The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
The fact Greta parents are also super well connected wealthy people in Sweden is something rarely mentioned.
Really? By some mischance I think I’ve escaped the conspiracy of silence and seen it mentioned quite a bit.
I've got a US road trip coming up for the Gazette, and I want to explore Virginia, Maryland maybe Kentucky, especially Civil War sites. Anyone got any recommendations? What are the most resonant battlefields? Gettysburg? Atietam?
Gettysburg is the classic, but of course swamped by Americans on trips or paying their homage. Giant flag, giant car park, lots of coaches, etc.
In Virginia down by Richmond yacht basin there is a wealth of under-visited civil war sites that will give you a good feel for how the war played out away from the big battles.
In Kentucky, not so much by way of battle sites, but the people are mighty friendly and the Kentucky Lakes region is worth exploring (if you ignore the dead fish floating about due pollution).
Maryland, get yourself down to St Michael’s. There’s no civil war stuff down there, but if you ask for oysters they will bring you a menu with ten different types to choose from. The Maritime museum there is supposed to be worth a visit; when I was there it was underwater, which was taking being a maritime museum a tad too seriously.
Not much of a detour, check out Chattanooga and the hills just to the south, where a ferocious civil war encounter took place. The trenches are still there to see, if you take a walk in the woods.
Oooh, really useful. Ta
Don't know if you read much fiction, but I can recommend Bernard Cornwell's Starbuck series. Only four books and didn't get much past the middle of the war as his character was fighting for the South, and things didn't go so well for them after '63, but provide a good 'history' in an accessible way.
The Civil War section of Chernow's Grant biography is probably more succinct.
Vicksburg (which remains quite a small town) might be an interesting visit. A turning point of the war.
Franklin in Tennessee is amazing. Site of a fairly brief but terrifically brutal overnight battle, where the corpses were piled so high you could walk on them from the drapers to the church
There is a museum called Carter House where you can see the purple blood stains from all the emergency amputations
A state-educated Welsh speaker will be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation.
Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens was appointed to lead the BBC’s board on Friday by Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, for twelve months or until a new permanent chairman has been found.
The Oxford alumnus vowed to “champion the licence fee payer across all of the UK”.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Maybe, but even if you did all that why should anyone outside your company give a toss? This story has obsessed the media for weeks now. It is fantastically picayune. Move on
The media are obsessed with the media, and it does appear that this particular individual has managed to upset a lot of people in his industry.
Media obsessed by the media & twitter.....
I think it is also a lot the holier than thou tone ITV has taken on so many occasions, which means a lot of people in the biz are pissed off at the hyprocrisy / have experienced double standards.
True.
On the same basis, you should NEVER go to a play about actors or a film about film-makers. They are almost always both warmly reviewed and total horse-sh1t.
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
A state-educated Welsh speaker will be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation.
Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens was appointed to lead the BBC’s board on Friday by Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, for twelve months or until a new permanent chairman has been found.
The Oxford alumnus vowed to “champion the licence fee payer across all of the UK”.
England should go for a thousand. Get batting practice in before the Ozzies.
I think the Australian bowling attack might be a bit less club cricket pace though.....might actually be a negative to get yourself so comfortable with medium paced dobbers when you are going to get 90+ from both ends for hours.
On the same basis, you should NEVER go to a play about actors or a film about film-makers. They are almost always both warmly reviewed and total horse-sh1t.
That's a good rule-of-thumb, but Truffaut's La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night) is hilarious (and stars Jacqueline Bisset..)
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
You don’t want to read the F1 forums, after the judge failed to jail last year’s Silverstone protestors.
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in its broader, feudal notions.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
On the same basis, you should NEVER go to a play about actors or a film about film-makers. They are almost always both warmly reviewed and total horse-sh1t.
That's a good rule-of-thumb, but Truffaut's La Nuit Américaine (Day for Night) is hilarious (and stars Jacqueline Bisset..)
Fellini’s 8 1/2 is a total classic. If you like Fellini. Which I do. At least, the early stuff before he went OTT.
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
You don’t want to read the F1 forums, after the judge failed to jail last year’s Silverstone protestors.
Oh I have.
Sadly I suspect it will end with a few of these being killed and it taking a huge toll on the drivers.
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in it.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
I am fascinated by both - the Old South, and Nazism
But I don't beat myself up as a racist Nazi as a result
I am equally fascinated by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot - and by war and conflict in general
I like dramatic history especially if it is laced with extreme, grandiose or peculiar politics. Humans like theatre. We read books about murder, not dishwashing. It is normal
I guess I could read "the history of Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dem campaigns" but somehow it is not quite as alluring
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
All this just makes you look prurient and curtain-twitchy, to be honest
Schofield did bad thing, is sacked, career likely over, end of
I'm just responding to the very serious accusation by @chris that I'm making things up - fairly important so as to not get OGH into trouble. Everything in my original post is now referenced using stories published in the national press.
I know you don't work in an office, so I'll simply say that I've seen this kind of thing happen all too often in workplace environments and it needs rooting out, hence why it sticks in my craw.
If someone wants to meet a 15 year old and five years later it turns into a relationship then well, it's probably a bit icky but not really scandalous. But when you use your connections to employ that person, become their boss, and use company resources to advance their career... that's when it makes me mad.
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in it.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
I am fascinated by both - the Old South, and Nazism
But I don't beat myself up as a racist Nazi as a result
I am equally fascinated by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot - and by war and conflict in general
I like dramatic history especially if it is laced with extreme, grandiose or peculiar politics. Humans like theatre. We read books about murder, not dishwashing. It is normal
I guess I could read "the history of Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dem campaigns" but somehow it is not quite as alluring
My hatred of Nazism is ultimately not even ideological. It’s fear and repulsion.
