With all the flu vaccinations available today, especially for the elderly, why the increase ?
Because vaccinations only effective against the particular strains selected, which is an educated guess. And i'm willing to suspect 'the flu' is not confirmed cases of influenza but people with respiratory problems, viral and bacterial.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Farage can also more reasonably accuse people banging on about Russia of hypocrisy given that in the pre-Trump era, European elites were queuing up to do business with Putin.
He does have a fair point here. Many BBC shows now have ‘trigger warnings’ even Little Britain and, yes, racist TV shows and shows that would fall foul of today’s modern sensibilities were in abundance on all three channels back then.
You also have the MSM trying to give the guy from Oxford Uni who gloated over Charlie Kirk’s death friendly interviews to plead his case as he shouldn’t pay for saying silly things when young. I don’t think that’s unfair. What Farage said over 40 years at school, who cares, it what he is now that matters.
Should the Oxford Union guy go on to lead a major political party with a solid chance of becoming PM, I'm sure he'll also be quizzed about the things he said when younger.
As for what Farage is now... well, people look at him, he's praising Trump, thinks the Ukraine war is the fault of NATO, and blames everything else on immigrants.
No, the Oxford guy said something stupid. He should be allowed to get on with his life.
As for your final sentence that really is untrue for the final two and his praise of Trump has been sparse and specific.
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
‘ If Fawlty Towers is now being removed by the BBC then humour is dead. The puritans are winning because the establishment is weak and has no self confidence’
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire East Riding
There is no such place as Port Vale. Time to sack that club off.
Robbie Williams won’t be happy.
Port vale feature in some of my favourite moments watching Swindon. A 5-0 win to win Leaague 2 under Di Canio probably the pick.
I’ll never forget your lot turning us over 6-4 at home after we went 4-1 up
Classic game. Was working in a pub, came out in time for the classified scores. You can imaginary at Birmingham 4… I was pretty down. For about a second!
If I need a lift I watch that game on YouTube. A classic.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Farage can also more reasonably accuse people banging on about Russia of hypocrisy given that in the pre-Trump era, European elites were queuing up to do business with Putin.
How was it hypocrisy to deal with Putin before he invaded Ukraine?
Also, who qualifies as a 'European elite' out of interest?
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
Yep. Why should we cut the 1970s BBC some slack over things like that by not 1970s Farage? Double standards every time.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Farage can also more reasonably accuse people banging on about Russia of hypocrisy given that in the pre-Trump era, European elites were queuing up to do business with Putin.
How was it hypocrisy to deal with Putin before he invaded Ukraine?
Also, who qualifies as a 'European elite' out of interest?
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire East Riding
There is no such place as Port Vale. Time to sack that club off.
Robbie Williams won’t be happy.
Port vale feature in some of my favourite moments watching Swindon. A 5-0 win to win Leaague 2 under Di Canio probably the pick.
I’ll never forget your lot turning us over 6-4 at home after we went 4-1 up
Classic game. Was working in a pub, came out in time for the classified scores. You can imaginary at Birmingham 4… I was pretty down. For about a second!
If I need a lift I watch that game on YouTube. A classic.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Farage can also more reasonably accuse people banging on about Russia of hypocrisy given that in the pre-Trump era, European elites were queuing up to do business with Putin.
How was it hypocrisy to deal with Putin before he invaded Ukraine?
Also, who qualifies as a 'European elite' out of interest?
They annexed Crimea in 2014 and Germany was still clinging to Nordstream 2 when Putin went for the whole of Ukraine.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Farage can also more reasonably accuse people banging on about Russia of hypocrisy given that in the pre-Trump era, European elites were queuing up to do business with Putin.
How was it hypocrisy to deal with Putin before he invaded Ukraine?
Also, who qualifies as a 'European elite' out of interest?
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
I’m around 20 years older and went to a school with a significant number of Jewish boys. There was a bit of antisemitism but it was generally felt to be ‘bad form’. That was in despite the Morning Assembly being being segregated; Catholic and Jewish boys came in for the announcements.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Farage can also more reasonably accuse people banging on about Russia of hypocrisy given that in the pre-Trump era, European elites were queuing up to do business with Putin.
How was it hypocrisy to deal with Putin before he invaded Ukraine?
Also, who qualifies as a 'European elite' out of interest?
They annexed Crimea in 2014 and Germany was still clinging to Nordstream 2 when Putin went for the whole of Ukraine.
