There is some weapons grade nerd shit going down on PB today.
It's my general experience that people who have one very niche, nerdy interest, are highly likely to other very nerdy interests. But for once it's in a direction completely alien to me.
Are we talking about first class air travel or the best posh English sparkling wines again?
The first class air travel ‘debate’ is by some distance the most cringeworthy non-political discussion on here. A frequent, yet unwelcome, episode.
There is some weapons grade nerd shit going down on PB today.
It's my general experience that people who have one very niche, nerdy interest, are highly likely to other very nerdy interests. But for once it's in a direction completely alien to me.
There is some weapons grade nerd shit going down on PB today.
It's my general experience that people who have one very niche, nerdy interest, are highly likely to other very nerdy interests. But for once it's in a direction completely alien to me.
Are we talking about first class air travel or the best posh English sparkling wines again?
Well I can at least comprehend those even though I have never experienced them.
A Labour councillor who tried to smuggle drugs into a music festival has resigned as a councillor having already left his cabinet post.
Ishmael Osamor, 29, had pleaded guilty to having £2,500-worth of drugs, at last year's Bestival event in Dorset.
I'm still amazed the judge accepted that was all for his personal use and that of a couple of friends.
It is either bullshit story or he has an incredible drug problem and needs an immediate intervention.
Well it cannot be that bad a drug problem, since they didn't quit until after conviction, and was apparently acting as a Cabinet Member until recently too.
There is some weapons grade nerd shit going down on PB today.
It's my general experience that people who have one very niche, nerdy interest, are highly likely to other very nerdy interests. But for once it's in a direction completely alien to me.
Are we talking about first class air travel or the best posh English sparkling wines again?
The first class air travel ‘debate’ is by some distance the most cringeworthy non-political discussion on here. A frequent, yet unwelcome, episode.
Osborne also says the Tories did not win in 2017 by trying to 'outUKIP UKIP' and will not win in 2022 by trying to 'outCorbyn Corbyn' and needs to be fiscally conservative but socially progressive.
Though he says there is a problem of returns to capital being more than returns to income, solved by expanding home ownership and increasing pensions and the minimum wage
There is some weapons grade nerd shit going down on PB today.
It's my general experience that people who have one very niche, nerdy interest, are highly likely to other very nerdy interests. But for once it's in a direction completely alien to me.
Are we talking about first class air travel or the best posh English sparkling wines again?
The first class air travel ‘debate’ is by some distance the most cringeworthy non-political discussion on here. A frequent, yet unwelcome, episode.
Snob class air travel, surely.
I've never had the dubious honour of travelling in anything other than economy class.
I recently donated £100 to the Guardian, in part because of their ICM polls.
Grrr.
Was that for help with the "little extras"?
I was moved by a recent piece that said most of the good news is behind paywalls, and the people that can't afford good journalism end up with fake news.
The Guardian does some pretty good coverage, and are one of the few papers to hold up their hands and publish corrections and clarifications.
There’s a difference between can’t afford and won’t pay for. The latter is in the ascendancy, unfortunately. The Times has regular articles from younger journalists bemoaning their position without, seemingly, realising that their contemporaries believe in intellectual property theft as a way of life.
Polly Toynbee calls Osborne 'despicable' to his face for hitting the poor with benefit cuts after Evan Davis says he maybe closer to her than some Tory backbenchers
There is some weapons grade nerd shit going down on PB today.
It's my general experience that people who have one very niche, nerdy interest, are highly likely to other very nerdy interests. But for once it's in a direction completely alien to me.
Are we talking about first class air travel or the best posh English sparkling wines again?
The first class air travel ‘debate’ is by some distance the most cringeworthy non-political discussion on here. A frequent, yet unwelcome, episode.
Snob class air travel, surely.
I've never had the dubious honour of travelling in anything other than economy class.
I thought it was part of the selection criteria for being allowed to post on PB that one regularly travels business or first class and never ever ever uses peasant wagons to get around town.
There is some weapons grade nerd shit going down on PB today.
It's my general experience that people who have one very niche, nerdy interest, are highly likely to other very nerdy interests. But for once it's in a direction completely alien to me.
Are we talking about first class air travel or the best posh English sparkling wines again?
The first class air travel ‘debate’ is by some distance the most cringeworthy non-political discussion on here. A frequent, yet unwelcome, episode.
Snob class air travel, surely.
