This is one of the simplest and best moves to increase social mobility...Gove / Cummings were in favour of it before the blob shot it down, and I believe Labour were for it at the last GE.
My medical School has rightly favoured post A level applications for some years. A lot of private schools over egg their predictions and state schools underestimate their brightest.
Careful now, next you'll be saying private school pupils get excessive help with their coursework and a disproportionate number of students with reasons for getting extra time in exams and then there will be trouble.
Parents aren't paying £10k per term for better teaching, that's for sure.
I'm sure Robert Plomin could assert a "reason" for believing the receipt of better tuition is in large part decided by genes, just as he thinks the number of books on parental bookshelves is.
Why aren't the UK's students tearing down/defacing statues anymore?
Looks like it was just an excuse to get out of their parents houses during lockdown
Are you disappointed its stopped?
Maybe the slavers have gone and slippery slope arguments suggesting this was never going to stop was hysterical nonsense.
Why would I be disappointed? You were the one cheering them on!
The BLM rallys/riots haven't stopped, thats disappointing
No I cheered a solitary one on. I cheered on a grand total of one.
I was attacked by more people than I could count on here for that and was told in no uncertain terms it wouldn't stop at one illegally pulled down. That this was going to continue and continue.
Instead its stopped as soon as it started. It started at one and it stopped at one. I was right and everyone who suggested this was some Pandora's Box that would be unending protests and pulling down of statues were wrong.
No, it has lit the fuse for race riots and civil disorder
No it hasn't. Far right prats and civil disorder existed before this.
Except the far right weren't at brixton where 15 police officer were injured were they.....no just the idiots you cheer for....the so peaceful BLM marxists
The peaceful BLM event in Brixton was attended by about 30 people and ended at 7pm, long before the violence started.
So they went there stirred the pot then ran away....whats your point?
Don't blame one group of people for what another group of people do nearby several hours later just because many in both groups were black.
If BLM hadn't stirred things up there probably wouldn't have been a riot. I notice you ignored my point that if someone like Farage had given a speech, left at 7pm and later there was a riot you would have no problem trying to blame him for it with typical hypocrisy
If Farage gave a speech, left at 7pm and later kids were at a rave trying to drink and party I wouldn't try and link the two.
Kids?
The equivalent is Farage giving an anti immigration speech, leaving at 7pm then a massive gang of people beating up immigrants all night afterwards
Well lets see whats BLM about oh yes the police killing of Floyd What did the so called kids in Brixton do...injure 15 police officers
I really can't see a connection because my name is Phillip Thompson and I am turning leftie and make cretinous excuses for anyone I agree with
People like Tim Walker have turned into the very people they depise e.g Nigel Farage. Constantly outraged about everything Brexit / Boris / government related.
The UK government having a plane that looks presentable and flying the flag is what most countries have. I really fail to see the issue.
Most countries? Governments having a plane displaying their flsg? I've lived in half a dozen countries, none of which had such a thing AFAIK. There's Air Force One, and after that I'm already struggling. Russia, perhaps? It's the sort of thing I can imagine Putin liking.
You're enjoying this aren't you? So am I. Keep it up.
I think the next SeanT should be black. That would really mix things up.
He is not allowed to do that. I refer you to Mike Cleveland's comment about Cleveland (Catman's post downthread)
That's never stopped him before. Then the next but one SeanT can complain about the prior ones cancellation while simultaneously feigning ignorance over the whole thing and pretending to be brand new. It's perfect!
You're enjoying this aren't you? So am I. Keep it up.
I think the next SeanT should be black. That would really mix things up.
He is not allowed to do that. I refer you to Mike Cleveland's comment about Cleveland (Catman's post downthread)
That's never stopped him before. Then the next but one SeanT can complain about the prior ones cancellation while simultaneously feigning ignorance over the whole thing and pretending to be brand new. It's perfect!
I am just waiting for a convo from Lady G on cubans or slingbacks... It has never been the same here for me since Plato
Sounds like an improvement on the immediate predecessor for that seat.
He's well-liked, I understand.
I hope it's clear I wasn't referring to you as his immediate predecessor.
Yes, thanks . I like most people but I struggled a bit with her, and not because she won. That said, I'm surprised she hasn't been snapped up by somone like Sky to do scathing Paxmanesque interviews. She'd be good.
