I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
Not everyone who lives here currently is completely abnormal....
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
I ought to add that I do not pretend nationalisation banishes all problems — hell, I remember British Rail. But it does give us a degree of control, which, to our enormous detriment, we have lost. At least with a state-owned water industry we can’t blame anyone else...
And if they rip off the bill payers, at least the proceeds stay in the country.
The problem is not so much private vs public as
1) Nothing must be done. 2) in order to protect a variety of interests, reform or improvement is impossible.
See the argument that pension funds (foreign and domestic) might catch a cold if Thames Water isn’t allowed to put everything on the bill payers. Likewise Freehold/Leasehold reform.
Earlier, someone was suggesting that the dislocation of business in West London was a reason not to move Heathrow. In the dozens of big airport moves around the globe, similar business has to adapt to the fact that about 10 years from “go”, they would have to move.
Similar arguments were made to not move or modernise British shipbuilding. That worked out really well, didn’t it?
I hope you prove wrong, but I suspect you're right. We'll agree to put up bills to bail out a Canadian pension fund and some Chinese investors...
For the first time in my life, I want a Labour government to nationalise something.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
NOT a soft landing for one of Trump's softer-headed MAGA-maniacs . . .
Seattle Times - MyPillow, owned by election denier Mike Lindell, formally evicted from Minnesota warehouse A court ordered the eviction Wednesday of MyPillow from a suburban Minneapolis warehouse that it formerly used, but company founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said that it’s just a formality because the landlord wants to take the property back.
Lindell denied in an interview with The Associated Press that the eviction was another sign of his money woes. He said his financial picture is actually improving after a credit crunch last year disrupted cash flow at MyPillow after the company lost one of its major advertising platforms and was dropped by several national retailers.
“We’re fine,” he said.
Lindell faced a setback last month when a federal judge affirmed a $5 million arbitration award in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. Lindell acknowledged in January that Fox News stopped running MyPillow commercials amid a billing dispute. . . .
SSI - Best thing about this clown crying into HIS pillow, is that yours truly is NOT being bombarded with his previously non-stop TV advertisements.
For a product I had ZERO intention of every purchasing; would rather lay my weary head on jagged rock!
He's destroyed his life for Trump, who does not even deign to back him in his efforts directly. Why such loyalty?
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
Michael Brandon.
We did have a tv in our student bedsit 🙂
Us too. Though what I really remember was the Falklands.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
Michael Brandon.
We did have a tv in our student bedsit 🙂
I'm afraid that back in the day I did think it was a bit naff. Had some potential, but poor scripts, and slightly dodgy acting.
I ought to add that I do not pretend nationalisation banishes all problems — hell, I remember British Rail. But it does give us a degree of control, which, to our enormous detriment, we have lost. At least with a state-owned water industry we can’t blame anyone else...
And if they rip off the bill payers, at least the proceeds stay in the country.
The problem is not so much private vs public as
1) Nothing must be done. 2) in order to protect a variety of interests, reform or improvement is impossible.
See the argument that pension funds (foreign and domestic) might catch a cold if Thames Water isn’t allowed to put everything on the bill payers. Likewise Freehold/Leasehold reform.
Earlier, someone was suggesting that the dislocation of business in West London was a reason not to move Heathrow. In the dozens of big airport moves around the globe, similar business has to adapt to the fact that about 10 years from “go”, they would have to move.
Similar arguments were made to not move or modernise British shipbuilding. That worked out really well, didn’t it?
I hope you prove wrong, but I suspect you're right. We'll agree to put up bills to bail out a Canadian pension fund and some Chinese investors...
For the first time in my life, I want a Labour government to nationalise something.
The same pressures will occur if it is nationalised - “must protect the pension funds and the foreigners from the results of their own folly.”
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I wonder how many Tory voters who like me are fed up with the Party and like me had vowed not to vote Blue, now will again to avoid the utter bloodbath that the polls are suggesting. I will vote Toty if the polls are that bad. IT IS a funny old world.
Not me. Tory for 50 years; Labour this time. Bloodbath is what they, sadly, need. Though I think the actual outcome won't be like that. Labour will do well to get 345 seats, and may well need LD support to govern - say 315 seats.
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
Michael Brandon.
We did have a tv in our student bedsit 🙂
I've got it all wrong. Yes him, whoever he is - very good.
I wonder if they hired him hoping to have a hit in the US. Looking at Wiki is never took off there apparently. It was a hit in the UK and elsewhere anyway.
NOT a soft landing for one of Trump's softer-headed MAGA-maniacs . . .
Seattle Times - MyPillow, owned by election denier Mike Lindell, formally evicted from Minnesota warehouse A court ordered the eviction Wednesday of MyPillow from a suburban Minneapolis warehouse that it formerly used, but company founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell said that it’s just a formality because the landlord wants to take the property back.
Lindell denied in an interview with The Associated Press that the eviction was another sign of his money woes. He said his financial picture is actually improving after a credit crunch last year disrupted cash flow at MyPillow after the company lost one of its major advertising platforms and was dropped by several national retailers.
“We’re fine,” he said.