I've never had the dubious honour of travelling in anything other than economy class.
I have been bumped to Business or First Class on a number of occasions. It feels even better when you haven't paid for it. My favourite was UTA, now sadly gone but not forgotten.
English Sparkling Wine? waste of money when you can get a case of Thornbridge ale for the same money.
It has a reputation for being hideously slow and resource intensive. Which was what I was alluding to...
And what does it have a reputation for doing well?
Eclipse is OK. I used it for years with PDT plugins. For Java I used to use the Borland IDE and loved it
I recall Borland C.
Ok, so Eclipse is just an average sort of a thing?
I'm killing myself currently on a Python cross.
all these IDEs are good - Eclipse is lumbered with it’s Java heritage - unless you are developing some major enterprise code there really is no need to use anything so heavyweight and so chock full of configuration management issues - if you’re using Python just use Jupiter Notebools or PyCharm or something Pythony
As we are deploying nuclear weapon level nerdom....gitkraken is the best git client I have found.
Why use a client? Much better to just use the command line. git reset —hard is your friend
It really is a lovely product. One click operations, can graphically see branches / merges, state of of local and remote repos etc, built in integration for github, gitlab etc
O/T Interesting to see Mrs T posting 50% opinion poll ratings just before she introduced the poll tax to Scotland. How different things may have been had she not done so but carried on into the 90s.
Blame Oliver bloody Letwin and David "Two Brain - No Sense" Willets.
90% of voters supported the cash boost to the NHS, 86% thought it a good idea to increase the living wage and 84% agreed with the increase in the personal allowance to £12,500 next year. Freezing the duty on beer, cider and spirits was supported by 48% of those asked.
Asked who would make the better chancellor, 26 per cent said Mr Hammond, 10 per cent John McDonnell and 64 per cent did not know. Among Labour voters, 29 per cent said Mr McDonnell, 6 per cent said Mr Hammond but 65 per cent said they did not know.
Back in the days of floppy disks, I used to carry my own editor with me.
Wordstar
I still use joe with Wordstar bindings when editing config files from the command line
I used Joe and I could still remember the Wordstar key sequences. Scary stuff :O
These days I use Kate for its ability to edit across remote networks using "fish". Very handy and save you the bother of logging in (as long as you have Kwallet running)
As we are deploying nuclear weapon level nerdom....
Sunil's Great British Railway Journeys, 2018 edition - all routes Sunil did for the first time ever this year:
February Bermondsey Flyover (London Bridge to New Cross Gate) Finsbury Park to St Pancras
April Chester Zoo monorail Ordsall Curve (Manchester Deansgate to Victoria) Lancaster to Heysham Newport to Swansea
May Lee to Grove Park (Lee Spur) Northallerton to Sunderland Filton Abbey Wood to Patchway Newton Abbott to Paignton Hawkeridge curve (near Westbury) Cardiff Queen St to Cardiff Bay Upwey to Yeovil Pen Mill Water Orton to Wilnecote via Whitchurch/Kingsbury junctions
June Cardiff Central to Barry Island Grangetown to Penarth Strawberry Hill to Fulwell Acton Diveunder (eastbound only) Exeter St David's to Barnstaple St James' Park (Exeter) to Exmouth
July Darlington to Eaglescliffe to Saltburn Darlington to Bishop Auckland Cardiff Central to Coryton Cardiff Central to Radyr via Ninian Park Cardiff Queen Street to Merthyr Tydfil Pontypridd to Treherbert Cardiff Queen Street to Rhymney Abercynon to Aberdare Willington to Ilkeston (via Castle Donington and Toton)
August Cardiff to Ebbw Vale Town Barry to Bridgend Bridgend to Maesteg Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog Machynlleth to Pwllheli Swansea to Milford Haven
