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https://x.com/stephencvgraham/status/1782024115349565671?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
He should really be having a prolapse about the important stuff like calling for the Met Commissioner to resign because one of his cops was a bit of a twat.
https://x.com/zemmoureric/status/1782023161359265929
Would that be a blow ?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-68869020
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/punters-look-for-substitutes-during-foot-and-mouth-news-footage/810018540
And of totalisers/totalisators/"The tote"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqTD7L6-2Ws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYP3tcnYpbU
Also fascinated by the tote machine. Now off to find out how it worked ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation_(TV_series)
(*) Sorry, not the game.
All machines work by magic. In the case of computers, we Wizards tell the mere mortals that the Black Smoke that emerges from computers when they go bang is capacitors blowing.
Pah!
In reality, it is the Magic escaping. All the components in a computer contain Magic - held in its most condensed form in the processors. The designers pray and commit Strange Ephemeral Acts to ensure the right sort of magic will appear in the plastic or ceramic casing when it goes to the Holy Church known as the 'Fab' for invoking.
I am a heretic for letting you know all of this. If I disappear, it will be that the Guardians of the Magic (Greybeards) have got me.
https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/222173/
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video/ladbrokes-clerks-b-england-london-ladbrokes-clerks-as-news-footage/812589758
In the US, most gambling was banned in most states, and then has come back in two ways: State-run lotteries, and Indian casinos. (The Indian reservations are not controlled by state laws.)
Both have grown considerably in recent decades.
I hope you don't mind me doxxing your ancestor.
I especially like:
"Born in the town of Mumpf." Manchester (or Wales) needs somewhere called Mumpf. *
"Invented the right to privacy".
and Napoleon Bonaparte as NOT the father-in-law.
https://www.enlacejudio.com/2020/06/02/rachel-felix-la-actriz-que-invento-el-derecho-a-la-intimidad/
* I would say Notts, but we need somewhere called "Humpf" which would be pronounced 'umpf. .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_children_first
Most famous example: "The phrase was popularised by its usage on RMS Titanic.[14] Second Officer Charles Lightoller suggested to Captain Smith, "Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?", to which the captain responded: "Put the women and children in and lower away."[15] The first and second officers (William McMaster Murdoch and Lightoller) interpreted the evacuation order differently; Murdoch took it to mean women and children first, while Lightoller took it to mean women and children only. Second Officer Lightoller lowered lifeboats with empty seats if there were no women and children waiting to board, while First Officer Murdoch allowed a limited number of men to board if all the nearby women and children had embarked.[16] As a consequence, 74% of the women and 52% of the children on board were saved, but only 20% of the men.[17] Some officers on the Titanic misinterpreted the order from Captain Smith, and tried to prevent men from boarding the lifeboats.[18][19] It was intended that women and children would board first, with any remaining free spaces for men. Because not all women and children were saved on the Titanic, the few men who survived, like White Star official J. Bruce Ismay, were initially branded as cowards."
But with the rise of the telegraph, and the telephone, betting became more geographically disparate. You could bet on events happening on the other side of the country, with people you may never meet. And you might not know if the person you were betting with was rich or poor. Or a person or a group. Or even, heaven forfend, female. And the events being bet on could likewise be spread all over the country, or wider. And better systems and companies needed to be formed to manage gambling.
Similarly, the codification of sports. Football in its various forms existed for centuries, often in the form of mass brawls (Hi, Ashbourne!). But if you are going to send teams to play each other over a wide area, they all need to play by the same rules. Therefore the rules need codifying. It can be no coincidence that association football was codified in Cambridge in 1848. Cambridge railway station opened in 1845...
https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1278
Today's censure is for when it becomes addictive and ruins people but it's worth bearing in mind most people who do gamble, and most of us have at least once (and very large numbers play the lottery), do not have a problem.
And so on, and so on.
What there is not a trace of in any of his writing is fascism -- though he has often been charged with that.
(For the record: I find many of his ideas provocative. But he was wrong, wrong, wrong, with his Malthusian predictions of population growth.
On the other hand, "The Man Who Sold the Moon" inspired both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, a case of life imitating art.)
When Mandelson said that New Labour was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes" he should have added, "and we don't care who gets hurt in the process."
In this area we saw a government that was captured by the interests of the industry it ought to have been seeking to regulate, and promoted the interests of that industry above those of the country's citizens. And this was a pattern that we saw with New Labour again and again and again.
The MP for Fylde announced that he would not stand at the next election after the allegations were referred to Lancashire police.
The Conservative party said that an internal investigation could not conclude there had been a misuse of party funds. However, it said that Menzies had demonstrated a “pattern of behaviour” that fell below the standards expected of MP.