Lindell faced a setback last month when a federal judge affirmed a $5 million arbitration award in favor of a software engineer who challenged data that Lindell said proves China interfered in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden. Lindell acknowledged in January that Fox News stopped running MyPillow commercials amid a billing dispute. . . .
SSI - Best thing about this clown crying into HIS pillow, is that yours truly is NOT being bombarded with his previously non-stop TV advertisements.
For a product I had ZERO intention of every purchasing; would rather lay my weary head on jagged rock!
He's destroyed his life for Trump, who does not even deign to back him in his efforts directly. Why such loyalty?
Loyalty to Trump has paid off for... for... for... his children?
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
Thanks for the tip. I note that Edward Woodward is in it - love a name that's a tongue-twister.
I ought to add that I do not pretend nationalisation banishes all problems — hell, I remember British Rail. But it does give us a degree of control, which, to our enormous detriment, we have lost. At least with a state-owned water industry we can’t blame anyone else...
And if they rip off the bill payers, at least the proceeds stay in the country.
The problem is not so much private vs public as
1) Nothing must be done. 2) in order to protect a variety of interests, reform or improvement is impossible.
See the argument that pension funds (foreign and domestic) might catch a cold if Thames Water isn’t allowed to put everything on the bill payers. Likewise Freehold/Leasehold reform.
Earlier, someone was suggesting that the dislocation of business in West London was a reason not to move Heathrow. In the dozens of big airport moves around the globe, similar business has to adapt to the fact that about 10 years from “go”, they would have to move.
Similar arguments were made to not move or modernise British shipbuilding. That worked out really well, didn’t it?
I hope you prove wrong, but I suspect you're right. We'll agree to put up bills to bail out a Canadian pension fund and some Chinese investors...
For the first time in my life, I want a Labour government to nationalise something.
The same pressures will occur if it is nationalised - “must protect the pension funds and the foreigners from the results of their own folly.”
Why ? Thames is likely to be insolvent within 18 months. The government can take it over without obligation to make either shareholders or bond holders whole.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Er, that's transvestism. Not transsexualism. Surely?
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
Who do you think he's likely to pick?
Assuming he isn't locked up for twelve months for contempt of court and thereby his campaign jars to a sudden halt.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
God was angry red faced chap, until he had that affair with a married woman, the kid… the relationship with the son was awkward and ended very badly, but The Big Man definitely mellowed from the experience.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Yes, you shouldn't mix linen or cotton with wool, either. Also an abomination.
The OT fashion police were seriously OTT.
Lots of daft shit in the first few chapters. (No SeanT jokes, please.)
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Er, that's transvestism. Not transsexualism. Surely?
Since gender reassignment surgery was not physically possible at the time, it seems reasonable to assume it covered both.
I ought to add that I do not pretend nationalisation banishes all problems — hell, I remember British Rail. But it does give us a degree of control, which, to our enormous detriment, we have lost. At least with a state-owned water industry we can’t blame anyone else...
And if they rip off the bill payers, at least the proceeds stay in the country.
The problem is not so much private vs public as
1) Nothing must be done. 2) in order to protect a variety of interests, reform or improvement is impossible.
See the argument that pension funds (foreign and domestic) might catch a cold if Thames Water isn’t allowed to put everything on the bill payers. Likewise Freehold/Leasehold reform.
Earlier, someone was suggesting that the dislocation of business in West London was a reason not to move Heathrow. In the dozens of big airport moves around the globe, similar business has to adapt to the fact that about 10 years from “go”, they would have to move.
Similar arguments were made to not move or modernise British shipbuilding. That worked out really well, didn’t it?
I hope you prove wrong, but I suspect you're right. We'll agree to put up bills to bail out a Canadian pension fund and some Chinese investors...
For the first time in my life, I want a Labour government to nationalise something.
The same pressures will occur if it is nationalised - “must protect the pension funds and the foreigners from the results of their own folly.”
Why ? Thames is likely to be insolvent within 18 months. The government can take it over without obligation to make either shareholders or bond holders whole.
They wouldn't even have to legislate to do so.
But they should, presumably, wait until the last possible moment, when all other avenues have been exhausted so as not to deter future investment.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Er, that's transvestism. Not transsexualism. Surely?
The view of parts of the transgender community is that if you say you identify as the other sex, you actually are the other sex. No, me neither.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
Verity Lambert. No more review required.
More specifically, Euston Films, which just churned them out.
The Sweeney Minder Quatermass 79 The Fear Capital City Widows
It is still unclear whether the red heifers are ready.
I was tending to the view that they weren't yet ready, and that therefore the fear (currently big in the Arab world) that the ritual will be carried out in the second half of this year's Ramadan was unfounded.
But this article from September 2022 gives to believe that they've been ready for a while now:
Supposedly two of the five have been found to be impure, which presumably means they each sprouted more than one hair that wasn't red, rather than that a farmhand rested his jacket on them by mistake, which would have the same signification as yoking.
I wonder whether James Burke has looked at this. It's just the sort of thing he'd be interested in.
This small group of people with their obsession could blow the Middle East sky high and it's not completely clear what can be done to stop them. Perhaps it won't be this year that they'll go for it, but they do seem to have been making small steps of progress for quite some time.
