The Duchess of Sussex would “never” make a photograph editing mistake like the Princess of Wales, sources close to Meghan have claimed.
They also alleged that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have been “annihilated” by the press if they had released a doctored family portrait.
“This isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make,” a source told the New York Post’s Page Six column. “She has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”
It came after the Princess apologised for editing a photograph of herself and her children that had been released to mark Mother’s Day.
The image was taken by the Prince of Wales during a 40-minute window last Friday, at the family’s home in Windsor.
The Duchess of Sussex would “never” make a photograph editing mistake like the Princess of Wales, sources close to Meghan have claimed.
They also alleged that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have been “annihilated” by the press if they had released a doctored family portrait.
“This isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make,” a source told the New York Post’s Page Six column. “She has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”
It came after the Princess apologised for editing a photograph of herself and her children that had been released to mark Mother’s Day.
The image was taken by the Prince of Wales during a 40-minute window last Friday, at the family’s home in Windsor.
Editing a photo is amateur hour compared to making up a high speed car chase through New York though.
Quite. Though I am heartened by this bitchy briefing - I don't think even the Sussex's would be letting their opinions on this be known if Kate's prognosis was that grim.
First rule of scandal management: Assume that there's a second salvo, at least as bad as the first.
New w/ @rowenamason + @matthew_weaver - Frank Hester asked if there was “no room for the Indians” and suggested staff climb on a train roof during a crowded meeting, before saying he made “a lot of jokes about racism”.
First rule of scandal management: Assume that there's a second salvo, at least as bad as the first.
New w/ @rowenamason + @matthew_weaver - Frank Hester asked if there was “no room for the Indians” and suggested staff climb on a train roof during a crowded meeting, before saying he made “a lot of jokes about racism”.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
Call that a beer. This a beer.
Well clearly it wasn't. I seem to have forgotten how to post a picture, but it was a pint of Broadside. A proper pint.
The lack of proper ale outside England is a genuine problem. Why don’t other countries do beer properly? That can of crap Leon is supping looks shit.
Yes I agree. I like Belgium beers and New England beers but they are still cold and fizzy which beer shouldn't be. Broadside in Southwold and Shere Drop anywhere around Dorking beat anything from anywhere. I'm sure others from around the UK will have their favourites. Nothing better than a proper UK real ale from a hand pump.
It’s total bollocks. American beer is brilliant
But then you drink lager so your opinion is suspect
Actually my preferred beer is a craft IPA
But in a really really hot climate I will definitely have a light lager
Don’t like stout. Can’t stand Guinness. No idea why
Stout goes well with fish, and shellfish in particular. The smokiness sets off the seafood nicely and is a classic combination with oysters.
Don't be a twat. You need a decent white wine with that stuff.
Yes on that we have a rare agreement
Oysters and Guinness? Ugh. That’s a recipe for vomiting
And I adore oysters
It really is a well known combination, with several oyster and stout festivals in Ireland.
Yes, I expect the general election to be in October rather than May
Depends how appalling the situation is by that point. If your party fears total obliteration then they have nothing left to lose by waiting until January.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!") and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
I know of Ilkeston. You’d think it might come up a bit since they reopened the railway (ten minutes to central Nottingham from there). But the M&S surprises me!
My dad used to work in Ilkeston in the 1970s. We lived in Risley at the time.
First rule of scandal management: Assume that there's a second salvo, at least as bad as the first.
New w/ @rowenamason + @matthew_weaver - Frank Hester asked if there was “no room for the Indians” and suggested staff climb on a train roof during a crowded meeting, before saying he made “a lot of jokes about racism”.
The Duchess of Sussex would “never” make a photograph editing mistake like the Princess of Wales, sources close to Meghan have claimed.
They also alleged that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have been “annihilated” by the press if they had released a doctored family portrait.
“This isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make,” a source told the New York Post’s Page Six column. “She has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”
It came after the Princess apologised for editing a photograph of herself and her children that had been released to mark Mother’s Day.
The image was taken by the Prince of Wales during a 40-minute window last Friday, at the family’s home in Windsor.
Editing a photo is amateur hour compared to making up a high speed car chase through New York though.
Quite. Though I am heartened by this bitchy briefing - I don't think even the Sussex's would be letting their opinions on this be known if Kate's prognosis was that grim.
I assume the "source" is the hack at the next desk along.
Angry response: "It was *not" the next desk along. I'll have you know they both work from home."
The Duchess of Sussex would “never” make a photograph editing mistake like the Princess of Wales, sources close to Meghan have claimed.
They also alleged that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have been “annihilated” by the press if they had released a doctored family portrait.
“This isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make,” a source told the New York Post’s Page Six column. “She has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”
It came after the Princess apologised for editing a photograph of herself and her children that had been released to mark Mother’s Day.
The image was taken by the Prince of Wales during a 40-minute window last Friday, at the family’s home in Windsor.
Editing a photo is amateur hour compared to making up a high speed car chase through New York though.
Quite. Though I am heartened by this bitchy briefing - I don't think even the Sussex's would be letting their opinions on this be known if Kate's prognosis was that grim.
Quite obviously Kate is in California drinking Prosecco and scoffing chocolates with Meghan, and tearfully saying "Sis, you were right about that family all along, I never should have doubted you!"
First rule of scandal management: Assume that there's a second salvo, at least as bad as the first.
New w/ @rowenamason + @matthew_weaver - Frank Hester asked if there was “no room for the Indians” and suggested staff climb on a train roof during a crowded meeting, before saying he made “a lot of jokes about racism”.
Not convinced it works for the donor (presumably wanted something from a govt rather than a pressure group) or Farage. So I doubt it but wouldn't be particularly surprising.
If there is another leadership challenge that will sink Tory fortunes further. Because they’ll all be slagging each other off on the telly for at least a week.
It’s probably fair to say though that their best chance of avoiding a landslide defeat is a quick leadership coup, new semi-presentable PM in very rapidly and an immediate election. An extended leadership election by contrast would bury them further.
Even if they do and there is a VONC he still has enough support to win it amongst Tory MPs and there will still be a general election in the autumn not May
The Duchess of Sussex would “never” make a photograph editing mistake like the Princess of Wales, sources close to Meghan have claimed.
They also alleged that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have been “annihilated” by the press if they had released a doctored family portrait.
“This isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make,” a source told the New York Post’s Page Six column. “She has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”
It came after the Princess apologised for editing a photograph of herself and her children that had been released to mark Mother’s Day.
The image was taken by the Prince of Wales during a 40-minute window last Friday, at the family’s home in Windsor.
Editing a photo is amateur hour compared to making up a high speed car chase through New York though.
Quite. Though I am heartened by this bitchy briefing - I don't think even the Sussex's would be letting their opinions on this be known if Kate's prognosis was that grim.
I assume the "source" is the hack at the next desk along.
Angry response: "It was *not" the next desk along. I'll have you know they both work from home."
Writing articles about how terribly “woke” working from home is.