September Clarbeston Road to Fishguard Harbour Ferryside to Whitland direct (Carmarthen avoider westbound) Gowerton to Llansamlet direct (Swansea avoider eastbound) Lockerbie (ie. Carstairs south junc.) to Haymarket Edinburgh to Tweedbank Carlisle to Glasgow Central via Dumfries Carlisle to Barrow via Whitehaven Glasgow Central to Partick Hyndland to Dalmuir via Yoker Paisley Gilmour Street to Wemyss Bay Newton Abbot to Plymouth Plymouth to Gunnislake Keyham to Truro Truro to Falmouth Docks Par to Newquay Truro to Penzance St Erth to St Ives Liskeard to Looe (inc. Coombe southbound only) Selby to York (direct) Selby to Sherburn-in-Elmet Habrough to Barton-on-Humber Craven Arms to Llanelli Thornaby to Stockton Middlesbrough to Whitby Wakefield Westgate to Kirkgate Hebden Bridge to Burnley Manchester Road Whitland to Pembroke Dock Pontyclun to Ninian Park (Leckwith Loop) Lawrence Hill to Keynsham (Dr Days Curve)
October Kirknewton to Uddingston via Shotts Kilwinning to Largs Ardrossan South Beach to Harbour Troon to Kilmarnock Port Glasgow to Gourock Glasgow Central to Neilston Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal Pollokshaws West to East Kilbride Glasgow Central to Cambuslang (via Argyle Street) Cambuslang to Larkhall Polmont to Glasgow Queen St via Cumbernauld Greenfaulds to Hamilton Central via Whifflet Drem to North Berwick Carstairs East junction to Carstairs Mount Florida to Kings Park Bellshill to Motherwell Shieldmuir to Carluke via Wishaw Carluke to Lanark Rutherglen to Whifflet via Carmyle Glasgow Central to Newton via Maxwell Park Holytown to Wishaw Westerton to Milngavie Dalreoch to Helensburgh Central Glasgow Queen Street to Anniesland via Maryhill Bellgrove to Springburn Linlithgow to Dalmeny Llangennech to Briton Ferry Up Fast Loop Junction (Swansea District Line)
Open Douyin or TikTok and you are plunged right into a video. Swipe up to get another, each refresh of the screen providing a dopamine jolt. The videos fill your phone display entirely, blocking the clock at the top and preventing you from seeing how many hours you have spent watching puppies and comedy skits and synchronized dancing.
Satsuki Hatashita, a 20-year-old college student in western Japan, has been hooked for months. She now knows not to use the app before taking a shower. “I wouldn’t be able to shower for a long time, until I finally stopped watching TikTok,” she said. She, too, was surprised to learn that the app was Chinese....
...Weibo, a popular Twitter-like platform, can be wearying. But not Douyin, Ms. Tao said. It’s because each video is so short, she said, that she can end up spending hours on what amounts to channel-surfing. “Anything longer than 15 seconds, and I might start to feel tired.”
We could treat this like a divorce: a protracted, intermittently painful, detailed haggling over who gets what and on what terms, until bored and exhausted by the hand to hand fighting, we retire from the scene, bruised and trying hard to convince ourselves that all things considered the settlement hasn’t been too bad. Meanwhile the bewildered children look on, wondering what the hell is going on.
But that was always likely to happen the instant de facto control of the talks was ceded by the Council to the Commission.
October Kirknewton to Uddingston via Shotts Kilwinning to Largs Ardrossan South Beach to Harbour Troon to Kilmarnock Port Glasgow to Gourock Glasgow Central to Neilston Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal Pollokshaws West to East Kilbride Glasgow Central to Cambuslang (via Argyle Street) Cambuslang to Larkhall Polmont to Glasgow Queen St via Cumbernauld Greenfaulds to Hamilton Central via Whifflet Drem to North Berwick Carstairs East junction to Carstairs Mount Florida to Kings Park Bellshill to Motherwell Shieldmuir to Carluke via Wishaw Carluke to Lanark Rutherglen to Whifflet via Carmyle Glasgow Central to Newton via Maxwell Park Holytown to Wishaw Westerton to Milngavie Dalreoch to Helensburgh Central Glasgow Queen Street to Anniesland via Maryhill Bellgrove to Springburn Linlithgow to Dalmeny Llangennech to Briton Ferry Up Fast Loop Junction (Swansea District Line)
We could treat this like a divorce: a protracted, intermittently painful, detailed haggling over who gets what and on what terms, until bored and exhausted by the hand to hand fighting, we retire from the scene, bruised and trying hard to convince ourselves that all things considered the settlement hasn’t been too bad. Meanwhile the bewildered children look on, wondering what the hell is going on.
But that was always likely to happen the instant de facto control of the talks was ceded by the Council to the Commission.
In divorces, choosing the other sides lawyers and positions is not possible.
It is striking how incompetent our side has been though:
We could treat this like a divorce: a protracted, intermittently painful, detailed haggling over who gets what and on what terms, until bored and exhausted by the hand to hand fighting, we retire from the scene, bruised and trying hard to convince ourselves that all things considered the settlement hasn’t been too bad. Meanwhile the bewildered children look on, wondering what the hell is going on.
But that was always likely to happen the instant de facto control of the talks was ceded by the Council to the Commission.
In divorces, choosing the other sides lawyers and positions is not possible.
That's not actually what I said. But I'm not going to get dragged into an interminable and fruitless discussion about the EU and how it either doesn't understand or ignores its own rules.
Who could argue with that? It's putting us in a basket with Trump's Americans which is not a good place to be.
Hastings gets the right wing English nationalism that dominates the thinking of the Bucanneers spot on: Cod Churchill and a general dislike of Europeans, who they see as enemies. No wonder they all admire Trump so much.
Doesn't sound great for Dems, but the key figure I wanted was how early voting this time compares to early voting previously.
The article says that early absentee voting normally favours the Republicans. Early in person voting, which is due to start shortly in Florida, is more usually tilted towards the Democrats.
I'm not sure how much we read into this, frankly. Absentee ballots are likely to be from the most committed party members. That said, the reported very sharp increase in them seems odd.
What we can say is that if the only gubernatorial gain the Dems have is Nevada they will have had a truly dreadful result.
For those who are interested, David Axelrod gives his predictions here:
I’ve always thought that Democrats will take the House back. I’ve always thought that 30 seats would be a good showing. On the average, the party out of power wins 32 seats. Given everything—all of the sort of structural obstacles because of redistricting—30 seats would be an accomplishment. I still think they’re going to land in that zone, and I don’t think it’s likely to go much higher. I think the Senate—I’ve said from the beginning that if Democrats could hold the margin at 51-49, given the historic obstacles they face, that would be an accomplishment. It may be that Republicans add a seat or two.
There are a couple of other storylines I’d watch on election night. One is governorships. I think Democrats are going to take a significant number of statehouses, which is not inconsequential going into both the presidential election and redistricting. So, you look at states—including Florida and a crescent from Kansas to Iowa across the Midwest all the way to Pennsylvania—and I think Democrats are going to make some significant gains in governorships. And the last part of that storyline is, when you consider the states that delivered the presidency to Trump—Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania—you’ve got incumbent Democratic senators up in all of those states. I think it’s more likely than not that every one of those senators is going to be reelected, and that you’re going to see governorship[s] shift in several of those states. So, I think that should be a sobering result for the White House and for Republicans, and it has some augurings for 2020.
October Kirknewton to Uddingston via Shotts Kilwinning to Largs Ardrossan South Beach to Harbour Troon to Kilmarnock Port Glasgow to Gourock Glasgow Central to Neilston Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal Pollokshaws West to East Kilbride Glasgow Central to Cambuslang (via Argyle Street) Cambuslang to Larkhall Polmont to Glasgow Queen St via Cumbernauld Greenfaulds to Hamilton Central via Whifflet Drem to North Berwick Carstairs East junction to Carstairs Mount Florida to Kings Park Bellshill to Motherwell Shieldmuir to Carluke via Wishaw Carluke to Lanark Rutherglen to Whifflet via Carmyle Glasgow Central to Newton via Maxwell Park Holytown to Wishaw Westerton to Milngavie Dalreoch to Helensburgh Central Glasgow Queen Street to Anniesland via Maryhill Bellgrove to Springburn Linlithgow to Dalmeny Llangennech to Briton Ferry Up Fast Loop Junction (Swansea District Line)
Osborne also says the Tories did not win in 2017 by trying to 'outUKIP UKIP' and will not win in 2022 by trying to 'outCorbyn Corbyn' and needs to be fiscally conservative but socially progressive.
Though he says there is a problem of returns to capital being more than returns to income, solved by expanding home ownership and increasing pensions and the minimum wage
I think Osborne’s view is that it’s hopeless to think you can control immigration numbers, which are economically beneficial anyway, and madness to try. Further, that European integration is inevitable and that the UK must play a strong role right at the heart of that club.
Whilst I respect that point of view it’s pretty clear he’d have offered no answers to the electorate on either of those two questions and just regrets he didn’t put out better spin.
As I’ve said before he’s a blue Blairite, the only difference being he believes in slightly lower taxes.
A Labour councillor who tried to smuggle drugs into a music festival has resigned as a councillor having already left his cabinet post.
Ishmael Osamor, 29, had pleaded guilty to having £2,500-worth of drugs, at last year's Bestival event in Dorset.
I'm still amazed the judge accepted that was all for his personal use and that of a couple of friends.
Something very odd with this judgement, caught with 30g of ecstasy, that's nearly 300 single doses. Wtf.
A rave a week for the next 3 years for you and a friend ?
I hadn't realised until I read about that case that the whole intent to supply thing is actually intent to supply and make a profit.
Personally I think he should have gone to prison unless he'd provided information that led the authorities to a "proper" dealer.
MPs’ kids get treated differently. Many years ago a friend of mine was bottled in the face in a club by the very drunk son of a Tory MP, now deceased. I was flown back from Madrid by the Met to be a witness in the case. On the first day of the trial, the young man submitted a guilty plea and ended up getting 25 hours community service - or whatever that was called in the 1980s.
So easy to sling out comments like that, Brexit is and always was going to be extremely difficult, given the loony right within the Tory party. I think May has done ok. after all she is still there despite all the predictions on here that she would be gone.
What you never here on here is how the critics would have approached Brexit, apart from vague talk of Canada or Denmark solutions.
So easy to sling out comments like that, Brexit is and always was going to be extremely difficult, given the loony right within the Tory party. I think May has done ok. after all she is still there despite all the predictions on here that she would be gone.
What you never here on here is how the critics would have approached Brexit, apart from vague talk of Canada or Denmark solutions.
The Government should have been bold and up front, coming out straight away for a transitional arrangement along the lines of Norway.
O/t but did anyone else watch ‘The Fires that Foretold Grenfell” onCC2 last night? A frightening tale of what appeared to be official ignoring of warnings from those ‘at the sharp end’. Such a pity we’ve got to wait so long for the Report of the Grenfell Inquiry.
Osborne says Brexit was won by an alliance of the 'insecure' low paid and the 'insulated' retired
Well, many Brexiteers on here are neither.
I wonder if Osborne appreciates the irony that he himself helped to ‘insulate’ the retired with his policies.
He came across to me as slightly surprised that the insulated retired had, in effect, teamed up with the left behind of the seaside and northern post-industrial towns and voted to leave.
He said he can't see it happening again.
Evan should have asked if that prediction included the 2nd vote...
90% of voters supported the cash boost to the NHS, 86% thought it a good idea to increase the living wage and 84% agreed with the increase in the personal allowance to £12,500 next year. Freezing the duty on beer, cider and spirits was supported by 48% of those asked.
For those of us who have been commenting on pb.com since near the beginning it is sobering to realise that the age of this site (14 years and 7 months) is nearly half the age of the Guardian/ICM series (29 years and 9 months).
A Labour councillor who tried to smuggle drugs into a music festival has resigned as a councillor having already left his cabinet post.
Ishmael Osamor, 29, had pleaded guilty to having £2,500-worth of drugs, at last year's Bestival event in Dorset.
I'm still amazed the judge accepted that was all for his personal use and that of a couple of friends.
Something very odd with this judgement, caught with 30g of ecstasy, that's nearly 300 single doses. Wtf.
A rave a week for the next 3 years for you and a friend ?
I hadn't realised until I read about that case that the whole intent to supply thing is actually intent to supply and make a profit.
Personally I think he should have gone to prison unless he'd provided information that led the authorities to a "proper" dealer.
MPs’ kids get treated differently. Many years ago a friend of mine was bottled in the face in a club by the very drunk son of a Tory MP, now deceased. I was flown back from Madrid by the Met to be a witness in the case. On the first day of the trial, the young man submitted a guilty plea and ended up getting 25 hours community service - or whatever that was called in the 1980s.
90% of voters supported the cash boost to the NHS, 86% thought it a good idea to increase the living wage and 84% agreed with the increase in the personal allowance to £12,500 next year. Freezing the duty on beer, cider and spirits was supported by 48% of those asked.
People like more spending and lower taxes
People like money
Colour me shocked
The key thing is that Hammond framed it all as a Deal Dividend, not a Brexit Dividend. How many Tory MPs will vote against a deal that delivers what the budget sets out? How many Cabinet ministers will? It’s very smart politics from Hammond.
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She is also noted for her fervent and doubtless sincere desire to clamp down on drug culture.
Good night.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/413892-bannon-planning-to-campaign-for-brat-in-virginia
“Bannon planning to campaign for Brat in Virginia...”
It is nice to see someone understands
Though he says there is a problem of returns to capital being more than returns to income, solved by expanding home ownership and increasing pensions and the minimum wage
English Sparkling Wine? waste of money when you can get a case of Thornbridge ale for the same money.
"It's still everyone else's fault but mine..."
Still a sharp political mind, just no soul.
"As it's for personal use, so long as you can consume your 'stash' in the court room before we adjourn to demonstrate this, then you are free to go."
These days I use Kate for its ability to edit across remote networks using "fish". Very handy and save you the bother of logging in (as long as you have Kwallet running)
February
Bermondsey Flyover (London Bridge to New Cross Gate)
Finsbury Park to St Pancras
April
Chester Zoo monorail
Ordsall Curve (Manchester Deansgate to Victoria)
Lancaster to Heysham
Newport to Swansea
May
Lee to Grove Park (Lee Spur)
Northallerton to Sunderland
Filton Abbey Wood to Patchway
Newton Abbott to Paignton
Hawkeridge curve (near Westbury)
Cardiff Queen St to Cardiff Bay
Upwey to Yeovil Pen Mill
Water Orton to Wilnecote via Whitchurch/Kingsbury junctions
June
Cardiff Central to Barry Island
Grangetown to Penarth
Strawberry Hill to Fulwell
Acton Diveunder (eastbound only)
Exeter St David's to Barnstaple
St James' Park (Exeter) to Exmouth
July
Darlington to Eaglescliffe to Saltburn
Darlington to Bishop Auckland
Cardiff Central to Coryton
Cardiff Central to Radyr via Ninian Park
Cardiff Queen Street to Merthyr Tydfil
Pontypridd to Treherbert
Cardiff Queen Street to Rhymney
Abercynon to Aberdare
Willington to Ilkeston (via Castle Donington and Toton)
August
Cardiff to Ebbw Vale Town
Barry to Bridgend
Bridgend to Maesteg
Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog
Machynlleth to Pwllheli
Swansea to Milford Haven
September
Clarbeston Road to Fishguard Harbour
Ferryside to Whitland direct (Carmarthen avoider westbound)
Gowerton to Llansamlet direct (Swansea avoider eastbound)
Lockerbie (ie. Carstairs south junc.) to Haymarket
Edinburgh to Tweedbank
Carlisle to Glasgow Central via Dumfries
Carlisle to Barrow via Whitehaven
Glasgow Central to Partick
Hyndland to Dalmuir via Yoker
Paisley Gilmour Street to Wemyss Bay
Newton Abbot to Plymouth
Plymouth to Gunnislake
Keyham to Truro
Truro to Falmouth Docks
Par to Newquay
Truro to Penzance
St Erth to St Ives
Liskeard to Looe (inc. Coombe southbound only)
Selby to York (direct)
Selby to Sherburn-in-Elmet
Habrough to Barton-on-Humber
Craven Arms to Llanelli
Thornaby to Stockton
Middlesbrough to Whitby
Wakefield Westgate to Kirkgate
Hebden Bridge to Burnley Manchester Road
Whitland to Pembroke Dock
Pontyclun to Ninian Park (Leckwith Loop)
Lawrence Hill to Keynsham (Dr Days Curve)
Kirknewton to Uddingston via Shotts
Kilwinning to Largs
Ardrossan South Beach to Harbour
Troon to Kilmarnock
Port Glasgow to Gourock
Glasgow Central to Neilston
Glasgow Central to Paisley Canal
Pollokshaws West to East Kilbride
Glasgow Central to Cambuslang (via Argyle Street)
Cambuslang to Larkhall
Polmont to Glasgow Queen St via Cumbernauld
Greenfaulds to Hamilton Central via Whifflet
Drem to North Berwick
Carstairs East junction to Carstairs
Mount Florida to Kings Park
Bellshill to Motherwell
Shieldmuir to Carluke via Wishaw
Carluke to Lanark
Rutherglen to Whifflet via Carmyle
Glasgow Central to Newton via Maxwell Park
Holytown to Wishaw
Westerton to Milngavie
Dalreoch to Helensburgh Central
Glasgow Queen Street to Anniesland via Maryhill
Bellgrove to Springburn
Linlithgow to Dalmeny
Llangennech to Briton Ferry Up Fast Loop Junction (Swansea District Line)
Max Hastings
Brexiteer bluster and triumphalism about the war have led us to treat admirable nations with nothing but contempt" (£)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/our-rudeness-to-european-allies-is-shameful-g9tqtfckg
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/technology/bytedance-app-funding-china.html
The app is engineered for swift, maximal addictiveness.
Open Douyin or TikTok and you are plunged right into a video. Swipe up to get another, each refresh of the screen providing a dopamine jolt. The videos fill your phone display entirely, blocking the clock at the top and preventing you from seeing how many hours you have spent watching puppies and comedy skits and synchronized dancing.
Satsuki Hatashita, a 20-year-old college student in western Japan, has been hooked for months. She now knows not to use the app before taking a shower. “I wouldn’t be able to shower for a long time, until I finally stopped watching TikTok,” she said.
She, too, was surprised to learn that the app was Chinese....
...Weibo, a popular Twitter-like platform, can be wearying. But not Douyin, Ms. Tao said.
It’s because each video is so short, she said, that she can end up spending hours on what amounts to channel-surfing. “Anything longer than 15 seconds, and I might start to feel tired.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-outpacing-democrats-early-voting-key-states-nbc-news-finds-n922881
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46029981
We could treat this like a divorce: a protracted, intermittently painful, detailed haggling over who gets what and on what terms, until bored and exhausted by the hand to hand fighting, we retire from the scene, bruised and trying hard to convince ourselves that all things considered the settlement hasn’t been too bad. Meanwhile the bewildered children look on, wondering what the hell is going on.
But that was always likely to happen the instant de facto control of the talks was ceded by the Council to the Commission.
https://twitter.com/CER_Grant/status/1057401554591014912?s=20
It is striking how incompetent our side has been though:
https://twitter.com/peterwalker99/status/1057269079575289861?s=19
I'm not sure how much we read into this, frankly. Absentee ballots are likely to be from the most committed party members. That said, the reported very sharp increase in them seems odd.
What we can say is that if the only gubernatorial gain the Dems have is Nevada they will have had a truly dreadful result.
Witless incompetence is the hallmark of this government.
https://twitter.com/lisaocarroll/status/1057271466314612736?s=19
Personally I think he should have gone to prison unless he'd provided information that led the authorities to a "proper" dealer.
I’ve always thought that Democrats will take the House back. I’ve always thought that 30 seats would be a good showing. On the average, the party out of power wins 32 seats. Given everything—all of the sort of structural obstacles because of redistricting—30 seats would be an accomplishment. I still think they’re going to land in that zone, and I don’t think it’s likely to go much higher. I think the Senate—I’ve said from the beginning that if Democrats could hold the margin at 51-49, given the historic obstacles they face, that would be an accomplishment. It may be that Republicans add a seat or two.
There are a couple of other storylines I’d watch on election night. One is governorships. I think Democrats are going to take a significant number of statehouses, which is not inconsequential going into both the presidential election and redistricting. So, you look at states—including Florida and a crescent from Kansas to Iowa across the Midwest all the way to Pennsylvania—and I think Democrats are going to make some significant gains in governorships. And the last part of that storyline is, when you consider the states that delivered the presidency to Trump—Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania—you’ve got incumbent Democratic senators up in all of those states. I think it’s more likely than not that every one of those senators is going to be reelected, and that you’re going to see governorship[s] shift in several of those states.
So, I think that should be a sobering result for the White House and for Republicans, and it has some augurings for 2020.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/30/david-axelrod-2020-democratic-candidates-trump-harris-gillibrand-bernie-castro-patrick-221951
I wonder if Osborne appreciates the irony that he himself helped to ‘insulate’ the retired with his policies.
Whilst I respect that point of view it’s pretty clear he’d have offered no answers to the electorate on either of those two questions and just regrets he didn’t put out better spin.
As I’ve said before he’s a blue Blairite, the only difference being he believes in slightly lower taxes.
What you never here on here is how the critics would have approached Brexit, apart from vague talk of Canada or Denmark solutions.
Such a pity we’ve got to wait so long for the Report of the Grenfell Inquiry.
He said he can't see it happening again.
Evan should have asked if that prediction included the 2nd vote...
People like money
Colour me shocked
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/nur-jeder-dritte-neue-panzer-der-bundeswehr-ist-einsatzbereit-15866260.html