Donald Trump's brother Robert has filed a new suit against their niece Mary after the first one was slung out by a court in Queens. His lawyer said they'd have the second try in Manhattan, but it turns out they've actually filed it in upstate Dutchess County, where Robert lives and Donald owns a golf course.
I think the issue was that the first suit was filed in the Probate Court, presumably because the alleged NDA was attached to the settlement of Fred Trump Sr’s estate. I believe this new suit is filed in the regular Supreme Court, which in New York State is a court of first instance; our court of last resort being the New York Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court is a single court across the whole state, just with a branch in each county, so it would be normal to file in one’s county of residence.
Sounds like an improvement on the immediate predecessor for that seat.
He's well-liked, I understand.
I hope it's clear I wasn't referring to you as his immediate predecessor.
Yes, thanks . I like most people but I struggled a bit with her, and not because she won. That said, I'm surprised she hasn't been snapped up by somone like Sky to do scathing Paxmanesque interviews. She'd be good.
Her hammy acting is more suited to Midsomer Murders
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
'Our city has lost too many people': Liverpool mayor pleads with fans to go home as they party for a second night with little concern for social distancing after their side wins first league title in 30 years
People like Tim Walker have turned into the very people they depise e.g Nigel Farage. Constantly outraged about everything Brexit / Boris / government related.
The UK government having a plane that looks presentable and flying the flag is what most countries have. I really fail to see the issue.
Most countries? Governments having a plane displaying their flsg? I've lived in half a dozen countries, none of which had such a thing AFAIK. There's Air Force One, and after that I'm already struggling. Russia, perhaps? It's the sort of thing I can imagine Putin liking.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
No, it's simpler than that. Capitalists = Bankers = Jews, who are therefore the root of all evil. It's the age-old meme.
Even simpler Jews are rich and therefore evil. You can see how it has started to shift to Indians as well.
Also the Chinese in Indonesia. And the Asians in Uganda.
It's a classic process. Find a minority that is (arguably) more successful commercially. Pick on them.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
No, it's simpler than that. Capitalists = Bankers = Jews, who are therefore the root of all evil. It's the age-old meme.
Even simpler Jews are rich and therefore evil. You can see how it has started to shift to Indians as well.
Also the Chinese in Indonesia. And the Asians in Uganda.
It's a classic process. Find a minority that is (arguably) more successful commercially. Pick on them.
It just doesn't make sense to me, the same when anyone stands aside from a role because they do not have characteristic X, as if people cannot act a role without sharing characteristics. Underrepresentation of certain groups is certainly a thing, but surely we're not in a place where, say, only a gay person can play a gay person, and even for voice acting you have to be the same race as the character you play?
And if it is felt to be wrong, then its wrong, not an honour to have played the role for 20 years.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
The madness is that in 2020, maybe more in the UK than America, it is often hard to tell a persons skin colour from just hearing their voice, so it doesn't really matter anymore whether it's a black, white or Asian actor voicing any of those characters
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
No, it's simpler than that. Capitalists = Bankers = Jews, who are therefore the root of all evil. It's the age-old meme.
Even simpler Jews are rich and therefore evil. You can see how it has started to shift to Indians as well. Also the Chinese in Indonesia. And the Asians in Uganda.
And white people amongst the madder parts of the extreme left.
On family guy, Alex Borstein, who voices Lois Griffin, also does Asian correspondent Tricia Takanawa, Loretta Brown and Lois' mother Barbara Pewterschmidt.
I presume she will now be under pressure not to do the Asian character or Cleveland wife?
The Corbynite faction needs to understand they don't have the right to be the only left wingers in the Labour Party.
I am left wing, I support increased state intervention in the economy. I however detest what the Corbynite faction is trying to do to Labour now, especially after being defeated so comprehensively.
You can believe in left wing policies and ideas, without being a died in the wool socialist nutter.
The madness is that in 2020, maybe more in the UK than America, it is often hard to tell a persons skin colour from just hearing their voice, so it doesn't really matter anymore whether it's a black, white or Asian actor voicing any of those characters
There are some offensive stereotypical vocal sylings I can imagine, but for most characters you couldn't tell nor would it matter. Some of these voice actors do several main characters and any number of side characters in a show, it'd be a bit limiting to either expand your voice actor budget for no reason, or instruct the colourist to change the race to match the voice actor. And god alone knows what you'd do for the dub actors.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
I am genuinely interested in why you think it would not be better?
