The momentum has swung significantly behind Harris. All of the reasons why she'd be an awful candidate have blown away - because most weren't true.
The horror for the Trumpists is that their guy is now everything they attacked Biden for. And the more that momentum swings away from Trump the more unhinged he gets to try and bring the attention back to him.
I hope that is what is happening, rather than just a honeymoon period (or that the economy picks the wrong moment to crash).
Harris is, well, pretty normal. Biden was too, but he was so past his best he no longer came across as such. Remove that age concern and sure, 45% of Americans will dislike her regardless, but she can hope the 5% who are persuadable contrast her favourably with the just plain bizarre Trump.
Anybody who seeks to glorify, excuse/condone etc the current riots will be banned from PB.
Anybody who posts locations of upcoming disorder will meet a similar fate.
These are in the first of a series of steps we are taking to protect PB.
I have my own views on this issue which I will wait until calm has been restored before posting.
Suffice to say I'm entirely unimpressed, as I am unsurprised, by the equally unimaginative, sluggish, and autocratic response by Starmer.
Were you not impressed by how Dave dealt with the knobheads in 2011? Strikes me Starmer is going along with Dave's textbook.
So far I have been mightily impressed. He's not a racist and hasn't dabbled in any mealy mouthed victim blaming nor giving the far right racists the tiniest fig leaf of cover. He also understands the law and hasn't given them or their backers any room for manoeuvre. This will end very soon and hopefully with several in prison. He's also got the right wing press on his side leaving the Farages and friends looking very lonely indeed. Few Tory leaders have even shown their faces
I'm pretty sure that it's St John's Oxford that's supposed to own land joining Oxford and Cambridge
Or maybe St John's Ox and Cam combined?
The bloke who told me worked for one of the Cambridge colleges. I can't remember which one: it was probably either Jesus or Trinity. Therefore I assume the version of the myth I was told was about Cambridge.
It's probably the sort of myth that was true-ish three hundred years ago, but is not far from the truth.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
At least you could prepare your legal defence in advance.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
My mum made me wear one when I was 8.
And you thank her now, having avoided a criminal record....
Starmer ia going to end up more hated than Boris and more reviled than Sunak and possibly more laughable than Truss
All their initial instincts are wrong. They’ve already shown they have no ideas and those ideas they have are fucking contemptibly stupid. Starmer is an over promoted dork and reeves is probably worse
There is certainly a risk of this. There is an underclass in the UK, spread across many towns and cities where they live in places long abandoned by wider society and the public's concern. No matter how hard they work - if they can find work - they can never get by and never escape.
There is a specific immediate need to do something about these riots, but there is also a longer-term need to address the grinding poverty which is the backdrop for all of these places currently ablaze.
Labour's challenge is not to shat the bed as spectacularly as the Tories did. You can't offer hope then deliver more failure. But if we get a few years in and there is no change and no hope, then I can see how Farage and even further to the right populists can clean up. Offering neo-fascist solutions to problems that nobody wants to address.
I have no problem debating the whys and wherefores of migration. But if we want to significantly reduce it we will need a significant restructure of the economy to cover both the costs of labour and the huge investment needed into these places to pull them and the underclass out of grinding poverty. Farage et al offer crayon economics as to how they could fund such things, but in the real world it is much harder.
Ultimately, the cost of action may be less than the cost of inaction. Tories endlessly say "how will we pay for x" even though we always find the higher cost of y when we say that x is unaffordable and suffer y as a direct consequence.
Well at least Farage and co offer these places something. The mainstream politicians and parties haven’t. They now need to get their act together and do something to try to level up.
What does Farage offer them? Replacing the NHS with an insurance-backed system?
If the left behind are pissed off with both the Tories and Labour, then Refuk's policies - slashing spending, ending subsidies, cutting inheritance tax, increasing landlords' rights, and creating new tax breaks for private health and education - are hardly the Borisite levelling-up turn-the-taps-on manna that they're supposedly crying out for.
Sure, I get that Farage is able to articulate people's frustrations. But his policies are aimed at golf club bores, not the left behind.
Sounds like a good idea, maybe this guy shouldn't be the VP pick so he can keep being Governor? On my first day in office, I announced that 92% of state government jobs do not require a four-year college degree — opening new doors of opportunity in our Commonwealth.
And last year, nearly 60% of our new hires didn't have a four-year college degree.
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
It's easy to forget because of the recent experience of Biden and Trump but the age of US Presidents has been remarkably steady, mostly in the 50s. You don't see the clear trends as with UK PMs, though it has been more fragmented since Reagan.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
Labour have appointed a fanatic to inject Wokery into the national curriculum - note the chilling way that educational standards ("quality") take second place to the ideology:
"Our intention is to help lever social justice concerns back into mainstream educational debates that have been dominated by the neoliberal language of ‘quality’ — in which concerns with ‘equality’ have been evacuated and consigned to the margins.”
Our intention is to help lever social justice concerns back into mainstream educational debates that have been dominated by the neoliberal language of ‘quality’ — in which concerns with ‘equality’ have been evacuated and consigned to the margins
A vague sentence that could mean nothing or anything, depending on what is decided.
