I'll be honest I don't think I'd even heard of Curacao and certainly would not have been able to find it on the map. The fact they have qualified shows, once again, that the Europeans have it really tough. Its a bit unfair really.
The Australian social media ban for under 16s has been a failure .
Parents have to take more responsibility instead of expecting governments to do the job for them . The public seem to want a ban and it polls well but sadly I just don’t see it working .
It will be interesting to see the social demographic in 12 months of Parents who enforce it and those that don't.
Government can provide technical regulations and legal protections but parents gave to parent.
This is over and above what many expected and a positive attempt atvsolving a growing issue.
Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?
From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.
you mistake PB for public opinion, not all out there have the mullah that posters here have.
Regular pb.com posters are overwhelmingly males over the age of 60 who either don't work, don't need to work, or officially work but barely bother.
Opinions tend to be conventional liberal centre-left, with a few exceptions.
Except I could right now off the top of my head list out 50 regular posters who are not at all conventional liberal centre-left.
I'm not going to, all will be relieved to hear, but I definitely could.
Go on then. Name the 50.
Too torrid. But you'd be there obviously. And just from this page of this thread, so a tiny sample, Malcolm, Lucky, Blanche, Alga, RCS, Bart, TSE, Jim, Malmesbury, Contrarian, Williamglenn ... that's a dozen already.
Can't move for all you not-centre-lefters.
That's eleven, and the posting frequency is far less.
Against that there's Chris, NigelB, Bondegezou, Kinabulu, Foxy, MexicanPete, Roger, "Peter", Dura, OnlyLivingBoy, OldKingCole, Murali_S, Tres, Eabhal, FF43, Brixian59, Jonathan, RochdalePioneers, Nico67, SandyRentool, DecrepiterJohnL, DougSeal etc. which is double your count for a start, and the posting rate is far higher.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm personally fond of many of those posters. But you can't argue that's what dominates the site.
12. You didn't count you.
And that's not apples and pears. My 12 were just this page this thread. You've done a general trawl. If I did that I'd be listing lots more.
No, the charge of big leftish bias just isn't correct. A charge of 'liberal' bias maybe has more going for it. Not sure though. I'd need to check my files.
I have Eabhal and DougSeal as being basically centre-right not centre-left, plus we have Barnes Observer, the Moth Collector from Devon, the Conservative chap from the Lake District (not doing well with names), and iirc AnneJGP, and at least 8 members of the Leonine Order.
I'm delighted not to be pigeon-holed !
First time anyone’s called me centre right in my life! I’ve been quiet because I self identify as left liberal but interested to see other’s perceptions of me differ from my own. I was a member of the LDs for a very short period and even joined the mailing list of the local Co-Operative Party but that may just be tribalism.
Yes - a one dimensional spectrum no longer works.
I've always been centre-right economically - back in the 1990s others called me a Thatcherite, and more of a liberal individualist socially / morally, with a big dose of a proper communitarianism based on decades of involvement with people in the "intentional community" movement. That is very different from the New Labour usage of the term, which was more about categorising people into groups.
I'm currently considering what needs to be reassessed looking at the remaining wreckage of the Cons, which I joined to give my voice towards the levelling-up agenda (which turned out to be a smokescreen).
I think the key movement we need to rescue our politics is around civic engagement at a local level, with a smidgeon of community activism as happens in the USA, but with a politics around commonwealth, not ideology or fear and loathing.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?
From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.
you mistake PB for public opinion, not all out there have the mullah that posters here have.
Regular pb.com posters are overwhelmingly males over the age of 60 who either don't work, don't need to work, or officially work but barely bother.
Opinions tend to be conventional liberal centre-left, with a few exceptions.
Except I could right now off the top of my head list out 50 regular posters who are not at all conventional liberal centre-left.
I'm not going to, all will be relieved to hear, but I definitely could.
Go on then. Name the 50.
Too torrid. But you'd be there obviously. And just from this page of this thread, so a tiny sample, Malcolm, Lucky, Blanche, Alga, RCS, Bart, TSE, Jim, Malmesbury, Contrarian, Williamglenn ... that's a dozen already.
