With 13.8%, the LibDems pulled in more seats than the Tories.
Ummm:
These seats will have been seats where Reform is more likely to do well, surely? They're much more likely to run candidates in (say) Rotherham than Richmond. So I would be wary about reading too much into this.
That’s the question. Some evidence they weren’t that scientific about their choices, but I doubt they would have got the same score if they’d stood everywhere. There must have been some sort of selection going on.
Given these were locals and a free hit I think the Reform performance demonstrates they are indeed a make believe party and their followers will return to the Tories come the general election.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
Snigger. The SNP are more broke than a broken thing. They need a contested election with all the costs of that like a hole in the head. They will also have to give an update on their membership numbers again which they could do without.
Yousaf has left a complete shambles behind him. In fairness to him he inherited exactly the same. What we need now are some more charges. A small soupcon of misery added to the dish.
Perhaps Humza will be contributing a handy chunk of his £52k pa pension to party coffers?
I rather think your satire has gone over the heads of PB ...
So PB Yoons, what first attracted you to believing any old shite as long as it’s SNPbad?
...Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs?...
Oh Lord above, it's obvious (smacks own forehead): dissertation/PhD thesis binding services. Most quality university towns will have a local thesis binding services, which will turn your text into something that looks like a proper hardback thesis.
With 13.8%, the LibDems pulled in more seats than the Tories.
Ummm:
These seats will have been seats where Reform is more likely to do well, surely? They're much more likely to run candidates in (say) Rotherham than Richmond. So I would be wary about reading too much into this.
That’s the question. Some evidence they weren’t that scientific about their choices, but I doubt they would have got the same score if they’d stood everywhere. There must have been some sort of selection going on.
Given these were locals and a free hit I think the Reform performance demonstrates they are indeed a make believe party and their followers will return to the Tories come the general election.
As an aside, the same is true of the Greens, and - to a lesser extent - the Liberal Democrats.
One of the greatest scenes in all of the films. Although the breaking of Gandalf's staff was a weird addition.
Gandalf was a bit useless in defending that citadel I seem to remember. Lots of poncing about. Not many fireballs or lightning bolts.
Olorin’s role was to inspire mankind not to defend them
Magic in LOTR is far more about lore, and applying technology, (or in the case of evil magic, subjugating others’ wills), than about altering the laws of physics. A powerful Maia like Gandalf or Sauron could override the laws of physics, but would invoke Divine retribution.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
Something I was involved with in a previous life but no longer up-to-date. Google short run book printing. On these quantities it will be digitally printed (ink jet) rather than offset so check the print quality is good enough for your purposes.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
With 13.8%, the LibDems pulled in more seats than the Tories.
Ummm:
These seats will have been seats where Reform is more likely to do well, surely? They're much more likely to run candidates in (say) Rotherham than Richmond. So I would be wary about reading too much into this.
That’s the question. Some evidence they weren’t that scientific about their choices, but I doubt they would have got the same score if they’d stood everywhere. There must have been some sort of selection going on.
Given these were locals and a free hit I think the Reform performance demonstrates they are indeed a make believe party and their followers will return to the Tories come the general election.
As an aside, the same is true of the Greens, and - to a lesser extent - the Liberal Democrats.
Comparing the list v mayoral votes in London suggests about 55% of Reform voters switched to the Tories, when it was a clear Lab v Con contest.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
We’ve been getting advice and anecdotes from our friends who let a clifftop house in County Waterford and they’ve said similar: that most guests are lovely and look after the place but every now and again you get the nightmare family.
Some are demanding but fair and that’s useful because they voice the feedback others are too shy to share. One of those was the big man Paddy Power’s mum. I can imagine.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
It’s a problem in the long run. A Labour government won’t diverge very much from US foreign policy, will pursue Western interests, won’t be red in tooth and claw, will do authoritarian things like deporting illegal immigrants.
And that will enrage a lot of people who waver between Labour/Galloway/Green.
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
I suspect >95% of the electorate don't have strong views on Gaza, beyond a general feeling that it's sad, complex, and pretty hopeless.
I don't think it will sway many votes, and even fewer from Labour to Conservative which is what matters. Around the margin, it may cost Labour a seat or two but in the great scheme of things it's irrelevant to the GE.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
It’s a problem in the long run. A Labour government won’t diverge very much from US foreign policy, will pursue Western interests, won’t be red in tooth and claw, will do authoritarian things like deporting illegal immigrants.
And that will enrage a lot of people who waver between Labour/Galloway/Green.
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
I suspect >95% of the electorate don't have strong views on Gaza, beyond a general feeling that it's sad, complex, and pretty hopeless.
I don't think it will sway many votes, and even fewer from Labour to Conservative which is what matters. Around the margin, it may cost Labour a seat or two but in the great scheme of things it's irrelevant to the GE.
