The most brilliant meow, saucers of double cream for Douglas Murray
"For although one does not want to rub salt into wounds, if you have the appearance of Penfold, the condescension of a cat and the physique of a care bear, even being a Chairman of the Home Affairs select committee won’t help you get much in the way of gay totty."
" But the point I would like to make is that other than getting rent boys it is hard to imagine many other routes to happiness for Vaz in the whole gay area."
"For this, Sinn Féin’s vice president Mary Lou McDonald, Dave Anderson — the shadow Northern Ireland secretary — and Simon Dubbins are expected to discuss how the failure to reunify Ireland contributed to Brexit."
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
" Islanders would be better off being treated in Portsmouth or Southampton"
Wouldn't that depend on what they were ill with and if a nasty how long it would take to evacuate them to the mainland? Air ambulance, probably OK. By road from Ventnor to the ferry, then across, and the by road to the Hospital (where ambulances maybe queued), is probably worse than taking your chances in St Mary's.
That said I have had some experience of St. Mary's. Only in the area of blood testing and I found them more technologically advanced, more efficient and more friendly than either the RSCH or the Princess Royal.
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
The reason I'm so forgiving of Russia is simply due to their enormous sacrifice in WW2. I can't find that figure to hand in my sources, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Very poor US ISM figures, it definitely feels like the US economy is slowing down. Probably good news for Trump given that Hillary is the continuity candidate. Sterling up to almost $1.34 on the news as well.
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Very poor US ISM figures, it definitely feels like the US economy is slowing down. Probably good news for Trump given that Hillary is the continuity candidate. Sterling up to almost $1.34 on the news as well.
EZ growth figures were nothing to write home about either. Plod, plod, plod: the western economies.
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
" Islanders would be better off being treated in Portsmouth or Southampton"
Wouldn't that depend on what they were ill with and if a nasty how long it would take to evacuate them to the mainland? Air ambulance, probably OK. By road from Ventnor to the ferry, then across, and the by road to the Hospital (where ambulances maybe queued), is probably worse than taking your chances in St Mary's.
That said I have had some experience of St. Mary's. Only in the area of blood testing and I found them more technologically advanced, more efficient and more friendly than either the RSCH or the Princess Royal.
St Mary's is no place to be seriously ill.
It scores well on some other aspects of care, like the convenience aspects. For 80% of ill patients the results are as good as the mainland.
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Some of the figures for people killed in Eastern Europe almost defy belief. Unfortunately, they are correct.
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
Very poor US ISM figures, it definitely feels like the US economy is slowing down. Probably good news for Trump given that Hillary is the continuity candidate. Sterling up to almost $1.34 on the news as well.
EZ growth figures were nothing to write home about either. Plod, plod, plod: the western economies.
Indeed. One of the reasons people like Trump or Le Pen even get a look in is because the west is stuck in a rut of low and uneven growth. The poor are more likely to feel spending cuts and the least likely to feel the benefits of economic growth. Whether the government is Obama, Hollande, Cameron or others, there isn't an answer to this question that people are willing to accept or believe is true.
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
The reason I'm so forgiving of Russia is simply due to their enormous sacrifice in WW2. I can't find that figure to hand in my sources, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
'Russia' and its forebears has been invaded so many times in the past that there is an instinctual defensive national psyche. Something that Putin plays on time and time again, especially when the polls show that he is in trouble.
This showed in the Cold War: leaving aside the nukes, many of their weapons system were short-range and defensive in nature, especially when compared to the US's equivalents. (*)
The US, in contrast, was about projecting power. Hence the Russians never built any 'real' carriers and the US has a policy of ten supercarriers, along with their associated fleets.
If it was not for the poisonous ideology of Communism and the evils it perpetrated, I would have probably had more sympathy with Russia during the Cold War than the US.
(*) Though arguing against that point: the US military had to have large air- and sea-lift capabilities to get to anywhere they were likely to need to fight. Not so the Russians.