Can't move for all you not-centre-lefters.
That's eleven, and the posting frequency is far less.
Against that there's Chris, NigelB, Bondegezou, Kinabulu, Foxy, MexicanPete, Roger, "Peter", Dura, OnlyLivingBoy, OldKingCole, Murali_S, Tres, Eabhal, FF43, Brixian59, Jonathan, RochdalePioneers, Nico67, SandyRentool, DecrepiterJohnL, DougSeal etc. which is double your count for a start, and the posting rate is far higher.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm personally fond of many of those posters. But you can't argue that's what dominates the site.
Can't blame us for that. The solution lies in your hands.
In any event, I have relatively little in common with (say) Roger or Brixian.
I'll be honest I don't think I'd even heard of Curacao and certainly would not have been able to find it on the map. The fact they have qualified shows, once again, that the Europeans have it really tough. Its a bit unfair really.
I had to look them up. Seems they are basically Dutch.
I'll be honest I don't think I'd even heard of Curacao and certainly would not have been able to find it on the map. The fact they have qualified shows, once again, that the Europeans have it really tough. Its a bit unfair really.
Curacao will be a bit blue that you had not heard of them.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Casino had conniptions because two Middle Eastern-looking men revved their motorbikes near him. I think he’s a bit prone to seeing dangers all around him!
I'll be honest I don't think I'd even heard of Curacao and certainly would not have been able to find it on the map. The fact they have qualified shows, once again, that the Europeans have it really tough. Its a bit unfair really.
One of three Dutch islands off the coast of Venezuela:
I missed this earlier but Burnham has apparently said the Triple Lock will stay.
Yet another non-serious politician.
When will it end?
Between WASPI and the Triple Lock its not been a good week.
Might get himself into 10 Downing Street, which might be Mission Accomplished as per Kier, but if he wants to actually enact some change unlike Kier he needs to start making some tough choices and fast.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
I've worked for engineering companies. Now there's a right-wing environment.
Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?
From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.
you mistake PB for public opinion, not all out there have the mullah that posters here have.
Regular pb.com posters are overwhelmingly males over the age of 60 who either don't work, don't need to work, or officially work but barely bother.
Opinions tend to be conventional liberal centre-left, with a few exceptions.
Except I could right now off the top of my head list out 50 regular posters who are not at all conventional liberal centre-left.
I'm not going to, all will be relieved to hear, but I definitely could.
Go on then. Name the 50.
Too torrid. But you'd be there obviously. And just from this page of this thread, so a tiny sample, Malcolm, Lucky, Blanche, Alga, RCS, Bart, TSE, Jim, Malmesbury, Contrarian, Williamglenn ... that's a dozen already.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
I've worked for engineering companies. Now there's a right-wing environment.
All my workplaces have always been resolutely apolitical. When I worked for the public sector this was actually enforced by our Union (Prospect) who didn't want any whiff of politics.
Question. Is there any major politician committed to removing the state pension triple lock?
From what I'm hearing on this thread, doing so would be absolute political gold dust. I'm amazed all our politicians are failing to appreciate the magic.
you mistake PB for public opinion, not all out there have the mullah that posters here have.
Regular pb.com posters are overwhelmingly males over the age of 60 who either don't work, don't need to work, or officially work but barely bother.
Opinions tend to be conventional liberal centre-left, with a few exceptions.
Except I could right now off the top of my head list out 50 regular posters who are not at all conventional liberal centre-left.
I'm not going to, all will be relieved to hear, but I definitely could.
Go on then. Name the 50.
Too torrid. But you'd be there obviously. And just from this page of this thread, so a tiny sample, Malcolm, Lucky, Blanche, Alga, RCS, Bart, TSE, Jim, Malmesbury, Contrarian, Williamglenn ... that's a dozen already.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Isn't quality of argument the only thing that really counts? That and being able to predict winners.
Any view can be regarded as having 'bias'. But so what? To regard a reasoned view as having bias is just to say it reflects a reasoned point of view. It adds nothing. Unreasoned stuff can be passed over.
