On not exonerating an employee who forged bank statements to secure an interview - and with apologies to Father Ted - ‘This is basic stuff, Lord Hall. This is page 1 of “How to be a Catholic”’.
I can't believe that this Diana and Bashir nonsense is still headline news. 4 bloody days of it.
I wouldn't mind, but nothing will come of it. I'll pay the licence fee next January as normal and the likes of Hall will continue to live the Life of Riley on our money.
Interesting that @RoryStewartUK is so strongly opposed to tariff and quota free trade with Australia. I’d assumed that it would be possible to make it conditional on high animal welfare standards and subsidise environmental stewardship by domestic producers. Maybe that’s naive. https://twitter.com/NickBoles/status/1396143496650797056
Hi All, A thread entirely devoted to ME ME ME! What could be more restorative than that.
Many thanks to Mike and all pb for your kind wishes.I’m back in Hersham Towers since yesterday….and as this is ‘politics’, everyone at NHS St Peters and I mean everyone was simple fantastic in the care, kindness and effectiveness. And I owe so very much to the dog-walker (who I know) for the CRP. I’ve also been consoling myself by reading all the pb threads.
It all happened so suddenly, didn’t feel a thing and can’t even remember the few days before the incident - it’s all a complete blank.
Anyway the problem was essential an arrhythmia which should be completely solved by my now having an ICD. Feeling generally fine but knackered. But we’ll start councilling again gradually.
Cases are up and it looks like we are seeing some more admissions. However, admissions are up only in 18-64 group (sadly no finer detail on the groups) - older groups continue to fall.
Similarly, with cases, in the 0-44 groups there is a rise - with falls for the older groups
Interesting that @RoryStewartUK is so strongly opposed to tariff and quota free trade with Australia. I’d assumed that it would be possible to make it conditional on high animal welfare standards and subsidise environmental stewardship by domestic producers. Maybe that’s naive. https://twitter.com/NickBoles/status/1396143496650797056
All these journos/former journos going holier than thou. I recon Boris Johnson, Julian Knight and the whole chorus of critics would have done exactly the same as bashir if they thought they could get the journalistic scoop of the century.
However, the story is that again BBC management covered all if this up and threw the whistleblower under the bus...like Jim"em Fix It.
And they are in the unique position that they are publicly funded and place themselves as moral arbitrators on so many matters.
Nobody makes me pay for the Sun, Mail, Mirror etc, and I never buy them, but I have to pay for the BBC so I can watch Sky Sports....
Yesterday's cartoon was excellent
Mother to her young son
'If you do not stop lying you will only have a future as a BBC journalist'
All these journos/former journos going holier than thou. I recon Boris Johnson, Julian Knight and the whole chorus of critics would have done exactly the same as bashir if they thought they could get the journalistic scoop of the century.
However, the story is that again BBC management covered all if this up and threw the whistleblower under the bus...like Jim"em Fix It.
And they are in the unique position that they are publicly funded and place themselves as moral arbitrators on so many matters.
Nobody makes me pay for the Sun, Mail, Mirror etc, and I never buy them, but I have to pay for the BBC so I can watch Sky Sports....
Yesterday's cartoon was excellent
Mother to her young son
'If you do not stop lying you will only have a future as a BBC journalist'
... or Prime Minister?
Yesterday's poll had Boris and Starmer on telling the truth at 28% each
I know I'm rather late to the party on this, but there do appear to be encouraging signs that the Indian variant is turning into a bit of a damp squib. Seems like there's a mixed bag, but no dramatic increases in case rate, in London; West Midlands very low and still declining in most council areas; and no sign of serious problems even in previously very stubborn hotspots like Luton and Leicester. This is not the sort of pattern we saw with the rampaging Kent Plague.
If it's a very localised problem that's affecting specific areas where there's been heavy seeding of the variant from India and lower than average uptake of the vaccines, then there's no particular reason to suppose that it will become a serious issue for most of us (and resources, in the form of blanket testing and vaccinations, can be used to crush the disease in the relevant places.)
If this indeed transpires to be the case then one would expect phase 4 to go ahead in England in a month's time. If the Government is going to foot-drag then it will require a very convincing explanation for so doing.
I know I'm rather late to the party on this, but there do appear to be encouraging signs that the Indian variant is turning into a bit of a damp squib. Seems like there's a mixed bag, but no dramatic increases in case rate, in London; West Midlands very low and still declining in most council areas; and no sign of serious problems even in previously very stubborn hotspots like Luton and Leicester. This is not the sort of pattern we saw with the rampaging Kent Plague.