Incidentally, visions of cities or buildings that are at the location of current ones but which are different - perhaps different in mundane ways, perhaps being far more intricate and architecturally "wow" - are a recorded feature of a certain state of consciousness.
I ought to add that I do not pretend nationalisation banishes all problems — hell, I remember British Rail. But it does give us a degree of control, which, to our enormous detriment, we have lost. At least with a state-owned water industry we can’t blame anyone else...
And if they rip off the bill payers, at least the proceeds stay in the country.
The problem is not so much private vs public as
1) Nothing must be done. 2) in order to protect a variety of interests, reform or improvement is impossible.
See the argument that pension funds (foreign and domestic) might catch a cold if Thames Water isn’t allowed to put everything on the bill payers. Likewise Freehold/Leasehold reform.
Earlier, someone was suggesting that the dislocation of business in West London was a reason not to move Heathrow. In the dozens of big airport moves around the globe, similar business has to adapt to the fact that about 10 years from “go”, they would have to move.
Similar arguments were made to not move or modernise British shipbuilding. That worked out really well, didn’t it?
I hope you prove wrong, but I suspect you're right. We'll agree to put up bills to bail out a Canadian pension fund and some Chinese investors...
For the first time in my life, I want a Labour government to nationalise something.
The same pressures will occur if it is nationalised - “must protect the pension funds and the foreigners from the results of their own folly.”
Why ? Thames is likely to be insolvent within 18 months. The government can take it over without obligation to make either shareholders or bond holders whole.
They wouldn't even have to legislate to do so.
If the bond holders and the shareholders get hit, that *is* the pension funds, foreign and domestic.
Which the Treasury is arguing must be protected. Same for Freehold/Leasehold.
They aren’t going to change their tune. Nationalisation or bankruptcy or whatever.
The same advice will go to Starmer and Co. Protect the investors and screw the customers.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
Michael Brandon.
We did have a tv in our student bedsit 🙂
Us too. Though what I really remember was the Falklands.
Private Schulz was my favourite of the time. Fearful of rewatching it in case I think it’s duff..
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
Michael Brandon.
We did have a tv in our student bedsit 🙂
Us too. Though what I really remember was the Falklands.
Private Schulz was my favourite of the time. Fearful of rewatching it in case I think it’s duff..
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
Does this risk understating the fact that Trump made a tactical choice in Pence in 2016 (evangelicals etc) who ultimately let him down by performing his constitutional duty?
The worry with Trump this time is he will abandon the conservative figures who are genuine true believers in that cause (worrying enough people but "normal"), in favour of slavishly loyal, utterly amoral grifters.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Yes, you shouldn't mix linen or cotton with wool, either. Also an abomination.
The OT fashion police were seriously OTT.
Lots of daft shit in the first few chapters. (No SeanT jokes, please.)
The snag with picking up the culture mores of a Bronze Age civilization is that they are the cultural mores of a Bronze Age civilization.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
Who do you think he's likely to pick?
Assuming he isn't locked up for twelve months for contempt of court and thereby his campaign jars to a sudden halt.
No idea. Save that NY Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-Two Faced) seems a better bet all around for DJT 24.
As for being locked up for contempt - or just about anything else - that would NOT disqualify Trump from either running for POTUS, or from serving IF elected.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
Does this risk understating the fact that Trump made a tactical choice in Pence in 2016 (evangelicals etc) who ultimately let him down by performing his constitutional duty?
The worry with Trump this time is he will abandon the conservative figures who are genuine true believers in that cause (worrying enough people but "normal"), in favour of slavishly loyal, utterly amoral grifters.
Note that for 2024, Trump will have his pick of "slavishly loyal, utterly amoral grifters".
Kristi Noem NOT alone, and she AIN'T all that special . . . except in her own head . . . and the hopes of her punters.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
One of the harsher reviews of "RuPaul's Drag Race", it has to be said...
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
Who do you think he's likely to pick?
Assuming he isn't locked up for twelve months for contempt of court and thereby his campaign jars to a sudden halt.
No idea. Save that NY Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-Two Faced) seems a better bet all around for DJT 24.
As for being locked up for contempt - or just about anything else - that would NOT disqualify Trump from either running for POTUS, or from serving IF elected.
If he's convicted before November and handed a custodial sentence stretching until after January, what are the possibilities?
Are there any states he couldn't run in? Could a federal court require his release before the election? If he wins when in custody, could either he himself or a federal court require his release after he takes office?
Personally I think he's so batshit that there will be some surprises before the election. E.g. perhaps he will run abroad, to El Salvador or wherever, and claim he hasn't done any such thing, because black is white if he says it is. Or he could call for a far-right armed uprising before the day of sentencing. He wouldn't be able to cope with real prison IMO.
I ought to add that I do not pretend nationalisation banishes all problems — hell, I remember British Rail. But it does give us a degree of control, which, to our enormous detriment, we have lost. At least with a state-owned water industry we can’t blame anyone else...
And if they rip off the bill payers, at least the proceeds stay in the country.
The problem is not so much private vs public as
1) Nothing must be done. 2) in order to protect a variety of interests, reform or improvement is impossible.
