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L’Affaire Cummings is over, its lasting significance, if any, yet to be determined. But there is one aspect of it, largely ignored by the media, worth exploring. It relates not to the PM or his advisor but to the Government’s two main legal advisors: the Attorney-General, Suella Braverman, and the Lord Chancellor/Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland.
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https://twitter.com/heraldscotland/status/1268952033996025861?s=20
Let's get back to the good old days of calm, reasoned debate about Scottish indy.
I do agree with @Cyclefree’s piece though. Braverman has misjudged this and will hopefully learn from her mistake.
Although not as appropriate here since he isn't a rival.
I believe James Kelly ex of this parish paid for it.
Utterly sickening.
Can any person with a shred of decency listen to this and fail to recognize the need for a Dem landslide in November?
I think not. Which means it's coming.
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1268939404896239618?s=20
Tameside schools ‘strongly advised’ not to go back on Monday after new figures show North West ‘R’ number above 1.
Bury council is also suggesting headteachers ‘reconsider’ a Monday return in the light of the latest data, while other councils are also considering whether to change their advice
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/tameside-schools-strongly-advised-not-18372513
But I sense America is not totally gone.
They will do the necessary in November.
Their theory was Trump was on course to lose in 2016 but enough GOPers held their nose to vote for Trump to stop Hillary Clinton picking Scalia's replacement.
It's not nearly enough.
I think you feel it too.
Just a few musings this fine Friday evening - well, it is here in downtown East Ham.
The US jobs numbers seem to have taken everyone by surprise. Will the same happen here? Why has this happened in the US and what is going on?
I presume the individual states have taken the decision, virus notwithstanding, to re-open their economies and as the period of shutdown has been relatively short (if at all in some states), it's been possible for temporarily laid off staff to be re-hired.
I presume the notion of temporary laid off is equivalent to our furlough and buried under the avalanche of positivity is the fact that permanent job losses actually rose by nearly 300,000.
The US unemployment rate is still 13.3% which should be a reason not to break open the champagne as Wall Street seems to have done.
As a comparison, US Services PMI went from 26.7 in April to 37.5 in May while UK Services PMI went from 13.4 in April to 29.0 in May.
She actually wants a No Deal Brexit and she keeps going on about 'Cultural Marxism'.
I can't think Ivanka fronting a Motown girl group would be satisfying.
Biden should also get 48% regardless ie those who voted for Hillary and Kerry.
The key swing voters are those who voted for Bush then Obama then Trump and those who voted for minor parties last time
Ginsburg and Breyer are in their 80s, Alito and Thomas in their 70s.
It is entirely possible the winner of November's election gets to set the court's agenda for the next forty years with four new appointments.
Am not aware of anywhere in the US tightening policy recently.
EDIT: I see @Beibheirli_C beat me to the founding of this particular cult.
"Not that the Panelbase poll is a bad result for the Yes side. The 48% tally in the company’s previous poll, replicated today, did equal Panelbase’s all-time high for Yes, albeit that the tally first touched that level as long ago as June."
I wonder if political pressure from Trump and the anti-lockdown brigade has meant that instead of a cautious and nuanced lifting of restrictions as we are doing the US has simply re-opened everything at once which has left businesses able to re-employ staff but what we don't yet know is whether they will be able to keep them on - will the consumers come back in the numbers required?
Heck, handwashing to "Happy Birthday" had a meaningful impact, though not enough to stop the epidemic.
Get in early enough, and soft interventions might be enough. Which might make for awkward questions in the enquiry to come.
The REAL question is - where are the stylish, high quality masks that will both effectively protect the wearer and overcome the British horror of looking like a pillock in public? That's the real gap in the market, and I remain astounded that no one has rushed to fill it.
The treatment is not zinc and hydroxychloroquine, it's azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine.
Furthermore, hydroxychloroquine - which has retroviral properties - is the main actor, while azithromycin is a common antibiotic.
While the UK scheme is superior in terms of the targeted support given, from a pure politics and "news cycle" angle the opposite is the case - the US bad stats are last month's news, now we have nothing but positive employment numbers leading up to their election, whereas in the UK all the bad headlines about redundancies are very much still to come as the extraordinary support is unwound.
The abstract and the comment thread below it are well worth reading.
Top of the Pops 1989 on BBC4 kicks off with the excellent If Only I Could by Sydney Youngblood.
The idea of getting that Kavanagh in place for the next 40 years clearly thrilled many.
And what a bozo he appeared to be too. Wouldn't get a sniff over here.
https://twitter.com/FullFact/status/1268875215116869633