I don’t go into it for the same reason I won’t read news articles about murdered/abused children.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some women outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in it.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
I am fascinated by both - the Old South, and Nazism
But I don't beat myself up as a racist Nazi as a result
I am equally fascinated by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot - and by war and conflict in general
I like dramatic history especially if it is laced with extreme, grandiose or peculiar politics. Humans like theatre. We read books about murder, not dishwashing. It is normal
I guess I could read "the history of Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dem campaigns" but somehow it is not quite as alluring
My hatred of Nazism is ultimately not even ideological. It’s fear and repulsion.
I don’t go into it for the same reason I won’t read news articles about murdered/abused children.
I hear you on the kids thing. One place I can't go is books about true crime involving children. It is too distressing, as a parent
I read one brilliantly bleak book about Fred and Rosey West and it made me so sad I decided, never again
Somehow the Nazis are easier to read about than that. Also, they are more important. You need to read about Nazism to understand how it arose and how it can be opposed. Ditto Pol Pot, arguably even more so, as everyone has forgotten about him
The other day it happened to me again: an educated young woman admitted she had never heard of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, none of it. Scandalous
A state-educated Welsh speaker will be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation.
Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens was appointed to lead the BBC’s board on Friday by Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, for twelve months or until a new permanent chairman has been found.
The Oxford alumnus vowed to “champion the licence fee payer across all of the UK”.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
A state-educated Welsh speaker will be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation.
Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens was appointed to lead the BBC’s board on Friday by Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, for twelve months or until a new permanent chairman has been found.
The Oxford alumnus vowed to “champion the licence fee payer across all of the UK”.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
A state-educated Welsh speaker will be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation.
Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens was appointed to lead the BBC’s board on Friday by Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, for twelve months or until a new permanent chairman has been found.
The Oxford alumnus vowed to “champion the licence fee payer across all of the UK”.
A state-educated Welsh speaker will be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation.
Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens was appointed to lead the BBC’s board on Friday by Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, for twelve months or until a new permanent chairman has been found.
The Oxford alumnus vowed to “champion the licence fee payer across all of the UK”.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
I remember when Charlie Gilmour when on a drug fuelled rampage at the student riots, got banged up and Cambridge let him back in....nothing to do with his famous dad of course. Which then enabled him to have a successful career as a journalist and a writer.
I wonder if the same would have happened to somebody less well connected?
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
Don't know if anyone else has noticved, but there is a rather sad series on modern mores in the Graun: the covid outbreak has had a deep impact, a fair number of the interviewees feel.
Don't know if anyone else has noticved, but there is a rather sad series on modern mores in the Graun: the covid outbreak has had a deep impact, a fair number of the interviewees feel.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
It worked during the pandemic, but they all now have shedloads of way overpriced stock they’re trying to drip out slowly to stop prices crashing.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
It worked during the pandemic, but they all now have shedloads of way overpriced stock they’re trying to drip out slowly to stop prices crashing.
My understanding is that its a flawed business model from the start, because its really inefficient to have to keep dragging cars back and forth to individual addresses. Same way as UberEats etc, is super inefficient way of delivering 2 pints of a milk and a twix, but cars you can't even scale in the way home grocery shopping can, as cars are obviously big and heavy, so the lorry can only take a handful of them at a time.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
It worked during the pandemic, but they all now have shedloads of way overpriced stock they’re trying to drip out slowly to stop prices crashing.
My understanding is that its a flawed business model from the start, because its really inefficient to have to keep dragging cars back and forth to individual addresses. Same way as UberEats etc, is super inefficient way of delivering 2 pints of a milk and a twix.
Yes, the costs are astronomical, but that was okay when used car prices suddenly started going up, so they convinced themselves they had a great business model. Yes, the reality is that the costs are proportional to sales, and the model works as well as sending someone to your house to deliver 2 pints of milk and a Twix.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
You don’t want to read the F1 forums, after the judge failed to jail last year’s Silverstone protestors.
Oh I have.
Sadly I suspect it will end with a few of these being killed and it taking a huge toll on the drivers.
An F1 car hitting someone would probably kill the driver too
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
All this just makes you look prurient and curtain-twitchy, to be honest
Schofield did bad thing, is sacked, career likely over, end of
Didn't know who he was till the Queen lying in state thing. Thought the official statement about "I no longer have a brother" was overblown, melodramatic and vindictive as well as not being true. Now I think, karma's a bitch.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
You don’t want to read the F1 forums, after the judge failed to jail last year’s Silverstone protestors.
Oh I have.
Sadly I suspect it will end with a few of these being killed and it taking a huge toll on the drivers.
An F1 car hitting someone would probably kill the driver too
I doubt it these days. After previous tragedies, the level of protection the drivers have now is incredible.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
You don’t want to read the F1 forums, after the judge failed to jail last year’s Silverstone protestors.
Oh I have.
Sadly I suspect it will end with a few of these being killed and it taking a huge toll on the drivers.
An F1 car hitting someone would probably kill the driver too
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
You don’t want to read the F1 forums, after the judge failed to jail last year’s Silverstone protestors.
Oh I have.
Sadly I suspect it will end with a few of these being killed and it taking a huge toll on the drivers.