David Paxton UK 6/9/16: White, middle class yurt-erectors raid City airport because fumes are racist. Livingstone mentions Hitler Corbyn grills UB40.
The thing is, Haavara was actually a thing. If Livingstone did call H a Zionist on the strength of it, that is appalling but you can see what he meant.
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Some of the figures for people killed in Eastern Europe almost defy belief. Unfortunately, they are correct.
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
The most brilliant meow, saucers of double cream for Douglas Murray
"For although one does not want to rub salt into wounds, if you have the appearance of Penfold, the condescension of a cat and the physique of a care bear, even being a Chairman of the Home Affairs select committee won’t help you get much in the way of gay totty."
" But the point I would like to make is that other than getting rent boys it is hard to imagine many other routes to happiness for Vaz in the whole gay area."
What happens when the the Acute care is not a quick solution?
I don't think of trauma centres as centres of excellence, but more as a replacement for the DGH. They certainly shouldn't be "few and far between". As you said elsewhere, timely response is critical in so many acute situations. Where I think of centres of excellence, I am think of cardiac surgery, oncology, opthalmology, etc, where a high level of expertise (especially where you get to surgery) is helpful.
I am sorry to hear about your brother. The issue I'm trying to address with the DGH is to get the patients who need rest and recovery more than access to high skilled physicians into a more local ("cottage hospital") model.
That takes me onto where are these convalescence/specialist hospitals going to be? ... The DGH has one great advantage ... they are going to be reasonably close ... to where the patient lives.
They are inconvenient because they are designed around being multi-functional rather than accessible and useful for the patient and carer. Patients - and relatives - would get better service from smaller units with more of an emphasis on nursing care than on being part of a massive complex single organisation. Could be located where DGHs are - I like the idea of co-location with old age homes so that you can share some of the nursing care functions
Patients prefer Home Care to Hospital Care. Well in my experience that is true as hospital care in the NHS once you are out of the acute phase actually means neglect. However, if you are going to have home care then it needs to be home care not some health visitor who doesn't actually speak English popping in for ten minutes before dashing off to his/her next appointment. For a lot of patients, especially the elderly living on their own, home care means loneliness, neglect and fear.
Yes. Admittedly I'm dealing in fantasy rather than the world of the politically possible. The NHS is too big, too complex and tries to do too many things. I'd rather see separate organisations handling the different parts of the country's health needs.
As to the supplier's interest, you surely don't think that such a radical change in the NHS as you are proposing would be calmly accepted by the people who are currently working in the Service.
Agreed. I think of the staff as "producers" and "suppliers" as third party organisations who service the needs of the NHS, hence the confusion.
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Some of the figures for people killed in Eastern Europe almost defy belief. Unfortunately, they are correct.
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
Interesting article, Mr. D., thank you for bringing it to my attention. Only 68%, is still fairly dreadful and the margin of error seems to be quite high. Do you know if the authors of that paper did any cross checking with Sov birthrates in 46/47/48? That might provide them with if not proof then at least serious corroboration.
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Some of the figures for people killed in Eastern Europe almost defy belief. Unfortunately, they are correct.
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
Why several generations?
Because the Paraguayans lost 300,000 people.
According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000 of which only 28,000 were men.[8]
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
Classic Pix Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
I think it is, Miss P. The figures have been around for years and I have never seen them refuted. Furthermore there is secondary evidence (e.g. birthrates) which would provide supporting evidence.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Some of the figures for people killed in Eastern Europe almost defy belief. Unfortunately, they are correct.
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
Why several generations?
Because the Paraguayans lost 300,000 people.
According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000 of which only 28,000 were men.[8]
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Some of the figures for people killed in Eastern Europe almost defy belief. Unfortunately, they are correct.
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
Why several generations?
Because the Paraguayans lost 300,000 people.
According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000 of which only 28,000 were men.[8]
Miss Plato, I remember reading a WWII book which had a proportion of people from various countries who died. Russia was the highest (I think it was something like 1:22, but can't be certain).