Social justice and neoliberal are as overused terms as some use woke - there may still be occasional legitimate use, but mostly they are buzzwords meaning nothing.
Read the rest of it. Here's some more:
She wrote: “This is amply illustrated by the proliferation of testing regimes, academic league tables and the regular high-profile publication of achievement statistics, from children’s earliest years through to GCSEs. Indeed, we would assert that achievement is not just an educational issue for the current government — it is the educational issue.”
Francis appeared to be criticising Tony Blair, the prime minister at the time, who came up with the soundbite “education, education, education” as Labour swept to power. She suggests that he supported a “discursive social constructionist approach to race and ethnicity” and a “theorisation of sex, gender and sexuality as non-essential, fluid, contested, processual and produced through discourse”.
There's no dressing it up; they really believe this stuff: for them, educating your children and ensuring their academic success comes a very distant second, if at all, to using education as a political tool to re-engineer society.
Firstly, the situation now is very bad. The system (not the people working in it) is so dysfunctional and badly broken I took my son out of the school system, moving to a different country. Any move away from micromanagement, targets and testing has to be a good thing.
Secondly, the thing about this is that whatever labour do in power, using their massive majority based on their 'mandate' of less than 40% of the popular vote, creates material for the opposition. If people don't like ideological indoctrination, then they have to make an issue out of it, as other parents in my experience will agree.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
At least you could prepare your legal defence in advance.
I've got my tick list ready.
I wasn't there. And if I was I didn't do it. And if I did I was out of my mind. And if I wasn't it was accidental. And if it wasn't then I was seriously provoked. And if I wasn't then its a fair cop guv.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
It's easy to forget because of the recent experience of Biden and Trump but the age of US Presidents has been remarkably steady, mostly in the 50s. You don't see the clear trends as with UK PMs, though it has been more fragmented since Reagan.
One of our greatest Prime Ministers was 24 when he assumed the office, and others have been doing decent work into their 70s.
And that was before modern medicine.
I don't quite agree age only means what you let it.
I do agree with the view that there is nothing inherently positive about someone being an arbitrary age before they take up a particular position, there's plenty of examples of useless leaders who were the right age, had the right experience, ticked all the right boxes. Age and experience do not necessarily lead to wisdom, insight, or judgement.
I do also think that age means different things to different people. Some are mentally but not physically there from relatively early ages, some frankly are never there mentally, as far as political ability goes, whilst in great physical shape, and so some people will have the intellect, fortutude, and stamina needed even at a very old age, even if most do not, and some people will have the wisdowm and judgement needed at a very young age even if most don't.
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
At least you could prepare your legal defence in advance.
I've got my tick list ready.
I wasn't there. And if I was I didn't do it. And if I did I was out of my mind. And if I wasn't it was accidental. And if it wasn't then I was seriously provoked. And if I wasn't then its a fair cop guv.
And you've given us that advice for free, cheers for the lawyers!
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
If he's implying that 10% of Britain support the rioters he is completely wrong.
I don't think that was the point. I think it was that 10% are cut off, dependent, uncared for etc, and that is a breeding ground for the type of thing we are seeing, even if it is only a very small amount of that which supporters what is going on.
Anybody who seeks to glorify, excuse/condone etc the current riots will be banned from PB.
Anybody who posts locations of upcoming disorder will meet a similar fate.
These are in the first of a series of steps we are taking to protect PB.
I have my own views on this issue which I will wait until calm has been restored before posting.
Suffice to say I'm entirely unimpressed, as I am unsurprised, by the equally unimaginative, sluggish, and autocratic response by Starmer.
Were you not impressed by how Dave dealt with the knobheads in 2011? Strikes me Starmer is going along with Dave's textbook.
So far I have been mightily impressed. He's not a racist and hasn't dabbled in any mealy mouthed victim blaming nor giving the far right racists the tiniest fig leaf of cover. He also understands the law and hasn't given them or their backers any room for manoeuvre. This will end very soon and hopefully with several in prison. He's also got the right wing press on his side leaving the Farages and friends looking very lonely indeed. Few Tory leaders have even shown their faces
I believe Patel, Badenoch and less so Cleverly (the BLM jibe didn't go down too well) kept their counsel and on reading the room determined that Farage is a **** who is best avoided. Jenrick and even Tugsy went early blaming Labour for the small boats and I think Jenrick hinted at two tier policing, and look like Farage apologists.
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
The momentum has swung significantly behind Harris. All of the reasons why she'd be an awful candidate have blown away - because most weren't true.
The horror for the Trumpists is that their guy is now everything they attacked Biden for. And the more that momentum swings away from Trump the more unhinged he gets to try and bring the attention back to him.
Trump's excuse for not appearing at the debate was that he was leading in the polls.
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
The 12% want Buttigieg. Age 42.
I think I am right in saying the youngest President elected was Kennedy (43) and the youngest ever was Theodore Roosevelt (42).
