I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
These day for the cheapstakes out there atom is the way forward.
If the UK government reaches a deal with the EU, but parliament rejects the deal, then I think an election is quite possible. A 33% chance sounds too high, though.
Better off to bet on the midterms at the moment I think !
I'm betting on the Republicans winning Senate seats in N Dakota, Missouri and Nevada to offset my bet on a "no majority"under Betfair terms which wins if Democrats get 47-50 seats (I think). I've also laid Republicans in Arizona at 1.9 following you.
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
These day for the cheapstakes out there atom is the way forward.
yeah I like Atom - now ensconced in academia I get intellij free from jetbrain but most of my students use atom or vs code
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
These day for the cheapstakes out there atom is the way forward.
Eclipse is pretty good and very comprehensive and free.
Mr. Nabavi, if the acceptance or rejection of a deal is the purpose of a GE, why can't that be the purpose of a referendum?
Why is it possible to hold a campaign about the deal for a GE but not for a referendum, which would be more limited as it wouldn't have to consider the full scope of an election and could focus solely on the deal, which would (as we've agreed) be at the heart of a General Election anyway?
Because the word "Referendum" is like a red rag to a bull for the Brexiteer Ultras. The govt would be well advised to look up the old adage about tails and legs....
Yesterday sounded like an election budget. Somebody is taking one heck of a gamble with the country's finances in order to hold the Tory party together for six months.
So somebody has identified higher rate taxpayers as the critical swing voters?
John McDonnell seems to have done so.
I have a feeling that Labour's path to a majority might well be easier via seaside resorts and market towns in the south and south east than by trying to win back in Scotland. He may well know exactly what he is doing. His problem is the Brexit supporting working class voters in the Midlands and North. They are also pretty left wing and may not be keen on Corbyn and McDonnell moving to the centre.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
VI? PAH, Luxury! Doing an emergency code fix in ed is real programming.
Mr. Nabavi, if the acceptance or rejection of a deal is the purpose of a GE, why can't that be the purpose of a referendum?
Why is it possible to hold a campaign about the deal for a GE but not for a referendum, which would be more limited as it wouldn't have to consider the full scope of an election and could focus solely on the deal, which would (as we've agreed) be at the heart of a General Election anyway?
Because the word "Referendum" is like a red rag to a bull for the Brexiteer Ultras. The govt would be well advised to look up the old adage about tails and legs....
Yesterday sounded like an election budget. Somebody is taking one heck of a gamble with the country's finances in order to hold the Tory party together for six months.
So somebody has identified higher rate taxpayers as the critical swing voters?
John McDonnell seems to have done so.
I have a feeling that Labour's path to a majority might well be easier via seaside resorts and market towns in the south and south east than by trying to win back in Scotland. He may well know exactly what he is doing. His problem is the Brexit supporting working class voters in the Midlands and North. They are also pretty left wing and may not be keen on Corbyn and McDonnell moving to the centre.
I would agree with you, insofar as I see there being little chance of winning back Scotland.
I just can't see how they win the Southern market towns and the Northern marginals - some of which are very marginal. This was the strategy Theresa May followed and it turned out she offered something that didn't quite attract Northerners while firmly repelling Southerners.
I see what you are saying. Focus on the smaller percentage increase in white voters because the absolute numbers are bigger. Fair enough. I was concentrating on higher turnout of Hispanics as good news for O'Rourk for specific reasons. But there's another fallacy in assuming that people who haven't voted before but do so this time are the same as those that always vote. Whites are a more disparate group of voters than Hispanics and are more evenly balanced between Republicans and Democrats.
Overall I think this is probably good news for O'Rourke, but he does have significant ground to make up.
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
These day for the cheapstakes out there atom is the way forward.
Eclipse is pretty good and very comprehensive and free.
Cruz might be Hispanic himself but he's of Cuban descent. Most Hispanics in Mexico are either indigenous (were there when the Americans first started rocking up into the Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas) or hail from other parts of Mexico. Cuban-Americans tend to the GOP because communism. Non-Cuban Hispanics tend to the Dems.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
I see what you are saying. Focus on the smaller percentage increase in white voters because the absolute numbers are bigger. Fair enough. I was concentrating on higher turnout of Hispanics as good news for O'Rourk for specific reasons. But there's another fallacy in assuming that people who haven't voted before but do so this time are the same as those that always vote. Whites are a more disparate group of voters than Hispanics and are more evenly balanced between Republicans and Democrats.
Overall I think this is probably good news for O'Rourke, but he does have significant ground to make up.