Prewar Poland lost more than a quarter of its population in the war, including 3 million Jewish Poles.
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
Staggering stat, 17% or 6 million in total. For context, the UK only lost 400,000, or 0.9%.
Some of the figures for people killed in Eastern Europe almost defy belief. Unfortunately, they are correct.
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
Why several generations?
Because the Paraguayans lost 300,000 people.
According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000 of which only 28,000 were men.[8]
Mr. D, of course you did. I am Morris Dancer, King of Masterful References.
By sheer chance, I wrote a short story about the law and an illegal cock the other day. Once the small errors are ironed out I'll shove it up on the old website.
Changes in Clinton and Trump's prices at Betfair over the past six months have shown some clear macrostructure:
The market also seems to think Clinton is far more likely than Trump to drop out before election day, to judge by how Bernie Sanders is doing against Mike Pence and other possible Republican replacements for Trump. (Joe Biden's high price may be due to some punters' misunderstanding of the terms of the betting.)
Julian Assange has declared that the Wikileaks intention is to knock Clinton out of the race prior to the first TV debate on 26 September. He has also justified focusing on damaging Clinton with reference to the idea that nobody could do a better job at damaging Trump than Trump is doing himself in the speeches he makes. That strikes me as an utterly two-faced explanation. Nobody can find anything on a billionaire casino owner who got his first break into construction and landlording in Manhattan thanks to lawyer Roy Cohn, other than what he himself is saying during his campaign. Really? I tell you something: I wouldn't employ Assange as an investigative journalist.
It's another shitty Clickograph headline that belies the actual story. I read Hansard after his Q&A yesterday and I thought he did a decent job. It's faint praise, but he's the best of the cabinet Brexiteers.
It's another shitty Clickograph headline that belies the actual story. I read Hansard after his Q&A yesterday and I thought he did a decent job. It's faint praise, but he's the best of the cabinet Brexiteers.
Telegraph is utterly woeful these days. I can only hope and pray that the print edition isn't as crap.
" Islanders would be better off being treated in Portsmouth or Southampton"
Wouldn't that depend on what they were ill with and if a nasty how long it would take to evacuate them to the mainland? Air ambulance, probably OK. By road from Ventnor to the ferry, then across, and the by road to the Hospital (where ambulances maybe queued), is probably worse than taking your chances in St Mary's.
That said I have had some experience of St. Mary's. Only in the area of blood testing and I found them more technologically advanced, more efficient and more friendly than either the RSCH or the Princess Royal.
St Mary's is no place to be seriously ill.
It scores well on some other aspects of care, like the convenience aspects. For 80% of ill patients the results are as good as the mainland.
So what is that causes that 20% difference? Is it lack of kit? Is it crap staff? Shortage of experts? Unwillingness to refer patients to the mainland experts? Shortage of money?
There has to be a reason why a modern hospital is performing so badly. Someone somewhere must be asking why?
It's another shitty Clickograph headline that belies the actual story. I read Hansard after his Q&A yesterday and I thought he did a decent job. It's faint praise, but he's the best of the cabinet Brexiteers.
Very poor US ISM figures, it definitely feels like the US economy is slowing down. Probably good news for Trump given that Hillary is the continuity candidate. Sterling up to almost $1.34 on the news as well.
EZ growth figures were nothing to write home about either. Plod, plod, plod: the western economies.
Indeed. One of the reasons people like Trump or Le Pen even get a look in is because the west is stuck in a rut of low and uneven growth. The poor are more likely to feel spending cuts and the least likely to feel the benefits of economic growth. Whether the government is Obama, Hollande, Cameron or others, there isn't an answer to this question that people are willing to accept or believe is true.
The establishment everywhere exudes self satisfaction and complacence. But it is the politics of failure - and that increasingly doesn't win votes. People everywhere are sick to death of their politicians not delivering for them and are starting to get comfortable not voting for the same old same old. Most western countries need a popular reset. We got a sort of one with Brexit. The US might be about to get one. More will follow.