Harris may be slightly above average age but she doesn’t really compare to Biden, Trump, Reagan or even Eisenhower. Anyone saying she’s too old is talking nonsense.
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
The 12% want Buttigieg. Age 42.
I think I am right in saying the youngest President elected was Kennedy (43) and the youngest ever was Theodore Roosevelt (42).
Harris may be slightly above average age but she doesn’t really compare to Biden, Trump, Reagan or even Eisenhower. Anyone saying she’s too old is talking nonsense.
You're just saying that as we have Keir 'Methuselah' Starmer as PM.
Sounds like a good idea, maybe this guy shouldn't be the VP pick so he can keep being Governor? On my first day in office, I announced that 92% of state government jobs do not require a four-year college degree — opening new doors of opportunity in our Commonwealth.
And last year, nearly 60% of our new hires didn't have a four-year college degree.
The reason Shapiro, Walz etc are in the frame is because they’ve been very good governors. There’s a decent argument for keeping them doing a good job where they are but they would also brig useful skills to the administration.
The next Democratic administration, if it happens, will to a great extent be about delivery of the programs they’ve started during this one.
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
The 12% want Buttigieg. Age 42.
I think I am right in saying the youngest President elected was Kennedy (43) and the youngest ever was Theodore Roosevelt (42).
Harris may be slightly above average age but she doesn’t really compare to Biden, Trump, Reagan or even Eisenhower. Anyone saying she’s too old is talking nonsense.
You're just saying that as we have Keir 'Methuselah' Starmer as PM.
He’s hardly ridiculously above average age either. Not compared to Gladstone,* Palmerston, Churchill, Macmillan, Campbell-Bannerman. He’s comparable in age to Thatcher, Asquith or Lloyd George.
*Gladstone was admittedly *only* 59 in forming his first administration but was 83 when he formed his final one.
Starmer ia going to end up more hated than Boris and more reviled than Sunak and possibly more laughable than Truss
All their initial instincts are wrong. They’ve already shown they have no ideas and those ideas they have are fucking contemptibly stupid. Starmer is an over promoted dork and reeves is probably worse
There is certainly a risk of this. There is an underclass in the UK, spread across many towns and cities where they live in places long abandoned by wider society and the public's concern. No matter how hard they work - if they can find work - they can never get by and never escape.
There is a specific immediate need to do something about these riots, but there is also a longer-term need to address the grinding poverty which is the backdrop for all of these places currently ablaze.
Labour's challenge is not to shat the bed as spectacularly as the Tories did. You can't offer hope then deliver more failure. But if we get a few years in and there is no change and no hope, then I can see how Farage and even further to the right populists can clean up. Offering neo-fascist solutions to problems that nobody wants to address.
I have no problem debating the whys and wherefores of migration. But if we want to significantly reduce it we will need a significant restructure of the economy to cover both the costs of labour and the huge investment needed into these places to pull them and the underclass out of grinding poverty. Farage et al offer crayon economics as to how they could fund such things, but in the real world it is much harder.
Ultimately, the cost of action may be less than the cost of inaction. Tories endlessly say "how will we pay for x" even though we always find the higher cost of y when we say that x is unaffordable and suffer y as a direct consequence.
Well at least Farage and co offer these places something. The mainstream politicians and parties haven’t. They now need to get their act together and do something to try to level up.
Farage offers burnt towns and people beaten up when they mind their own business. The less anyone has to do with him the better.
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
(Fun fact: Grassley's Senate office has had an unusually high number of marriages, between men and women who met while working for him. His own family sets a good example.)
'Josh Kellett, 29, admitted violent disorder following the unrest in Sunderland on Friday.
The court heard he was wearing a balaclava but was identified by his "distinctive tattoos".'
Top tip: Wear a long sleeved shirt.
I read that several defendants were in tears as they they were remanded in custody. In jail, awaiting a chunky sentence. Having felt invincible as they rioted.
You do have to wonder just how dumb some people are.
It's the same every time there's a riot. Probably a good thing showing some participants have remorse over their actions (or at least regret over getting punished, which is not as good but better than nothing). People are so easily caught up, there'll be a lot of teary 'This person was a model citizen(until now)' moments.
I have no doubt that some people were in "the wrong place at the wrong time". Wondered what was going on and ended up in the thick of it.
But most? Naah. If you are part of a large crowd doing a mob and rob operation, if you are filming people doing that, or cheering them, if you brought your kids to watch then you really have to expect to face the consequences of being part of a riot.
And then we have the more active people. The ones actively smashing and burning and assaulting and terrifying. Where what happened (Roma kids taken into custody, or British Christian man commits atrocity) is just the excuse for what you want to do - terror, mayhem, destruction.
The dude in the balaclava. Who even owns a balaclava, never mind sticks one on before heading out the door. Come on mate, what did you expect would happen?
I've got one somewhere. I tend to use it when hillwalking in winter rather than when I am burning down shops though.
So what do you wear when you're burning down shops?
I'm still giving it a lot of thought. So far the uncertainty about my ensemble has held me back.