I do not expect any labour to conservatives switchers but it is conservative votes Starmer needs and it will be a question of trust for many
Snigger. The SNP are more broke than a broken thing. They need a contested election with all the costs of that like a hole in the head. They will also have to give an update on their membership numbers again which they could do without.
Yousaf has left a complete shambles behind him. In fairness to him he inherited exactly the same. What we need now are some more charges. A small soupcon of misery added to the dish.
Perhaps Humza will be contributing a handy chunk of his £52k pa pension to party coffers?
I rather think your satire has gone over the heads of PB ...
Went over mine.
BTW, has anyone ever seen @malcolmg in the same room as Graeme McCormick?
If I look him up and he does not look like a Greek God, I will be coming for you
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
Unfortunately I think scum encourages scum too. We see it here with fly tipping. Once someone’s done it in a place the bar is lowered for everyone else.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
I'm not sure going "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh Gooodddd, Jesusssss, uuuuh" at the crucial moment counts as a conversion, tbh.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
I think a very small number of people can have a disproportionate impact on everyone else. It only takes a single dog walker not to clean up after their hound, and then all the other people who take the same path, until it rains enough for the slugs to dispose of the waste, will have to dodge the result, and they will think what arseholes people are.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
How many people throw rubbish out of their cars? One percent? Maybe five percent? Would anyone on PB do that? (I’d like to think not). Yet the one (or five) percent are enough to strew litter over every verge in the land. Some wankers just don’t care.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestinian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Working people? So ending the triple lock for the elderly money grabbers?
Given the triple lock has acquired hallowed status what's to be done? who will be brave enough to ditch it? At some point it will have to be tackled.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
I'm not sure going "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh Gooodddd, Jesusssss, uuuuh" at the crucial moment counts as a conversion, tbh.
I’m sure it would take only a minor adjustment to Allahu Akbar to say God, that was great.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Working people? So ending the triple lock for the elderly money grabbers?
Given the triple lock has acquired hallowed status what's to be done? who will be brave enough to ditch it? At some point it will have to be tackled.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
A braver Starmer might put it in the manifesto, but he’s too scared of anything that might scare the horses. The result will shackle any attempts at serious change, sadly.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Tell Vladimir Putin they've been laughing at the size of his cock?
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
How many people throw rubbish out of their cars? One percent? Maybe five percent? Would anyone on PB do that? (I’d like to think not). Yet the one (or five) percent are enough to strew litter over every verge in the land. Some wankers just don’t care.
That's probably right.
Not sure of mentality. Can get away with it. Too small to matter. Someone else will pick it up. Too messy for my car. Can't be bothered.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestinian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
I suspect >95% of the electorate don't have strong views on Gaza, beyond a general feeling that it's sad, complex, and pretty hopeless.
I don't think it will sway many votes, and even fewer from Labour to Conservative which is what matters. Around the margin, it may cost Labour a seat or two but in the great scheme of things it's irrelevant to the GE.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
How many people throw rubbish out of their cars? One percent? Maybe five percent? Would anyone on PB do that? (I’d like to think not). Yet the one (or five) percent are enough to strew litter over every verge in the land. Some wankers just don’t care.
I wonder whether the civil penalty regime for this could be reformed to be more like speeding. Litter awareness courses. I think a lot of the people who let their dogs shit on the pavement or throw litter out of cars are doing it because they assume everyone else does.
There will always be hardcore nihilists but I suspect you could influence a lot of people at the margins.
Working people? So ending the triple lock for the elderly money grabbers?
Given the triple lock has acquired hallowed status what's to be done? who will be brave enough to ditch it? At some point it will have to be tackled.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
A braver Starmer might put it in the manifesto, but he’s too scared of anything that might scare the horses. The result will shackle any attempts at serious change, sadly.
He won't achieve anything if he doesn't win power.
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
I'm not sure going "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh Gooodddd, Jesusssss, uuuuh" at the crucial moment counts as a conversion, tbh.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
How many people throw rubbish out of their cars? One percent? Maybe five percent? Would anyone on PB do that? (I’d like to think not). Yet the one (or five) percent are enough to strew litter over every verge in the land. Some wankers just don’t care.
That's probably right.
Not sure of mentality. Can get away with it. Too small to matter. Someone else will pick it up. Too messy for my car. Can't be bothered.
Probably a mixture.
A few years ago I visited a car showroom with the wife. One wamkervhad parked his expensive car in the middle of the last two spaces. I decided to to park as close as I could and deliberately opened my door into his (not hard enough to damage). Really pissed him off. Point being I would have done that if he had parked in one space. Some people are just dicks.
Working people? So ending the triple lock for the elderly money grabbers?
Given the triple lock has acquired hallowed status what's to be done? who will be brave enough to ditch it? At some point it will have to be tackled.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
Sunak and Hunt have started that journey with reductions in NI and the grown up response is to increase basic tax to 25% for all and abolition NI
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
I'm not sure going "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh Gooodddd, Jesusssss, uuuuh" at the crucial moment counts as a conversion, tbh.
