Mr. JEO, just read the Wikipedia summary. Interesting theory (I had heard of the Fermi Paradox already, which reminds me of the forthcoming Singularity, when we might make killer robots smarter than we are).
Mr. JEO, just read the Wikipedia summary. Interesting theory (I had heard of the Fermi Paradox already, which reminds me of the forthcoming Singularity, when we might make killer robots smarter than we are).
Read the link antifrank posted. Jolly interesting and fairly hard to argue against. And THEN read the article on procrastination, which chimed with me so much it appeared Mike Oldfield was recording another album in my kitchen.
People have said this about Apple for years, I'm still waiting for their value to drop and their phones to stop being popular.
Apple seem to have created a ... dare I say it... religion.
Apple create products that work out of the box, first time. Yes, one pays a premium but relative to the time that isn't spent wasted trying to get the technology to work properly, it's money well spent.
People have said this about Apple for years, I'm still waiting for their value to drop and their phones to stop being popular.
Apple seem to have created a ... dare I say it... religion.
Apple create products that work out of the box, first time. Yes, one pays a premium but relative to the time that isn't spent wasted trying to get the technology to work properly, it's money well spent.
As long as you hold it correctly.
As I need to keep telling my wife. Shouldn't have opened the wine bottle this early in the evening.
Mr. JEO, just read the Wikipedia summary. Interesting theory (I had heard of the Fermi Paradox already, which reminds me of the forthcoming Singularity, when we might make killer robots smarter than we are).
Read the link antifrank posted. Jolly interesting and fairly hard to argue against. And THEN read the article on procrastination, which chimed with me so much it appeared Mike Oldfield was recording another album in my kitchen.
Labour will make Internet access, coffee and entertainment more expensive for everyone in the country...
Awesome
If Amazon was forced to pay a fair level of UK Corporation Tax, they would have to put up prices to maintain their current level of after tax profit. That would be great as it would allow UK companies including many independent booksellers to compete on a more level playing field.
Corporation tax is on profit.
Amazon invest rather than make profits, ergo no Corporation Tax is due while the strategy persists.
They make "no" profits after clever transfer pricing. That is where a global agreement is needed . All countries are losers except ultimately, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, etc....
Agree. So the ideal solution is 0% corporation tax - which is a tax on success.
Really ? Why not give them some money as well ? Tax the poor and fund the corporates.
His speech contained some of the most deranged, dangerous nonsense ever spouted from the floor of a Labour party conference. I was never a fan of Ed Balls, but he understood the art of economic combat better than anyone in the Commons and knew that Labour had to win an election. By contrast, McDonnell is a fantasy shadow chancellor fighting battles that exist chiefly in his head. He referred to something called the ‘corporate welfare system’, which – of course – doesn’t exist. He vowed to cut ‘use of taxpayers’ money subsidising poverty paying bosses’ which doesn’t exist either. He threatened to impose rent controls, a system that has crippled rental markets in the cities where it is tried.
Labour will make Internet access, coffee and entertainment more expensive for everyone in the country...
Awesome
If Amazon was forced to pay a fair level of UK Corporation Tax, they would have to put up prices to maintain their current level of after tax profit. That would be great as it would allow UK companies including many independent booksellers to compete on a more level playing field.
Corporation tax is on profit.
Amazon invest rather than make profits, ergo no Corporation Tax is due while the strategy persists.
They make "no" profits after clever transfer pricing. That is where a global agreement is needed . All countries are losers except ultimately, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, etc....
Agree. So the ideal solution is 0% corporation tax - which is a tax on success.
Really ? Why not give them some money as well ? Tax the poor and fund the corporates.
Oh ! that's not new , is it ?
We should be aiming to get as close as possible to letting everyone keep all of their own money.
Twitter spat still ongoing between Iain Dale and Louise Mensch. He told her to f---- right off - charming man! He has just had David Blanchflower on his show and described him as someone we respect on LBC!! lol Watching President Obama and David Cameron at the UN and then watching the Labour Party conference is like living in a parallel universe.
I am vaguely remembering a tory policy which got Mr Dale quite worked up before the election. For the life of me I cannot remember what it was... But I do remember him coming across all 'Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' and saying he would not vote Tory if it was in the manifesto. He has something of a hysteric side to him. As I have said before he pays far too much respect to political opponents that in reality treat him as a useful idiot.
