One of the details that came out of the Dominion stuff which just boggles my mind is how angry and upset the viewers of Fox were, and therefore how desperate to appease them the network was, about them calling Arizona for Biden, correctly as it turns out.
Yes, it shows that a large part of the audience was already buying into claims there was no way Biden could legitimately have won the state, but what is there even to be mad at Fox in that scenario? It had no impact on how the race was counted. All they said was they were calculating the outcome based on the votes as announced up to that point - and that doesn't actually contradict a 'steal' narrative as viewers could have gone 'well of course it's called for Biden, because the Dems are rigging it!'
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
No point slagging me off. I'm watching Ozark.
Not slagging you off, although you did me earlier, but you will continue to lose and be surprised and frustrated by elections until you start engaging with views you vehemently disagree with respect with a view to building your understanding and thus, ultimately, your influence.
No skin off my rosy nose if you don't. I'm happy to keep winning forever.
Some interesting stuff coming out in the Graun btw.
'Andy Wightman, a Scottish land reform expert and former Scottish Green party MSP, said the house seemed to have been a publicly owned asset used to help the royal family’s employees or people associated with the royal family. That was a form of public benefit, he said.
“Since the property is now being rented out on a commercial basis as part of the king’s personal property portfolio, this historic understanding no longer has any validity,” he said. “The king should pay a market price for the property to the government.”'
[and the fact that the SGs lost Mr Wightman is in my view a huge black mark against them]
Jesus, I know Dominion had a headline grabbing larger claim, but I didn't expect them to get this much - Fox must have been really shitting themselves.
Even if this settlement accepts no admission of wrongdoing or the sort of bullcrap agreements often do, there's no hiding that is a heck of lot of money Fox have coughed up. Dominion lawyers have just announced Fox and Dominion have reached a settlement of $787,500,000m (£633.6m).
"The truth matters, lies have consequences," a lawyer for Dominion says
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
No point slagging me off. I'm watching Ozark.
Not slagging you off, although you did me earlier, but you will continue to lose and be surprised and frustrated by elections until you start engaging with views you vehemently disagree with respect with a view to building your understanding and thus, ultimately, your influence.
No skin off my rosy nose if you don't. I'm happy to keep winning forever.
To be fair many people are guilty of this. Unfair to just pick on kinabalu.
"We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems. We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.
Does lying in a statement about an out-of-court settlement count as perjury?
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
No point slagging me off. I'm watching Ozark.
Not slagging you off, although you did me earlier, but you will continue to lose and be surprised and frustrated by elections until you start engaging with views you vehemently disagree with respect with a view to building your understanding and thus, ultimately, your influence.
No skin off my rosy nose if you don't. I'm happy to keep winning forever.
I can't honestly think what kinabalu does will have much effect on who wins the next GE.
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
No point slagging me off. I'm watching Ozark.
Not slagging you off, although you did me earlier, but you will continue to lose and be surprised and frustrated by elections until you start engaging with views you vehemently disagree with respect with a view to building your understanding and thus, ultimately, your influence.
No skin off my rosy nose if you don't. I'm happy to keep winning forever.
To be fair many people are guilty of this. Unfair to just pick on kinabalu.
He (rather rudely) keeps calling me a reactionary whenever he detects I have opposing views to him on a subject so this is very much a case of what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
He can end it at any time by changing his ways.
Anyway, I must attend to evening chores. Goodnight.
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
No point slagging me off. I'm watching Ozark.
Not slagging you off, although you did me earlier, but you will continue to lose and be surprised and frustrated by elections until you start engaging with views you vehemently disagree with respect with a view to building your understanding and thus, ultimately, your influence.
No skin off my rosy nose if you don't. I'm happy to keep winning forever.
To be fair many people are guilty of this. Unfair to just pick on kinabalu.
He (rather rudely) keeps calling me a reactionary whenever he detects I have opposing views to him on a subject so this is very much a case of what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
He can end it at any time by changing his ways.
Anyway, I must attend to evening chores. Goodnight.
BTW if you have a rosy nose you ought to see a doctor. Look up rosacea on the NHS website.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
No point slagging me off. I'm watching Ozark.
Not slagging you off, although you did me earlier, but you will continue to lose and be surprised and frustrated by elections until you start engaging with views you vehemently disagree with respect with a view to building your understanding and thus, ultimately, your influence.
No skin off my rosy nose if you don't. I'm happy to keep winning forever.
And you'll say thank you very much as your income continually gets taxed ever more heavily in order to shelter the cosseted-boomer generation. Who's the gullible fool here?
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Please tell me that, even in the US, lawyers' costs are not going to make much of a difference to $787m.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
Some interesting stuff coming out in the Graun btw.
'Andy Wightman, a Scottish land reform expert and former Scottish Green party MSP, said the house seemed to have been a publicly owned asset used to help the royal family’s employees or people associated with the royal family. That was a form of public benefit, he said.
“Since the property is now being rented out on a commercial basis as part of the king’s personal property portfolio, this historic understanding no longer has any validity,” he said. “The king should pay a market price for the property to the government.”'