Surely a world in which Germany did not embrace Nazism and anti-semitism would be a better place. Even if one accepts that there would probably have been a WW2 and a cold war as a result, Europe would undoubtedly have been a better place if that Jewish culture had not been erased and if all those potential Jewish contributions to art, culture and society had been allowed to flourish?
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
lol. You mean Germany might have got the Bomb quicker?
That's a really rather narrow perception of the Jewish contribution to pre-war German life. Even if it is wittily written. Tsk.
I'm fully aware of Jewish contributions to in-between-wars German life , believe me. The counterfactual of German political leadership smart enough to foresee the invention of synthetic fertiliser rendering the Lebensraum concept obsolete, and the literally world leading physics departments of German universities changing the course of human history otherwise, is fascinating, though.
This is one of the simplest and best moves to increase social mobility...Gove / Cummings were in favour of it before the blob shot it down, and I believe Labour were for it at the last GE.
My medical School has rightly favoured post A level applications for some years. A lot of private schools over egg their predictions and state schools underestimate their brightest.
Careful now, next you'll be saying private school pupils get excessive help with their coursework and a disproportionate number of students with reasons for getting extra time in exams and then there will be trouble.
Parents aren't paying £10k per term for better teaching, that's for sure.
But they do often buy their kids a better teaching environment which allows the teachers to teach more effectively.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
lol. You mean Germany might have got the Bomb quicker?
That's a really rather narrow perception of the Jewish contribution to pre-war German life. Even if it is wittily written. Tsk.
I'm fully aware of Jewish contributions to in-between-wars German life , believe me. The counterfactual of German political leadership smart enough to foresee the invention of synthetic fertiliser rendering the Lebensraum concept obsolete, and the literally world leading physics departments of German universities changing the course of human history otherwise is fascinating, though.
Absolutely right.
Germany was the scientific superpower from 1900 onwards, eclipsing Britain, France and the USA. Partly, and significantly, because of Jewish scientists and Jewish thinkers. German universities were outpacing all others. And look at the names: Freud to Planck, Heisenberg to Einstein, Jung to Wittgenstein. Unbeatable.
Allowed to unfurl itself, Germany might have gained the world, in a good, benign way, and German would possibly be the dominant language of science (and the internet?) even to this day.
Hey ho. You're still annoyingly good at football, and quite a lot better at plagues.
Eh, Freud was Austrian and Jung was Swiss. Einstein was Swiss too. Einstein kind of counts as half, but he did work in Berlin for many years.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
lol. You mean Germany might have got the Bomb quicker?
That's a really rather narrow perception of the Jewish contribution to pre-war German life. Even if it is wittily written. Tsk.
I'm fully aware of Jewish contributions to in-between-wars German life , believe me. The counterfactual of German political leadership smart enough to foresee the invention of synthetic fertiliser rendering the Lebensraum concept obsolete, and the literally world leading physics departments of German universities changing the course of human history otherwise is fascinating, though.
Absolutely right.
Germany was the scientific superpower from 1900 onwards, eclipsing Britain, France and the USA. Partly, and significantly, because of Jewish scientists and Jewish thinkers. German universities were outpacing all others. And look at the names: Freud to Planck, Heisenberg to Einstein, Jung to Wittgenstein. Unbeatable.
Allowed to unfurl itself, Germany might have gained the world, in a good, benign way, and German would possibly be the dominant language of science (and the internet?) even to this day.
Hey ho. You're still annoyingly good at football, and quite a lot better at plagues.
We literally shot ourselves in feet, kneecaps and several other places with our pettiness and bigotry. But some of us have tried to take some lessons away from that.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
lol. You mean Germany might have got the Bomb quicker?
That's a really rather narrow perception of the Jewish contribution to pre-war German life. Even if it is wittily written. Tsk.
I'm fully aware of Jewish contributions to in-between-wars German life , believe me. The counterfactual of German political leadership smart enough to foresee the invention of synthetic fertiliser rendering the Lebensraum concept obsolete, and the literally world leading physics departments of German universities changing the course of human history otherwise is fascinating, though.
Absolutely right.
Germany was the scientific superpower from 1900 onwards, eclipsing Britain, France and the USA. Partly, and significantly, because of Jewish scientists and Jewish thinkers. German universities were outpacing all others. And look at the names: Freud to Planck, Heisenberg to Einstein, Jung to Wittgenstein. Unbeatable.