Just in case anyone missed McDonnell’s hints, he ended his speech saying ‘as socialists’ – yes, the S-word – he will ‘display our competence with our compassion’. The word ‘socialist’ and the word ‘competence’ are not ones that easily fit together – as the British learned to their cost in the 1970s. So McDonnell’s speech can be summarised in one sentence: do you fancy giving the 1970s another try? I doubt he’ll be around come polling day to find out.
His speech contained some of the most deranged, dangerous nonsense ever spouted from the floor of a Labour party conference. I was never a fan of Ed Balls, but he understood the art of economic combat better than anyone in the Commons and knew that Labour had to win an election. By contrast, McDonnell is a fantasy shadow chancellor fighting battles that exist chiefly in his head. He referred to something called the ‘corporate welfare system’, which – of course – doesn’t exist. He vowed to cut ‘use of taxpayers’ money subsidising poverty paying bosses’ which doesn’t exist either. He threatened to impose rent controls, a system that has crippled rental markets in the cities where it is tried.
I suppose George Eaton must be a Tory writing in the Tory press:
When Ed Miliband delivered his conference speech last year, he was castigated for failing to mention the deficit. It was a charge that McDonnell quickly insulated himself from. Labour, he vowed, would "tackle the deficit" through "aggressive" action to "force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes." But there was no explanation of how. Combined with the promise of "people's quantitative easing" in times of anaemic growth, the impression that Labour relies on a magic money tree risks only being reinforced.
I suppose George Eaton must be a Tory writing in the Tory press:
When Ed Miliband delivered his conference speech last year, he was castigated for failing to mention the deficit. It was a charge that McDonnell quickly insulated himself from. Labour, he vowed, would "tackle the deficit" through "aggressive" action to "force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes." But there was no explanation of how. Combined with the promise of "people's quantitative easing" in times of anaemic growth, the impression that Labour relies on a magic money tree risks only being reinforced.
Today is the anniversary of William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066. Just sayin'
Illegal immigrant !
I think you get off if you bring your own country...
The most shameful moment in the history of England.
We were conquered by a French Bastard.
Not true Frenchies. I grant you they spoke french, lived in france and served the french king, but they were still more Norse than french, damnit!
IIRC hadn't Harold had to march up North to thrash the Scots (Battle of Stamford Bridge) before immediately returning South.
Vikings, not Scots. Otherwise correct.
Harold pulled off a pretty impressive feat of generalship simply taking the field at Hastings after what he'd been through over the previous two months. I wouldn't regard 1066 as any more shameful than any of the other invasions that England suffered during the earlier part of the eleventh centuries. The only thing that marked it as being particularly different was that it was the last successful one - and that could only be seen in retrospect.
Cue someone bringing up William of Orange in 'successful invasions'
Romans, Germans, Danes, French, Scots, Dutch. All successfully took over England. Barely seems to be a NW European country that hasn't treated England like a dockside hooker.
Worse, it took England 500 years to subjugate the Welsh and for most of that time their grip on the colony was pretty tenuous. Arguably did worse in Ireland but come on, we're talking about the Welsh.
I suppose George Eaton must be a Tory writing in the Tory press:
When Ed Miliband delivered his conference speech last year, he was castigated for failing to mention the deficit. It was a charge that McDonnell quickly insulated himself from. Labour, he vowed, would "tackle the deficit" through "aggressive" action to "force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes." But there was no explanation of how. Combined with the promise of "people's quantitative easing" in times of anaemic growth, the impression that Labour relies on a magic money tree risks only being reinforced.
Today is the anniversary of William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066. Just sayin'
Illegal immigrant !
I think you get off if you bring your own country...
The most shameful moment in the history of England.
We were conquered by a French Bastard.
Not true Frenchies. I grant you they spoke french, lived in france and served the french king, but they were still more Norse than french, damnit!
IIRC hadn't Harold had to march up North to thrash the Scots (Battle of Stamford Bridge) before immediately returning South.
Vikings, not Scots. Otherwise correct.