I’m sure it would take only a minor adjustment to Allahu Akbar to say God, that was great.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
My stress levels dropped substantially when I was no longer an accidental landlord renting a property.
My last tenant let her dog piss all over the carpet, had an alcohol problem, and left used fag-ends in the bathroom. She also had lots of unopened letters that kept arriving weeks after her tenancy ended, some forwarded and many of which were clearly legal ones.
I was lucky she paid, though, as she was a semi-psychotic divorcee who ended up being taken to court, and made the papers.
Working people? So ending the triple lock for the elderly money grabbers?
Given the triple lock has acquired hallowed status what's to be done? who will be brave enough to ditch it? At some point it will have to be tackled.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
A braver Starmer might put it in the manifesto, but he’s too scared of anything that might scare the horses. The result will shackle any attempts at serious change, sadly.
He won't achieve anything if he doesn't win power.
I think it’s signed sealed and done. No one is listening to the Tories any more. Blair famously was cautious in his first term too. Time in power is precious. Needs to be used to change the country for the better.
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
I suspect >95% of the electorate don't have strong views on Gaza, beyond a general feeling that it's sad, complex, and pretty hopeless.
I don't think it will sway many votes, and even fewer from Labour to Conservative which is what matters. Around the margin, it may cost Labour a seat or two but in the great scheme of things it's irrelevant to the GE.
A new ULTRA low in wokery at the BBC where Antiques Roadshow isn't about antiques...it's about hospitals and those who worked there where no item is given a valuation. It might be interesting but its not the fffing Antiques Fffing Roadshow. It means more Fiona Bruce too. I switched off.
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
I'm not sure going "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh Gooodddd, Jesusssss, uuuuh" at the crucial moment counts as a conversion, tbh.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
Bothies will probably be OK because they are sufficiently isolated that they don't get the footfall and volume of crud that Ben Nevis or Snowdon do.
Working people? So ending the triple lock for the elderly money grabbers?
Given the triple lock has acquired hallowed status what's to be done? who will be brave enough to ditch it? At some point it will have to be tackled.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
A braver Starmer might put it in the manifesto, but he’s too scared of anything that might scare the horses. The result will shackle any attempts at serious change, sadly.
He won't achieve anything if he doesn't win power.
The manifesto will be like the conversion you have with someone on a first date. Nothing too controversial, but just enough to hold their interest and want to see you again.
The depths of your Socialist depravity should only be revealed later.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
How many people throw rubbish out of their cars? One percent? Maybe five percent? Would anyone on PB do that? (I’d like to think not). Yet the one (or five) percent are enough to strew litter over every verge in the land. Some wankers just don’t care.
I wonder whether the civil penalty regime for this could be reformed to be more like speeding. Litter awareness courses. I think a lot of the people who let their dogs shit on the pavement or throw litter out of cars are doing it because they assume everyone else does.
There will always be hardcore nihilists but I suspect you could influence a lot of people at the margins.
I think a lot of this could also be tackled with good design. Modern life generates a lot of litter, and I think a lot of it could be designed away, or you could make disposing of litter responsibly easier, with better design.
But a lot of design seems to be motivated by the wrong things. So, for example, lots of public waste bins are designed with very small holes to make it difficult for people to use them for their household or commercial waste, but that then makes them less pleasant to use anyway. Make it easy for people to do the right thing.
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
I'm not sure going "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh Gooodddd, Jesusssss, uuuuh" at the crucial moment counts as a conversion, tbh.
Edward Woodwards reaction to the Wicker Man ?
Who knows, but Edward Woodward would.
Or Ewar Woowar, as Joe Pasquale once referred to him.
Working people? So ending the triple lock for the elderly money grabbers?
Given the triple lock has acquired hallowed status what's to be done? who will be brave enough to ditch it? At some point it will have to be tackled.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
A braver Starmer might put it in the manifesto, but he’s too scared of anything that might scare the horses. The result will shackle any attempts at serious change, sadly.
He won't achieve anything if he doesn't win power.
The manifesto will be like the conversion you have with someone on a first date. Nothing too controversial, but just enough to hold their interest and want to see you again.
The depths of your Socialist depravity should only be revealed later.
Everybody here is afraid that Starmer will go woke. You do actually get that he believes in nothing, yes? Just getting power and that's it?
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Jess Phillips MP @jessphillips · 34m Personal statement coming shortly
Unlike UCAS, who are getting rid of them.
I wish they had abolished 27 years ago, I stressed over mine for weeks.
In those daysI was genuinely shy and very wet behind the ears.
The Irish system is like that - only your exam results count, there's no personal statement, no interviews, no letters of recommendations.
Despite doing sciences, I was always much more of a bullshit artist so it sounded dreadful to me - I applied to English & Scottish universities instead!
