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  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 52,499
    Andy_JS said:

    Leon said:

    Andy_JS said:

    Reform gain in Cannock Chase with 50%ish to Lab 23ish Con 12ish Grn 10
    Ukip got 5 votes and beat TUSC who got....... 1!

    Hednesford Green Heath (Cannock Chase) Council By-Election Result:

    ➡️ RFM: 51.5% (+31.8)
    🌹 LAB: 22.6% (-18.6)
    🌳 CON: 12.4% (-13.1)
    🌍 GRN: 9.9% (-0.3)
    🙋 Ind: 3.0% (New)
    💷 UKIP: 0.5% (New)
    🧑‍🔧 TUSC: 0.1% (New)

    No Ind (-3.5) as previous.

    Reform GAIN from Labour.
    Changes w/ 2024.

    I was travelling round this ward this afternoon and predicted Reform would get over 50%. Almost tailer-made territory for them. Interesting fact is that the ward almost reaches 1,000 feet since it's next to Cannock Chase itself.
    Why tailor-made? White working class?

    I went there a couple of years ago and it seemed moderately prosperous, not down at heel post industrial Red Wall, but maybe I got the wrong impression
    About as upper-working class and white as you can get. Not poor at all, but not wealthy either. A lot of bungalows which is usually a sign of Reform strength.
    Ironically "bungalow" is a word we imported from India, meaning "a house in the Bengal style".
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 86,611
    The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost.

    Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made rulings on cases when evidence was incomplete.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye2q00k51o
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 44,612

    Charity rowing crew mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

    A charity rowing crew was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after Rupert Lowe mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

    Mr Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

    He included the message: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW.

    “Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.

    “Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/charity-rowing-crew-mistaken-for-illegal-migrants/

    Have there ever been recorded incidents of migrant boats landing in Norfolk (at least since the Anglo Saxons) or has Lowe got norfolking sense?
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 1,318

    Charity rowing crew mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

    A charity rowing crew was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after Rupert Lowe mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

    Mr Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

    He included the message: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW.

    “Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.

    “Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/charity-rowing-crew-mistaken-for-illegal-migrants/

    Have there ever been recorded incidents of migrant boats landing in Norfolk (at least since the Anglo Saxons) or has Lowe got norfolking sense?
    Wonder if we can start the mass deportation with Mr Rupert Lowe, someone who even Farage couldn't stomach.
  • rkrkrkrkrkrk Posts: 8,760

    Leon said:

    The BBC has signed a broadcast deal with Boxxer which will mean world-class professional boxing returns to prime-time television and BBC iPlayer.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/cr74z4jkez5o

    BBC done up like a kipper. Boxxer only have about 3 decent fighters and all their contracts are just about done and they need other people to fight, and opponents will only fight on DAZN for big money. Its why Sky wouldn't pay Boxxer anymore.

    Its like when they signed to show Bellator MMA, only for Bellator to get bought up and shut down.

    Btw I wonder if GPT5 is struggling because of overwhelming demand. I’m using 4.1 right now and it’s slow and dumb - could be that OpenAI’s compute power is being hammered
    It would explain the speed, but not the inference. Its also failing variants of the "strawberry" test,

    "how many r's are there in molecular"

    The word "molecular" has two r’s — one in “molecular” and one in “r” at the end.
    Maybe scaling has finally hit a wall and isn't giving good returns on performance any more?
    In which case, there's rather a lot of tech investment that is going to look horrendous...
  • SandraMcSandraMc Posts: 772
    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 3,677
    Leon said:

    Not a good start, I asked it to check some code I wrote based upon an academic paper (which I know is correct as I have the reference implementation) and it started telling me I had things wrong which aren't. And talked absolute bullshit about something that is very clear in the paper.

    Funnily enough ChatGPT 4 help me write the code it was checking.

    Reading the technical document hallucinations aren't that much improved GPT5 vs GPT4.

    It’s getting trashed on Reddit. Yet Ethan Mollick loves it

    I reserve judgement. Let us know your experience?
    The hallucinations are not going away, which implies the training in some cases is not completing its job. It seems that the learning protocols need to be tightened up somehow - but the problem is that it learns the process as well as the data- so potentially a HAL style breakdown is always possible..
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 32,180
    Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer looks dead as more execs leave for competing startup

    Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer project is reportedly over. Bloomberg reports that CEO Elon Musk is killing the project after a mass exodus of talent from the Dojo team to a competing startup.

