coup leader.
Why do the trolls always end up on COVID conspiracy theories? Vaccines are dangerous, masks are bad, it came from a lab leak… on and on.
Because people like you associate two ludicrous claims (vaccines are dangerous and masks are bad) with a plausible theory (lab leak).
I still can’t work out the psychology of this. Lab Leak is, circumstantially, very highly plausible. And the evidence grows over time, rather than the opposite
Yet apparently sane people are desperate to deny it. To the extent of vapid lunacy
Why? Because blaming the Chinese labs is racist? It’s not like “OMG they eat bats” is LESS racist
I can understand why some scientists might fear the hypothesis. For the rest it must be a simple fear of anything Trump claimed turning out to be true?
I am open to other suggestions
The lab leak is circumstantially very highly plausible.
But the evidence for it is exactly the same as it's always been: that the outbreak started very close to a place where bat viruses were being studied. There's no new evidence, and unless a lab worker came out and said something (which is unlikely given China's government), then the situation is likely to remain the same in perpetuity.
The other piece of evidence (what would it be called? It’s not really circumstantial) is that they’ve failed to prove the animal transmission chain. They have absolutely been looking and testing and trying… once you exclude the alternatives whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth…
That's an excellent point: but it is worth remembering that they've never found the animal host for Ebola or HIV/AIDS, and it took several years to get it for MERS.
It's also worth noting that finding the host does not mean it wasn't a lab leak.
HIV I think they are pretty sure it’s chimps (and probably Ebola as well)
They are pretty sure... But they have never found the animal host.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
Lol! "I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam"
The wine in pubs is shite, though. Has LuckyTwit ever posted something actually accurate? He is a counter-indicator of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard proportions.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
A remarkably cool post.
The pubs I go to these days are without exception really restaurants with pretty decent wine lists. I wouldn't dream of drinking wine in a proper pub pub.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
Lol! "I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam"
The wine in pubs is shite, though. Has LuckyTwit ever posted something actually accurate? He is a counter-indicator of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard proportions.
Often it has been open too long, usually the wrong temperature etc.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
A remarkably cool post.
The pubs I go to these days are without exception really restaurants with pretty decent wine lists. I wouldn't dream of drinking wine in a proper pub pub.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
Lol! "I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam"
Chain pub wine lists are bought in wholesale - the pub doesn’t choose, it just gets given the list - and are almost entirely based around popular grape varietal brands that can be bought in bulk with reliable flavours. The wines can be pleasant but they are the wine equivalent of branded lagers.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
Lol! "I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam"
The wine in pubs is shite, though. Has LuckyTwit ever posted something actually accurate? He is a counter-indicator of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard proportions.
Often it has been open too long, usually the wrong temperature etc.
Drink beer. It is what pubs are for.
The red is usually worst. I’ve had many 2 week old glasses of 25C raisin juice in the past.
I can see why Russia would want to finish off someone they’ve just sacked. Potential tell-all / Western intelligence asset. Disgruntled former employees can be a headache. At worst a potential coup leader.
we british dont of course need to do that with our recent sackings - just get them to use their phone at the start of their job and no more secrets to spill once sacked
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.
I visited Iceland this summer for my hols; we were lucky with the weather with lots of sun.
My favourite place was the westfjords, but it took a fair while to get up there.
Most of the waitresses, hospitalty workers, etc. were Eastern European.
The food is pretty similar everywhere: Lamb, fish and icelandic yogurt.
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.
I visited Iceland this summer for my hols; we were lucky with the weather with lots of sun.
My favourite place was the westfjords, but it took a fair while to get up there.
Most of the waitresses, hospitalty workers, etc. were Eastern European.
The food is pretty similar everywhere: Lamb, fish and icelandic yogurt.
We went to iceland a few years ago and my partner got terrible food poisoning, either from fermented shark or a dodgy pub salad. Did enjoy the penis museum though.
“Deaths from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, in particular, show a significant excess; Covid-19 increases the risk of subsequent cardiovascular problems and could in part be driving excess deaths."
And quite obviously, when ICU is over flowing and operating theatres converted to ICU, not much planned cardiac work will happen. That isn't a problem of lockdown, it is a problem of demand exceeding capacity.
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.
I visited Iceland this summer for my hols; we were lucky with the weather with lots of sun.
My favourite place was the westfjords, but it took a fair while to get up there.
Most of the waitresses, hospitalty workers, etc. were Eastern European.
The food is pretty similar everywhere: Lamb, fish and icelandic yogurt.
We went to iceland a few years ago and my partner got terrible food poisoning, either from fermented shark or a dodgy pub salad. Did enjoy the penis museum though.
