Bad news for Trumplethinskin – politicalbetting.com
Bad news for Trumplethinskin – politicalbetting.com
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One thing that is interesting with Sydney Sweeney she leans into these kind of ads and totally unapologetic about it.
So much of Hollywood would already be flogging themselves in the public square asking for forgiveness, because bluesky are ranting about her being Hitler Youth adjacent.
https://twitter.com/christiancalgie/status/1950853214611345745
Pam Bondi is getting spanked by a whole collective of lawyers. I cannot tell whether she is a stepmom.
(Is the header an @Leon post-buttal ?)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jul/31/ecb-admits-no-evidence-the-hundred-attracted-new-fans-cricket
https://x.com/JeremyClarkson/status/1950911254056272374
(I exaggerate only slightly.)
https://x.com/iamneubert/status/1950267412340977879
I have seen a lot of very cool things that people have done with Aleph tool.
“My damages in the case were £110,000. These were paid last year, and Mr Barton made the agreed public apology. But my costs in bringing the case were between 180 and 190k. Mr Barton pledged in court to pay the costs, then chose to argue that the figure was too high.
“Frustratingly, this meant I had to bring a separate action to recover my costs. The separate action also had a cost to it. Mr Barton surrendered on the main costs two days before the costs recovery action, but it was too late to avoid being liable for the costs recovery action.
“So Barton paid for the libel. He paid the costs. He paid interest on the costs. He paid the cost of losing a challenge on the costs. And he paid his own costs, which will be more than mine because he had fancier lawyers. He has lost at least half a million pounds.”
https://road.cc/content/news/joey-barton-pays-out-ps500000-over-vine-tweets-315233
(I'm not sure if that is paywalled for drive-by visitors.)
The Streisand effect applies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/american-eagle-sydney-sweeney-jeans-ad
Rolls eyes. From the people who say Thomas the Tank Engine is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, fatist....
The latest thing they're complaining about, apparently, is Billie Eilish saying at a concert in Ireland that "it's nice to be somewhere where most people look like I do."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UU-3i0C9i8
*high fives all round the changing room*
I get easily visually distracted. If I need to concentrate on thinking about something, I will shut my eyes. This sometimes led to confusion in meetings, where attendees would think I was not paying attention, or even asleep. When in reality I was actually trying to concentrate on what was being said, and my own responses to it. I can imagine dealing with press conferences, with lights shining at me, and camera flashes going off, might be very distracting. But I've ever been in that environment.
(*) Perhaps the only time I'll write these words...
American Eagles pretty girl with a not too subtle hint of lovely wholesome bosom versus
Lynxs 'snort in the smell of my cock and balls'
The guy is old
Classy
@SkyNews
BREAKING: President Trump has agreed with the Mexican President to extended the existing trade deal by 90 days
Former anti-corruption minister is alleged to have illegally received land from despot aunt’s government"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/31/tulip-siddiq-corruption-trial-bangladesh-labour-hasina
Huzzah I don’t have to boycott Mercs now.
Edit. As the current game looks likely to be.
I see badgers regularly in the middle of the city - they get stunned by my 1200 lumen bike light. Extraordinary how quickly they can rip up your garden though, looks like eastern Ukraine now. Turns out the neighbours feed them along with the foxes.
*The evidence, as ever, is that killing them off isn't quite as easy a solution as it might seem. What you really want is a highly aggressive but healthy badger population that defends a territory from the sick incomers. And not to mix your herd with other cows.
We had foxes, too, grey squirrels and a wide variety of birds
Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said warnings that the recognition of a Palestinian state could breach international law are "missing the point".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78z69x61e6o
At the general election, it was...
Labour 48%
Conservative 17%
Green 14%
Liberal Democrats 13%
Reform UK 6%
Rejoin EU 1%
Independent 1%
In theory, Reform might hit second place, but I expect any increase in their vote will lag far behind the national average.
(I don't know how many Gail's we have, but I think it's 5.)