Russia is hard to pin on Farage. The Dulwich College stuff and his reaction are more powerful. There’s a double whammy too because it reminds (or informs) people how elite his upbringing was.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
Farage can also more reasonably accuse people banging on about Russia of hypocrisy given that in the pre-Trump era, European elites were queuing up to do business with Putin.
How was it hypocrisy to deal with Putin before he invaded Ukraine?
Also, who qualifies as a 'European elite' out of interest?
They annexed Crimea in 2014 and Germany was still clinging to Nordstream 2 when Putin went for the whole of Ukraine.
He does have a fair point here. Many BBC shows now have ‘trigger warnings’ even Little Britain and, yes, racist TV shows and shows that would fall foul of today’s modern sensibilities were in abundance on all three channels back then.
You also have the MSM trying to give the guy from Oxford Uni who gloated over Charlie Kirk’s death friendly interviews to plead his case as he shouldn’t pay for saying silly things when young. I don’t think that’s unfair. What Farage said over 40 years at school, who cares, it what he is now that matters.
Should the Oxford Union guy go on to lead a major political party with a solid chance of becoming PM, I'm sure he'll also be quizzed about the things he said when younger.
As for what Farage is now... well, people look at him, he's praising Trump, thinks the Ukraine war is the fault of NATO, and blames everything else on immigrants.
No, the Oxford guy said something stupid. He should be allowed to get on with his life.
As for your final sentence that really is untrue for the final two and his praise of Trump has been sparse and specific.
The Wests timid reaction to the initial annexation of parts of Ukraine and Georgia was poor. How much of that was Russian influence ?
Probably quite a bit, but those politicians are nearly all history, while Farage aspires to be our future PM.
We need a proper investigation and exposure of Russia's covert war on us. Take this from earlier today:
"Four unidentified military-grade drones breached a no-fly zone in Dublin just minutes after Zelensky’s plane landed. They targeted the exact flight path and then circled an Irish Navy vessel deployed for the visit. Ireland is probing it as a potential hybrid attack."
We know that Russia was bribing Nathan Gill, but Farage was (and to an extent still is) spouting the same Russian talking points. Farage's Putin links are a major security risk to our country.
So many people are trying to make a living out of producing YouTube videos that you wonder how long it is before there aren't enough viewers to go around. Having said that, there are lots of very interesting channels such as Mentour Pilot (if you're interested in aviation).
With all the flu vaccinations available today, especially for the elderly, why the increase ?
Dr John Campbell on YouTube quoted a report (on last year's flu season) with figures that showed people who'd had the vaccine were more likely to get flu than those who hadn't been vaccinated. Last year, I emphasise.
FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned.
The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just moments before the incident happened at about 11pm. The drones reached the location where Zelenskyy’s plane was expected to be at the exact moment it had been due to pass.
The drones then orbited above an Irish Navy vessel that had secretly been deployed in the Irish Sea for the Zelenskyy visit.
Sources have said that the drones took off from the north-east of Dublin, possibly near Howth, and flew for up to two hours.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Scoop: Trump has hired a new architect for the White House ballroom. The current one, James McCrery, will remain on the team, despite some clashes with the president, sources tell @CBSNews .
So many people are trying to make a living out of producing YouTube videos that you wonder how long it is before there aren't enough viewers to go around. Having said that, there are lots of very interesting channels such as Mentour Pilot (if you're interested in aviation).
It’s still a better system than one based on who you knew at Oxbridge.
He does have a fair point here. Many BBC shows now have ‘trigger warnings’ even Little Britain and, yes, racist TV shows and shows that would fall foul of today’s modern sensibilities were in abundance on all three channels back then.
You also have the MSM trying to give the guy from Oxford Uni who gloated over Charlie Kirk’s death friendly interviews to plead his case as he shouldn’t pay for saying silly things when young. I don’t think that’s unfair. What Farage said over 40 years at school, who cares, it what he is now that matters.
Should the Oxford Union guy go on to lead a major political party with a solid chance of becoming PM, I'm sure he'll also be quizzed about the things he said when younger.
As for what Farage is now... well, people look at him, he's praising Trump, thinks the Ukraine war is the fault of NATO, and blames everything else on immigrants.
No, the Oxford guy said something stupid. He should be allowed to get on with his life.
As for your final sentence that really is untrue for the final two and his praise of Trump has been sparse and specific.
The Wests timid reaction to the initial annexation of parts of Ukraine and Georgia was poor. How much of that was Russian influence ?
Probably quite a bit, but those politicians are nearly all history, while Farage aspires to be our future PM.