In Australian elections the candidates order is randomised in order to deal with the "Donkey Vote" effect that can be worth upto 2% of the vote. Especially there with compulsory voting.
CNN/ORC national poll, fieldwork 1-4 September, shows Trump in the lead by 1%. Trump's implied probability at Betfair looks set to surge past its previous peaks of around 30% (price 3.3).
Changes in Clinton and Trump's prices at Betfair over the past six months have shown some clear macrostructure:
The market also seems to think Clinton is far more likely than Trump to drop out before election day, to judge by how Bernie Sanders is doing against Mike Pence and other possible Republican replacements for Trump. (Joe Biden's high price may be due to some punters' misunderstanding of the terms of the betting.)
Julian Assange has declared that the Wikileaks intention is to knock Clinton out of the race prior to the first TV debate on 26 September. He has also justified focusing on damaging Clinton with reference to the idea that nobody could do a better job at damaging Trump than Trump is doing himself in the speeches he makes. That strikes me as an utterly two-faced explanation. Nobody can find anything on a billionaire casino owner who got his first break into construction and landlording in Manhattan thanks to lawyer Roy Cohn, other than what he himself is saying during his campaign. Really? I tell you something: I wouldn't employ Assange as an investigative journalist.
Assange is sympathetic to Putin, wikileaks is a barely disguised front for Russian interests at times.
Changes in Clinton and Trump's prices at Betfair over the past six months have shown some clear macrostructure:
The market also seems to think Clinton is far more likely than Trump to drop out before election day, to judge by how Bernie Sanders is doing against Mike Pence and other possible Republican replacements for Trump. (Joe Biden's high price may be due to some punters' misunderstanding of the terms of the betting.)
Julian Assange has declared that the Wikileaks intention is to knock Clinton out of the race prior to the first TV debate on 26 September. He has also justified focusing on damaging Clinton with reference to the idea that nobody could do a better job at damaging Trump than Trump is doing himself in the speeches he makes. That strikes me as an utterly two-faced explanation. Nobody can find anything on a billionaire casino owner who got his first break into construction and landlording in Manhattan thanks to lawyer Roy Cohn, other than what he himself is saying during his campaign. Really? I tell you something: I wouldn't employ Assange as an investigative journalist.
The thing is, texts and emails are such a smoking gun. Whatever Trump has done, provided he did it outside electronic media he is safe as houses. As they say, pix or it didn't happen.
I cannot believe the numptihood of people who don't realise this. I thought that clown Huhne was going to get off the speeding points thing, but he scuppered himself in text conversations with his son.
CNN/ORC national poll, fieldwork 1-4 September, shows Trump in the lead by 1%. Trump's implied probability at Betfair looks set to surge past its previous peaks of around 30% (price 3.3).
Do people read? I pointed out the other three polls released showing Clinton ahead by 3, 4 & 6% ahead barely a page ago.
If people only follow RCP they get a very incomplete picture.
US President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had earlier called him a "son of a whore". [...] In the past, President Duterte has called Pope Francis the "son of a whore", US Secretary of State John Kerry "crazy" and recently referred to the US ambassador to the Philippines a "gay son of a whore".
Changes in Clinton and Trump's prices at Betfair over the past six months have shown some clear macrostructure:
The market also seems to think Clinton is far more likely than Trump to drop out before election day, to judge by how Bernie Sanders is doing against Mike Pence and other possible Republican replacements for Trump. (Joe Biden's high price may be due to some punters' misunderstanding of the terms of the betting.)
Julian Assange has declared that the Wikileaks intention is to knock Clinton out of the race prior to the first TV debate on 26 September. He has also justified focusing on damaging Clinton with reference to the idea that nobody could do a better job at damaging Trump than Trump is doing himself in the speeches he makes. That strikes me as an utterly two-faced explanation. Nobody can find anything on a billionaire casino owner who got his first break into construction and landlording in Manhattan thanks to lawyer Roy Cohn, other than what he himself is saying during his campaign. Really? I tell you something: I wouldn't employ Assange as an investigative journalist.