[and the fact that the SGs lost Mr Wightman is in my view a huge black mark against them]
Andy Wightman is the epitome of what a Green politician should be, as opposed to the current batch of Green politicians.
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Please tell me that, even in the US, lawyers' costs are not going to make much of a difference to $787m.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
I don't know. This was a trial with a lot of discovery involved. The hours will have been racking up.
You wonder where that leaves them with the other case too. That was for an even higher figure. Are they going to settle that for 50% too?
I'm looking forward to those Labour posters next year:
"FFS, it's our turn!"
It was an infelicitous phrase. But the argument that it’s time for a change is a persuasive one. The Tories have played bait and switch so many times during their lengthy spell in government that it’s impossible to trust they won’t do the same again.
Had their record in government been good, then it would be possible to contemplate another term with equanimity. It hasn’t even been close to that - and in may respects has been utterly dismal.
I’ve no great confidence in Starmer, but the current lot need a good kicking for both the country, and their own party’s good. And that means they’re losing the next general election, decisively. Not a mild fright in the local elections.
Not slagging you off, although you did me earlier, but you will continue to lose and be surprised and frustrated by elections until you start engaging with views you vehemently disagree with respect with a view to building your understanding and thus, ultimately, your influence.
It's hardly the case that the views of random partisan supporters of a party are very influential on the outcome of elections. If Starmer or his core group of advisors were operating on an "it should be our turn now" worldview, yes, absolutely that would be detrimental to their chances of success, but I see no particular signs of that. The takes of individual posters on politics forums have pretty much 0 influence and also aren't very good proxies for the views of the party leadership. (For the other side of that, I don't suppose Sunak would endorse everything HYUFD says here or operate an election campaign on that rose-tinted view of the polling.)
So a left-leaning person who thinks "our turn now, surely" may be *surprised* by an election loss, but they are hardly responsible for it, and a change in that worldview is unlikely to result in a change in electoral outcomes.
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Please tell me that, even in the US, lawyers' costs are not going to make much of a difference to $787m.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
Their lawyers might have been on a profit share, so who knows how much they made. We’ll probably find out at some point.
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
No wonder their share price is cratering.
Panicking over that was what got them in this mess to begin with - what lies will they spread this time to try to reverse that?
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
No wonder their share price is cratering.
Panicking over that was what got them in this mess to begin with - what lies will they spread this time to try to reverse that?
They've already said they're committed to the highest journalistic standards. Even Goebbels would have a hard time beating that one for sheer effrontery.
I say 9.8% which I suspect is more than what is being expected/hoped for
Current is 10.4%
Bloomberg consensus is 9.8% IIRC, so you are in good company. I have it at 9.9%. It should come down on base effects - ie big price increases last March dropping out of the calculation - plus lower fuel prices. I see core inflation as persistent thanks to wage inflation hence the slightly higher forecast.
For what it's worth I took 'It's our turn' as an intentionally comedic expression of the basic point about time for a change, rather than any kind of presumptousness.
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
No wonder their share price is cratering.
Panicking over that was what got them in this mess to begin with - what lies will they spread this time to try to reverse that?
The bigger danger for them is the renegotiation of their cable deals. They are paid an absurd amount of money for the audience share they attract.
The hit to their image potentially threatens that. And will be a big part of why they settled rather than drag it out in public.
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
No wonder their share price is cratering.
Panicking over that was what got them in this mess to begin with - what lies will they spread this time to try to reverse that?
They've already said they're committed to the highest journalistic standards. Even Goebbels would have a hard time beating that one for sheer effrontery.
It is pretty amazing - you've just agreed to pay up the better part of a billion dollars because it was proven your standards were anything but high, and it's not like you accepted that with grace, but in a last minute deal to avoid a trial, yet still you argue you have standards?
Next up, person who pleads guilty to a charge of perjury says it demonstrates their committment to the truth.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
"We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems. We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. This settlement reflects FOX’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.
Does lying in a statement about an out-of-court settlement count as perjury?
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Apparently the Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
I reckon @kinabalu finds it genuinely difficult to think outside his predictable, progressive, social democratic box. He has a world view, and he diligently sticks to it, and it comforts him, and it probably verifies often enough for him to feel it is acceptably accurate, so why risk changing his perspective? Easier to label opponents as "reactionaries" and file them comfortably away
But he is terrible at processing new data or coming up with new ideas or confronting fresh dilemmas. eg his dogged determination to believe Sturgeon is a good woman promoting a genuine cause, and that's that - despite overwhelming evidence that she may well have been fervently indy but she knowingly led and protected a corrupt cabal that was bent on gouging the Scottish and British state for status and money, even as they "nobly" pursued independence
That's probably why he was a successful accountant. You don't want an excitable accountant full of mad new ideas and open to all kinds of suggestions. You want someone who does what he does, and does it well and assiduously, and who ignores distractions or simply doesn't comprehend them
However you don't want a dude like @kinabalu if you need innovation or imagination, or an ability to draw startling, unexpected and profitable conclusions
He found the right role in life. Good for him. Seriously. Others are not so lucky
I'm looking forward to those Labour posters next year:
"FFS, it's our turn!"
