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It was Yes, Prime Minister, then, because the book was red. And yes, I did read a lot at night with a torch under the covers.
Dept of Transport says it's stepping up security at airports - won't elabroate on why
Laura Kuenssberg ✔ @bbclaurak
Dept of Transport says it's stepping up security at airports - won't elabroate on why
Ross Hawkins @rosschawkins
UK stepping up airport security after US does likewise https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dft-statement-on-aviation-security … http://www.dhs.gov/news/2014/07/02/statement-secretary-johnson
Caesar wasn't very old, but Antigonus was in his 80s at Ipsus, and Seleucus was in his 70s when he fought with Lysimachus.
More to waste I guess.
Check it out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28130581
Alternatively the current London housing bubble isn't primarily to do with mortgages it's to do with oligarchs from various BRICs making cash buys and building skyscrapers as a way of stashing their loot so the usual route of calming housing by raising interest rates won't do much.
Plus the zombie banks couldn't take an interest rate rise yet anyway so it's a lucky escape.
Bonus question: how big an impact will all the fines Barclays are being hit with by US financial investigators for various shenanigans- oddly enough completely missed by UK financial regulators - have on Barclays as a business?
Bonus question 2: are the US financial regulators going to go after UK banks specifically because the competitive advantage UK banks get from Tortuga-on-Thames is eating into New York's business too much?
It's amazing that over 30 years after it was written Yes Minister is still so eminently quotable
Quite so. I think it's also easy to remember so much of it not only because there were so many great, concise or insightful quotes, but because the actual characters were interesting and less two dimensional than a scrap of paper, so what they say sticks in the mind far better than the deliciously enjoyable and pointed exchanges of any political satire Armando Iannucci ever wrote, to pick one modern example. Very good, but exact moments have less staying power in the memory.
I wonder if it is ISIS getting bolder (see link 11)
It would've probably been better for the Byzantines to just let the friendly Ostrogothic kingdom hang around instead of destroying it and buggering up the Exarchate by excessive taxation and bureaucracy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BrkPSMUIAAA2KjA.jpg:large
Re 12.I wonder whether Sarkozy will finish claiming asylum somewhere, LOL?
He reckons I'd make a good Caliph, and use it as a stepping post to becoming the country's first Directly Elected Dictator
Which is why politics is mostly about trivial stuff like how someone eats a bap.
#8 quite possible imo. as the native working class population disappears Lab's ethnic coalition is already splitting into different factions possibly allowing a non-Tory Tory to win the mayor's job. They wouldn't be able to do any Tory stuff though.
The same person who leaked Panorama investigation into Lutfur Rahman to Rahman, also downloaded and handed over all the details covert military personnel (amongst other things).
Apparently the BBC team thought it is perfectly safe to a) store all this data together and b) store on dropbox (and from the report it wasn't encrypted either) c) give a un-trusted / inexperience person access to all of this.
It never ceases to amaze me how sloppy people are with data...that and tweeting to the world as if nobody will notice. You would have thought after wikileaks that anybody handling sensitive material wouldn't be a) securing it properly and b) not giving lackeys access to it.
twitter.com/suttonnick/status/484426986329501696
#20 - Awesome news, I've been Sherlocked...!
Sun Politics @Sun_Politics 9s
YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead back down to two points: CON 35%, LAB 37%, LD 8%, UKIP 12%
http://labourlist.org/2014/07/labour-take-the-lead-in-holyrood-poll/
Or 'pouter claimed the resurrection of Basil?
Very grim for Labour. Almost silenced Nick Palmer.
Don't be ridiculous buddy!!!
Lab 337 seats, Con 277, LD 11, UKIP Zero.
I partly asked @JenniRsl to join @TimesOpinion for Lab friendly OpEds. Tmrw she writes: Miliband would be a disaster http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4137016.ece …
I have a suggestion for the PB meet at the Lab conference, wanted to email you my thoughts, if that's ok.
Are we surprised? Really? This is just yet another example of all sorts of organizations having appalling practices for handling data (sensitive or not).
Otherwise this happens:
“The site is located at a critical pivot, a node juxtaposed between two major orientations”, and “the inherent challenge is to express, represent and stimulate the values of a society constructed as an open-source system: a portal to a world that showcases the imbrications of a cultural melting pot.”
Even if it could be translated into English, it would be void of meaning.
I have spent the evening admiring your arse. Not half as pert as Jack's though.
Shia split...