See the argument that pension funds (foreign and domestic) might catch a cold if Thames Water isn’t allowed to put everything on the bill payers. Likewise Freehold/Leasehold reform.
Earlier, someone was suggesting that the dislocation of business in West London was a reason not to move Heathrow. In the dozens of big airport moves around the globe, similar business has to adapt to the fact that about 10 years from “go”, they would have to move.
Similar arguments were made to not move or modernise British shipbuilding. That worked out really well, didn’t it?
I hope you prove wrong, but I suspect you're right. We'll agree to put up bills to bail out a Canadian pension fund and some Chinese investors...
For the first time in my life, I want a Labour government to nationalise something.
The same pressures will occur if it is nationalised - “must protect the pension funds and the foreigners from the results of their own folly.”
Why ? Thames is likely to be insolvent within 18 months. The government can take it over without obligation to make either shareholders or bond holders whole.
They wouldn't even have to legislate to do so.
If the bond holders and the shareholders get hit, that *is* the pension funds, foreign and domestic.
Which the Treasury is arguing must be protected. Same for Freehold/Leasehold.
They aren’t going to change their tune. Nationalisation or bankruptcy or whatever.
The same advice will go to Starmer and Co. Protect the investors and screw the customers.
Pension funds are a bit of a nuisance. My understanding is that one of the reasons that we don't introduce severe penalties for commercial buildings falling into disrepair and blighting High Streets is that pension funds are balls deep in commercial property investments.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
True story....while most people have fairies living at the bottom of their garden my mother had the equalizer (and michelle dotrice) living there
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Harsh bloke, Deuteronomy.
It's a good job Deuteronomy doesn't have the numbers to condemn these acts otherwise there would be an exodus. We all have the wisdom to be the judges of what's right without any lamentations..
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
Who do you think he's likely to pick?
Assuming he isn't locked up for twelve months for contempt of court and thereby his campaign jars to a sudden halt.
No idea. Save that NY Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-Two Faced) seems a better bet all around for DJT 24.
As for being locked up for contempt - or just about anything else - that would NOT disqualify Trump from either running for POTUS, or from serving IF elected.
If he's convicted before November and handed a custodial sentence stretching until after January, what are the possibilities?
Are there any states he couldn't run in? Could a federal court require his release before the election? If he wins when in custody, could either he himself or a federal court require his release after he takes office?
Personally I think he's so batshit that there will be some surprises before the election. E.g. perhaps he will run abroad, to El Salvador or wherever, and claim he hasn't done any such thing, because black is white if he says it is. He wouldn't be able to cope with real prison IMO.
Presidential qualifications are governed by US Constitution, Article II.
Ballot access is government by state laws, but given recent SCOTUS decision PLUS fact that Trump will be THE nominee of the Republican Party - a "major party" in just about every state, with guaranteed ballot access - reckon that this will NOT keep Trump off the ballot in ANY state of the Union.
As for the rest of your questions/surmises, we MAY just have to see. But do NOT hold your breath waiting for your scenario(s) to transpire.
I didn't realise they were whining about eggs, too. Apparently that rule has been in place since 1976.
Trump's possible VP pick. https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1774250831275016525 Joe Biden banned “religious themed” eggs at the White House’s Easter Egg design contest for kids, AND he announced that tomorrow is “National Transgender Visibility Day.”
Did he forget that tomorrow is Easter, Resurrection Sunday?
Joe Biden and his White House have made it clear that people of faith, particularly Christians and our Bible-believing views, have no place in his America. We must change that on November 5 by electing
Personally think Kristi Noem will NOT be Trump's Pence-replacement. Because:
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
Who do you think he's likely to pick?
Assuming he isn't locked up for twelve months for contempt of court and thereby his campaign jars to a sudden halt.
No idea. Save that NY Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-Two Faced) seems a better bet all around for DJT 24.
As for being locked up for contempt - or just about anything else - that would NOT disqualify Trump from either running for POTUS, or from serving IF elected.
If he's convicted before November and handed a custodial sentence stretching until after January, what are the possibilities?
Are there any states he couldn't run in? Could a federal court require his release before the election? If he wins when in custody, could either he himself or a federal court require his release after he takes office?
Personally I think he's so batshit that there will be some surprises before the election. E.g. perhaps he will run abroad, to El Salvador or wherever, and claim he hasn't done any such thing, because black is white if he says it is. He wouldn't be able to cope with real prison IMO.
There's only one trial likely to start and finish before the election (Georgia will apparently be a long one). If convicted surely he'd be out on appeal, but if inside people seem confident he'd be let out to take up office.
If he is convicted and does not win I have the nasty thought he will never serve a day in prison - his age and status being used as reasons not to.
Martin Sheen. Impossibly young. Exercising in his pants. Wasn't he really drunk in this scene? We are five minutes in and the greatness is seeping out, like sweat. There goes the mirror.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
Verity Lambert. No more review required.
More specifically, Euston Films, which just churned them out.
The Sweeney Minder Quatermass 79 The Fear Capital City Widows
There's a lot of good stuff in there
I've just looked up Verity Lambert. What a remarkable career she had. Also produced Jonathan Creek.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
True story....while most people have fairies living at the bottom of their garden my mother had the equalizer (and michelle dotrice) living there
The swinging lightbulb was in Callan, a Thames TV series.