An F1 car hitting someone would probably kill the driver too
I doubt it these days. After previous tragedies, the level of protection the drivers have now is incredible.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
You don’t want to read the F1 forums, after the judge failed to jail last year’s Silverstone protestors.
Oh I have.
Sadly I suspect it will end with a few of these being killed and it taking a huge toll on the drivers.
An F1 car hitting someone would probably kill the driver too
Nah. I refer you to the Grosjean crash.
I was positive I’d just seen someone killed on live TV with that one.
I’m not sure any protestors this year are going to be able to get past the crowd and the marshals. And said crowd and marshals won’t be letting the police take them away to be quietly bailed again either.
I've got a US road trip coming up for the Gazette, and I want to explore Virginia, Maryland maybe Kentucky, especially Civil War sites. Anyone got any recommendations? What are the most resonant battlefields? Gettysburg? Atietam?
The island is in today's West Virginia, but battle took place in Ohio; VERY peaceful spot nowadays.
BUT conveniently located near Blennerhasset Island, which played a key role in Burr's Conspiracy (whatever the heck THAT was). Visit to reconstructed manor house and grounds features a fun boat ride.
> Gettysburg well worth visit, chock full of tourists and ticky-tacky, but also much of genuine interest; just seeing the majestic lay of the land gives you a feel for the epic nature of the 3-day battle. Beautiful in its own right.
> Harpers Ferry and Antietam (close to each other) and both well worth visiting.
> Fredericksburg by contrast is NOT spread across the landscape, but rather small in scope. Again, easy to visualize what hell was like there back in the day; also famous for the assault of Union's Irish Brigade (and number of other units) against Confederates entrenched on Marye's Heights;
"Wherever there's Kellys there's trouble, " said Burke. "Wherever fighting's the game, Or a spice of danger in grown man's work," Said Kelly, " you'll find my name." "And do we fall short, " said Burke, getting mad, "When it's touch and go for life?" Said Shea, "It's thirty-odd years, bedad, Since I charged to drum and fife Up Marye's Heights, and my old canteen Stopped a rebel ball on its way; There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green — Kelly and Burke and Shea — And the dead didn't brag." "Well, here's to the flag!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
Thanks!
Anything else in the area while I am tootling around? I've got 8 or 9 days (tho I also want a couple of days in DC - never been)
Skyline Drive, in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains just west of DC, not far. Also southern extension, Blue Ridge Parkway. 9Models for the subsequent Natchez Trace Parkway which you infested last year.)
Plenty to see and do in Our Nation's Capital, my favs are US Capitol, Smithsonian (pick your museum) and National Archives. Also Madam's Organ 'hood (aka Adams Morgan) and Embassy Row.
Outside DC but not far, in addition to already mentioned:
> Annapolis, Maryland - lots of boats, plus US Naval Academy > Hot Springs, VA - George Washington took a dip or two here. > Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, WV
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in it.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
I am fascinated by both - the Old South, and Nazism
But I don't beat myself up as a racist Nazi as a result
I am equally fascinated by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot - and by war and conflict in general
I like dramatic history especially if it is laced with extreme, grandiose or peculiar politics. Humans like theatre. We read books about murder, not dishwashing. It is normal
I guess I could read "the history of Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dem campaigns" but somehow it is not quite as alluring
I like reading about them specifically because of reading about those who stood firm. Admiral Canaris, the White Rose movement and many others. Reading about what they did in the face of overwhelming odds is both inspirational and instructive. The same goes for those from the Antebellum South who chose to fight against their own states as a matter of principle. It puts thelie to those who claimed they either did not know or had no choice but to comply and become complicit.
US clearly wants to avoid getting into an accidental war with China. This is sensible.
“Last month, (CIA) director Burns travelled to Beijing where he met with Chinese counterparts and emphasised the importance of maintaining open lines of communications in intelligence channels,” said the US official. https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1664639644581998599
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in it.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
I am fascinated by both - the Old South, and Nazism
But I don't beat myself up as a racist Nazi as a result
I am equally fascinated by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot - and by war and conflict in general
I like dramatic history especially if it is laced with extreme, grandiose or peculiar politics. Humans like theatre. We read books about murder, not dishwashing. It is normal
I guess I could read "the history of Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dem campaigns" but somehow it is not quite as alluring
I like reading about them specifically because of reading about those who stood firm. Admiral Canaris, the White Rose movement and many others. Reading about what they did in the face of overwhelming odds is both inspirational and instructive. The same goes for those from the Antebellum South who chose to fight against their own states as a matter of principle. It puts thelie to those who claimed they either did not know or had no choice but to comply and become complicit.
Canaris was a anti-democratic hard core nationalist who was up for conquering Europe. He was involved in the Rosa Luxemburg murder and the coverup.
Reinhard Heidrich was a protégée - some suspect Heidrich was an infiltrator into the Nazi party, run by Canaris, initially. They remained good friends, despite becoming rivals in the Nazi secret police establishment, until Heidrich was assassinated.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
So the poor are too poor to protest, and the middle classes shouldn't protest... so, basically, you don't want anyone to ever protest?
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
So the poor are too poor to protest, and the middle classes shouldn't protest... so, basically, you don't want anyone to ever protest?
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
It worked during the pandemic, but they all now have shedloads of way overpriced stock they’re trying to drip out slowly to stop prices crashing.
My understanding is that its a flawed business model from the start, because its really inefficient to have to keep dragging cars back and forth to individual addresses. Same way as UberEats etc, is super inefficient way of delivering 2 pints of a milk and a twix.