Harold pulled off a pretty impressive feat of generalship simply taking the field at Hastings after what he'd been through over the previous two months. I wouldn't regard 1066 as any more shameful than any of the other invasions that England suffered during the earlier part of the eleventh centuries. The only thing that marked it as being particularly different was that it was the last successful one - and that could only be seen in retrospect.
Cue someone bringing up William of Orange in 'successful invasions'
Romans, Germans, Danes, French, Scots, Dutch. All successfully took over England. Barely seems to be a NW European country that hasn't treated England like a dockside hooker.
Worse, it took England 500 years to subjugate the Welsh and for most of that time their grip on the colony was pretty tenuous. Arguably did worse in Ireland but come on, we're talking about the Welsh.
Some of my ancestors are Huguenot, if you excluded those descended from West Indian Immigrants, the Jews, the Huguenots, the Dutch, the Normans, the Vikings, the Saxons and the Romans you would not have many English left. That is not the same as being occupied
Corbyn will offer genuine opposition - to a reality-based universe....
Imagine how poor Neil Kinnock must be feeling. He thought he had got his party back in 2010, but now he faces welcoming the likes of Dave Nellist back along with a host a swarm of other Militant Marxists he had spent the best 10 years of his life fighting to get expelled. I very much doubt that the world's greatest experts in string theory could come up with the number of universes he thinks he is livng in right now.
@bbclaurak: One senior MP tellls me speech was only 30% of what Corbyn and McDonnell want to do
I thought the whole problem with having a lifelong rebel and outsider as leader was that senior MPs are now out of the loop of what Corbyn and McDonnell are doing?
The loudest applause from delegates came when McDonnell appealed to those MPs who refused to serve under Jeremy Corbyn to "come back and help us succeed". The appeal was offered "in the spirit of solidarity" but to many on the outside, as one MP told me, "it sounded like a threat".
I suppose George Eaton must be a Tory writing in the Tory press:
When Ed Miliband delivered his conference speech last year, he was castigated for failing to mention the deficit. It was a charge that McDonnell quickly insulated himself from. Labour, he vowed, would "tackle the deficit" through "aggressive" action to "force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes." But there was no explanation of how. Combined with the promise of "people's quantitative easing" in times of anaemic growth, the impression that Labour relies on a magic money tree risks only being reinforced.
Corbyn will offer genuine opposition - to a reality-based universe....
Imagine how poor Neil Kinnock must be feeling. He thought he had got his party back in 2010, but now he faces welcoming the likes of Dave Nellist back along with a host a swarm of other Militant Marxists he had spent the best 10 years of his life fighting to get expelled. I very much doubt that the world's greatest experts in string theory could come up with the number of universes he thinks he is livng in right now.
The loudest applause from delegates came when McDonnell appealed to those MPs who refused to serve under Jeremy Corbyn to "come back and help us succeed". The appeal was offered "in the spirit of solidarity" but to many on the outside, as one MP told me, "it sounded like a threat".
I suppose George Eaton must be a Tory writing in the Tory press:
When Ed Miliband delivered his conference speech last year, he was castigated for failing to mention the deficit. It was a charge that McDonnell quickly insulated himself from. Labour, he vowed, would "tackle the deficit" through "aggressive" action to "force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes." But there was no explanation of how. Combined with the promise of "people's quantitative easing" in times of anaemic growth, the impression that Labour relies on a magic money tree risks only being reinforced.
So your defence is that England wasn't conquered by the Romans because the concept of England wouldn't exist for a few hundred years when one of the many German conquerors brought it with them?
He looked neater than normal, too: glasses on, hair flattened and smartly parted. Mr Corbyn sat at the side of the stage, stroking his beard approvingly.
The explanation was obvious enough. For all the talk of spurning spin, Mr Corbyn’s Labour know perfectly well that good PR is vital, and that on this front Mr McDonnell is a disaster. They desperately need to make the public forget the time he praised the IRA for their “bombs and bullets and sacrifice”, the time he said he longed to go back in time to kill Margaret Thatcher, and the time he ended an anecdote about the Tories’ Esther McVey with the line, “Why aren’t we lynching the bitch?”
So here was their carefully madeover McDonnell 2.0: the splenetic liability replaced by a 1950s provincial bank manager.
Today is the anniversary of William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066. Just sayin'
Illegal immigrant !
I think you get off if you bring your own country...
The most shameful moment in the history of England.
We were conquered by a French Bastard.
Not true Frenchies. I grant you they spoke french, lived in france and served the french king, but they were still more Norse than french, damnit!
IIRC hadn't Harold had to march up North to thrash the Scots (Battle of Stamford Bridge) before immediately returning South.
Vikings, not Scots. Otherwise correct.
Harold pulled off a pretty impressive feat of generalship simply taking the field at Hastings after what he'd been through over the previous two months. I wouldn't regard 1066 as any more shameful than any of the other invasions that England suffered during the earlier part of the eleventh centuries. The only thing that marked it as being particularly different was that it was the last successful one - and that could only be seen in retrospect.
Cue someone bringing up William of Orange in 'successful invasions'
Romans, Germans, Danes, French, Scots, Dutch. All successfully took over England. Barely seems to be a NW European country that hasn't treated England like a dockside hooker.
Worse, it took England 500 years to subjugate the Welsh and for most of that time their grip on the colony was pretty tenuous. Arguably did worse in Ireland but come on, we're talking about the Welsh.
Some of my ancestors are Huguenot, if you excluded those descended from West Indian Immigrants, the Jews, the Huguenots, the Dutch, the Normans, the Vikings, the Saxons and the Romans you would not have many English left. That is not the same as being occupied
He believes that various groups took over England centuries before the English even existed.
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So your defence is that England wasn't conquered by the Romans because the concept of England wouldn't exist for a few hundred years when one of the many German conquerors brought it with them?
Indeed. Its like making fun of the Americans for invasions suffered before Columbus ever got there. The English are the descendants of the successful invaders.
Today is the anniversary of William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066. Just sayin'
Illegal immigrant !
I think you get off if you bring your own country...
The most shameful moment in the history of England.
We were conquered by a French Bastard.
Not true Frenchies. I grant you they spoke french, lived in france and served the french king, but they were still more Norse than french, damnit!
IIRC hadn't Harold had to march up North to thrash the Scots (Battle of Stamford Bridge) before immediately returning South.
Vikings, not Scots. Otherwise correct.
Harold pulled off a pretty impressive feat of generalship simply taking the field at Hastings after what he'd been through over the previous two months. I wouldn't regard 1066 as any more shameful than any of the other invasions that England suffered during the earlier part of the eleventh centuries. The only thing that marked it as being particularly different was that it was the last successful one - and that could only be seen in retrospect.
Cue someone bringing up William of Orange in 'successful invasions'
Romans, Germans, Danes, French, Scots, Dutch. All successfully took over England. Barely seems to be a NW European country that hasn't treated England like a dockside hooker.
Worse, it took England 500 years to subjugate the Welsh and for most of that time their grip on the colony was pretty tenuous. Arguably did worse in Ireland but come on, we're talking about the Welsh.
Some of my ancestors are Huguenot, if you excluded those descended from West Indian Immigrants, the Jews, the Huguenots, the Dutch, the Normans, the Vikings, the Saxons and the Romans you would not have many English left. That is not the same as being occupied
The Scots came from Ireland.
Romans Vikings and Normans did not in fact leave much of their DNA behind. Most of our English DNA is still Anglo Saxon. Even at its strongest though it is only 40% - the rest mostly dates from earlier. So really the Anglo Saxons were assimilated and the whole group became English. Before that the very first settlers were from what is now Germany France and Belgium and mostly came via land bridge. Those of Celtic ancestry in Scotland and Cornwall are more similar to the English than they are to other Celtic groups. There are a wide range of different Celtic groups.
So your defence is that England wasn't conquered by the Romans because the concept of England wouldn't exist for a few hundred years when one of the many German conquerors brought it with them?
Indeed. Its like making fun of the Americans for invasions suffered before Columbus ever got there. The English are the descendants of the successful invaders.
Yes. England did not exist at the time of the roman invasion. In due course what we know as Northumbria extended into the modern strathclyde area. So what? As I have pointed out the Scots came from Ireland, and in turn they came from... does it matter?
Today is the anniversary of William the Conqueror's invasion in 1066. Just sayin'
Illegal immigrant !
I think you get off if you bring your own country...
The most shameful moment in the history of England.
We were conquered by a French Bastard.
Not true Frenchies. I grant you they spoke french, lived in france and served the french king, but they were still more Norse than french, damnit!
IIRC hadn't Harold had to march up North to thrash the Scots (Battle of Stamford Bridge) before immediately returning South.
Vikings, not Scots. Otherwise correct.
Harold pulled off a pretty impressive feat of generalship simply taking the field at Hastings after what he'd been through over the previous two months. I wouldn't regard 1066 as any more shameful than any of the other invasions that England suffered during the earlier part of the eleventh centuries. The only thing that marked it as being particularly different was that it was the last successful one - and that could only be seen in retrospect.
Cue someone bringing up William of Orange in 'successful invasions'
Romans, Germans, Danes, French, Scots, Dutch. All successfully took over England. Barely seems to be a NW European country that hasn't treated England like a dockside hooker.
Worse, it took England 500 years to subjugate the Welsh and for most of that time their grip on the colony was pretty tenuous. Arguably did worse in Ireland but come on, we're talking about the Welsh.
Some of my ancestors are Huguenot, if you excluded those descended from West Indian Immigrants, the Jews, the Huguenots, the Dutch, the Normans, the Vikings, the Saxons and the Romans you would not have many English left. That is not the same as being occupied
He believes that various groups took over England centuries before the English even existed.
Indeed but England only really came into being around the time of Aethalstan in 927. Before then it was made up of Kingdoms such as Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria
The loudest applause from delegates came when McDonnell appealed to those MPs who refused to serve under Jeremy Corbyn to "come back and help us succeed". The appeal was offered "in the spirit of solidarity" but to many on the outside, as one MP told me, "it sounded like a threat".
I suppose George Eaton must be a Tory writing in the Tory press:
When Ed Miliband delivered his conference speech last year, he was castigated for failing to mention the deficit. It was a charge that McDonnell quickly insulated himself from. Labour, he vowed, would "tackle the deficit" through "aggressive" action to "force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes." But there was no explanation of how. Combined with the promise of "people's quantitative easing" in times of anaemic growth, the impression that Labour relies on a magic money tree risks only being reinforced.
Some of the harshest words today were from Labour MPs. Quite telling that he's lost them already, even if it is only the proverbial awkward squad. It would take Corbyn marrying off Seb to Liz Kendall to unite Labour - and even then they would end up cutting the baby in half.
So your defence is that England wasn't conquered by the Romans because the concept of England wouldn't exist for a few hundred years when one of the many German conquerors brought it with them?
It is worth pointing out that the Romans did conquer Scotland, under Gnaeus Julius Agricola. They just decided it wasn't worth the effort of keeping.
I'm struggling to remember an occasion when the Scots conquered England. There was a spirited attempt in 1745 that ended at Derby, and a much less successful attempt in 1650 when a certain Oliver Cromwell stopped them. Were you referring to one of those, or is there another occasion I don't know about?
The Normans were not French, and it is worth pointing out that far from the French conquering England, England several times conquered France, notably after the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and Azincourt in 1415. The Vikings also failed to conquer England entirely (Wessex remained free, a few short raids apart) although England was briefly part of the Danish Empire from 1016-1042. Since Scotland was also partly ruled by Danes for much of the previous two hundred years, not a great example from your point of view.
That's peculiar, given how Wales has been trending towards the Right.
From the other results (notably the fact that his personal impact on voting intention seems to be neutral), it appears that it might be an expression of his supporters' enthusiasm. A Corbynite might rank JC at 10 and DC at 1 while a Conservative might rank JC at 1 and DC at 6 or 7. That would result in better scores for Jeremy Corbyn than David Cameron without necessarily him having more supporters. But without the detailed data, that's just speculation.
McTernan on Daily Politics was today conflating the communistic DUP with a block including Tories and UKIP so he could claim 51% voted for "right" parties.
Scots came from Dalriada a sea kingdom which spanned Ireland and Scotland. Where they came from before Dalriada is unclear. The mythology says from Egypt but that's a fairly typical "Lost Tribe of Israel" mythology amongst early Christian societies.