It was an infelicitous phrase. But the argument that it’s time for a change is a persuasive one. The Tories have played bait and switch so many times during their lengthy spell in government that it’s impossible to trust they won’t do the same again.
Had their record in government been good, then it would be possible to contemplate another term with equanimity. It hasn’t even been close to that - and in may respects has been utterly dismal.
I’ve no great confidence in Starmer, but the current lot need a good kicking for both the country, and their own party’s good. And that means they’re losing the next general election, decisively. Not a mild fright in the local elections.
Given the last local election results, the result of the coming locals may very well look quite ordinary to people as ignorant as, say, Robert Peston.
jaketapper 3m Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
Does that include costs? If it's only compensation it's truly eye watering.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
No wonder their share price is cratering.
Panicking over that was what got them in this mess to begin with - what lies will they spread this time to try to reverse that?
The bigger danger for them is the renegotiation of their cable deals. They are paid an absurd amount of money for the audience share they attract.
The hit to their image potentially threatens that. And will be a big part of why they settled rather than drag it out in public.
I suppose a lot of material has already come out about how their executives and stars knew they were peddling lies, and doing so to mollify their base - who even if they did not outright call stupid they demonstrated they did not actually agree with through those admissions about the election not being stolen.
So rather than that come up over and over in a more publicised trial, just settle and even though it looks bad, it's less damaging than the base hearing about that challenge to their beliefs about the stolen election over and over? They can actually leave unchallenged that belief by just not having to talk about it as much.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
And, unless it's very young spinach, it's going to end up stringy, making the quiche hard to cut and hard to cleanly bite. Not very genteel.
They'll make it in 1 inch diameter bite-size quiches for the Royal Garden Parties. I attended one as a teenager, and apart from being radically appalled by how people behaved, particularly ladies of a certain age as I have remarked on here, the other thing that struck me was how they carefully designed the food to be, so to speak, Miliband-consumable. Right down to perfect chocolate eclairss with that cream stuff in them, about 1.1 inches long.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Putin’s Regime Is Descending Into Stalinism The prison sentence handed down to my friend, opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, signals that repression in Russia is getting even worse. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/18/vladimir-kara-murza-death-struggle-vladimir-putin-00092499 … On Monday, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in a “strict regime” prison colony. This is likely the longest sentence ever meted out for political activity in post-Soviet Russia, where the maximum term for murder is 15 years and the punishment for rape is the same. His sentence combines penalties for all these “crimes”: seven years for the first, three for the second, and 15 years (apparently “reduced” from eighteen) for the third.
This punishment is much harsher than the ones to which the regime’s vengeance has lately subjected members of the opposition. The two other leading opponents of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin, were sentenced to nine years and eight-and-a-half years respectively…
I'm looking forward to those Labour posters next year:
"FFS, it's our turn!"
It was an infelicitous phrase. But the argument that it’s time for a change is a persuasive one. The Tories have played bait and switch so many times during their lengthy spell in government that it’s impossible to trust they won’t do the same again.
Had their record in government been good, then it would be possible to contemplate another term with equanimity. It hasn’t even been close to that - and in may respects has been utterly dismal.
I’ve no great confidence in Starmer, but the current lot need a good kicking for both the country, and their own party’s good. And that means they’re losing the next general election, decisively. Not a mild fright in the local elections.
It's time for a change but unfortunately we aren't offering one"
Mind you, if lying in court should is punishable, there are several Supreme Court Justices who ought to be banged up, Along with the Texas guy.
‘The justices were kidding themselves’: Supreme Court takes up abortion after saying lawmakers should decide https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/supreme-court-abortion-pill-00092529 … The case now before the court undercuts one of the core arguments justices made when they overturned Roe v. Wade in June: that it’s not appropriate for “unelected members of this Court” to “override the democratic process” and set national abortion policy.
“This Court will no longer decide the fundamental question of whether abortion must be allowed throughout the United States through 6 weeks, or 12 weeks, or 15 weeks, or 24 weeks, or some other line,” declared Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. “Instead, those difficult moral and policy questions will be decided, as the Constitution dictates, by the people and their elected representatives through the constitutional processes of democratic self-government.”
While the issue currently before the court is a technical one that hinges on judicial and administrative processes and not the merits of the parties’ abortion-rights arguments, it will still have the kind of substantive national impact justices vowed in the Dobbs ruling to avoid.
“The justices were kidding themselves if they thought the decision in Dobbs would somehow get them out of the business of dealing with abortion cases,” said Stephen Vladeck, a constitutional law professor at the University of Texas School of Law. “One would have to have remarkable blinders on not to have seen that.”..
Plus Smartmatic also have to open their case still, as the gent also remarks.
Just read Smartmatic's brilliant introduction to their suit:
1. The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly
Not all venison is wild, and a lot of what is labelled Scottish is actually Turkish apparently. No idea how it works but I've been assured it's true by a Scottish chef of some standing.
That recipe looks like it would need copious amounts of butter to make it taste good.