Assange is sympathetic to Putin, wikileaks is a barely disguised front for Russian interests at times.
''Zhukov referred to El Alamein as a 'minor skirmish'! Dude. ''
Raw manpower has historically been a weakness for Britain. We've always had to husband troop resources. Maybe that's why the Somme is so deep in the pysche.
US President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had earlier called him a "son of a whore". [...] In the past, President Duterte has called Pope Francis the "son of a whore", US Secretary of State John Kerry "crazy" and recently referred to the US ambassador to the Philippines a "gay son of a whore".
It's another shitty Clickograph headline that belies the actual story. I read Hansard after his Q&A yesterday and I thought he did a decent job. It's faint praise, but he's the best of the cabinet Brexiteers.
Very faint praise.
I think David Davis is serious unlike the other two. Every government has a middle to low ranking minister that gets sent out to defend flimsy policies while the rest take cover. I think Mr Davis is that minister for the May regime. He was in N Ireland a couple days ago insisting there will be no post-Brexit border between North and South. As if anyone is going to think, "If DD says it, it must be so!"
''Zhukov referred to El Alamein as a 'minor skirmish'! Dude. ''
Raw manpower has historically been a weakness for Britain. We've always had to husband troop resources. Maybe that's why the Somme is so deep in the pysche.
It's why richer but less populous countries should focus on firepower not boots.
''Zhukov referred to El Alamein as a 'minor skirmish'! Dude. ''
Raw manpower has historically been a weakness for Britain. We've always had to husband troop resources. Maybe that's why the Somme is so deep in the pysche.
Or it's guilt because of why the Somme happened.
(Look at the numbers of Ulster Volunteers before and after the first week. Lloyd George didn't like the UUP having a private army. So he got them killed).
''Zhukov referred to El Alamein as a 'minor skirmish'! Dude. ''
Raw manpower has historically been a weakness for Britain. We've always had to husband troop resources. Maybe that's why the Somme is so deep in the pysche.
Or it's guilt because of why the Somme happened.
(Look at the numbers of Ulster Volunteers before and after the first week. Lloyd George didn't like the UUP having a private army. So he got them killed).
Changes in Clinton and Trump's prices at Betfair over the past six months have shown some clear macrostructure:
The market also seems to think Clinton is far more likely than Trump to drop out before election day, to judge by how Bernie Sanders is doing against Mike Pence and other possible Republican replacements for Trump. (Joe Biden's high price may be due to some punters' misunderstanding of the terms of the betting.)
Julian Assange has declared that the Wikileaks intention is to knock Clinton out of the race prior to the first TV debate on 26 September. He has also justified focusing on damaging Clinton with reference to the idea that nobody could do a better job at damaging Trump than Trump is doing himself in the speeches he makes. That strikes me as an utterly two-faced explanation. Nobody can find anything on a billionaire casino owner who got his first break into construction and landlording in Manhattan thanks to lawyer Roy Cohn, other than what he himself is saying during his campaign. Really? I tell you something: I wouldn't employ Assange as an investigative journalist.
Assange is sympathetic to Putin, wikileaks is a barely disguised front for Russian interests at times.
Assange and Trump are just Putin's puppet's at the moment. He clearly is Pro-Putin at the moment.
I also think Assange is a blowhard and that there is no black swan or smoking gun.
''Zhukov referred to El Alamein as a 'minor skirmish'! Dude. ''
Raw manpower has historically been a weakness for Britain. We've always had to husband troop resources. Maybe that's why the Somme is so deep in the pysche.
Or it's guilt because of why the Somme happened.
(Look at the numbers of Ulster Volunteers before and after the first week. Lloyd George didn't like the UUP having a private army. So he got them killed).
He still lost 26 counties of Ireland in the end.
Partition was already a given (following the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914).
Very poor US ISM figures, it definitely feels like the US economy is slowing down. Probably good news for Trump given that Hillary is the continuity candidate. Sterling up to almost $1.34 on the news as well.