Allowed to unfurl itself, Germany might have gained the world, in a good, benign way, and German would possibly be the dominant language of science (and the internet?) even to this day.
Hey ho. You're still annoyingly good at football, and quite a lot better at plagues.
Eh, Freud was Austrian and Jung was Swiss. Einstein was Swiss too. Einstein kind of counts as half, but he did work in Berlin for many years.
Einstein was Swabian by birth and lived in Bern only for a short (but highly productive) period of time.
Surely that tweet is highly misleading? They have agreed to ask the electorate who may well reject the proposal. Nothing is being deleted at this point in time.
Surely that tweet is highly misleading? They have agreed to ask the electorate who may well reject the proposal. Nothing is being deleted at this point in time.
The fact they are proposing it is quite something.
"President Putin assured me that the story isn't true, and I looked him in the eye and believed him. This is just another example of fake news from the failing so called mainstream media."
"President Putin assured me that the story isn't true, and I looked him in the eye and believed him. This is just another example of fake news from the failing so called mainstream media."
Either way I do not recall the Taliban exactly covering British and American troops with daisies beforehand.
Surely that tweet is highly misleading? They have agreed to ask the electorate who may well reject the proposal. Nothing is being deleted at this point in time.
The fact they are proposing it is quite something.
"President Putin assured me that the story isn't true, and I looked him in the eye and believed him. This is just another example of fake news from the failing so called mainstream media."
Either way I do not recall the Taliban exactly covering British and American troops with daisies beforehand.
A foreign actor supporting, financially and/or otherwise, some Afghani warlords' insurrection against the occupying troops of another foreign actor, possibly because of some geopolitical rivalry with said other foreign actor.
"President Putin assured me that the story isn't true, and I looked him in the eye and believed him. This is just another example of fake news from the failing so called mainstream media."
"You think we're so innocent? We paid Bin Laden to kill Russians. Not smart!"
If you actually read the underlying story, North Carolina made face masks unlawful several decades ago to tackle the KKK. That law has been suspended by the GOP Governor due to the Coronavirus. The suspension is temporary (to 1 August) but is actually pretty likely to be extended.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
I am genuinely interested in why you think it would not be better?
Surely a world in which Germany did not embrace Nazism and anti-semitism would be a better place. Even if one accepts that there would probably have been a WW2 and a cold war as a result, Europe would undoubtedly have been a better place if that Jewish culture had not been erased and if all those potential Jewish contributions to art, culture and society had been allowed to flourish?
I think Mattias is imagining a world where the Nazis still exterminated Roma and homosexuals, invaded Poland, but didn't go after the Jews.
Trump has cancelled his planned weekend trip to Bedminster, New Jersey, at a few hours' notice. His stated reason is "to makes sure LAW & ORDER IS ENFORCED" in Washington DC.
Got to laugh at that one! He won't take any crap from army generals and defence secretary Mark Esper this time, right? :-)
Earlier the state governor of New Jersey said that visitors from states with increasing numbers of coronavirus cases should go into quarantine. The White House response was to pout that His Imperial Majesty the POTUS wasn't a civilian and he could eat as many sweets as he wanted, even just before his dinner if he felt like it.
The most relevant order-related thing that has happened recently in DC seems to be the business over the statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, best known to students of the history of freemasonry. Something tells me the army brass won't accept the invocation of the Insurrection Act in this connection.
Then there's the Mary Trump book. Looking at what happened with the Bolton book - it "leaked" and the judge said "he's an awful cad but the cat's out of the bag FFS" - the Don's chances of successfully stopping publication seem to be tiny.
He has signed an executive order giving a 10 year jail term for pulling down and destroying statues and on that I expect most Americans agree with him.
Even if statues are removed they should be moved to a museum not toppled by the mob
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
I am genuinely interested in why you think it would not be better?
Surely a world in which Germany did not embrace Nazism and anti-semitism would be a better place. Even if one accepts that there would probably have been a WW2 and a cold war as a result, Europe would undoubtedly have been a better place if that Jewish culture had not been erased and if all those potential Jewish contributions to art, culture and society had been allowed to flourish?
I think Mattias is imagining a world where the Nazis still exterminated Roma and homosexuals, invaded Poland, but didn't go after the Jews.