Rishi Sunak on Frank Hester: "Where money remorse is offered shown it should be accepted. " First he didn't want to "characterise" the comments further, meaning he refused to say whether they were racist. Seriously, how difficult can that be? Realising his position was untenable, he eventually called them racist. Next job: give the c*** his money back. This is what the opposition parties are rightly demanding. The answer is? I guess he doesn't want to look weak, at least not in the eyes of the large proportion of potential Tory voters who think Hester's just a brave man telling the common sense truth.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!") and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items. But dead easy to run up a £40 bill seemingly by osmosis.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
Ooh, proper wrought iron too on checking, not mild steel. Think of the amount of hammering and rolling to make that lot. I've been to the Meldon Viaduct on Dartmoor but never knew about this one. Nice treat.
It's 400+m long. This year they are building a Visitor Centre, a ramp access at the other end, and bits and pieces.
The area has quite the tradition - remember the Butterley Company, which only closed in 2009. One of their last projects was the Falkirk Wheel.
They were only 10 miles away.
Also the former Stanton Works & Staveley Ironworks which were also close by.
I think from a heritage point of view it is all viewed locally as an extension the World Heritage site for Derwent Valley MIlls. That's big in Derbyshire, and for example a walking / cycling route is being developed along the length of the Derwent.
I have a great fondness for the old Butterley works.
A story: when I was younger, my dad sent me to get a load of wet (unfired) bricks from Butterley brickworks. I couldn't find the blooming place!
(Unfired bricks are a really useful thing for certain arcane purposes.)
Looking at the wiki list, there are a lot of iron bridges and viaducts, and a couple of aquaducts.
I love that there is one called the Crumblin' Viaduct (Ok: Crumlin).
Not very many in Scotland afaics. Have they all been made into Irn Bru?
edit: it was right in the centre of Derby, near where the bus station now is. The course of the Derby Canal arm down to Swarkestone can all be walked; the other arm east can be walked in part.
Rishi Sunak on Frank Hester: "Where money remorse is offered shown it should be accepted. " First he didn't want to "characterise" the comments further, meaning he refused to say whether they were racist. Seriously, how difficult can that be? Realising his position was untenable, he eventually called them racist. Next job: give the c*** his money back. This is what the opposition parties are rightly demanding. The answer is?
Question is whether there’s a third quote about to drop. I don’t think so.
The latest allegations aren’t as bad as the original one, so I’m not sure they will have that much effect. They’re ill advised jokes of the sort one’s racist uncle might make at Christmas lunch. The Diane Abbott comments by contrast were rather nastier.
Interesting journalistic tactics: do you release the less toxic quotes first so that you have the coup de grace in reserve later but at the risk of the story not taking off, or do you go for the most egregious example first and then aim to keep the story going with a drip drip of slightly milder revelations?
Just for laughs the Tories should have one last leadership election before calling a general election. Won't the public love it?
Careful - they might. All things considered, including the powers of the 1922 committee leadership to alter the rules if they have such powers, how fast can a ballot of the membership be conducted? I was assuming the new leader, i.e. Mordaunt, would be chosen by MPs just as Sunak was.
The Haitian solution 😀 : lock the leader out and ... it's goodbye from him. Does make you wonder what Boris Johnson may have discussed and with whom when he was on the other part of Hispaniola recently before flying to Venezuela.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!") and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items. But dead easy to run up a £40 bill seemingly by osmosis.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
Ooh, proper wrought iron too on checking, not mild steel. Think of the amount of hammering and rolling to make that lot. I've been to the Meldon Viaduct on Dartmoor but never knew about this one. Nice treat.
It's 400+m long. This year they are building a Visitor Centre, a ramp access at the other end, and bits and pieces.
The area has quite the tradition - remember the Butterley Company, which only closed in 2009. One of their last projects was the Falkirk Wheel.
And St Pancras, to name just another off the top of my head.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
I stopped being so rah rah Buy British in 1995 when I visited Seattle and tried the microbrewery products around Pioneer Square. I wonder what it's like now?
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
A denial of random male to female violence, and a denial of white privilege makes my heart bleed for all these PB snowflakes. In my sixty two years no random stranger has ever told me to "f*** off home whitey".
Yeah, those pathetic white snowflakes in Newcastle, who got systematically raped while the BBC broadcast a sob story documentary about their Syrian rapist.
What disgusting views you have.
You've made that connection, not me, which is some leap from my comment, and then you gaslight me.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!" Known ) and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
I know of Ilkeston. You’d think it might come up a bit since they reopened the railway (ten minutes to central Nottingham from there). But the M&S surprises me!
My dad used to work in Ilkeston in the 1970s. We lived in Risley at the time.
Is it still known as "Grisley", or is that just the prison?
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!") and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items. But dead easy to run up a £40 bill seemingly by osmosis.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
Ooh, proper wrought iron too on checking, not mild steel. Think of the amount of hammering and rolling to make that lot. I've been to the Meldon Viaduct on Dartmoor but never knew about this one. Nice treat.
It's 400+m long. This year they are building a Visitor Centre, a ramp access at the other end, and bits and pieces.
The area has quite the tradition - remember the Butterley Company, which only closed in 2009. One of their last projects was the Falkirk Wheel.
They were only 10 miles away.
Also the former Stanton Works & Staveley Ironworks which were also close by.
I think from a heritage point of view it is all viewed locally as an extension the World Heritage site for Derwent Valley MIlls. That's big in Derbyshire, and for example a walking / cycling route is being developed along the length of the Derwent.
I have a great fondness for the old Butterley works.
A story: when I was younger, my dad sent me to get a load of wet (unfired) bricks from Butterley brickworks. I couldn't find the blooming place!
(Unfired bricks are a really useful thing for certain arcane purposes.)
Looking at the wiki list, there are a lot of iron bridges and viaducts, and a couple of aquaducts.
I love that there is one called the Crumblin' Viaduct (Ok: Crumlin).
Not very many in Scotland afaics. Have they all been made into Irn Bru?
edit: it was right in the centre of Derby, near where the bus station now is. The course of the Derby Canal arm down to Swarkestone can all be walked; the other arm east can be walked in part.
Derby City were also notorious for demolishing listed manor houses in their care.
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
I mean wtf? Why isn't this the story?
Do you mean 'why isn't this headline news?'. Which is a related but somewhat different question.
following a debate on here the other day, here's an interesting video from 'What's up with shipping' about the US/British Gaza Pier scheme. Interesting if you're into that sort of thing.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!") and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items. But dead easy to run up a £40 bill seemingly by osmosis.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
Ooh, proper wrought iron too on checking, not mild steel. Think of the amount of hammering and rolling to make that lot. I've been to the Meldon Viaduct on Dartmoor but never knew about this one. Nice treat.
It's 400+m long. This year they are building a Visitor Centre, a ramp access at the other end, and bits and pieces.
The area has quite the tradition - remember the Butterley Company, which only closed in 2009. One of their last projects was the Falkirk Wheel.
They were only 10 miles away.
Also the former Stanton Works & Staveley Ironworks which were also close by.
I think from a heritage point of view it is all viewed locally as an extension the World Heritage site for Derwent Valley MIlls. That's big in Derbyshire, and for example a walking / cycling route is being developed along the length of the Derwent.
I have a great fondness for the old Butterley works.
A story: when I was younger, my dad sent me to get a load of wet (unfired) bricks from Butterley brickworks. I couldn't find the blooming place!
(Unfired bricks are a really useful thing for certain arcane purposes.)
