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Just one in five people are pleased by what Labour have done in office so far – politicalbetting.com
Just one in five people are pleased by what Labour have done in office so far – politicalbetting.com
New from @IpsosUK: 53% disappointed by what Labour has done in office so far. One in five pleased.More https://t.co/DolCedOPbH pic.twitter.com/U8JoiFjlMw
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"Most of us" ? - citation, please.
Here's a fair assessment of the pros and cons.
https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/revisiting-love-actually-20-year-anniversary-1235802104/
The pros basically amount to "it had an incredible cast", and "Curtis could still write a few good lines".
But on balance - just effing awful.
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Here's the cite: 52% of Brits polled are nuts, devoid of taste.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/entertainment/survey-results/daily/2023/12/20/76fc4/1
Peter : No surprises?
Mark : No surprises.
Peter : Not like the stag night?
Mark : Unlike the stag night.
Peter : Do you admit the Brazilian prostitutes were a mistake?
Mark : I do.
Peter : And it would have been much better if they'd not turned out to be men?
Mark : That is true.
Honestly, what did the public expect? It was never going to be easy for whatever government that took over.
I think my beef with the current lot is that despite claiming to have a plan, and having had a decent time where it was obvious that they would be in power, they give every impression of arriving in power without said plan (not in all areas, to be sure). Starmer in particular played the Ming vase strategy to perfection and was rewarded with one of the most 'unjust' super majorities imaginable.*
What is the plan for growth, other than saying we want lots of growth? Where is the evidence from other countries that have managed to trigger lots of growth? Can we do what they did? Thats what we need. Not lies/half-truths about unexpected black holes in the finances.
*But thats the system that both major parties like!
But then 19% agree with him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's quite a relaxing activity.
In contrast, there's an awful lot going on in the movie.
But also because the way it is measured is somewhat pernicious. Relative poverty is almost impossible to eradicate, and if I understand it correctly, is actually a measure of inequality rather than poverty per se.
As an analogy a friend shared a big house at uni with around 5 or 6 other chaps. All well over 6 feet 5 inches. He was a shade over 6 feet tall, yet in this house he looked short.
How many of the 1 in 3 in poverty are only in relative poverty (so not well off, but are fed and are warm etc)?
However, maybe a little reflection by Starmer's cheer leader is maybe appropriate
Some of the vignettes work better than others. I quite like the Colin Firth, the Liam Neason/ Musk's ex wife's husband and the Martin Freeman/ Joanna Paige stories.
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They have absolutely no strategy for getting Britain out of this mess, virtually all their instincts are to make things worse. They already know they are a one term government so they are simply going to extract as much cash as they can for themselves then run away
Certainly he is not good at politics, but also Reeves caused considerable damage in her actions both before and in the budget
Time will tell, and they have time, but it is going to be a very long haul for them
I was about right - it was a cultish atmosphere with a therapist who had cast off any rational moorings, and she had become dependent on him - so there was no easy escape. It would have needed something like a qualified medic on the course to intervene strongly. She had also been fasting for 3 days.
These remarks are a model of clarity, as these things always seem to be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOX2NRHrpjs
Written version:
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/R-v-Hongchi-Xiao.pdf
I think we need these published routinely for all Crown Court cases, as a transparency measure which will inform the news, and will auto-debunk for example fake claims around "sentenced to prison for posting on social media".
Under a Labour Government no one should be living in a house full of mould spores.or living in a Halfords tent.
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I notice no trains are running in North Wales today, some large trees in the park were felled, but we were fortunate only to have superficial damage notwithstanding the 80mph winds
However, Llandudno really felt the force of it especially the pier
Mercifully, no injuries or fatalities reported here, nor were the crews called to sea at the height of the storm
Some are sentencing a dozen cases a day.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/09/google-unveils-mindboggling-quantum-computing-chip
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/daniel-penny-not-guilty-verdict-trial-jordan-neely-chokehold/6045220/
https://x.com/timourazhari/status/1866144940134125970
They've also forbidden clothing restrictions for women, reportedly.
Let's see if this lasts.
They have also declared all borders with #Turkey, #Lebanon, #Jordan & #Iraq to be open for refugee returns...
https://x.com/Charles_Lister/status/1866148578650907032
Lost a tile, which fell onto the extension roof smashing a couple of other tiles. Fortunately it missed the Velux windows by mere inches. Garden looking ragged but it does in winter anyway. Felt ripped off the shed roof, but replaced Sunday. Cars and bees fine though. Internet and Sky TV were down for 36 hours.
I trust you were OK.
I live in a village on the headland around half a mile from the sea. It is always hard hit in a storm but this one was above and beyond.
They make the sentencing remarks in Court, and they have to be recorded so that they can be supplied to media or anybody else who requests them.
It's purely a very small - in the context of the expenditure to run any case - clerical task.