4 point lead for Sunak on best PM, tories lead on economy, defence, foreign policy, terror, adrift on the rest, but 40% feel more positive about the Tories now since Sunak took over. Sunak bounce is underway, time will tell how far it goes
I know the 'america is nearing civil war' stuff is hyperbole, but they do appear on the cusp of some dangerous shifts in acceptable 'political' discourse and behaviour. It seems to be getting worse, rather than better.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
Lol! "I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam"
The wine in pubs is shite, though. Has LuckyTwit ever posted something actually accurate? He is a counter-indicator of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard proportions.
I would say the same of your oeuvre, but I'm struggling to remember anything in particular that you've ever posted.
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
Stating facts isn’t divisive . Most of the GOP have peddled the big lie and are complicit in attempting to destroy USA democracy.
Just a reminder that Opinium's methodology is designed to eliminate the 'normal mid term polling'. Pre-Truss the best Lab lead under this system was 8%. I think the best movement to the Cons after Major replaced Thatcher was 26% - giving Major a lead with that polling company in the low teens. At the moment Mr Sunak has a lot of work to do just to get back to the position when Johnson finally forced his MPS to throw him out
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
Stating facts isn’t divisive . Most of the GOP have peddled the big lie and are complicit in attempting to destroy USA democracy.
“Deaths from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, in particular, show a significant excess; Covid-19 increases the risk of subsequent cardiovascular problems and could in part be driving excess deaths."
And quite obviously, when ICU is over flowing and operating theatres converted to ICU, not much planned cardiac work will happen. That isn't a problem of lockdown, it is a problem of demand exceeding capacity.
Which would have been even worse if we hadn't had lockdown.
I really don't understand all this COP27 positioning by the government. It isn't as though PMs have routinely gone to such things, but they are so adamant not to have the PM or King go that it has become a much bigger story than it needed to be.
4 point lead for Sunak on best PM, tories lead on economy, defence, foreign policy, terror, adrift on the rest, but 40% feel more positive about the Tories now since Sunak took over. Sunak bounce is underway, time will tell how far it goes
I'm slightly surprised it's as low as 40% given the complete contrast. Sunak is the Prime Minister and has had a week of near continuous and initially largely positive coverage.
What remains to be seen is how he will fare when the waters get choppier as they have over Braverman for example.
This account of Liz Truss’s world travels as trade secretary (from two well-sourced and Conservative-friendly journalists) is beyond parody: “no interest whatsoever” in developing trade but an obsessive focus on getting the right shots for Instagram.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
Lol! "I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam"
Chain pub wine lists are bought in wholesale - the pub doesn’t choose, it just gets given the list - and are almost entirely based around popular grape varietal brands that can be bought in bulk with reliable flavours. The wines can be pleasant but they are the wine equivalent of branded lagers.
This is a fair enough statement. The wines will be pleasant and drinkable - probably no worse than the beer. I take the point a little about the possibility of the wine being oxidised or served poorly, but to be honest even the stemware in a Wetherspoons these days is better than what you'd have got in a top restaurant in the 90's (not that I attended many top restaurants then, but still).
Both parties are going to be in the 30s pretty soon at this rate.
Another awful poll for the conservatives. This is getting truly worrying. Where have their voters gone? With Truss gone, her policies publicly shredded, why aren’t they coming back?
To say Truss had no honeymoon bounce is not true. Her uptick was smaller than Rishi’s, but not much smaller. She got up to 35% consistently with Techne, a 34% from Opinium swingback poll put her just 5% behind Labour. My argument being, the longer we go without seeing 30% in Sunak’s honeymoon polls, the chance rises we might never see them.
Still no 30% in this honeymoon period, not even from the Opinium swingback methodolgy. Kantor is their next hope of a 30+. What if they go through this honeymoon period without a 30 before sliding again as honeymoon wears off. 🫢
This account of Liz Truss’s world travels as trade secretary (from two well-sourced and Conservative-friendly journalists) is beyond parody: “no interest whatsoever” in developing trade but an obsessive focus on getting the right shots for Instagram.
I know the 'america is nearing civil war' stuff is hyperbole, but they do appear on the cusp of some dangerous shifts in acceptable 'political' discourse and behaviour. It seems to be getting worse, rather than better.
This week 3 people were convicted of trying to kidnap the Dem govenor of Michigan.
Another man plead guilty to threatening Eric Swalwell.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
When I was young, it was difficult to buy a good wine in this country. Now it is difficult to buy a bad one.