Before he died three years ago my father (who was quite heavily involved in all of this) said that it was so widespread and endemic in badgers that culling would likely not make much difference. Nor would vaccination as there would be no way of vaccinating prior to infection, which normally occurs in the first few days of life.
So unless a way of vaccinating cattle without compromising their disease-free status can be found, we're a bit buggered, and so far nobody has.
While if we had culled badgers in TB hotspots thirty years ago, we might have eliminated the problem altogether.
Well done badger lobby, how to get it spectacularly backwards.
* I can't eat gluten. Like the SNP on votes on English matters, I excuse myself from taking a view.
I guess she could sit it out as an independent, but its very hard to win then when it comes a GE.
I meant more as a frontline politician. You are never going to be able to do that.
* although we also have to thank Ferrari and Mercedes scoring points off each other.
The Tories arent taking it, that much is certain
Look at the numbers who are charged many hundreds every year (thousands if a family?) to go to football as a walking cash cow, and fall for it.
Also out of date. The farmers from my patch are now blasting Bambi to smithereens because they've convinced themselves that's the real reason. They might be right - the deer population has doubled since 1990.
I never liked Gail’s but that’s not why I’m opposed’: Walthamstow’s revolt
last week this desirable corner of north-east London hit the news with a change.org petition to prevent the upmarket cafe and bakery chain Gail’s,
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/18/i-never-liked-gails-but-thats-not-why-im-opposed-walthamstows-revolt-and-the-awkward-paradox-for-middle-class-london
Unless I missed the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club Agreeable Upgrade to First Class Rail Crew calling card when last they played Lord's*.
*I did not, of course, go to Lord's - just using some artistic licence.
The Oval's real success story is being located in an easy to get to area (unlike say Hampshire), and cornering the market for 20-26 year olds who for £130/yr get all CC, one day, T20, and crisp cricket - they bring friends and have a day out there.
But you know what: if you can bring a 10 year old girl to a cricket match, and she enjoys it enough to want to go back, then that's a win as far as I'm concerned.
Absurd, but I suppose people pay so it's the market at work. Who are these people would be my question.
If Starmer had any sense, which self-evidently he hasn't she might have been facing cases in this country already.
I haven't spotted one yet, but have come across the impact of them while out mountain biking.
Checking, the Deputy Leader of Ashfield Council has an extra three lots of criminal convictions from the last 18 months. This follows on from the previous two below, and the ones before that I do not mention.
He went down the short traffic calmed High Street in his Land Rover Effete, also called Evoque. followed by an unmarked police car complete with blue lights flashing, at 65mph "after a night at the bingo". He then pulled into a petrol station, and reversed into the police car.
He's built up quite the criminal record over the last decade, the most remarkable being making a police phone call to 999 when arguing with his neighbour about a hot tub, and putting on a "keep ... keep away from me with that knife" pantomime to the emergency operator.
Meanwhile his neighbours wife was videoing him with his phone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-63010292
He now has another three from the last 18 months. Non-disclosure of financial interest, and four our of control dangerous dogs in a public place, and obstructing the police investigating dangerous dogs.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/nottinghamshire-b2490754.html
https://www.chad.co.uk/news/crime/ashfield-council-deputy-leader-tom-hollis-in-court-over-dangerously-out-of-control-dogs-5194984)
He's lost a lot of his vote, but still won last time. He is still in post as Deputy Leader, and not disqualified.
It's not about what the business itself stands for or whether the owner is a progressive. It's simply that Gails in fact tend to seek to establish themselves in areas which have gentrified, are affluent, and are on a broadly upward trajectory.
So Gails being in an area is a convenient shorthand for saying that the area is likely to be a good deal better off, more highly educated, and frankly more optimistic than average. That's bad news for Reform and good news for progressives (particularly the Lib Dems in recent times) - and you can track that in terms of results in constituencies with a Gails.
It might be that some affluent progressives actively dislike Gails. But that's pretty irrelevant. Indeed, the reason quite a few affluent progressives have a view on Gails at all is they are quite likely to live near one - if they didn't, they'd be much less likely to care one way or the other.