    Dojo was the name of Tesla’s in-house AI chip development to create supercomputers to train its AI models for self-driving.

    https://electrek.co/2025/08/07/tesla-dojo-supercomputer-looks-dead-as-more-execs-leave-competing-startup/

    The power of PB. Leon spends two hours extolling Waymo's self-driving cars and Musk panics and throws in the towel.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 32,268
    MattW said:

    Taz said:

    MaxPB said:

    Taz said:

    MaxPB said:

    MattW said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    TOPPING said:

    Taz said:

    Rushanara Ali has resigned as a few people on social media were offended.

    @MattW provided the background to what actually happened as opposed to the headlines.

    Still, landlords eh.

    https://x.com/paulbranditv/status/1953533008666824805?s=61

    Yep. The actual sequencing looks fine, the optics dreadful.
    It's the fact her government is currently outlawing exactly what she did which makes it super awks.
    Really? I didn't see that bit. She gave due 4 months notice - are the govt going to change that?
    They are outlawing the ability to kick people out then relist for higher rents until I believe you have waited 6 months.
    ah ok - so 4 months plus 6 months.

    Seems super intrusive whatever it is telling landlords what they can or can't do with their properties.
    Well that is our current government answer to most things.
    I think Rushnara (sp?) Ali is basically in the clear on this one, and I'm not really sure why quite so many have jumped on this unless they have not done their homework. "Homelessness Minister" may have been too juicy a headline.

    GB News are really shouting about it, but imo are as silly as usual. A complaint to Ofcom could be funny.

    The previous guy with his behind-the-business block of flats was vulnerable, and I think with research there were (and maybe are) probably a few other targets around on the Lab benches.

    Some interventions are winding up around Article 4 Planning Directives and Home Office lettings of HMOs. I'm hearing noises from Broxtowe. I'm not sure how that will play out, because they seem to be looking at versions of some of the restrictive licensing done by eg Nottingham City and London Boroughs, which is very complicated to run. I'm not sure if too many District Councils are up to running that stuff.
    Oh look the slum lord defending other slum lords. The only thing I hoped Labour would do is put all of you out of business, I've been disappointed just the same as everything else Labour have failed to do.

    If Labour are to raise taxes I hope they target slum lords. A 4% value surcharge per year should be good, wipe out all rental yield and turn as many as possible into forced sellers or face bankruptcy.
    How would they define a Slum lord ?
    Any landlord. They're all pretty scummy. Look at this Labour MP, she's not the only scummy landlord out there, this is just normal behaviour for them.
    Would that even apply to the likes of Legal and General who have built flats to let to generate a regular income ?

    I always got the impression MattW was pretty responsible.
    I'll bite slightly now. If people use "slumlord" it usually tells you more about the person using the term. It is a flag for dogmatic and hostile eg Generation Rent. Max is ideologically opposed to rental. I'm not sure why; one would hope an ardent capitalist would support free housing markets; I have not heard him argue for nationalisation of eg Grainger plc who are a rental business.

    The Rushanara Ali property seems to be 8, Blondin Street, London E3 2TR, a 4/5 bed townhouse. Market rental value seems to be about £4350 per month (based on one currently advertised there as 4/5 bed) *. The previous rent of £3300 seems to be around 25% below market, which seems exceptional given that it is stated to be a fairly recent tenancy; they had a bloody good deal (which might be why they are cross at losing it and maybe thought she would cave) - absent something exceptional. 4 people, five bed (one small), 2 bath, 2 reception - 24ft kitchen-diner, and a lounge. Zoopla details of this house from 2014 are below **.

    The increased advertised rent of £4000 per month seems to still be ~8-10% below market, which seems OK given that she is being up front that it is a tenancy-to-sale so not years long.

    Value is £800k, so at £3300 that is £40k or 5% gross return, or 6.25% at the new rental. Which is OK for London - a big chunk will go on license etc and management, and decorating / maintenance, but it should be fine with a 2014 mortgage. It's a nice house and a good choice. After costs yield will be 3-4+% on those numbers if mortgage free.

    * https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/67994004
    ** https://www.zoopla.co.uk/property-history/8-blondin-street/london/e3-2tr/31999344/ (Need to log in eg with Google)
    Licence.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 39,308
    edited August 8
    SandraMc said:

    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
    Andrew is a character from One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom; depraved, lecherous, lacking a conscience, and wholly without any redeeming features whatsoever.

    The Queen should have had him castrated.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 32,268

    Charity rowing crew mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

    A charity rowing crew was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after Rupert Lowe mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

    Mr Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

    He included the message: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW.

    “Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.

    “Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/charity-rowing-crew-mistaken-for-illegal-migrants/

    :lol:

    That is brilliant.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,963
    Sean_F said:

    SandraMc said:

    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
    Andrew is a character from One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom; depraved, lecherous, without a conscience, and wholly without any redeeming features whatsoever.