We need a proper investigation and exposure of Russia's covert war on us. Take this from earlier today:
"Four unidentified military-grade drones breached a no-fly zone in Dublin just minutes after Zelensky’s plane landed. They targeted the exact flight path and then circled an Irish Navy vessel deployed for the visit. Ireland is probing it as a potential hybrid attack."
We know that Russia was bribing Nathan Gill, but Farage was (and to an extent still is) spouting the same Russian talking points. Farage's Putin links are a major security risk to our country.
The major security risk to our country resides in Number 10 Downing Street. Nigel Farage's 'Russian talking points' aren't even an amuse bouche to what Starmer has done on Chagos, China, and selling out the public to corporate interests like Microsoft and Blackrock.
Scoop: Trump has hired a new architect for the White House ballroom. The current one, James McCrery, will remain on the team, despite some clashes with the president, sources tell @CBSNews .
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
I’m around 20 years older and went to a school with a significant number of Jewish boys. There was a bit of antisemitism but it was generally felt to be ‘bad form’. That was in despite the Morning Assembly being being segregated; Catholic and Jewish boys came in for the announcements.
Certainly different and less intolerant of racism (casual or otherwise) times. I hope in 50 years these times are looked back upon similarly. Something will have gone wrong otherwise imo.
Re Farage and his "gas em all" antics as a teenager the harsh truth is it doesn't really matter (other than to me) what I think about it. What matters is what people who are open to voting Reform think about it.
FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned.
The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just moments before the incident happened at about 11pm. The drones reached the location where Zelenskyy’s plane was expected to be at the exact moment it had been due to pass.
The drones then orbited above an Irish Navy vessel that had secretly been deployed in the Irish Sea for the Zelenskyy visit.
Sources have said that the drones took off from the north-east of Dublin, possibly near Howth, and flew for up to two hours.
So many people are trying to make a living out of producing YouTube videos that you wonder how long it is before there aren't enough viewers to go around. Having said that, there are lots of very interesting channels such as Mentour Pilot (if you're interested in aviation).
Two blokes have been arrested on suspicion of explosives offences, 200 households have been arrested, and there will be a controlled explosion, but it is not terrorism related.
So why do these blokes have something explosive that needs to be blown up? And what is it?
200 households arrested? Sounds like someone was starting an army.
Two blokes have been arrested on suspicion of explosives offences, 200 households have been arrested, and there will be a controlled explosion, but it is not terrorism related.
So why do these blokes have something explosive that needs to be blown up? And what is it?
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Possibly. But the siting of the plant will be controversial. There's already a rebellion brewing across the Highlands about renewables infrastructure. One to watch.
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
West Yorkshire North Yorkshire South Yorkshire East Riding
It's a bit of geography. East Anglia doesn't have a council, but it exists. Yorkshire has never had a county council, but it exists. Pre-1974, no-one sane claimed that, say, Rochdale wasn't in Lancashire or Nottingham wasn't in Nottinghamshire just because those county councils did not have jurisdiction over those settlements. There's a lot more attached to a county than simply a council. And I don't particularly care which bit of geography my council covers or attaches its name to (well I do, but for different reasons). What I want is an immutable set of sub-national units so I can answer to a question like 'where is Barnoldswick?', or be able to ask 'how many towns in Cheshire have had a club in the football league' without havibg to explain what I mean by 'Cheshire' (or, indeed, the football league, though that is a different issue). I'm not even particularly invested in Cheshire. If we were to declare 2025 to be year 0 and henceforth here is now Lancashire, fine. As long as we don't dick around with it any further. Not for the next thousand years, anyway.
Middlesex is an oddity though in that it was waved away and nobody much missed it.
I was born and brought up in Middlesex until its abrupt abolition when I was 10. Some of us miss it still. But there's always Betjeman, including this moving gem
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train..............
Possibly. But the siting of the plant will be controversial. There's already a rebellion brewing across the Highlands about renewables infrastructure. One to watch.
Not just the Highlands - the Borders too, and the coastal fringes.
So many people are trying to make a living out of producing YouTube videos that you wonder how long it is before there aren't enough viewers to go around. Having said that, there are lots of very interesting channels such as Mentour Pilot (if you're interested in aviation).
Speaking as PB’s leading YouTuber all I can say is that the audience growth continues unabated as we devolve as a species to the point where we need to have a constant feed of shite broadcast into our brains.
In my own case my channel continues to grow, I had my best ever month for revenue in November and I seem to bizarrely keep coming up with new things to talk about.