Yes, the costs are astronomical, but that was okay when used car prices suddenly started going up, so they convinced themselves they had a great business model. Yes, the reality is that the costs are proportional to sales, and the model works as well as sending someone to your house to deliver 2 pints of milk and a Twix.
I think it's perfectly possible to make it work - at several thousand pounds, the bid-ask spread on used cars is pretty wide.
But it is an area that is extremely sensitive to rate rises. If you're sitting on 500 cars worth £15,000 each, you have £75m of inventory. If you're paying 3%, then that's a little more than £2m/year in interest payments. If interest rates jump 5 or 6%, then you can suddenly be on the hook for £7m/year.
Now, if you combine falling values of used cars and a rising cost of carry, then suddenly things can get real expensive real fast for used car vendors. And this is especially true if you've been growing too quickly, because that is what your shareholders and VCs wanted. Suddenly, you have a bunch of vehicles worth less than they were and your interest payments have trebled. And to move them, you need to spend money on sales and marketing, but you suddenly have no money.
US clearly wants to avoid getting into an accidental war with China. This is sensible.
“Last month, (CIA) director Burns travelled to Beijing where he met with Chinese counterparts and emphasised the importance of maintaining open lines of communications in intelligence channels,” said the US official. https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1664639644581998599
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
It worked during the pandemic, but they all now have shedloads of way overpriced stock they’re trying to drip out slowly to stop prices crashing.
My understanding is that its a flawed business model from the start, because its really inefficient to have to keep dragging cars back and forth to individual addresses. Same way as UberEats etc, is super inefficient way of delivering 2 pints of a milk and a twix.
Yes, the costs are astronomical, but that was okay when used car prices suddenly started going up, so they convinced themselves they had a great business model. Yes, the reality is that the costs are proportional to sales, and the model works as well as sending someone to your house to deliver 2 pints of milk and a Twix.
I think it's perfectly possible to make it work - at several thousand pounds, the bid-ask spread on used cars is pretty wide.
But it is an area that is extremely sensitive to rate rises. If you're sitting on 500 cars worth £15,000 each, you have £75m of inventory. If you're paying 3%, then that's a little more than £2m/year in interest payments. If interest rates jump 5 or 6%, then you can suddenly be on the hook for £7m/year.
Now, if you combine falling values of used cars and a rising cost of carry, then suddenly things can get real expensive real fast for used car vendors. And this is especially true if you've been growing too quickly, because that is what your shareholders and VCs wanted. Suddenly, you have a bunch of vehicles worth less than they were and your interest payments have trebled. And to move them, you need to spend money on sales and marketing, but you suddenly have no money.
Yes. But they weren’t making several thousand pounds spread. They were paying retail for inventory, and now have thousands of cars worth considerably less than they paid for them. They spent $75m for $65m of cars, so they’re on the hook for $10m in depreciation as well as the $7m of interest.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
It worked during the pandemic, but they all now have shedloads of way overpriced stock they’re trying to drip out slowly to stop prices crashing.
My understanding is that its a flawed business model from the start, because its really inefficient to have to keep dragging cars back and forth to individual addresses. Same way as UberEats etc, is super inefficient way of delivering 2 pints of a milk and a twix.
Yes, the costs are astronomical, but that was okay when used car prices suddenly started going up, so they convinced themselves they had a great business model. Yes, the reality is that the costs are proportional to sales, and the model works as well as sending someone to your house to deliver 2 pints of milk and a Twix.
I think it's perfectly possible to make it work - at several thousand pounds, the bid-ask spread on used cars is pretty wide.
But it is an area that is extremely sensitive to rate rises. If you're sitting on 500 cars worth £15,000 each, you have £75m of inventory. If you're paying 3%, then that's a little more than £2m/year in interest payments. If interest rates jump 5 or 6%, then you can suddenly be on the hook for £7m/year.
Now, if you combine falling values of used cars and a rising cost of carry, then suddenly things can get real expensive real fast for used car vendors. And this is especially true if you've been growing too quickly, because that is what your shareholders and VCs wanted. Suddenly, you have a bunch of vehicles worth less than they were and your interest payments have trebled. And to move them, you need to spend money on sales and marketing, but you suddenly have no money.
Yes. But they weren’t making several thousand pounds spread. They were paying retail for inventory, and now have thousands of cars worth considerably less than they paid for them. They spent $75m for $65m of cars, so they’re on the hook for $10m in depreciation as well as the $7m of interest.
I'm not saying they did it right, I'm saying that it is possible to make selling cars over the Internet work.
I've got a US road trip coming up for the Gazette, and I want to explore Virginia, Maryland maybe Kentucky, especially Civil War sites. Anyone got any recommendations? What are the most resonant battlefields? Gettysburg? Atietam?
The island is in today's West Virginia, but battle took place in Ohio; VERY peaceful spot nowadays.
BUT conveniently located near Blennerhasset Island, which played a key role in Burr's Conspiracy (whatever the heck THAT was). Visit to reconstructed manor house and grounds features a fun boat ride.
> Gettysburg well worth visit, chock full of tourists and ticky-tacky, but also much of genuine interest; just seeing the majestic lay of the land gives you a feel for the epic nature of the 3-day battle. Beautiful in its own right.
> Harpers Ferry and Antietam (close to each other) and both well worth visiting.