OnlyFans is now accessible in China, a move that could boost the UK economy* significantly
A Labour insider told me ‘This is exactly what Lammy’s progressive realism is about!’ as he attempts to justify the recent overtures to the East made by the government
ahttps://x.com/maxtempers/status/1866080378903314544
*And sabotage China's ?
Which is why I offered the story to TSE.
I see no chance that you will renounce the practice of Paida Lajin. On the contrary, I am certain that you will continue to practise it, or to seek to do so, both while in prison and after your eventual release. Furthermore, I am concerned that there is a real risk that, in doing so, you may actively or tacitly encourage your followers to reduce or stop their medication. I have heard your counsel say that you will not do this, and I have read and thought about your recent letter. However, all the evidence I have received at trial about you and from you means that I cannot accept these assurances. The letters that I have received from your supporters, and the undiminished belief that they and you still have in Paida Lajin, merely make me more apprehensive. I am certain that, when you have finished serving your sentence, there is a significant risk that, yet again, history may repeat itself. This constitutes a significant risk of serious harm to members of the public.
In this specific regard I consider you dangerous, even though you do not share the characteristics of most other dangerous offenders. I consider it necessary to extend your sentence by imposing an extended licence period of 5 years. Bearing in mind your age now, and your age when the sentence will otherwise be completed, I consider this a sufficient precaution.
..He described the Google results as a “shining example” of improvements in error correction, but he cautioned that the very fast processing results related to calculations that were “not of much real-world use”.
“I’m very optimistic,” he said. “I think we’re going to see a real acceleration over the next five years and then we’ll be able to say, look, this machine has calculated an interesting thing that I can explain to someone, and how it could be used in the real world.”..
@Leon can advise - isn't he just back from Drugsville?
Edit: I see it was diabetic ketoacidosis. It surprises me that it took hold fatally in such a short time. Awful for her.
ETA: hmm, we don't seem to have support for superscript in cm2
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/09/drones-new-york-new-jersey-philadelphia
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-computers-cross-critical-error-threshold-20241209/
..interest in the surface code remained confined to a small community of theorists — people who weren’t working with qubits in the lab. Their papers used an abstract mathematical framework foreign to the experimentalists who were.
“It was just really hard to understand what’s going on,” recalled John Martinis (opens a new tab), a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara who is one such experimentalist. “It was like me reading a string theory paper.”
In 2008, a theorist named Austin Fowler (opens a new tab) set out to change that by promoting the advantages of the surface code to experimentalists throughout the United States. After four years, he found a receptive audience in the Santa Barbara group led by Martinis. Fowler, Martinis and two other researchers wrote a 50-page paper (opens a new tab) that outlined a practical implementation of the surface code. They estimated that with enough clever engineering, they’d eventually be able to reduce the error rates of their physical qubits to 0.1%, far below the surface-code threshold. Then in principle they could scale up the size of the grid to reduce the error rate of the logical qubits to an arbitrarily low level. It was a blueprint for a full-scale quantum computer...
...In August, a new batch of 105-qubit Willow chips came out, but by then the team was approaching a hard deadline — the testing cycle for the next round of design improvements was about to begin. Satzinger began to make peace with the idea that they wouldn’t have time to run those final experiments.
“I was sort of mentally letting go of distance-7,” he said. Then, the night before the deadline, two new team members, Gabrielle Roberts and Alec Eickbusch, stayed up until 3 a.m. to get everything working well enough to collect data. When the group returned the following morning, they saw that going from a distance-5 to a distance-7 code had once again cut the logical qubit’s error rate in half. This kind of exponential scaling — where the error rate drops by the same factor with each step up in code distance — is precisely what the theory predicts. It was an unambiguous sign that they’d reduced the physical qubits’ error rates well below the surface-code threshold...
So physical proof of the maths.
It's perhaps analogous to the first solid state transistor demonstration, at Bell Labs in 1947.
"[Kenneth] Noye fatally stabbed Detective Constable John Fordham, who was involved in the police surveillance of Noye, in the grounds of his home on 26 January 1985. Acquitted of murder on the grounds of self-defence in December of that year..."
We are within 300 yards of the sea, and look out on it, and it was really rough and dangerous
We had intermittent Sky and Internet but not a bad as yourself
The good thing is as far as I am aware nobody was badly injured or worse in Wales
Certainly in near 50 years in our home, we have not experienced anything like it and all today I have been pressure spraying our windows and our car which were obscured by a mixture of salt and sand
Labour are being blamed for 14 years of Tory failure in terms of immigration, law and order and transport.
On all of those they are already taking firm action.
You can't build prisons and sort the transport network in 5 months but people will see efforts bearing fruit.
I bet anyone now that net migration declared next December will be at least 200,000 lower than now.
The deepest unpopularity relates to WFA and Labour may well tweak this for next winter.
