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Justine Greening into 12/1 second favourite to win the 2020 London Mayoral election.Sadiq Khan still hot favourite to be re-elected. pic.twitter.com/L79o9zTsZI
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I have backed Shaun Bailey at fancy prices but I doubt he will make it.
I cannot see how the Tories can reverse their decline in London in the next two years and the voting system favours Khan as he will pick up most of the second preferences from Greens and Lib Dems.
The Tory candidate next time will likely be up against the triple whammy of Heathrow policy, Brexit policy and austerity policy, all with the national party firmly at odds with the mood of significant sections of the London electorate. It will take either an 'unlikely Tory' figure or someone willing to condemn the national party repeatedly and make life even more awkward for Theresa and co, to break through. Not hard to see why major players would decide to sit this one out.
That Charles Windsor chap always seems to have something to say about planning, so perhaps he might stand. Not sure he's too familiar with buses, trains and tubes, however.
And the Labour leadership will be celebrating Russia Day.
What are his odds now?
Boris and to a slightly lesser degree Ken were larger than life mega-characters, but then so are all politicos compared to that pair.
Actually I think Khan arrived at the right time – after 16 years of rampantly egotistical mayors it's nice to have someone a bit more normal.
Disney needs to calm down. Relax a bit, and take some time. People won't forget what Star Wars is if they don't release a film every six months.
And they should make a Grand Admiral Thrawn trilogy. They won't. But they should.
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a baker in Colorado who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The Colorado state court had found that baker Jack Phillips' decision to turn away David Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012 was unlawful discrimination.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44361162
Judgement reserved in 'gay cake' Supreme Court case
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-43976101
Will be interesting to see the US Supreme Court's reasoning - but I'm suspicious of any ruling that allows 'beliefs' to trump 'law'.
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1003646213005115392
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_general_election,_2018
It's a gruelling battle running for Mayor and you need to be committed.
The letter seems to imply that Labour have refused to honour the pairing system for this vote – is that your reading of it?
https://www.ft.com/content/aac0112e-790c-11e7-a3e8-60495fe6ca71
All's fair in love & war!
My only criticism is that Alden Ehrenrich is absolutely nothing like - in looks, mannerisms, accent or intonation - Harrison Ford.
QED
That doesn't give an answer to the question but it does rule out that way of answering it.
https://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2018/06/iman-atta-the-call-for-an-inquiry-into-tory-anti-muslim-prejudice-isnt-new-we-made-it-two-years-ago-it-still-stands.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-tory-islamophobia-inquiry-conservative-peer-lord-mohamed-sheikh-a8380341.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/islamophobia-inquiry-mosques-urge-conservative-party-theresa-may-a8381551.html
https://www.channel4.com/news/baroness-warsi-the-party-needs-to-get-out-of-denial-mode
In the end it's up to the US Supreme Court to adjudicate as the final arbiter over civil rights and the constitution - not the Colorado civil rights commission. The fact that two of the supposedly liberal judges sided with the majority suggests it was pretty clear cut.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-111_j4el.pdf
Discriminating against people because of their religion is wrong. Critiquing or taking the piss of a religion is entirely acceptable and the right to do so must be defended. That's why Islamophobia is such a stupid term: it deliberately conflates the two.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-44157988/upcoming-star-wars-movie-was-part-filmed-in-hampshire
https://express.co.uk/news/uk/969127/brexit-news-northern-ireland-border-hard-border-latest
by that definition a Christian (with a capital C) bakery could never deny any message request on a cake that directly contradicted their beliefs and teachings, provided the request came from someone whose demographics were intrinsically linked to said message.
In short, people would be compelled to always ignore their own beliefs and forced by law to give preference to others who believe differently. That seems profoundly unfair when it comes to freedom of religion.
[Been thinking about this sort of thing a bit recently. I wouldn't want the homophobic parts of holy books to be removed, or a compulsion on the religious to recant or promise to never publicly utter said passages, but I'd equally defend the right of homosexuals (or, indeed, plain old atheists) to say they believed religions were utter nonsense].
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/border-gardaí-seek-automatic-weapons-amid-hard-brexit-fears-1.3514157
Gardaí stationed near the Border are seeking the return of machine guns to individual stations ahead of a possible hard Brexit.
They are also asking the Minister for Justice and Garda management for more Armed Support Units (ASUs) to help police the estimated 208 crossings along the 500km Border.
Gardaí along the Border say criminals and subversives see the force as weak and ill-equipped and they are correct, according to Garda Brendan O’Connor who represents Donegal-based members for the Garda Representative Association (GRA).
“Our members feel that criminals and the cross-Border drug dealers and people of a political persuasion, they don’t take us seriously. They don’t see us as having the capabilities to take them on. They see us as weak. They see us as we see ourselves – untrained, ill-equipped and not enough numbers.”
... it's the 12th, not the 14th.
A slightly odd target for the machine gunners ?
If claims of anti-Muslim bigotry are proven, measures must be taken if systems are flawed, and if individuals are at fault they should be held accountable.
It remains a matter of record that certain segments of British society are over-sensitive to anything even remotely critical or satirical of Islam. Just look at Newsnight. When Jesus and Mo was in the news almost the entire segment the programme ran sided with religious censorship of satire rather than free speech for an atheist.
I was a little confused how old the guy was meant to be. The actor is only 28 but to me he looked 35, and by the logic of the story I think he was meant to be around 20.
Gorsuch is a longwinded numpty.
We're in Chester on a short break, and I have just completed my 1,000th walk logged for my website!
Woohoo!
It's quite an emotional moment. One thousand days of walking, over 17,500 miles in rain, shine, wind and snow, over nearly twenty years. Much of mainland Britain 'covered', although there are still lots of places I still need to visit.
We know how laws against Papists were turned upon the honestest men. We may all, in after ages, be called Quakers. It is a word nobody understands. ..we all know how the edge of former laws against Papists has been turned upon the best Protestants, the truest professors of religion, the honest Puritan, as they called him, a good profession, but hard to be understood, as this word Quaker will be in after ages
My understanding is that Justice Roberts prefers to find narrow grounds on which to rule, so as to avoid decisions being split along political lines, where possible.
Apparently the ruling doesn’t allow for discrimination, but is about specifics related to this case. Also thanks to Carlotta for providing a link to Ginsburg’s dissent, I’ll read that in a moment.
"School bans boys from wearing shorts, telling them to wear skirts instead
It is understood to be part of a gender-neutral uniform policy at Chiltern Edge School"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/chiltern-edge-school-uniform-policy-trousers-skirts-shorts-ban-a8382336.html