Many of you, like me, belonged to The Election Game run by Paul Maggs. It had been running successfully for many years and then a few months ago just stopped, with only a note on the website saying that due to work commitments, some forthcoming elections would not be included. Since then - nothing. Perhaps this issue has been discussed previously but I can't find anything on here or on the web generally, so say what happened. It was a great game for those of us interested in political outcomes and with it's league tables, added a competitive edge to our forecasts. If people are still interested in continuing this game, I would be happy to help run it. Has anyone else considered that and how could we arrange to take on the existing site and technical stuff as there is currently no reply to the holder of all that information?
Tory chairman Lord Feldman today faced new pressure to resign over bullying allegations after a poll showed three times more people think he should quit than remain in the post.
A survey for the Standard by BMG Research also exposed a huge lack of trust in the inquiry set up to get to the bottom of the “Tatler Tory” scandal.
Almost half the 1,500 people surveyed said they would not trust the investigation’s findings. Around the same amount said former minister Grant Shapps was right to resign over the affair, in which Tory activist Elliott Johnson, 21, committed suicide after complaining about bullying.
Dr Michael Turner, director of BMG Research, said: “These results paint a fairly bleak picture for the party ahead of the campaigning season for elections around the country in 2016. The poll shows large numbers from all sides calling for heads to roll. Even among those who voted Conservative in May.”
This does not bode well for Lord Feldman. Apparently a number of witnesses are refusing to give evidence as Clifford Chance are unable to protect their identities. The Johnson family are not taking part either.
Anyone investigating a whistleblowing will know that this is the case in most whistleblowing investigations. You try where you can to protect a person's anonymity but it may not be possible e.g. if a court or other authority requires you to provide the name or because it can be guessed from the context or because it is obvious or because, in order to investigate, you need to put the allegations made to the interviewee. That is why any good whistleblowing policy has a no-retaliation provision. And why any such policy will say that it will try and preserve anonymity but will not guarantee it.
Of course some people will whistleblow without ever revealing their names but this does make it harder, sometimes and depending on the allegations, to investigate the matter properly.
Thank you for explaining. It is a shame the letter does not seem to make any mention of a no-retaliation policy.
SNP extends lead over Lab to 37% on constituency & 34% on regional vote in TNS poll
Get over yerself Malc. Scotland is indeed now the National Socialist Scottish Workers' Party utopian paradise you always dreamed of - err, apart from the small matter of actual independence of course.
Patrick, both Blue and Red Tories are now dead ducks, Lib Dems don't even count as ducks so all is very well with me Patrick. Whilst having crap in Westminster is bad, the fact we have a real Scottish Government in Holyrood at least provides some damage limitation.
PS have the real Scottish Tories in charge., not the pretendy sockpuppet version.
This campaign against Lord Feldman is getting ridiculous. If there are substantial allegations against him or anyone else, people should make them to Clifford Chance, or to the Coroner, or to the police, depending on what exactly is being alleged. If there aren't, they should shut up and stop flinging mud around. There is no excuse for refusing to cooperate whilst continuing to make dark accusations.
Tory chairman Lord Feldman today faced new pressure to resign over bullying allegations after a poll showed three times more people think he should quit than remain in the post.
A survey for the Standard by BMG Research also exposed a huge lack of trust in the inquiry set up to get to the bottom of the “Tatler Tory” scandal.
Almost half the 1,500 people surveyed said they would not trust the investigation’s findings. Around the same amount said former minister Grant Shapps was right to resign over the affair, in which Tory activist Elliott Johnson, 21, committed suicide after complaining about bullying.
Dr Michael Turner, director of BMG Research, said: “These results paint a fairly bleak picture for the party ahead of the campaigning season for elections around the country in 2016. The poll shows large numbers from all sides calling for heads to roll. Even among those who voted Conservative in May.”
Donald Trump is overwhelmingly disliked by the British public, an exclusive poll reveals today.
The outspoken US presidential candidate has managed to unite a huge majority of people against him, including Tories and Labour voters and people in every UK region, according to research by Ipsos MORI for the Evening Standard.