The 508% increase under of voters under 30 vs 96% of voters over 65 also sounds good for O'Rourke. But I think this is pretty much all just tea-leaf reading
I see what you are saying. Focus on the smaller percentage increase in white voters because the absolute numbers are bigger. Fair enough. I was concentrating on higher turnout of Hispanics as good news for O'Rourk for specific reasons. But there's another fallacy in assuming that people who haven't voted before but do so this time are the same as those that always vote. Whites are a more disparate group of voters than Hispanics and are more evenly balanced between Republicans and Democrats.
Overall I think this is probably good news for O'Rourke, but he does have significant ground to make up.
The 508% increase under of voters under 30 vs 96% of voters over 65 also sounds good for O'Rourke. But I think this is pretty much all just tea-leaf reading
Whites could go either way. It could be base turning out to defend a close race. It could be anti-Trump anti-Cruz types seeing the prospect of an upset. The Texas characteristics are normally more turnout and an electorate that is more Republican than the Texas population at large, which might suggest more of the latter than the former. Hispanics are definitely good news for the Democrats. Against this, O'Rourke has 10 points out so to make up. It's a big ask.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Mr. Nabavi, if the acceptance or rejection of a deal is the purpose of a GE, why can't that be the purpose of a referendum?
Why is it possible to hold a campaign about the deal for a GE but not for a referendum, which would be more limited as it wouldn't have to consider the full scope of an election and could focus solely on the deal, which would (as we've agreed) be at the heart of a General Election anyway?
Because the word "Referendum" is like a red rag to a bull for the Brexiteer Ultras. The govt would be well advised to look up the old adage about tails and legs....
Yesterday sounded like an election budget. Somebody is taking one heck of a gamble with the country's finances in order to hold the Tory party together for six months.
So somebody has identified higher rate taxpayers as the critical swing voters?
John McDonnell seems to have done so.
In parts of London and the South, they may well be.
all those marginals in the home counties
Overall, 14% of taxpayers are subject to the 40% rate. There are probably constituencies where that proportion reaches 30%+.
I would have thought there were constituencies where more than half of households contained a higher rate taxpayer.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
AShly is saving something that would have gone bust and people try to diss him for it....Jeez
He doesn't sound like a very pleasant man or boss, but I'm hard pressed to be outraged at half the jobs being at risk when apparently all of them were going to be at risk, or not even at risk, just gone.
We do live in a strange political climate...spreadsheet Phil tried to increase tax on higher rate self employed last year, this year he is giving them a tax cut.
It's called learning from experience!
The thing is we aren’t really addressing the issues (and I say that as somebody who would have paid more last year but didn’t think it was unreasonable). it just highlights that tax system is a mess. Combining NI and IC would be a good start*.
* Yes I know oldies get hit, but can’t be beyond the wit of man to work out a solution to that.
The solution being to allowed the ancient wrinklies to take a hit for a change?
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
To be fair, a lot of people customise their VIM so much that they have pretty much all the features of an IDE.
Personally, I love Sublime Text - it's a perfect medium between VI/VIM and an IDE.
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
These day for the cheapstakes out there atom is the way forward.
Eclipse is pretty good and very comprehensive and free.
I can't afford a machine that will run Eclipse at a reasonable speed, sadly.
The Tories won’t force an election whilst JC is leader imho. Perhaps the only glue that holds them together is a sense of trying to keep him out of No.10.
If Labour change their leader and they are slightly less loony than Uncle Jez, I think that glue might start to unstick a little, bit at that point it depends on how Labour are doing in the polls. Remember the biggest motivator for an MP is keeping their job.
I enjoyed watching that Apple product launch more than Spreadsheet Phil at the same time yesterday. Pretty sure Tim Cook's announcements will improve my life more than Phil's, too.
What new Apple product/function/feature?
Both the Mac mini and the MacBook Air are spot on for what I need. I'm currently working with a couple of old Mac minis but they're starting to show their age.
Francis - well, depends what you want to do with it; I do a reasonably unique combination of *nix-based programming, graphic design, and Xcode, and the Mac is the only platform that offers two of those (no Adobe Illustrator on Linux, no *nix on Windows - the Ubuntu-lite doesn't really hack it for the stuff I need to do) let alone the third.
Software tools...what are they...I saw some videos of legendary hacker and brains behind a competitor to Tesla’s “self-driving “ car George hotz....he uses VIM for everything....no VS, xCode, JetBrains for him! He has literally coded a load of deep learning AI that is basically as good as Tesla in a crap text editor
The man is more bonkers than his hero Elon musk after an evening with joe rogan.
VIM is a great text editor. I miss it now. Way fancier than vi.
we coded most of Barclay’s Capital’s trading interfaces in vi - no VIM bollocks, proper vi. As far as I know my code is still processing millions of pounds of trading in various exotic instruments - I wish we’d had IntelliJ! We did it in vi because our boss was a cheapskate not because it was hardcore
These day for the cheapstakes out there atom is the way forward.
Eclipse is pretty good and very comprehensive and free.
I can't afford a machine that will run Eclipse at a reasonable speed, sadly.
As most will know, I’m a ‘low-tax leftie’ - the higher rate was never meant to capture teachers and planners and the like. High time it was adjusted. This is a modest change.
The Tories won’t force an election whilst JC is leader imho. Perhaps the only glue that holds them together is a sense of trying to keep him out of No.10.
If Labour change their leader and they are slightly less loony than Uncle Jez, I think that glue might start to unstick a little, bit at that point it depends on how Labour are doing in the polls. Remember the biggest motivator for an MP is keeping their job.
You're kidding.
If JC goes and someone less bonkers takes over they run the real risk of losing hitherto Cons voters who dislike the direction of their now ERG-infested party and might easily lend their vote to Labour.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
AShly is saving something that would have gone bust and people try to diss him for it....Jeez
I am not dissing him, though no fan of his businesses. There is plenty of scope in downmarket retail, it seems to be middle market where the stress is. Just pointing out that if businesses are going but now, then even more will after Christmas.
Quite glad we had Vichai rather than him as owner of the footy though! .
The Tories won’t force an election whilst JC is leader imho. Perhaps the only glue that holds them together is a sense of trying to keep him out of No.10.
If Labour change their leader and they are slightly less loony than Uncle Jez, I think that glue might start to unstick a little, bit at that point it depends on how Labour are doing in the polls. Remember the biggest motivator for an MP is keeping their job.
You're kidding.
If JC goes and someone less bonkers takes over they run the real risk of losing hitherto Cons voters who dislike the direction of their now ERG-infested party and might easily lend their vote to Labour.
Me for instance.
Or me. By far the Tories' best chance of a majority is if they are up against the Jezaster.
Whether that's in their interests, or the country's interests, is a different matter. I would say not. I think the Tories are ready for five years in opposition. But there's little danger of them going there unless somebody sane and competent is leading Labour.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
The Tories won’t force an election whilst JC is leader imho. Perhaps the only glue that holds them together is a sense of trying to keep him out of No.10.
If Labour change their leader and they are slightly less loony than Uncle Jez, I think that glue might start to unstick a little, bit at that point it depends on how Labour are doing in the polls. Remember the biggest motivator for an MP is keeping their job.
You're kidding.
If JC goes and someone less bonkers takes over they run the real risk of losing hitherto Cons voters who dislike the direction of their now ERG-infested party and might easily lend their vote to Labour.
Me for instance.
There are two things that the Tory MPs have to deliver - Brexit (in some manner), and not Corbyn.
Brexit, just because of conservatism with a small c. (Self-respect) 'Not Corbyn' because he's an idiot.
I think that there's a good chance that #1 will pan out. I don't think there's any chance at all though that the woeful thinking that can empower Corbyn will demise when he does. Do we really have to go through the charade of a Corbyn government just to establish once again how bankrupt of practicality the left are?
The Tories won’t force an election whilst JC is leader imho. Perhaps the only glue that holds them together is a sense of trying to keep him out of No.10.
If Labour change their leader and they are slightly less loony than Uncle Jez, I think that glue might start to unstick a little, bit at that point it depends on how Labour are doing in the polls. Remember the biggest motivator for an MP is keeping their job.
Nope. The Jezzmeister is the gift that keeps on giving for May. Thornberry or a similarly sane and vaguely appealing leader would walk into Number 10 on the back of nice, moderate Tories lending them their vote.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Although I was at Brent Cross shopping centre at the weekend and it was heaving
Yes, I think that we are headed to a future of a combination of destination shopping (High Cross in Leicester is busy, even Debenhams, as it is the best shopping in the East Midlands) and internet shopping. Primark, T K Max and Sports direct are busy, so there is scope at the bottom end even with very poor customer service. It is the middlemarket that will suffer, particularly outside the affluent SE.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Although I was at Brent Cross shopping centre at the weekend and it was heaving
Yes, I think that we are headed to a future of a combination of destination shopping (High Cross in Leicester is busy, even Debenhams, as it is the best shopping in the East Midlands) and internet shopping. Primark, T K Max and Sports direct are busy, so there is scope at the bottom end even with very poor customer service. It is the middlemarket that will suffer, particularly outside the affluent SE.
Nottingham is by far the best retail location in the region, as you would expect from the regional capital. Places like Leicester are decent but a fair way behind.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Although I was at Brent Cross shopping centre at the weekend and it was heaving
Yes, I think that we are headed to a future of a combination of destination shopping (High Cross in Leicester is busy, even Debenhams, as it is the best shopping in the East Midlands) and internet shopping. Primark, T K Max and Sports direct are busy, so there is scope at the bottom end even with very poor customer service. It is the middlemarket that will suffer, particularly outside the affluent SE.
Nottingham is by far the best retail location in the region, as you would expect from the regional capital. Places like Leicester are decent but a fair way behind.
Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct has bought Evans Cycles out of administration but has warned it may have to close half the specialist retailer’s 62 stores putting hundreds of jobs at risk.
Mike Ashley is good at that.
What would you have him do? Let it go bust and let them all lose their jobs?
It is going to be a grim winter for retail, unless the High st has a corker of a Chritmas and it is hard to see that:
Although I was at Brent Cross shopping centre at the weekend and it was heaving
Yes, I think that we are headed to a future of a combination of destination shopping (High Cross in Leicester is busy, even Debenhams, as it is the best shopping in the East Midlands) and internet shopping. Primark, T K Max and Sports direct are busy, so there is scope at the bottom end even with very poor customer service. It is the middlemarket that will suffer, particularly outside the affluent SE.
Nottingham is by far the best retail location in the region, as you would expect from the regional capital. Places like Leicester are decent but a fair way behind.
The Tories won’t force an election whilst JC is leader imho. Perhaps the only glue that holds them together is a sense of trying to keep him out of No.10.
If Labour change their leader and they are slightly less loony than Uncle Jez, I think that glue might start to unstick a little, bit at that point it depends on how Labour are doing in the polls. Remember the biggest motivator for an MP is keeping their job.
Nope. The Jezzmeister is the gift that keeps on giving for May. Thornberry or a similarly sane and vaguely appealing leader would walk into Number 10 on the back of nice, moderate Tories lending them their vote.
Only if the internal situation in the LP changed somewhat and that was apparent to the electorate. There are a number of potential leaders who could do well but I don't think Thornberry is one of them. She exudes a certain arrogance by overdoing the insouciant dismissal of opposing arguments, a sort of parody of a superior intellectual.
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You wonder if he's fully thought through the implications of saying that.
http://www.pewhispanic.org/2018/10/25/hispanic-voters-and-the-2018-midterm-elections/
It also might have been done with a view to softening the blow of future interest rate rises.
https://theconversation.com/paradoxes-of-probability-and-other-statistical-strangeness-74440
I just can't see how they win the Southern market towns and the Northern marginals - some of which are very marginal. This was the strategy Theresa May followed and it turned out she offered something that didn't quite attract Northerners while firmly repelling Southerners.
Overall I think this is probably good news for O'Rourke, but he does have significant ground to make up.
https://www.nhsemployers.org/your-workforce/pay-and-reward/agenda-for-change/pay-scales/annual
Mrs Foxy has 25 years experience and paid as senior band 5, so about £26k WTE, though she works 60% WTE.
A Junior doctor starts on 26k, and to reach £60k would have to be just short of Consultant and paid considerable additional duty payments.
https://www.hospitaldr.co.uk/blogs/guidance/hospital-doctor-pay-scales-for-2016-2017-nhs-consultant
https://twitter.com/MattWhittakerRF/status/1057228809139838976?s=19
it....Jeez
(TextMate all the way for me, though.)
Personally, I love Sublime Text - it's a perfect medium between VI/VIM and an IDE.
Though I admit to being on the vi side of that war.
If Labour change their leader and they are slightly less loony than Uncle Jez, I think that glue might start to unstick a little, bit at that point it depends on how Labour are doing in the polls. Remember the biggest motivator for an MP is keeping their job.
As most will know, I’m a ‘low-tax leftie’ - the higher rate was never meant to capture teachers and planners and the like. High time it was adjusted. This is a modest change.
If JC goes and someone less bonkers takes over they run the real risk of losing hitherto Cons voters who dislike the direction of their now ERG-infested party and might easily lend their vote to Labour.
Me for instance.
Quite glad we had Vichai rather than him as owner of the footy though! .
Whether that's in their interests, or the country's interests, is a different matter. I would say not. I think the Tories are ready for five years in opposition. But there's little danger of them going there unless somebody sane and competent is leading Labour.
Brexit, just because of conservatism with a small c. (Self-respect)
'Not Corbyn' because he's an idiot.
I think that there's a good chance that #1 will pan out. I don't think there's any chance at all though that the woeful thinking that can empower Corbyn will demise when he does. Do we really have to go through the charade of a Corbyn government just to establish once again how bankrupt of practicality the left are?
Concentration in shopping centres
Grief being caused by high rents and rates and online competition
So fine for retail but grim for the High Street
Basically the precise opposite of what Foxy said
How’s that, smart arse?
http://hdh.co.uk/uploads/2017/06/HDH-Vitality-Index-June-2017.pdf
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