Not even Jeremy Corbyn disliked the UK as much as the Tories do.
Hi from London, “crime capital of the world”. In Birmingham? Beware “rotting rubbish” and “boarded-up buildings”. Manchester is “the worst city in Europe for eco-friendly transport”. The ruling party’s new social media campaign is doing wonders for tourism
You have to admire the cheek of criticising a lack of eco-friendly transport in Manchester while railing against London's cycle lanes.
The local cycle lanes appear to have been designed by people who once saw a picture of a bicycle. After being dug and rebuilt multiple times., they are slightly less insane.
Just need to take out the electric moped riders who push all the other users out of them.
Having just got a 'road' bike after decades of riding mountain bikes, I'm surprised how different the experience is. I was a very relaxed cyclist on a mountain bike, as it could go over *most* potholes and imperfections on the road, allowing me to get closer to the kerb. I am trying to go faster on my road bike, and I feel any imperfections of the road's surface on my bum and hands, so I ride wider and faster.
It's a rather different mental state, and a somewhat more 'aggressive' one.
I commute on a gravel bike which is a good compromise imo. The 40c tyres take most of the hits.
But this is a wider problem with cycling in the UK. Most cyclists dress for battle - helmets, lights, high vis, riding on the drops. The objective is as short a trip as possible, rather than most enjoyable. The cycle lanes are often hand laid and deeply uncomfortable to ride on, and the roads are experiencing an enormous increase in larger vehicle traffic and therefore potholes (fourth power law).
Contrast to Europe. Sedate, no helmets, step-through, 50:50 gender balance, slow paced, no need for a shower. That's what London and the rest of the UK need to achieve.
(FYI cycling close up the kerb is advised against - less reaction time for vehicles pulling out of side roads, less visible to cars from behind, induces close passes, more likely to hit a pedestrian.)
TBF, I'm i the 'battle' group at the moment because I'm training for my first sprint triathlon. I just want to ensure I won't be last. Oh, and complete the bugger.
I'm discovering the mindset is rather different when trying to go fast instead of pootling around slowly. Although I did around 70km yesterday and really enjoyed it. Generally quiet country roads, though.
As I'm coming from a running background, I actually feel more threatened when running on roads rather than cycling. So far, at least...
I have given up jogging now, and just walk sometimes on country roads. What I don't like is the fact that when there is a pavement to walk on in a village , the speed limit is 30, but when the pavement runs out and I have to actually walk in the road with the traffic, the limit goes up to 60!
Matters would be greatly improved if there were at least an adequacy of footpaths, but of course almost everything in the built environment revolves around the storage of cars and the prioritization of vehicular rights of way (which also explains why initiatives like the Welsh Government's 20mph zones and low traffic neighbourhoods provoke such tantrums from privileged motorists: the time when their convenience wasn't the be all and end all is beyond living memory.)
Hence also the fact that virtually all pavements are crossed by hundreds of driveways, most front gardens have been replaced by parking spaces, and the nation's youth grow morbidly obese in front of screens in large part because terrified parents fear their offspring being reduced to strawberry jam by angry drivers if they dare let them out to play on the streets.
Last summer, unable to repair a puncture, I had to walk my pushbike along the road from one village in Kent to the next (facing the traffic, of course, but it was heartstopping experience). When I got to the repair shop, the owner said, ‘Ah of course you wouldn’t know the safe walking routes because you’re not from round here.’
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
Thanks for the tip. I note that Edward Woodward is in it - love a name that's a tongue-twister.
When I was young and we weren’t really supposed to watch the Equalizer but did and it was amazing for an impressionable young wannabe trained killer there was a joke which I loved, it’s crap but great.
Why does Edward Woodward have four “d’s” in his name?
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
I'm damned for putting on my bosses stylish wellies to chase kids across muddy fields then.
I am watching Dempsey & Makepeace. We didn't have a TV set in the 80s and my parents would not have let me watch it if we had. I've never been especially fussed to watch it, thinking it was just a fairly naff UK police procedural with a US lead actor to try and give it some star power. But actually it has a charm. Seeing London in its pre-gentrified form, great chemistry between the title characters (who ended up marrying irl apparently), and Peter Brandon has great charisma. Glennis Barber is great to look at and does well too. Both are highly unlikely London police detectives but still. It's also surprisingly grimly violent (for the things I watch) - I'd always had the show pegged as a Magnum PI 'light-hearted' cop show but it's not really like that.
I had a similar experience a few weeks ago watching Minder for the first time. Fascinating to watch a London where normal people could live. But also brilliant: well plotted, well written, well acted. Well worth an hour of your time.
Cookie and Luckyguy reviewing your evening's viewing, 40 years too late.
My review contained the word 'great' three times in quick succession, so I'm going to have to work on those writing skills is this 80s telly review is to become a regular gig.
I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
The original Equaliser is something you would like, probably.
I used to love the swinging light bulb. Mesmerising.
True story....while most people have fairies living at the bottom of their garden my mother had the equalizer (and michelle dotrice) living there
The swinging lightbulb was in Callan, a Thames TV series.
