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The polling you’ve all been waiting for – politicalbetting.com
The polling you’ve all been waiting for – politicalbetting.com
Kemi Badenoch has taken a swipe at sandwiches, saying "I don't think sandwiches are a real food, it's what you have for breakfast."This will be news to the public, of whom 70% say they never or only rarely have sandwiches for breakfasthttps://t.co/QPvyr6c0eq pic.twitter.com/3j45YLuxWg
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Good morning, everyone.
Good morning, too.
One is how very very very online she is- and whilst some voters will be impressed, more will think that Lord Dave was right in this matter.
The other is her inability to let it lie, ever, on anything.
The last 13 British F-35s (ZM170-ZM182) will be Meteor shooters (eventually) and have a superior radar to Typhoon.
It already looks pretty well unstoppable in large urban centres.
Waymo's market share is now equal to Lyft within SF. Incredible.
Network effects is one of the best sources of defensibility. But it's proven to be not that important in ridesharing.
You need a minimum network size, but once you have that, there are diminishing returns. In each geo, Uber and Lyft need enough drivers to have reasonable wait times. Once wait times hit that acceptable threshold, the incremental driver doesn't improve the rider experience (eg if my Uber ride is coming in 2-4 minutes, I don't really care about the wait times getting faster).
When Waymo launched in August 2023, Uber and Lyft were at 66% and 34% share in SF.
15 months later in November 2024, Waymo is at 22% - the same as Lyft - with Uber at 55%.
Both Uber and Lyft lost low double digit % pts of market share, but it's more painful for Lyft. Lyft gave up ~1/3 of their share. Uber lost ~1/6...
https://x.com/aleximm/status/1867257473671082356
Who would have thought the bank who were the bankers for, inter alia, Hezbollah and the IRGC would be the bank of choice for Assad?
Oh sorry, you mean Assad’s money?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99xpgekvm8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLCpfFACIcY
This is probably for @Andy_Cooke @BatteryCorrectHorse and maybe @eek and @stodge, and others involved in Planning Committees. It is the first detailed commentary on parts of the new NPPF I have seen, and has some good points, and draws out details we have not mentioned.
The Christmas Film Die Hard gets a mention, as in “Ho! Ho! Ho! Now I have a machine gun!” *
If you are not at least a little familiar with the Local Plan process, you may come away with a modest "assaulted by planning documents" headache.
The New NPPF: A Christmas Cracker?
The updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), released today (12 December 2024), promises significant changes to housing delivery, Green Belt planning, and local plan collaboration. In this analysis, members of the Cornerstone Planning and Environment Team highlight the key takeaways.
https://cornerstonebarristers.com/the-new-nppf-a-christmas-cracker/
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlQoXP2XH68
Mind you, I’d have thought Goldman Sachs or Deutsche Bank would be the best fit for Assad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System
What's the best (capability/cost) platform for them ?
If I put marmalade on bread, but don't either fold it in half or put a matching slice of bread on top, is it a sandwich?
If it is, then large numbers of people sometimes have sandwiches. If it isn't then fewer do.
But if a non sandwich becomes a sandwich merely by folding one half over the other, the difference is (as Aristotle would say) not one of substance but of accident. This is not intellectually satisfying.
This exercise can be carried on with toast. The problems are not simple.
I bet Prince Andrew banks with HSBC.
I think the peeps who will be worried about this are more the French and the Germans, not the Yanks. They are the ones currently further up a creek without a paddle.
Listened to a reasonably provocative video about this from Dr Alexander Clarke this week, who I'm not normally keen on and find wearing, but this was more interesting than I usually find and touched on the politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEn31l-ytcM
He is conceptually very simple indeed.
I was going to add, this can only end in a cannibalism event, but someone will make a very bad taste sandwich joke. So I won’t.
Big banks are killing themselves
It's obvs better to fold it over if keeping it in your handbag.
Telsa's effort will never take off because, as well as being a pathological liar, Musk has trashed the brand by being a far right shitlord.
Cheltenham 12:40 - Hillcrest
Cheltenham 1.50 - In Excelsis Deo
Doncaster 2.05 - Does He Know
Doncaster 2.40 - Wyenot
Whatever the identity of the next successful iteration of the Conservatives is, it simply can't have immigration front and centre, unless they invite Farage in to the tent.
She'd have been better to say something like 'I'm glad Nigel likes sandwiches - maybe he could persuade me I'm wrong after we've got these socialists out of government'....
"Urban dictionary may carry verb forms that seem superficially synonymous, but emphasise rather different aspects of an orientation.
To be fair, if you were part of a government that collapsed in futility but still have ambitions of your own, it's probably your best line to take. Not a good line, but probably the best line.