Its a moot point about the origins of the 'Scots', it seems as fair to call them Gaelic Irish in origin as to say they were a joint culture. I think there were other Irish migrations, but who cares if the Scots ignored the Picts, massacred them or merged with them?
One per cent of all modern Scottish men have Berber ancestry. DNA suggests that modern Scotland was subject to migrations from what is now Germany. The Scottish DNA seems surprisingly diverse. I read that David Lammy has some Orkney DNA in him.
My own mother's maiden name suggests an Irish link. None of this matters of course we are all one mixed up nation.
McTernan on Daily Politics was today conflating the communistic DUP with a block including Tories and UKIP so he could claim 51% voted for "right" parties.
Utterly comical.
That seems a very strong claim to make. I would have said that they were definitely on the political right - indeed, in terms of their racial ideology and ideas on social class and segregation arguably they are closer to even the BNP than UKIP. That's even before we consider their church links which alone would rule them out of being Communist.
In fact, I would have said the best possible argument for not mentioning them in the same breath as the Conservatives, and one reason why Cameron seems far from anxious to embrace them, is the embarrassment they could cause the latter.
I really do quite approve of the way that Corbyn and McDonnell are questioning the standard wisdom as to how economics works. Really great that they are floating the maddest of ideas, and they're not worried about making the sums add up. Of course my approval applies only if they are 12 years old. They're not, and they should be ashamed at the dangerous drivel they are pedalling. They both know full well that what they are suggesting is a complete lie.
His speech contained some of the most deranged, dangerous nonsense ever spouted from the floor of a Labour party conference. I was never a fan of Ed Balls, but he understood the art of economic combat better than anyone in the Commons and knew that Labour had to win an election. By contrast, McDonnell is a fantasy shadow chancellor fighting battles that exist chiefly in his head. He referred to something called the ‘corporate welfare system’, which – of course – doesn’t exist. He vowed to cut ‘use of taxpayers’ money subsidising poverty paying bosses’ which doesn’t exist either. He threatened to impose rent controls, a system that has crippled rental markets in the cities where it is tried.
McTernan on Daily Politics was today conflating the communistic DUP with a block including Tories and UKIP so he could claim 51% voted for "right" parties.
Utterly comical.
That seems a very strong claim to make. I would have said that they were definitely on the political right - indeed, in terms of their racial ideology and ideas on social class and segregation arguably they are closer to even the BNP than UKIP. That's even before we consider their church links which alone would rule them out of being Communist.
Economically they are well to the left of Corbyn.
Which is sort of my point. Claiming the DUP or UKIP are "right" because they are racist parties is misleading if their economics are of the left (which UKIP are moving towards and DUP have always been).
It was the DUPs left wing economics that was a strong contributor to them replacing the UUP as the main unionist bigots in Ulster.
That's peculiar, given how Wales has been trending towards the Right.
Confusing a UKIP vote with a "vote for the right" in UK political terms is your mistake.
I do not think that was true in 2015, however working out the confused UKIP vote in 2020 will be difficult.
The problem is that those claiming a "right wing block" "won" the 2015 election is always made by those claiming a mandate for the Tories economic policies not their social policies. Which makes the claim that 51% of people voted for right wing parties a complete nonsense.
As a double irony, the Tories aren't even on the right on social policies any more, their at best centrist if not all out traditional left.
The Anglo-Saxons weren't assimilated. They were the assimilators who assimilated the Celts they had conquered.
Well the DNA evidence is not really clear on that. The Romano-British and the Anglo Saxons merged into what we think of as the the English (they did carve out the present kingdom), with the earlier inhabitants adopting the Anglo Saxon way of life and deserting the Romano British one. With just 40% Anglo Saxon DNA that is not really them assimilating the Romano British in the sense of a mass invasion. There is nothing uniform about the Celtic DNA, it seems that the changes in DNA betweem Cornwall Devon and Dorset closely follow the county borders
McTernan on Daily Politics was today conflating the communistic DUP with a block including Tories and UKIP so he could claim 51% voted for "right" parties.
Utterly comical.