Had Szilard, Teller and von Neumann worked for a non-anti-Semitic German government into the 1930s and 1940s, is there any reason to think Germany wouldn't have invaded the USSR and the tens of millions of lives that were lost in that war would have been saved? Von Neumann was keen on nuking the USSR even in the 1950s. Not everything the Nazis did was determined by their anti-Semitism, or by their view of Roma people or homosexuals either.
He has signed an executive order giving a 10 year jail term for pulling down and destroying statues and on that I expect most Americans agree with him.
Even if statues are removed they should be moved to a museum not toppled by the mob
I agree with you that they should be. The government should say all statues to slaveowners will be removed to museums, all interested parties will be consulted as to what definitions to use, and laws regarding the protection of memorials to those killed in wars will be enforced, and perhaps even strengthened. There's a massive difference between damaging a statue to a famous slaveowner who died peacefully in his bed and smashing up the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Surely you don't think it's sensible to start calling those who pull down a statue (any statue, and whether they're right or wrong) "terrorists"?
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Actually, the stand-out line for me in that piece was "To look at the US, with its four centuries of racist oppression and white supremacist violence, its many decades of police brutality, and to decide that the Floyd killing was not something US police might have come up with all by themselves – that they required the instruction of faraway Israel – is to stray from rational analysis into the wilder reaches of conspiracy theory"
That sums up the problems in the US in one sentence.
Yes, and in the same sentence sums up why the article, and therefore the tweet, was undeniably anti-semitic.
What is it with the extreme left and their hatred of Judaism? Does the extreme left resent the fact that Judaism does not regard Marx and Lenin as saints?
Anti-Semitism is a fascinating phenomenon. There is a modest anti-Semitic movement in Japan, even though the Jewish population of Japan has always been vanishingly small
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
Are you suggesting that they bring it on themselves? Quite a minefield you are dancing in.
Of course not, you twat. I am saying ethnocentrism and persecution are tragic human memes, and have been repeated throughout human history, for reasons of evolutionary psychology.
A country with a large Jewish population is a lucky country. Germany is palpably a lesser nation than it was pre-1939, when it had maybe the most vibrant Jewish diaspora in the world
Correct. The Germany of the 1920s attracted the Szillards, Tellers and von Neumans of the world (and Budapest). Just imagine the Germany of the 1930s being a little more foresighted and embracing Germany's Jewish heritage instead of rejecting and expurging it. The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
I am genuinely interested in why you think it would not be better?
Surely a world in which Germany did not embrace Nazism and anti-semitism would be a better place. Even if one accepts that there would probably have been a WW2 and a cold war as a result, Europe would undoubtedly have been a better place if that Jewish culture had not been erased and if all those potential Jewish contributions to art, culture and society had been allowed to flourish?
I think Mattias is imagining a world where the Nazis still exterminated Roma and homosexuals, invaded Poland, but didn't go after the Jews.
That would be the scenario where Germany was dominated by a slightly more moderate nationalistic/ultraconservative political force minus the antisemitism (and the idea of territorial gain in Eastern Europe). But a plethora of other alternative timelines are available if you work from Hindenburg dying in '28. The above scenario is plausible, but just about as much as Thälmann becoming the German Stalin, or the centre eventually holding and the Austrian corporal becoming the German Oswald Mosley. How any of these counterfactuals affect the European continent and the rest of humankind is a somehow fascinating, yet probably fruitless and potentially unsavoury debate.
He has signed an executive order giving a 10 year jail term for pulling down and destroying statues and on that I expect most Americans agree with him.
Even if statues are removed they should be moved to a museum not toppled by the mob
He can sign all the executive orders he likes, he can't make laws, as that is the job of Congress.
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Totally untrue. The virus can spread rapidly by close outside contact as has been attested in spike events all over the world: in the UK the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool Champions League matches being prime examples.
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Totally untrue. The virus can spread rapidly by close outside contact as has been attested in spike events all over the world: in the UK the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool Champions League matches being prime examples.
So drop your feeble anecdotes and stay safe.
The Cheltenham Festival was not a spike event. It was only bigged up as such to divert attention from Boris going to the rugby three days earlier.
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
That's a tiresome anti-semitic trope in itself. All Jews are commercially-minded? FFS.
It would be on safer ground to suggest that all variants of eadric et al are idiots.