> Fredericksburg by contrast is NOT spread across the landscape, but rather small in scope. Again, easy to visualize what hell was like there back in the day; also famous for the assault of Union's Irish Brigade (and number of other units) against Confederates entrenched on Marye's Heights;
"Wherever there's Kellys there's trouble, " said Burke. "Wherever fighting's the game, Or a spice of danger in grown man's work," Said Kelly, " you'll find my name." "And do we fall short, " said Burke, getting mad, "When it's touch and go for life?" Said Shea, "It's thirty-odd years, bedad, Since I charged to drum and fife Up Marye's Heights, and my old canteen Stopped a rebel ball on its way; There were blossoms of blood on our sprigs of green — Kelly and Burke and Shea — And the dead didn't brag." "Well, here's to the flag!" Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
Thanks!
Anything else in the area while I am tootling around? I've got 8 or 9 days (tho I also want a couple of days in DC - never been)
The African American history museum is really excellent, I would say it is easily the best of the Smithsonian museums. I would recommend spending some time at the Lincoln Memorial. Reading the Gettysberg Address engraved there is always a spine-tingling moment. I really like Baltimore, it has a real faded glamour thing going on. I agree on Harpers Ferry, a really atmospheric well preserved 19C town with a lot of Civil War connections.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
Are we going to be shocked in Riz also did a gap yaaaaaah in which they globe trotted around the world using mummy and daddies money, while Dad was throwing paint at doors and such like as part of XR.
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
The one I'm looking forward to is if JSO interrupt the darts.
That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Am I right in remembering that there was an occasion when a fight broke out and it ended up with a load of people dressed in superhero outfits having a dust up.
I do vaguely remember that.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some woman outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
It has to be nailed on that JSO disrupt the cricket this summer.
Yeah, apparently they are targeting the Ashes because England are sponsored by Cinch, who also sponsor the darts.
To be fair, those adverts are ****ing annoying.
Isn't online car selling another one of these e-commerce business models that doesn't work, and they all lose a boat load of money? But they seem to advertise absolutely everywhere.
It worked during the pandemic, but they all now have shedloads of way overpriced stock they’re trying to drip out slowly to stop prices crashing.
My understanding is that its a flawed business model from the start, because its really inefficient to have to keep dragging cars back and forth to individual addresses. Same way as UberEats etc, is super inefficient way of delivering 2 pints of a milk and a twix.
Yes, the costs are astronomical, but that was okay when used car prices suddenly started going up, so they convinced themselves they had a great business model. Yes, the reality is that the costs are proportional to sales, and the model works as well as sending someone to your house to deliver 2 pints of milk and a Twix.
I think it's perfectly possible to make it work - at several thousand pounds, the bid-ask spread on used cars is pretty wide.
But it is an area that is extremely sensitive to rate rises. If you're sitting on 500 cars worth £15,000 each, you have £75m of inventory. If you're paying 3%, then that's a little more than £2m/year in interest payments. If interest rates jump 5 or 6%, then you can suddenly be on the hook for £7m/year.
Now, if you combine falling values of used cars and a rising cost of carry, then suddenly things can get real expensive real fast for used car vendors. And this is especially true if you've been growing too quickly, because that is what your shareholders and VCs wanted. Suddenly, you have a bunch of vehicles worth less than they were and your interest payments have trebled. And to move them, you need to spend money on sales and marketing, but you suddenly have no money.
Yes. But they weren’t making several thousand pounds spread. They were paying retail for inventory, and now have thousands of cars worth considerably less than they paid for them. They spent $75m for $65m of cars, so they’re on the hook for $10m in depreciation as well as the $7m of interest.
I'm not saying they did it right, I'm saying that it is possible to make selling cars over the Internet work.
Tesla's used car business is all online and is enormously profitable.
Re: sights (and sites) to see in and around DC, add
> Chesapeake and Potomac Canal, early transportation project begun by George Washington, a bust as a commercial proposition, but a great scenic, historic attraction two centuries later.
> Shenandoah Valley, aka The Valley of Virginia, long valley between Blue Ridge and Alleghany / Appalachian mountains. Natural artery of exploration and settlement; Daniel Boone took the Valley southwestwards first to North Carolina, then across Cumberland Gap to Kentucky). Also key cockpit of Civil War, where Stonewall Jackson ran rings around the Yankees and whupped their asses in style of young Napoleon Bonaparte. Highly scenic, with interesting side jaunts to Natural Bridge and Luray Caverns.
> New River Gorge, in southern West Virginia, carved by the oldest river in North America; it was new to the first White settlers, and the first river they encountered flowing northwest into the Ohio, instead of east or south into (eventually) the Atlantic. DEEP gorge with HIGH bridge and WILD white water rafting.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
So the poor are too poor to protest, and the middle classes shouldn't protest... so, basically, you don't want anyone to ever protest?
Protest is fine. Disruption is not.
So, how did you feel about the Euromaidan Revolution?
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
So the poor are too poor to protest, and the middle classes shouldn't protest... so, basically, you don't want anyone to ever protest?
What's wrong with voting every 5 years as a means of protest?
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
So the poor are too poor to protest, and the middle classes shouldn't protest... so, basically, you don't want anyone to ever protest?
What's wrong with voting every 5 years as a means of protest?
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
Poor people can’t afford to have luxury beliefs. They get fired if they get arrested and miss a shift. They’re almost all very upper-middle-class.
So, what you're saying is we should welcome the actions of upper middle class protestors who can go out there and give a voice to issues that affect poor people, because the poor people aren't able to carry the protests? That's very progressive of you.
No, I’m saying that the entitled tw@s, whose families can afford the expensive lawyers and keep them out of jail, should stop disrupting the lives of the working classes simply trying to go about their business, or sports fans trying to attend a live event.