Straight line UNS does indeed suggest a Labour majority only just over 100 on those numbers but add in the tactical voting numbers identified by Redfield & Wilton and the majority increases to 170 with the Conservatives on 136 seats.
4 point lead for Sunak on best PM, tories lead on economy, defence, foreign policy, terror, adrift on the rest, but 40% feel more positive about the Tories now since Sunak took over. Sunak bounce is underway, time will tell how far it goes
I'm slightly surprised it's as low as 40% given the complete contrast. Sunak is the Prime Minister and has had a week of near continuous and initially largely positive coverage.
What remains to be seen is how he will fare when the waters get choppier as they have over Braverman for example.
28% say negative before, still negative, 16% more negative now, but the stand out is only 3% positive before, still positive which shows the absolute mauling she gave their public perception
How utterly AWFUL that the civil service were made to suffer the indignity of visiting a SMALL CAFE in the SUBURBS of all the horrors.
The point is the whole thing was just a big photo opportunity. The more one reads about Truss the clearer it becomes that she had no interest in governing, just self-promotion on instagram and leaking to friendly journalists.
Yes. So the actual figures they got for a normal poll were probably like Tory 25% or less and Labour around 50%. Remember - no matter what Boris done at any point this year, this methodology had him no further behind than 4 or 5%. In other words, despite Trussterfuck polling collapse, only teeny honeymoon uptick for Sunak. 😮
So far. As PB has worked out events take 14 days to move polls.
☕️ 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.
This whole conversation is rather assinine. I don't pretend to be an expert, but I've done my junior sommelier training and passed the exam, and the head of the Court of Master Sommeliers was quite clear during the course that due to the advent of the new world and the resultant competition, wine quality these days was generally very good, and though there were a fair amount of unspectacular wines, there were very few bad ones. Sadly there are still wine snobs who will pull stupid faces at 'the wine in pubs', which says rather more about them than the actual wine in actual pubs.
A remarkably cool post.
The pubs I go to these days are without exception really restaurants with pretty decent wine lists. I wouldn't dream of drinking wine in a proper pub pub.
The "very few bad wines" is spot on. I have had genuinely faulty wine (rather than just a bad bottle) only once: some shithole rural hotel in the west midlands (which shall remain nameless) charged £18 for a bottle of Spanish white which Google told me later cost £3.29 wholesale. I had them bring another bottle: same (oxidised, watery). Honestly they could have bought their wine in from Aldi at 50p more a bottle and it would have been fine. What was odd was that the food was decent and well-priced.
Even the Wetherspoons Californian stuff which comes out of a tap for £1.40 per small glass is tolerable.
How utterly AWFUL that the civil service were made to suffer the indignity of visiting a SMALL CAFE in the SUBURBS of all the horrors.
The point is the whole thing was just a big photo opportunity. The more one reads about Truss the clearer it becomes that she had no interest in governing, just self-promotion on instagram and leaking to friendly journalists.
Ditto Johnson of course, and very possibly (whisper it quietly) Rishi.
This account of Liz Truss’s world travels as trade secretary (from two well-sourced and Conservative-friendly journalists) is beyond parody: “no interest whatsoever” in developing trade but an obsessive focus on getting the right shots for Instagram.
Lot of people have saved up their truss hate pieces beyond their expiry dates. Liz who?
Some people have said there is no point publishing the biography now, but as others have noted it will be the seminal text on what not to do, how not to pick a leader, the warning signs of political catastrophe.
How utterly AWFUL that the civil service were made to suffer the indignity of visiting a SMALL CAFE in the SUBURBS of all the horrors.
The point is the whole thing was just a big photo opportunity. The more one reads about Truss the clearer it becomes that she had no interest in governing, just self-promotion on instagram and leaking to friendly journalists.
Liz did love a silly photo op, but one assumes she didn't actually cancel actual important trade meetings for them, otherwise the article would say so. So we don't know what was on the abandoned agenda that was so shit hot compared to the cafe, do we?
4 point lead for Sunak on best PM, tories lead on economy, defence, foreign policy, terror, adrift on the rest, but 40% feel more positive about the Tories now since Sunak took over. Sunak bounce is underway, time will tell how far it goes
Tories lead on the economy? After that past couple of months?
Labour really do have some baggage dragging behind them.
I see Hunt is going 50/50 spending cuts to tax rises to plug the fiscal hole, as compared with Osborn’s 80/20 ratio.
Still going to be rather unpleasant and possibly recessionary, though.
What fiscal hole? Before you expect me to believe there is one, explain to me where it came from.
Was it there when Boris was PM, so his budget had to plug it? Was it mentioned at all by any candidate during long months of Tory hustings? So where and when did a fiscal hole appear? You know what caused it and when?
