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Kemi Badenoch is taking my advice – politicalbetting.com
Kemi Badenoch is taking my advice – politicalbetting.com
This is significant not so much for the attack on Starmer (par for the course party politics) but instead the indirect criticism of the mini budget. The furthest the Tories have gone on that and indicative that they think if they go on the economy they have to distance from 2022 https://t.co/wpINJzPjdt
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Overall it helped Starmer with Corbyn in terms of drawing a line. I know he's making a nuisance of himself now, but Corbyn was always a more popular figure than Truss, or at least he had a loyal fanbase. There isn't really a Truss fanbase in the Conservative Party, so she's entirely dispensible and it'd make a point.
HASSETT SIGNALS STRUCTURAL SHAKE-UP OF ECONOMIC REPORTING — MORE WHITE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMING
Truss' problem was she proposed big tax cuts without the spending cuts to fund them
Major sought to differentiate himself in terms of style from Thatcher, and obviously dropped the Poll Tax. But "repudiation" is too strong a word - he was broadly the continuity candidate against Heseltine.
Similarly, Cameron was pretty close to Howard, May was a fairly moderate continuity choice given the Brexiteers on offer, and Truss made a point of staying loyal to Johnson when others resigned en masse from his Cabinet.
I don't think a bit of "I'm my own person" is repudiation, nor is it specific to Tory leaders.
American Eagle shares are up 13% today
and speaking of things you can alter by simply ignoring what’s really going on I hear we’re switching to more of a clap-if-you-believe-in-it model for statistics too
https://bsky.app/profile/petridishes.bsky.social/post/3lvlg3cl3zs2f
Here are my unskewed numbers for your reading pleasure.
I assume that’s run by the Scottish government?
I see that the spectator article on this theme is now the most read on the spectator website
The problem was that they didn't get sufficient buy-in from the institutions that matter and who had the power to scupper their every move. They were caught out by the ruthless lack of hesitancy and clearly lacked salesmanship and spin doctory
I still maintain that if the Truss administration had been given a couple of years to do their thing, the country would likely be in a far, far better place now.
In Liz we failed to Truss. That was the problem. I'd expect the British 'sense of fair play' to kick in at some point, but it never did. Not only is Liz now unreasonably castigated and villified for something she literally didn't (get to) do, but she's become a convenient scapegoat for all manner of other irrelevant St Judean lost causes.
Kemi even said she was willing to means test the state pension triple lock at one point
Which reminds me that I indirectly triggered the second worst row of some friends’ marriage when I persuaded the man to join the Lib Dems and his wife was upset that he’d done something so momentous based on a random conversation with a school dad without consulting her first (I think she’s Labour).
I was lucky in getting a beautiful lady who is genuinely highly intelligent and can design a mean circuit. Best of all, she puts up with me...
In TrumpWorld, it's the accuracy that gets you fired.
I met a girl yesterday who's an influencer who models and sells lingerie online and she has 220,000 followers.
I'm surprised GB News on those figures can keep running
A few dozen crazed leftists on TikTok decided that a jeans/genes pun made an attractive young actress a literal Nazi, the US mainstream media picked up the ‘backlash’ and ran with it hard, including showing the ad dozens of times, and now American Eagle has had hundreds of millions of dollars in free publicity and hundreds of millions more in increased market cap.
It’s Bud Light in reverse. Get woke, go broke.
Edit: even funnier, with some internet digging it turns out that this young lady’s family lives on a rural farm, she can drive a car with a ‘stick’ and even change the oil. She now lives in Florida and is apparently a registered Republican.
There weren't any I fancied, so I made an excuse and left!
I have a colleague who is W-A-Y hotter...
Even oldies are now watching loads of YouTube rather than OTA tv.
However, from the get go it was obviously there is no massive pot of gold like in the US for tv news, it has never got massive viewership outside those 30 mins primetime slots on BBC / ITV. We aren't like the US were Fox can get 3 million viewers for a late night satire show.
The big loser in all this is Sky News, they are getting absolutely hammered.
UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read
https://www.reuters.com/world/un-report-finds-united-nations-reports-are-not-widely-read-2025-08-01/
If only she weren't somewhere between the age of my daughter and grand-daughter.
And gay.
/scans for sarcasm again/
Thank you?
Sadly for her some of us are married, and therefore totally out of Miss Sweeney’s league!
Whoever runs American Eagle’s marketing campaign has earned their bonus this week though, a thousand times over.
They found the perfect model, in a good-looking young actress who comes across as the girl next door (rather than the recent trend for excessive surgery and makeup in role models) who you’d happily invite to meet your parents.
Whoever is managing her career is absolutely smashing it.