The interview I was well prepped for thanks to my school, they told me to avoid the bullshit, just stick to confident/assured.
Did they tell you to avoid subtlety?
No.
It was at university I realised I couldn't do subtlety, as my friends observed when it came to love I was transparent as water.
I arrived at university as a good Muslim boy but by the end of Lent I wasn't.
Is that a tradition you Borrowed from Christianity?
Kinda.
I’ll leave it a loan.
This is probably TMI but I was definitely think about Jesus/God when I ceased to be a good Muslim.
I'm not sure going "Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh Gooodddd, Jesusssss, uuuuh" at the crucial moment counts as a conversion, tbh.
Edward Woodwards reaction to the Wicker Man ?
Who knows, but Edward Woodward would.
Complete with a magical token strapped to his cranium. A Head Ward, in fact.
A new ULTRA low in wokery at the BBC where Antiques Roadshow isn't about antiques...it's about hospitals and those who worked there where no item is given a valuation. It might be interesting but its not the fffing Antiques Fffing Roadshow. It means more Fiona Bruce too. I switched off.
Ah for the good old days of Hugh Scully stroking a rather tedious bureau. What has happened to this once great country?
The Tories are saying that Labour can only form a government with a coalition of chaos.
The Tories really are pathetic. The cheek after all the drama they’ve put the country through . Are the public really going to fall for this nonsense .
Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but RIP Bernard Hill (who I first remember as Yosser Hughes). He was on the radio just the other week talking about the new stage production of Boys from the Blackstuff.
Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.
He played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings.
His breakout role was in 1982 BBC TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, where he portrayed Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled - and often failed - to cope with unemployment in Liverpool.
He died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed.
His fiancé Alison and his son Gabriel were with him at the time.
Alan Bleasdale, who wrote Boys from the Blackstuff, said Hill's death was "a great loss and also a great surprise".
"It was an astonishing, mesmeric performance - Bernard gave everything to that and you can see it in all the scenes. He became Yosser Hughes."
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
Bothies will probably be OK because they are sufficiently isolated that they don't get the footfall and volume of crud that Ben Nevis or Snowdon do.
Yep. Ben Nevis is a big old draw as the highest in the land, and accessible via a long but easy walk (until the weather comes in and you really need that compass and the ability to use it). I stayed in Fort William once on the way to climbing it, and chatted with the landlady. The Locharber mafia (local mountain rescue) often encounter people very under equipped. I think most genuine hill walkers take care not to leave rubbish, but the idiots doing the three peaks and those doing the Ben on a whim not so much.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but RIP Bernard Hill (who I first remember as Yosser Hughes). He was on the radio just the other week talking about the new stage production of Boys from the Blackstuff.
Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.
He played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings.
His breakout role was in 1982 BBC TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, where he portrayed Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled - and often failed - to cope with unemployment in Liverpool.
He died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed.
His fiancé Alison and his son Gabriel were with him at the time.
Alan Bleasdale, who wrote Boys from the Blackstuff, said Hill's death was "a great loss and also a great surprise".
"It was an astonishing, mesmeric performance - Bernard gave everything to that and you can see it in all the scenes. He became Yosser Hughes."
RIP, he also narrated the Indian Hill Railways documentaries.
The Tories are saying that Labour can only form a government with a coalition of chaos.
The Tories really are pathetic. The cheek after all the drama they’ve put the country through . Are the public really going to fall for this nonsense .
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
I suspect >95% of the electorate don't have strong views on Gaza, beyond a general feeling that it's sad, complex, and pretty hopeless.
I don't think it will sway many votes, and even fewer from Labour to Conservative which is what matters. Around the margin, it may cost Labour a seat or two but in the great scheme of things it's irrelevant to the GE.
Scotland like the rest of the UK needs new elections asap
And on labour seems trouble brewing from the left though I had not heard that Owen Jones was heading up an anti Stamer campaign
One of the chairs of the left-wing Labour campaign group Momentum has quit her post and the party over Sir Keir Starmer's policy agenda, and his "disgusting response" to the war in Gaza.
Hilary Schan, who is also a councillor in Worthing, said she will now join the We Deserve Better campaign, headed by journalist Owen Jones, which aims to oust prominent Labour MPs at the next election and put independent and Green Party candidates in their place.
The announcement comes off the back of a widely successful local election campaign for Labour, but one where it suffered losses in its traditional council seats, especially in areas with large Muslim populations, over its stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Oh dear, you never really give up hope that Labour are going to come a cropper do you Big_G?
None of this will make a blind bit of difference to the next GE result. It's effect will be like ULEZ in London - net zero.
There are many in Labour who are angry with Starmer over his stance on Gaza and that was evidenced in yesterday's polling.
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
I suspect >95% of the electorate don't have strong views on Gaza, beyond a general feeling that it's sad, complex, and pretty hopeless.
I don't think it will sway many votes, and even fewer from Labour to Conservative which is what matters. Around the margin, it may cost Labour a seat or two but in the great scheme of things it's irrelevant to the GE.
Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but RIP Bernard Hill (who I first remember as Yosser Hughes). He was on the radio just the other week talking about the new stage production of Boys from the Blackstuff.
Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.
He played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings.
His breakout role was in 1982 BBC TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, where he portrayed Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled - and often failed - to cope with unemployment in Liverpool.
He died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed.
His fiancé Alison and his son Gabriel were with him at the time.
Alan Bleasdale, who wrote Boys from the Blackstuff, said Hill's death was "a great loss and also a great surprise".
"It was an astonishing, mesmeric performance - Bernard gave everything to that and you can see it in all the scenes. He became Yosser Hughes."
RIP, he also narrated the Indian Hill Railways documentaries.
And several Horizons including this all-time classic chronicling the early years of scientific research on rogue waves (once scientists finally accepted they existed)
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
Bothies will probably be OK because they are sufficiently isolated that they don't get the footfall and volume of crud that Ben Nevis or Snowdon do.
Yep. Ben Nevis is a big old draw as the highest in the land, and accessible via a long but easy walk (until the weather comes in and you really need that compass and the ability to use it). I stayed in Fort William once on the way to climbing it, and chatted with the landlady. The Locharber mafia (local mountain rescue) often encounter people very under equipped. I think most genuine hill walkers take care not to leave rubbish, but the idiots doing the three peaks and those doing the Ben on a whim not so much.
I saw a story re a review of some punter from England who said Ben Nevis was too steep and had no shops or toilets at the top so not worth visiting
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
A new ULTRA low in wokery at the BBC where Antiques Roadshow isn't about antiques...it's about hospitals and those who worked there where no item is given a valuation. It might be interesting but its not the fffing Antiques Fffing Roadshow. It means more Fiona Bruce too. I switched off.
Ah for the good old days of Hugh Scully stroking a rather tedious bureau. What has happened to this once great country?
Furniture is less represented as it less interesting to modern tastes. People come onto the shoe to fing out what their antiques are (if not obvious) and their worth. There is far too much of the presenter and not enough about antiques. Its also not imho down to any presenter to decide not to give a valuation. I refuse to watch it live anymore. For me its been ruined by wokery. Record and fast forward are huge blessings
Not sure if this has already been mentioned, but RIP Bernard Hill (who I first remember as Yosser Hughes). He was on the radio just the other week talking about the new stage production of Boys from the Blackstuff.
Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.
He played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings.
His breakout role was in 1982 BBC TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, where he portrayed Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled - and often failed - to cope with unemployment in Liverpool.
He died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed.
His fiancé Alison and his son Gabriel were with him at the time.
Alan Bleasdale, who wrote Boys from the Blackstuff, said Hill's death was "a great loss and also a great surprise".
"It was an astonishing, mesmeric performance - Bernard gave everything to that and you can see it in all the scenes. He became Yosser Hughes."
RIP, he also narrated the Indian Hill Railways documentaries.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
Colombia Turkey Bolivia Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
Yet they help or ignore Russia committing genocide , strange old world. Obviously they are not making money out of Israel
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestinian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Reminded me of a letter to the Harry Hill Show in about 1998 "All these tensions in the Middle East, why don't they solve them by having a long, drawn out war?"
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
Bothies will probably be OK because they are sufficiently isolated that they don't get the footfall and volume of crud that Ben Nevis or Snowdon do.
Yep. Ben Nevis is a big old draw as the highest in the land, and accessible via a long but easy walk (until the weather comes in and you really need that compass and the ability to use it). I stayed in Fort William once on the way to climbing it, and chatted with the landlady. The Locharber mafia (local mountain rescue) often encounter people very under equipped. I think most genuine hill walkers take care not to leave rubbish, but the idiots doing the three peaks and those doing the Ben on a whim not so much.
I saw a story re a review of some punter from England who said Ben Nevis was too steep and had no shops or toilets at the top so not worth visiting
That’s where Snowdon sorry Yr Wyddfa scores. A cafe, you can buy souvenirs and a railway station. Really the Scots just aren’t trying hard enough… I do recall scaling Snowdon (Pyg Trcak? Can’t recall) and being unable to reach the summit as too many people had slogged their way up from the summit station and were blocking the way, taking their summit photos.
A new ULTRA low in wokery at the BBC where Antiques Roadshow isn't about antiques...it's about hospitals and those who worked there where no item is given a valuation. It might be interesting but its not the fffing Antiques Fffing Roadshow. It means more Fiona Bruce too. I switched off.
Ah for the good old days of Hugh Scully stroking a rather tedious bureau. What has happened to this once great country?