If it's a very localised problem that's affecting specific areas where there's been heavy seeding of the variant from India and lower than average uptake of the vaccines, then there's no particular reason to suppose that it will become a serious issue for most of us (and resources, in the form of blanket testing and vaccinations, can be used to crush the disease in the relevant places.)
If this indeed transpires to be the case then one would expect phase 4 to go ahead in England in a month's time. If the Government is going to foot-drag then it will require a very convincing explanation for so doing.
The other issue is the age groups - indicating vaccination status. There is a rise in cases - among the unvaccinated age groups and a fall elsewhere.
Similarly, for hospitalisations, there is a small rise in the unvaccinated age groups, but a fall in the vaccinated.
I know I'm rather late to the party on this, but there do appear to be encouraging signs that the Indian variant is turning into a bit of a damp squib. Seems like there's a mixed bag, but no dramatic increases in case rate, in London; West Midlands very low and still declining in most council areas; and no sign of serious problems even in previously very stubborn hotspots like Luton and Leicester. This is not the sort of pattern we saw with the rampaging Kent Plague.
If it's a very localised problem that's affecting specific areas where there's been heavy seeding of the variant from India and lower than average uptake of the vaccines, then there's no particular reason to suppose that it will become a serious issue for most of us (and resources, in the form of blanket testing and vaccinations, can be used to crush the disease in the relevant places.)
If this indeed transpires to be the case then one would expect phase 4 to go ahead in England in a month's time. If the Government is going to foot-drag then it will require a very convincing explanation for so doing.
Yes, Harrow is the key location for this, if cases rise out of control in Harrow then it's a sign we're in trouble. If not (and they aren't) then we're fine. People who have refused the vaccine are really not going to stop the unlockdown. It's not a consideration.
Hi All, A thread entirely devoted to ME ME ME! What could be more restorative than that.
Many thanks to Mike and all pb for your kind wishes.I’m back in Hersham Towers since yesterday….and as this is ‘politics’, everyone at NHS St Peters and I mean everyone was simple fantastic in the care, kindness and effectiveness. And I owe so very much to the dog-walker (who I know) for the CRP. I’ve also been consoling myself by reading all the pb threads.
It all happened so suddenly, didn’t feel a thing and can’t even remember the few days before the incident - it’s all a complete blank.
Anyway the problem was essential an arrhythmia which should be completely solved by my now having an ICD. Feeling generally fine but knackered. But we’ll start councilling again gradually.
I know I'm rather late to the party on this, but there do appear to be encouraging signs that the Indian variant is turning into a bit of a damp squib. Seems like there's a mixed bag, but no dramatic increases in case rate, in London; West Midlands very low and still declining in most council areas; and no sign of serious problems even in previously very stubborn hotspots like Luton and Leicester. This is not the sort of pattern we saw with the rampaging Kent Plague.
If it's a very localised problem that's affecting specific areas where there's been heavy seeding of the variant from India and lower than average uptake of the vaccines, then there's no particular reason to suppose that it will become a serious issue for most of us (and resources, in the form of blanket testing and vaccinations, can be used to crush the disease in the relevant places.)
If this indeed transpires to be the case then one would expect phase 4 to go ahead in England in a month's time. If the Government is going to foot-drag then it will require a very convincing explanation for so doing.
Yes, Harrow is the key location for this, if cases rise out of control in Harrow then it's a sign we're in trouble. If not (and they aren't) then we're fine. People who have refused the vaccine are really not going to stop the unlockdown. It's not a consideration.
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A helpful warning, thanks
What if they start easting pineapple pizza on stage? Or coding in Python?
This feels so wrong asking this on John's thread and.. I can't help myself.
Does anyone have any good Eurovision tips for tonight?
It's really uncertain this year, betting is a bit tricky.
Portugal is flying under the radar a bit and may get top 10. Also, Serbia is getting much more impressive views/listens than their betting odds reflect. UK, Spain and Germany are good candidates for bottom 5.
Winner? Probably Italy, but Switzerland and France in with a shout too.
This feels so wrong asking this on John's thread and.. I can't help myself.
Does anyone have any good Eurovision tips for tonight?
It's really uncertain this year, betting is a bit tricky.
Portugal is flying under the radar a bit and may get top 10. Also, Serbia is getting much more impressive views/listens than their betting odds reflect. UK, Spain and Germany are good candidates for bottom 5.
Winner? Probably Italy, but Switzerland and France in with a shout too.
In 30 mins...a new band featuring members of Radiohead will be the special guests at Glastonbury's live-streamed concert on Saturday, it has been revealed.
Do we have to pay to watch this live-stream?
Yes luckily they put it behind a paywall for health and safety reasons.....
This feels so wrong asking this on John's thread and.. I can't help myself.