In a statement, he said: “It has been an enormous privilege representing the people of Fylde since 2010, but due to the pressures on myself and my elderly mother, I have decided to resign from the Conservative party and will not stand at the forthcoming general election.
“This has been a very difficult week for me and I request that my family’s privacy is respected.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/21/former-tory-mp-mark-menzies-quits-amid-claims-he-misused-party-funds
Or you could listen to the actual travel expert, his mind expertly attuned to the vibrations of the world, after decades of exploration. Thankyou. I’m here all week
Whilst it sounds as if it is very important that there IS one.
For counterpoint, also see Jacob Bronowski's "Ascent of Man".
The episode in which Clark praises the French rioters and strikers of May 1968 is superb, as also is the episode (which may in fact be the same one) in which he denounces computers. 👍👍
Fact: he was seriously feted for this series, but he was embarrassed because he thought the picture he gave of the history of European culture (Iona, Catholic church, Renaissance, printing, Protestant Reformation - lots of Italy, Netherlands, German region, England) was weaker than it should have been because he left out Spain.
Nottingham Forest have just tweeted this.
Three extremely poor decisions - three penalties not given - which we simply cannot accept.
We warned the PGMOL that the VAR is a Luton fan before the game but they didn’t change him. Our patience has been tested multiple times.
NFFC will now consider its options.
https://twitter.com/NFFC/status/1782056187652960764
More generally your model fails to allow for the many Churches which denounced gambling and which went to make up the sort of middle class plus aspiring working class which didn't approve of things like gambling, dirty movies and drink: so perhaps you need to add that element in, more explicitly?
- You don't mention the football pools! Littlewoods had collectors covering practically every urban and suburban street in the country. For many people, this was the only gambling in which they partook.
- After the Gaming Act of 1960 the US-based mafia muscled in in a big way, and a decade or so later it was thought things had gone a tad too far.
- Up until I am not sure when (the 1990s?) both "quality" and tabloid newspapers devoted pages to horseracing...and other pages to share prices. So if you're interested in the class divide...
Not sure how I feel about gambling. It's been a plus in my life but for many that's not the case. And its victims are often those who can least afford it, sucked in by the delusional hope of big payout for small stake.
I remember reading about the woman reported to be the UK's biggest taxpayer, the owner/CEO of Bet365.com. She'd taken them online and presided over an astonishing growth in profits - hence the personal remuneration and the consequent tax.
It was presented as a very positive story, female entrepreneur, innovation, business success, jobs created in the north, benefits to the exchequer, and that's all true, but still I thought, hmm, so the country's shining example of SME growth is coining it from people making losing bets. How good is that really?
Tchoh!
Best league in the world has clowns as referees.
He's just Marine Le Pen's pet by the way. He'll end up backing her like he did last time.
Someone like Brigitte Bardot has much more integrity and backed Jean-Luc Melenchon in the first round.
And that's nothing like a war zone. Some lads have positioned some smoke grenades, is all.
Zemmour's parents came from Algeria.
I don't know about the Mafia. It wouldn't surprise me. But I also know that some of the bookies in Britain came over from Ireland and/or Northern Ireland and were not afraid of a bit of gunplay.
The Colony Club in London was a big hangout for the US mafia in the 1960s as I recall.
I bet a massively experienced restaurant critic - Jay Rayner - can walk into most restaurants and work out what he’s going to eat and what the staff will be like and how the menu will go, within 5 minutes. Moreover if he returns to a restaurant he knows very well - and loves - but hasn’t visited in half a decade, he will pretty much instantly detect a problem and have a good chance of diagnosing why and what that is: he will also be expert at noting details, especially changes
Think of me as the “Jay Rayner of Place”
http://aboutasfarasdelgados.blogspot.com/2014/08/luis-louis-ladbrokes-life.html
report on his own team because he supports them so emotionally, so he is always too hopeful - or too despairing
Or take you. You have a good political brain but I bet it goes AWOL when it comes to Scotland and the SNP
Leon: Something’s wrong, I can feel it in my waters.
The closest widely used analogue I can think of in the UK is perhaps the sweeping assumptions made in application of laws around the Proceeds of Crime Act.
"Whilst lecturing in America Lardner was paid by Norris Brothers, the largest firm of locomotive builders, to investigate a fatal accident in Reading, near Philadelphia, where a boiler had exploded on a newly made train. Lardner pronounced that the accident had been caused by lightning, which meant that Norris Brothers were not personally liable for the accident. A committee of the Franklin Institute pointed out that there was no lightning present at that time and that the pumps had been faulty, the water indicator was ill-designed and the bridge bands made of cast iron rather than wrought iron. The Coroner's inquest jury were persuaded by Lardner that the accident was an 'act of God' but the company were careful to design their later locomotives with wrought-iron bands."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Lardner
Perhaps he could be resurrected and appear at the Post Office inquiry? He'd still appear a more reliable expert than the current ones...