Looking at the wiki list, there are a lot of iron bridges and viaducts, and a couple of aquaducts.
I love that there is one called the Crumblin' Viaduct (Ok: Crumlin).
Not very many in Scotland afaics. Have they all been made into Irn Bru?
edit: it was right in the centre of Derby, near where the bus station now is. The course of the Derby Canal arm down to Swarkestone can all be walked; the other arm east can be walked in part.
BTW Badenoch's comments asking for forgiveness? What? Seriously? The Guy has been profoundly racist, misogynist, incited violence against women in politics....
I wonder if that 10 mill he's given pays for a spot of forgiveness.
Politics UK @PolitlcsUK · 39m 🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak has met with 1922 chairman Sir Graham Brady amid a "flurry" of no confidence letters being submitted
He's asked Mr. Whippy to deal with it.
This is the new, modern Conservative Party in action. In the sleazy days of old it was just "Mrs Whiplash" we spread across the tabloids - now we are more inclusive of the gay bdsm community.
And have shunned Mrs Whiplash as she is a harlot. And the trans bdsm people can obviously jump off a cliff.
Ohno!
Shun them both! Or ... maybe we accept them both? Do they sell 2nd-rate PPE at a premium? That's really our fetish...
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
I mean wtf? Why isn't this the story?
Do you mean 'why isn't this headline news?'. Which is a related but somewhat different question.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
"My God, it's warm!"
Surely:
"My God, it's full of jars,"
[sigh] Dad's Army reference...
2001 reference (and 2010)
"My God, it's warm!" relates to the US Army colonel in the Dad's Army episode "My British Buddy" who is introduced to the delights of UK beer by Capt. Mainwaring.
following a debate on here the other day, here's an interesting video from 'What's up with shipping' about the US/British Gaza Pier scheme. Interesting if you're into that sort of thing.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!") and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items. But dead easy to run up a £40 bill seemingly by osmosis.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
Ooh, proper wrought iron too on checking, not mild steel. Think of the amount of hammering and rolling to make that lot. I've been to the Meldon Viaduct on Dartmoor but never knew about this one. Nice treat.
It's 400+m long. This year they are building a Visitor Centre, a ramp access at the other end, and bits and pieces.
The area has quite the tradition - remember the Butterley Company, which only closed in 2009. One of their last projects was the Falkirk Wheel.
They were only 10 miles away.
Also the former Stanton Works & Staveley Ironworks which were also close by.
I think from a heritage point of view it is all viewed locally as an extension the World Heritage site for Derwent Valley MIlls. That's big in Derbyshire, and for example a walking / cycling route is being developed along the length of the Derwent.
I have a great fondness for the old Butterley works.
A story: when I was younger, my dad sent me to get a load of wet (unfired) bricks from Butterley brickworks. I couldn't find the blooming place!
(Unfired bricks are a really useful thing for certain arcane purposes.)
Looking at the wiki list, there are a lot of iron bridges and viaducts, and a couple of aquaducts.
I love that there is one called the Crumblin' Viaduct (Ok: Crumlin).
Not very many in Scotland afaics. Have they all been made into Irn Bru?
edit: it was right in the centre of Derby, near where the bus station now is. The course of the Derby Canal arm down to Swarkestone can all be walked; the other arm east can be walked in part.
Since we are talking Derbyshire heritage, the work on restoring the link between the Cromford Canal and the Erewash Canal -> River Trent has started. Video here:
The Duchess of Sussex would “never” make a photograph editing mistake like the Princess of Wales, sources close to Meghan have claimed.
They also alleged that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would have been “annihilated” by the press if they had released a doctored family portrait.
“This isn’t a mistake Meghan would ever make,” a source told the New York Post’s Page Six column. “She has a keen eye and freakish attention to detail.”
It came after the Princess apologised for editing a photograph of herself and her children that had been released to mark Mother’s Day.
The image was taken by the Prince of Wales during a 40-minute window last Friday, at the family’s home in Windsor.
Editing a photo is amateur hour compared to making up a high speed car chase through New York though.
Quite. Though I am heartened by this bitchy briefing - I don't think even the Sussex's would be letting their opinions on this be known if Kate's prognosis was that grim.
I assume the "source" is the hack at the next desk along.
Angry response: "It was *not" the next desk along. I'll have you know they both work from home."
As well all know (courtesy of The Gazette and Telegraph) - if they'd been working from home they'd never have bothered submitting the story and yet somehow still been paid.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Have you tried Samuel Adams?
I think it’s hard to judge national standards of beer in deregulated markets because they’re all pretty similarly diverse. Unlike wine or malt whisky beer is not really a product of its terroir. So as long as you can source good malt and hops from somewhere, and have decent water, you can make similarly good beer anywhere.
The only things that really shift things nationally are regulation (stifling or encouraging experimentation and diversity, on which most Western countries are now pretty deregulated), and local tastes and tradition, where we’ve all converged somewhat in recent years. Craft beer in France tastes pretty similar to craft beer in the UK or US or Japan. But Belgian beers remain very distinct, as to a lesser extent does British real ale.
That's going to do the exact opposite of the plan that was to use Rwanda as the reason why you wouldn't come to the UK..
Which takes us back to the best reason to call an election ASAP. (Have we done the "letting prisoners out because we have about twelve spare cells in the country" thing yet?)
The government have reached the "Fr Dougal is doing a funeral" stage in their management of the country, and it's not fair on them or us.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
Call that a beer. This a beer.
Well clearly it wasn't. I seem to have forgotten how to post a picture, but it was a pint of Broadside. A proper pint.
The lack of proper ale outside England is a genuine problem. Why don’t other countries do beer properly? That can of crap Leon is supping looks shit.
Yes I agree. I like Belgium beers and New England beers but they are still cold and fizzy which beer shouldn't be. Broadside in Southwold and Shere Drop anywhere around Dorking beat anything from anywhere. I'm sure others from around the UK will have their favourites. Nothing better than a proper UK real ale from a hand pump.
It’s total bollocks. American beer is brilliant
But then you drink lager so your opinion is suspect
Actually my preferred beer is a craft IPA
But in a really really hot climate I will definitely have a light lager
Don’t like stout. Can’t stand Guinness. No idea why
Stout goes well with fish, and shellfish in particular. The smokiness sets off the seafood nicely and is a classic combination with oysters.
Don't be a twat. You need a decent white wine with that stuff.
Yes on that we have a rare agreement
Oysters and Guinness? Ugh. That’s a recipe for vomiting
And I adore oysters
It really is a well known combination, with several oyster and stout festivals in Ireland.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!" Known ) and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
I know of Ilkeston. You’d think it might come up a bit since they reopened the railway (ten minutes to central Nottingham from there). But the M&S surprises me!
My dad used to work in Ilkeston in the 1970s. We lived in Risley at the time.
Is it still known as "Grisley", or is that just the prison?
That's going to do the exact opposite of the plan that was to use Rwanda as the reason why you wouldn't come to the UK..
Which takes us back to the best reason to call an election ASAP. (Have we done the "letting prisoners out because we have about twelve spare cells in the country" thing yet?)
The government have reached the "Fr Dougal is doing a funeral" stage in their management of the country, and it's not fair on them or us.