That seems a very strong claim to make. I would have said that they were definitely on the political right - indeed, in terms of their racial ideology and ideas on social class and segregation arguably they are closer to even the BNP than UKIP. That's even before we consider their church links which alone would rule them out of being Communist.
Economically they are well to the left of Corbyn.
Which is sort of my point. Claiming the DUP or UKIP are "right" because they are racist parties is misleading if their economics are of the left (which UKIP are moving towards and DUP have always been).
It was the DUPs left wing economics that was a strong contributor to them replacing the UUP as the main unionist bigots in Ulster.
You may be right. The inference is that the UUP and UKIP are moving towards their version of National Socialism.
When a Corbynite says there is more to politics than winning elections, they tacitly concede that Britain is tolerable as it is, at least for them. If it were not, the acquisition of power would be the alpha and omega of their cause. Press them on their lacerating dislike for Tony Blair and they say his leadership of the Labour party made them feel scuzzy. Politics, this implies, is there to make activists feel good about themselves. Everything comes back to feeling; everything comes back to the self.
A Corbyn rally is not a band of desperate workers fighting to improve their circumstances, it is a communion of comfortable people working their way up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. They have physical health and security; they crave belonging and self-actualisation. They are in politics for the dopamine squirt that comes with total belief and immersion in like-minded company.
When queries were made as to how many “moderate” Syrian rebels were now in the field as a result of the new $500m US training programme, the general gulped, shifted uncomfortably in his seat, and devastatingly answered “four or five.”
That is the pathetic state of the White House’s strategy on Syria. ==========
The failour of the Obama middle east strategy writ large.
So your defence is that England wasn't conquered by the Romans because the concept of England wouldn't exist for a few hundred years when one of the many German conquerors brought it with them?
It is worth pointing out that the Romans did conquer Scotland, under Gnaeus Julius Agricola. They just decided it wasn't worth the effort of keeping.
I'm struggling to remember an occasion when the Scots conquered England. There was a spirited attempt in 1745 that ended at Derby, and a much less successful attempt in 1650 when a certain Oliver Cromwell stopped them. Were you referring to one of those, or is there another occasion I don't know about?
The Normans were not French, and it is worth pointing out that far from the French conquering England, England several times conquered France, notably after the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and Azincourt in 1415. The Vikings also failed to conquer England entirely (Wessex remained free, a few short raids apart) although England was briefly part of the Danish Empire from 1016-1042. Since Scotland was also partly ruled by Danes for much of the previous two hundred years, not a great example from your point of view.
Plus of course the English conquered Scotland in 1745 and have ruled it ever since (or so we are told by the SNP). Actually a large part of the Hanoverian army were Lowland Scots, wise enough to know the Jacobites were a dead loss and the future was bright. The future was orange...
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http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastinate.html
It's a very interesting piece.
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/at-last-labour-has-a-leader-who-will-offer-genuine-opposition-a2957226.html
Oh ! that's not new , is it ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_in_the_Canadian_federal_election,_2015
He has something of a hysteric side to him. As I have said before he pays far too much respect to political opponents that in reality treat him as a useful idiot.
When Ed Miliband delivered his conference speech last year, he was castigated for failing to mention the deficit. It was a charge that McDonnell quickly insulated himself from. Labour, he vowed, would "tackle the deficit" through "aggressive" action to "force people like Starbucks, Vodafone, Amazon and Google and all the others to pay their fair share of taxes." But there was no explanation of how. Combined with the promise of "people's quantitative easing" in times of anaemic growth, the impression that Labour relies on a magic money tree risks only being reinforced.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2015/09/john-mcdonnells-speech-big-vision-short-detail
Obama is deporting Christians back to ISIS on a technicality.
Obama Throws Christian Refugees to Lions http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260266/obama-throws-christian-refugees-lions-raymond-ibrahim#.VglN-
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Worse, it took England 500 years to subjugate the Welsh and for most of that time their grip on the colony was pretty tenuous. Arguably did worse in Ireland but come on, we're talking about the Welsh.
I very much doubt that the world's greatest experts in string theory could come up with the number of universes he thinks he is livng in right now.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/9577876/Keith-Vaz-Secret-police-probe-into-Labour-MPs-500000.html
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/stephen-kinnock-i-d-cut-top-tax-rate-labour-can-t-have-sacred-cows-10413527.html
Some of the harshest words today were from Labour MPs.