Trump told Netanyahu "What the fuck are you doing?!" after the strike in Lebanon, Fox reports. He urged Netanyahu not to carry out any further attacks as it could jeopardise any deal with Iran.
Iran has rejected Trump's offer of financial incentives not to respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Channel 12 reports.
Trump can’t understand that there are people who don’t do anything for money.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Male, educated and numerate pretty much sums PB up (with important honourable exceptions like @Cyclefree, @fitalass and probably a few more that I am not sure of ( @kimbalu)). Whilst I would be delighted to have more female perspectives educated and numerate is a definite improvement on most public debate I have found anywhere else.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Male, educated and numerate pretty much sums PB up (with important honourable exceptions like @Cyclefree, @fitalass and probably a few more that I am not sure of ( @kimbalu)). Whilst I would be delighted to have more female perspectives educated and numerate is a definite improvement on most public debate I have found anywhere else.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
I've worked for engineering companies. Now there's a right-wing environment.
All my workplaces have always been resolutely apolitical. When I worked for the public sector this was actually enforced by our Union (Prospect) who didn't want any whiff of politics.
Does that mean you were banned from talking politics in the workplace?
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Isn't quality of argument the only thing that really counts? That and being able to predict winners.
Any view can be regarded as having 'bias'. But so what? To regard a reasoned view as having bias is just to say it reflects a reasoned point of view. It adds nothing. Unreasoned stuff can be passed over.
I am here because of the reasoned arguments contributed, and the insight those sometimes contain, yes. It's helpful for those reasoned arguments to come from a wide variety of political philosophies, and I find the context of political betting to be useful for developing arguments.
Thanks to viewcode for that clarification of the map I posted. A little more on the map: The red mass on that map, starting with Texas, and going all the way to Florida and Virginia was long known as the "Solid South", which meant simply that those states voted Democratic in presidential elections. That lasted (with a few interesting exceptions) from after the disputed 1876 election to the 1952 election of Eisenhower, who carried Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, and Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
I've worked for engineering companies. Now there's a right-wing environment.
All my workplaces have always been resolutely apolitical. When I worked for the public sector this was actually enforced by our Union (Prospect) who didn't want any whiff of politics.
Does that mean you were banned from talking politics in the workplace?
What about the pub after work?
Pretty much, yes. It kinda bled over. People would be cagey about saying anything.
I had much more political conversations with the parents of my daughter's schoolfriends.
So Netenyahu is out of control and this just feeds into the narrative that’s growing in the USA that Trump is his gimp.
The only way Netenyahu stops is if the USA threatens to withhold military aid .
It has always been ridiculous that the GOP claims Donny as some kind of Alpha Male that everyone is subservient to while he bows and scrapes to Israel, and Russia, and North Korea.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Male, educated and numerate pretty much sums PB up (with important honourable exceptions like @Cyclefree, @fitalass and probably a few more that I am not sure of ( @kimbalu)). Whilst I would be delighted to have more female perspectives educated and numerate is a definite improvement on most public debate I have found anywhere else.
So Netenyahu is out of control and this just feeds into the narrative that’s growing in the USA that Trump is his gimp.
The only way Netenyahu stops is if the USA threatens to withhold military aid .
Perhaps the Epstein-Mossad thing has a grain of truth. I’ve said before that Trump doesn’t give a toss about possible peeing Moscow prostitutes but he and his cabal really do seem to be running scared of the Epstein files.
By the same 'reasoning' shouldn't you then give children access to fags, porn, alcohol and gambling, and then say it's up to the parents to manage it?
That would create a load of rich investors who would seek to lobby/bribe politicians to ensure they can keep selling their addictions freely. Sounds like a good deal for the politicians.
Strong smell of not wanting to upset the sugar daddy there.
Not that I'm sure he's even wrong. I don't really know where I stand on it. I think it's the hardware I'm opposed to, not just the software.
His argument rests on family pressure being enough to counteract the addiction algorithms.
I'd like to think that is true but I need to be convinced.
There's a multi-billion $ payday vs Mom and Pop.