So yesterday the tensions between Sunni tribes and ISIS were laid bare, Yet in the last 24 hours, the Iraqi governments forces have been engaged south east of Baghdad in the Shia herartlands slugging it out against the supporters of a radical Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sayed Sarkhi Hasani.
Hasani spat the dummy of big time Shia Ayatollah Sistani's and declares one of his own against the Maliki regime. Hasani doesn't do Iran and he doesn't like Maliki.
The clashes have gone as far as Maliki's forces going direct to Hasani's own doorstep.
In short its increasingly hard to know who exactly the Maliki government fully represent, other than Iran.
The US appear to adding more troops to the Baghdad green zone. I posted the other night about the possibility of an evacuation of personnel out to a more secure location. To do that is going to need the additional; firepower being brought in.
On the security stuff for airports, there is awareness that newer types of bombs are in circulation. The real reason for pushing the measures out now is because not so much of the explosives, but the movements of some of those with US & 'non-hostile' passports who could board flights to the US. What we don't know is if they have identified specific people or some people have left battlefields.
That's Wadham for you.
lab 40, con 32, kip 13, LD 9
Interesting.
Ed is crap is PM 301 days to go. Ed is crap is PM in every poll in Jun/July including Ashcroft crossover poll
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbrJWtTAL0
A little dated, but still great
Like a car running out of petrol ...
02/07/2014 22:36
As it stands Alexis not part of the deal for Suárez. But not definitive. Despite personal agreemnt with Arsenal, LFC hope to convince him
June 30 - July 1 (2013) 33 38 8 12 7 -5
June 30 - July 1 (2014 33 38 8 11 9 -5
Now thats what I call swingback (cough)
Mrs BJO is demanding I "turn that damn laptop off and get up them dancers"
Night all maybe tomorrow will produce a poll where Ed is crap is not PM
Failures by ministers, police and other agencies have led to the "preventable mutilation of thousands of girls", the Home Affairs Committee said.
It blamed a "misplaced concern for cultural sensitivities" for inaction, and called for a national action plan."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28127678
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/UK_opinion_polling_2010-2015.png
http://www.betfair.com/exchange/cycling/market?id=1.111308163#id=1.112627958
Winner:
Froome 2.06
Contador 3.35
Nibali 14.5
Valverde 32
Talansky 40
Van Garderen 65
Costa 75
Porte 85
No 23: Hmm, I wouldn't say it's controversial. More a case of a very disagreeable but unfortunately necessary decision by a great leader. For all his flaws, Churchill got the big picture right, and this is one example. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say it was the turning point: after this, the world realised that Britain was serious.
Sinking the French navy in peacetime is acceptable, in war it is mandatory.
An extraordinary man for extraordinary times.
"You promised the reorganisation in the NHS would make things better - it's made things worse. Worse on access to cancer treatment, worse on A&E waits, worse on GP access, the NHS is getting worse on your watch. And there's only one person to blame and it's you”
As BobaFett might say 'look at the trend!!'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28130581
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_in_Toulon
This is a very interesting piece:
http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/cyclist-chris-froome-is-right-in-the-eye-of-the-storm-30391816.html
Nothing but admiration for Paul Kimmage
It has given me a really good laugh on an otherwise dull night shift.
On the TdF, agree that it is more open than the last couple of years after seeing Froomy not looking so great on the Dauphine.
Valverde could be a good pick for the podium.
would it be too much for japan correspondents to type "who stands as an independent" or "representing the unpopular Nishinomiya restoration party as its only representative" or something?
Sad to say, to some degree, the media people just don't care, and "uh uh uh japanese man crying funny uh uh". Really would be nice if they engaged a bit more.
Having said all that. It was quite a performance. At least all those onsen visits have him looking pretty youthful at 47.
Stage 1 looking tasty. Cavendish? tantrums in the bus if he doesn't I'd guess
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2678576/Leon-Brittans-faulty-memory-ticking-timebomb-shake-Westminster-Tory-peer-faces-questions-1980s-files-complied-MP-Geoffrey-Dickens-Westminster-paedophile-ring.html
Kittel is shorter price for Stage 1 iirc.
"'MailOnline intends to regularly publish lists of articles deleted from Google's European search results so people can keep track of what has been deleted."
Good on them.
However disgracefully you omitted all the juicy campaign details and the scores on the doors for the candidates and new council make-up.
Such dereliction of duty on PB from elected personages leads to exile on ConHome for a week for a first offence.
Must do better.