Try a blazer...
And hotpants.
Now you're talking...
Although, that blazer and hotpants combo might stand out on CCTV...
Sounds like a good idea, maybe this guy shouldn't be the VP pick so he can keep being Governor? On my first day in office, I announced that 92% of state government jobs do not require a four-year college degree — opening new doors of opportunity in our Commonwealth.
And last year, nearly 60% of our new hires didn't have a four-year college degree.
The reason Shapiro, Walz etc are in the frame is because they’ve been very good governors. There’s a decent argument for keeping them doing a good job where they are but they would also brig useful skills to the administration.
The next Democratic administration, if it happens, will to a great extent be about delivery of the programs they’ve started during this one.
Also, for the Dems, losing a governor in a red state is less damaging than losing a senator in one. especially in an election cycle where the GOP most of the senators up are in safe red states with few if any chances of a flip. lose one governor or control of the senate
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
The 12% want Buttigieg. Age 42.
I think I am right in saying the youngest President elected was Kennedy (43) and the youngest ever was Theodore Roosevelt (42).
Harris may be slightly above average age but she doesn’t really compare to Biden, Trump, Reagan or even Eisenhower. Anyone saying she’s too old is talking nonsense.
You're just saying that as we have Keir 'Methuselah' Starmer as PM.
He’s hardly ridiculously above average age either. Not compared to Gladstone, Palmerston, Churchill, Macmillan, Campbell-Bannerman. He’s comparable in age to Thatcher, Asquith or Lloyd George.
But...but GB News said Starmer's age was an issue!
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
The 12% want Buttigieg. Age 42.
I think I am right in saying the youngest President elected was Kennedy (43) and the youngest ever was Theodore Roosevelt (42).
Harris may be slightly above average age but she doesn’t really compare to Biden, Trump, Reagan or even Eisenhower. Anyone saying she’s too old is talking nonsense.
Eisenhower was only 62 when he first took office. He just looked more like Walz.
To be fair Kamala will be 60 if she becomes President, that would rank her 13th out of 46 for oldest people to start being President.
The 12% want Buttigieg. Age 42.
I think I am right in saying the youngest President elected was Kennedy (43) and the youngest ever was Theodore Roosevelt (42).
Harris may be slightly above average age but she doesn’t really compare to Biden, Trump, Reagan or even Eisenhower. Anyone saying she’s too old is talking nonsense.
You're just saying that as we have Keir 'Methuselah' Starmer as PM.
He’s hardly ridiculously above average age either. Not compared to Gladstone, Palmerston, Churchill, Macmillan, Campbell-Bannerman. He’s comparable in age to Thatcher, Asquith or Lloyd George.
But...but GB News said Starmer's age was an issue!
I am not a cycle geek, but the fork design of the GB team's Lotus (*) bikes seems strange. The forks seem to continue up to the handlebars, with little or no stem?
And as it's an Olympics bike, we mere mortals *should* be able to buy one. You can pick up the 2020 version from them for £25,000. And that's cheap compared to some of the bikes being used.
The Olympics insist that any bike used should be available to the consumer. At a price...
The momentum has swung significantly behind Harris. All of the reasons why she'd be an awful candidate have blown away - because most weren't true.
The horror for the Trumpists is that their guy is now everything they attacked Biden for. And the more that momentum swings away from Trump the more unhinged he gets to try and bring the attention back to him.
Trump's excuse for not appearing at the debate was that he was leading in the polls.
Any other excuses in your back pocket. Donald?
"I am a rambling old w****** and I can't be trusted not to say some traitorous mad s***!"
Anybody who seeks to glorify, excuse/condone etc the current riots will be banned from PB.
Anybody who posts locations of upcoming disorder will meet a similar fate.
These are in the first of a series of steps we are taking to protect PB.
I have my own views on this issue which I will wait until calm has been restored before posting.
Suffice to say I'm entirely unimpressed, as I am unsurprised, by the equally unimaginative, sluggish, and autocratic response by Starmer.
Were you not impressed by how Dave dealt with the knobheads in 2011? Strikes me Starmer is going along with Dave's textbook.
So far I have been mightily impressed. He's not a racist and hasn't dabbled in any mealy mouthed victim blaming nor giving the far right racists the tiniest fig leaf of cover. He also understands the law and hasn't given them or their backers any room for manoeuvre. This will end very soon and hopefully with several in prison. He's also got the right wing press on his side leaving the Farages and friends looking very lonely indeed. Few Tory leaders have even shown their faces
I believe Patel, Badenoch and less so Cleverly (the BLM jibe didn't go down too well) kept their counsel and on reading the room determined that Farage is a **** who is best avoided. Jenrick and even Tugsy went early blaming Labour for the small boats and I think Jenrick hinted at two tier policing, and look like Farage apologists.
Priti Patel's been very direct in saying that Farage is wrong, far more so than Starmer has been prepared to. I feel like some in the Labour high command (McSweeney in particular) want to soft pedal against Reform because Reform cause the Tories more problems than them. Feels a bit like the way the US Democrats have helped MAGA Republicans against more moderate opponents. If that is what Labour are doing it's playing a dangerous game with very high stakes.