What happened in the primary elections in the US on Tuesday? There were a few partial results but then a statement that most would take several days to announce as postal ballots would be counted up to Thursday. Do we have final outcomes yet?
Robert Jenrick affair taints the Conservative Party Allegations of cash for favours in a planning dispute could do the Tories more damage in the long run than Covid-19
Although, in my experience, when big men want to influence a decision their instinct is to bypass the monkey and go for the organ-grinder, we must accept what Downing Street says: that the organ-grinder was above the fray. Desmond pitched it to Jenrick instead.
The ordinary citizen will little note nor long remember the details of the mess that this has all become. It was nicely condensed in a single short paragraph by my Times colleague, Quentin Letts, in his sketch on Thursday: “Mr Desmond hoped to develop his former printing plant in the East End. He hit planning trouble. He bought . . . tickets to a Conservative Party dinner and was seated next to the planning minister, our young friend Mr Jenrick. By one of those miracles of fate, Mr Desmond’s planning troubles evaporated.”
Best guess: humans are programmed by evolution to disfavour an out-group, ie a scapegoat, and the educated, commercially-minded, allegedly-self-regarding Jewish people are ideal for that purpose, in nearly all circumstances
That's a tiresome anti-semitic trope in itself. All Jews are commercially-minded? FFS.
It would be on safer ground to suggest that all variants of eadric et al are idiots.
+2
At least it is difficult to claim false prescience when you have made only a handful of posts...
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Totally untrue. The virus can spread rapidly by close outside contact as has been attested in spike events all over the world: in the UK the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool Champions League matches being prime examples.
So drop your feeble anecdotes and stay safe.
The Cheltenham Festival was not a spike event. It was only bigged up as such to divert attention from Boris going to the rugby three days earlier.
The only people attempting to claim that Cheltenham didn't act as a huge virus vector are racegoers, betters and the horse racing industry. Funny that.
Join the moon landing conspiracy theorists if you like but to everyone else the scientific facts are clear.
What happened in the primary elections in the US on Tuesday? There were a few partial results but then a statement that most would take several days to announce as postal ballots would be counted up to Thursday. Do we have final outcomes yet?
Silent Knight still not called for his resignation.
He is correct to not force the issue - especially as it wouldn’t work
Jenrick has the smell of corruption on him. As he hasn’t been forced out that smell is rapidly engulfing he rest of this government.
hyperbole
Which part - that the Tory party overrode procedures at the request of a donor or the fact the smell seems to have moved from just Jenrick to also be coming from No 10 and / or Boris.
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Totally untrue. The virus can spread rapidly by close outside contact as has been attested in spike events all over the world: in the UK the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool Champions League matches being prime examples.
So drop your feeble anecdotes and stay safe.
The Cheltenham Festival was not a spike event. It was only bigged up as such to divert attention from Boris going to the rugby three days earlier.
The only people attempting to claim that Cheltenham didn't act as a huge virus vector are racegoers, betters and the horse racing industry. Funny that.
Join the moon landing conspiracy theorists if you like but to everyone else the scientific facts are clear.
The first two people to have coronavirus in my parents home town, by massive coincidence, both went to Cheltenham Festival.
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Totally untrue. The virus can spread rapidly by close outside contact as has been attested in spike events all over the world: in the UK the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool Champions League matches being prime examples.
So drop your feeble anecdotes and stay safe.
The Cheltenham Festival was not a spike event. It was only bigged up as such to divert attention from Boris going to the rugby three days earlier.
The only people attempting to claim that Cheltenham didn't act as a huge virus vector are racegoers, betters and the horse racing industry. Funny that.
Join the moon landing conspiracy theorists if you like but to everyone else the scientific facts are clear.
You are saying that the Cheltenham Festival and that football match were prime conductors.
This at the time when the tube was carrying 2m people per day in and around London?
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Totally untrue. The virus can spread rapidly by close outside contact as has been attested in spike events all over the world: in the UK the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool Champions League matches being prime examples.
So drop your feeble anecdotes and stay safe.
The Cheltenham Festival was not a spike event. It was only bigged up as such to divert attention from Boris going to the rugby three days earlier.
The only people attempting to claim that Cheltenham didn't act as a huge virus vector are racegoers, betters and the horse racing industry. Funny that.