I’ve invested in the future though. I went 4k pretty much from the start in 2022 and I'm now shooting HDR. The idea is to give my content longevity - a lot of early YouTube content is really poor picture quality. You can get away with poor production quality if it pops off the screen. Into people’s retinas and this into their brains…
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
Concerning this bit of whataboutery, let me repeat, with apologies, what I said above:
I was brought up in a Jewish part of London in the 1960s and 1970s. 'Gas them all' and similar thoughts were never ever uttered either to Jewish people or, in my experience, in private 'banter'. It would have marked you out as abnormal. The great majority of us were brought up on stories from our father about serving in the war against fascism.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
I get it. Corbyn says/likes something anti-semitic and unwilling to apologise = unfit to be leader or MP,
Farage says "Gas 'em all" and refuses to apologise = glorious patriot standing up against multiculturism.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Dulwich College to metal trading is a very particular background. The latter (along with Insurance) was a holdout of 'old' City behaviour and practices. I don't know about Metals but Insurance still is. There are some real dinosaurs there. And it's not to their detriment. The money sloshing around for the top brokers and underwriters is quite incredible. My message to PB - you're all paying too much premium!
So many people are trying to make a living out of producing YouTube videos that you wonder how long it is before there aren't enough viewers to go around. Having said that, there are lots of very interesting channels such as Mentour Pilot (if you're interested in aviation).
Speaking as PB’s leading YouTuber all I can say is that the audience growth continues unabated as we devolve as a species to the point where we need to have a constant feed of shite broadcast into our brains.
In my own case my channel continues to grow, I had my best ever month for revenue in November and I seem to bizarrely keep coming up with new things to talk about.
I’ve invested in the future though. I went 4k pretty much from the start in 2022 and I'm now shooting HDR. The idea is to give my content longevity - a lot of early YouTube content is really poor picture quality. You can get away with poor production quality if it pops off the screen. Into people’s retinas and this into their brains…
When there's an ad for soap powder on TV featuring "RochdalePioneers' Laundry Day" then we'll know you've arrived.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
I get it. Corbyn says/likes something anti-semitic and unwilling to apologise = unfit to be leader or MP,
Farage says "Gas 'em all" and refuses to apologise = glorious patriot standing up against multiculturism.
Possibly. But the siting of the plant will be controversial. There's already a rebellion brewing across the Highlands about renewables infrastructure. One to watch.
Not just the Highlands - the Borders too, and the coastal fringes.
Mix of possibilities of course.
As an example of the comedy - the farmer I know who is putting in a battery to back his solar array is still getting grief from the local Greens. They are very upset they can't seem to stop him, under planning law - but they are trying everything. Given that it's a couple of ISO containers, and not visible unless you are on his property (trees), I am try to work out the objection.
He does say that they seem upset by his idea to sell 'leecy directly to the tenants of the small business centre he created out of the old stable yard.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
I get it. Corbyn says/likes something anti-semitic and unwilling to apologise = unfit to be leader or MP,
Farage says "Gas 'em all" and refuses to apologise = glorious patriot standing up against multiculturism.
No mate. If Farage was on about gassing Jews he was an outlier even for the times I grew up in. But my experience is that overt racism did not recede till the late 80s/early 90s. I mean am i misremembering or were not Everton fans chanting proudly about no blacks in the team in the 80s?
FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned.
The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just moments before the incident happened at about 11pm. The drones reached the location where Zelenskyy’s plane was expected to be at the exact moment it had been due to pass.
The drones then orbited above an Irish Navy vessel that had secretly been deployed in the Irish Sea for the Zelenskyy visit.
Sources have said that the drones took off from the north-east of Dublin, possibly near Howth, and flew for up to two hours.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
Not sure, never participated in any, to busy getting bullied for being poor.
Truss has moved beyond party politics as a national treasure so it won't have any consequences for Kemi.
Oddly Kemi sort of half-complimented Truss the other day. Or truer to say consciously passed up a chance to put the boot in. Sort of said 'We had an energy crisis due to Ukraine - what's her (Reeves') excuse?' Let's hope others in the party also realise where the boot needs to be placed.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
Is 'calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils' what happened, or has the story developed further in your head?
Possibly. But the siting of the plant will be controversial. There's already a rebellion brewing across the Highlands about renewables infrastructure. One to watch.
Not just the Highlands - the Borders too, and the coastal fringes.
Mix of possibilities of course.
As an example of the comedy - the farmer I know who is putting in a battery to back his solar array is still getting grief from the local Greens. They are very upset they can't seem to stop him, under planning law - but they are trying everything. Given that it's a couple of ISO containers, and not visible unless you are on his property (trees), I am try to work out the objection.