Quite telling that he's lost them already, even if it is only the proverbial awkward squad.
VAZ has a huge majority...labour couldn't lose there.......
could they?
Despite the usual protestations, this Labour conference seems to be going quite well.
Much better than last year.
Romans Vikings and Normans did not in fact leave much of their DNA behind. Most of our English DNA is still Anglo Saxon. Even at its strongest though it is only 40% - the rest mostly dates from earlier. So really the Anglo Saxons were assimilated and the whole group became English.
Before that the very first settlers were from what is now Germany France and Belgium and mostly came via land bridge.
Those of Celtic ancestry in Scotland and Cornwall are more similar to the English than they are to other Celtic groups. There are a wide range of different Celtic groups.
The Anglo-Saxons weren't assimilated. They were the assimilators who assimilated the Celts they had conquered.
The mythology says from Egypt but that's a fairly typical "Lost Tribe of Israel" mythology amongst early Christian societies.
As I have pointed out the Scots came from Ireland, and in turn they came from... does it matter?
Meanwhile, 24 per cent of UKIP supporters claim that aliens have already contacted us but the government has covered it.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3248988/Do-believe-aliens-Poll-shows-Germans-strongest-supporters-UK-skeptical-right-wingers-think-governments-hiding-truth.html#ixzz3n3fgG4no
Quite telling that he's lost them already, even if it is only the proverbial awkward squad.
It would take Corbyn marrying off Seb to Liz Kendall to unite Labour - and even then they would end up cutting the baby in half.
I'm struggling to remember an occasion when the Scots conquered England. There was a spirited attempt in 1745 that ended at Derby, and a much less successful attempt in 1650 when a certain Oliver Cromwell stopped them. Were you referring to one of those, or is there another occasion I don't know about?
The Normans were not French, and it is worth pointing out that far from the French conquering England, England several times conquered France, notably after the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and Azincourt in 1415. The Vikings also failed to conquer England entirely (Wessex remained free, a few short raids apart) although England was briefly part of the Danish Empire from 1016-1042. Since Scotland was also partly ruled by Danes for much of the previous two hundred years, not a great example from your point of view.
http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2015-09-28/corbyn-bounce-or-blip/
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The only thing they agreed on all evening was that the England captain was absolutely insane not to at least try for that penalty.
"We might as well all go to the gas chambers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwNJepXB0Q
Polite question to you and Marquee Mark: What the hell are you talking about?
McTernan on Daily Politics was today conflating the communistic DUP with a block including Tories and UKIP so he could claim 51% voted for "right" parties.
Utterly comical.
One per cent of all modern Scottish men have Berber ancestry. DNA suggests that modern Scotland was subject to migrations from what is now Germany. The Scottish DNA seems surprisingly diverse. I read that David Lammy has some Orkney DNA in him.
My own mother's maiden name suggests an Irish link. None of this matters of course we are all one mixed up nation.
In fact, I would have said the best possible argument for not mentioning them in the same breath as the Conservatives, and one reason why Cameron seems far from anxious to embrace them, is the embarrassment they could cause the latter.
I have nothing but contempt for these men.
Masterful understatement.
Which is sort of my point. Claiming the DUP or UKIP are "right" because they are racist parties is misleading if their economics are of the left (which UKIP are moving towards and DUP have always been).
It was the DUPs left wing economics that was a strong contributor to them replacing the UUP as the main unionist bigots in Ulster.
As a double irony, the Tories aren't even on the right on social policies any more, their at best centrist if not all out traditional left.
With just 40% Anglo Saxon DNA that is not really them assimilating the Romano British in the sense of a mass invasion.
There is nothing uniform about the Celtic DNA, it seems that the changes in DNA betweem Cornwall Devon and Dorset closely follow the county borders
When queries were made as to how many “moderate” Syrian rebels were now in the field as a result of the new $500m US training programme, the general gulped, shifted uncomfortably in his seat, and devastatingly answered “four or five.”
That is the pathetic state of the White House’s strategy on Syria.
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The failour of the Obama middle east strategy writ large.