This account of Liz Truss’s world travels as trade secretary (from two well-sourced and Conservative-friendly journalists) is beyond parody: “no interest whatsoever” in developing trade but an obsessive focus on getting the right shots for Instagram.
Lot of people have saved up their truss hate pieces beyond their expiry dates. Liz who?
Some people have said there is no point publishing the biography now, but as others have noted it will be the seminal text on what not to do, how not to pick a leader, the warning signs of political catastrophe.
Suspect it will need a spectacular rewrite to tell that story...
How utterly AWFUL that the civil service were made to suffer the indignity of visiting a SMALL CAFE in the SUBURBS of all the horrors.
The point is the whole thing was just a big photo opportunity. The more one reads about Truss the clearer it becomes that she had no interest in governing, just self-promotion on instagram and leaking to friendly journalists.
And so many Tories never worked this out, or weren’t bothered.
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.
When I was in Iceland I saw the northern lights a couple of times. I was initially underwhelmed by the lack of colour - just grey shimmery fog-like streaks. Until I saw the results from my camera - and wow!
People want to see the lights because they expect a firework show without realising that the only images they have ever seen will be in print or TV and have obvs been taken by camera.
How utterly AWFUL that the civil service were made to suffer the indignity of visiting a SMALL CAFE in the SUBURBS of all the horrors.
The point is the whole thing was just a big photo opportunity. The more one reads about Truss the clearer it becomes that she had no interest in governing, just self-promotion on instagram and leaking to friendly journalists.
Liz did love a silly photo op, but one assumes she didn't actually cancel actual important trade meetings for them, otherwise the article would say so. So we don't know what was on the abandoned agenda that was so shit hot compared to the cafe, do we?
Do tell why she was flying in for only 6 hours? On our ticket. Its wasn't to drink twatty coffee was it? Must try harder...
How utterly AWFUL that the civil service were made to suffer the indignity of visiting a SMALL CAFE in the SUBURBS of all the horrors.
The point is the whole thing was just a big photo opportunity. The more one reads about Truss the clearer it becomes that she had no interest in governing, just self-promotion on instagram and leaking to friendly journalists.
Liz did love a silly photo op, but one assumes she didn't actually cancel actual important trade meetings for them, otherwise the article would say so. So we don't know what was on the abandoned agenda that was so shit hot compared to the cafe, do we?
Do tell why she was flying in for only 6 hours? On our ticket. Its wasn't to drink twatty coffee was it? Must try harder...
No idea, changeover to Canberra or something? I imagine she was visiting a few places.
4 point lead for Sunak on best PM, tories lead on economy, defence, foreign policy, terror, adrift on the rest, but 40% feel more positive about the Tories now since Sunak took over. Sunak bounce is underway, time will tell how far it goes
🙂 how does this compare with Liz Truss v Starmer? Is it safe to assume Truss never enjoyed best PM lead with Opinium, before or during her honeymoon?
I see Hunt is going 50/50 spending cuts to tax rises to plug the fiscal hole, as compared with Osborn’s 80/20 ratio.
Still going to be rather unpleasant and possibly recessionary, though.
What fiscal hole? Before you expect me to believe there is one, explain to me where it came from.
Was it there when Boris was PM, so his budget had to plug it? Was it mentioned at all by any candidate during long months of Tory hustings? So where and when did a fiscal hole appear? You know what caused it and when?
Good question.
I believe it is partly the energy giveaway, and partly the downturn of the economy against previous projections.
A third element, the moron premium on debt following the Trussterfuck, seems to have dissipated.
But you raise a valid point, which is why the British government is opting once more for austerity, when all the evidence suggests that British growth is suppressed by (1) poor capital investment; (2) pulling out of the single market.
Rishi’s answers to (1) and (2) are, essentially, at odds with mainstream economic thinking, but nobody has yet noticed and in any case overwhelmed by the relief that we are no longer Trussing.
4 point lead for Sunak on best PM, tories lead on economy, defence, foreign policy, terror, adrift on the rest, but 40% feel more positive about the Tories now since Sunak took over. Sunak bounce is underway, time will tell how far it goes
🙂 how does this compare with Liz Truss v Starmer? Is it safe to assume Truss never enjoyed best PM lead with Opinium, before or during her honeymoon?
This account of Liz Truss’s world travels as trade secretary (from two well-sourced and Conservative-friendly journalists) is beyond parody: “no interest whatsoever” in developing trade but an obsessive focus on getting the right shots for Instagram.
Lot of people have saved up their truss hate pieces beyond their expiry dates. Liz who?