Not even that- there are some children who have the misfortune to be born to terrible parents. And those children are very liable to be very expensive for society to deal with for decades to come.
A lot of "parents should be trusted to do X/Y/Z" comes down to a reluctance for the state to have to pay to do anything about X/Y/Z right now. After all the costs will land on the next generation.
Strong smell of not wanting to upset the sugar daddy there.
Not that I'm sure he's even wrong. I don't really know where I stand on it. I think it's the hardware I'm opposed to, not just the software.
His argument rests on family pressure being enough to counteract the addiction algorithms.
I'd like to think that is true but I need to be convinced.
There's a multi-billion $ payday vs Mom and Pop.
Not even that- there are some children who have the misfortune to be born to terrible parents. And those children are very liable to be very expensive for society to deal with for decades to come.
A lot of "parents should be trusted to do X/Y/Z" comes down to a reluctance for the state to have to pay to do anything about X/Y/Z right now. After all the costs will land on the next generation.
A lot of people are scum. And if we leave them to it, we end up with another generation of scum.
So we either need intervention or sterilisation to try and prevent this.
Thanks to viewcode for that clarification of the map I posted. A little more on the map: The red mass on that map, starting with Texas, and going all the way to Florida and Virginia was long known as the "Solid South", which meant simply that those states voted Democratic in presidential elections. That lasted (with a few interesting exceptions) from after the disputed 1876 election to the 1952 election of Eisenhower, who carried Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, and Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election
Thanks to viewcode for that clarification of the map I posted. A little more on the map: The red mass on that map, starting with Texas, and going all the way to Florida and Virginia was long known as the "Solid South", which meant simply that those states voted Democratic in presidential elections. That lasted (with a few interesting exceptions) from after the disputed 1876 election to the 1952 election of Eisenhower, who carried Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, and Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election
It seems to me that Trump has united the Know Nothings and the Southern Democrats, which basically gives him the edge in politics.
You seem a student of American politics - thoughts?
Thanks to viewcode for that clarification of the map I posted. A little more on the map: The red mass on that map, starting with Texas, and going all the way to Florida and Virginia was long known as the "Solid South", which meant simply that those states voted Democratic in presidential elections. That lasted (with a few interesting exceptions) from after the disputed 1876 election to the 1952 election of Eisenhower, who carried Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, and Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Male, educated and numerate pretty much sums PB up (with important honourable exceptions like @Cyclefree, @fitalass and probably a few more that I am not sure of ( @kimbalu)). Whilst I would be delighted to have more female perspectives educated and numerate is a definite improvement on most public debate I have found anywhere else.
I am numerate, David. Can confirm.
I'm not.
I've long suspected as much, given you think Truss's mini-budget was good.
Thanks to viewcode for that clarification of the map I posted. A little more on the map: The red mass on that map, starting with Texas, and going all the way to Florida and Virginia was long known as the "Solid South", which meant simply that those states voted Democratic in presidential elections. That lasted (with a few interesting exceptions) from after the disputed 1876 election to the 1952 election of Eisenhower, who carried Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Virginia, and Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election
I missed this earlier but Burnham has apparently said the Triple Lock will stay.
Yet another non-serious politician.
When will it end?
I would interpret that as meaning for the duration of this Parliament, honouring the manifesto.
I do not think anyone has commited to it for their next manifesto. Perhaps the Tories have.
The Russians can make 1000s of drones a week and we are giving more £ to pensioners with a £50K+ private annual pension.
Madness on stilts.
The simple answer, or at least a step in the right direction, is to tax that pension income at the same levels as earned income, i.e. Income Tax and NI.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Male, educated and numerate pretty much sums PB up (with important honourable exceptions like @Cyclefree, @fitalass and probably a few more that I am not sure of ( @kimbalu)). Whilst I would be delighted to have more female perspectives educated and numerate is a definite improvement on most public debate I have found anywhere else.
Are you suggesting, @DavidL, that I and @fitalass are not educated or numerate?
Brave, very brave ...... 😁
Also @kinabalu is male. An accountant. Worked at Lehmans. I will say no more.