Anybody who seeks to glorify, excuse/condone etc the current riots will be banned from PB.
Anybody who posts locations of upcoming disorder will meet a similar fate.
These are in the first of a series of steps we are taking to protect PB.
I have my own views on this issue which I will wait until calm has been restored before posting.
Suffice to say I'm entirely unimpressed, as I am unsurprised, by the equally unimaginative, sluggish, and autocratic response by Starmer.
Were you not impressed by how Dave dealt with the knobheads in 2011? Strikes me Starmer is going along with Dave's textbook.
So far I have been mightily impressed. He's not a racist and hasn't dabbled in any mealy mouthed victim blaming nor giving the far right racists the tiniest fig leaf of cover. He also understands the law and hasn't given them or their backers any room for manoeuvre. This will end very soon and hopefully with several in prison. He's also got the right wing press on his side leaving the Farages and friends looking very lonely indeed. Few Tory leaders have even shown their faces
I believe Patel, Badenoch and less so Cleverly (the BLM jibe didn't go down too well) kept their counsel and on reading the room determined that Farage is a **** who is best avoided. Jenrick and even Tugsy went early blaming Labour for the small boats and I think Jenrick hinted at two tier policing, and look like Farage apologists.
Priti Patel's been very direct in saying that Farage is wrong, far more so than Starmer has been prepared to. I feel like some in the Labour high command (McSweeney in particular) want to soft pedal against Reform because Reform cause the Tories more problems than them. Feels a bit like the way the US Democrats have helped MAGA Republicans against more moderate opponents. If that is what Labour are doing it's playing a dangerous game with very high stakes.
If that is true it is a major error from Starmer- Labour They need to paint Farage as Little Tommy Tuppence's ideological bedfellow.
If Harris does win, the Republican Party are going to be in one hell of a mess as they try to move on from Trump.
They are going to need a "Bobby Ewing in the shower" reboot - just try and deny Trump and MAGA was ever a thing. But then how many MAGA supporters turn their back?
The momentum has swung significantly behind Harris. All of the reasons why she'd be an awful candidate have blown away - because most weren't true.
The horror for the Trumpists is that their guy is now everything they attacked Biden for. And the more that momentum swings away from Trump the more unhinged he gets to try and bring the attention back to him.
Trump's excuse for not appearing at the debate was that he was leading in the polls.
Any other excuses in your back pocket. Donald?
"I am a rambling old w****** and I can't be trusted not to say some traitorous mad s***!"
If Harris does win, the Republican Party are going to be in one hell of a mess as they try to move on from Trump.
They are going to need a "Bobby Ewing in the shower" reboot - just try and deny Trump and MAGA was ever a thing. But then how many MAGA supporters turn their back?
Not so sure about that.
The internal logic, surely, favours the TrumpSpawn?
Perhaps, and something I have certainly mentioned before if police actually pursued low level crime like burglary, car theft and mugging it wouldn't embolden these sort of people of whatever political bent or none that they can act with impunity for more serious crime
If Harris does win, the Republican Party are going to be in one hell of a mess as they try to move on from Trump.
They are going to need a "Bobby Ewing in the shower" reboot - just try and deny Trump and MAGA was ever a thing. But then how many MAGA supporters turn their back?
Not so sure about that.
The internal logic, surely, favours the TrumpSpawn?
Don Jr and Eric wish they had a tenth of the charisma of their dad. They try hard, they can act as his hype men and apologists, I can see them getting an amount of support, but other big hitters in MAGA land would credibly argue they are more like Trump than they are, despite their names. Factions would split.
If Harris does win, the Republican Party are going to be in one hell of a mess as they try to move on from Trump.
They are going to need a "Bobby Ewing in the shower" reboot - just try and deny Trump and MAGA was ever a thing. But then how many MAGA supporters turn their back?
Not so sure about that.
The internal logic, surely, favours the TrumpSpawn?
Don Jr and Eric wish they had a tenth of the charisma of their dad. They try hard, they can act as his hype men and apologists, I can see them getting an amount of support, but other big hitters in MAGA land would credibly argue they are more like Trump than they are, despite their names. Factions would split.
I like Donald Trump Jr.
It is some achievement to be the worst human being in the world called Donald Trump.
It should be harsher because there is an associated effort to help the disorder and crime spread wider when you participate in it.
I'm not sure I agree with this. Perhaps for some but probably not for all.
Everything is circumstance dependent of course, not everyone will deserve that, but the context of the rioting in itself I would argue is a severe aggravating factor for those caught, especially this far into the event.
I've just seen Patel saying it as it is. The few racist politicians left are finding themselves rather isolated. I have a feeling Patel is just a slightly smarter politician than the rest and can see which way the wind is blowing. Ch4 is worth watching. This is nothing to do with immigration. Just morons who don't like anyone who isn't the same shade as they are
Anybody who seeks to glorify, excuse/condone etc the current riots will be banned from PB.
