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‘Can you guarantee to the bereaved families that you will disclose emails, WhatsApps, private emails if you’ve been using them. Whatever. That nothing will be off limits in this inquiry?’My question to @NicolaSturgeon August 2021 pic.twitter.com/OJDCBTESCe
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She really has trashed her reputation
I am so glad I didn't go into politics. I would be so buggered if my WhatsApps were made public.
Deepest of deep joys.
Maybe you don't care but I'd 100% use a burner phone if I was forced to install it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_myjOr0OU
Leads with purpose in her eyes,
Politics' new rise.
I can actually understand the outlook on the parties (not excusing them), they were what staffers did every Friday from the beginning of time, they all had had COVID and worked side by side, so in terms of risk, there wasn't really any. Now obviously you can't make the rules, and then ignore them. But I can see the Boris, well chaps and chapesses if the odd bottle top was to become loose when I wasn't here, well nobody will know will they. That definitely very much Boris.
But the well I was hospitalised with this thing, well I don't understand we just need the oldies to crack on and get this, as they were only to die anyway....that's a totally different sort of mental gymnastics.
Link ?
A quick search turned up this (FWIW), which might well be confused, but seems not greatly contradictory.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-67261338
..Humza Yousaf has denied deleting Whatsapp messages relating to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Scottish government has been accused of failing to hand over data to the UK Covid Inquiry.
Senior government figures during the pandemic, including former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been accused of wiping messages or using an auto-delete function.
Mr Yousaf said it was "certainly not true" that he had removed messages.
He said his government would "fully" comply with both the UK and Scottish Covid inquiries.
"I have kept and retained all of the WhatsApp messages and I am more than happy to hand them over to the Covid inquiry," the first minister told BBC Scotland News.
"Government business isn't routinely done over WhatsApp and of course where any decisions were made they were appropriately recorded within our message management system.
"If the Covid inquiry wants more information, needs more information, then I expect every minister, past and present, every government official or clinical adviser to comply."..
Start by moving to Signal
For government, there are a number of messaging systems that can be self hosted - so the government would actually control it.
Here's the summary version.
https://twitter.com/DaveLukewarm/status/1718930720918282612
I bet there were loads of loud mouths who spouted off about LIV golf, but will all of a sudden have a modified opinion of well we must engage with these countries in order to enact change.
I think after that, the idea that morality is involved in high end football went out..... the window.
What I don't like is that they read all your contacts so that they can 'match them with existing users for convenience'.
In other words - your phone number ends up with Meta just through knowing someone who uses WhatsApp.
And you can't request that they delete your shadow profile because you don't have a contract with them.
Never trust Zuckerberg is my motto.
Yes, I do I run a private XMPP server...
Something that not no publicity was the al-jazeera documentary into buying football clubs. It was actually some proper long form, long term undercover investigative journalism.
The Men Who Sell Football
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgTCXpDEgk
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-definition-of-an-xl-bully-dog/official-definition-of-an-xl-bully-dog
Harry Maguire might have to worry he doesn't get neutered.
US House Republicans plan to give Israel $14.3bn by cutting IRS funds
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/30/us-house-republicans-israel-irs-funding-cut
One might also consider the stupidity of a party committed to 'balancing the budget' presenting a measure which will cost the government money as something to set against funding for Israel.
But by now, stupidity is a given.
*He has already paid up.
The above is the smartest thing they have done this year.
Hearing bad grammar results in physical signs of stress, new study reveals
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-10-bad-grammar-results-physical-stress.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/peter-soulsby-leicester-city-council-birmingham-city-council-michael-gove-government-b2438908.html
The clouds of autumn gather
Europe: in darkness
I have long said that I think Partygate is overblown. I don't believe personally that Johnson did anything more than the pathetic quizes etc that were shown in the report. That staffers behave badly in his absence is more a civil service issue (and I accept that the culture should come from the top). Others will not agree with this.
But I do wonder at the Covid Bereaved for Justice People. Apparently todays stunt is a number at Barnard Castle and a Can you see this? sign for Cummings. I get that they lost people and that is awful. But there seems to be a bizarre delusion that every single covid death was preventable, if only government had not made mistakes. And yet there seems no ability to look beyond at the wider world and other nations response to covid.
The problem with this, and the other stuff like having a buffet in the garden, was a) you can't make the rules, then ignore them like that and b) the cover-up, that is what always gets you.
The Covid Bereaved for Justice People are basically a Moamentum front group, run by Corbynistas.
Only for family so I am able to set up the client as well. 92 old father in law uses it a lot.
Fighting a losing battle elsewhere though when it comes to both Facebook and WhatsApp.
A shame such a sh*t company had to gain an effective monopoly on messaging. Even Google (yes, I know) would have been better.
@BritainElects
47m
Westminster voting intention:
LAB: 45% (+1)
CON: 25% (-1)
LDEM: 13% (-)
REF: 7% (-1)
GRN: 6% (+2)
via @RedfieldWilton, 29 Oct"
https://twitter.com/BritainElects
It's also very clear that Johnson was never PM. Cummings thought he was PM.
So when is yours arriving...
The point about the Cabinet Room being less useful for decision making than in 1914 is exactly right.
A sad git* posts doom:
PB unperturbed.
*Sorry about git, but only had one syllable.
https://www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/newsroom/press/extending-trump-tax-cuts-would-add-35-trillion-to-the-deficit-according-to-cbo
And they now, still, threaten to shut down government in order to 'balance the budget'.