Furniture is less represented as it less interesting to modern tastes. People come onto the shoe to fing out what their antiques are (if not obvious) and their worth. There is far too much of the presenter and not enough about antiques. Its also not imho down to any presenter to decide not to give a valuation. I refuse to watch it live anymore. For me its been ruined by wokery. Record and fast forward are huge blessings
You should get one of those new-fangled on/off buttons.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
Colombia Turkey Bolivia Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
Have they also done it with Russia, or do only certain crimes against humanity count?
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
How many people throw rubbish out of their cars? One percent? Maybe five percent? Would anyone on PB do that? (I’d like to think not). Yet the one (or five) percent are enough to strew litter over every verge in the land. Some wankers just don’t care.
I wonder whether the civil penalty regime for this could be reformed to be more like speeding. Litter awareness courses. I think a lot of the people who let their dogs shit on the pavement or throw litter out of cars are doing it because they assume everyone else does.
There will always be hardcore nihilists but I suspect you could influence a lot of people at the margins.
I think a lot of this could also be tackled with good design. Modern life generates a lot of litter, and I think a lot of it could be designed away, or you could make disposing of litter responsibly easier, with better design.
But a lot of design seems to be motivated by the wrong things. So, for example, lots of public waste bins are designed with very small holes to make it difficult for people to use them for their household or commercial waste, but that then makes them less pleasant to use anyway. Make it easy for people to do the right thing.
The Americans have an incredible talent for creating waste. In the airport lounge in SFO just now there were whole apples available, each lovingly wrapped in clingfilm.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
Colombia Turkey Bolivia Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
Have they also done it with Russia, or do only certain crimes against humanity count?
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
Colombia Turkey Bolivia Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
Have they also done it with Russia, or do only certain crimes against humanity count?
Snigger. The SNP are more broke than a broken thing. They need a contested election with all the costs of that like a hole in the head. They will also have to give an update on their membership numbers again which they could do without.
Yousaf has left a complete shambles behind him. In fairness to him he inherited exactly the same. What we need now are some more charges. A small soupcon of misery added to the dish.
Perhaps Humza will be contributing a handy chunk of his £52k pa pension to party coffers?
I rather think your satire has gone over the heads of PB ...
Went over mine.
BTW, has anyone ever seen @malcolmg in the same room as Graeme McCormick?
You do realise the 52k pension was a lie from the usual suspects down south? Evidently not.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
Colombia Turkey Bolivia Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
Have they also done it with Russia, or do only certain crimes against humanity count?
Israel's supporters only have one song: "The only reason you criticise Israel for committing crimes against humanity is because you don't like Jews". One day nobody's going to listen to that boring thicko mendacious crap.
A new ULTRA low in wokery at the BBC where Antiques Roadshow isn't about antiques...it's about hospitals and those who worked there where no item is given a valuation. It might be interesting but its not the fffing Antiques Fffing Roadshow. It means more Fiona Bruce too. I switched off.
Ah for the good old days of Hugh Scully stroking a rather tedious bureau. What has happened to this once great country?
Furniture is less represented as it less interesting to modern tastes. People come onto the shoe to fing out what their antiques are (if not obvious) and their worth. There is far too much of the presenter and not enough about antiques. Its also not imho down to any presenter to decide not to give a valuation. I refuse to watch it live anymore. For me its been ruined by wokery. Record and fast forward are huge blessings
You should get one of those new-fangled on/off buttons.
It's the same with a lot of stuff on tv. No need for on off.. just fast forward thro Fiona Bruce, Adverts, trailers, intros. Most of the more interesting items on the Antiques Roadshow end up as clips on you tube. One just has to be more selective. All this shite will lead to the license fee going which hopefully will fuck the BBC good and proper and it will be soooo richly deserved.
The Tories are saying that Labour can only form a government with a coalition of chaos.
Are they really? Lack of original ideas or sheer brazenness?
Mental retreat to Happy Place, I reckon.
It's going to be a long six months for everyone.
Nah. The sun is shining (albeit briefly, between the showers), the lilac is in bloom, the glorious succession of flowers is continuing apace. Longer nights, warmer temps, holidays, and I may even get a kitchen back by August (if the builders keep up the pace). There’s more to life than endlessly worrying over politics. At least for normal people…
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
Bothies will probably be OK because they are sufficiently isolated that they don't get the footfall and volume of crud that Ben Nevis or Snowdon do.
Yep. Ben Nevis is a big old draw as the highest in the land, and accessible via a long but easy walk (until the weather comes in and you really need that compass and the ability to use it). I stayed in Fort William once on the way to climbing it, and chatted with the landlady. The Locharber mafia (local mountain rescue) often encounter people very under equipped. I think most genuine hill walkers take care not to leave rubbish, but the idiots doing the three peaks and those doing the Ben on a whim not so much.
I saw a story re a review of some punter from England who said Ben Nevis was too steep and had no shops or toilets at the top so not worth visiting
That’s where Snowdon sorry Yr Wyddfa scores. A cafe, you can buy souvenirs and a railway station. Really the Scots just aren’t trying hard enough… I do recall scaling Snowdon (Pyg Trcak? Can’t recall) and being unable to reach the summit as too many people had slogged their way up from the summit station and were blocking the way, taking their summit photos.
But did you have your ironing board? A red one, too?
A new ULTRA low in wokery at the BBC where Antiques Roadshow isn't about antiques...it's about hospitals and those who worked there where no item is given a valuation. It might be interesting but its not the fffing Antiques Fffing Roadshow. It means more Fiona Bruce too. I switched off.
Ah for the good old days of Hugh Scully stroking a rather tedious bureau. What has happened to this once great country?
Good job people are switching off, don’t want the NHS being overwhelmed by a load of old red faced blokes with seizures.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
Colombia Turkey Bolivia Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
Have they also done it with Russia, or do only certain crimes against humanity count?
Israel's supporters only have one song: "The only reason you criticise Israel for committing crimes against humanity is because you don't like Jews". One day nobody's going to listen to that boring thicko mendacious crap.
Is not related to what I posted. Do these countries also criticise Putin Russia for the same crimes?
Snigger. The SNP are more broke than a broken thing. They need a contested election with all the costs of that like a hole in the head. They will also have to give an update on their membership numbers again which they could do without.
Yousaf has left a complete shambles behind him. In fairness to him he inherited exactly the same. What we need now are some more charges. A small soupcon of misery added to the dish.
Perhaps Humza will be contributing a handy chunk of his £52k pa pension to party coffers?
I rather think your satire has gone over the heads of PB ...
Went over mine.
BTW, has anyone ever seen @malcolmg in the same room as Graeme McCormick?
You do realise the 52k pension was a lie from the usual suspects down south? Evidently not.
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
Bothies will probably be OK because they are sufficiently isolated that they don't get the footfall and volume of crud that Ben Nevis or Snowdon do.
Yep. Ben Nevis is a big old draw as the highest in the land, and accessible via a long but easy walk (until the weather comes in and you really need that compass and the ability to use it). I stayed in Fort William once on the way to climbing it, and chatted with the landlady. The Locharber mafia (local mountain rescue) often encounter people very under equipped. I think most genuine hill walkers take care not to leave rubbish, but the idiots doing the three peaks and those doing the Ben on a whim not so much.
I saw a story re a review of some punter from England who said Ben Nevis was too steep and had no shops or toilets at the top so not worth visiting
That’s where Snowdon sorry Yr Wyddfa scores. A cafe, you can buy souvenirs and a railway station. Really the Scots just aren’t trying hard enough… I do recall scaling Snowdon (Pyg Trcak? Can’t recall) and being unable to reach the summit as too many people had slogged their way up from the summit station and were blocking the way, taking their summit photos.
But did you have your ironing board? A red one, too?
I’m soon going to be letting out my place in France as a holiday rental, and planning to do things properly ie nice toiletries in the bathrooms, crisp linens, welcome packs and so on.
One thing I’d like to do is a glossy illustrated coffee table style book containing all the local information about walks, places to visit, history of the area etc. Much more appealing than a stapled together set of sheets with the WiFi code and number for the local vets.
Does anyone know a good company for printing books like this in very short runs? I probably only need a dozen or so to start with. I’ve seen sone good self publishing businesses online but they tend to have very large minimum runs of several hundred, or be one off holiday snap printers like photo box that don’t quite have the quality.
It will get stolen. Seriously. I have friends in this business and at one point I was gonna Airbnb my flat - due to travelling so much - and they all said: don’t leave anything which you care about too much, it will get nicked
This is esp true of holiday homes - apparently - where guests presume “you won’t mind”
People can be beasts. My partner Airb&b-ed her apartment in Rothesay for a few years and the crap (sometimes literally) she had to put up with..
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
That really is dismal. Maddening. The bothy/shelter network in the Highlands is a brilliant resource, maintained largely by volunteers and the estates. They will simply close them if they are abused like that. And who can blame them if they do?
Bothies will probably be OK because they are sufficiently isolated that they don't get the footfall and volume of crud that Ben Nevis or Snowdon do.
Yep. Ben Nevis is a big old draw as the highest in the land, and accessible via a long but easy walk (until the weather comes in and you really need that compass and the ability to use it). I stayed in Fort William once on the way to climbing it, and chatted with the landlady. The Locharber mafia (local mountain rescue) often encounter people very under equipped. I think most genuine hill walkers take care not to leave rubbish, but the idiots doing the three peaks and those doing the Ben on a whim not so much.
That really is shitty (so to speak). A bothy once saved my bacon in really bad weather in the Cuillin.
Anecdote: Chatting to a couple of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. I decided that silence would be prudent, as it was clear that my views are somewhat out of step with theirs. Plenty of talk of Israeli genocide, not a single mention of the murderous, rapist, hostage taking terrorists responsible for initiating the war and ensuring its continuation.