Nearly three-quarters of the public — 74 per cent — have an unfavourable opinion of the Republican frontrunner, and just 12 per cent are favourable.
By contrast, his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton is liked by a clear majority of Britons. Some 56 per cent feel favourably about her, and 15 per cent unfavourably.
What’s the point of asking Brits who they prefer, when only the American public get to vote?
If you were a savvy Republican candidate or the Dems, you could say 'Donald Trump is so terrible, our strongest ally is appalled by the prospect of him becoming President'
''By contrast, his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton is liked by a clear majority of Britons. Some 56 per cent feel favourably about her, and 15 per cent unfavourably.''
To paraphrase that poll
''would you like a free opportunity to virtue signal with zero comeback and no need to commit to a political opinion?''
''By contrast, his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton is liked by a clear majority of Britons. Some 56 per cent feel favourably about her, and 15 per cent unfavourably.''
To paraphrase that poll
''would you like a free opportunity to virtue signal with zero comeback and no need to commit to a political opinion?''
75% agreed!
It made me chuckle this morning when Adrian "Golly" Chiles suggested that somebody outside of the world of football, somebody with real integrity, should take over the running of FIFA, somebody like Bill Clinton.
What’s the point of asking Brits who they prefer, when only the American public get to vote?
If you were a savvy Republican candidate or the Dems, you could say 'Donald Trump is so terrible, our strongest ally is appalled by the prospect of him becoming President'
Hmm. - 78.2% Of Brits have never heard of Donald Trump and 87.4 of Americans don’t know who their strongest ally is – Apart from that I’m sure it’s terribly useful….
''Mr. Taffys, if 75% of Frenchmen want us to stay in the EU, that could be used by both the In and the Out campaigns.''
Indeed Mr Morris. The three feet thick ignorance of people on this side of the pond who talk about Trump amazes me.
Yes he may be a populist and a bully. So what. America is a democracy. Anything he does will be constrained by congress, an independent judiciary, a constitution, a free press, opinion polls, guaranteed free speech and follow up elections.
The now common notion that he's as big a danger to the world as ISIS is the most absurd nonsense.
Mr. Urquhart, one does not watch the One Show. My only knowledge of it is Matt Baker[sp] once asking Cameron how he slept at night [probably more easily than a man whose responsibilities include sitting on a sofa and reading an autocue].
Mr. Taffys, there's a fair few clowns about when it comes to ISIS. Unfortunately, several of them are at the top of the Labour Party.
This campaign against Lord Feldman is getting ridiculous. If there are substantial allegations against him or anyone else, people should make them to Clifford Chance, or to the Coroner, or to the police, depending on what exactly is being alleged. If there aren't, they should shut up and stop flinging mud around. There is no excuse for refusing to cooperate whilst continuing to make dark accusations.
Does that apply to the poor family of Elliot Johnson? They have discussed the possibility of launching a civil lawsuit. I doubt they would do that without good reason...
Mr. Urquhart, one does not watch the One Show. My only knowledge of it is Matt Baker[sp] once asking Cameron how he slept at night [probably more easily than a man whose responsibilities include sitting on a sofa and reading an autocue].
Mr. Taffys, there's a fair few clowns about when it comes to ISIS. Unfortunately, several of them are at the top of the Labour Party.
I don't watch the One Show either, but it was rather a large story. A number of years ago, while watching the tennis in the Green Room, Carol Thatcher allegedly said that a player looked a little bit like one of those golliwog dolls. Not only did Adrian take her to task on how racist that was, he also went and reported her to BBC authorities, who ultimately sacked her.
Adrian is rather shall we say inconsistent though in terms of offense and racism. Last year, a Jewish man filmed his experience of walking through various areas of Paris and suffered some terrible abuse. Naturally you would think that Adrian, as a right on liberal BBC type, would equally be offended by this, except he spent 30 mins basically telling his guy well what did you expect, it wasn't that bad and I get abuse when I walk around Salford.
Yes he may be a populist and a bully. So what. America is a democracy. Anything he does will be constrained by congress, an independent judiciary, a constitution, a free press, opinion polls, guaranteed free speech and follow up elections.