I've been rewatching Callan recently (and 'Public Eye'). Really two of the best shows of their era.
"GOP legislator posted about ‘illegal invaders’ at airport. It was Gonzaga’s basketball team"
Americans take college basketball seriously -- especially during "March Madness". (Which extends into April.)
If the MAGA-maniac state legislator in question was from Indiana, instead of Michigan, he's have already have resigned.
Indiana being one of THE top basketball fan states in the Union, along with KY & NC.
Perhaps somewhat ironic that the University of Utah womens basketball team was alleged/reportedly targets of anti-Black, neo-Nazi hate crime in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where they were staying while playing in women's NCAA Div I tournament round, held in nearby Spokane, Washington.
Also home to the team Utah women played, which was . . . wait for it . . . Gonzaga University.
Yes, Americans DO take college basketball seriously.
And MAGA-maniacs & Neo-Nazis take spewing ignorance, lies and hate very seriously also.
Not even Jeremy Corbyn disliked the UK as much as the Tories do.
Hi from London, “crime capital of the world”. In Birmingham? Beware “rotting rubbish” and “boarded-up buildings”. Manchester is “the worst city in Europe for eco-friendly transport”. The ruling party’s new social media campaign is doing wonders for tourism
You have to admire the cheek of criticising a lack of eco-friendly transport in Manchester while railing against London's cycle lanes.
The local cycle lanes appear to have been designed by people who once saw a picture of a bicycle. After being dug and rebuilt multiple times., they are slightly less insane.
Just need to take out the electric moped riders who push all the other users out of them.
Having just got a 'road' bike after decades of riding mountain bikes, I'm surprised how different the experience is. I was a very relaxed cyclist on a mountain bike, as it could go over *most* potholes and imperfections on the road, allowing me to get closer to the kerb. I am trying to go faster on my road bike, and I feel any imperfections of the road's surface on my bum and hands, so I ride wider and faster.
It's a rather different mental state, and a somewhat more 'aggressive' one.
I commute on a gravel bike which is a good compromise imo. The 40c tyres take most of the hits.
But this is a wider problem with cycling in the UK. Most cyclists dress for battle - helmets, lights, high vis, riding on the drops. The objective is as short a trip as possible, rather than most enjoyable. The cycle lanes are often hand laid and deeply uncomfortable to ride on, and the roads are experiencing an enormous increase in larger vehicle traffic and therefore potholes (fourth power law).
Contrast to Europe. Sedate, no helmets, step-through, 50:50 gender balance, slow paced, no need for a shower. That's what London and the rest of the UK need to achieve.
(FYI cycling close up the kerb is advised against - less reaction time for vehicles pulling out of side roads, less visible to cars from behind, induces close passes, more likely to hit a pedestrian.)
TBF, I'm i the 'battle' group at the moment because I'm training for my first sprint triathlon. I just want to ensure I won't be last. Oh, and complete the bugger.
I'm discovering the mindset is rather different when trying to go fast instead of pootling around slowly. Although I did around 70km yesterday and really enjoyed it. Generally quiet country roads, though.
As I'm coming from a running background, I actually feel more threatened when running on roads rather than cycling. So far, at least...
I have given up jogging now, and just walk sometimes on country roads. What I don't like is the fact that when there is a pavement to walk on in a village , the speed limit is 30, but when the pavement runs out and I have to actually walk in the road with the traffic, the limit goes up to 60!
Matters would be greatly improved if there were at least an adequacy of footpaths, but of course almost everything in the built environment revolves around the storage of cars and the prioritization of vehicular rights of way (which also explains why initiatives like the Welsh Government's 20mph zones and low traffic neighbourhoods provoke such tantrums from privileged motorists: the time when their convenience wasn't the be all and end all is beyond living memory.)
Hence also the fact that virtually all pavements are crossed by hundreds of driveways, most front gardens have been replaced by parking spaces, and the nation's youth grow morbidly obese in front of screens in large part because terrified parents fear their offspring being reduced to strawberry jam by angry drivers if they dare let them out to play on the streets.
Last summer, unable to repair a puncture, I had to walk my pushbike along the road from one village in Kent to the next (facing the traffic, of course, but it was heartstopping experience). When I got to the repair shop, the owner said, ‘Ah of course you wouldn’t know the safe walking routes because you’re not from round here.’
It varies dramatically driver to driver. Some will move entirely onto the other side and slow to 20mph, others will pass at 60 and leave you half an inch. Walking on the road is a big part of growing up in the countryside and many drivers don't understand they need to share the carriageway.
Just a wee reminder before I go to bed that the Scottish Hate Crime bill comes into force at midnight. After that time, it will be safer for you all to be nice to me, @Theuniondivvie, @malcolmg, @DavidL, and all other Scots. We, in turn, will have to be nice to everyone.
I like how the twat describes the lamb as a 'captive' lamb, as if Truss is so repugnant that even a lamb would have to be compelled by the threat of imminent mint sauce to be cuddled by her. These ghouls really over-egg things sometimes.
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Harsh bloke, Deuteronomy.
It's a good job Deuteronomy doesn't have the numbers to condemn these acts otherwise there would be an exodus. We all have the wisdom to be the judges of what's right without any lamentations..