Anecdote: Chatting to a group of fellow lefties today, and the conversation turned to Gaza. All agreed that the Hamas attack on October 7 was a total outrage and had no justification. All agreed that Netanyahu's response in killing thousands of innocent Gazans as collateral was also a total outrage. All wanted a peaceful outcome that included a Palestnian state and security for Israel, and that the future should exclude both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Any ideas how to reach that end point?
Stop funding Israel.
The following countries have severed diplomatic ties with Israel or imposed sanctions in response to the crimes against humanity that Israel is committing in Gaza:
Colombia Turkey Bolivia Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
Have they also done it with Russia, or do only certain crimes against humanity count?
Colombia, Turkey and Belize did condemn Russia. Bolivia did not. Colombia under Petro has been a strong critic both of Russia and IsraeI; now Petro is thinking to send army doctors to Gaza. To me he appeaes to be proving a much better role model for the left than Chavez or Maduro.
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Given these were locals and a free hit I think the Reform performance demonstrates they are indeed a make believe party and their followers will return to the Tories come the general election.
Looked at the charts, looked at the seats and wards, and all the party splits, and they were all yellow.
On a mildly connected note, with some competition today’s most depressing tweet
https://x.com/theiaincameron/status/1786841458378408439?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
I had no idea about Owen Jones and it is fair to say the middle east is about to get a whole lot worse if Netanyahu has his way, with direct consequences for Starmers stance which by the way I support
https://news.sky.com/story/israels-benjamin-netanyahu-rejects-ceasefire-deal-that-would-leave-hamas-intact-13129727
Some are demanding but fair and that’s useful because they voice the feedback others are too shy to share. One of those was the big man Paddy Power’s mum. I can imagine.
They’re also inspiring me to up my insta game.
40s now!!!! Got the value!
And that will enrage a lot of people who waver between Labour/Galloway/Green.
But, it won’t affect the election result.
I don't think it will sway many votes, and even fewer from Labour to Conservative which is what matters. Around the margin, it may cost Labour a seat or two but in the great scheme of things it's irrelevant to the GE.
And that is irrespective of their politics.
Some wankers just don’t care.
I think a simple link to earnings could be sold to the electorate. Alongside equalising taxation between earned, pension, and investment income, that might contain the costs for the medium term.
Not sure of mentality. Can get away with it. Too small to matter. Someone else will pick it up. Too messy for my car. Can't be bothered.
Probably a mixture.
https://youtu.be/4kI-PHegT34?si=_KqxHMYyrKjYeqHz
There will always be hardcore nihilists but I suspect you could influence a lot of people at the margins.
Some people are just dicks.
My stress levels dropped substantially when I was no longer an accidental landlord renting a property.
My last tenant let her dog piss all over the carpet, had an alcohol problem, and left used fag-ends in the bathroom. She also had lots of unopened letters that kept arriving weeks after her tenancy ended, some forwarded and many of which were clearly legal ones.
I was lucky she paid, though, as she was a semi-psychotic divorcee who ended up being taken to court, and made the papers.
It means more Fiona Bruce too.
I switched off.
The depths of your Socialist depravity should only be revealed later.
But a lot of design seems to be motivated by the wrong things. So, for example, lots of public waste bins are designed with very small holes to make it difficult for people to use them for their household or commercial waste, but that then makes them less pleasant to use anyway. Make it easy for people to do the right thing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68962192
Actor Bernard Hill, best known for roles in Titanic and Lord of the Rings, has died aged 79.
He played Captain Edward Smith in the 1997 Oscar-winning film and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings.
His breakout role was in 1982 BBC TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff, where he portrayed Yosser Hughes, a character who struggled - and often failed - to cope with unemployment in Liverpool.
He died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Coulson confirmed.
His fiancé Alison and his son Gabriel were with him at the time.
Alan Bleasdale, who wrote Boys from the Blackstuff, said Hill's death was "a great loss and also a great surprise".
"It was an astonishing, mesmeric performance - Bernard gave everything to that and you can see it in all the scenes. He became Yosser Hughes."
https://youtu.be/mC8bHxgdHH4?si=dNTNCBjPXnwnL1xZ
Colombia
Turkey
Bolivia
Belize
The list needs to lengthen.
There is far too much of the presenter and not enough about antiques.
Its also not imho down to any presenter to decide not to give a valuation.
I refuse to watch it live anymore. For me its been ruined by wokery.
Record and fast forward are huge
blessings
Snowdonsorry Yr Wyddfa scores. A cafe, you can buy souvenirs and a railway station. Really the Scots just aren’t trying hard enough…I do recall scaling Snowdon (Pyg Trcak? Can’t recall) and being unable to reach the summit as too many people had slogged their way up from the summit station and were blocking the way, taking their summit photos.
It's going to be a long six months for everyone.
All this shite will lead to the license fee going which hopefully will fuck the BBC good and proper and it will be soooo richly deserved.
On PB, on the other hand!