The now common notion that he's as big a danger to the world as ISIS is the most absurd nonsense.
It's not completely absurd, because the one power the US president does have is to use military force.
Does that apply to the poor family of Elliot Johnson? They have discussed the possibility of launching a civil lawsuit. I doubt they would do that without good reason...
In the first instance, any information they have, or anyone else has, in respect of the tragic death of Elliot Johnson should be given to the Coroner, or to the police if there could be any criminal aspect to it. If they want also contribute to the Conservative Party's enquiry, they should do so. If they don't, that's up to them. What is not up to them is to dictate in advance that Lord Feldman should resign.
So Mr Grant, whatever attracted you to taking a leading role in a campaign group who want to severely restrict press freedoms and their ability to report stories about individuals in the public eye....
''It's not completely absurd, because the one power the US president does have is to use military force. ''
Do you mean war?
Re-reading my American constitution, I find that war powers are separated between the President and Congress.
For example the granting of money to prosecute wars is exclusively congressional.
Sure, but the President can order invasions, fire off bombers or missiles or drones, or make military threats, without getting Congress to approve first.
Yes he may be a populist and a bully. So what. America is a democracy. Anything he does will be constrained by congress, an independent judiciary, a constitution, a free press, opinion polls, guaranteed free speech and follow up elections.
The now common notion that he's as big a danger to the world as ISIS is the most absurd nonsense.
It's not completely absurd, because the one power the US president does have is to use military force.
And who then will pay for said military? Congress needs to approve wartime expenditure, the POTUS may be commander in chief but unless Trump can pull $200bn to wage war in the Middle East out of his arse then I wouldn't worry about him going mad.
And who then will pay for said military? Congress needs to approve wartime expenditure, the POTUS may be commander in chief but unless Trump can pull $200bn to wage war in the Middle East out of his arse then I wouldn't worry about him going mad.
At the end of an era The First thing to go Are the heads of our leaders Kicked down in the road...
On the day of reckoning When we've struck & won Watch close as their heroes Go crashing down on the pavement...
The workers in Poland rose & in Hungary too
Somoza & Jose fell ... Azania coming soon!
Kick over the statues And the tyrants die Wave bye bye with a hammer To their heroes
The first act of freedom All over the world Is to topple the statues Kick the bosses over
And FPT, no, you were not the only P\ber to go to a Redskins gig. I was very wide-ranging in my gig-going in the 80's. Used to go to a raft of very right-on stuff. I probably wen to more Billy Bragg benefit gigs than anyone here. And used to see the Au Pairs on a regular basis too....
There weren't many (any??) overtly right-wing bands in the 80's, so you just had to park your politics (and a donation to the Labour Party) at the door and have a good night out....
As an economist said the other day in one of the papers, the problem if we have another recession is that there has never been a serious downturn when interest rates are already pretty much as low as they can go. What does the central bank do?
A test case for Nick Palmer's theory of winnowing the GOP field = bad news for Trump. Senator Lindsey Graham has dropped out of the race, this leaves just 13 candidates, he last polled 0 in Iowa, 0 in N.H, 1 in S.Carolina (his home state) and 0 nationally. So now his crucial endorsement which will sway all 10 of his supporters is now up for grabs.
Also a poll which highlights the danger to Ted Cruz of Super Tuesday(March 1st), a poll of his home state of Texas that votes on Super Tuesday has him losing to Trump:
Trump 31 Cruz 27 Rubio 10 Carson 6 Bush 6 Paul 5 Fiorina 3 Kasich 1 Christie 1
As an economist said the other day in one of the papers, the problem if we have another recession is that there has never been a serious downturn when interest rates are already pretty much as low as they can go. What does the central bank do?
Force people to spend.. Afetr all, the major companies have $ trillions in cash. Apples alone have over $200billion..
A test case for Nick Palmer's theory of winnowing the GOP field = bad news for Trump. Senator Lindsey Graham has dropped out of the race, this leaves just 13 candidates, he last polled 0 in Iowa, 0 in N.H, 1 in S.Carolina (his home state) and 0 nationally. So now his crucial endorsement which will sway all 10 of his supporters is now up for grabs.
Also a poll which highlights the danger to Ted Cruz of Super Tuesday(March 1st), a poll of his home state of Texas that votes on Super Tuesday has him losing to Trump:
Trump 31 Cruz 27 Rubio 10 Carson 6 Bush 6 Paul 5 Fiorina 3 Kasich 1 Christie 1
As an economist said the other day in one of the papers, the problem if we have another recession is that there has never been a serious downturn when interest rates are already pretty much as low as they can go. What does the central bank do?
Force people to spend.. Afetr all, the major companies have $ trillions in cash. Apples alone have over $200billion..
Well they have tons of cash overseas in order to try to avoid paying taxes domestically on that cash pile. Apple has tried to circumvent that by issuing bonds to fund itself, with the cash pile that it can't touch for tax reasons as guarantee to investors.
As an economist said the other day in one of the papers, the problem if we have another recession is that there has never been a serious downturn when interest rates are already pretty much as low as they can go. What does the central bank do?
Possibly, if not probably, the best thing a central bank can do is the face of an ordinary recession is nothing. As any gardener will tell you to get the best and most productive growth it is necessary to prune the plants and clear away dead wood; a recession is just the economic cycle's version of having a good prune. All that a central bank needs to do is hold its nerve and make soothing noises, HMG likewise.
Filming on the next Star Wars movie - Episode VIII - will start within weeks in London. Rian Johnson, known for time-travel film Looper, has been confirmed as the writer and director.
A test case for Nick Palmer's theory of winnowing the GOP field = bad news for Trump. Senator Lindsey Graham has dropped out of the race, this leaves just 13 candidates, he last polled 0 in Iowa, 0 in N.H, 1 in S.Carolina (his home state) and 0 nationally. So now his crucial endorsement which will sway all 10 of his supporters is now up for grabs.
Also a poll which highlights the danger to Ted Cruz of Super Tuesday(March 1st), a poll of his home state of Texas that votes on Super Tuesday has him losing to Trump:
Trump 31 Cruz 27 Rubio 10 Carson 6 Bush 6 Paul 5 Fiorina 3 Kasich 1 Christie 1
Now if Cruz loses his own home state of Texas to Trump, he will be embarrassed and there will be pressure for him to drop out.
Generally Kasich's numbers look poor. I seem to recall him being touted on PB as one to watch.
Not by me, I have an excellent record of predictions on that race, I always said that he was a paper tiger.
Kasich is a bad campaigner, he constantly talks only about Ohio and nothing else, and everytime he's on TV he does those karate chops, not to mention his policies especially on gay marriage that make him unacceptable to republicans, he's so far to the left that he's running for the nomination of the wrong party (like Jim Webb ran for the democrats as a right winger).
Even his TV ads are useless because he wants to bring Trump down by using Trump's popular speeches and policies in his attack ads, those result in free publicity for Trump without doing any harm to him, the opposite in fact. It just shows how out of touch he is with his own party base.
In essence, he's just another paper tiger (like Bush, Rubio, Christie, Fiorina), just because he's governor of Ohio doesn't mean he's good at it, and the result shows.
Generally Kasich's numbers look poor. I seem to recall him being touted on PB as one to watch.
I like Kasich but I suspect he's too European a candidate for the GOP race - he'd seemingly be quite at home as a Christian Democrat in Germany. I think a lot of us on this side of the pond have trouble projecting ourselves accurately into the minds of GOP voters.
At this point it seems to me to be coming down to Trump, Cruz or maybe Rubio - all the others don't have the momentum and it is probably too late to get it.
A test case for Nick Palmer's theory of winnowing the GOP field = bad news for Trump. Senator Lindsey Graham has dropped out of the race, this leaves just 13 candidates, he last polled 0 in Iowa, 0 in N.H, 1 in S.Carolina (his home state) and 0 nationally. So now his crucial endorsement which will sway all 10 of his supporters is now up for grabs.
Also a poll which highlights the danger to Ted Cruz of Super Tuesday(March 1st), a poll of his home state of Texas that votes on Super Tuesday has him losing to Trump:
Trump 31 Cruz 27 Rubio 10 Carson 6 Bush 6 Paul 5 Fiorina 3 Kasich 1 Christie 1
Filming on the next Star Wars movie - Episode VIII - will start within weeks in London. Rian Johnson, known for time-travel film Looper, has been confirmed as the writer and director.
The Telegraph has had a stiff fine for emailing readers to warn them that Ed seemed rather left-wing. Interesting legal decision, hinging on privacy law rather than electoral law:
Filming on the next Star Wars movie - Episode VIII - will start within weeks in London. Rian Johnson, known for time-travel film Looper, has been confirmed as the writer and director.
Looper is an excelllent sci-fi film, for anyone who hasn't seen it. It has a truly memorable opening......
Interesting they have gone for this guy who has done Looper...and.....and......couple of episodes of Breaking Bad to write and direct 8 and 9. I am sure they list of people willing to do it would be huge, so to go for somebody with such a limited body of work is interesting. Disney keeping the costs down ;-) Bit like picking an unknown for the lead, I read she only got £300k for her appearance.
As an economist said the other day in one of the papers, the problem if we have another recession is that there has never been a serious downturn when interest rates are already pretty much as low as they can go. What does the central bank do?
Force people to spend.. Afetr all, the major companies have $ trillions in cash. Apples alone have over $200billion..
Well they have tons of cash overseas in order to try to avoid paying taxes domestically on that cash pile. Apple has tried to circumvent that by issuing bonds to fund itself, with the cash pile that it can't touch for tax reasons as guarantee to investors.
If I was US taxpayer I would be jolly miffed at Apple and want something done about such blatant shenanigans. If all that cash is appearing in their books as profits then it should be taxed. If it is not appearing as profits then perhaps the legal authorities need to get involved to find out where all the money has come from.
I do think it really is time that companies and corporations were again taxed as though they were individuals, at least in the UK - other countries I don't care about. If a company is doing business in the UK then it is making use of infrastructure, both physical and cultural (e.g. law), that has to be paid for. Companies such as Starbucks, Amazon and hundreds more should not be allowed to use clever accounting tricks to evade payment.
The Telegraph has had a stiff fine for emailing readers to warn them that Ed seemed rather left-wing. Interesting legal decision, hinging on privacy law rather than electoral law:
This campaign against Lord Feldman is getting ridiculous. If there are substantial allegations against him or anyone else, people should make them to Clifford Chance, or to the Coroner, or to the police, depending on what exactly is being alleged. If there aren't, they should shut up and stop flinging mud around. There is no excuse for refusing to cooperate whilst continuing to make dark accusations.
Does that apply to the poor family of Elliot Johnson? They have discussed the possibility of launching a civil lawsuit. I doubt they would do that without good reason...
People talking about going to law happens frequently. The follow through numbers are substantially less. Id be interested to hear what their cause of action will be.
The Telegraph has had a stiff fine for emailing readers to warn them that Ed seemed rather left-wing. Interesting legal decision, hinging on privacy law rather than electoral law:
£30k isn't exactly stiff, especially when £500k was the maximum fine possible. Still, wrong of them to send unsolicited mail in that way.
To get the full 500k fine you would have to deliberately leak sensitive medical details to the press for money, relating to thousands of people, I would think.
Filming on the next Star Wars movie - Episode VIII - will start within weeks in London. Rian Johnson, known for time-travel film Looper, has been confirmed as the writer and director.
Looper is an excelllent sci-fi film, for anyone who hasn't seen it. It has a truly memorable opening......
Interesting they have gone for this guy who has done Looper...and.....and......couple of episodes of Breaking Bad to write and direct 8 and 9. I am sure they list of people willing to do it would be huge, so to go for somebody with such a limited body of work is interesting. Disney keeping the costs down ;-) Bit like picking an unknown for the lead, I read she only got £300k for her appearance.
I suspect she might be able to get a bit more for the next one, though
Filming on the next Star Wars movie - Episode VIII - will start within weeks in London. Rian Johnson, known for time-travel film Looper, has been confirmed as the writer and director.
Looper is an excelllent sci-fi film, for anyone who hasn't seen it. It has a truly memorable opening......
Interesting they have gone for this guy who has done Looper...and.....and......couple of episodes of Breaking Bad to write and direct 8 and 9. I am sure they list of people willing to do it would be huge, so to go for somebody with such a limited body of work is interesting. Disney keeping the costs down ;-) Bit like picking an unknown for the lead, I read she only got £300k for her appearance.
I suspect she might be able to get a bit more for the next one, though
I would think so yes...At least £350k, now there is some more room in the budget ;-)
Pep Guardiola has already chosen his next club after telling Bayern Munich of his decision to leave at their Christmas party, according to chief executive Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Former Milan, Chelsea and Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, 56, has signed a three-year deal to replace Guardiola at Bayern.
Inside Out - quite brilliant. A work of genius by Pixar.
Steve Jobs - some superb dialogue, but structural issues (following the launch of each new project was very restricting. It felt and looked like a piece of filmed theatre.) Fassbender is good in the leading role - but not awards good.
The Revenant - a story of trappers in the snowy wastes of north America in the early 1800's, apparently based on a true story. It is beautifully filmed (worth the extreme measures they went to on location) - and the director (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who last did Birdman) stands a real shot at the Directors awards. But at two and a half hours, it is just way too long. di Caprio will no doubt get an Oscar nomination. He'll deserve it - it was clealy a gruelling film to make. It is hard watching in places - and not one for horse lovers! That said, there is one utterly astonishing moment that literally took my breath away.
The Hateful Eight - a Tarantino movie is always something to look forward to. One with eight bounty hunters trapped in a snowbound store, with a prisoner who has a ten thousand bucks bounty on her head - that was always promising. And I adored Django Unchained. Sadly, this movie is no Django. Another long movie, at close on two and a half hours, it feels like a much earlier work. The tone is uneven - a gross-out Stand By Me/Witches of Eastwick barforama for example seemed straight out of a student movie. Unusually, Samuel L. Jackson gives a not great performance. Maybe you will enjoy it more if you go into it without high expectations.
Another evening of movie watching to come - will let you know what I thought....
Filming on the next Star Wars movie - Episode VIII - will start within weeks in London. Rian Johnson, known for time-travel film Looper, has been confirmed as the writer and director.
Generally Kasich's numbers look poor. I seem to recall him being touted on PB as one to watch.
I like Kasich but I suspect he's too European a candidate for the GOP race - he'd seemingly be quite at home as a Christian Democrat in Germany. I think a lot of us on this side of the pond have trouble projecting ourselves accurately into the minds of GOP voters.
At this point it seems to me to be coming down to Trump, Cruz or maybe Rubio - all the others don't have the momentum and it is probably too late to get it.
Agreed. It's almost axiomatic that any candidate that would be viable in a European election has no chance.
I guess the one thing that may shift momentum now is a surprise result in Iowa or NH (obvious, I know). If Rubio wins neither, as current polling strongly suggests, I think he would fade. But these early primaries do spring surprises.
As an economist said the other day in one of the papers, the problem if we have another recession is that there has never been a serious downturn when interest rates are already pretty much as low as they can go. What does the central bank do?
for 70ish years the USSR demonstrated to the world that when you fix prises centrally, you end up with shortages of some things and surpluses of others, crating waste, corruption, and sub optimal allocation of resources. More recently the Venezuelan government, (and the last Argentinean government) have showed us that you can impose a fixed exchange rate all you like, but you will also get a real 'black market' rate and the more different they get, the more shortages, waste, corruption, and unemployment you get.
One day people will accept that interest rates are a price just like any other (but much more impotent) and should be set by the same forces of supply and demand that set all other prices, when this happens and interest rates change naturally but slowly over the business cycles, 'recessions' may not be totally eliminated, but they will be short, miled, and some times may not happed at all.