No doubt the theologians for "Mothers For Liberty" pointed out that Holy Writ does NOT (specifically anyway) ban three-in-bed sex, at least when 2 of 3 are married couple?
Similar to Liberty University chaplain-in-chief advising (perhaps) Jerry Falwell's son & successor as head of LU, that the Bible says little (directly anyway) regarding sharing ones wife with the (or rather a) student body?
TD of V has been on March 31st since it started in 2009. Similarly, the rules for the painted heggs have not been changed.
It's funny that tolerance for trans is taken as such an affront to Christianity.
Understandable in relation to practising homosexuals, as the Bible prescribes capital punishment for that. But as far as I know there's nothing in the Law or the Prophets about stoning trans people.
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Harsh bloke, Deuteronomy.
It's a good job Deuteronomy doesn't have the numbers to condemn these acts otherwise there would be an exodus. We all have the wisdom to be the judges of what's right without any lamentations..
No doubt the theologians for "Mothers For Liberty" pointed out that Holy Writ does NOT (specifically anyway) ban three-in-bed sex, at least when 2 of 3 are married couple?
Similar to Liberty University chaplain-in-chief advising (perhaps) Jerry Falwell's son & successor as head of LU, that the Bible says little (directly anyway) regarding sharing ones wife with the (or rather a) student body?
I like how the twat describes the lamb as a 'captive' lamb, as if Truss is so repugnant that even a lamb would have to be compelled by the threat of imminent mint sauce to be cuddled by her. These ghouls really over-egg things sometimes.
Unless there's some sinister context I'm missing it's pretty demeaning to over-analyse a picture like that, even if it were done as an early April fools or something.
Just a wee reminder before I go to bed that the Scottish Hate Crime bill comes into force at midnight. After that time, it will be safer for you all to be nice to me, @Theuniondivvie, @malcolmg, @DavidL, and all other Scots. We, in turn, will have to be nice to everyone.
I am always nice to the Scots - I have been married to one for 60 years in six weeks time
In two robberies on the Bristol and Exeter Railway two passengers climbed from their carriage to the mail van and back. They were discovered at Bridgwater after the second robbery.[4] One was Henry Poole, a former guard on the Great Western Railway, dismissed for misconduct (possibly on suspicion of another robbery);[5] the other was Edward Nightingale, the son of George Nightingale, accused, but acquitted,[6] of robbing the Dover mail coach in 1826,[7] when two thieves had dressed in identical clothes to gain an alibi for the other.[8] They were transported for 15 years.[9] Henry was sent to Bermuda on the Sir Robert Seppings (ship) in December 1850 whilst Edward was transported to Fremantle on the Sea Park in January 1854.[10][11] '
I like how the twat describes the lamb as a 'captive' lamb, as if Truss is so repugnant that even a lamb would have to be compelled by the threat of imminent mint sauce to be cuddled by her. These ghouls really over-egg things sometimes.
Just a wee reminder before I go to bed that the Scottish Hate Crime bill comes into force at midnight. After that time, it will be safer for you all to be nice to me, @Theuniondivvie, @malcolmg, @DavidL, and all other Scots. We, in turn, will have to be nice to everyone.
Great folks (and folkettes and everything in between) from a great country, I've always said that.
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I've never been fussed to watch Minder, but yes, I'm sure it's a gem too.
We'll agree to put up bills to bail out a Canadian pension fund and some Chinese investors...
For the first time in my life, I want a Labour government to nationalise something.
Had some potential, but poor scripts, and slightly dodgy acting.
> allegations of affair between her and Trump Mini-Me Cory Lewandowski, as alleged in print by Daily Mail & NY Post, have been denied but NOT refuted.
> already plenty of MAGA-maniac nutbaggery with just Trump, he needs someone who can reach beyond his base.
> plenty of other GOPer women available (NOT including Nikki Haley!) with more appeal and less baggage.
> as South Dakota goes, so goes North Dakota (at least in recent years).
I wonder if they hired him hoping to have a hit in the US. Looking at Wiki is never took off there apparently. It was a hit in the UK and elsewhere anyway.
Incorrect. Check out Deuteronomy 22.5
5The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Thames is likely to be insolvent within 18 months. The government can take it over without obligation to make either shareholders or bond holders whole.
They wouldn't even have to legislate to do so.
Assuming he isn't locked up for twelve months for contempt of court and thereby his campaign jars to a sudden halt.
Also an abomination.
The OT fashion police were seriously OTT.
Lots of daft shit in the first few chapters.
(No SeanT jokes, please.)
But then, my preferred option is a not-for-profit mutual organisation and they don't have a stellar track record either.
The Sweeney
Minder
Quatermass 79
The Fear
Capital City
Widows
There's a lot of good stuff in there
I was tending to the view that they weren't yet ready, and that therefore the fear (currently big in the Arab world) that the ritual will be carried out in the second half of this year's Ramadan was unfounded.
But this article from September 2022 gives to believe that they've been ready for a while now:
https://allisrael.com/red-heifer-sacrifice-could-take-place-in-about-a-year-in-jerusalem
Supposedly two of the five have been found to be impure, which presumably means they each sprouted more than one hair that wasn't red, rather than that a farmhand rested his jacket on them by mistake, which would have the same signification as yoking.