It seems a bit weird to argue about whether the bias on PB.com is more to the left or the right, when obviously the site is way more biased towards being male, educated and numerate.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
Male, educated and numerate pretty much sums PB up (with important honourable exceptions like @Cyclefree, @fitalass and probably a few more that I am not sure of ( @kimbalu)). Whilst I would be delighted to have more female perspectives educated and numerate is a definite improvement on most public debate I have found anywhere else.
Are you suggesting, @DavidL, that I and @fitalass are not educated or numerate?
Brave, very brave ...... 😁
Also @kinabalu is male. An accountant. Worked at Lehmans. I will say no more.
But it wasn't my fault. I told them to rein it in. Wouldn't listen.
I missed this earlier but Burnham has apparently said the Triple Lock will stay.
Yet another non-serious politician.
When will it end?
I would interpret that as meaning for the duration of this Parliament, honouring the manifesto.
I do not think anyone has commited to it for their next manifesto. Perhaps the Tories have.
The Russians can make 1000s of drones a week and we are giving more £ to pensioners with a £50K+ private annual pension.
Madness on stilts.
The simple answer, or at least a step in the right direction, is to tax that pension income at the same levels as earned income, i.e. Income Tax and NI.
Pension contributions are made from income which has already had national insurance deducted.
Unless that is they are made via salary sacrifice - which is soon to be heavily resticted.
If you want to have the equivalent of national insurance to be charged on non-employment income the way to do so is to get rid of national insurance entirely and at the same time increase the rate of income tax.
British lawyers are always on holiday or asleep, claim US rivals
Lawyers at American firms have vented their spleen online at London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a ‘pay war’ for the best British junior solicitors
Americans may be late to footballing prowess, but for years their lawyers have been battling English counterparts for dominance of the international legal market.
Now an episode of football-style handbags has broken out online between the two legal cultures as lawyers at leading US firms reportedly have been venting their spleen at City rivals whom they brand as “stuffy” and “always sleeping or on vacation”.
A “big law” online forum has been humming with the views of anonymous lawyers at large US practices that make tough reading for their rivals in the City of London.
One American lawyer described their counterpart at large London firms as “academic rather than practical”, “overly cautious” and unable to “take a view on anything.”
Another reserved specific criticism of City lawyer Oxbridge graduates, who were described as being “socially coded to want to appear articulate and intelligent rather than efficient and direct”.
More seriously, one US lawyer highlighted a spate of sexual harassment cases over recent years at City law firms by commenting that London lawyers “have sex with other people in the office at a much higher rate than Americans”.
One American did have a positive comment, conceding that London rivals were stronger with the mutual language. City lawyers were seen to be better drafters, with UK documents being “much clearer than US drafting”.
British lawyers are always on holiday or asleep, claim US rivals
Lawyers at American firms have vented their spleen online at London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a ‘pay war’ for the best British junior solicitors
Americans may be late to footballing prowess, but for years their lawyers have been battling English counterparts for dominance of the international legal market.
Now an episode of football-style handbags has broken out online between the two legal cultures as lawyers at leading US firms reportedly have been venting their spleen at City rivals whom they brand as “stuffy” and “always sleeping or on vacation”.
A “big law” online forum has been humming with the views of anonymous lawyers at large US practices that make tough reading for their rivals in the City of London.
One American lawyer described their counterpart at large London firms as “academic rather than practical”, “overly cautious” and unable to “take a view on anything.”
Another reserved specific criticism of City lawyer Oxbridge graduates, who were described as being “socially coded to want to appear articulate and intelligent rather than efficient and direct”.
More seriously, one US lawyer highlighted a spate of sexual harassment cases over recent years at City law firms by commenting that London lawyers “have sex with other people in the office at a much higher rate than Americans”.
One American did have a positive comment, conceding that London rivals were stronger with the mutual language. City lawyers were seen to be better drafters, with UK documents being “much clearer than US drafting”.