You can afford well-husbanded cow, chicken and pork, so buy it and enjoy it. Retreat from meat is very 2019.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly
Not all venison is wild, and a lot of what is labelled Scottish is actually Turkish apparently. No idea how it works but I've been assured it's true by a Scottish chef of some standing.
That recipe looks like it would need copious amounts of butter to make it taste good.
You can afford well-husbanded cow, chicken and pork, so buy it and enjoy it. Retreat from meat is very 2019.
I am sure what I am getting is the real deal: wild venison. I've done my research
Of course I add butter! I add this fantastic sea salt butter - Posh Cow - from M&S:
I'm looking forward to those Labour posters next year:
"FFS, it's our turn!"
It was an infelicitous phrase. But the argument that it’s time for a change is a persuasive one. The Tories have played bait and switch so many times during their lengthy spell in government that it’s impossible to trust they won’t do the same again.
Had their record in government been good, then it would be possible to contemplate another term with equanimity. It hasn’t even been close to that - and in may respects has been utterly dismal.
I’ve no great confidence in Starmer, but the current lot need a good kicking for both the country, and their own party’s good. And that means they’re losing the next general election, decisively. Not a mild fright in the local elections.
Given the last local election results, the result of the coming locals may very well look quite ordinary to people as ignorant as, say, Robert Peston.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly
Not all venison is wild, and a lot of what is labelled Scottish is actually Turkish apparently. No idea how it works but I've been assured it's true by a Scottish chef of some standing.
That recipe looks like it would need copious amounts of butter to make it taste good.
You can afford well-husbanded cow, chicken and pork, so buy it and enjoy it. Retreat from meat is very 2019.
I am sure what I am getting is the real deal: wild venison. I've done my research
Of course I add butter! I add this fantastic sea salt butter - Posh Cow - from M&S:
Some time ago, I came ot this conclusion: Following Trump risks your wealth, your health, and even for some, your freedom. It looks like Fox News may be coming to a similar conclusion.
(Republican professionals are learning, if they haven't already, that following Trump makes it difficult to win national elections.)
Some interesting stuff coming out in the Graun btw.
'Andy Wightman, a Scottish land reform expert and former Scottish Green party MSP, said the house seemed to have been a publicly owned asset used to help the royal family’s employees or people associated with the royal family. That was a form of public benefit, he said.
“Since the property is now being rented out on a commercial basis as part of the king’s personal property portfolio, this historic understanding no longer has any validity,” he said. “The king should pay a market price for the property to the government.”'
[and the fact that the SGs lost Mr Wightman is in my view a huge black mark against them]
Andy Wightman is the epitome of what a Green politician should be, as opposed to the current batch of Green politicians.
He was a significant loss to the Parliament. He showed considerable independence over the parliamentary Salmond inquiry, finding against Sturgeon. That possibly finished him with the Greens. I think he may have had doubts over the gender stuff as well. Just compare him to the likes of Slater, Greer and Chapman...
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly
Not all venison is wild, and a lot of what is labelled Scottish is actually Turkish apparently. No idea how it works but I've been assured it's true by a Scottish chef of some standing.
That recipe looks like it would need copious amounts of butter to make it taste good.
You can afford well-husbanded cow, chicken and pork, so buy it and enjoy it. Retreat from meat is very 2019.
I am sure what I am getting is the real deal: wild venison. I've done my research
Of course I add butter! I add this fantastic sea salt butter - Posh Cow - from M&S:
I'm looking forward to those Labour posters next year:
"FFS, it's our turn!"
It was an infelicitous phrase. But the argument that it’s time for a change is a persuasive one. The Tories have played bait and switch so many times during their lengthy spell in government that it’s impossible to trust they won’t do the same again.
Had their record in government been good, then it would be possible to contemplate another term with equanimity. It hasn’t even been close to that - and in may respects has been utterly dismal.
I’ve no great confidence in Starmer, but the current lot need a good kicking for both the country, and their own party’s good. And that means they’re losing the next general election, decisively. Not a mild fright in the local elections.
Exactly. I was analysing the election through the lens of the generic floating voter not literally claiming it's Labour's "turn". Obviously, I thought, but clearly not.
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, oh lord please don't ... etc
Anecdata update: I posted only moderately upbeat impressions from local election canvassing a couple of weeks ago - Labour doing a bit better than in 2019, Tories a bit worse, but nothing too dramatic. Talking with other candidates, our impression is that the Tories are now doing significantly worse, partly due to a sheer shortage of foot-soldiers. They have put out a single leaflet so far, compared with 2-3 from Labour and LibDems, and they are largely silent on social media.
Is there a Labour surge? No, just moderate progress, and that partly because we have a lot more serious candidates this time as a result of membership growth - we're making a serious effort at Borough or Town level in 7 wards, vs 2 last time, and are canvassing actively in all of them, whereas 95% of canvassing last time was just in my ward. But we think the Tories are going to have a serious turnout problem in two weeks unless they pull something out. The LibDems and Greens are broadly standing still, as far as we can tell.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly
Not all venison is wild, and a lot of what is labelled Scottish is actually Turkish apparently. No idea how it works but I've been assured it's true by a Scottish chef of some standing.
That recipe looks like it would need copious amounts of butter to make it taste good.
You can afford well-husbanded cow, chicken and pork, so buy it and enjoy it. Retreat from meat is very 2019.
I am sure what I am getting is the real deal: wild venison. I've done my research
Of course I add butter! I add this fantastic sea salt butter - Posh Cow - from M&S:
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Apparently the Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
I reckon @kinabalu finds it genuinely difficult to think outside his predictable, progressive, social democratic box. He has a world view, and he diligently sticks to it, and it comforts him, and it probably verifies often enough for him to feel it is acceptably accurate, so why risk changing his perspective? Easier to label opponents as "reactionaries" and file them comfortably away
But he is terrible at processing new data or coming up with new ideas or confronting fresh dilemmas. eg his dogged determination to believe Sturgeon is a good woman promoting a genuine cause, and that's that - despite overwhelming evidence that she may well have been fervently indy but she knowingly led and protected a corrupt cabal that was bent on gouging the Scottish and British state for status and money, even as they "nobly" pursued independence
That's probably why he was a successful accountant. You don't want an excitable accountant full of mad new ideas and open to all kinds of suggestions. You want someone who does what he does, and does it well and assiduously, and who ignores distractions or simply doesn't comprehend them
However you don't want a dude like @kinabalu if you need innovation or imagination, or an ability to draw startling, unexpected and profitable conclusions
He found the right role in life. Good for him. Seriously. Others are not so lucky
Anecdata update: I posted only moderately upbeat impressions from local election canvassing a couple of weeks ago - Labour doing a bit better than in 2019, Tories a bit worse, but nothing too dramatic. Talking with other candidates, our impression is that the Tories are now doing significantly worse, partly due to a sheer shortage of foot-soldiers. They have put out a single leaflet so far, compared with 2-3 from Labour and LibDems, and they are largely silent on social media.
Is there a Labour surge? No, just moderate progress, and that partly because we have a lot more serious candidates this time as a result of membership growth - we're making a serious effort at Borough or Town level in 7 wards, vs 2 last time, and are canvassing actively in all of them, whereas 95% of canvassing last time was just in my ward. But we think the Tories are going to have a serious turnout problem in two weeks unless they pull something out. The LibDems and Greens are broadly standing still, as far as we can tell.
Completely believe this analysis; the main problem the Tories have is that a lot of their activists are passing away, Covid accelerated things (the ones that didn't die are significantly less physically and mentally firm after two years of staying inside) and no one under 65 - who isn't trying to pass the PAB - is willing to give up their time to leaflet for a government that treats them like shit.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Anecdata update: I posted only moderately upbeat impressions from local election canvassing a couple of weeks ago - Labour doing a bit better than in 2019, Tories a bit worse, but nothing too dramatic. Talking with other candidates, our impression is that the Tories are now doing significantly worse, partly due to a sheer shortage of foot-soldiers. They have put out a single leaflet so far, compared with 2-3 from Labour and LibDems, and they are largely silent on social media.
Is there a Labour surge? No, just moderate progress, and that partly because we have a lot more serious candidates this time as a result of membership growth - we're making a serious effort at Borough or Town level in 7 wards, vs 2 last time, and are canvassing actively in all of them, whereas 95% of canvassing last time was just in my ward. But we think the Tories are going to have a serious turnout problem in two weeks unless they pull something out. The LibDems and Greens are broadly standing still, as far as we can tell.
Completely believe this analysis; the main problem the Tories have is that a lot of their activists are passing away, Covid accelerated things (the ones that didn't die are significantly less physically and mentally firm after two years of staying inside) and no one under 65 - who isn't trying to pass the PAB - is willing to give up their time to leaflet for a government that treats them like shit.
The set text on a dying Conservative government is Gyles Brandreth's diaries and he made exactly the same observation- his 1997 campaign team in Chester was the same team as in 1992, only older. And in 1997, the Conservatives were still getting a share of the youth vote in the high twenties percent.
Becoming the party of retired homeowners and a handful of others may turn out to have been a perfect example of brilliant tactics and appaling strategy by the Conservatives.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
Not acceptable to royalists, of course, so no good as coronoation quiche. Too woke. But it does sound good.
It's bloody brilliant, If spiced up a tiny bit. It has completely turned me on to venison - and I am trying to reduce my consumption of dubiously farmed beef, pork and chicken to near zero. If not zero
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly
Not all venison is wild, and a lot of what is labelled Scottish is actually Turkish apparently. No idea how it works but I've been assured it's true by a Scottish chef of some standing.
That recipe looks like it would need copious amounts of butter to make it taste good.
You can afford well-husbanded cow, chicken and pork, so buy it and enjoy it. Retreat from meat is very 2019.
Looking on Bloomberg, I see that Turkey exported $1.9m of Venison in 2021, and I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption that will not have all gone to the UK.
So, I'm going to channel Charlie from Poker Face and call "Bullshit" on that one.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Anecdata update: I posted only moderately upbeat impressions from local election canvassing a couple of weeks ago - Labour doing a bit better than in 2019, Tories a bit worse, but nothing too dramatic. Talking with other candidates, our impression is that the Tories are now doing significantly worse, partly due to a sheer shortage of foot-soldiers. They have put out a single leaflet so far, compared with 2-3 from Labour and LibDems, and they are largely silent on social media.
Is there a Labour surge? No, just moderate progress, and that partly because we have a lot more serious candidates this time as a result of membership growth - we're making a serious effort at Borough or Town level in 7 wards, vs 2 last time, and are canvassing actively in all of them, whereas 95% of canvassing last time was just in my ward. But we think the Tories are going to have a serious turnout problem in two weeks unless they pull something out. The LibDems and Greens are broadly standing still, as far as we can tell.
Completely believe this analysis; the main problem the Tories have is that a lot of their activists are passing away, Covid accelerated things (the ones that didn't die are significantly less physically and mentally firm after two years of staying inside) and no one under 65 - who isn't trying to pass the PAB - is willing to give up their time to leaflet for a government that treats them like shit.
The set text on a dying Conservative government is Gyles Brandreth's diaries and he made exactly the same observation- his 1997 campaign team in Chester was the same team as in 1992, only older. And in 1997, the Conservatives were still getting a share of the youth vote in the high twenties percent.
Becoming the party of retired homeowners and a handful of others may turn out to have been a perfect example of brilliant tactics and appaling strategy by the Conservatives.
The availability of activists will have a signficantly greater impact in a council election than a general election. Worth bearing in mind when drawing conclusions from the results in May.
8C and leaden skies in the rugged Primrose Hill borderlands
UGH
Quite sunny and 15° in Leicester.
Apparently the Western Isles are bathed in fine sunshine! - 18C and cloudless skies in Portreee, Skye, today
The weather map has been inverted
So far this has been one of the nastier springs I can remember. A decidedly wet, dull March - worst for forty years, is being followed by a cold grey April. It's a bit like the endless winter that was lockdown 3 in early 2021
Tho I did manage to get 9 weeks in southeast Asia from Jan to March this winter, so maybe I should wheesht ma groaning
"Haud yer wheesht" is the correct terminology. But far better to leave this to the professionals.
(hwiːʃ ) or wheesht (hwiːʃt ) Scottish. exclamation. 1. a plea or demand for silence; hush. verb.
Yes. As in "wheesht!" = shut up. I've never seen it employed as a transitive verb though. "Haud yer wheesht" is the phrase usually used. Against stiff competition I would say that innapropriate use of Scottish terminology is your most annoying habit!
Incredibly stiff competition but I'm going to have to disagree.
Constantly saying the Spectator is "intellectually high powered".
This makes me grind my teeth and sometimes even log off.
That's because your response to any cogent intellectual argument from the other side is to just pompously dismiss them as a 'reactionary' and move on.
I suppose it's easier than dealing with the argument, though, and taxes the brain less.
When you manage to present one we'll find out.
Stupidity isn't a crime, so you’re free to go.
If stupidity becomes a defence I am out of a job. But I certainly wouldn’t classify @kinabalu as such in any event.
He shouldn't dish it out if he can't take it.
I'm not sure I can top his impressive "ffs, it's our turn" argument of earlier today anyway.
I disagree. This succinctly summarised what is the most compelling argument for Labour and SKS next time around. Time for a change after 14 years, especially when the change is more boring than frightening.
Unless Sunak manages something truly spectacular over the next 18 months it’s a winner.
Not at all, it was just an exclamation of partisan frustration.
@kinabalu would be much better able to understand politics in this country - not to mention be much more influential in shaping them - if he engaged with the opposing side to understand it, rather than blithely dismiss views he doesn't agree with.
Politics doesn't work on buggins turn; it works on the electorate selecting who is best fit and able to run the country, usually on the basis of the least worst choice.
As I argued on here yesterday: "time for a change" is a lagging indicator, not a leading one - for it to resonate, there has to be a better/more attractive alternative.
I reckon @kinabalu finds it genuinely difficult to think outside his predictable, progressive, social democratic box. He has a world view, and he diligently sticks to it, and it comforts him, and it probably verifies often enough for him to feel it is acceptably accurate, so why risk changing his perspective? Easier to label opponents as "reactionaries" and file them comfortably away
But he is terrible at processing new data or coming up with new ideas or confronting fresh dilemmas. eg his dogged determination to believe Sturgeon is a good woman promoting a genuine cause, and that's that - despite overwhelming evidence that she may well have been fervently indy but she knowingly led and protected a corrupt cabal that was bent on gouging the Scottish and British state for status and money, even as they "nobly" pursued independence
That's probably why he was a successful accountant. You don't want an excitable accountant full of mad new ideas and open to all kinds of suggestions. You want someone who does what he does, and does it well and assiduously, and who ignores distractions or simply doesn't comprehend them
However you don't want a dude like @kinabalu if you need innovation or imagination, or an ability to draw startling, unexpected and profitable conclusions
He found the right role in life. Good for him. Seriously. Others are not so lucky
Must admit im amazed he made enough money to live in Hampstead. He seems a nice guy but with severe intellectual limitations.
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
On the quiche/flan question, I suppose Coronation Quiche sounds better than much you can do with flan..
The Formal Flimflam Flan?
Spinach is a high risk ingredient for baking. I heard someone on the radio say unless every bit of water is squeezed out of it it’ll result in greenish eggy soup in a soggy pastry base.
I suspect it was the ever-reliable Felicity Cloake:
I’ve had success with making quiche with spinach in the past, using the oven on low setting to drive off the water, before adding the spinach to the rest of the ingredients.
THIS is a fantastic venison, leek, potato, mushroom and spinach recipe. Honestly, it's MARV
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
Comments
No skin off my rosy nose if you don't. I'm happy to keep winning forever.
Some interesting stuff coming out in the Graun btw.
'Andy Wightman, a Scottish land reform expert and former Scottish Green party MSP, said the house seemed to have been a publicly owned asset used to help the royal family’s employees or people associated with the royal family. That was a form of public benefit, he said.
“Since the property is now being rented out on a commercial basis as part of the king’s personal property portfolio, this historic understanding no longer has any validity,” he said. “The king should pay a market price for the property to the government.”'
[and the fact that the SGs lost Mr Wightman is in my view a huge black mark against them]
Even if this settlement accepts no admission of wrongdoing or the sort of bullcrap agreements often do, there's no hiding that is a heck of lot of money Fox have coughed up.
Dominion lawyers have just announced Fox and Dominion have reached a settlement of $787,500,000m (£633.6m).
"The truth matters, lies have consequences," a lawyer for Dominion says
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65278051
3m
Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson says Fox is paying up $787,500,000 to settle the defamation case against Fox for its airing of numerous lies about Dominion Voting Systems.
Fox has admitted telling lies, the company CEO John Poulos says in press conference.
"FFS, it's our turn!"
Sounds quite tasty if tricky to make properly. Just right for someone with a decent garden.
He can end it at any time by changing his ways.
Anyway, I must attend to evening chores. Goodnight.
It's pretty extraordinary even if it's all in.
Fox's lawyers clearly were hoping Dominion would buckle.
Will Murdoch now sue Trump for the cash?
Even if that figure includes costs, the compensation must be north of three-quarters of a billion $.
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/apr/17/more-like-spinach-pie-felicity-cloake-tests-king-charles-and-camillas-coronation-quiche
You wonder where that leaves them with the other case too. That was for an even higher figure. Are they going to settle that for 50% too?
No wonder their share price is cratering.
But the argument that it’s time for a change is a persuasive one. The Tories have played bait and switch so many times during their lengthy spell in government that it’s impossible to trust they won’t do the same again.
Had their record in government been good, then it would be possible to contemplate another term with equanimity. It hasn’t even been close to that - and in may respects has been utterly dismal.
I’ve no great confidence in Starmer, but the current lot need a good kicking for both the country, and their own party’s good. And that means they’re losing the next general election, decisively. Not a mild fright in the local elections.
So a left-leaning person who thinks "our turn now, surely" may be *surprised* by an election loss, but they are hardly responsible for it, and a change in that worldview is unlikely to result in a change in electoral outcomes.
The hit to their image potentially threatens that. And will be a big part of why they settled rather than drag it out in public.
LAB: 45% (+1)
CON: 27% (=)
LDM: 10% (+1)
REF: 6% (=)
GRN: 5% (-2)
via @YouGov, 12-13 Apr
(Changes with 6 Apr)
Next up, person who pleads guilty to a charge of perjury says it demonstrates their committment to the truth.
But he is terrible at processing new data or coming up with new ideas or confronting fresh dilemmas. eg his dogged determination to believe Sturgeon is a good woman promoting a genuine cause, and that's that - despite overwhelming evidence that she may well have been fervently indy but she knowingly led and protected a corrupt cabal that was bent on gouging the Scottish and British state for status and money, even as they "nobly" pursued independence
That's probably why he was a successful accountant. You don't want an excitable accountant full of mad new ideas and open to all kinds of suggestions. You want someone who does what he does, and does it well and assiduously, and who ignores distractions or simply doesn't comprehend them
However you don't want a dude like @kinabalu if you need innovation or imagination, or an ability to draw startling, unexpected and profitable conclusions
He found the right role in life. Good for him. Seriously. Others are not so lucky
So rather than that come up over and over in a more publicised trial, just settle and even though it looks bad, it's less damaging than the base hearing about that challenge to their beliefs about the stolen election over and over? They can actually leave unchallenged that belief by just not having to talk about it as much.
One of Dominion's lawyers, Stephen Shackelford, said the settlement with Fox isn't the end:
"We're not done yet. We have some other people who have some accountability coming toward them."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1648426219434807297
Discovery reportedly starts next month.
Takes about 40 minutes of easy cookery when you can be doing other stuff at the same time. I add chili flakes to the leeks and creme fraiche to the mash, and I add dashi and then bay leaves to the beef stock. YUM YUM YUM
It is also pretty healthy and you know the venison is wild and sustainable. Yay
https://www.mindfulchef.com/healthy-recipes/venison-steak-sauteed-leeks-and-mash
Also, double any specified amount of garlic. Of course
I only ever eat steak now (cooking at home) if I can research the provenance down to the actual cow, basically
Industrial farming of animals disturbs me greatly
The prison sentence handed down to my friend, opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, signals that repression in Russia is getting even worse.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/18/vladimir-kara-murza-death-struggle-vladimir-putin-00092499
… On Monday, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in a “strict regime” prison colony. This is likely the longest sentence ever meted out for political activity in post-Soviet Russia, where the maximum term for murder is 15 years and the punishment for rape is the same. His sentence combines penalties for all these “crimes”: seven years for the first, three for the second, and 15 years (apparently “reduced” from eighteen) for the third.
This punishment is much harsher than the ones to which the regime’s vengeance has lately subjected members of the opposition. The two other leading opponents of the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin, were sentenced to nine years and eight-and-a-half years respectively…
‘The justices were kidding themselves’: Supreme Court takes up abortion after saying lawmakers should decide
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/supreme-court-abortion-pill-00092529
… The case now before the court undercuts one of the core arguments justices made when they overturned Roe v. Wade in June: that it’s not appropriate for “unelected members of this Court” to “override the democratic process” and set national abortion policy.
“This Court will no longer decide the fundamental question of whether abortion must be allowed throughout the United States through 6 weeks, or 12 weeks, or 15 weeks, or 24 weeks, or some other line,” declared Justice Brett Kavanaugh in a concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. “Instead, those difficult moral and policy questions will be decided, as the Constitution dictates, by the people and their elected representatives through the constitutional processes of democratic self-government.”
While the issue currently before the court is a technical one that hinges on judicial and administrative processes and not the merits of the parties’ abortion-rights arguments, it will still have the kind of substantive national impact justices vowed in the Dobbs ruling to avoid.
“The justices were kidding themselves if they thought the decision in Dobbs would somehow get them out of the business of dealing with abortion cases,” said Stephen Vladeck, a constitutional law professor at the University of Texas School of Law. “One would have to have remarkable blinders on not to have seen that.”..
1. The Earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won
the 2020 election for President and Vice President of the United States. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable.
That recipe looks like it would need copious amounts of butter to make it taste good.
You can afford well-husbanded cow, chicken and pork, so buy it and enjoy it. Retreat from meat is very 2019.
Of course I add butter! I add this fantastic sea salt butter - Posh Cow - from M&S:
https://www.poshcowdairy.com/our-butters
And boy it tastes good
Trump Leads DeSantis In Our New 2024 Republican Primary Polling Average
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-desantis-national-polls/
and...
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/
(Republican professionals are learning, if they haven't already, that following Trump makes it difficult to win national elections.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54959962
You can buy it at almost any M&S of a reasonable size
I'm just a soul whose intentions are good, oh lord please don't ... etc
Well, it's not as deer as the real thing.
Is there a Labour surge? No, just moderate progress, and that partly because we have a lot more serious candidates this time as a result of membership growth - we're making a serious effort at Borough or Town level in 7 wards, vs 2 last time, and are canvassing actively in all of them, whereas 95% of canvassing last time was just in my ward. But we think the Tories are going to have a serious turnout problem in two weeks unless they pull something out. The LibDems and Greens are broadly standing still, as far as we can tell.
I think I'll be able to eat whatever I want and still lose weight on this holiday
And I think he clammed up once Biden was sworn in…
All the States with the highest life expectancy are Democrat. You need to get numbers 10 and 11 (Florida and Utah) to get to Republican ones.
And it's a real mix too: Hawaii, California, New York and Minnesota are all very different states demographically and racially.
There was no such report.
Surely I cannot get away with: "Report states that Luckyguy1983 committed [insert heinous act here]" when there is no such report?
You'd, rightly, have grounds to sue.
And you’re not far wrong
How very sad.
Unless of course those robo-blighters hack the system 🤔
Becoming the party of retired homeowners and a handful of others may turn out to have been a perfect example of brilliant tactics and appaling strategy by the Conservatives.
https://www.gov.uk/food-labelling-and-packaging
Looking on Bloomberg, I see that Turkey exported $1.9m of Venison in 2021, and I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption that will not have all gone to the UK.
So, I'm going to channel Charlie from Poker Face and call "Bullshit" on that one.
California is a crime infested hell hole: how can it possibly be wealthy?
"Fox News has settled a defamation lawsuit from the voting machine company, Dominion, over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election.
In a last-minute settlement before the trial, the network agreed to pay $787.5m (£644m) - about half the $1.6bn initially sought by Dominion.
Dominion argued its business was harmed by Fox spreading false claims the vote had been rigged against Donald Trump.
The deal spares Fox executives such as Rupert Murdoch from having to testify. "
Ultimately, deer are woke. Look at the buggers, even the ostensibly male ones look effeminate. God knows how they self identify.