Some people have said there is no point publishing the biography now, but as others have noted it will be the seminal text on what not to do, how not to pick a leader, the warning signs of political catastrophe.
Suspect it will need a spectacular rewrite to tell that story...
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See also, Rishi, Liz, Braverman, Cleverly etc etc.
Labour's lead drops from 27 points last week to 19 points over the Conservatives.
Con 28% (+5)
Lab 44% (-6)
Lib Dems 10% (+1)
Green 5% (-1) https://twitter.com/OpiniumResearch/status/1586432684875829249/photo/1
Has LuckyTwit ever posted something actually accurate? He is a counter-indicator of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard proportions.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/29/disastrous-legacy-left-lockdown-non-covid-excess-deaths-overtake/
The pubs I go to these days are without exception really restaurants with pretty decent wine lists. I wouldn't dream of drinking wine in a proper pub pub.
Drink beer. It is what pubs are for.
My favourite place was the westfjords, but it took a fair while to get up there.
Most of the waitresses, hospitalty workers, etc. were Eastern European.
The food is pretty similar everywhere: Lamb, fish and icelandic yogurt.
“Deaths from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, in particular, show a significant excess; Covid-19 increases the risk of subsequent cardiovascular problems and could in part be driving excess deaths."
And quite obviously, when ICU is over flowing and operating theatres converted to ICU, not much planned cardiac work will happen. That isn't a problem of lockdown, it is a problem of demand exceeding capacity.
Isn't that 16?
Baxters to lab maj 102
8% other is presumably refuk
44 is by some way the lowest Labour rating out there with other pollsters still up at 50 or higher. We'll se if this is a trend or an outlier.
Sunak bounce is underway, time will tell how far it goes
That’s what I’d call divisive .
https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1562004612172873728?t=8DKGdnff32tEyRlzbTjMRg&s=19
https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/1586437291706179584
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4a578808-5700-11ed-8e9a-37443e2955cd?shareToken=ad7869f307a8a82b52bc73f66b33174a https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/1586437291706179584/photo/1
What remains to be seen is how he will fare when the waters get choppier as they have over Braverman for example.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4a578808-5700-11ed-8e9a-37443e2955cd
To say Truss had no honeymoon bounce is not true. Her uptick was smaller than Rishi’s, but not much smaller. She got up to 35% consistently with Techne, a 34% from Opinium swingback poll put her just 5% behind Labour. My argument being, the longer we go without seeing 30% in Sunak’s honeymoon polls, the chance rises we might never see them.
Still no 30% in this honeymoon period, not even from the Opinium swingback methodolgy. Kantor is their next hope of a 30+. What if they go through this honeymoon period without a 30 before sliding again as honeymoon wears off. 🫢
Another man plead guilty to threatening Eric Swalwell.
Plus the Pelosi attack.
Busy week.
Hammered, hammered and hammered.
Still going to be rather unpleasant and possibly recessionary, though.
Agronomy clearly not her core skill.
Remember - no matter what Boris done at any point this year, this methodology had him no further behind than 4 or 5%.
In other words, despite Trussterfuck polling collapse, only teeny honeymoon uptick for Sunak. 😮
So far. As PB has worked out events take 14 days to move polls.
And the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary agreed to cover it up so it didn't derail her chances of winning the race to be Prime Minister?
Have I misunderstood any of that?
https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1586390623074111489?s=46&t=mb8HkQUvmfQLpnXmRWizTA
Even the Wetherspoons Californian stuff which comes out of a tap for £1.40 per small glass is tolerable.
Labour really do have some baggage dragging behind them.
Was it there when Boris was PM, so his budget had to plug it? Was it mentioned at all by any candidate during long months of Tory hustings? So where and when did a fiscal hole appear? You know what caused it and when?
People want to see the lights because they expect a firework show without realising that the only images they have ever seen will be in print or TV and have obvs been taken by camera.
See::
https://futurism.com/how-we-see-the-aurora-borealis-camera-vs-human-eyes-2
You need - of course - to have a good camera and know how to take time exposures.
I believe it is partly the energy giveaway, and partly the downturn of the economy against previous projections.
A third element, the moron premium on debt following the Trussterfuck, seems to have dissipated.
But you raise a valid point, which is why the British government is opting once more for austerity, when all the evidence suggests that British growth is suppressed by (1) poor capital investment; (2) pulling out of the single market.
Rishi’s answers to (1) and (2) are, essentially, at odds with mainstream economic thinking, but nobody has yet noticed and in any case overwhelmed by the relief that we are no longer Trussing.
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Many coffee cake recipes use it for the cake, icing, or both.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-63442399