Farmers IHT will become a vote winner for Labour when the majority realise the sort of hooray Henry's and tossers like Clarkson will be the types caught.
Starmer is a grafter and a fixer and he will graft and fix and get things sorted.
The Tories have a complete dud as a leader so will have to change again in 2026 and the more people see if Farage and Trump and Musk, the Farage bubble will burst.
Key data will be NHS improvement and Education from cradle to work improving and in this regard Streeting and Phillipson are relatively young talents and communicators that no other Parties have.
Sat in the Shadows is the most impressive Politician in any Party right now in Darren Jones.
Labour will be pooing 35% plus by December 2026...
IMO that's horribly excessive, but in the USA citizens are far more tolerated killing each other.
There's a decent video about it on this page, which is better than the "kangeroo court" rhetoric coming from Fox.
https://www.thefp.com/p/jordan-neely-daniel-penny-f-train-bodycam-video
Boris - The Trolley
Liz T - The Human Hand Grenade
Sir K - The Dud
The good news for SKS is that there are years for something to pop up. If he does anything positive he will get rewarded.
Planning is the first place to look. Some good soundings this week but I want to see the new NPPF first.
NEW: Wes Streeting is the subject of an official complaint to the Labour party for his jokes about Louise Haigh at the Spectator party last week.
His comments were "bullying" and "uncomradely" according to the complaint, seen by Bloomberg.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd75nqwdpj7o
Panorama vs Severn Trent.
“Labour will be pooing 35% plus by December 2026”
Especially when there is evidence that you lay in ambush, armed, for the suspects. Premeditation and all that.
https://x.com/nhazony/status/1866140280467939391
So if all insulin has been stopped, that may exacerbate. And once DKA starts, insulin action is inhibited by the DKA, so it is tougher to recover - that's why recommended action if DKA is discovered (ketone levels in the bloodstream above a trigger level) is call 999 or go to A&E. If the ketones are not reduced rapidly, it becomes difficult to treat.
This is part of the reason why Type Is take care when fasting eg if doing the Ignation Exercises, or if a Muslim diabetic opts to fast during Ramadan (normally a medical exception would apply), only the bolus insulin would be stopped.
And if a Type I is not testing, they won't know beyond detecting symptoms themselves. It is quite possible he had stopped her testing - he had done that on a previous occasion in Oz where a 6 year old child died after he convinced the parents to stop treatment.
Many other factors can also make it more difficult to treat by affecting insulin action, including things as simple as having an infection. Personally I dislike excessively hot weather as it throws my normal insulin action off, and I have to bugger about with my insulin ratios. On occasion I have had to boost my doses by 50-100% for the same food item at the same time of day in high summer compared to normal. On other occasions the action can be more rapid, so the insulin action beats the metabolisation of the food - depending on how quickly the food releases its sugar.
It’s not just that Labour are going to be pooing a massive amount - 35% - but they could be pooing even more than that - pooing maybe 35% PLUS - and they are going to cleverly time this extraordinary level of pooing - possibly combined with even more pooing - the pooing is going to be so great we can’t be sure of the exact levels of pooing - with the run up to the festive season
https://youtu.be/QeF1JO7Ki8E?t=29&si=ds6OOip9WepBpnWW
(ketone levels in the bloodstream above a trigger level)
should be
(ketone levels in the bloodstream above a trigger level, and cannot be brought back down for a time)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/why-labours-high-command-has-become-very-obsessed-with-bills-and-borders
There’s loads of this if you look carefully and read between the lines. Which you don’t and which you can’t
Ask again in December 2027, and if it's still only one in five who are pleased then Starmer has a big problem. After a few months though, it's meaningless data.
grifter = someone that scams hard
They'll be scrapping on the Tories and Reform
IIRC, Tony Martin was convicted because he shot them in the back as they ran away.
I think the trick with these things is to create an offence - but a lessor one - to enable people to be convicted when they do overstep the line. Without basically allowing people to just tie up, torture and murder people who break into their home.
Restraint is one thing, though in the UK with no provocation that would be battery; keeping a man in a tight choke hold for a number of minutes (in this case, 6) until he stops moving and goes limp is so far beyond restraint imo as to be on the line of deliberate killing. IMO there is no way it can be justified.
Our definition of reasonable force is pertinent. In this case I am not even aware that there was any attack at all.
If there is some relatively minor attack it would not be common sense to permit some action of retaliation which was wholly out of proportion to the necessities of the situation. If an attack is serious so that it puts someone in immediate peril then immediate defensive action may be necessary. If the moment is one of crisis for someone in imminent danger he may have [to] avert the danger by some instant reaction. If the attack is all over and no sort of peril remains then the employment of force may be by way of revenge or punishment or by way of paying off an old score or may be pure aggression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-defence_in_English_law