Does anyone have any good Eurovision tips for tonight?
It's really uncertain this year, betting is a bit tricky.
Portugal is flying under the radar a bit and may get top 10. Also, Serbia is getting much more impressive views/listens than their betting odds reflect. UK, Spain and Germany are good candidates for bottom 5.
Winner? Probably Italy, but Switzerland and France in with a shout too.
This feels so wrong asking this on John's thread and.. I can't help myself.
Does anyone have any good Eurovision tips for tonight?
It's really uncertain this year, betting is a bit tricky.
Portugal is flying under the radar a bit and may get top 10. Also, Serbia is getting much more impressive views/listens than their betting odds reflect. UK, Spain and Germany are good candidates for bottom 5.
Winner? Probably Italy, but Switzerland and France in with a shout too.
This feels so wrong asking this on John's thread and.. I can't help myself.
Does anyone have any good Eurovision tips for tonight?
It's really uncertain this year, betting is a bit tricky.
Portugal is flying under the radar a bit and may get top 10. Also, Serbia is getting much more impressive views/listens than their betting odds reflect. UK, Spain and Germany are good candidates for bottom 5.
Winner? Probably Italy, but Switzerland and France in with a shout too.
When did Italy start competing in it again? I thought they quit years ago? Do they actually have any voting history?
There's a debunker called Mick West who quite plausibly shows that one of the crucial "alien" videos is actually..... a goose
Literally, a goose
It will be incredible if it turns out the American political and journalistic elite, up to and including President Obama, got all excited, and created the headlines of the century, by misidentifying a goose as ET
There's a debunker called Mick West who quite plausibly shows that one of the crucial "alien" videos is actually..... a goose
Literally, a goose
It will be incredible if it turns out the American political and journalistic elite, up to and including President Obama, got all excited, and created the headlines of the century, by misidentifying a goose as ET
"It will be incredible" "misidentifying a goose as ET"
No it wouldn't be. We've been going around this loop for at least fifty years, probably longer. Since film was invented.
There's a debunker called Mick West who quite plausibly shows that one of the crucial "alien" videos is actually..... a goose
Literally, a goose
It will be incredible if it turns out the American political and journalistic elite, up to and including President Obama, got all excited, and created the headlines of the century, by misidentifying a goose as ET
I so hope that is the white dot appearing out of the clouds at hypersonic speed. I really, really want there to be Mach 10 geese.
Can’t fault the Guardian for putting in a Sterling shift to try to convince us that the India variant is going to kill us all. Day after day, every one a new angle.
This evening - “Govt coverup to justify ending of masks in schools”.
There's a debunker called Mick West who quite plausibly shows that one of the crucial "alien" videos is actually..... a goose
Literally, a goose
It will be incredible if it turns out the American political and journalistic elite, up to and including President Obama, got all excited, and created the headlines of the century, by misidentifying a goose as ET
"It will be incredible" "misidentifying a goose as ET"
No it wouldn't be. We've been going around this loop for at least fifty years, probably longer. Since film was invented.
No, it would be incredible: because we have two ex directors of the CIA, sundry intelligence folk, senior senators, Barack Obama, veteran fighter pilots, and many others, all weighing in and giving credibility to this story - or flat out saying it is ET
The idea that all these folk have been deceived by a pilot misidentifying a goose is almost as incredible as aliens popping by for tea
Either way, we get something incredible happening! That's good. Incredible things are fun
Can’t fault the Guardian for putting in a Sterling shift to try to convince us that the India variant is going to kill us all. Day after day, every one a new angle.
This evening - “Govt coverup to justify ending of masks in schools”.
The Guardian are zero covid in school zealots, but will be the first to moan about how closure of schools is widening the gap for the poorest / BAME kids.
There's a debunker called Mick West who quite plausibly shows that one of the crucial "alien" videos is actually..... a goose
Literally, a goose
It will be incredible if it turns out the American political and journalistic elite, up to and including President Obama, got all excited, and created the headlines of the century, by misidentifying a goose as ET
I so hope that is the white dot appearing out of the clouds at hypersonic speed. I really, really want there to be Mach 10 geese.
The debunkers also have Normalcy Bias, of course. And they have careers and reputations to nurture. They are vested in proving these things can be prosaically explained. Indeed, they HAVE to say that.
I think if there was live HD footage of the aliens landing on Regent's Park to play their intergalactic love-bassoons, they'd find a way to debunk it as CGI, with extra Deep Fakery
This story is so bizarre it is hard to stay sane as you plot it out. It's like trying to prove or disprove God. You can't, really
Can’t fault the Guardian for putting in a Sterling shift to try to convince us that the India variant is going to kill us all. