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  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,914
    Eabhal said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    The anti-LTN crowd will be all over this:

    "If it weren't for the bollards, the police could've rammed them themselves"
    The electric scooter was ULEZ compliant.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,081
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance

    Well now, I could list half a dozen - but then time flies by so quickly and it turns out that everyone who springs to mind predates 2010.
    Roughly when a) social music, and b) tge ubiquity of all content ever created really took off.
    I'm pretty sure there's still a lot of good musicians out there. But our way of consuming it has changed. We can access whatever we want, for free, and we don't invest our time in it, and we move quickly on to the next thing. This is possibly not to the benefit of the music itself.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,424
    Farooq said:

    viewcode said:

    Leon said:

    Nigelb said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    I love that song, and haven't listened to it in decades.
    Thanks for that, and many happy returns to the kid.
    You're welcome, and thankyou on behalf of the kiddo

    I have now listened to that Janis Ian live version of At 17 three times over and there is so much that is so well done. Her enunciation is perrrrrfect. She extends the vowels on Vaaaaalentnes and yoooouth in a way which fits the song superbly yet also adds to its plangent sadness in a way I cannot quite understand. That is great art and that is peak singer song-writing. She knows her own song so well, and it is so heartfelt, she can make something sublime out of each delicately voiced word, possibly without even quite knowing she is doing it
    If we are comparing female vocalists, may I present the isolated Grace Slick vocals from "White Rabbit"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ7e9ytm-g (original, 1969, isolated vocals)

    Only other person who came close to that was P!nk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNgR2bA_Io (cover, 2017, non-isolated vocals)
    No discussion of great singers is allowed to pass without mention of Joan Armatrading.
    I think this is the discussion in which we all inadvertently give away our ages... :(
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,223
    Selebian said:

    tlg86 said:
    Very interesting, thanks. I hadn't really thought about the proportional implications of MRP.

    There are modifications available, interesting to see whether any are employed.
    I'm of the view that MRPs shouldn't be done outside of an election period (debateable as to when that starts, but certainly not yet).
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 28,914
    Farooq said:

    viewcode said:

    Leon said:

    Nigelb said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    I love that song, and haven't listened to it in decades.
    Thanks for that, and many happy returns to the kid.
    You're welcome, and thankyou on behalf of the kiddo

    I have now listened to that Janis Ian live version of At 17 three times over and there is so much that is so well done. Her enunciation is perrrrrfect. She extends the vowels on Vaaaaalentnes and yoooouth in a way which fits the song superbly yet also adds to its plangent sadness in a way I cannot quite understand. That is great art and that is peak singer song-writing. She knows her own song so well, and it is so heartfelt, she can make something sublime out of each delicately voiced word, possibly without even quite knowing she is doing it
    If we are comparing female vocalists, may I present the isolated Grace Slick vocals from "White Rabbit"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ7e9ytm-g (original, 1969, isolated vocals)

    Only other person who came close to that was P!nk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNgR2bA_Io (cover, 2017, non-isolated vocals)
    No discussion of great singers is allowed to pass without mention of Joan Armatrading.
    Try out Veronique Sanson's Amoureuse, particularly the version where she drifts from European language to European language including English, although Kiki Dee makes a decent fist in English.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,779
    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    And judging from the information just released by the police, as reported by the BBC, that is precisely what happened.
    But almost immediately the police have been asked about more CCTV footage that has just emerged, which appears to contradict their timeline.

    The police timeline begins:
    17:59:40 A bike travelled towards the police vehicle in Frank Road, the bike turns around
    18:00:52: The bike is followed by a police vehicle

    The new footage referred to is probably this, which is time-stamped 17:56 and shows the police van already in pursuit:
    https://news.sky.com/video/cardiff-new-cctv-shows-police-following-two-people-on-an-electric-scooter-before-fatal-crash-in-ely-12888337

    "Bacon responds by saying she has given the timeline to the best of her knowledge.
    She repeats that the police force has looked through hundreds of hours of footage, with more yet to review."

    Query: why should the police need to check hundreds of hours of footage to puzzle out the movements of a police van?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 56,606
    Farooq said:

    viewcode said:

    Leon said:

    Nigelb said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    I love that song, and haven't listened to it in decades.
    Thanks for that, and many happy returns to the kid.
    You're welcome, and thankyou on behalf of the kiddo

    I have now listened to that Janis Ian live version of At 17 three times over and there is so much that is so well done. Her enunciation is perrrrrfect. She extends the vowels on Vaaaaalentnes and yoooouth in a way which fits the song superbly yet also adds to its plangent sadness in a way I cannot quite understand. That is great art and that is peak singer song-writing. She knows her own song so well, and it is so heartfelt, she can make something sublime out of each delicately voiced word, possibly without even quite knowing she is doing it
    If we are comparing female vocalists, may I present the isolated Grace Slick vocals from "White Rabbit"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ7e9ytm-g (original, 1969, isolated vocals)

    Only other person who came close to that was P!nk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNgR2bA_Io (cover, 2017, non-isolated vocals)
    No discussion of great singers is allowed to pass without mention of Joan Armatrading.
    I am not in loooooove, but I'm open to persuasion

    Yes, that's up there with "At 17"
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    viewcode said:

    Farooq said:

    viewcode said:

    Leon said:

    Nigelb said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    I love that song, and haven't listened to it in decades.
    Thanks for that, and many happy returns to the kid.
    You're welcome, and thankyou on behalf of the kiddo

    I have now listened to that Janis Ian live version of At 17 three times over and there is so much that is so well done. Her enunciation is perrrrrfect. She extends the vowels on Vaaaaalentnes and yoooouth in a way which fits the song superbly yet also adds to its plangent sadness in a way I cannot quite understand. That is great art and that is peak singer song-writing. She knows her own song so well, and it is so heartfelt, she can make something sublime out of each delicately voiced word, possibly without even quite knowing she is doing it
    If we are comparing female vocalists, may I present the isolated Grace Slick vocals from "White Rabbit"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ7e9ytm-g (original, 1969, isolated vocals)

    Only other person who came close to that was P!nk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNgR2bA_Io (cover, 2017, non-isolated vocals)
    No discussion of great singers is allowed to pass without mention of Joan Armatrading.
    I think this is the discussion in which we all inadvertently give away our ages... :(
    I'm actually a bit younger than Armatrading's peak, but got into her work in a way that pleases me. Back in the early nineties, I was hobbling along the Grand Union Canal near Southall when a gf phoned me up on my chunky analogue mobile phone. We had a chat, and my Walkman had a friend's mixtape in. Once the call ended, 'Love and Affection' came on.

    Whenever I hear 'Love and Affection', I think of that friend, that place, and that walk. (As it happens, I was chatting to her earlier today.)

    Occasionally, a song can take you back to *that* moment.

    I also saw Armatrading perform about ten years ago in Cambridge. A lovely night.
  • slade said:

    Just one local by-election tomorrow - in North Yorkshire. It is normally a safe Labour seat but there is an interesting background. The sitting councillor resigned from the party and then from the council. But he is standing again as a No Description.

    Left wing veteran upset by direction of his party, apparently.

    A situation to which there can be but one response, which is: "SKS fans, please explain."
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    And judging from the information just released by the police, as reported by the BBC, that is precisely what happened.
    But almost immediately the police have been asked about more CCTV footage that has just emerged, which appears to contradict their timeline.

    The police timeline begins:
    17:59:40 A bike travelled towards the police vehicle in Frank Road, the bike turns around
    18:00:52: The bike is followed by a police vehicle

    The new footage referred to is probably this, which is time-stamped 17:56 and shows the police van already in pursuit:
    https://news.sky.com/video/cardiff-new-cctv-shows-police-following-two-people-on-an-electric-scooter-before-fatal-crash-in-ely-12888337

    "Bacon responds by saying she has given the timeline to the best of her knowledge.
    She repeats that the police force has looked through hundreds of hours of footage, with more yet to review."

    Query: why should the police need to check hundreds of hours of footage to puzzle out the movements of a police van?
    They're probably checking out lots of other things as well, such as when the boys rode past, or potential witnesses. It's an *important* crime now, and they will want to ensure that all the evidence is gathered and collated. Otherwise, idiots on the Internet will say they didn't do their job.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,032
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance

    Its a tough challenge. Sunshine on Leith by the Proclaimers?
    https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=sunshine+on+leith+&mid=8FC1BD5F3D5D1425F1898FC1BD5F3D5D1425F189
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,303
    edited May 2023
    One of the best songs on the passage of time by Joni Mitchell:

    16 springs and 16 summers gone now
    Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town
    And they tell him, "Take your time, it won't be long now
    'Til you drag your feet to slow the circles down"

    And the seasons, they go round and round
    And the painted ponies go up and down
    We're captive on the carousel of time
    We can't return, we can only look
    Behind, from where we came
    And go round and round and round, in the circle game


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x4ESsDq6wc
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    Leon said:

    Farooq said:

    viewcode said:

    Leon said:

    Nigelb said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    I love that song, and haven't listened to it in decades.
    Thanks for that, and many happy returns to the kid.
    You're welcome, and thankyou on behalf of the kiddo

    I have now listened to that Janis Ian live version of At 17 three times over and there is so much that is so well done. Her enunciation is perrrrrfect. She extends the vowels on Vaaaaalentnes and yoooouth in a way which fits the song superbly yet also adds to its plangent sadness in a way I cannot quite understand. That is great art and that is peak singer song-writing. She knows her own song so well, and it is so heartfelt, she can make something sublime out of each delicately voiced word, possibly without even quite knowing she is doing it
    If we are comparing female vocalists, may I present the isolated Grace Slick vocals from "White Rabbit"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ7e9ytm-g (original, 1969, isolated vocals)

    Only other person who came close to that was P!nk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNgR2bA_Io (cover, 2017, non-isolated vocals)
    No discussion of great singers is allowed to pass without mention of Joan Armatrading.
    I am not in loooooove, but I'm open to persuasion

    Yes, that's up there with "At 17"
    Or, much darker:

    "That's when the music started
    I heard the light switch click
    I stumbled on a lost shoe
    The fever's starting
    This man was getting hot
    I got no strength to make him stop
    I guess it's too late
    But I'll know next time
    To mix some water with the wine"
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,032
    Farooq said:

    DavidL said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance

    Its a tough challenge. Sunshine on Leith by the Proclaimers?
    https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=sunshine+on+leith+&mid=8FC1BD5F3D5D1425F1898FC1BD5F3D5D1425F189
    Great song, but it's 35 years old
    So it is. I was also going to mention Pink's Family Portrait. From 2001!!
    I'm getting old.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,981
    DavidL said:

    Farooq said:

    DavidL said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance

    Its a tough challenge. Sunshine on Leith by the Proclaimers?
    https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=sunshine+on+leith+&mid=8FC1BD5F3D5D1425F1898FC1BD5F3D5D1425F189
    Great song, but it's 35 years old
    So it is. I was also going to mention Pink's Family Portrait. From 2001!!
    I'm getting old.
    A friend pointed out to me recently that if you ever watched Friends then today Ben is 28, Phoebe's triplets are 25, Emma is 21, and Monica & Chandler, their kids are 19.

    I might as start as well collecting my pension today.
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,779

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    And judging from the information just released by the police, as reported by the BBC, that is precisely what happened.
    But almost immediately the police have been asked about more CCTV footage that has just emerged, which appears to contradict their timeline.

    The police timeline begins:
    17:59:40 A bike travelled towards the police vehicle in Frank Road, the bike turns around
    18:00:52: The bike is followed by a police vehicle

    The new footage referred to is probably this, which is time-stamped 17:56 and shows the police van already in pursuit:
    https://news.sky.com/video/cardiff-new-cctv-shows-police-following-two-people-on-an-electric-scooter-before-fatal-crash-in-ely-12888337

    "Bacon responds by saying she has given the timeline to the best of her knowledge.
    She repeats that the police force has looked through hundreds of hours of footage, with more yet to review."

    Query: why should the police need to check hundreds of hours of footage to puzzle out the movements of a police van?
    They're probably checking out lots of other things as well, such as when the boys rode past, or potential witnesses. It's an *important* crime now, and they will want to ensure that all the evidence is gathered and collated. Otherwise, idiots on the Internet will say they didn't do their job.
    Certainly some people will say anything.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,032
    Andy_JS said:

    "Great-grandmother, 95, dies after being tasered by police in Australian care home

    A 95-year-old great-grandmother with dementia who was tasered by police at a care home, has died. Outrage swept across Australia and beyond after 5ft 2in Clare Nowland was tasered by police at her care home in Cooma, New South Wales, last week. NSW Police confirmed Ms Nowland died "peacefully" in hospital just after 7pm on Wednesday, surrounded by family and loved ones. Senior Constable Kristian White, 33, has been charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm (GBH), assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault."

    https://www.itv.com/news/2023-05-24/great-grandmother-95-tasered-by-police-in-care-home-dies

    It could be about to be upgraded to murder.
    Just an appalling story.
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,806

    slade said:

    Just one local by-election tomorrow - in North Yorkshire. It is normally a safe Labour seat but there is an interesting background. The sitting councillor resigned from the party and then from the council. But he is standing again as a No Description.

    Left wing veteran upset by direction of his party, apparently...

    Headed for power you mean?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,981
    Cyclefree said:

    Something is not right with this issue of Boris and the lawyers he has apparently sacked.

    The facts as I understand them:-

    - Last year it was revealed that Boris had instructed Peters & Peters, a firm specialising in fraud and David Pannick KC to advise him in relation to the Standards Committee investigation into him.
    - The government agreed to pay their fees. Why has never been explained.
    - Peters & Peters and Pannick were present when Johnson gave evidence to the Committee.
    - Now we are told that Cabinet office lawyers have been advising him. Why?
    - What happened to Peters & Peters? Government lawyers advise the government not backbench MPs.
    - If they are advising Boris in his capacity as PM in respect of actions done as PM and the government is paying, it is not for him to sack them. He can refuse to be advised by them but then he should be paying for his own lawyers. But no, apparently we are paying. Again, why?

    We are not being told the full story I think.

    AIUI - The principle is that when it comes to inquiries the government will pay the legal fees for the PM and relevant minister if it relates to their tenure in government.

    As for GLD to be involved that is something to with what is published and sent to the committee (and released publicly) to avoid the accidental publication of names/confidential information/market sensitive information.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,679
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance
    I've dropped off tracking new releases (being 62) and in any case there's so much product these days on so many platforms you can't get your arms around it as you once could. It used to be that if you were into music and there was a great song released you'd be bound to hear it. The corollary was if you didn't hear something it can't have been that good. This is no longer the case. There's tons of high quality new music now that unless you devote yourself to seeking it out (which you won't at your age) you will not discover. But it's there.

    Eg what I've noticed is when I do random deep dives into recent music, or catch it on soundtracks for tv dramas, I come across plenty of absolutely terrific songs. Songs just as good as those on my familiar playlists. Songs whereby I know that if I listened to them a lot, and could associate them with my younger life, thus generating a sweet nostalgia hit, could take their place as 'classics' (for me). I don't have the time or inclination to do this now, so they don't, but they could. They are objectively good enough, is my point.

    So although I'd like to agree that the stuff I've curated and love from many moons ago constitutes a 'Golden Age' (because it's nice to believe that), I kind of know that it isn't. It's another heart v head thing, this. Heart says you're right that music used to be better. Head says it's nonsense.
  • ThomasNasheThomasNashe Posts: 5,331
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance

    Video Games (2011)
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,806
    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    The music was better then but god the video quality was crap.
  • Dura_AceDura_Ace Posts: 13,778
    ping said:

    DavidL said:

    eek said:

    carnforth said:

    Jaguar Land Rover to pick UK over Spain for giant car battery plant:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65698529

    "Some in the car industry have described the plant as the most significant investment in UK automotive since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s."

    (This sounds a bit over the top to me, it's just running to stand still it seems, but what do I know?)

    Without a battery factory all car manufacturing would be heading abroad.

    With 1 there is a chance our car manufacturing will continue and (might) even expand...
    We need more than 1 but it is a good start. Should help to keep some of Tata Steel open too.
    If they’re demanding to suck on the teat of the British Taxpayer, we should just nationalise them.

    Or make a strategic decision to exit mass car-making altogether. Let the Chinese/Americans/Europeans/Koreans//Japanese compete to export their EV’s and spend the half a billion on universities etc to bet on creating the next ARM of car manufacturing. Or whatever.

    Go up the value chain.

    I don’t blame the mates of Rishi’s in-laws for taking the piss, but that’s precisely what we’re letting them do.

    It’s in our national interest to tell Tata to go fuck themselves.

    Politely.
    The success of this also depends on JLR executing their product strategy. The LR part will probably be fine but Jaguar are utterly lost.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,303
    edited May 2023
    The new genre of 'reaction' videos on YouTube could be a symptom of the decline of pop culture. People film themselves watching older performances as if they are encountering an ancient civilisation.

    Here's an example of someone reduced to tears by Tori Amos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDo_JliyCoE
  • Jim_MillerJim_Miller Posts: 3,039
    There are several things that make me think Haley would be a good president

    These things, along with others, show she is a good politician: "In September 1996, Nikki Randhawa married Michael Haley; they celebrated with both Sikh and Methodist ceremonies.[24] The couple have two children, a daughter and a son.[16][217]

    Haley converted to Christianity in 1997.[218] She and her husband regularly attend the United Methodist Church. She also attends Sikh services once or twice a year.[218] She visited the Harmandir Sahib with her husband in 2014 during her visit to India. During a Christianity Today interview, when asked whether or not she hopes her parents convert to Christianity, Haley responded, "What I hope is that my parents do what's right for them."[219]

    Her husband is an officer in the South Carolina Army National Guard. During her gubernatorial term, he was sent in January 2013 on a year-long deployment to Afghanistan."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley#Personal_life

    But the entrance of Tim Scott will hurt her chances in South Carolina, and possibly elsewhere.

    (FWIW, George H. W. Bush chose to be UN ambassador, when he was preparing for his first run for president.)

  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    Palmetto State POTUS Mashup

    US Senator Tim Scott and former UN ambassador and governor Nikki Haley give South Carolina two quality contenders for 2024 Republican POTUS nomination.

    Both are proven vote-getters at local and statewide level, running as non-White conservative GOP standard-bearers in a VERY tough political league.

    Impact of their dueling campaigns on the race in general and the early South Carolina presidential primary is hard to forecast, except (as already noted) it is splitting SC GOP insiders, politicos, pundits and likely primary voters big-time; which in turn will split AND reduce impact of the favorite son-or-daughter vote upon OTHER candidates, most notably Trump and DeSantis.

    At this stage most quasi-knowledgeable observers (count me among the quasi) assume that both Scott and Haley are running for Vice President. Each of course would be an excellent running mate for either 45 or RDS.

    NOTE that Sen. Scott appears to a semi-stalking horse for Trump, seen as taking away some early backing (esp. financial) and limelight from DeSantis. Which is clearly Job #1 for Trumpworld, with side benefit of also limiting Nikki Haley by making her fight for her own South Carolina base.

    So is Tim Scott just the Kanye West of 2024? Hell no, is my short answer. However, like Haley before him, he's clearly willing to play footsie with Trumpsky. And more than just that, if national politics and personal ambitions favor that course.

    ON THE OTHER HAND both Nikki Haley and Tim Scott have demonstrated that they are NOT just empty figureheads, but - on occasion - are quite capable of rising to leadership. For their party and beyond that.

  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 32,961

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    The music was better then but god the video quality was crap.
    It's nothing to do with the original video quality, it's this particular copy. This is another Whistle Test video from the same year in HD.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGwYi7kY8hs
  • SeaShantyIrish2SeaShantyIrish2 Posts: 17,559
    Farooq said:

    viewcode said:

    Leon said:

    Nigelb said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    I love that song, and haven't listened to it in decades.
    Thanks for that, and many happy returns to the kid.
    You're welcome, and thankyou on behalf of the kiddo

    I have now listened to that Janis Ian live version of At 17 three times over and there is so much that is so well done. Her enunciation is perrrrrfect. She extends the vowels on Vaaaaalentnes and yoooouth in a way which fits the song superbly yet also adds to its plangent sadness in a way I cannot quite understand. That is great art and that is peak singer song-writing. She knows her own song so well, and it is so heartfelt, she can make something sublime out of each delicately voiced word, possibly without even quite knowing she is doing it
    If we are comparing female vocalists, may I present the isolated Grace Slick vocals from "White Rabbit"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ7e9ytm-g (original, 1969, isolated vocals)

    Only other person who came close to that was P!nk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNgR2bA_Io (cover, 2017, non-isolated vocals)
    No discussion of great singers is allowed to pass without mention of Joan Armatrading.
    Or Box Car Willie. (Now seeking shelter in undisclosed location.)
  • LeonLeon Posts: 56,606
    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance
    I've dropped off tracking new releases (being 62) and in any case there's so much product these days on so many platforms you can't get your arms around it as you once could. It used to be that if you were into music and there was a great song released you'd be bound to hear it. The corollary was if you didn't hear something it can't have been that good. This is no longer the case. There's tons of high quality new music now that unless you devote yourself to seeking it out (which you won't at your age) you will not discover. But it's there.

    Eg what I've noticed is when I do random deep dives into recent music, or catch it on soundtracks for tv dramas, I come across plenty of absolutely terrific songs. Songs just as good as those on my familiar playlists. Songs whereby I know that if I listened to them a lot, and could associate them with my younger life, thus generating a sweet nostalgia hit, could take their place as 'classics' (for me). I don't have the time or inclination to do this now, so they don't, but they could. They are objectively good enough, is my point.

    So although I'd like to agree that the stuff I've curated and love from many moons ago constitutes a 'Golden Age' (because it's nice to believe that), I kind of know that it isn't. It's another heart v head thing, this. Heart says you're right that music used to be better. Head says it's nonsense.
    And yet I have a friend whose job is music reviewing and critiquing. He lives for this. And he LOVES discovering new talent

    And he says it simply isn’t there any more. He goes to two gigs a week. Indeed it’s his theory that Winehouse was the last of the greats (I borrowed it)

    He has various theories why

    There is also factual evidence that music has got more simplistic, crude and lyrically vulgar and coarse
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,281
    Leon said:

    Farooq said:

    viewcode said:

    Leon said:

    Nigelb said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    I love that song, and haven't listened to it in decades.
    Thanks for that, and many happy returns to the kid.
    You're welcome, and thankyou on behalf of the kiddo

    I have now listened to that Janis Ian live version of At 17 three times over and there is so much that is so well done. Her enunciation is perrrrrfect. She extends the vowels on Vaaaaalentnes and yoooouth in a way which fits the song superbly yet also adds to its plangent sadness in a way I cannot quite understand. That is great art and that is peak singer song-writing. She knows her own song so well, and it is so heartfelt, she can make something sublime out of each delicately voiced word, possibly without even quite knowing she is doing it
    If we are comparing female vocalists, may I present the isolated Grace Slick vocals from "White Rabbit"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ7e9ytm-g (original, 1969, isolated vocals)

    Only other person who came close to that was P!nk

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNgR2bA_Io (cover, 2017, non-isolated vocals)
    No discussion of great singers is allowed to pass without mention of Joan Armatrading.
    I am not in loooooove, but I'm open to persuasion

    Yes, that's up there with "At 17"
    Nothing but love and affection for her.
  • tlg86 said:
    I am not sure that I agree with Peter.

    The UNS vs Proportionate swing debate resolves around who is changing party allegiance and where they are geographically distributed around the country, compared with who is keeping their party allegiance and where they are geographically distributed.

    In a Labour stronghold, there is going to be a larger population density of their resolute voters, compared with their fair weather friends. Effectively the potential party switchers are more evenly distributed accross the country than die hard supporters. This analysis falls down when the party vote collapses, eg the Lib Dems in 2015, when there are not enough voters for a UNS approach to work.

    When applying a MRP approach the population is subdivided into groups with similar characteristics. Those groups are more likely to change on a proportionate basis within themselves, as opposed to Conservative voters as a whole. The MRP population density function for each group is also geographically more precise.

    It thus makes sense for any one particular group to react on a proportionate basis, as the whole purpose of the MRP approach is to find segments of the propulation who act the same.

    Of course this requires accurate segmentation of the population and geographic distribution mapping for the current electorate. A particular segment for one election may not be sufficiently cohesive in their voting patterns for the next (eg Brexit voters in 2019 and Brexit voters in 2024).
  • BenpointerBenpointer Posts: 34,806
    Andy_JS said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    The music was better then but god the video quality was crap.
    It's nothing to do with the original video quality, it's this particular copy. This is another Whistle Test video from the same year in HD.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGwYi7kY8hs
    Fair point - I stand corrected!
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,424

    Or Box Car Willie. (Now seeking shelter in undisclosed location.)

    Box Car Underpants? (ducks)
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,647
    edited May 2023
    tlg86 said:
    A lot of words to say “don’t trust the size of Labour majority and wipe out of Tories MRP are predicting, it’s way over the top.”

    But is there anyone anywhere who did believe the MRP and didn’t think it way over the top?

    In MRP defence though, it does move, so gives us further indicator of movement in the electorate. MRP 13-15 May 2021 gave Tories a 122 seat majority.
  • mwadamsmwadams Posts: 3,671

    Farooq said:

    Talking of scandals…..

    Major Update to my Parliamentary Scandals Tracker after some good tips yesterday. Labour really punching above their weight here given they have 60% the number of MPs as the Conservatives and don't have to comply with the Ministerial Code.

    Added Corbyn's ignominious ending to this plus some minor Labour MPs nobody has heard of...

    As always, happy to refine the information if I'm getting this wrong.




    https://twitter.com/eurollout/status/1661375156164472833?

    Are we supposed to take this seriously as a measure of current scandals?
    Jared O'mara - who left parliament 3 and a half years ago
    Sue Gray as the absolute *worst* when there's no there, there
    No mention of PPE VIP channel for Tory donors
    No mention of Richard Sharp
    I can't even be bothered to go on
    I can't remember who it was, but an FS allegedly shook off his minders to attend a bunga, bunga party on an alleged KGB Officer's yacht, and it doesn't even get a mention.
    Home Sec can't go to a remedial driving lesson - security risk!
    Foreign Sec staggering drunk around Aeroporto dell'Umbria after a bender at KGB-linked playboy's mansion castle - nothing to see here!
    "Drunk"? I think you mean "tired and emotional".
    Er, no Minister. It says "tired and emotional as a newt".
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,328
    Farooq said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Something is not right with this issue of Boris and the lawyers he has apparently sacked.

    The facts as I understand them:-

    - Last year it was revealed that Boris had instructed Peters & Peters, a firm specialising in fraud and David Pannick KC to advise him in relation to the Standards Committee investigation into him.
    - The government agreed to pay their fees. Why has never been explained.
    - Peters & Peters and Pannick were present when Johnson gave evidence to the Committee.
    - Now we are told that Cabinet office lawyers have been advising him. Why?
    - What happened to Peters & Peters? Government lawyers advise the government not backbench MPs.
    - If they are advising Boris in his capacity as PM in respect of actions done as PM and the government is paying, it is not for him to sack them. He can refuse to be advised by them but then he should be paying for his own lawyers. But no, apparently we are paying. Again, why?

    We are not being told the full story I think.

    Are your facts straight? The Guardian says:
    While Johnson is confident taxpayers will continue picking up the bill for his new legal team, he admitted in a letter to the Covid inquiry published on Monday that the Cabinet Office had yet to “agree funding and other practical arrangements”.
    Thanks. Why have Peters & Peters disappeared? Sacked? Or decided that they did not want to act for him?

    I can see no good reason why the taxpayer should be paying for his legal fees. The investigation is not into his actions as PM but his personal actions ie whether he as an individual complied with Covid rules. And whether he misled the Commons. Other MPs facing similar investigations don't get their legal fees paid.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,424

    The new genre of 'reaction' videos on YouTube could be a symptom of the decline of pop culture. People film themselves watching older performances as if they are encountering an ancient civilisation.

    Here's an example of someone reduced to tears by Tori Amos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDo_JliyCoE

    You are reacting to a video of somebody else reacting to a video by somebody else. I, in this post, am reacting to you reacting to a video of somebody else reacting to a video by somebody else.

    Reactception!
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,328

    Cyclefree said:

    Something is not right with this issue of Boris and the lawyers he has apparently sacked.

    The facts as I understand them:-

    - Last year it was revealed that Boris had instructed Peters & Peters, a firm specialising in fraud and David Pannick KC to advise him in relation to the Standards Committee investigation into him.
    - The government agreed to pay their fees. Why has never been explained.
    - Peters & Peters and Pannick were present when Johnson gave evidence to the Committee.
    - Now we are told that Cabinet office lawyers have been advising him. Why?
    - What happened to Peters & Peters? Government lawyers advise the government not backbench MPs.
    - If they are advising Boris in his capacity as PM in respect of actions done as PM and the government is paying, it is not for him to sack them. He can refuse to be advised by them but then he should be paying for his own lawyers. But no, apparently we are paying. Again, why?

    We are not being told the full story I think.

    AIUI - The principle is that when it comes to inquiries the government will pay the legal fees for the PM and relevant minister if it relates to their tenure in government.
    But only relating to government activity not their private life. There was no government requirement for him to break Covid rules so if he did so it was a private matter and not something for which the taxpayer should be paying his legal fees.



  • CorrectHorseBatCorrectHorseBat Posts: 1,761
    Hung Parliament nailed on.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,049
    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance
    I've dropped off tracking new releases (being 62) and in any case there's so much product these days on so many platforms you can't get your arms around it as you once could. It used to be that if you were into music and there was a great song released you'd be bound to hear it. The corollary was if you didn't hear something it can't have been that good. This is no longer the case. There's tons of high quality new music now that unless you devote yourself to seeking it out (which you won't at your age) you will not discover. But it's there.

    Eg what I've noticed is when I do random deep dives into recent music, or catch it on soundtracks for tv dramas, I come across plenty of absolutely terrific songs. Songs just as good as those on my familiar playlists. Songs whereby I know that if I listened to them a lot, and could associate them with my younger life, thus generating a sweet nostalgia hit, could take their place as 'classics' (for me). I don't have the time or inclination to do this now, so they don't, but they could. They are objectively good enough, is my point.

    So although I'd like to agree that the stuff I've curated and love from many moons ago constitutes a 'Golden Age' (because it's nice to believe that), I kind of know that it isn't. It's another heart v head thing, this. Heart says you're right that music used to be better. Head says it's nonsense.
    Absolutely right.

    There is some cracking music around right now, just keep Shazam to hand and you can assemble a great playlist by watching mini-series or just being in shops for that matter (perhaps not Fortnums).

    As to great pop songs post-2010 try Tash Sultana Jungle (2016) and if I bothered to look I could find zillions more from the past year or three.
  • mwadamsmwadams Posts: 3,671
    viewcode said:

    The new genre of 'reaction' videos on YouTube could be a symptom of the decline of pop culture. People film themselves watching older performances as if they are encountering an ancient civilisation.

    Here's an example of someone reduced to tears by Tori Amos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDo_JliyCoE

    You are reacting to a video of somebody else reacting to a video by somebody else. I, in this post, am reacting to you reacting to a video of somebody else reacting to a video by somebody else.

    Reactception!
    We need to get Tori Amos's reaction to this thread to close the loop.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,981
    Prigozhin has said 20,000 Wagner fighters were killed in the battle for Bakhmut. That’s more than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
    Which brings us to the other thing he said—that this war could end in a revolution in Russia


    https://twitter.com/AlecLuhn/status/1661329479787073536
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 13,647
    The lefty LSE still fighting 2016 all over again, like Jap fighters staggering from undergrowth to stand amongst sunbathers 20 years after the Second World War.

    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/24/brexit-food-trade-barriers-have-cost-uk-households-7bn-report-finds
  • eekeek Posts: 28,592

    Hung Parliament nailed on.

    Labour will get 20-30 seats in Scotland.

    So I personally see a small Labour Majority...
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,049
    edited May 2023
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance
    I've dropped off tracking new releases (being 62) and in any case there's so much product these days on so many platforms you can't get your arms around it as you once could. It used to be that if you were into music and there was a great song released you'd be bound to hear it. The corollary was if you didn't hear something it can't have been that good. This is no longer the case. There's tons of high quality new music now that unless you devote yourself to seeking it out (which you won't at your age) you will not discover. But it's there.

    Eg what I've noticed is when I do random deep dives into recent music, or catch it on soundtracks for tv dramas, I come across plenty of absolutely terrific songs. Songs just as good as those on my familiar playlists. Songs whereby I know that if I listened to them a lot, and could associate them with my younger life, thus generating a sweet nostalgia hit, could take their place as 'classics' (for me). I don't have the time or inclination to do this now, so they don't, but they could. They are objectively good enough, is my point.

    So although I'd like to agree that the stuff I've curated and love from many moons ago constitutes a 'Golden Age' (because it's nice to believe that), I kind of know that it isn't. It's another heart v head thing, this. Heart says you're right that music used to be better. Head says it's nonsense.
    And yet I have a friend whose job is music reviewing and critiquing. He lives for this. And he LOVES discovering new talent

    And he says it simply isn’t there any more. He goes to two gigs a week. Indeed it’s his theory that Winehouse was the last of the greats (I borrowed it)

    He has various theories why

    There is also factual evidence that music has got more simplistic, crude and lyrically vulgar and coarse
    Maybe because gone are the days when you could go to see Lemon Kittens being supported by U2 (yes, I was there). Or Sore Throat at the Hope and Anchor.

    Much is as you are well aware performed well away from gigs although undoubtedly there should be and probably is a thriving live music scene also.

    Talking of live things, I try to go to the theatre every week or two and last night I saw F**king Men at the Waterloo East Theatre. Absolutely fantastic and I recommend everyone to go.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780
    edited May 2023
    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    And judging from the information just released by the police, as reported by the BBC, that is precisely what happened.
    But almost immediately the police have been asked about more CCTV footage that has just emerged, which appears to contradict their timeline.

    The police timeline begins:
    17:59:40 A bike travelled towards the police vehicle in Frank Road, the bike turns around
    18:00:52: The bike is followed by a police vehicle

    The new footage referred to is probably this, which is time-stamped 17:56 and shows the police van already in pursuit:
    https://news.sky.com/video/cardiff-new-cctv-shows-police-following-two-people-on-an-electric-scooter-before-fatal-crash-in-ely-12888337

    "Bacon responds by saying she has given the timeline to the best of her knowledge.
    She repeats that the police force has looked through hundreds of hours of footage, with more yet to review."

    Query: why should the police need to check hundreds of hours of footage to puzzle out the movements of a police van?
    I am wondering whether what happened was not that the police van was chasing them but the boys who were killed thought it was? That would cover all eventualities.

    I happen to know police vehicles in Staffordshire are forbidden to chase illegal motorbikes including electric ones unless they are specially trained and/or have helicopter support, precisely to avoid this kind of situation.

    How do I know this? Because we have an absolute plague of the bastards here and I've been coordinating community complaints about them that did eventually lead to a crackdown (although one nearly cannoned into me today when he was riding at speed on the wrong side of the road I was driving on).

    Also, it doesn't surprise me at all that they were killed. Two underage boys riding an illegal bike at high speed on unsuitable roads is just asking for trouble. Indeed, the real surprise is that they didn't kill somebody else as well.
  • EPGEPG Posts: 6,653
    Adele's better than Amy who didn't even have a number one. They're just pop artists after all.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,049
    Met a reasonably big Borisphobe for lunch today and even he agreed with me that can they please leave it alone wrt covid breaches. Yes he made the rules and then yes he broke them but I seriously cannot be bothered to drag anyone including BoJo over the coals for a breach which is a breach on the slightest of nuances of the law a la being ambushed by a lime soda.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,281
    Cyclefree said:

    Farooq said:

    Cyclefree said:

    Something is not right with this issue of Boris and the lawyers he has apparently sacked.

    The facts as I understand them:-

    - Last year it was revealed that Boris had instructed Peters & Peters, a firm specialising in fraud and David Pannick KC to advise him in relation to the Standards Committee investigation into him.
    - The government agreed to pay their fees. Why has never been explained.
    - Peters & Peters and Pannick were present when Johnson gave evidence to the Committee.
    - Now we are told that Cabinet office lawyers have been advising him. Why?
    - What happened to Peters & Peters? Government lawyers advise the government not backbench MPs.
    - If they are advising Boris in his capacity as PM in respect of actions done as PM and the government is paying, it is not for him to sack them. He can refuse to be advised by them but then he should be paying for his own lawyers. But no, apparently we are paying. Again, why?

    We are not being told the full story I think.

    Are your facts straight? The Guardian says:
    While Johnson is confident taxpayers will continue picking up the bill for his new legal team, he admitted in a letter to the Covid inquiry published on Monday that the Cabinet Office had yet to “agree funding and other practical arrangements”.
    Thanks. Why have Peters & Peters disappeared? Sacked? Or decided that they did not want to act for him?

    I can see no good reason why the taxpayer should be paying for his legal fees. The investigation is not into his actions as PM but his personal actions ie whether he as an individual complied with Covid rules. And whether he misled the Commons. Other MPs facing similar investigations don't get their legal fees paid.
    Is it not thought, about materials made available to the Covid enquiry, and what parts of it should or should not be made public ?
    The evidence about potential breach of rules comes from that, so it’s not a clearcut matter.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780

    Prigozhin has said 20,000 Wagner fighters were killed in the battle for Bakhmut. That’s more than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
    Which brings us to the other thing he said—that this war could end in a revolution in Russia


    https://twitter.com/AlecLuhn/status/1661329479787073536

    We should be so lucky.

    Although as the Russians found out in 1917 and indeed in 1991 revolutions don't always lead to an improvement.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,981
    73% of Britons, including 58% of Tory voters, think it is likely that Boris Johnson committed further COVID breaches than those he has already been investigated and fined for



    https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1661367216665681922/photo/1
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,049
    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,281
    edited May 2023

    Prigozhin has said 20,000 Wagner fighters were killed in the battle for Bakhmut. That’s more than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
    Which brings us to the other thing he said—that this war could end in a revolution in Russia


    https://twitter.com/AlecLuhn/status/1661329479787073536

    Yevgeny Prigozhin says that Russia’s objectives of "denazifying" and "demilitarising" Ukraine have failed miserably

    "F*ck knows how, but we’ve militarised Ukraine!"

    https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1661301463442702336

    It's rare you see a quote go directly from someone's mouth into the history books, but "Fuck knows how, but we’ve militarized Ukraine!" is gonna be in every writeup of this conflict.
    https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/1661382488097267727
  • CarlottaVanceCarlottaVance Posts: 60,216
    A thread (from a partisan source) on why the latest IPSOS poll on SINDY may need to be taken with a pinch of salt:

    https://twitter.com/themajorityscot/status/1661392073788891146?s=46&t=eiaG-Nju8t7zgfE3oCmAHA
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 8,955
    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
  • squareroot2squareroot2 Posts: 6,843
    ping said:

    ping said:

    DavidL said:

    eek said:

    carnforth said:

    Jaguar Land Rover to pick UK over Spain for giant car battery plant:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65698529

    "Some in the car industry have described the plant as the most significant investment in UK automotive since Nissan came to Britain in the 1980s."

    (This sounds a bit over the top to me, it's just running to stand still it seems, but what do I know?)

    Without a battery factory all car manufacturing would be heading abroad.

    With 1 there is a chance our car manufacturing will continue and (might) even expand...
    We need more than 1 but it is a good start. Should help to keep some of Tata Steel open too.
    If they’re demanding to suck on the teat of the British Taxpayer, we should just nationalise them.

    Or make a strategic decision to exit mass car-making altogether. Let the Chinese/Americans/Europeans/Koreans//Japanese compete to export their EV’s and spend the half a billion on universities etc to bet on creating the next ARM of car manufacturing. Or whatever.

    Go up the value chain.

    I don’t blame the mates of Rishi’s in-laws for taking the piss, but that’s precisely what we’re letting them do.

    It’s in our national interest to tell Tata to go fuck themselves.

    Politely.
    It’s not just direct taxpayer money. It’s being subsidised via our energy bills, too.

    The poorest people in Britain - every time they top up their meter, money is now going to get siphoned off to subsidise these very wealthy foreigners.



    Obscene.
    You mean we should day "ta-ta" to Tata.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 17,468
    Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    Old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists...
  • Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    Old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists...
    Vicious gangs of old maids in lycra, running red lights, chucking communion wine in the faces of Deliveroo riders to try to score a hit of sweet, sweet wafers.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780

    Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    Old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists...
    Vicious gangs of old maids in lycra, running red lights, chucking communion wine in the faces of Deliveroo riders to try to score a hit of sweet, sweet wafers.
    Very soon it will be the traffic bollards.

    Then Graham Chapman will announce it's got silly.
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,354
    Nigelb said:

    Prigozhin has said 20,000 Wagner fighters were killed in the battle for Bakhmut. That’s more than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
    Which brings us to the other thing he said—that this war could end in a revolution in Russia


    https://twitter.com/AlecLuhn/status/1661329479787073536

    Yevgeny Prigozhin says that Russia’s objectives of "denazifying" and "demilitarising" Ukraine have failed miserably

    "F*ck knows how, but we’ve militarised Ukraine!"

    https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1661301463442702336

    It's rare you see a quote go directly from someone's mouth into the history books, but "Fuck knows how, but we’ve militarized Ukraine!" is gonna be in every writeup of this conflict.
    https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/1661382488097267727
    I mean, you can see why he wants to flatten all the high buildings in Bakhmut.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,591

    The new genre of 'reaction' videos on YouTube could be a symptom of the decline of pop culture. People film themselves watching older performances as if they are encountering an ancient civilisation.

    Here's an example of someone reduced to tears by Tori Amos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDo_JliyCoE

    They're still doing reaction videos? I thought that would have passed as a trend years ago.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    tlg86 said:

    Selebian said:

    tlg86 said:
    Very interesting, thanks. I hadn't really thought about the proportional implications of MRP.

    There are modifications available, interesting to see whether any are employed.
    I'm of the view that MRPs shouldn't be done outside of an election period (debateable as to when that starts, but certainly not yet).
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance

    I’m warming to you. At Seventeen is an incredibly beautiful song.
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 42,168

    A thread (from a partisan source) on why the latest IPSOS poll on SINDY may need to be taken with a pinch of salt:

    https://twitter.com/themajorityscot/status/1661392073788891146?s=46&t=eiaG-Nju8t7zgfE3oCmAHA

    Accusing pollsters of being dodgy is it?

    'Out of 104 polls since Mar 2021, IPSOS has higher results for YES than any other respected polling company. IPSOS and FIndOutNow (which no longer conducts politics polls) are the only polling companies to have EVER shown support for YES at over 50% #Dodgy @benatipsos'

    Presumably they mean in that period as several pollsters have shown YES at over 50%.
    Wait till they find out about the only polling company to show NO at above 50% since Mar 2021.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780
    Nigelb said:

    Prigozhin has said 20,000 Wagner fighters were killed in the battle for Bakhmut. That’s more than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
    Which brings us to the other thing he said—that this war could end in a revolution in Russia


    https://twitter.com/AlecLuhn/status/1661329479787073536

    Yevgeny Prigozhin says that Russia’s objectives of "denazifying" and "demilitarising" Ukraine have failed miserably

    "F*ck knows how, but we’ve militarised Ukraine!"

    https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1661301463442702336

    It's rare you see a quote go directly from someone's mouth into the history books, but "Fuck knows how, but we’ve militarized Ukraine!" is gonna be in every writeup of this conflict.
    https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/1661382488097267727
    I know how he's militarised Ukraine. Does that make me fuck?
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    And judging from the information just released by the police, as reported by the BBC, that is precisely what happened.
    But almost immediately the police have been asked about more CCTV footage that has just emerged, which appears to contradict their timeline.

    The police timeline begins:
    17:59:40 A bike travelled towards the police vehicle in Frank Road, the bike turns around
    18:00:52: The bike is followed by a police vehicle

    The new footage referred to is probably this, which is time-stamped 17:56 and shows the police van already in pursuit:
    https://news.sky.com/video/cardiff-new-cctv-shows-police-following-two-people-on-an-electric-scooter-before-fatal-crash-in-ely-12888337

    "Bacon responds by saying she has given the timeline to the best of her knowledge.
    She repeats that the police force has looked through hundreds of hours of footage, with more yet to review."

    Query: why should the police need to check hundreds of hours of footage to puzzle out the movements of a police van?
    They're probably checking out lots of other things as well, such as when the boys rode past, or potential witnesses. It's an *important* crime now, and they will want to ensure that all the evidence is gathered and collated. Otherwise, idiots on the Internet will say they didn't do their job.
    Certainly some people will say anything.
    Like you?

    What would you have wanted the police to do that night?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,591
    edited May 2023
    Nigelb said:

    Prigozhin has said 20,000 Wagner fighters were killed in the battle for Bakhmut. That’s more than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
    Which brings us to the other thing he said—that this war could end in a revolution in Russia


    https://twitter.com/AlecLuhn/status/1661329479787073536

    Yevgeny Prigozhin says that Russia’s objectives of "denazifying" and "demilitarising" Ukraine have failed miserably

    "F*ck knows how, but we’ve militarised Ukraine!"

    https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1661301463442702336

    It's rare you see a quote go directly from someone's mouth into the history books, but "Fuck knows how, but we’ve militarized Ukraine!" is gonna be in every writeup of this conflict.
    https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/1661382488097267727
    This quote feels pretty unintentionally off message (even next to saying the main missions have failed), in comparing Ukrainian resistance as being akin to Russsian resistance to the Nazis in WW2.

    [The Ukrainians] they feel very philosophically about the losses they are taking. For them, everything goes to reach the supreme goal, like us in the Great Patriotic War.
  • pingping Posts: 3,805
    edited May 2023
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    We need a coherent drugs policy, urgently.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780
    kle4 said:

    Nigelb said:

    Prigozhin has said 20,000 Wagner fighters were killed in the battle for Bakhmut. That’s more than the USSR lost in 10 years in Afghanistan.
    Which brings us to the other thing he said—that this war could end in a revolution in Russia


    https://twitter.com/AlecLuhn/status/1661329479787073536

    Yevgeny Prigozhin says that Russia’s objectives of "denazifying" and "demilitarising" Ukraine have failed miserably

    "F*ck knows how, but we’ve militarised Ukraine!"

    https://twitter.com/francis_scarr/status/1661301463442702336

    It's rare you see a quote go directly from someone's mouth into the history books, but "Fuck knows how, but we’ve militarized Ukraine!" is gonna be in every writeup of this conflict.
    https://twitter.com/AaronMehta/status/1661382488097267727
    This quote feels pretty unintentionally off message (even next to saying the main missions have failed), in comparing Ukrainian resistance as being akin to Russsian resisting Nazis in WW2.

    [The Ukrainians] they feel very philosophically about the losses they are taking. For them, everything goes to reach the supreme goal, like us in the Great Patriotic War.
    So he's denazified them then? 50% success rate...
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    ping said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    Our drugs policy is a disaster.

    What would be your undisastrous policy?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780

    ping said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    Our drugs policy is a disaster.

    What would be your undisastrous policy?
    That was quite a smack down.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    edited May 2023
    What a wonderful, gloriously sunny, warm evening it is in north London. The Tories’ pathetic culture wars and fuck-shit-wank job on the economy suddenly seems a world away. Let the sun shine. Let the Chablis flow.

    WE ARE EUROPEAN :)
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,354
    edited May 2023
    ydoethur said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    And judging from the information just released by the police, as reported by the BBC, that is precisely what happened.
    But almost immediately the police have been asked about more CCTV footage that has just emerged, which appears to contradict their timeline.

    The police timeline begins:
    17:59:40 A bike travelled towards the police vehicle in Frank Road, the bike turns around
    18:00:52: The bike is followed by a police vehicle

    The new footage referred to is probably this, which is time-stamped 17:56 and shows the police van already in pursuit:
    https://news.sky.com/video/cardiff-new-cctv-shows-police-following-two-people-on-an-electric-scooter-before-fatal-crash-in-ely-12888337

    "Bacon responds by saying she has given the timeline to the best of her knowledge.
    She repeats that the police force has looked through hundreds of hours of footage, with more yet to review."

    Query: why should the police need to check hundreds of hours of footage to puzzle out the movements of a police van?
    I am wondering whether what happened was not that the police van was chasing them but the boys who were killed thought it was? That would cover all eventualities.

    I happen to know police vehicles in Staffordshire are forbidden to chase illegal motorbikes including electric ones unless they are specially trained and/or have helicopter support, precisely to avoid this kind of situation.

    How do I know this? Because we have an absolute plague of the bastards here and I've been coordinating community complaints about them that did eventually lead to a crackdown (although one nearly cannoned into me today when he was riding at speed on the wrong side of the road I was driving on).

    Also, it doesn't surprise me at all that they were killed. Two underage boys riding an illegal bike at high speed on unsuitable roads is just asking for trouble. Indeed, the real surprise is that they didn't kill somebody else as well.
    I quickly checked the original video to estimate speed, for my n own info, the police van traversed a garden of about 3 car widths in 0.4 seconds, suggesting both vehicles were doing somewhere around or just under 30 mph at that point. That may or may not be quite fast for that road on that c estate
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 10,913

    What a wonderful, gloriously sunny, warm evening it is in north London. The Tories’ pathetic culture wars and fuck-shit-wank job on the economy suddenly seems a world away. Let the sun shine. Let the Chablis flow.

    WE ARE EUROPEAN :)

    Cant have everything then!
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 43,504
    ydoethur said:

    ping said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    Our drugs policy is a disaster.

    What would be your undisastrous policy?
    That was quite a smack down.
    I'm unsure if that's a reply doused in a healthy supply of cynicism ... ;)

    But to be serious: every drugs policy has issues. When someone complains about the current mess, it makes sense to ask if they have a coherent alternative. Because messy as it is, it could be *much* worse.
  • pingping Posts: 3,805

    ping said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    Our drugs policy is a disaster.

    What would be your undisastrous policy?
    Looks to me like our current approach is the worst of all worlds.

    We either need international agreement to go full on war on drugs, or go all in on regulated supply and treatment rooms etc.

  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    MINT JULEP!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780

    MINT JULEP!

    And so it be gins.
  • turbotubbsturbotubbs Posts: 17,694
    ydoethur said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Chris said:

    Alun Michael talking about the Cardiff incident this morning on Radio Wales Breakfast, according to the BBC:
    "I was assured, and I am still assured, that the youths were not being chased by the police at the time of the road traffic accident ... There was no police vehicle in the road where the crash happened. There was a police van in another street and the police were called quickly to the accident and conducted CPR"

    So entirely consistent with the police van seen in the CCTV footage having just followed the boys west along Stanway Road, but having been prevented by a traffic barrier from following them into Snowden Road, where the crash occurred a little further to the west.

    A report just published by the Independent says:
    "The family friend said they believe the boys had got away from the police by riding up Stanwey Road, which is blocked off to traffic at one end, and had then ridden onto the adjacent Snowden Road where the crash occurred."
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cardiff-riots-crash-ely-news-today-b2344630.html
    And judging from the information just released by the police, as reported by the BBC, that is precisely what happened.
    But almost immediately the police have been asked about more CCTV footage that has just emerged, which appears to contradict their timeline.

    The police timeline begins:
    17:59:40 A bike travelled towards the police vehicle in Frank Road, the bike turns around
    18:00:52: The bike is followed by a police vehicle

    The new footage referred to is probably this, which is time-stamped 17:56 and shows the police van already in pursuit:
    https://news.sky.com/video/cardiff-new-cctv-shows-police-following-two-people-on-an-electric-scooter-before-fatal-crash-in-ely-12888337

    "Bacon responds by saying she has given the timeline to the best of her knowledge.
    She repeats that the police force has looked through hundreds of hours of footage, with more yet to review."

    Query: why should the police need to check hundreds of hours of footage to puzzle out the movements of a police van?
    I am wondering whether what happened was not that the police van was chasing them but the boys who were killed thought it was? That would cover all eventualities.

    I happen to know police vehicles in Staffordshire are forbidden to chase illegal motorbikes including electric ones unless they are specially trained and/or have helicopter support, precisely to avoid this kind of situation.

    How do I know this? Because we have an absolute plague of the bastards here and I've been coordinating community complaints about them that did eventually lead to a crackdown (although one nearly cannoned into me today when he was riding at speed on the wrong side of the road I was driving on).

    Also, it doesn't surprise me at all that they were killed. Two underage boys riding an illegal bike at high speed on unsuitable roads is just asking for trouble. Indeed, the real surprise is that they didn't kill somebody else as well.
    II posted this yesterday and it’s exactly what I think happened. I don’t believe police routinely pursue in vans, and I think the boys just assumed they were being chased.
  • OmniumOmnium Posts: 10,913
    ydoethur said:

    MINT JULEP!

    And so it be gins.
    That's the Quinine!
  • OnlyLivingBoyOnlyLivingBoy Posts: 15,903
    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance
    I've dropped off tracking new releases (being 62) and in any case there's so much product these days on so many platforms you can't get your arms around it as you once could. It used to be that if you were into music and there was a great song released you'd be bound to hear it. The corollary was if you didn't hear something it can't have been that good. This is no longer the case. There's tons of high quality new music now that unless you devote yourself to seeking it out (which you won't at your age) you will not discover. But it's there.

    Eg what I've noticed is when I do random deep dives into recent music, or catch it on soundtracks for tv dramas, I come across plenty of absolutely terrific songs. Songs just as good as those on my familiar playlists. Songs whereby I know that if I listened to them a lot, and could associate them with my younger life, thus generating a sweet nostalgia hit, could take their place as 'classics' (for me). I don't have the time or inclination to do this now, so they don't, but they could. They are objectively good enough, is my point.

    So although I'd like to agree that the stuff I've curated and love from many moons ago constitutes a 'Golden Age' (because it's nice to believe that), I kind of know that it isn't. It's another heart v head thing, this. Heart says you're right that music used to be better. Head says it's nonsense.
    And yet I have a friend whose job is music reviewing and critiquing. He lives for this. And he LOVES discovering new talent

    And he says it simply isn’t there any more. He goes to two gigs a week. Indeed it’s his theory that Winehouse was the last of the greats (I borrowed it)

    He has various theories why

    There is also factual evidence that music has got more simplistic, crude and lyrically vulgar and coarse
    OK Boomer.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 96,591

    73% of Britons, including 58% of Tory voters, think it is likely that Boris Johnson committed further COVID breaches than those he has already been investigated and fined for



    https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1661367216665681922/photo/1

    If someone committed one (or more) after a brief investigation, it seems pretty likely they committed others, even if you like the person involved.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792
    kle4 said:

    73% of Britons, including 58% of Tory voters, think it is likely that Boris Johnson committed further COVID breaches than those he has already been investigated and fined for



    https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1661367216665681922/photo/1

    If someone committed one (or more) after a brief investigation, it seems pretty likely they committed others, even if you like the person involved.
    Who cares? The sun is shining. Summer is here.
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,888
    ping said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    We need a coherent drugs policy, urgently.

    As we have needed one all our lives and have never had one don't hold your breath. (Which of the competing ideas did you have in mind?)
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,679
    edited May 2023
    ydoethur said:

    ping said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    Our drugs policy is a disaster.

    What would be your undisastrous policy?
    That was quite a smack down.
    Serious topic - quit horsing around.
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 17,468
    kle4 said:

    73% of Britons, including 58% of Tory voters, think it is likely that Boris Johnson committed further COVID breaches than those he has already been investigated and fined for



    https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1661367216665681922/photo/1

    If someone committed one (or more) after a brief investigation, it seems pretty likely they committed others, even if you like the person involved.
    Have to wonder how many of those "don't know"s are "know full well, but don't want to say".
  • algarkirkalgarkirk Posts: 12,888

    73% of Britons, including 58% of Tory voters, think it is likely that Boris Johnson committed further COVID breaches than those he has already been investigated and fined for



    https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1661367216665681922/photo/1

    It's a rationality test. To be sentient and rational and a UK citizen you have to opt for some version of 'likely'.

  • pingping Posts: 3,805
    edited May 2023
    algarkirk said:

    ping said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65696801

    We need a coherent drugs policy, urgently.

    As we have needed one all our lives and have never had one don't hold your breath. (Which of the competing ideas did you have in mind?)
    See my post, above.

    I’m ideologically ambivalent - and our choice is constrained by international policy.

    This should be far higher up our political agenda. The debate is completely different to the 90’s/2000’s, given the terrifying shit now being sold on the streets.

    This ain’t the weed grown in someone’s shed, that you remember from your youth.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780

    kle4 said:

    73% of Britons, including 58% of Tory voters, think it is likely that Boris Johnson committed further COVID breaches than those he has already been investigated and fined for



    https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1661367216665681922/photo/1

    If someone committed one (or more) after a brief investigation, it seems pretty likely they committed others, even if you like the person involved.
    Have to wonder how many of those "don't know"s are "know full well, but don't want to say".
    I would be 'don't know' as well, TBF, because they don't offer 'stone certain.'
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 42,679
    Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    I'm about to take up cycling - think I'll aim for that 'European' category.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 57,662

    73% of Britons, including 58% of Tory voters, think it is likely that Boris Johnson committed further COVID breaches than those he has already been investigated and fined for



    https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1661367216665681922/photo/1

    Interestingly, Sunak recently added that question to the citizenship test that those seeking a British passport must compete.
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780
    kinabalu said:

    Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    I'm about to take up cycling - think I'll aim for that 'European' category.
    I've had to put my cycling on hold. The bike can't go anywhere because it's two tyred.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 23,156
    kle4 said:

    The new genre of 'reaction' videos on YouTube could be a symptom of the decline of pop culture. People film themselves watching older performances as if they are encountering an ancient civilisation.

    Here's an example of someone reduced to tears by Tori Amos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDo_JliyCoE

    They're still doing reaction videos? I thought that would have passed as a trend years ago.
    Are there reaction reaction videos already? If so may I propose the reaction reaction reaction videos genre. Not to mention the further offshoot of filming the bewilderment of middle aged men to the new reaction reaction reaction genre.
  • sarissasarissa Posts: 2,004
    Farooq said:

    DavidL said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    kinabalu said:

    Leon said:

    My older daughter turns 17 today. A complex age for any human. And I immediately thought of the Janis Ian song, and found this exquisite live rendition on The Old Grey Whistle Test

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUz2TNMvL0

    Just absolutely spine-tingling. Can you imagine being in that audience and hearing this LIVE for the first time. A cold clear copper bottomed masterpiece of a song. The voice, the guitar work, the immortal tune, the poignant lyrics, everything. Ah, fuck. What 'appened to music?

    Great song. Do we always have to include that hangdog 'better in my day' bit at the end though? We're the same age (ish) but my son is double 17. That's 34 (for the non accountants). It's interestingly poised now, our relationship. 62 plays 34. He has a clear edge in almost everything.
    Yes, unfortunately, we do have to include the "better in my day" bit because it is interesting. Because, for the first time in many decades, this tired old meme is provably true and says something important about politics

    Thus elevating the comment from "Oooh I have a family moment and here's a nice song" to something a shade more interesting that might make a Gazette piece so I'm trying it out from different angles
    Hmm, ok. I don't agree with you though. I don't think this 'better in my day' (about music) is any different to the standard one about anything else.

    And there's nothing wrong with just sharing the family moment!
    Where is the equivalent - post, say, 2010 - of a pop song as exquisite, delicate and moving as "At 17"? It does not exist

    Amy Winehouse is much missed. She was the very last of the Golden Age. The Tintoretto of the Pop Music Renaissance

    Its a tough challenge. Sunshine on Leith by the Proclaimers?
    https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=sunshine+on+leith+&mid=8FC1BD5F3D5D1425F1898FC1BD5F3D5D1425F189
    Great song, but it's 35 years old
    Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_rYWBle1_4
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 21,319
    The Tories are falling apart, according to Sky News.
    Thoughts with Big G at this time.

    10:02 - Jackie Doyle-Price: FFS - who on earth is spouting this bonkersness? Are you determined to turn our party into a skip fire?
    10:03 - Anne-Marie Trevelyan: ☝ what Jackie said
    10:06 - Sally-Ann Hart: WTF.
    10:07 - Kevin Foster: Spot on Jackie
    10:15 - Simon Hoare: would the last Tory MP to leave the building please turn off the lights. The nonsense, self-destroying crap has to end or our Party dies.
    10:19 - James Sunderland: These emerging groups, leaks and briefings to the media are helping none of us. All of us already belong to the most successful political grouping ever - It's called the Conservative Party.
    10:29 - Andrea Jenkyns: I don't like leakers, I prefer to say things to peoples face. However it is interesting some of those commenting were happy to speak out publicly against the Boris and Liz administrations. So maybe less sanctimony and hypocrisy. Clearly many in the party are unhappy. But those at the top are not doing anything about this to bring people together.
    10:29 - Robert Goodwill: There are two very simple rules that must be applied in all situations. 1) Does what I say or do make it more or less likely that we will win the General Election? If the answer is yes then do it, if no then don't. 2) Off the record briefings - see above.
    10:32 - Craig Mackinlay: Good advice Sir RG. Never do blue on blue no matter how annoyed one might be.

  • mwadamsmwadams Posts: 3,671
    edited May 2023

    The Tories are falling apart, according to Sky News.
    Thoughts with Big G at this time.

    10:02 - Jackie Doyle-Price: FFS - who on earth is spouting this bonkersness? Are you determined to turn our party into a skip fire?
    10:03 - Anne-Marie Trevelyan: ☝ what Jackie said
    10:06 - Sally-Ann Hart: WTF.
    10:07 - Kevin Foster: Spot on Jackie
    10:15 - Simon Hoare: would the last Tory MP to leave the building please turn off the lights. The nonsense, self-destroying crap has to end or our Party dies.
    10:19 - James Sunderland: These emerging groups, leaks and briefings to the media are helping none of us. All of us already belong to the most successful political grouping ever - It's called the Conservative Party.
    10:29 - Andrea Jenkyns: I don't like leakers, I prefer to say things to peoples face. However it is interesting some of those commenting were happy to speak out publicly against the Boris and Liz administrations. So maybe less sanctimony and hypocrisy. Clearly many in the party are unhappy. But those at the top are not doing anything about this to bring people together.
    10:29 - Robert Goodwill: There are two very simple rules that must be applied in all situations. 1) Does what I say or do make it more or less likely that we will win the General Election? If the answer is yes then do it, if no then don't. 2) Off the record briefings - see above.
    10:32 - Craig Mackinlay: Good advice Sir RG. Never do blue on blue no matter how annoyed one might be.

    Robert Goodwill appears to suggest that you do something if it will make things EITHER better OR worse. If you fear it would be neutral, you should keep schtum. Maybe this is the root of the problem.
  • FairlieredFairliered Posts: 5,067
    ydoethur said:

    kinabalu said:

    Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    I'm about to take up cycling - think I'll aim for that 'European' category.
    I've had to put my cycling on hold. The bike can't go anywhere because it's two tyred.
    Is it the bike or its owner that’s two tyred?
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 71,780

    ydoethur said:

    kinabalu said:

    Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    I'm about to take up cycling - think I'll aim for that 'European' category.
    I've had to put my cycling on hold. The bike can't go anywhere because it's two tyred.
    Is it the bike or its owner that’s two tyred?
    Well, I definitely need a brake.
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,081
    Very attractive, slightly posh young woman at the bar: "Hellooooo, please can I have a pint of your cheapest lager"
    Barman: "We've got Fosters at £3.80, or Estrella or Krombacher for five pounds."
    VASPYW: "I suppose it'll be Estrella then".

    Clearly Fosters not even competitive amongst those for whom cheapness is the only criterion.
  • OnlyLivingBoyOnlyLivingBoy Posts: 15,903
    kinabalu said:

    Eabhal said:

    TOPPING said:

    wrt the chase it will be interesting to see what happens.

    Yesterday passing Parliament Square on a Boris Bike at around 10pm there was a gang of bicycle riding what used to be called hoodlums or thugs (all hoodies and balaclava-ed up) riding all over the pavement, running red lights and generally whooping it up.

    In what must be one of the most policed square 500 yards in the country. And on and over they went towards Victoria.

    It's the same everywhere. It's why "cyclists" as an encompassing term doesn't work any more.

    Mamils
    Dura_ace types
    Europeans (attractive, no helmet, step through bike)
    Commuters (panniers)
    Balaclava gangs (steal mopeds)
    Deliveroo (roughly white van man)
    Cargo bikers (highly fertile, bucket full of kids)
    I'm about to take up cycling - think I'll aim for that 'European' category.
    I don't think of myself as a mamil but I am a middle aged man and after initially resisting (and getting chilblanes on my legs from wearing shorts) I now wear lycra cycling leggings other than in summer. So I guess I am a mamil.
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