Anybody who posts locations of upcoming disorder will meet a similar fate.
These are in the first of a series of steps we are taking to protect PB.
I have my own views on this issue which I will wait until calm has been restored before posting.
Suffice to say I'm entirely unimpressed, as I am unsurprised, by the equally unimaginative, sluggish, and autocratic response by Starmer.
Were you not impressed by how Dave dealt with the knobheads in 2011? Strikes me Starmer is going along with Dave's textbook.
So far I have been mightily impressed. He's not a racist and hasn't dabbled in any mealy mouthed victim blaming nor giving the far right racists the tiniest fig leaf of cover. He also understands the law and hasn't given them or their backers any room for manoeuvre. This will end very soon and hopefully with several in prison. He's also got the right wing press on his side leaving the Farages and friends looking very lonely indeed. Few Tory leaders have even shown their faces
I believe Patel, Badenoch and less so Cleverly (the BLM jibe didn't go down too well) kept their counsel and on reading the room determined that Farage is a **** who is best avoided. Jenrick and even Tugsy went early blaming Labour for the small boats and I think Jenrick hinted at two tier policing, and look like Farage apologists.
Priti Patel's been very direct in saying that Farage is wrong, far more so than Starmer has been prepared to. I feel like some in the Labour high command (McSweeney in particular) want to soft pedal against Reform because Reform cause the Tories more problems than them. Feels a bit like the way the US Democrats have helped MAGA Republicans against more moderate opponents. If that is what Labour are doing it's playing a dangerous game with very high stakes.
If that is true it is a major error from Starmer- Labour They need to paint Farage as Little Tommy Tuppence's ideological bedfellow.
Tricky. Ask yourself - what would Farage like? Answer: a full-on attack by Starmer and Cooper blaming him for inciting these riots along with Tommy. Then he could play the martyr and, possibly, get more of his supporters to 'protest'.
So, Starmer-Labour may be playing it right at the moment. They can go for Farage once the current troubles have died down.
Iran has informed the Israelis via intermediary that they will attack israel directly
Russias defence minister has completed a meeting with the Iranians in recent hours
A number of Western countries are into active evacuation of citizens from Lebanon. Bear in mind thats a step up from 'get yourselves out and do not go'.
Certainly suggests an anywhere from 6 to 48 hours timeline.
Worth pointing out for balance that they employ 13000 people. So just by the numbers hundreds or thousands of their employees will believe in violence against Israel and/or Jews.
I'm pretty sure that it's St John's Oxford that's supposed to own land joining Oxford and Cambridge
Or maybe St John's Ox and Cam combined?
The bloke who told me worked for one of the Cambridge colleges. I can't remember which one: it was probably either Jesus or Trinity. Therefore I assume the version of the myth I was told was about Cambridge.
It's probably the sort of myth that was true-ish three hundred years ago, but is not far from the truth.
It’s trinity, one of the largest landowners in the country along with the monarch and the Duke of Westminster.
Iran has informed the Israelis via intermediary that they will attack israel directly
Russias defence minister has completed a meeting with the Iranians in recent hours
A number of Western countries are into active evacuation of citizens from Lebanon. Bear in mind thats a step up from 'get yourselves out and do not go'.
Certainly suggests an anywhere from 6 to 48 hours timeline.
I have 3am Israeli time on Wednesday in the pub sweepstakes
Iran has informed the Israelis via intermediary that they will attack israel directly
Russias defence minister has completed a meeting with the Iranians in recent hours
A number of Western countries are into active evacuation of citizens from Lebanon. Bear in mind thats a step up from 'get yourselves out and do not go'.
Certainly suggests an anywhere from 6 to 48 hours timeline.
Feck. Netanyahu is becoming a serious liability. The world did not need this.
Iran has informed the Israelis via intermediary that they will attack israel directly
Russias defence minister has completed a meeting with the Iranians in recent hours
A number of Western countries are into active evacuation of citizens from Lebanon. Bear in mind thats a step up from 'get yourselves out and do not go'.
Certainly suggests an anywhere from 6 to 48 hours timeline.
I mean, you can see why the Brits invented team sports to replace this Olympics shit
I thought it was because we were so socially awkward we needed clear rules of engagement in order to hang out together in larger groups.
No, turns out it’s quite dull. Even the Olympics. Much better on telly, and even then fairly dull
You’re there to make some noise for the Brits. Show some patriotism, for a change, instead of always running the country down.
And enjoy seeing at close quarters one of the benefits of immigration.
I remember golden Saturday during London 2012, when I was in the stadium to see the British golds. The atmosphere was incredible, but you only really see what is going on when you have it on TV at home.
I hope a fear of your face and name being plastered all over social media is going to limit this to only the most hardcore individuals.
Clever move. Photograph them and put their mug shots in the local papers. Then hold them in custody until their trial. This thing isn't going to last too long. They'll be joining the ANL before you can say cheese
Iran has informed the Israelis via intermediary that they will attack israel directly
Russias defence minister has completed a meeting with the Iranians in recent hours
A number of Western countries are into active evacuation of citizens from Lebanon. Bear in mind thats a step up from 'get yourselves out and do not go'.