I wonder whether James Burke has looked at this. It's just the sort of thing he'd be interested in.
This small group of people with their obsession could blow the Middle East sky high and it's not completely clear what can be done to stop them. Perhaps it won't be this year that they'll go for it, but they do seem to have been making small steps of progress for quite some time.
Incidentally, visions of cities or buildings that are at the location of current ones but which are different - perhaps different in mundane ways, perhaps being far more intricate and architecturally "wow" - are a recorded feature of a certain state of consciousness.
Which the Treasury is arguing must be protected. Same for Freehold/Leasehold.
They aren’t going to change their tune. Nationalisation or bankruptcy or whatever.
The same advice will go to Starmer and Co. Protect the investors and screw the customers.
Fearful of rewatching it in case I think it’s duff..
The worry with Trump this time is he will abandon the conservative figures who are genuine true believers in that cause (worrying enough people but "normal"), in favour of slavishly loyal, utterly amoral grifters.
Careful of those mildews.
As for being locked up for contempt - or just about anything else - that would NOT disqualify Trump from either running for POTUS, or from serving IF elected.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ljvdTh1jq-Y
Callan
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDdSWjpPJDg
Both with Edward Woodward. Fanon says the character is the same person
Kristi Noem NOT alone, and she AIN'T all that special . . . except in her own head . . . and the hopes of her punters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg6AFZJl5Xk&list=PLiZCl6XIGf-hVlWA6QzBgrDSAk_zG4Zd2&index=6
Are there any states he couldn't run in?
Could a federal court require his release before the election?
If he wins when in custody, could either he himself or a federal court require his release after he takes office?
Personally I think he's so batshit that there will be some surprises before the election. E.g. perhaps he will run abroad, to El Salvador or wherever, and claim he hasn't done any such thing, because black is white if he says it is. Or he could call for a far-right armed uprising before the day of sentencing. He wouldn't be able to cope with real prison IMO.
Labeling the movie "The Great Train Robbery" staring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland as a "Western".
Ballot access is government by state laws, but given recent SCOTUS decision PLUS fact that Trump will be THE nominee of the Republican Party - a "major party" in just about every state, with guaranteed ballot access - reckon that this will NOT keep Trump off the ballot in ANY state of the Union.
As for the rest of your questions/surmises, we MAY just have to see. But do NOT hold your breath waiting for your scenario(s) to transpire.
If he is convicted and does not win I have the nasty thought he will never serve a day in prison - his age and status being used as reasons not to.
Martin Sheen. Impossibly young. Exercising in his pants. Wasn't he really drunk in this scene? We are five minutes in and the greatness is seeping out, like sweat. There goes the mirror.
Yes, that is Harrison Ford
Why does Edward Woodward have four “d’s” in his name?
Because otherwise he would be Ewar Woowar.
Americans take college basketball seriously -- especially during "March Madness". (Which extends into April.)
But I'd probably hate to watch it with you.
https://twitter.com/RhonddaBryant/status/1774545825609162761
Indiana being one of THE top basketball fan states in the Union, along with KY & NC.
Perhaps somewhat ironic that the University of Utah womens basketball team was alleged/reportedly targets of anti-Black, neo-Nazi hate crime in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where they were staying while playing in women's NCAA Div I tournament round, held in nearby Spokane, Washington.
Also home to the team Utah women played, which was . . . wait for it . . . Gonzaga University.
Yes, Americans DO take college basketball seriously.
And MAGA-maniacs & Neo-Nazis take spewing ignorance, lies and hate very seriously also.
Fuck this is good...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/nintchdbpict000000150971.jpg
(Edit.. oh, ROTV , though the rhythm's a bit off.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway_(train_operating_company)
Bryant being unduly sniffy.
Similar to Liberty University chaplain-in-chief advising (perhaps) Jerry Falwell's son & successor as head of LU, that the Bible says little (directly anyway) regarding sharing ones wife with the (or rather a) student body?
Their front page will worry no 10 .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Great_Train_Robbery
But there was an earlier robberyt on the GWR ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_robbery
' The Great Western Mail Robbery (1849)
In two robberies on the Bristol and Exeter Railway two passengers climbed from their carriage to the mail van and back. They were discovered at Bridgwater after the second robbery.[4] One was Henry Poole, a former guard on the Great Western Railway, dismissed for misconduct (possibly on suspicion of another robbery);[5] the other was Edward Nightingale, the son of George Nightingale, accused, but acquitted,[6] of robbing the Dover mail coach in 1826,[7] when two thieves had dressed in identical clothes to gain an alibi for the other.[8] They were transported for 15 years.[9] Henry was sent to Bermuda on the Sir Robert Seppings (ship) in December 1850 whilst Edward was transported to Fremantle on the Sea Park in January 1854.[10][11] '
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12RnKyivaVc
Low: I Am The Lamb.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/30/nato-get-ready-for-russia-to-invade-baltic-ambassadors-warn/
Sunak is f*cked at the next election. He should make his legacy saving Ukraine while the Yanks are f*cking about.