British lawyers are always on holiday or asleep, claim US rivals
Lawyers at American firms have vented their spleen online at London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a ‘pay war’ for the best British junior solicitors
British lawyers are always on holiday or asleep, claim US rivals
Lawyers at American firms have vented their spleen online at London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a ‘pay war’ for the best British junior solicitors
Americans may be late to footballing prowess, but for years their lawyers have been battling English counterparts for dominance of the international legal market.
Now an episode of football-style handbags has broken out online between the two legal cultures as lawyers at leading US firms reportedly have been venting their spleen at City rivals whom they brand as “stuffy” and “always sleeping or on vacation”.
A “big law” online forum has been humming with the views of anonymous lawyers at large US practices that make tough reading for their rivals in the City of London.
One American lawyer described their counterpart at large London firms as “academic rather than practical”, “overly cautious” and unable to “take a view on anything.”
Another reserved specific criticism of City lawyer Oxbridge graduates, who were described as being “socially coded to want to appear articulate and intelligent rather than efficient and direct”.
More seriously, one US lawyer highlighted a spate of sexual harassment cases over recent years at City law firms by commenting that London lawyers “have sex with other people in the office at a much higher rate than Americans”.
One American did have a positive comment, conceding that London rivals were stronger with the mutual language. City lawyers were seen to be better drafters, with UK documents being “much clearer than US drafting”.
Your reminder to stay the eff away from bungee or rope jumping.
Woman dies after safety cord left off in Brazil rope jump
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/brazil-rope-jump-safety-cord-woman-dies-6182501 ..In videos of the Saturday accident circulating online, two men hoist the 21-year-old above their heads and launch her off Skeleton Bridge, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, while onlookers realise there is no safety mechanism attached and shout "Guys, the cord!"
"The safety equipment was not properly secured at the time of the jump. The victim did not survive the fall," police said in a statement to AFP.
Three men were arrested for "homicide with dolus eventualis" - meaning they were aware of the risk of death but went ahead anyway...
British lawyers are always on holiday or asleep, claim US rivals
Lawyers at American firms have vented their spleen online at London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a ‘pay war’ for the best British junior solicitors
Americans may be late to footballing prowess, but for years their lawyers have been battling English counterparts for dominance of the international legal market.
Now an episode of football-style handbags has broken out online between the two legal cultures as lawyers at leading US firms reportedly have been venting their spleen at City rivals whom they brand as “stuffy” and “always sleeping or on vacation”.
A “big law” online forum has been humming with the views of anonymous lawyers at large US practices that make tough reading for their rivals in the City of London.
One American lawyer described their counterpart at large London firms as “academic rather than practical”, “overly cautious” and unable to “take a view on anything.”
Another reserved specific criticism of City lawyer Oxbridge graduates, who were described as being “socially coded to want to appear articulate and intelligent rather than efficient and direct”.
More seriously, one US lawyer highlighted a spate of sexual harassment cases over recent years at City law firms by commenting that London lawyers “have sex with other people in the office at a much higher rate than Americans”.
One American did have a positive comment, conceding that London rivals were stronger with the mutual language. City lawyers were seen to be better drafters, with UK documents being “much clearer than US drafting”.
Your reminder to stay the eff away from bungee or rope jumping.
Woman dies after safety cord left off in Brazil rope jump
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/brazil-rope-jump-safety-cord-woman-dies-6182501 ..In videos of the Saturday accident circulating online, two men hoist the 21-year-old above their heads and launch her off Skeleton Bridge, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, while onlookers realise there is no safety mechanism attached and shout "Guys, the cord!"
"The safety equipment was not properly secured at the time of the jump. The victim did not survive the fall," police said in a statement to AFP.
Three men were arrested for "homicide with dolus eventualis" - meaning they were aware of the risk of death but went ahead anyway...
A few years ago I acidentally did the Giant Tarzan Swing at Monteverde in Costa Rica:
Great to see the Commons are bringing back an identical Assisted Dying law to that which was passed last term. Good!
Hopefully the Commons passes it, and the Lords can stop dicking around and act like adults and either choose reasonable amendments that the Commons accepts to improve the bill, or the Parliament Act sees it go through unamended since the elected chamber has passed it twice by that point.
