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EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is asking U.S. oil companies if they’re interested in returning to Venezuela once Maduro is toppled, per sources familiar with the discussions.
The grim irony of Ollie Pope is that he’s there because of his record in county cricket.
Meanwhile, Crawley is backed despite a poor first class record and a terrible test record because county cricket is worthless and runs don’t reflect his real value to the team.
This tour has to be the end for Pope, Crawley, Key and McCullum.
If Stokes survives as captain it can only be for the want of obvious alternatives.
Good morning to all and I see the Brexit debate had another airing last night. Seems like it's in the dying embers phase but for those of you who wish to fan it, there is a petition available for you to sign. It's quite a few short of the 17mn needed.
The way her origin changed depending on the science of the day is fascinating. Skull morphology suggested African, then DNA said Cypriot (and DNA is the gold standard, right?) but now newer DNA techniques suggest she is English.
The grim irony of Ollie Pope is that he’s there because of his record in county cricket.
Meanwhile, Crawley is backed despite a poor first class record and a terrible test record because county cricket is worthless and runs don’t reflect his real value to the team.
This tour has to be the end for Pope, Crawley, Key and McCullum.
If Stokes survives as captain it can only be for the want of obvious alternatives.
The hot rumour in the Russosphere this week is that Patrushev is the silovik who came in from the cold, has been rehabilitated to be the heir apparent should VVP falter. This would be very much a May to Johnson style evolution. Leaden bureaucrat replaced by a fucking nutcase.
I am in Vienna this week. I was told the city is overrun with South Asians. It is not. A few Africans, lots of Turks ( gastarbeiter?) and some far eastern tourists. But young Russians? Thousands of them. The ground forces are already in position.
The way her origin changed depending on the science of the day is fascinating. Skull morphology suggested African, then DNA said Cypriot (and DNA is the gold standard, right?) but now newer DNA techniques suggest she is English.
Good morning to all and I see the Brexit debate had another airing last night. Seems like it's in the dying embers phase but for those of you who wish to fan it, there is a petition available for you to sign. It's quite a few short of the 17mn needed.
The way her origin changed depending on the science of the day is fascinating. Skull morphology suggested African, then DNA said Cypriot (and DNA is the gold standard, right?) but now newer DNA techniques suggest she is English.
If she's Roman-era she can't be 'English' surely?
British/Britannian resident, anyway.
Romano-British, no?
Living near Dubris? Could be from anywhere if it wasn't for the genetic evidence. Yet there were strong links with the other side of the Channel for some tribes anyway. Did anyone use stable isotope data to check area of upbringing? (Haven't had time to check the originals as in a rush.)
Interesting article on the Labour new housing policy. My guess is that it gets well and truly crippled, but if it were actually delivered to its potential, it could be transformative. The excerpt points out the necessity for accompanying transport investment.
https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are-finally-taking-the-housing ..To be clear, this isn’t a policy for sprawl. New developments must exceed minimum density standards of 40dph (dwelling per hectare) for all stations and 50dph for the best connected stations. There is an expectation that in urban areas even higher densities will be reached.
It is hard to overstate how big this is. The Government could easily exceed its 1.5 million home target for the Parliament just by building near stations in London and the South East. And that doesn’t even adjust for the higher densities sought in urban areas. If it survives consultation, and you best believe there will be an almighty fight, it will be the single most powerful pro-supply move in post-war Britain.
This is radical by British standards, but there is precedent. New Zealand’s most expensive cities have built at a clip since successive governments brought in measures to create a similar ‘default yes’ to densification near city centres and busy transport corridors. One study suggested that over six years the policy cut Auckland’s rents by nearly a third. If the same happened in the capital, the average Londoner would save £9,000 each year.
California, one of the few places with a housing crisis as bad as our own, is trying something similar. They have just passed SB79, a major reform that will permit up to nine-storey development near bus, tube, and train stations.
There will be challenges. Building near train stations will mean busier trains. ..
The Turing scheme was nowhere near as good for the students as Erasmus is . Bozo thought he could dupe the gullible by sticking the Turing name on it .
You keep posting this, but you never say why! Do you have a link to a comparison?
It's difficult to compare Erasmus with Turing because they are completely different beasts. We can say that Turing is a lot more limited in what it offers than Erasmus. The key difference is that Erasmus is a student exchange programme that comes with funding, while Turing only provides travel bursaries and is not an exchange programme.
The big advantage of Erasmus to the institution is that it keeps the fees of the outgoing student.. While it effectively has to take incoming students for free, the marginal cost is minimal of an extra student in a course they are already running. For the same reason it doesn't matter too much if they take more students than they send.
Under Turing, institutions are "encouraged" to waive tuition fees while their students are abroad. But they have no incentive to do so and is actual loss of income for them. Which means students potentially have to pay additional tuition fees while they are abroad unless their institution has entered a bilateral arrangement with a partner abroad. This is a hassle for the institution and much more limited for the student compared with the market offered by Erasmus.
Sure if under Erasmus they keep the fees of outgoing students they don’t receive the fees of incoming students.
Hence it absolutely matters if they take more students than they send?
If an institution sends out 30 students and receives 50, it is more important to it that it keeps the fees of the 30 it sends out, than the marginal cost of fitting 50 students into courses it's already running.
Within reason it doesn't matter if they take more students.
Voters support middle class kids dossing around for a year abroad. 👍
It isn't like that at all. My wife went to the University of Parma on an Erasmus scholarship 35 years ago. She learned all about EU law in relation to the UK ( granted, a waste of time now) and she speaks Italian like an Italian.
As I said on the previous thread my granddaughter went to Turin University in 2024 from Leeds as part of her Italian language and culture course
She obtained her degree this year and of course speaks fluent Italian alongside other languages
I have no problem with Erasmus but it didn't prevent my granddaughter studying in Turin for the year
I would also suggest rejoining Eramus is simply not the prelude to rejoin the EU as remainers seem to hope
Sorry I bothered. Johnson's Turing scheme was clearly fantastic. And I don't expect to rejoin with the spectre of Farage in the background.
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Give them light sweet Gulf crude every time.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/749128
Stokes talked about a "bit of dog", but it didn't bark, and England were hounded out.
They got plenty of rabbits though.
Can't be bothered.
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My guess is that it gets well and truly crippled, but if it were actually delivered to its potential, it could be transformative.
The excerpt points out the necessity for accompanying transport investment.
https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/labour-are-finally-taking-the-housing
..To be clear, this isn’t a policy for sprawl. New developments must exceed minimum density standards of 40dph (dwelling per hectare) for all stations and 50dph for the best connected stations. There is an expectation that in urban areas even higher densities will be reached.
It is hard to overstate how big this is. The Government could easily exceed its 1.5 million home target for the Parliament just by building near stations in London and the South East. And that doesn’t even adjust for the higher densities sought in urban areas. If it survives consultation, and you best believe there will be an almighty fight, it will be the single most powerful pro-supply move in post-war Britain.
This is radical by British standards, but there is precedent. New Zealand’s most expensive cities have built at a clip since successive governments brought in measures to create a similar ‘default yes’ to densification near city centres and busy transport corridors. One study suggested that over six years the policy cut Auckland’s rents by nearly a third. If the same happened in the capital, the average Londoner would save £9,000 each year.
California, one of the few places with a housing crisis as bad as our own, is trying something similar. They have just passed SB79, a major reform that will permit up to nine-storey development near bus, tube, and train stations.
There will be challenges. Building near train stations will mean busier trains. ..
Within reason it doesn't matter if they take more students.