Join the moon landing conspiracy theorists if you like but to everyone else the scientific facts are clear.
What evidence do you have, Mystic, that Cheltenham acted as '...a huge virus vector'?
I was there for the first three days and live about five miles from the course. Naturally I have been watching to see if there was any kind of spike associated with the event but I have seen little. That kind of surprised me but the figures for Gloucestershire indicate little effect if any, and anecdotally my many racing friends who were there were unaffected by the virus.
Don't get me wrong. In hindsight I think the meeting should have been cancelled, and I shouldn't have gone. But I should like to know the evidence on which you base your strong opinion.
Or 20% of your population already having had does...we are seeing huge upticks in places where there have been large protests and who previously hadn't suffered too badly.
Now that might be the general opening up, but I find it hard to believe 10,000s of people huddled together for hours on end, screaming and shouting, and coughing from all the tear gas, doesn't present a transmission vector.
The paper the media reported yesterday as saying not down to protests, didn't actually say that, and their own charts of number / size of protests looks very very similar to where we are seeing big upticks.
Being outside seems to be a pretty low risk, pretty much whatever goes on.
Yup. The dogs that did not bark.
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
Totally untrue. The virus can spread rapidly by close outside contact as has been attested in spike events all over the world: in the UK the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool Champions League matches being prime examples.
So drop your feeble anecdotes and stay safe.
The Cheltenham Festival was not a spike event. It was only bigged up as such to divert attention from Boris going to the rugby three days earlier.
The only people attempting to claim that Cheltenham didn't act as a huge virus vector are racegoers, betters and the horse racing industry. Funny that.
Join the moon landing conspiracy theorists if you like but to everyone else the scientific facts are clear.
What evidence do you have, Mystic, that Cheltenham acted as '...a huge virus vector'?
I was there for the first three days and live about five miles from the course. Naturally I have been watching to see if there was any kind of spike associated with the event but I have seen little. That kind of surprised me but the figures for Gloucestershire indicates little effect if any, and anecdotally my many racing friends who were there were unaffected by the virus.
Don't get me wrong. In hindsight I think the meeting should have been cancelled, and I shouldn't have gone. But I should like to know the evidence on which you base your strong opinion.
I think the Liverpool match created more cases but it was really a matter of timing. If Cheltenham had been just few days later I think it would have created real problems.
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https://twitter.com/1jmsho/status/1275960597419569155?s=20
https://twitter.com/dijoni/status/1276334818343612417?s=20
What did the so called kids in Brixton do...injure 15 police officers
I really can't see a connection because my name is Phillip Thompson and I am turning leftie and make cretinous excuses for anyone I agree with
But we shouldn't spoil the illusion or it may disappear, just like that.
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/06/how-keir-starmer-sabotaged-rebecca-long-bailey
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1276610242495811591
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/26/883336183/poll-trump-disapproval-hits-all-time-high-and-he-trails-biden-by-8
The number that struck me was 49% strongly disapprove. That is the stuff of a proper landslide.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8464779/Mayor-Joe-Anderson-blasts-Liverpool-fans-party-second-night.html
And if it is felt to be wrong, then its wrong, not an honour to have played the role for 20 years.
The world would look a little different right now, but probably not for the better.
I presume she will now be under pressure not to do the Asian character or Cleveland wife?
I am left wing, I support increased state intervention in the economy. I however detest what the Corbynite faction is trying to do to Labour now, especially after being defeated so comprehensively.
You can believe in left wing policies and ideas, without being a died in the wool socialist nutter.
I am a social democrat.
Surely a world in which Germany did not embrace Nazism and anti-semitism would be a better place. Even if one accepts that there would probably have been a WW2 and a cold war as a result, Europe would undoubtedly have been a better place if that Jewish culture had not been erased and if all those potential Jewish contributions to art, culture and society had been allowed to flourish?
The counterfactual of German political leadership smart enough to foresee the invention of synthetic fertiliser rendering the Lebensraum concept obsolete, and the literally world leading physics departments of German universities changing the course of human history otherwise, is fascinating, though.
Global average deaths per million 63.6.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
I never said the same about Brazil which unlike India has a life expectancy above the global average
Unheard of. Dynamite.