EZ growth figures were nothing to write home about either. Plod, plod, plod: the western economies.
Indeed. One of the reasons people like Trump or Le Pen even get a look in is because the west is stuck in a rut of low and uneven growth. The poor are more likely to feel spending cuts and the least likely to feel the benefits of economic growth. Whether the government is Obama, Hollande, Cameron or others, there isn't an answer to this question that people are willing to accept or believe is true.
The establishment everywhere exudes self satisfaction and complacence. But it is the politics of failure - and that increasingly doesn't win votes. People everywhere are sick to death of their politicians not delivering for them and are starting to get comfortable not voting for the same old same old. Most western countries need a popular reset. We got a sort of one with Brexit. The US might be about to get one. More will follow.
Think it's worth revisiting something I posted at the weekend. The UK economy has generally grown by about 25% per decade. In the ten years post-crash it's likely to come in at around half that - and it's the best performing of the big four European economies.
Combined with increased debt servicing costs and we're pretty much out of options. Assuming #Brexit punts the deficit reduction target to 2020-1, those costs will rise to ~4.5% of GDP.
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Just the lost kit costs are massive savings opportunities
HASC have nominated Tim Loughton to be acting chair. He says committee listened in sadness as to what #KeithVaz had to say to them
Classic Pix
Almost 80% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II https://t.co/Au05r4FvbQ
Godfrey Elfwick
Very proud to have written this official statement for #BlackLivesMatterUK https://t.co/7shXB1KF9A
Some of those Divisions had worse life expectancy than a kamikaze squadron
"For this, Sinn Féin’s vice president Mary Lou McDonald, Dave Anderson — the shadow Northern Ireland secretary — and Simon Dubbins are expected to discuss how the failure to reunify Ireland contributed to Brexit."
" Islanders would be better off being treated in Portsmouth or Southampton"
Wouldn't that depend on what they were ill with and if a nasty how long it would take to evacuate them to the mainland? Air ambulance, probably OK. By road from Ventnor to the ferry, then across, and the by road to the Hospital (where ambulances maybe queued), is probably worse than taking your chances in St Mary's.
That said I have had some experience of St. Mary's. Only in the area of blood testing and I found them more technologically advanced, more efficient and more friendly than either the RSCH or the Princess Royal.
@History_Pics @bendirs1 80% figure is overstated (was 68%) and majority died before war http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/markharrison/entry/was_the_soviet/ … Still a dreadful stat
I believe that Belarus and Ukraine possibly lost a higher proportion on current national boundaries.
UK 6/9/16:
White, middle class yurt-erectors raid City airport because fumes are racist.
Livingstone mentions Hitler
Corbyn grills UB40.
The brutality of the Sovs towards their own people is scarcely to believed in this day and age. If you want to get a flavour for it I would suggest Anthony Beevor's book "Berlin".
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/markharrison/entry/was_the_soviet/
It scores well on some other aspects of care, like the convenience aspects. For 80% of ill patients the results are as good as the mainland.
AP
PHOTOS: Eagle hunting, goat polo, and Steven Seagal - all scenes from the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan. https://t.co/Wd5yFLpjNH
But, none match Paraguay, in percentage terms. In the mid nineteenth century, about 70% of the Paraguayan adult male population was killed in a disastrous war. The country tacitly allowed polygamy for several generations afterwards, to restore the population.
For a (rather morbid) list of WW2 casualties.
Top 5:
17% for pre-war Poland
15% for the Pacific Island of Nauru
14% for Lithuania
13% Latvia
11% for East Timor (average 8 and 14 lowest/highest estimates)
Quite. But why. That's the question.
This showed in the Cold War: leaving aside the nukes, many of their weapons system were short-range and defensive in nature, especially when compared to the US's equivalents. (*)
The US, in contrast, was about projecting power. Hence the Russians never built any 'real' carriers and the US has a policy of ten supercarriers, along with their associated fleets.