Certainly suggests an anywhere from 6 to 48 hours timeline.
Feck. Netanyahu is becoming a serious liability. The world did not need this.
The momentum has swung significantly behind Harris. All of the reasons why she'd be an awful candidate have blown away - because most weren't true.
The horror for the Trumpists is that their guy is now everything they attacked Biden for. And the more that momentum swings away from Trump the more unhinged he gets to try and bring the attention back to him.
Trump's excuse for not appearing at the debate was that he was leading in the polls.
Any other excuses in your back pocket. Donald?
"I am a rambling old w****** and I can't be trusted not to say some traitorous mad s***!"
Trump would NEVER admit to being old.
Oh sorry, I wasn't referencing Trump. It was a personal admission!
This is the strongest argument of favour of Walz, and it is a strong one.
@GovTimWalz represents the course-correction on class, rural & regional messaging that Dems have needed for decades. As someone for whom PLACE outstrips every other identity, I've never felt seen or represented in the White House in my lifetime & that would change with VP Walz. https://x.com/Sarah_Smarsh/status/1820485202717847615
I mean, you can see why the Brits invented team sports to replace this Olympics shit
I thought it was because we were so socially awkward we needed clear rules of engagement in order to hang out together in larger groups.
No, turns out it’s quite dull. Even the Olympics. Much better on telly, and even then fairly dull
If you aren't enjoying it why not give your ticket to someone who will. I imagine they were sort after.
I always think that the grid walk at GPs should dump the celebrities and invite some random people watching in the crowd who are sitting on the grass banks, ideally youngsters. Make their day rather than a celeb, who doesn't care and probably isn't a fan.
Perhaps, and something I have certainly mentioned before if police actually pursued low level crime like burglary, car theft and mugging it wouldn't embolden these sort of people of whatever political bent or none that they can act with impunity for more serious crime
I think that's why this is about a decade after the Duggan riots, which themselves were about a decade after the Oldham riots*. Need a new generation to come on steam who've forgotten about the exemplary punishment rioters get.
*And same pattern for Poll Tax and Brixton, and maybe even further back. Wow I just invented a theory of riots.
This is the strongest argument of favour of Walz, and it is a strong one.
@GovTimWalz represents the course-correction on class, rural & regional messaging that Dems have needed for decades. As someone for whom PLACE outstrips every other identity, I've never felt seen or represented in the White House in my lifetime & that would change with VP Walz. https://x.com/Sarah_Smarsh/status/1820485202717847615
I'd never heard of him until today, his name must have slipped past me as an option amongst flashier candidates.
I hope a fear of your face and name being plastered all over social media is going to limit this to only the most hardcore individuals.
Clever move. Photograph them and put their mug shots in the local papers. Then hold them in custody until their trial. This thing isn't going to last too long. They'll be joining the ANL before you can say cheese
They've had their trial, at least they are smart enough to plead guilty - they are on remand until sentencing.
I mean, you can see why the Brits invented team sports to replace this Olympics shit
I thought it was because we were so socially awkward we needed clear rules of engagement in order to hang out together in larger groups.
No, turns out it’s quite dull. Even the Olympics. Much better on telly, and even then fairly dull
You’re there to make some noise for the Brits. Show some patriotism, for a change, instead of always running the country down.
I remember golden Saturday during London 2012, when I was in the stadium to see the British golds. The atmosphere was incredible, but you only really see what is going on when you have it on TV at home.
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Harris is, well, pretty normal. Biden was too, but he was so past his best he no longer came across as such. Remove that age concern and sure, 45% of Americans will dislike her regardless, but she can hope the 5% who are persuadable contrast her favourably with the just plain bizarre Trump.
They own a lot of land up to the A11
https://johnian.joh.cam.ac.uk/breaking-even/
The Oxford version is also very rich, so I think the combined bit might once have been true
If the left behind are pissed off with both the Tories and Labour, then Refuk's policies - slashing spending, ending subsidies, cutting inheritance tax, increasing landlords' rights, and creating new tax breaks for private health and education - are hardly the Borisite levelling-up turn-the-taps-on manna that they're supposedly crying out for.
Sure, I get that Farage is able to articulate people's frustrations. But his policies are aimed at golf club bores, not the left behind.
On my first day in office, I announced that 92% of state government jobs do not require a four-year college degree — opening new doors of opportunity in our Commonwealth.
And last year, nearly 60% of our new hires didn't have a four-year college degree.
We’re prioritizing skills and experience over arbitrary four year degrees in my Administration.
https://nitter.poast.org/GovernorShapiro/status/1820482639532343457#m
One of our greatest Prime Ministers was 24 when he assumed the office, and others have been doing decent work into their 70s.
And that was before modern medicine.
There are two things I would say about this.
Firstly, the situation now is very bad. The system (not the people working in it) is so dysfunctional and badly broken I took my son out of the school system, moving to a different country. Any move away from micromanagement, targets and testing has to be a good thing.