Privatise the Bank of England Now!!!
for more info please googol Austrian business cycle theory
A test case for Nick Palmer's theory of winnowing the GOP field = bad news for Trump. Senator Lindsey Graham has dropped out of the race, this leaves just 13 candidates, he last polled 0 in Iowa, 0 in N.H, 1 in S.Carolina (his home state) and 0 nationally. So now his crucial endorsement which will sway all 10 of his supporters is now up for grabs.
Also a poll which highlights the danger to Ted Cruz of Super Tuesday(March 1st), a poll of his home state of Texas that votes on Super Tuesday has him losing to Trump:
Trump 31 Cruz 27 Rubio 10 Carson 6 Bush 6 Paul 5 Fiorina 3 Kasich 1 Christie 1
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http://www.channel5.com/shows/meet-the-psychopaths/episodes/episode-2-828
PS have the real Scottish Tories in charge., not the pretendy sockpuppet version.
Donald Trump is overwhelmingly disliked by the British public, an exclusive poll reveals today.
The outspoken US presidential candidate has managed to unite a huge majority of people against him, including Tories and Labour voters and people in every UK region, according to research by Ipsos MORI for the Evening Standard.
Nearly three-quarters of the public — 74 per cent — have an unfavourable opinion of the Republican frontrunner, and just 12 per cent are favourable.
By contrast, his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton is liked by a clear majority of Britons. Some 56 per cent feel favourably about her, and 15 per cent unfavourably.
http://bit.ly/1QF54pG
If he was sacked at the moment the NYSE bell range, surely "Bell Ends Van Gaal and Mourinho Begins" is the headline of choice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/35151905
Little odd to think it's only a few years ago that two teams were bickering over which one was really Lotus, and now there is no Lotus on the grid.
To paraphrase that poll
''would you like a free opportunity to virtue signal with zero comeback and no need to commit to a political opinion?''
75% agreed!
Remember when the Guardian tried to get to the good people of Ohio?
Hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Ur5E61sKY
Indeed Mr Morris. The three feet thick ignorance of people on this side of the pond who talk about Trump amazes me.
Yes he may be a populist and a bully. So what. America is a democracy. Anything he does will be constrained by congress, an independent judiciary, a constitution, a free press, opinion polls, guaranteed free speech and follow up elections.
The now common notion that he's as big a danger to the world as ISIS is the most absurd nonsense.
Mr. Taffys, there's a fair few clowns about when it comes to ISIS. Unfortunately, several of them are at the top of the Labour Party.
Adrian is rather shall we say inconsistent though in terms of offense and racism. Last year, a Jewish man filmed his experience of walking through various areas of Paris and suffered some terrible abuse. Naturally you would think that Adrian, as a right on liberal BBC type, would equally be offended by this, except he spent 30 mins basically telling his guy well what did you expect, it wasn't that bad and I get abuse when I walk around Salford.
Do you mean war?
Re-reading my American constitution, I find that war powers are separated between the President and Congress.
For example the granting of money to prosecute wars is exclusively congressional.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3368853/I-grandchild-wonderful-Hugh-Grant-father-fourth-time-Swedish-television-producer-lover-Anna-Eberstein-gives-birth-baby.html
I would have no problem with a public hanging for all of these disgusting rapists. Do it in the centre of Bradistan.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/21/camden-town-brewery-sold-inbev-worlds-biggest-drinks-company
For some people, a democracy ceases to be a democracy when people inside it start to entertain ideas with which they violently disagree.
There weren't many (any??) overtly right-wing bands in the 80's, so you just had to park your politics (and a donation to the Labour Party) at the door and have a good night out....
Senator Lindsey Graham has dropped out of the race, this leaves just 13 candidates, he last polled 0 in Iowa, 0 in N.H, 1 in S.Carolina (his home state) and 0 nationally.
So now his crucial endorsement which will sway all 10 of his supporters is now up for grabs.