    The Queen should have had him castrated.
    I don't believe that is in the Queen's powers.

  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 60,963

    Charity rowing crew mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

    A charity rowing crew was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after Rupert Lowe mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

    Mr Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

    He included the message: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW.

    “Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.

    “Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/charity-rowing-crew-mistaken-for-illegal-migrants/

    Have there ever been recorded incidents of migrant boats landing in Norfolk (at least since the Anglo Saxons) or has Lowe got norfolking sense?
    One would need to salute their strength and stamina, if not their brains.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,240

    The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost.

    Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made rulings on cases when evidence was incomplete.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye2q00k51o

    Yet another public organisation for which I’m happy not to be their IT manager this morning!
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 74,772
    Sean_F said:

    SandraMc said:

    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
    Andrew is a character from One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom; depraved, lecherous, lacking a conscience, and wholly without any redeeming features whatsoever.

    The Queen should have had him castrated.
    If William boots him out, that's somewhere near it.

    Well, it removes the nut case.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 44,631
    TOPPING said:

    Taz said:

    Rushanara Ali has resigned as a few people on social media were offended over her doing with her property what she was entitled to do with it.

    @MattW provided the background to what actually happened as opposed to the headlines.

    Still, landlords eh.

    https://x.com/paulbranditv/status/1953533008666824805?s=61

    MattW told us it was a nothing burger.
    It was a nothing burger. She wanted to sell the house, gave due notice, then turns out it didn't sell so she re-advertised it for rent but at a higher (I daresay market) price. Then the headlines went to work and voila!
    typical Labour , homeless minister desperate to sell her £2M second house chucks out tenants and then rents again at £4K a month, nothing to see here just your typical hypocrite left wing champagne Labour politician
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 52,499
    SandraMc said:

    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
    Its not the shrinks fault. Andrews problem is not a mental illness, it's the narcissm of the idle rich, a problem inherent to Monarchy and aristocracy. Best thing for him would be no money or fame, and a proper job, but it's too late now.
  • JosiasJessopJosiasJessop Posts: 46,487

    Charity rowing crew mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

    A charity rowing crew was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after Rupert Lowe mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

    Mr Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

    He included the message: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW.

    “Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.

    “Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/charity-rowing-crew-mistaken-for-illegal-migrants/

    :lol:

    That is brilliant.
    Nah, it's really dangerous.

    This sort of thing is going to end up with someone, or multiple people, dead.

    At best, it'd be a monkey:
    https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Hanging-of-the-Hartlepool-Monkey/
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 66,333
    Good morning

    From yesterday and *my reply

    wooliedyed said:

    Wales Lab hold, Ref gain in Cannock and hold in Easington

    *I wouldn't be certain of any labour hold in Wales at present and;

    Overnight result

    Carmarthenshire, Llangennech:

    Ref 694
    PC 489
    Lab 380
    LD 26
    Con 14
    Gwlad 6

    Turnout: 39.37%

    Reform GAIN

    Ref 43.13%
    PC 30.39% -7.17%
    Lab 23.62% -38.82%
    LD 1.62%
    Con 0.87%
    Gwlad 0.37%

    Labour is heading for a thoroughly deserved shellacking next May
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 32,180
    edited August 8

    The body running courts in England and Wales has been accused of a cover-up, after a leaked report found it took several years to react to an IT bug that caused evidence to go missing, be overwritten or appear lost.

    Sources within HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) say that as a result, judges in civil, family and tribunal courts will have made rulings on cases when evidence was incomplete.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye2q00k51o

    The frightening part (well, one of them) comes right at the end, where the BBC casually slips in news of another bug: In the family courts, a different IT flaw caused thousands of documents to go missing, sources say.
  • boulayboulay Posts: 6,755
    Foxy said:

    SandraMc said:

    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
    Its not the shrinks fault. Andrews problem is not a mental illness, it's the narcissm of the idle rich, a problem inherent to Monarchy and aristocracy. Best thing for him would be no money or fame, and a proper job, but it's too late now.
    Whilst he is an utter arse his shagging also depends on there being a willing pipeline of idiot women who will throw themselves into the sack with famous and/or rich men regardless of whether that man is a grade A shitbag.
  • Sean_FSean_F Posts: 39,308
    Foxy said:

    SandraMc said:

    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
    Its not the shrinks fault. Andrews problem is not a mental illness, it's the narcissm of the idle rich, a problem inherent to Monarchy and aristocracy. Best thing for him would be no money or fame, and a proper job, but it's too late now.
    Yet, he lacks the glamorous wickedness of his forebears in The Age of Scandal, like Lord Hervey, Sir Francis Dashwood, and Lord Byron.