This week it’s more the “so I hear you’re a racist now, father” stage.
I'm told Sir Graham Brady and Rishi Sunak *did not* discuss resignation letters when they spoke on the fringes of the 1922 executive committee meeting yesterday
It was a routine meeting ahead of a reception on the Terrace that takes place once a term
I see Number 10 is going to do its usual routine of making as many ministers on the broadcast round defend the indefensible before it inevitably throws them under the bus.
Apparently Badenoch says there should be space for forgiveness re Hester .
I’m sure she’d be also saying this if a Labour donor was involved !
Let’s be political about this, the Story was a Guardian exclusive. The timing is so obvious, spike the Extremism Action about to be announced - Gove defying legal advice to use Parliamentary Privilege to name and shame and get Labour wriggling and squirming and in trouble - possibly as the rabbit out the hat before calling an election on divisive anti extremism campaign.
How long have the guardian - or Labour who slipped it to them - sat on this story in a safe? Not literally sitting in a safe on it, you know what I mean. It’s metaphor.
Timing with exclusives is always difficult. The longer you wait, the greater the chance someone else, quite legitimately, also gets hold of the story, prints it, and you lose 100% of the kudos. These things matter to media and journos infinitely more than they do to the public.
He made the remarks five years ago, interesting they come to light this week Gove goes into the commons and, against legal advice, paints a picture of the British Left and Union Movement as extremist, such as the union’s funding Labour also support and fund extremism, like solidarity with Palestine they have possibly given larger payments from union member subs to Hamas leadership, than even Netanyahu’s government siphoned off funds for the Hamas leadership. It’s at least possible timing of this news story is the British Left trying to soften the punches coming their way? 💁♀️
Now, if I were a Stasi Bully, I would make a list of every PBer who picks up what Gove will tell Parliament and runs with it - like the fascist on Dads Army started a little list. 😈 Gove will certainly blow up PB into life. It’s possibly the Tories key theme for an April General Election campaign, smoking out Starmer as either on the governments side against extremism, or the side of the extremists who fund his political party.
Culture war issues won't win the election, but Truss's private members bill on trans (biological males to be banned from ladies' loos (which I take to mean pre-reassignment surgery males, correct me if I'm wrong)) seems like a reasonable straw the Government should clutch. It's a very rare issue where Labour is on the wrong side of the public and the Tories are on the right side.
Just the usual creepy obsession with children and puberty.
My understanding is that the tightening up of the definition of sex to mean biological sex gives the necessary legal framework to restrict access to womens' spaces to biological males (and vice versa I guess).
Point 1: I assume you meant to say "restrict access to women's spaces FROM biological males" instead of "TO biological males", as the latter would mean that only biological males could use them.
Point 2: This is why I don't like the phrase "biological males". It is ambiguous, including people born male who still have their dick and people born male who have chopped it off.
Point 3: iiuc the bill in question would annihilate the concept of transsexuality and de jure reclassify all trans people as crossdressers, regardless of certificate or genitals or behaviour. The Gender Recognition Act allowed people to change the sex on their birth certificate and acquire the rights of that sex unless there was a proportionate reason to do so. It used (and may have introduced?) the concept of "legal sex" and provided a legal procedure (the gender recognition certificate) by which it could be changed. By ensuring that it is only "biological sex" and not "legal sex" that can be upheld in law, it would make the act a dead letter.
The UK is incapable of a deliberated stance on trans, veering from "I'm a girl if I say I am" to "THEYRE ALL MEN REALLY" like a demented metronome.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Have you tried Samuel Adams?
I think it’s hard to judge national standards of beer in deregulated markets because they’re all pretty similarly diverse. Unlike wine or malt whisky beer is not really a product of its terroir. So as long as you can source good malt and hops from somewhere, and have decent water, you can make similarly good beer anywhere.
The only things that really shift things nationally are regulation (stifling or encouraging experimentation and diversity, on which most Western countries are now pretty deregulated), and local tastes and tradition, where we’ve all converged somewhat in recent years. Craft beer in France tastes pretty similar to craft beer in the UK or US or Japan. But Belgian beers remain very distinct, as to a lesser extent does British real ale.
Whisky is pretty much the same as beer (because it's made by creating a basic beer, then distilling it and aging the resulting spirit) - regional differences are based on distilling traditions more than actual terroir. Smokiness from peat used in the malting process is common in Islay whiskies, but that's due to it being a plentiful fuel there traditionally. It can be used anywhere.
I see Number 10 is going to do its usual routine of making as many ministers on the broadcast round defend the indefensible before it inevitably throws them under the bus.
On the left, crisp fresh green mango. On the right crisp light beer
Is that a custard apple in the middle? If so, why is it orangey yellow, not green?
African Custard Apple is yellow.
Also known as a pitahaya. That’s what Sainsbury’s calls them.
Or Waitrose (dragon fruit there).
£3.60 each at our Waitrose, outrageous!
I mean, it's got to be cheaper to get someone to fly you to South America hasn't it?
On Sunday PM I was out for a couple of hours visiting Bennerley Viaduct ("The Iron Giant !!" Known ) and auditing anti-wheelchair barriers on part of the towpath of the Erewash Canal to see why it can't be reached by everyone who has a right to do so *, with a view to getting them removed.
I ran across a big Marks and Spencer food hall in ILKESTON of all places, where BREL used to have a big base !! Less up-itself than other self-styled high end places, and some quite good value items.
* Delightful route, high quality surface at least for the several miles I walked both ways, some mobility aids unlawfully excluded for at least 3 decades by the look of it by squeeze plate barriers with about 75-80cm width gaps.
I know of Ilkeston. You’d think it might come up a bit since they reopened the railway (ten minutes to central Nottingham from there). But the M&S surprises me!
My dad used to work in Ilkeston in the 1970s. We lived in Risley at the time.
Is it still known as "Grisley", or is that just the prison?
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Have you tried Samuel Adams?
I think it’s hard to judge national standards of beer in deregulated markets because they’re all pretty similarly diverse. Unlike wine or malt whisky beer is not really a product of its terroir. So as long as you can source good malt and hops from somewhere, and have decent water, you can make similarly good beer anywhere.
The only things that really shift things nationally are regulation (stifling or encouraging experimentation and diversity, on which most Western countries are now pretty deregulated), and local tastes and tradition, where we’ve all converged somewhat in recent years. Craft beer in France tastes pretty similar to craft beer in the UK or US or Japan. But Belgian beers remain very distinct, as to a lesser extent does British real ale.
Whisky is pretty much the same as beer (because it's made by creating a basic beer, then distilling it and aging the resulting spirit) - regional differences are based on distilling traditions more than actual terroir. Smokiness from peat used in the malting process is common in Islay whiskies, but that's due to it being a plentiful fuel there traditionally. It can be used anywhere.
I did think after posting that yes, you could import peat from Scotland if you wanted to, but it doesn’t generally happen, and you could likewise do so with grapes (and some do) to make wine. But we have appellation contrôlée to deal with that and PDOs likewise for whisky.
Point 2: This is why I don't like the phrase "biological males". It is ambiguous, including people born male who still have their dick and people born male who have chopped it off.
following a debate on here the other day, here's an interesting video from 'What's up with shipping' about the US/British Gaza Pier scheme. Interesting if you're into that sort of thing.