His basic case is valid, as his (20mpg iirc) residential street is the entrance to a shopping centre car park, and many vehicles drive down it at dangerous speeds every day.
Some may know the context. I think it is perhaps overreach. There were similar instances by the Blair-Brown Govt in their late authoritarian phase, when they were calling everyone who moved "terrorists" to justify stop and search, and trying to crack down on photography in public spaces.
It seems to me to be in the same category as some PSPO cockups, which will rely on the target being cowed.
This may get picked up by media, and probably will by the Black Belt Barrister on YT.
https://twitter.com/CitizenUddin/status/1781716222775611558
(can't make it embed - you will have to visit the link)
That was me being the “Jay Rayner of Place” but using it on a politician’s sexuality. The same instant comprehension, beyond the wit of mere mortals
Think of me as “the Jay Rayner of Place” and the “Michiko Kakutani of Unexpected Kinkiness in Politics” tho the second isn’t as pithy I accept. And I am a pith artist. Think of me as the Pith Artist de Nos Jours and the
(Continued page 197)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/21/police-call-robust-presence-pro-palestine-protests/
They are absolutely loving it that someone is stirring it up among "rank and file" police officers, with Rick Prior, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents them, saying that police needed more authority to stove in lefty and Muslim protestors' heads "stamp out anti-Semitism".
PS I have encountered several white non-Jews who are going on about "anti-Semitism" at the moment having previously shown NO interest in the subject as far as I am aware, who are using the term as code for sticking it to non-whites and especially to British people from Pakistani backgrounds. None of these dickheads would know the difference between the blood libel and a pogrom, or between Cable Street and Kristallnacht.
#2 is what strikes me as weird straight off the bat. Contacting a specifically named Councillor or members of her family. That's weird. Why only her, and why her family?
If her family are getting harassed, I can understand perhaps this action, but if not, this is just extremely bizarre.
Contacting an elected representative should always be legal, but not harassing their family members.
#3 Harassment etc is illegal, so fair enough. If harassment has been happening, if not, again this is unjustified.
#4 IANAL but this seems like standard practice, to require consent to post images of other people online.
In public consent to photograph should be irrelevant as there is no expectation of privacy - but possible issues around recognisable individuals (), though no 'copyright' issue as no commercial motive, and afaik it is all motor vehicles anyway and number plates are not traceable by the public.
I surmise that this Councillor is perhaps the only one who complained, and that the ward may be this Councillor's ward. (checked - it is).
I think the notice is essentially an attempt at intimidation to say "stop bothering us and go away" using a threatening sounding procedure. They are relying imo on the nebulous definitions of "harassment, alarm or distress".
There are a number of problems with the notice itself, as the legislation relies heavily on tests of "reasonableness". He is certainly more aggressive than I would be, but then I haven't had mine and my neighbours' childrens' safety placed at risk for years.
The relevent road is Windsor Road, Ealing. It is a long, narrow residential road used as the entrance to a 600-800 space car park for Ealing Broadway shopping centre.
The stuff near the primary school may potentially be more awkward, with parents getting out of vehicles when they have parked illegally on yellow zigzags putting kids on the footway, crossing to school at risk etc, or drive the wrong way through one ways. This stuff is always more controversial in identifiable communities,
We saw something similar when Vanilla shrank pictures when too many pics were previously embedded.
Harassing members of the Councillors family OTOH is an entirely different matter.
It seems reading into it a bit there's more to the story than meets the eye, in particular a particular grudge between this person and the Councillor named. It seems the Councillor named has complained to the Police but the Police acting on behalf of a Councillor when the member of the public has done nothing wrong is not their job.
Dealing with harassment is their job.
Difficult to know without knowing more. The "or their family" is the troubling bit, why is that there? Harassing someone's family is absolutely not OK.
I want to stand up (a little) for the officer involved on the ground. He was only doing what seems to be standard Met policy. Appeasement of 'pro palestine' thugs who they fear might cause trouble or violence. It's not this incident that needs analysing it's the Met's own policy for the marches.
I wonder whether that is a normal way of dealing with political donations.
dogcat for scale. What else would be handy is if we must have massive images, can they at least be shrunk when quoted? I've no idea whether Vanilla allows this.Free sites you can use online to easily upload them, like imgbb.com
Then to post here use the simple code open-triangular-bracket a href="urlofimage.jpg"backslash close-triangular-bracket and the image will go up without wasting the sites quota.