    Andrew epitomises the banality of evil.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 123,158

    NEW THREAD

  • MattWMattW Posts: 28,955
    edited August 8

    Sort of on topic. You wonder why we have a problem with politicians in this country...

    Rushanara Ali, PPE degree, straight into politics, bag carrier for a couple of people including Oona King (more later), then a bit of civil service, think tank, then MP. Oona King, politics degree, straight into politics as a bag carrier, then MP, then Lords, then on the DEI gravy train at tech companies. Oona King was bag carrier for Glyn Ford, who after 10 years in academia, rest of life a politician.

    This isn't just a Labour problem, but you don't need your full six degrees of Kevin Bacon to find too many appear to know nothing but university and politics.

    I strongly question that classification.

    Public sector careers are precisely as valid as private sector; I've done both. They often involve greater constraints. People having them are often far more exposed to the whole of society far more than private sector people stuck in their suburbs or whatever type of moderately to very well off housing ghetto it is.

    (Phew the public / pubic typo nearly struck. Can't be talking about pubic sector careers with Leon around, especially at the calm time of day on PB.)
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 1,318
    malcolmg said:

    TOPPING said:

    Taz said:

    Rushanara Ali has resigned as a few people on social media were offended over her doing with her property what she was entitled to do with it.

    @MattW provided the background to what actually happened as opposed to the headlines.

    Still, landlords eh.

    https://x.com/paulbranditv/status/1953533008666824805?s=61

    MattW told us it was a nothing burger.
    It was a nothing burger. She wanted to sell the house, gave due notice, then turns out it didn't sell so she re-advertised it for rent but at a higher (I daresay market) price. Then the headlines went to work and voila!
    typical Labour , homeless minister desperate to sell her £2M second house chucks out tenants and then rents again at £4K a month, nothing to see here just your typical hypocrite left wing champagne Labour politician
    Sound effects to go with this post

    https://uppbeat.io/sfx/moan-frustrated-sigh-male/5005/19527
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 79,984

    Charity rowing crew mistaken for ‘illegal migrants’ by Rupert Lowe

    A charity rowing crew was contacted by the coastguard near Great Yarmouth after Rupert Lowe mistook them for “illegal migrants”.

    Mr Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.

    He included the message: “Dinghies coming into Great Yarmouth, RIGHT NOW.

    “Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.

    “Enough is enough. Britain needs mass deportations. NOW.”

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/08/charity-rowing-crew-mistaken-for-illegal-migrants/

    Warden Hodges.
  • Sean_F said:

    Foxy said:

    SandraMc said:

    HYUFD said:

    Move over Nick Clegg and Leon, it looks like Prince Andrew could even give Casanova, Warren Beatty, JFK and Julio Iglesias a run for his money in terms of numbers of lovers.

    'When William comes to power, Andrew will be toast. He sees him as a liability to the monarchy and Andrew has not always been very polite about Catherine. William is very protective of his wife', the author and journalist said.

    Speaking to Palace Confidential host Jo Elvin, Mr Lownie believes Andrew has had between 1,000 and 3,000 lovers and viewed himself as a sex God because women 'threw themselves' at him.

    But this led to the Duke of York being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein and also made him an 'easy target' for hostile foreign states, Mr Lownie claims.

    'Jeffrey Epstein provided women and course then used it to blackmail people and Andrew, I'm afraid, fell into that honey trap, not just with Epstein but many other people as well', he said.'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/article-14979493/Prince-Andrew-biography-Trump-Epstein-assassination-plot-Palace-Confidential.html

    I remember when Andrew was still at school, Private Eye ran an item saying that Randy Andy was sex mad and no chambermaid was safe with him. It said the Queen was worried about him and thinking of making an appointment for him to see a shrink. Either the appointment was never made or the shrink was useless.
    Its not the shrinks fault. Andrews problem is not a mental illness, it's the narcissm of the idle rich, a problem inherent to Monarchy and aristocracy. Best thing for him would be no money or fame, and a proper job, but it's too late now.
    Yet, he lacks the glamorous wickedness of his forebears in The Age of Scandal, like Lord Hervey, Sir Francis Dashwood, and Lord Byron.

    Andrew epitomises the banality of evil.
    At a state grammar school in Cumbria we had an ex public school lad join us for the Sixth Form. As such he knew people who knew people at Andrew's school. According to this "source" when Andrew's Police Protection Squad wanted the night off, presumably for a shag or whatever they simply provided Andrew with a full set of the top shelf magazines. These were then used as currency by Andrew as necessary.

    That is my memory of the ex-public school guy at our school, oh and wondering how one so self-evidently thick had scraped 7 O'Levels
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