I'm told Sir Graham Brady and Rishi Sunak *did not* discuss resignation letters when they spoke on the fringes of the 1922 executive committee meeting yesterday
It was a routine meeting ahead of a reception on the Terrace that takes place once a term
BTW Badenoch's comments asking for forgiveness? What? Seriously? The Guy has been profoundly racist, misogynist, incited violence against women in politics....
I wonder if that 10 mill he's given pays for a spot of forgiveness.
Surely, like everything else Tory politicians do these days, this has nothing to do with right, wrong or common sense, and everything to do with jockeying for the succession.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
"My God, it's warm!"
Surely:
"My God, it's full of jars,"
[sigh] Dad's Army reference...
2001 reference (and 2010)
"My God, it's warm!" relates to the US Army colonel in the Dad's Army episode "My British Buddy" who is introduced to the delights of UK beer by Capt. Mainwaring.
AP (via Seattle Times) - Republican Rep. Ken Buck to leave Congress next week, narrowing GOP’s slim majority
Republican Rep. Ken Buck said Tuesday that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and potentially throwing an obstacle in the way of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s effort to succeed him.
Buck, a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party’s handling of former President Donald Trump, made his surprise announcement in the midst of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.
During an appearance on CNN, Buck lamented that he hadn’t been able to ask a question in the hearing yet even though he is the third-ranking Republican on the committee.
“A lot of this is personal. That’s the problem,” Buck said. “Instead of having decorum — instead of acting in a professional manner — this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense,” he said, adding that this was the worst of his nine years in Congress.
Buck’s March 22 departure will trigger a special election to serve the remainder of his term. Under Colorado law, that must happen within 85 to 100 days — or right around the June 25 Republican primary to run in the November race to serve a full term.
Several Republicans are already running to replace him in November, including Boebert, who moved across the state to run for Buck’s more Republican-friendly seat anchored in Colorado’s eastern plains. But political insiders were already noting Tuesday that Buck’s timing could block Boebert from taking over his seat.
It all depends on the timing of the special election, which must be held between June 15 and June 30. A committee of Colorado Republicans will pick the party’s nominee to serve the remainder of Buck’s current term, and it’s unclear if they would choose the controversial Boebert, who has no prior ties to the district. That Republican nominee would likely easily win the special election in the overwhelmingly conservative district.
If the special election happens before the primary or even the day of it, the likely Republican winner — now a member of Congress — will have an advantage in the primary, as GOP voters will have just backed them. This would make it harder for other primary contenders who hope to represent the party in November’s race. . . .
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
I mean wtf? Why isn't this the story?
Because we all know that we are a totally not corrupt country unlike those beasty places where Johnny Foreigner lives and this is absolutely above board.
I'm told Sir Graham Brady and Rishi Sunak *did not* discuss resignation letters when they spoke on the fringes of the 1922 executive committee meeting yesterday
It was a routine meeting ahead of a reception on the Terrace that takes place once a term
I am on a train. It left on time and there is nobody being a prick. I will go see if there is something else I can complain about.
Time for you to step up and take the role?
Unfortunately I shall continue to be polite to the overworked and underpaid rail staff and restrict my seething to internal screaming like an adult. That always works...
I'm told Sir Graham Brady and Rishi Sunak *did not* discuss resignation letters when they spoke on the fringes of the 1922 executive committee meeting yesterday
It was a routine meeting ahead of a reception on the Terrace that takes place once a term
Resignation letters? Does he mean VONC letters?
No. VONC letters may have been what they did discuss.
Apparently Badenoch says there should be space for forgiveness re Hester .
I’m sure she’d be also saying this if a Labour donor was involved !
Let’s be political about this, the Story was a Guardian exclusive. The timing is so obvious, spike the Extremism Action about to be announced - Gove defying legal advice to use Parliamentary Privilege to name and shame and get Labour wriggling and squirming and in trouble - possibly as the rabbit out the hat before calling an election on divisive anti extremism campaign.
How long have the guardian - or Labour who slipped it to them - sat on this story in a safe? Not literally sitting in a safe on it, you know what I mean. It’s metaphor.
Timing with exclusives is always difficult. The longer you wait, the greater the chance someone else, quite legitimately, also gets hold of the story, prints it, and you lose 100% of the kudos. These things matter to media and journos infinitely more than they do to the public.
He made the remarks five years ago, interesting they come to light this week Gove goes into the commons and, against legal advice, paints a picture of the British Left and Union Movement as extremist, such as the union’s funding Labour also support and fund extremism, like solidarity with Palestine they have possibly given larger payments from union member subs to Hamas leadership, than even Netanyahu’s government siphoned off funds for the Hamas leadership. It’s at least possible timing of this news story is the British Left trying to soften the punches coming their way? 💁♀️
Now, if I were a Stasi Bully, I would make a list of every PBer who picks up what Gove will tell Parliament and runs with it - like the fascist on Dads Army started a little list. 😈 Gove will certainly blow up PB into life. It’s possibly the Tories key theme for an April General Election campaign, smoking out Starmer as either on the governments side against extremism, or the side of the extremists who fund his political party.
Culture war issues won't win the election, but Truss's private members bill on trans (biological males to be banned from ladies' loos (which I take to mean pre-reassignment surgery males, correct me if I'm wrong)) seems like a reasonable straw the Government should clutch. It's a very rare issue where Labour is on the wrong side of the public and the Tories are on the right side.
Just the usual creepy obsession with children and puberty.
My understanding is that the tightening up of the definition of sex to mean biological sex gives the necessary legal framework to restrict access to womens' spaces to biological males (and vice versa I guess).
Point 1: I assume you meant to say "restrict access to women's spaces FROM biological males" instead of "TO biological males", as the latter would mean that only biological males could use them.
Point 2: This is why I don't like the phrase "biological males". It is ambiguous, including people born male who still have their dick and people born male who have chopped it off.
Point 3: iiuc the bill in question would annihilate the concept of transsexuality and de jure reclassify all trans people as crossdressers, regardless of certificate or genitals or behaviour. The Gender Recognition Act allowed people to change the sex on their birth certificate and acquire the rights of that sex unless there was a proportionate reason to do so. It used (and may have introduced?) the concept of "legal sex" and provided a legal procedure (the gender recognition certificate) by which it could be changed. By ensuring that it is only "biological sex" and not "legal sex" that can be upheld in law, it would make the act a dead letter.
The UK is incapable of a deliberated stance on trans, veering from "I'm a girl if I say I am" to "THEYRE ALL MEN REALLY" like a demented metronome.
Of course it's not "tightening up" the definition of sex; it's altering it to make it impossible for anything to change their sex. It's trying to enshrine transphobia in law.
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
I mean wtf? Why isn't this the story?
Because we all know that we are a totally not corrupt country unlike those beasty places where Johnny Foreigner lives and this is absolutely above board.
Effing incompetent Tories. Isn't the going rate for agents ~15%? This is under 8%
To be fair, the situation is a little more complicated. TPP's bread and butter is (or was) GP contracts, so it's more local choices rather than in government gift. But there has been aspiration to unify GP data more, which could either be a threat to TPP (interoperability making it easier to switch suppliers for example) or an opportunity, if they were to be the supplier of a single more unified system.