So the poor are too poor to protest, and the middle classes shouldn't protest... so, basically, you don't want anyone to ever protest?
What's wrong with voting every 5 years as a means of protest?
Are you aware of, say, the history of the civil rights movement in the US or Northern Ireland?
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in it.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
I am fascinated by both - the Old South, and Nazism
But I don't beat myself up as a racist Nazi as a result
I am equally fascinated by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot - and by war and conflict in general
I like dramatic history especially if it is laced with extreme, grandiose or peculiar politics. Humans like theatre. We read books about murder, not dishwashing. It is normal
I guess I could read "the history of Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dem campaigns" but somehow it is not quite as alluring
I like reading about them specifically because of reading about those who stood firm. Admiral Canaris, the White Rose movement and many others. Reading about what they did in the face of overwhelming odds is both inspirational and instructive. The same goes for those from the Antebellum South who chose to fight against their own states as a matter of principle. It puts thelie to those who claimed they either did not know or had no choice but to comply and become complicit.
Canaris was a anti-democratic hard core nationalist who was up for conquering Europe. He was involved in the Rosa Luxemburg murder and the coverup.
Reinhard Heidrich was a protégée - some suspect Heidrich was an infiltrator into the Nazi party, run by Canaris, initially. They remained good friends, despite becoming rivals in the Nazi secret police establishment, until Heidrich was assassinated.
Heydrich. His unmarked grave can be walked over in the Invalidenfriedhof cemetery in Berlin. Quite a lot of history there, it abuts a section of the wall and a few Junkers military graves from both wars. Udet is buried there, and poor, old Werner Mölders is buried next to him after dying in a plane crash on his way back to the former’s funeral.
You are quoting a poll from 2015 to make your argument
That is a lifetime ago and before covid and the war in Ukraine wrecked the economy
An October 2022 Yougov poll ie after Covid and the Ukraine war had broken out, had 63% still supporting raising the IHT threshold from £325k and just 16% wanting to increase the 40% IHT rate.
48% of all voters and 60% of Conservative voters even want to abolish IHT completely
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
All this just makes you look prurient and curtain-twitchy, to be honest
Schofield did bad thing, is sacked, career likely over, end of
I'm just responding to the very serious accusation by @chris that I'm making things up - fairly important so as to not get OGH into trouble. Everything in my original post is now referenced using stories published in the national press.
I know you don't work in an office, so I'll simply say that I've seen this kind of thing happen all too often in workplace environments and it needs rooting out, hence why it sticks in my craw.
If someone wants to meet a 15 year old and five years later it turns into a relationship then well, it's probably a bit icky but not really scandalous. But when you use your connections to employ that person, become their boss, and use company resources to advance their career... that's when it makes me mad.
There is all sorts of justifications used for the vilification of Philip Schofield and some people will no doubt claim that homophobia is not theirs, but @leon is right about the prurience. I can't help thinking that if it had been Jeremy Clarkson or Boris Johnson shagging a 20 year old woman it would be seen very differently. In fact I am sure of it
Yes been there, beautiful location in Virginia and well worth a visit. Gettysburg too is also worth a visit and not too far away in Pennsylvania, we had an excellent guide who really brought it to life followed by a steak dinner in a nearby small town
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
All this just makes you look prurient and curtain-twitchy, to be honest
Schofield did bad thing, is sacked, career likely over, end of
I'm just responding to the very serious accusation by @chris that I'm making things up - fairly important so as to not get OGH into trouble. Everything in my original post is now referenced using stories published in the national press.
I know you don't work in an office, so I'll simply say that I've seen this kind of thing happen all too often in workplace environments and it needs rooting out, hence why it sticks in my craw.
If someone wants to meet a 15 year old and five years later it turns into a relationship then well, it's probably a bit icky but not really scandalous. But when you use your connections to employ that person, become their boss, and use company resources to advance their career... that's when it makes me mad.
There is all sorts of justifications used for the vilification of Philip Schofield and some people will no doubt claim that homophobia is not theirs, but @leon is right about the prurience. I can't help thinking that if it had been Jeremy Clarkson or Boris Johnson shagging a 20 year old woman it would be seen very differently. In fact I am sure of it
Carrie is 23 years Boris's junior and worked for him before they started a relationship (while he was married to someone else). However, she was 30 at the time.
The trans activist who disrupted a talk by Prof Kathleen Stock is the daughter of a council boss who introduced a four-day working week.
Riz Possnett’s mother Liz Watts was working on a PhD thesis on the topic when South Cambridgeshire District Council last year became the first to implement a trial to cut hours while staff remain on the same pay.
So much for just being a poor he/her/they, from a poor family. Mum and dad extremely well connected people, no wonder they can afford the swimming pool and hot tub.
God, I hate these posh/upper middle class people who pretend to be soil of the earth working class plebs.
I would of thought being very pro Trans almost certainly marks you out as being more likely to be upper middle class, at least by education, than working class. Probably even more so than opposition to Brexit which is equally a view most strongly held by the upper middle classes
This commentator makes a good point. The public generally give governments the benefit of the doubt on Covid. While the public recognise governments may have made the wrong calls at times, they also accept they were dealing with challenging and unclear situations. In any case the public doesn't agree on what the right calls should have been.
Given that, it's intriguing what the government is trying to hide.
If I, as a middle aged senior manager within my company, met an underage schoolgirl, befriended her, employed her at my company on graduation, then began an affair with her while she was in my employ, using company expenses to pay for jollies and using company resources to advance her career, then covered it up and lied to HR when asked about it, I would be looking at a sacking and I wouldn't rate my chances of future employment very highly.