He does say that they seem upset by his idea to sell 'leecy directly to the tenants of the small business centre he created out of the old stable yard.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
Not sure, never participated in any, to busy getting bullied for being poor.
Oh w8 I think someone tried to bully Wing, a chinese student. Shat himself when Wing pulled a butterfly knife on him though. It might of been racial but not persistent. I think the guy wanted his insides to stay inside of him.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands have pulled out of the Eurovision Song Contest because Israel has been confirmed to be taking part in 2026.
However, it looks to me like the push against Israel has almost entirely failed. Other than perhaps Iceland, other nations don't seem to be leaning toward a boycott, and 5 countries pulling out isn't enough to jeopardise the contest's viability.
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
Not sure, never participated in any, to busy getting bullied for being poor.
Ah yes. We had some of that. I remember jokes about famines also. And bullying of the mentally handicapped. It was no hotbed of enlightenment. None of which ameliorates to me the specific revelations about Farage. But what matters is what people who might vote for Reform think. Would that include you perchance?
Possibly. But the siting of the plant will be controversial. There's already a rebellion brewing across the Highlands about renewables infrastructure. One to watch.
Not just the Highlands - the Borders too, and the coastal fringes.
Mix of possibilities of course.
As an example of the comedy - the farmer I know who is putting in a battery to back his solar array is still getting grief from the local Greens. They are very upset they can't seem to stop him, under planning law - but they are trying everything. Given that it's a couple of ISO containers, and not visible unless you are on his property (trees), I am try to work out the objection.
He does say that they seem upset by his idea to sell 'leecy directly to the tenants of the small business centre he created out of the old stable yard.
WTF is their problem ?
Opposition to everything, probably.
The Green parties, around the world, started as gatherings of the opponents to various things. So adding in fuckwit NIMBYism is just adding more members/votes.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
Is 'calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils' what happened, or has the story developed further in your head?
It's what happened if you believe the people saying that it did. Which I do.
Possibly. But the siting of the plant will be controversial. There's already a rebellion brewing across the Highlands about renewables infrastructure. One to watch.
Not just the Highlands - the Borders too, and the coastal fringes.
Mix of possibilities of course.
As an example of the comedy - the farmer I know who is putting in a battery to back his solar array is still getting grief from the local Greens. They are very upset they can't seem to stop him, under planning law - but they are trying everything. Given that it's a couple of ISO containers, and not visible unless you are on his property (trees), I am try to work out the objection.
He does say that they seem upset by his idea to sell 'leecy directly to the tenants of the small business centre he created out of the old stable yard.
WTF is their problem ?
Opposition to everything, probably.
The Green parties, around the world, started as gatherings of the opponents to various things. So adding in fuckwit NIMBYism is just adding more members/votes.
It's the dark shadow of the Housing Theory Of Everything.
All the dumb shit people argue for boils down to not wanting more houses built near them.
FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned.
The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just moments before the incident happened at about 11pm. The drones reached the location where Zelenskyy’s plane was expected to be at the exact moment it had been due to pass.
The drones then orbited above an Irish Navy vessel that had secretly been deployed in the Irish Sea for the Zelenskyy visit.
Sources have said that the drones took off from the north-east of Dublin, possibly near Howth, and flew for up to two hours.
What's doing for Farage, to the extent anything gets through the teflon, is not his teenage racism, it's his complete inability to say, "I did some horrible things when I was younger. I apologise to the people I hurt."
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
Not sure, never participated in any, to busy getting bullied for being poor.
Ah yes. We had some of that. I remember jokes about famines also. And bullying of the mentally handicapped. It was no hotbed of enlightenment. None of which ameliorates to me the specific revelations about Farage. But what matters is what people who might vote for Reform think. Would that include you perchance?
What I think is that people are desperate. And what Farage said 50 years ago might lower the Reform ceiling a bit. But if you want to stop Farage getting into number 10, your best bet is:
Get rid of Starmer and reset.
Get someone in with a plan and half decent communication skills.
Much as it pains me to say as a right winger, do not be afraid to move left.
I’m not sure why Middlesex are allowed to play as the county doesn’t exist.
Crisis club Middlesex begin plan to move away from Lord’s
Exclusive: County take step towards private ownership amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive
Middlesex have taken the first step towards private ownership to fund a new home away from Lord’s.
The crisis-plagued county have told members they are actively exploring demutualisation after being plunged into fresh turmoil amid a Cricket Regulator investigation into their chief executive.
Andrew Cornish was absent from a meeting with members on Tuesday at which the club began a formal consultation over becoming just the fourth first-class county to go private.