Apparently Badenoch says there should be space for forgiveness re Hester .
I’m sure she’d be also saying this if a Labour donor was involved !
Let’s be political about this, the Story was a Guardian exclusive. The timing is so obvious, spike the Extremism Action about to be announced - Gove defying legal advice to use Parliamentary Privilege to name and shame and get Labour wriggling and squirming and in trouble - possibly as the rabbit out the hat before calling an election on divisive anti extremism campaign.
How long have the guardian - or Labour who slipped it to them - sat on this story in a safe? Not literally sitting in a safe on it, you know what I mean. It’s metaphor.
Timing with exclusives is always difficult. The longer you wait, the greater the chance someone else, quite legitimately, also gets hold of the story, prints it, and you lose 100% of the kudos. These things matter to media and journos infinitely more than they do to the public.
He made the remarks five years ago, interesting they come to light this week Gove goes into the commons and, against legal advice, paints a picture of the British Left and Union Movement as extremist, such as the union’s funding Labour also support and fund extremism, like solidarity with Palestine they have possibly given larger payments from union member subs to Hamas leadership, than even Netanyahu’s government siphoned off funds for the Hamas leadership. It’s at least possible timing of this news story is the British Left trying to soften the punches coming their way? 💁♀️
Now, if I were a Stasi Bully, I would make a list of every PBer who picks up what Gove will tell Parliament and runs with it - like the fascist on Dads Army started a little list. 😈 Gove will certainly blow up PB into life. It’s possibly the Tories key theme for an April General Election campaign, smoking out Starmer as either on the governments side against extremism, or the side of the extremists who fund his political party.
Culture war issues won't win the election, but Truss's private members bill on trans (biological males to be banned from ladies' loos (which I take to mean pre-reassignment surgery males, correct me if I'm wrong)) seems like a reasonable straw the Government should clutch. It's a very rare issue where Labour is on the wrong side of the public and the Tories are on the right side.
Just the usual creepy obsession with children and puberty.
My understanding is that the tightening up of the definition of sex to mean biological sex gives the necessary legal framework to restrict access to womens' spaces to biological males (and vice versa I guess).
Point 1: I assume you meant to say "restrict access to women's spaces FROM biological males" instead of "TO biological males", as the latter would mean that only biological males could use them.
Point 2: This is why I don't like the phrase "biological males". It is ambiguous, including people born male who still have their dick and people born male who have chopped it off.
Point 3: iiuc the bill in question would annihilate the concept of transsexuality and de jure reclassify all trans people as crossdressers, regardless of certificate or genitals or behaviour. The Gender Recognition Act allowed people to change the sex on their birth certificate and acquire the rights of that sex unless there was a proportionate reason to do so. It used (and may have introduced?) the concept of "legal sex" and provided a legal procedure (the gender recognition certificate) by which it could be changed. By ensuring that it is only "biological sex" and not "legal sex" that can be upheld in law, it would make the act a dead letter.
The UK is incapable of a deliberated stance on trans, veering from "I'm a girl if I say I am" to "THEYRE ALL MEN REALLY" like a demented metronome.
No, I meant to construct the sentence the way I did. I agree that it can be interpreted the way you have, and therefore isn't the best choice of words.
I agree with everything else you write. As I've said before, it is gender reassignment surgery that should be the final piece of the transition process and should carry the legal status with it. It doesn't solve the sports issue because a former man can still have unfair advantages even after reassignment surgery, but it goes a long way to solving everything else.
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
I mean wtf? Why isn't this the story?
Because we all know that we are a totally not corrupt country unlike those beasty places where Johnny Foreigner lives and this is absolutely above board.
Effing incompetent Tories. Isn't the going rate for agents ~15%? This is under 8%
To be fair, the situation is a little more complicated. TPP's bread and butter is (or was) GP contracts, so it's more local choices rather than in government gift. But there has been aspiration to unify GP data more, which could either be a threat to TPP (interoperability making it easier to switch suppliers for example) or an opportunity, if they were to be the supplier of a single more unified system.
And the bigger it gets, the question is who is telling whom to jump when instructed.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Beer has gone downhill over the last 5 years or so, unfortunately. Too much poor quality IPAs that taste like crappy lagers have pushed out more interesting craft beers, and a lot of breweries have been lost.
I'm told Sir Graham Brady and Rishi Sunak *did not* discuss resignation letters when they spoke on the fringes of the 1922 executive committee meeting yesterday
It was a routine meeting ahead of a reception on the Terrace that takes place once a term
Resignation letters? Does he mean VONC letters?
I think Scott with his tongue firmly in his cheek was referring to the nine rats (allegedly) jumping ship to HMS Tice.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
I stopped being so rah rah Buy British in 1995 when I visited Seattle and tried the microbrewery products around Pioneer Square. I wonder what it's like now?
So, Hester's terrible Racism is one thing. But, this guy has made 130 mill in the last four years from Govt NHS contracts and donated 10 mill back to the Tories.
I mean wtf? Why isn't this the story?
We have the best politicians that money can buy.
Is this the point where I bring up the cumulative consequences of more than 20 years of trade deficits again? We used to be able to afford better. Lloyd George, for example. No there was someone worth bribing. This lot? What's the point?
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Beer has gone downhill over the last 5 years or so, unfortunately. Too much poor quality IPAs that taste like crappy lagers have pushed out more interesting craft beers, and a lot of breweries have been lost.
Definitely. Also too many IPAs with weird flavours. I've stopped ordering my doorstep deliveries from the previous supplier who put all sorts of weird stuff in the box, and gone back to dependable Black Isle who have a decent core selection and a small selection of varying extras.
Apparently Badenoch says there should be space for forgiveness re Hester .
I’m sure she’d be also saying this if a Labour donor was involved !
Let’s be political about this, the Story was a Guardian exclusive. The timing is so obvious, spike the Extremism Action about to be announced - Gove defying legal advice to use Parliamentary Privilege to name and shame and get Labour wriggling and squirming and in trouble - possibly as the rabbit out the hat before calling an election on divisive anti extremism campaign.
How long have the guardian - or Labour who slipped it to them - sat on this story in a safe? Not literally sitting in a safe on it, you know what I mean. It’s metaphor.
Timing with exclusives is always difficult. The longer you wait, the greater the chance someone else, quite legitimately, also gets hold of the story, prints it, and you lose 100% of the kudos. These things matter to media and journos infinitely more than they do to the public.
He made the remarks five years ago, interesting they come to light this week Gove goes into the commons and, against legal advice, paints a picture of the British Left and Union Movement as extremist, such as the union’s funding Labour also support and fund extremism, like solidarity with Palestine they have possibly given larger payments from union member subs to Hamas leadership, than even Netanyahu’s government siphoned off funds for the Hamas leadership. It’s at least possible timing of this news story is the British Left trying to soften the punches coming their way? 💁♀️
Now, if I were a Stasi Bully, I would make a list of every PBer who picks up what Gove will tell Parliament and runs with it - like the fascist on Dads Army started a little list. 😈 Gove will certainly blow up PB into life. It’s possibly the Tories key theme for an April General Election campaign, smoking out Starmer as either on the governments side against extremism, or the side of the extremists who fund his political party.
Culture war issues won't win the election, but Truss's private members bill on trans (biological males to be banned from ladies' loos (which I take to mean pre-reassignment surgery males, correct me if I'm wrong)) seems like a reasonable straw the Government should clutch. It's a very rare issue where Labour is on the wrong side of the public and the Tories are on the right side.
Just the usual creepy obsession with children and puberty.
My understanding is that the tightening up of the definition of sex to mean biological sex gives the necessary legal framework to restrict access to womens' spaces to biological males (and vice versa I guess).
Point 1: I assume you meant to say "restrict access to women's spaces FROM biological males" instead of "TO biological males", as the latter would mean that only biological males could use them.
Point 2: This is why I don't like the phrase "biological males". It is ambiguous, including people born male who still have their dick and people born male who have chopped it off.
Point 3: iiuc the bill in question would annihilate the concept of transsexuality and de jure reclassify all trans people as crossdressers, regardless of certificate or genitals or behaviour. The Gender Recognition Act allowed people to change the sex on their birth certificate and acquire the rights of that sex unless there was a proportionate reason to do so. It used (and may have introduced?) the concept of "legal sex" and provided a legal procedure (the gender recognition certificate) by which it could be changed. By ensuring that it is only "biological sex" and not "legal sex" that can be upheld in law, it would make the act a dead letter.
The UK is incapable of a deliberated stance on trans, veering from "I'm a girl if I say I am" to "THEYRE ALL MEN REALLY" like a demented metronome.
Of course it's not "tightening up" the definition of sex; it's altering it to make it impossible for anything to change their sex. It's trying to enshrine transphobia in law.
Given its chances of making it through the Private Members Bill process, it's not even that. It's pretty much pure virtue/vice signalling.
It's one step up from the Early Day Motion thing, or even a 10 minute rule bill, but it's not serious.
Point 2: This is why I don't like the phrase "biological males". It is ambiguous, including people born male who still have their dick and people born male who have chopped it off.
OK, how about "people with XY chromosomes", then?
That would make sense and the old pre-2010s terminology "genetic male" would also suffice. Unfortunately they seem to have been have been abandoned in preference to "transfeminine" (the gender ideology term) or "biological male" (the gender critical term).
Remember when I pointed out that you can track the popularity of a political stance by tracking the terms it uses? Examples in different contexts include "The Evil Empire" and "Sinn Fein/IRA" and "EUSSR" and "LibLabCon".
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
I stopped being so rah rah Buy British in 1995 when I visited Seattle and tried the microbrewery products around Pioneer Square. I wonder what it's like now?
That's going to do the exact opposite of the plan that was to use Rwanda as the reason why you wouldn't come to the UK..
Which takes us back to the best reason to call an election ASAP. (Have we done the "letting prisoners out because we have about twelve spare cells in the country" thing yet?)
The government have reached the "Fr Dougal is doing a funeral" stage in their management of the country, and it's not fair on them or us.
Tories had to endure the Brown government until the last possible moment before it was put of its misery by the electorate after a full 5 year Labour term from May 2005-May 2010, so tough!
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Have you tried Samuel Adams?
I think it’s hard to judge national standards of beer in deregulated markets because they’re all pretty similarly diverse. Unlike wine or malt whisky beer is not really a product of its terroir. So as long as you can source good malt and hops from somewhere, and have decent water, you can make similarly good beer anywhere.
The only things that really shift things nationally are regulation (stifling or encouraging experimentation and diversity, on which most Western countries are now pretty deregulated), and local tastes and tradition, where we’ve all converged somewhat in recent years. Craft beer in France tastes pretty similar to craft beer in the UK or US or Japan. But Belgian beers remain very distinct, as to a lesser extent does British real ale.
Whisky is pretty much the same as beer (because it's made by creating a basic beer, then distilling it and aging the resulting spirit) - regional differences are based on distilling traditions more than actual terroir. Smokiness from peat used in the malting process is common in Islay whiskies, but that's due to it being a plentiful fuel there traditionally. It can be used anywhere.
I did think after posting that yes, you could import peat from Scotland if you wanted to, but it doesn’t generally happen, and you could likewise do so with grapes (and some do) to make wine. But we have appellation contrôlée to deal with that and PDOs likewise for whisky.
Well, sort of. A lot of the barley for Scotch whisky comes from all over (Scotland, RoUK, even overseas) and it is usually malted at large central maltings, one of the biggest being in England. If a peated malt is specified, it can be done there, with the desired degree of 'peatiness'. There are more authentic examples of malting and kilning in or near specific distilleries within the industry, as well as whiskies that specifically use Scottish or region-specific barley, but it's not a legal requirement. A Scotch whisky needs to be aged for a minimum of 3 years in Scotland, in oak casks*. That is afaik the only requirement. I think a single malt has also to be bottled here, but not a blend.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Have you tried Samuel Adams?
I think it’s hard to judge national standards of beer in deregulated markets because they’re all pretty similarly diverse. Unlike wine or malt whisky beer is not really a product of its terroir. So as long as you can source good malt and hops from somewhere, and have decent water, you can make similarly good beer anywhere.
The only things that really shift things nationally are regulation (stifling or encouraging experimentation and diversity, on which most Western countries are now pretty deregulated), and local tastes and tradition, where we’ve all converged somewhat in recent years. Craft beer in France tastes pretty similar to craft beer in the UK or US or Japan. But Belgian beers remain very distinct, as to a lesser extent does British real ale.
Whisky is pretty much the same as beer (because it's made by creating a basic beer, then distilling it and aging the resulting spirit) - regional differences are based on distilling traditions more than actual terroir. Smokiness from peat used in the malting process is common in Islay whiskies, but that's due to it being a plentiful fuel there traditionally. It can be used anywhere.
I did think after posting that yes, you could import peat from Scotland if you wanted to, but it doesn’t generally happen, and you could likewise do so with grapes (and some do) to make wine. But we have appellation contrôlée to deal with that and PDOs likewise for whisky.
Well, sort of. A lot of the barley for Scotch whisky comes from all over (Scotland, RoUK, even overseas) and it is usually malted at large central maltings, one of the biggest being in England. If a peated malt is specified, it can be done there, with the desired degree of 'peatiness'. There are more authentic examples of malting and kilning in or near specific distilleries within the industry, as well as whiskies that specifically use Scottish or region-specific barley, but it's not a legal requirement. A Scotch whisky needs to be aged for a minimum of 3 years in Scotland, in oak casks. That is afaik the only requirement. I think a single malt has also to be bottled here, but not a blend.
Interesting, I stand corrected. In which case just wine (and PDO cider / perry I suppose) that at least on theory is fixed to terroir.
Absolute bollocks that the USA has better beer than here.
Beer has gone downhill over the last 5 years or so, unfortunately. Too much poor quality IPAs that taste like crappy lagers have pushed out more interesting craft beers, and a lot of breweries have been lost.
Yes, I agree. Weird acid fruit flavours do not an interesting beer make. I am quite keen to try new things but beer should taste of beer.
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Stay classy Megs 👌
This was the one that made me look up recent developments.
There is drone footage at just before 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plk_en2_3a4
Assume that there's a second salvo, at least as bad as the first.
New w/ @rowenamason + @matthew_weaver -
Frank Hester asked if there was “no room for the Indians” and suggested staff climb on a train roof during a crowded meeting, before saying he made “a lot of jokes about racism”.
https://twitter.com/Direthoughts/status/1767636008143626697
They are trying everything and much of it is a mistake. However, there is some talent and very good beer in there.
It will be very interesting to see where it leads.
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🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak has met with 1922 chairman Sir Graham Brady amid a "flurry" of no confidence letters being submitted
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Angry response: "It was *not" the next desk along. I'll have you know they both work from home."
It’s probably fair to say though that their best chance of avoiding a landslide defeat is a quick leadership coup, new semi-presentable PM in very rapidly and an immediate election. An extended leadership election by contrast would bury them further.
First he didn't want to "characterise" the comments further, meaning he refused to say whether they were racist. Seriously, how difficult can that be? Realising his position was untenable, he eventually called them racist. Next job: give the c*** his money back. This is what the opposition parties are rightly demanding. The answer is? I guess he doesn't want to look weak, at least not in the eyes of the large proportion of potential Tory voters who think Hester's just a brave man telling the common sense truth.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/99112770@N00/5612472057
http://scihi.org/benjamin-outram/
edit: it was right in the centre of Derby, near where the bus station now is. The course of the Derby Canal arm down to Swarkestone can all be walked; the other arm east can be walked in part.
"My God, it's full of jars,"
The latest allegations aren’t as bad as the original one, so I’m not sure they will have that much effect. They’re ill advised jokes of the sort one’s racist uncle might make at Christmas lunch. The Diane Abbott comments by contrast were rather nastier.
Interesting journalistic tactics: do you release the less toxic quotes first so that you have the coup de grace in reserve later but at the risk of the story not taking off, or do you go for the most egregious example first and then aim to keep the story going with a drip drip of slightly milder revelations?
The Haitian solution 😀 : lock the leader out and ... it's goodbye from him. Does make you wonder what Boris Johnson may have discussed and with whom when he was on the other part of Hispaniola recently before flying to Venezuela.
(Ducks)
I mean wtf? Why isn't this the story?
Classy!
I wonder if that 10 mill he's given pays for a spot of forgiveness.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/migrants-to-be-paid-thousands-to-move-to-rwanda-under-new-scheme-2z6km0m57
That's going to do the exact opposite of the plan that was to use Rwanda as the reason why you wouldn't come to the UK..
Has he coopted "Sir Softie" to deal with his confidence issue?
And have shunned Mrs Whiplash as she is a harlot. And the trans bdsm people can obviously jump off a cliff.
Ohno!
Shun them both! Or ... maybe we accept them both? Do they sell 2nd-rate PPE at a premium? That's really our fetish...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_British_Buddy
https://www.cromfordcanal.org/restoration/
The only things that really shift things nationally are regulation (stifling or encouraging experimentation and diversity, on which most Western countries are now pretty deregulated), and local tastes and tradition, where we’ve all converged somewhat in recent years. Craft beer in France tastes pretty similar to craft beer in the UK or US or Japan. But Belgian beers remain very distinct, as to a lesser extent does British real ale.
The government have reached the "Fr Dougal is doing a funeral" stage in their management of the country, and it's not fair on them or us.
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I'm told Sir Graham Brady and Rishi Sunak *did not* discuss resignation letters when they spoke on the fringes of the 1922 executive committee meeting yesterday
It was a routine meeting ahead of a reception on the Terrace that takes place once a term
I see Number 10 is going to do its usual routine of making as many ministers on the broadcast round defend the indefensible before it inevitably throws them under the bus.
Point 2: This is why I don't like the phrase "biological males". It is ambiguous, including people born male who still have their dick and people born male who have chopped it off.
Point 3: iiuc the bill in question would annihilate the concept of transsexuality and de jure reclassify all trans people as crossdressers, regardless of certificate or genitals or behaviour. The Gender Recognition Act allowed people to change the sex on their birth certificate and acquire the rights of that sex unless there was a proportionate reason to do so. It used (and may have introduced?) the concept of "legal sex" and provided a legal procedure (the gender recognition certificate) by which it could be changed. By ensuring that it is only "biological sex" and not "legal sex" that can be upheld in law, it would make the act a dead letter.
The UK is incapable of a deliberated stance on trans, veering from "I'm a girl if I say I am" to "THEYRE ALL MEN REALLY" like a demented metronome.
Republican Rep. Ken Buck said Tuesday that he’ll resign next week, narrowing his party’s razor-thin House majority and potentially throwing an obstacle in the way of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s effort to succeed him.
Buck, a staunch conservative who already declined to run for reelection as he became increasingly critical of his party’s handling of former President Donald Trump, made his surprise announcement in the midst of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents.
During an appearance on CNN, Buck lamented that he hadn’t been able to ask a question in the hearing yet even though he is the third-ranking Republican on the committee.
“A lot of this is personal. That’s the problem,” Buck said. “Instead of having decorum — instead of acting in a professional manner — this place has really devolved into this bickering and nonsense,” he said, adding that this was the worst of his nine years in Congress.
Buck’s March 22 departure will trigger a special election to serve the remainder of his term. Under Colorado law, that must happen within 85 to 100 days — or right around the June 25 Republican primary to run in the November race to serve a full term.
Several Republicans are already running to replace him in November, including Boebert, who moved across the state to run for Buck’s more Republican-friendly seat anchored in Colorado’s eastern plains. But political insiders were already noting Tuesday that Buck’s timing could block Boebert from taking over his seat.
It all depends on the timing of the special election, which must be held between June 15 and June 30. A committee of Colorado Republicans will pick the party’s nominee to serve the remainder of Buck’s current term, and it’s unclear if they would choose the controversial Boebert, who has no prior ties to the district. That Republican nominee would likely easily win the special election in the overwhelmingly conservative district.
If the special election happens before the primary or even the day of it, the likely Republican winner — now a member of Congress — will have an advantage in the primary, as GOP voters will have just backed them. This would make it harder for other primary contenders who hope to represent the party in November’s race. . . .
To be fair, the situation is a little more complicated. TPP's bread and butter is (or was) GP contracts, so it's more local choices rather than in government gift. But there has been aspiration to unify GP data more, which could either be a threat to TPP (interoperability making it easier to switch suppliers for example) or an opportunity, if they were to be the supplier of a single more unified system.
I agree with everything else you write. As I've said before, it is gender reassignment surgery that should be the final piece of the transition process and should carry the legal status with it. It doesn't solve the sports issue because a former man can still have unfair advantages even after reassignment surgery, but it goes a long way to solving everything else.
https://www.machinehousebrewery.com/
They now make very decent English Ale, and serve it properly through beer engines. A lovely place to waste an afternoon.
It's one step up from the Early Day Motion thing, or even a 10 minute rule bill, but it's not serious.
Remember when I pointed out that you can track the popularity of a political stance by tracking the terms it uses? Examples in different contexts include "The Evil Empire" and "Sinn Fein/IRA" and "EUSSR" and "LibLabCon".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-68501256
*mild too*
*edit: and distilled here of course