EastasiaEurope, and Cameron wanted to save seals and hug hoodies whereas Howard wanted to lock 'em up.But go and look at their videos now, its varies, but 50k-100k views per video is quite normal (some go viral with 100ks of views), and they have lots of interactions in the comments sections. Also, they put out a lot of videos (75k videos so far), that would be costing them insane amounts of money to fake 2bn views.
This it isn't how people trying to boost viewer count do it, they just do it on a handful of videos.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-sydney-sweeney-ad-epstein-b2801328.html
the network has spent over 85 minutes across at least 20 segments through Thursday afternoon discussing the commercial and the discourse surrounding it.
At the same time, since Monday, Fox News has only talked about the latest developments in the Epstein saga a total of three minutes, despite the fact that Trump recently claimed that Epstein “stole” the late Virginia Giuffre [...] from Mar-a-Lago. Trump’s remarks raised additional questions about his knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and have led to Giuffre’s family demanding more answers from the administration.
The president sparked additional headlines when he reiterated this week that he’s “allowed” to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, [...]
Media Matters found that since Monday, Fox News has mentioned Sweeney 62 times on air compared to just 14 for Epstein.
What about other right and left-leaning news sources in the US?
While MAGA competitor Newsmax has also given ample coverage to the Sweeney ad, the channel has also frequently discussed the Epstein situation – mentioning it four times more than the American Eagle commercial.
MSNBC, which has yet to mention Sweeney on air this week, has brought up Epstein 756 times, while CNN has mentioned the disgraced financier 638 times, compared to just six references to the Sweeney ad.
There’s only two American late-night shows really worth watching these days, Gutfeld and Bill Maher, who understand that the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny, and aren’t afraid to go after their own side when justified. The rest are all totally one-sided propagandists, working a time slot when most people want to have a laugh and disconnect from the world.
I have used it in some PB headers.
Well, I've just sat through 1 minute 20 seconds of Kemi Badenoch's platitudes and that's 80 seconds I won't be getting back.
As always, long on generalities and short on specifics - what would she and Stride cut, what does she think Reeves should cut and by how much?
I'm happy to see borrowing and the deficit reduced - there may be some relief IF we can cut interest rates in the autumn but with inflation stubborn that looks incrwasingly unlikely.
So, what do we cut and by how much? Defence, perhaps, pensions I'm told, the Police maybe? Presumably we'll need to keep some funds for all the migrants we're going to deport and the foreign nationals in our jails?
*US JUNE DURABLE GOODS ORDERS FALL 9.4% M/M
*US JUNE FACTORY ORDERS FALL 4.8% M/M\
https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1952369355830055288
I heard her ask the most disingenuous question to Trump in Starmer's presence re; the Online Safety Act. She mischievously asked Trump what he thought now Starmer had now blocked Truth Social. And Trump almost bit. Now whatever the rights and wrongs of the Online Safety Act, trying to humiliate the Prime Minister and the nation with a misleading question to an unhinged President of the USA is not on. It could have resulted in Trump declaring war on the UK.
Anyway in answer to the earlier statement, Eamonn Holmes popped into my head, and that is a thought no one wants.
Yes they were uneconomic compared to importing coal from Poland or elsewhere in the world. But that of course depends on a secure supply and the price of the imported product not shooting through the roof. As with, for example, German gas supplies.
And yes they were uneconomic compared to home grown gas. But again that depends on the supply of home grown gas being secure - which is clearly not the case in the medium term - or on imported gas being both secure and reasonably priced. Again see German gas supplies.
That is not to say I think we should reopen the pits. But coal gasification is certainly something we should look at as part of a spread of energy supply methods.
She’s extremely pretty and curvy and blonde and petite and and and - and has that sultry sensuality as well. That come hither look
Where do you live? Coz I’d like to move next door but one
https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1952391328471359741
Where would you move to ?
Next door.
Ahmad Mulakhil faces two rape charges, while Mohammad Kabir is accused of kidnap, strangulation and aiding and abetting the rape of a girl aged under 13.
Warwickshire County Council leader George Finch has alleged the two men were asylum seekers, which the BBC has been unable to verify independently, and accused Warwickshire Police and the Home Office of covering up their immigration status.
Police refused to disclose further details, saying: "Once someone is charged with an offence, we follow national guidance. This guidance does not include sharing ethnicity or immigration status."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy98l9j913vo
Among other fun things, it will lead to subsidence on a fairly massive scale. And lots of CO2, unless you spend money on pumping that back down again.
And yes the technology does exist. It has been used successfully in trials for over 50 years. It is just that it has had no purpose until now since conventional mining and O&G provision has been sufficient to meet global needs.
Bear in mind many of the wells we drilled in the central North Sea in the 80s and 90s could not be produced with the technology that existed then because of the ultra high pressures. But once the demand for those hydrocarbons was there people actually started addressing how to produce it and now we can.
https://x.com/BarristerSecret/status/1952389559561724179
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
Seriously