Of course it's possible that we're going back to the rapid pendulum of the 70's. But following the pattern since then, the next Conservative PM isn't even an MP yet.
One obvious application of the technology over here would be in buses, in fact long term it seems a no-brainer: pre-set route and stops, already dedicated lanes, low average speed. But I expect transport unions here and in most European countries will hold that back.
Can I just say what a marvellous little railway the Foxfield is - even though I sadly haven't been there for a couple of decades. Thanks for all the work you and others do there.
Edit: I was once in the bar car when a baby, held in its mothers arms, projectile-vomited ribena across the carriage and onto my trousers. Quite why they were giving a baby ribena is another question...
And Good Morning to everyone..... Right, Left and Centre.
Just a little bit of sunshine this morning, at last.
proche mais pas de cigare
Lit walkways to the house, and the house filled with a Christmas display themed around LOKI the Lord of Misrule. Plus I got to see the restored tapestries which are the NT's longest ever restoration project of this type, having taken 20 years. A real treat, local choir performances, and the NT now finally have a more relaxed policy on photography. *
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-district-derbyshire/hardwick/gideon-tapestry-project-at-hardwick-hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR-JwL3cnLc
Plus the larger than life portrait of Elizabeth I, opposite one of Mary Queen of Scots. I'll make the first my photo quota.
And a visit for lunch to the new cafe at the Northern Tea Company on Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield. Superb. I came away with about 10 varieties of coffee and several bags of their cocoa-dusted chocolate almonds, which will vanish if not rapidly wrapped up.
A great day. Nothing whatsoever "useful" done after midday.
* They are running them on 8 evenings up until Christmas, and judging on my estimate of the numbers it will add ~15k, which should push them over 300k for the year.
If Musk can get his self-driving to work reliably, no one will care that he's a dangerous sociopath and bullshitter. Neither thing is exactly unknown in US corporates.
To Dodgy To Fail.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/cambridgeshire/wimpole-estate/christmas-at-wimpole
In the "Leading" interviews series at the Rest is Politics, and interview / conversation with Senator George Mitchell, who is now in his 90s. One hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpD4CL9pjSo
1) don’t set immigrants on fire
2) not even small ones
3) especially not small ones
4) don’t advocate setting immigrants on fire.
I know it’s tricky, but work at it…
A couple of cities will make the move, and once everyone's seen the results, it will just happen.
Humans can concentrate at a low level for a long time. See playing video games, or just driving. But doing nothing yet being ready to act at a moment's notice on pain of serious injury/death, and holding that for hours on end, is not something we're psychologically capable of handling.
But is this a strategy from Badenoch to get noticed?
From the Leeanderthal Man:
Lee Anderson MP @LeeAndersonMP_ Dec 11
The Odds Are Shortening.
And terrifying the left in the process.
The People's Army will fight to save our country 🇬🇧
On Oddschexker, it says between 2:1 and 5:2. A little less generous on Betfair - can be laid at 3.95.
The same for the Cons can be laid at 2.68, which seems better value to me.
Before the middle of the 20th century, right wing politics often meant heavy intervention on the economy, for example. Free markets were a Liberal thing. Corn laws etc.
The technology works, and it will happen.
Waymo chose to restrict the problem to a very small area of a simple grid of streets, with remote backup drivers. They were laughed at for this approach, but their idea was to solve self driving for a small area, with growing amounts of actual autonomy.
Tesla, like a number of others, tried to solve generalised self driving in one go.
Le Pen's party took 37% of the vote, and has gone from eight seats to 142 in two rounds of elections (and more than a few independent Right share RN's outlook). Essentially, the Republicans have been virtually wiped out as a rival on the Right.
Reform will probably not win, but there is a fair chance that they will.
It isn't Waymo which offers level 5 on known city streets
Or, at the very least, putting on such a convincing act of being nasty that you have to be very careful that it doesn't become the real you.
Waymo went for an 80% solution of using fully known areas, others went for 80% of driving everywhere.
But fully autonomous driving is a 99.99% problem so Waymo has got a solution that works in confined areas, while the other companies still have 2 to 3/4 iterations to go until they have reached a point where it works everywhere.
I still think LIDAR is going to be essential for autonomy which is why I think Musk has gone wrong...
How they fare is fairly irrelevant.
What she wants to do is spend 2 years developing lots of detailed policies and then roll them out and hope that wins an election.
And you don't look like a serious person by saying you're too busy to have lunch.
You look like a serious person by being on top of your job and producing results.
It might well be a case of cos-playing Thatcher:
1) Thatcher was a serious person
2) Thatcher worked hard
3) If I'm too busy to have lunch I'm working hard
4) If I'm working hard then I'm a serious person
5) If I'm a serious person then I'm like Thatcher
We've heard that nonsense over 20 years.
Wasn't true then and isn't true now.