Great to see the Commons are bringing back an identical Assisted Dying law to that which was passed last term. Good!
Hopefully the Commons passes it, and the Lords can stop dicking around and act like adults and either choose reasonable amendments that the Commons accepts to improve the bill, or the Parliament Act sees it go through unamended since the elected chamber has passed it twice by that point.
It's a Private Mermbers Bill and not part of the Government's Manifesto - the Parliament Act doesn't apply...
Your reminder to stay the eff away from bungee or rope jumping.
Woman dies after safety cord left off in Brazil rope jump
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/brazil-rope-jump-safety-cord-woman-dies-6182501 ..In videos of the Saturday accident circulating online, two men hoist the 21-year-old above their heads and launch her off Skeleton Bridge, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, while onlookers realise there is no safety mechanism attached and shout "Guys, the cord!"
"The safety equipment was not properly secured at the time of the jump. The victim did not survive the fall," police said in a statement to AFP.
Three men were arrested for "homicide with dolus eventualis" - meaning they were aware of the risk of death but went ahead anyway...
A few years ago I acidentally did the Giant Tarzan Swing at Monteverde in Costa Rica:
Great to see the Commons are bringing back an identical Assisted Dying law to that which was passed last term. Good!
Hopefully the Commons passes it, and the Lords can stop dicking around and act like adults and either choose reasonable amendments that the Commons accepts to improve the bill, or the Parliament Act sees it go through unamended since the elected chamber has passed it twice by that point.
It's a Private Mermbers Bill and not part of the Government's Manifesto - the Parliament Act doesn't apply...
It should be remembered it only passed the Commons with a majority of 23 and due to the controversial nature of the bill it cannot be certain to pass again
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._M._Thomas
Government can provide technical regulations and legal protections but parents gave to parent.
This is over and above what many expected and a positive attempt atvsolving a growing issue.
I've always been centre-right economically - back in the 1990s others called me a Thatcherite, and more of a liberal individualist socially / morally, with a big dose of a proper communitarianism based on decades of involvement with people in the "intentional community" movement. That is very different from the New Labour usage of the term, which was more about categorising people into groups.
I'm currently considering what needs to be reassessed looking at the remaining wreckage of the Cons, which I joined to give my voice towards the levelling-up agenda (which turned out to be a smokescreen).
I think the key movement we need to rescue our politics is around civic engagement at a local level, with a smidgeon of community activism as happens in the USA, but with a politics around commonwealth, not ideology or fear and loathing.
PB.com is by far the most right-wing environment I have ever spent time in, save for those limited periods when I obstructed National Front or EDL marches, but that is because I'm pretty left-wing and generally move in pretty left-wing social circles.
It's not surprising that our right-wing posters experience PB.com as biased to the left, for similar reasons.
The solution lies in your hands.
In any event, I have relatively little in common with (say) Roger or Brixian.
Seeing Hamilton winning in a Ferrari is also far far more palatable than for Mercedes especially the nob Toto Wolff
Aruba
Bonaire
Curacao
Yet another non-serious politician.
When will it end?
Might get himself into 10 Downing Street, which might be Mission Accomplished as per Kier, but if he wants to actually enact some change unlike Kier he needs to start making some tough choices and fast.
https://x.com/FraserNelson/status/2066138528522633475
He could also be non-committal.
Either way though, if you're going to screw the country just to get elected, you won't be able to do any good once elected.
Any view can be regarded as having 'bias'. But so what? To regard a reasoned view as having bias is just to say it reflects a reasoned point of view. It adds nothing. Unreasoned stuff can be passed over.
Trump told Netanyahu "What the fuck are you doing?!" after the strike in Lebanon, Fox reports. He urged Netanyahu not to carry out any further attacks as it could jeopardise any deal with Iran.
Iran has rejected Trump's offer of financial incentives not to respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon, Channel 12 reports.
Trump can’t understand that there are people who don’t do anything for money.
Netanyahu has also rejected Trump's demands to cease fire in Lebanon and withdraw, Ynet reports.