If you actually read the underlying story, North Carolina made face masks unlawful several decades ago to tackle the KKK. That law has been suspended by the GOP Governor due to the Coronavirus. The suspension is temporary (to 1 August) but is actually pretty likely to be extended.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/black-lives-matter-protesters-who-topple-statues-are-terrorists-says-trump-b8jr9dsk6
Got to laugh at that one! He won't take any crap from army generals and defence secretary Mark Esper this time, right? :-)
Earlier the state governor of New Jersey said that visitors from states with increasing numbers of coronavirus cases should go into quarantine. The White House response was to pout that His Imperial Majesty the POTUS wasn't a civilian and he could eat as many sweets as he wanted, even just before his dinner if he felt like it.
The most relevant order-related thing that has happened recently in DC seems to be the business over the statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, best known to students of the history of freemasonry. Something tells me the army brass won't accept the invocation of the Insurrection Act in this connection.
Then there's the Mary Trump book. Looking at what happened with the Bolton book - it "leaked" and the judge said "he's an awful cad but the cat's out of the bag FFS" - the Don's chances of successfully stopping publication seem to be tiny.
How long until it's over.
#JustF***ingResign
Even if statues are removed they should be moved to a museum not toppled by the mob
https://twitter.com/CrimeLdn/status/1276666813531721729?s=20
https://twitter.com/MPSWestminster/status/1276658533493325834?s=20
Surely you don't think it's sensible to start calling those who pull down a statue (any statue, and whether they're right or wrong) "terrorists"?
Spoke to an epidemiologist yesterday, he concurs with you. Reckons transmission risk outside is very low.
Despite the shrieking in the Daily Mail, the beach parties will probably make little difference.
But a plethora of other alternative timelines are available if you work from Hindenburg dying in '28. The above scenario is plausible, but just about as much as Thälmann becoming the German Stalin, or the centre eventually holding and the Austrian corporal becoming the German Oswald Mosley.
How any of these counterfactuals affect the European continent and the rest of humankind is a somehow fascinating, yet probably fruitless and potentially unsavoury debate.
So drop your feeble anecdotes and stay safe.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/
Big trouble brewing here.
Week or so until the F1 season kicks off. Be odd to have it get going three months late, but there we are.
Maybe!
Mr Jenrick was seated on a table with Bruce Ritchie, the owner of Residential Land who has donated nearly £900,000 to the Tories, at the party’s Winter Ball in February.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/robert-jenrick-joined-landowner-at-tory-ball-vzcpv26km (£££)
Trouble is, it is surely in the nature of party fundraisers that ministers meet donors, almost by definition.
He's impotent as a minister. Everything he does will forever be tainted.
And he serves as a constant reminder that while Starmer acted instantly, BoZo will move heaven and earth to keep his chums happy.
Jenrick has the smell of corruption on him. As he hasn’t been forced out that smell is rapidly engulfing he rest of this government.
Allegations of cash for favours in a planning dispute could do the Tories more damage in the long run than Covid-19
Although, in my experience, when big men want to influence a decision their instinct is to bypass the monkey and go for the organ-grinder, we must accept what Downing Street says: that the organ-grinder was above the fray. Desmond pitched it to Jenrick instead.
The ordinary citizen will little note nor long remember the details of the mess that this has all become. It was nicely condensed in a single short paragraph by my Times colleague, Quentin Letts, in his sketch on Thursday: “Mr Desmond hoped to develop his former printing plant in the East End. He hit planning trouble. He bought . . . tickets to a Conservative Party dinner and was seated next to the planning minister, our young friend Mr Jenrick. By one of those miracles of fate, Mr Desmond’s planning troubles evaporated.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/robert-jenrick-affair-taints-the-conservative-party-v2kg78vfw
At least it is difficult to claim false prescience when you have made only a handful of posts...
Join the moon landing conspiracy theorists if you like but to everyone else the scientific facts are clear.
or the fact the smell seems to have moved from just Jenrick to also be coming from No 10 and / or Boris.
This at the time when the tube was carrying 2m people per day in and around London?
I was there for the first three days and live about five miles from the course. Naturally I have been watching to see if there was any kind of spike associated with the event but I have seen little. That kind of surprised me but the figures for Gloucestershire indicate little effect if any, and anecdotally my many racing friends who were there were unaffected by the virus.
Don't get me wrong. In hindsight I think the meeting should have been cancelled, and I shouldn't have gone. But I should like to know the evidence on which you base your strong opinion.
At Cheltenham it's all of them