Chairman Richard Sykes told Telegraph Sport that Cornish was “on a leave of absence”, adding: “The Cricket Regulator is involved and I can’t say more than that.”
The investigation into Cornish, who has denied any wrongdoing, is unrelated to demutualisation. But the timing could hardly be worse for the 161-year-old club as they look to join Durham, Northamptonshire and Hampshire in becoming privately owned.
As tenants of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord’s, Middlesex are unique among the 18 counties as they do not own their home ground. This means they are unable to make money through non-cricket activities such as conferencing and events.
They play at a series of outgrounds such as Merchant Taylors’ School, Richmond and Radlett, but have long sought a “home away from home” to provide stability and generate income. Sykes believes the only way to raise the funds for this is via demutualisation.
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands have pulled out of the Eurovision Song Contest because Israel has been confirmed to be taking part in 2026.
However, it looks to me like the push against Israel has almost entirely failed. Other than perhaps Iceland, other nations don't seem to be leaning toward a boycott, and 5 countries pulling out isn't enough to jeopardise the contest's viability.
8 countries voted to make it a secret ballot over the new voting rules*, there was no vote on Israel continuing to participate.
.*"Among them, we'll see professional juries return to Semi-Finals with expanded, more diverse panels, including young jurors aged 18–25. The voting cap for viewers voting at home will be halved for 2026, encouraging fans to spread support across more entries. Enhanced technical safeguards will also be introduced, to detect and block coordinated or fraudulent voting activity. And stronger limits on promotion will be implemented to curb disproportionate third-party influence, including government-backed campaigns."
Would Jenrick's defection actually destabilise the Tories? I think it might do the opposite.
Reform have to many Tories already. They should only be interested in defections that give them economic credibility. Hunt would be the absolute dream for them, never going to happen of course.
"In November 2022, Harborne donated £1 million to The Office of Boris Johnson Ltd, one of the biggest donations ever made to an individual British politician.[13] Boris Johnson awarded Qinetiq, a company in which Harborne was the largest single shareholder, with a £80m MoD contract in January 2023."
One thing that is frankly amazing is that people enamoured by Boris seem to be drawn to Farage and vice-versa even though the realities of their (Possible in the case of Farage and historical in Boris' case) governance likely couldn't be more different especially regarding migration - which is the key issue for most people drawn to both I'd say.
It's the vibe.
Same reason why Rishi (who actually voted for Brexit) was considered "Remainy" and yet Truss (who didn't) was considered the "Leavey" one.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
The point is Farage was about 14 or 15 at the time, while the BBC, run by fully grown adults, was showing the Black and White Minstrel Show during the same period.
It's not much of a point, though, is it.
Isn't it?
That's what I said, didn't I?
Yes and you’re wrong. It’s perfectly valid point to make.
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
I'm NF's age. It wasn't any sort of cultural norm in the 70s to taunt and bully Jewish people about Nazi atrocities. He's flapping around desperately and dishonestly.
Indeed. I'd go further. I'm older, and this notion that racist, or sexist, 'banter' was socially acceptable in the 70s and 80s just isn't true. Of course such banter existed, but both had been challenged since the mid-1960s by anti-racist and feminist groups and, though there remained much to do, such banter wasn't the norm any more, and its proponents were on the back foot, certainly by the mid-to-late 1970s.
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
Well it was completely acceptable in my local comprehensive. No Hitler love, but great hilarity around the Ethiopia famine for example. Shocking looking back, but Pretending this stuff was not going on is revisionist bullshit.
Sure. But what about calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils because of their race? Was that an accepted norm at your school?
Is 'calculated persistent malevolent bullying of individual pupils' what happened, or has the story developed further in your head?
No, on the pages of the national press.
You can choose to believe it or not, but you can't debunk the story by saying it's a figment of kinablu's imagination.
While Farage is expert at whataboutery, straw men, rephrasing, non apologies and so on, I just draw attention to what, it is alleged, comes from the actual time when he was at school, written in 1981 by a teacher to the head. It includes these words:
“Another colleague, who teaches the boy, described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he cited a particular incident in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This master stated his view that this behaviour was precisely why the boy should not be made a prefect. Yet another colleague described how, at a Combined Cadet Force (CCF) camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
As contemporaneous evidence from decades before people knew he might be PM it is, if authentic (and Michael Crick says it is) it is of greater evidential value than all the (I have no doubt generally reliable) accounts from memories years later.
How important it is is a separate question. But I think Reform and Farage are troubled by this.