Not having a very good birthday, is he?
What about the pub after work?
I do not think anyone has commited to it for their next manifesto. Perhaps the Tories have.
I had much more political conversations with the parents of my daughter's schoolfriends.
Madness on stilts.
Banning teenagers from social media with ludicrous conditions is unworkable, unrealistic and unwanted.
Here’s a mad idea - let parents parent.
Not the state, but mums, dads, grandparents or whoever else.
Restore Britain will always trust the family over big government.
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2066160838465999106?s=20
The Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic regime: “We will respond to Israel's attack on Beirut.”
Strong smell of not wanting to upset the sugar daddy there.
The only way Netenyahu stops is if the USA threatens to withhold military aid .
I'd like to think that is true but I need to be convinced.
There's a multi-billion $ payday vs Mom and Pop.
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
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OK, I’m a little concerned for Curaçao now…
If it was allowed.
Go on Supreme Court - make my day.
Obama: "It's a reminder that on a lot of different foreign policy problems
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2066152796429115847
A lot of "parents should be trusted to do X/Y/Z" comes down to a reluctance for the state to have to pay to do anything about X/Y/Z right now. After all the costs will land on the next generation.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/oliver-tree-dead-helicopter-crash-alien-boy-life-goes-on-1236780964/
So we either need intervention or sterilisation to try and prevent this.
You seem a student of American politics - thoughts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_military_relations
Brave, very brave ...... 😁
Also @kinabalu is male. An accountant. Worked at Lehmans. I will say no more.
Unless that is they are made via salary sacrifice - which is soon to be heavily resticted.
If you want to have the equivalent of national insurance to be charged on non-employment income the way to do so is to get rid of national insurance entirely and at the same time increase the rate of income tax.
Lawyers at American firms have vented their spleen online at London’s legal culture, amid accusations of a ‘pay war’ for the best British junior solicitors
Americans may be late to footballing prowess, but for years their lawyers have been battling English counterparts for dominance of the international legal market.
Now an episode of football-style handbags has broken out online between the two legal cultures as lawyers at leading US firms reportedly have been venting their spleen at City rivals whom they brand as “stuffy” and “always sleeping or on vacation”.
A “big law” online forum has been humming with the views of anonymous lawyers at large US practices that make tough reading for their rivals in the City of London.
One American lawyer described their counterpart at large London firms as “academic rather than practical”, “overly cautious” and unable to “take a view on anything.”
Another reserved specific criticism of City lawyer Oxbridge graduates, who were described as being “socially coded to want to appear articulate and intelligent rather than efficient and direct”.
More seriously, one US lawyer highlighted a spate of sexual harassment cases over recent years at City law firms by commenting that London lawyers “have sex with other people in the office at a much higher rate than Americans”.
One American did have a positive comment, conceding that London rivals were stronger with the mutual language. City lawyers were seen to be better drafters, with UK documents being “much clearer than US drafting”.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/lawyers-holiday-us-uk-hhbtq5lhf
An amazingly busy parliament considering the economic state of the post war period, and in the midst of decolonisation.
Woman dies after safety cord left off in Brazil rope jump
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/brazil-rope-jump-safety-cord-woman-dies-6182501
..In videos of the Saturday accident circulating online, two men hoist the 21-year-old above their heads and launch her off Skeleton Bridge, in the interior of Sao Paulo state, while onlookers realise there is no safety mechanism attached and shout "Guys, the cord!"
"The safety equipment was not properly secured at the time of the jump. The victim did not survive the fall," police said in a statement to AFP.
Three men were arrested for "homicide with dolus eventualis" - meaning they were aware of the risk of death but went ahead anyway...
https://share.google/sP8xTpfPB5iW6bAGq
It was only afterwards when I read the reviews that I found out that they had miscalculated a few months previously and broken someones legs.
Hopefully the Commons passes it, and the Lords can stop dicking around and act like adults and either choose reasonable amendments that the Commons accepts to improve the bill, or the Parliament Act sees it go through unamended since the elected chamber has passed it twice by that point.