Also a poll which highlights the danger to Ted Cruz of Super Tuesday(March 1st), a poll of his home state of Texas that votes on Super Tuesday has him losing to Trump:
Trump 31
Cruz 27
Rubio 10
Carson 6
Bush 6
Paul 5
Fiorina 3
Kasich 1
Christie 1
http://overtimepolitics.com/pollingdata/OvertimePolitics.comDec14-19RepublicanPrimaryPoll-Texas.pdf
Now if Cruz loses his own home state of Texas to Trump, he will be embarrassed and there will be pressure for him to drop out.
Apple has tried to circumvent that by issuing bonds to fund itself, with the cash pile that it can't touch for tax reasons as guarantee to investors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35155164/star-wars-viii-to-start-filming-in-weeks-says-john-boyega-at-london-cinema
Why no JJ Abrams?
Abrams has a lot on his plate so it may simply be because of that.
Kasich is a bad campaigner, he constantly talks only about Ohio and nothing else, and everytime he's on TV he does those karate chops, not to mention his policies especially on gay marriage that make him unacceptable to republicans, he's so far to the left that he's running for the nomination of the wrong party (like Jim Webb ran for the democrats as a right winger).
Even his TV ads are useless because he wants to bring Trump down by using Trump's popular speeches and policies in his attack ads, those result in free publicity for Trump without doing any harm to him, the opposite in fact. It just shows how out of touch he is with his own party base.
In essence, he's just another paper tiger (like Bush, Rubio, Christie, Fiorina), just because he's governor of Ohio doesn't mean he's good at it, and the result shows.
At this point it seems to me to be coming down to Trump, Cruz or maybe Rubio - all the others don't have the momentum and it is probably too late to get it.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/21/telegraph-fined-email-conservatives
I do think it really is time that companies and corporations were again taxed as though they were individuals, at least in the UK - other countries I don't care about. If a company is doing business in the UK then it is making use of infrastructure, both physical and cultural (e.g. law), that has to be paid for. Companies such as Starbucks, Amazon and hundreds more should not be allowed to use clever accounting tricks to evade payment.
ICM - Conservative lead of 5 - CON (39%) LAB (34%) LD (7%) UKIP (10%)
Majority for anti-Blukip supporters
Former Milan, Chelsea and Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti, 56, has signed a three-year deal to replace Guardiola at Bayern.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/35153324
Inside Out - quite brilliant. A work of genius by Pixar.
Steve Jobs - some superb dialogue, but structural issues (following the launch of each new project was very restricting. It felt and looked like a piece of filmed theatre.) Fassbender is good in the leading role - but not awards good.
The Revenant - a story of trappers in the snowy wastes of north America in the early 1800's, apparently based on a true story. It is beautifully filmed (worth the extreme measures they went to on location) - and the director (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who last did Birdman) stands a real shot at the Directors awards. But at two and a half hours, it is just way too long. di Caprio will no doubt get an Oscar nomination. He'll deserve it - it was clealy a gruelling film to make. It is hard watching in places - and not one for horse lovers! That said, there is one utterly astonishing moment that literally took my breath away.
The Hateful Eight - a Tarantino movie is always something to look forward to. One with eight bounty hunters trapped in a snowbound store, with a prisoner who has a ten thousand bucks bounty on her head - that was always promising. And I adored Django Unchained. Sadly, this movie is no Django. Another long movie, at close on two and a half hours, it feels like a much earlier work. The tone is uneven - a gross-out Stand By Me/Witches of Eastwick barforama for example seemed straight out of a student movie. Unusually, Samuel L. Jackson gives a not great performance. Maybe you will enjoy it more if you go into it without high expectations.
Another evening of movie watching to come - will let you know what I thought....
Majority for anti-Coalition supporters
I guess the one thing that may shift momentum now is a surprise result in Iowa or NH (obvious, I know). If Rubio wins neither, as current polling strongly suggests, I think he would fade. But these early primaries do spring surprises.
One day people will accept that interest rates are a price just like any other (but much more impotent) and should be set by the same forces of supply and demand that set all other prices, when this happens and interest rates change naturally but slowly over the business cycles, 'recessions' may not be totally eliminated, but they will be short, miled, and some times may not happed at all.
Privatise the Bank of England Now!!!
for more info please googol Austrian business cycle theory