If it was not for the poisonous ideology of Communism and the evils it perpetrated, I would have probably had more sympathy with Russia during the Cold War than the US.
(*) Though arguing against that point: the US military had to have large air- and sea-lift capabilities to get to anywhere they were likely to need to fight. Not so the Russians.
The thing is, Haavara was actually a thing. If Livingstone did call H a Zionist on the strength of it, that is appalling but you can see what he meant.
Another day, another top secret memo snapped in Downing St… Great work from @PoliticalPics https://t.co/3NKlnmtK14 https://t.co/gj1HkYtmlz
I am sorry to hear about your brother. The issue I'm trying to address with the DGH is to get the patients who need rest and recovery more than access to high skilled physicians into a more local ("cottage hospital") model. They are inconvenient because they are designed around being multi-functional rather than accessible and useful for the patient and carer. Patients - and relatives - would get better service from smaller units with more of an emphasis on nursing care than on being part of a massive complex single organisation. Could be located where DGHs are - I like the idea of co-location with old age homes so that you can share some of the nursing care functions Answered your earlier points before I got to here. But I see you are getting the idea
Genderqueer Muslim atheist. Born white in the #WrongSkin. Itinerant jongleur. Xir, Xirs Xirself. Filters life through the lens of minority issues.
'Nuff said.
It is a stunning video but confirms that WWII was fought on the eastern front with some small bits added on here and there.
According to some estimates, Paraguay's pre-war population of 525,000 was reduced to 221,000 of which only 28,000 were men.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguayan_War
Theresa May rebukes David Davis over warning that UK could leave the single market
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/06/theresa-may-rebukes-david-davis-over-warning-that-uk-could-leave/
By sheer chance, I wrote a short story about the law and an illegal cock the other day. Once the small errors are ironed out I'll shove it up on the old website.
The market also seems to think Clinton is far more likely than Trump to drop out before election day, to judge by how Bernie Sanders is doing against Mike Pence and other possible Republican replacements for Trump. (Joe Biden's high price may be due to some punters' misunderstanding of the terms of the betting.)
Julian Assange has declared that the Wikileaks intention is to knock Clinton out of the race prior to the first TV debate on 26 September. He has also justified focusing on damaging Clinton with reference to the idea that nobody could do a better job at damaging Trump than Trump is doing himself in the speeches he makes. That strikes me as an utterly two-faced explanation. Nobody can find anything on a billionaire casino owner who got his first break into construction and landlording in Manhattan thanks to lawyer Roy Cohn, other than what he himself is saying during his campaign. Really? I tell you something: I wouldn't employ Assange as an investigative journalist.
Got a bit carried away in Defence Committee today. Getting a little fed up with Gov't inaction on this. https://t.co/btihB2KnCD
There has to be a reason why a modern hospital is performing so badly. Someone somewhere must be asking why?
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/updates/
Boosted trump up a bit so must be on the round good for him.
Well, at least we have managed to shut Ken up
*Gulp*
Fuhrer, Ken mentioned us again against your express orders ...
I cannot believe the numptihood of people who don't realise this. I thought that clown Huhne was going to get off the speeding points thing, but he scuppered himself in text conversations with his son.
If people only follow RCP they get a very incomplete picture.
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In the past, President Duterte has called Pope Francis the "son of a whore", US Secretary of State John Kerry "crazy" and recently referred to the US ambassador to the Philippines a "gay son of a whore".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37281821
Raw manpower has historically been a weakness for Britain. We've always had to husband troop resources. Maybe that's why the Somme is so deep in the pysche.
Lets unskew those polls!
(Look at the numbers of Ulster Volunteers before and after the first week. Lloyd George didn't like the UUP having a private army. So he got them killed).
I also think Assange is a blowhard and that there is no black swan or smoking gun.
Combined with increased debt servicing costs and we're pretty much out of options. Assuming #Brexit punts the deficit reduction target to 2020-1, those costs will rise to ~4.5% of GDP.