Bunch of liars, grifters and wreckers.
But....I doesn't do half the stuff I need, so it is really a fancy window onto my desktop machine and servers.
Just don't ask what I use my phone and iPad for though.
That said I still get nervous when my girlfriend asks to borrow my MacBook.
One of the core reasons for voting GOP is that voters want lower taxes, if they want higher taxes and higher spending they will vote Democrat
2. Incognito tab
3. Don't accept cookies
4. Don't supply your email address of credit card number
I'm very happy with my MacBook Air with the M2 chip that I got last year.
For example, missing texts & etc. by & from Seattle's (then) mayor, (ditto) police chief, etc. covering the period during civil unrest following murder of George Floyd.
Personally have not run into ANYONE in the Emerald City who believes this was due to innocent mistake and/or incompetence. Instead, we think that the texts & etc. were MADE to disappear.
You can guess who we think was responsible for THAT.
What a parcel of rogues for a city!
The biggest practicical issues with any such policies, are of course the heads of department and the senior managers who expect to be treated differently to the rank and file. It’s the same in any organisation.
I am now under an embargo of one out then one in.
Only a handful of years ago, that spec would be a £30-50k workstation. Now it’s in a laptop!
The simplest Mac Air (£999) would do that for her, easily.
I got an earlier model for my wife. Once, when we were on holiday, she went out shopping for the afternoon. I decided to do some code research on the terrace - borrowed her Air and later realised that I was running an Oracle DB in a VM, while running the app I was playing with. And watching a video in background....
I can edit it very well on a MacBook Air with 24 GB of RAM.
This from a House Speaker who has been intimately involved in the investigation of a private individual... for tax fraud. And proposes, as Speaker, to continue wasting the time of the House of Representatives continuing that investigation.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/30/keith-vaz-and-claudia-webbe-could-stand-as-independents-in-leicester-east
"(Sir Peter) Soulsby, who is serving his fourth term as Labour mayor and is a former MP for Leicester South, said his former political rival Vaz and the current MP Webbe were known to be plotting to stand again as independent MPs.
“We could well have two disgraced former Labour party candidates standing in the seat. People are saying that this is a real possibility and it might split the vote and let the Tories in. We as a party need to have a good and credible candidate in place as soon as possible,” he said.
“Keith has been a cancer in the political body of Leicester for decades and like many others in the Labour party in the city I am relieved that the party has realised and has had the courage to cut him out."
I have to say I remember, years ago, being at a loss to understand how Vaz was made chair of the Home Affairs select committee. He was just so ghastly. Wasn't at all surprised when he had to resign.
Photogrammetry is memory hungry...
Make her user a standard user not an admin, and don’t give her your password. You can both even log in at the same time, and switch between you from the screen saver screen.
Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley “are on ground that you could only describe as shaky compared to the solid ground that Donald Trump stands on,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer.
DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) — Despite his legal troubles, former President Donald Trump maintains a commanding 27-point lead in Iowa over his nearest rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a new poll published Monday by the Des Moines Register. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley moved up to tie for second with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Forty-three percent of Iowa Republicans likely to attend their party caucuses Jan. 15, 2024, declared Trump their top pick, which is up a tick from his support among 42% of likely GOP caucusgoers in the Register’s August poll.
Haley and DeSantis were tied at 16% in Monday’s poll, with the remainder of the field of major Republican candidates trailing in single digits.
“That’s a drop of 3 percentage points for DeSantis, who was the first choice of 19% of caucusgoers in August,” the Register reported. “And it’s a 10-point jump for Haley, who was at 6%.” Haley doubled her support among independent voters, the Register reported. . . .
The poll, done in association with NBC News and Mediacom, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
Iowa Republicans will gather in precinct caucuses Jan. 15, 2024, to begin the delegate selection process, which is the first measure of voters’ sentiment heading into the November 2024 election. Monday’s Iowa poll results for the second spot suggest Iowa voters may have begun sorting out their preferences after seeing nearly a dozen GOP hopefuls traversing the state in recent months. . . .
Although U.S. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has devoted time and resources to campaigning in Iowa, the poll showed him with just 7% of potential caucusgoers' support, down 2 percentage points from the August poll. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were tied at 4%.
Former Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday he was dropping out of the race.
Trump holds a larger lead nationally, with the support of 56.9% of Republicans as of Oct. 28, according to an average of polls by the website FiveThirtyEight. DeSantis was in second place with 14.1%, followed by Haley at 8%, based on the national polling average.
The Register poll, conducted Oct. 22-26, is based on telephone interviews with 404 registered voters in Iowa who say they will definitely or probably attend the 2024 Republican caucuses.
https://www.courthousenews.com/poll-trump-keeps-big-lead-in-iowa-but-haley-moves-up-to-tie-with-desantis/
I am the smuggest person in the room.
But in a true haiku you always needs a reference to the passing seasons. Tut
Beautiful silvery Tay,
With your landscapes, so lovely and gay,
Along each side of your waters, to Perth all the way;
No other river in the world has got scenery more fine,
Only I am told the beautiful Rhine,
Near to Wormit Bay, it seems very fine,
Where the Railway Bridge is towering above its waters sublime,
And the beautiful ship Mars,
With her Juvenile Tars,
Both lively and gay,
Does carelessly lie
By night and by day,
In the beautiful Bay
Of the silvery Tay.