Secondly, the thing about this is that whatever labour do in power, using their massive majority based on their 'mandate' of less than 40% of the popular vote, creates material for the opposition. If people don't like ideological indoctrination, then they have to make an issue out of it, as other parents in my experience will agree.
World record again!
I wasn't there.
And if I was I didn't do it.
And if I did I was out of my mind.
And if I wasn't it was accidental.
And if it wasn't then I was seriously provoked.
And if I wasn't then its a fair cop guv.
I do agree with the view that there is nothing inherently positive about someone being an arbitrary age before they take up a particular position, there's plenty of examples of useless leaders who were the right age, had the right experience, ticked all the right boxes. Age and experience do not necessarily lead to wisdom, insight, or judgement.
I do also think that age means different things to different people. Some are mentally but not physically there from relatively early ages, some frankly are never there mentally, as far as political ability goes, whilst in great physical shape, and so some people will have the intellect, fortutude, and stamina needed even at a very old age, even if most do not, and some people will have the wisdowm and judgement needed at a very young age even if most don't.
(*) Lotus have a brilliant history of revolutionary bike designs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_108
Any other excuses in your back pocket. Donald?
Harris may be slightly above average age but she doesn’t really compare to Biden, Trump, Reagan or even Eisenhower. Anyone saying she’s too old is talking nonsense.
The next Democratic administration, if it happens, will to a great extent be about delivery of the programs they’ve started during this one.
Reflects well on Rishi Sunak that he took time out of being PM to visit him in hospital:
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/craig-mackinlay-my-wife-refused-to-sign-do-not-resuscitate-order-for-me-vx5lq6bt2
*Gladstone was admittedly *only* 59 in forming his first administration but was 83 when he formed his final one.
I am a mere amateur. Which is why I'll be overtaken many times on Sunday...
But many aren't, for example, in her later years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein
(Fun fact: Grassley's Senate office has had an unusually high number of marriages, between men and women who met while working for him. His own family sets a good example.)
https://www.gbnews.com/opinion/keir-starmer-age-questions-keith-bays
I hope a fear of your face and name being plastered all over social media is going to limit this to only the most hardcore individuals.
I wonder what the price tag is?
Ah:
https://www.hopetechhb.com/hbt
£25k for the frame with the fork "POA"...
I assume that last bit means that if you ask nicely you might get a delivery date some time after the Olympics have finished...
He just looked more like Walz.
That Wiki article includes the following about 1992:
"The publicity of this medal, the first British cycling gold medal at the Olympics in 72 years"
We've won a few since then!
This article shows some of the details; there are even 'bumps' on the back of the forks designed to improve airflow around the rider's legs. And the seatpost is weirdly shaped.
https://otbengineering.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/paris-2024-track-olympic-equipment-roundup-part-1/
And as it's an Olympics bike, we mere mortals *should* be able to buy one. You can pick up the 2020 version from them for £25,000. And that's cheap compared to some of the bikes being used.
The Olympics insist that any bike used should be available to the consumer. At a price...
Better hope they're cleaning house if Starmer's going to start giving them our money again.
They are going to need a "Bobby Ewing in the shower" reboot - just try and deny Trump and MAGA was ever a thing. But then how many MAGA supporters turn their back?
Should those taking part in the recent riots receive sentences that are harsher than usual for that kind of crime?
Should be harsher: 49%
Should be about the same as normal: 39%
Should be more lenient: 4%
https://x.com/Samfr/status/1820501295675183193
But if real, then I wonder what @Roger makes of it...
Edit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvyyz8461yo
The internal logic, surely, favours the TrumpSpawn?
It is still bewildering
It is some achievement to be the worst human being in the world called Donald Trump.
So, Starmer-Labour may be playing it right at the moment. They can go for Farage once the current troubles have died down.
Iran has informed the Israelis via intermediary that they will attack israel directly
Russias defence minister has completed a meeting with the Iranians in recent hours
A number of Western countries are into active evacuation of citizens from Lebanon. Bear in mind thats a step up from 'get yourselves out and do not go'.
Certainly suggests an anywhere from 6 to 48 hours timeline.
And enjoy seeing at close quarters one of the benefits of immigration.
I remember golden Saturday during London 2012, when I was in the stadium to see the British golds. The atmosphere was incredible, but you only really see what is going on when you have it on TV at home.
@GovTimWalz represents the course-correction on class, rural & regional messaging that Dems have needed for decades. As someone for whom PLACE outstrips every other identity, I've never felt seen or represented in the White House in my lifetime & that would change with VP Walz.
https://x.com/Sarah_Smarsh/status/1820485202717847615
I always think that the grid walk at GPs should dump the celebrities and invite some random people watching in the crowd who are sitting on the grass banks, ideally youngsters. Make their day rather than a celeb, who doesn't care and probably isn't a fan.
*And same pattern for Poll Tax and Brixton, and maybe even further back. Wow I just invented a theory of riots.