Farage’s whataboutism on the BBC & 1970s is clever, but ultimately nothing more than a smokescreen to try and cover for his unwillingness to acknowledge or apologies for his teenage edgelordism. For all the faults of the 70s, the BBC was not the one bashing out the Horst Wessel song on the regular.
What’s weird about this story is that all Farage has to do is to acknowledge that he was a bit of a shit as a teenager, apologise to all concerned & move on - this far away from the next GE he has plenty of time to make this a non-story electorally. For some reason he feels unable to do this.
There is rather a large difference in the current attitude of the BBC to what it broadcast fifty years ago, and Farage's attitude to his past "banter". Which is very much the point.
The BBC has changed; has he ?
How do you know the BBC has changed? Has anyone asked it lately? That's the point Farage is making.
Has anyone asked it? Do you mean has the BBC been under intense scrutiny lately? Because yes, it has. Far more than Farage has.
He does have a fair point here. Many BBC shows now have ‘trigger warnings’ even Little Britain and, yes, racist TV shows and shows that would fall foul of today’s modern sensibilities were in abundance on all three channels back then.
You also have the MSM trying to give the guy from Oxford Uni who gloated over Charlie Kirk’s death friendly interviews to plead his case as he shouldn’t pay for saying silly things when young. I don’t think that’s unfair. What Farage said over 40 years at school, who cares, it what he is now that matters.
Should the Oxford Union guy go on to lead a major political party with a solid chance of becoming PM, I'm sure he'll also be quizzed about the things he said when younger.
As for what Farage is now... well, people look at him, he's praising Trump, thinks the Ukraine war is the fault of NATO, and blames everything else on immigrants.
No, the Oxford guy said something stupid. He should be allowed to get on with his life.
As for your final sentence that really is untrue for the final two and his praise of Trump has been sparse and specific.
The Wests timid reaction to the initial annexation of parts of Ukraine and Georgia was poor. How much of that was Russian influence ?
It’s an op ed based on what Farage has said with his own mouth. Like how Farage praises Trump with his own mouth, frequently and repeatedly. This is who he is.
With all the flu vaccinations available today, especially for the elderly, why the increase ?
Because vaccinations only effective against the particular strains selected, which is an educated guess. And i'm willing to suspect 'the flu' is not confirmed cases of influenza but people with respiratory problems, viral and bacterial.
What might hurt Farage isn’t the schooldays allegations themselves (I think enough people tend to be willing to give people a pass for their behaviour at school), but his rather prickly, thin-skinned reaction to them. Another example of him rather forgetting that he isn’t Donald Trump and probably can’t get away with tantrums in the same way as his idol.
I hesitate to predict a Reform collapse - I think it is still very plausible they’ll continue to poll well all parliament - but Farage is his own worst enemy and it’s not inconceivable that he ends up torpedoing his own chances. More of this whingey stuff won’t help him.
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Real risk that being Trump-like in style, policies and comms is going to be absolute pure poison by 2029.
I’m confident he’s probably reasonably positively inclined towards Russia simply because all his MAGA fellow travellers are, but there’s no smoking gun and he’s not stupid.
https://x.com/trussliz/status/1996640749304402407
They tried to silence her. They failed.
The Liz Truss Show — December 5th.
It’s time to fight for the West.
‘ If Fawlty Towers is now being removed by the BBC then humour is dead. The puritans are winning because the establishment is weak and has no self confidence’
https://x.com/nigel_farage/status/1271185807571922945?s=61
Societal cultural norms change over time. What’s acceptable now won’t be in a decade. The further you go back the more the change.
If I need a lift I watch that game on YouTube. A classic.
Also, who qualifies as a 'European elite' out of interest?
https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/02/01/why-germany-wont-kill-nord-stream-2
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/share-of-european-union-gas-demand-met-by-russian-supply-2001-2024
It varies between over production and under production, as the wind varies. Just the other day, the Scottish grid was majority gas and nuclear.
There is nowhere near enough storage to deal with that, as yet.
See https://electricityproduction.uk/in/scotland/
Or is he too busy making up imaginary letters from schoolmates saying he was Mother Theresa .
We need a proper investigation and exposure of Russia's covert war on us. Take this from earlier today:
"Four unidentified military-grade drones breached a no-fly zone in Dublin just minutes after Zelensky’s plane landed. They targeted the exact flight path and then circled an Irish Navy vessel deployed for the visit. Ireland is probing it as a potential hybrid attack."
https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3m76ezzngpc2r
We know that Russia was bribing Nathan Gill, but Farage was (and to an extent still is) spouting the same Russian talking points. Farage's Putin links are a major security risk to our country.
FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY-STYLE drones breached a no-fly zone and flew towards the flight path of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plane at sea near Dublin Airport late on Monday night, The Journal has learned.
The plane landed, slightly ahead of schedule, just moments before the incident happened at about 11pm. The drones reached the location where Zelenskyy’s plane was expected to be at the exact moment it had been due to pass.
The drones then orbited above an Irish Navy vessel that had secretly been deployed in the Irish Sea for the Zelenskyy visit.
Sources have said that the drones took off from the north-east of Dublin, possibly near Howth, and flew for up to two hours.
https://www.thejournal.ie/drones-dublin-ireland-hybrid-warfare-russia-6893104-Dec2025/
I rather suspect one of Farage's problems is that he perceived the banter of the posh-heads at Dulwich College (and subsequently in the City) as the norm.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzeedTlv_4E
If it doesn't, I'm sure Truss's obsessive fans here will post enough clips to give a flavour.
Re Farage and his "gas em all" antics as a teenager the harsh truth is it doesn't really matter (other than to me) what I think about it. What matters is what people who are open to voting Reform think about it.
https://x.com/justintrudeau/status/1996634839219593366
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The lettuce. The legend. Now broadcasting on whatever platform will have her.
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens
Runs the red electric train..............
https://allpoetry.com/Middlesex
Mix of possibilities of course.
In my own case my channel continues to grow, I had my best ever month for revenue in November and I seem to bizarrely keep coming up with new things to talk about.
I’ve invested in the future though. I went 4k pretty much from the start in 2022 and I'm now shooting HDR. The idea is to give my content longevity - a lot of early YouTube content is really poor picture quality. You can get away with poor production quality if it pops off the screen. Into people’s retinas and this into their brains…
I was brought up in a Jewish part of London in the 1960s and 1970s. 'Gas them all' and similar thoughts were never ever uttered either to Jewish people or, in my experience, in private 'banter'. It would have marked you out as abnormal. The great majority of us were brought up on stories from our father about serving in the war against fascism.
Farage says "Gas 'em all" and refuses to apologise = glorious patriot standing up against multiculturism.
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He does say that they seem upset by his idea to sell 'leecy directly to the tenants of the small business centre he created out of the old stable yard.
And sort out some serious anti-drone systems for our airports.
California - Democratic Presidential Polling:
Newsom: 36%
Buttigieg: 16%
AOC: 13%
Harris: 9%
Pritzker: 4%
Shapiro: 3%
Whitmer: 2%
Beshear: 2%
Booker: 2%
Klobuchar: 1%
Emerson / Dec 2, 2025
https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/1996644967947948478
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce3xrywzpn6t
However, it looks to me like the push against Israel has almost entirely failed. Other than perhaps Iceland, other nations don't seem to be leaning toward a boycott, and 5 countries pulling out isn't enough to jeopardise the contest's viability.
The Green parties, around the world, started as gatherings of the opponents to various things. So adding in fuckwit NIMBYism is just adding more members/votes.
All the dumb shit people argue for boils down to not wanting more houses built near them.
Get rid of Starmer and reset.
Get someone in with a plan and half decent communication skills.
Much as it pains me to say as a right winger, do not be afraid to move left.
.*"Among them, we'll see professional juries return to Semi-Finals with expanded, more diverse panels, including young jurors aged 18–25. The voting cap for viewers voting at home will be halved for 2026, encouraging fans to spread support across more entries. Enhanced technical safeguards will also be introduced, to detect and block coordinated or fraudulent voting activity. And stronger limits on promotion will be implemented to curb disproportionate third-party influence, including government-backed campaigns."
https://eurovision.tv/story/voting-overhaul-announced-eurovision-2026
Reform have to many Tories already. They should only be interested in defections that give them economic credibility. Hunt would be the absolute dream for them, never going to happen of course.
Same reason why Rishi (who actually voted for Brexit) was considered "Remainy" and yet Truss (who didn't) was considered the "Leavey" one.
You can choose to believe it or not, but you can't debunk the story by saying it's a figment of kinablu's imagination.
Nigel Farage ‘was my vicious, persistent tormentor’ at school
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-racism-claims-dulwich-college-kpwnz8cn6
I hesitate to predict a Reform collapse - I think it is still very plausible they’ll continue to poll well all parliament - but Farage is his own worst enemy and it’s not inconceivable that he ends up torpedoing his own chances. More of this whingey stuff won’t help him.