Everything about this, from the age and power gap to the misuse of company resources and lying about it when confronted screams wrong, even if you want to hang onto the threadbare excuse that it was an affair that took place between two consenting adults.
It's simply not acceptable in a modern workplace.
On a related note, who remembers this corker of an ad from We Buy any Car on how to create the perfect modern workplace?
Perhaps it's not the fairest thing in the world to write a piece of imaginative fiction like that, and just imply that Schofield did the equivalent.
If you want to make accusations against Schofield, probably better to state them explicitly and then cite chapter and verse to back them up. Though admittedly that would be a lot harder than what you did.
Talking of chapter and verse, funnily enough the BBC carried a clip of one of Schofield's former colleagues quoting John, chapter 8, verse 7. Not a popular verse on social media, for obvious reasons.
Um, what accusations am I making personally, please? Imaginative fiction? I'm using publicly available stories published in the last week or so:
All this just makes you look prurient and curtain-twitchy, to be honest
Schofield did bad thing, is sacked, career likely over, end of
I'm just responding to the very serious accusation by @chris that I'm making things up - fairly important so as to not get OGH into trouble. Everything in my original post is now referenced using stories published in the national press.
I know you don't work in an office, so I'll simply say that I've seen this kind of thing happen all too often in workplace environments and it needs rooting out, hence why it sticks in my craw.
If someone wants to meet a 15 year old and five years later it turns into a relationship then well, it's probably a bit icky but not really scandalous. But when you use your connections to employ that person, become their boss, and use company resources to advance their career... that's when it makes me mad.
There is all sorts of justifications used for the vilification of Philip Schofield and some people will no doubt claim that homophobia is not theirs, but @leon is right about the prurience. I can't help thinking that if it had been Jeremy Clarkson or Boris Johnson shagging a 20 year old woman it would be seen very differently. In fact I am sure of it
Carrie is 23 years Boris's junior and worked for him before they started a relationship (while he was married to someone else). However, she was 30 at the time.
Indeed, no doubt the Schofield haters who hide their homophobia behind the defence of "abuse of power in the workplace" will overlook that one.
Someone having sex with a work colleague who is comfortably over the age of consent should not be a career destroying moment. As @Stuartinromford quoted "he who is without sin..."
If ITV and the BBC, let alone parliament, sacked everyone who had a fling with a more junior colleague there wouldn't be many left.
Ahead in the polls for next month's Spanish general election, Spain's conservative Opposition leader promises to repeal the Socialist government's law allowing anyone over the age of 16 to freely change their official gender and under 16s to do so with court approval
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(I really enjoyed Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark if that is any guide to my general taste in history.)
There is a museum called Carter House where you can see the purple blood stains from all the emergency amputations
Extraordinary
A state-educated Welsh speaker will be the acting BBC chairman after Richard Sharp’s resignation.
Professor Dame Elan Closs Stephens was appointed to lead the BBC’s board on Friday by Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, for twelve months or until a new permanent chairman has been found.
The Oxford alumnus vowed to “champion the licence fee payer across all of the UK”.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/02/dame-elan-cross-stephens-acting-bbc-chair-richard-sharp/
I am still disappointed that Manu Tuilagi didn't tackle one of those dickheads last weekend! They would be still stitching them back together.
On the same basis, you should NEVER go to a play about actors or a film about film-makers. They are almost always both warmly reviewed and total horse-sh1t.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minié_ball
They should really declare now, but it would be awfully rude to leave Root on 197*
Met lover at school while underage -
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/phillip-schofield-says-met-ex-30136582
Alleged to have helped said person get a job working for him when he turned 18 -
https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/phillip-schofield-lover-met-school-this-morning-holly-willoughby
Used company resources to pay for his lover's showreel (thus helping advance his career) -
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12144679/EXCLUSIVE-Revealed-ITV-paid-Phillip-Schofields-lovers-astonishing-showreel.html
Took taxis on expenses paid for by the company -
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/phillip-schofields-lover-driven-home-30107843
Denied affair when confronted by bosses -
https://news.sky.com/story/itv-investigated-rumours-of-relationship-between-phillip-schofield-and-younger-employee-but-pair-repeatedly-denied-affair-12890561
Chapter and verse. OK?
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Cry-Freedom-Civil-War/dp/B08KYNVJ6C/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PZ019LF4WBZX&keywords=battle+cry+of+freedom&qid=1685717032&sprefix=battle+cry,aps,168&sr=8-1
That is a lifetime ago and before covid and the war in Ukraine wrecked the economy
Bairstow still can't buy a run in this test.
I am state educated, and my surname is Welsh.
More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand
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That will be interesting as I'm sure the fans will sit quietly and wait for security to deal with it.
Schofield did bad thing, is sacked, career likely over, end of
I confess to being fascinated by old Southern culture and Southern ideology, which is very politically incorrect of me. Of course I don’t support it, but I would be lying if I said there was no romance in its broader, feudal notions.
Whereas I am simply appalled and disgusted by Nazism to the point where I won’t watch TV or reach books about it.
An interesting dilemma for bien pensant, centrist dad liberal Remoaners living on the Upper West Side.
If you like Fellini.
Which I do.
At least, the early stuff before he went OTT.
I think you understand what I wrote perfectly well, and I'm not going to insult anyone's intelligence by labouring the point further.
Sadly I suspect it will end with a few of these being killed and it taking a huge toll on the drivers.
But I don't beat myself up as a racist Nazi as a result
I am equally fascinated by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot - and by war and conflict in general
I like dramatic history especially if it is laced with extreme, grandiose or peculiar politics. Humans like theatre. We read books about murder, not dishwashing. It is normal
I guess I could read "the history of Paddy Ashdown's Lib Dem campaigns" but somehow it is not quite as alluring
I know you don't work in an office, so I'll simply say that I've seen this kind of thing happen all too often in workplace environments and it needs rooting out, hence why it sticks in my craw.
If someone wants to meet a 15 year old and five years later it turns into a relationship then well, it's probably a bit icky but not really scandalous. But when you use your connections to employ that person, become their boss, and use company resources to advance their career... that's when it makes me mad.
I don’t go into it for the same reason I won’t read news articles about murdered/abused children.
I saw something similar at close of play at Edgbaston one year, some blokes were harassing some women outside of the ground.
Saw the Pink Panther, Sylvester the Cat, Tweetie Pie, and Foghorn Leghorn get into a dustup.
https://www.mountvernon.org/
I read one brilliantly bleak book about Fred and Rosey West and it made me so sad I decided, never again
Somehow the Nazis are easier to read about than that. Also, they are more important. You need to read about Nazism to understand how it arose and how it can be opposed. Ditto Pol Pot, arguably even more so, as everyone has forgotten about him
The other day it happened to me again: an educated young woman admitted she had never heard of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge, none of it. Scandalous
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-we-forgot-about-pol-pot/
I wonder if the same would have happened to somebody less well connected?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/britain-behaving-badly
Declaration.
I’m not sure any protestors this year are going to be able to get past the crowd and the marshals. And said crowd and marshals won’t be letting the police take them away to be quietly bailed again either.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jun/02/was-i-alone-in-finding-succession-overrated
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/01/digested-week-what-next-for-succession-fundamentally-dislikable-characters
Plenty to see and do in Our Nation's Capital, my favs are US Capitol, Smithsonian (pick your museum) and National Archives. Also Madam's Organ 'hood (aka Adams Morgan) and Embassy Row.
Outside DC but not far, in addition to already mentioned:
> Annapolis, Maryland - lots of boats, plus US Naval Academy
> Hot Springs, VA - George Washington took a dip or two here.
> Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, WV
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greenbrier
This is sensible.
“Last month, (CIA) director Burns travelled to Beijing where he met with Chinese counterparts and emphasised the importance of maintaining open lines of communications in intelligence channels,” said the US official.
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1664639644581998599
Reinhard Heidrich was a protégée - some suspect Heidrich was an infiltrator into the Nazi party, run by Canaris, initially. They remained good friends, despite becoming rivals in the Nazi secret police establishment, until Heidrich was assassinated.
But it is an area that is extremely sensitive to rate rises. If you're sitting on 500 cars worth £15,000 each, you have £75m of inventory. If you're paying 3%, then that's a little more than £2m/year in interest payments. If interest rates jump 5 or 6%, then you can suddenly be on the hook for £7m/year.
Now, if you combine falling values of used cars and a rising cost of carry, then suddenly things can get real expensive real fast for used car vendors. And this is especially true if you've been growing too quickly, because that is what your shareholders and VCs wanted. Suddenly, you have a bunch of vehicles worth less than they were and your interest payments have trebled. And to move them, you need to spend money on sales and marketing, but you suddenly have no money.
> Chesapeake and Potomac Canal, early transportation project begun by George Washington, a bust as a commercial proposition, but a great scenic, historic attraction two centuries later.
> Shenandoah Valley, aka The Valley of Virginia, long valley between Blue Ridge and Alleghany / Appalachian mountains. Natural artery of exploration and settlement; Daniel Boone took the Valley southwestwards first to North Carolina, then across Cumberland Gap to Kentucky). Also key cockpit of Civil War, where Stonewall Jackson ran rings around the Yankees and whupped their asses in style of young Napoleon Bonaparte. Highly scenic, with interesting side jaunts to Natural Bridge and Luray Caverns.
> New River Gorge, in southern West Virginia, carved by the oldest river in North America; it was new to the first White settlers, and the first river they encountered flowing northwest into the Ohio, instead of east or south into (eventually) the Atlantic. DEEP gorge with HIGH bridge and WILD white water rafting.
His unmarked grave can be walked over in the Invalidenfriedhof cemetery in Berlin. Quite a lot of history there, it abuts a section of the wall and a few Junkers military graves from both wars. Udet is buried there, and poor, old Werner Mölders is buried next to him after dying in a plane crash on his way back to the former’s funeral.
48% of all voters and 60% of Conservative voters even want to abolish IHT completely
https://www.kingsleynapley.co.uk/our-news/press-releases/yougov-poll-shows-majority-support-raising-iht-threshold-above-325k-despite-eyewatering-public-finance-decisions-ahead
Given that, it's intriguing what the government is trying to hide.
https://twitter.com/Beyond_Topline/status/1664612971794911232
Someone having sex with a work colleague who is comfortably over the age of consent should not be a career destroying moment. As @Stuartinromford quoted "he who is without sin..."
If ITV and the BBC, let alone parliament, sacked everyone who had a fling with a more junior colleague there wouldn't be many left.
Still 20 overs to bowl this evening, the two-day Test is still on.
He also vowed to repeal the “democratic memory” law, which made the state responsible to exhume the 100,000 bodies that remain in unmarked graves as a result of repression during Spain’s civil war and the Franco dictatorship.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/06/02/alberto-nez-feijo-spain-prime-minister-english-election/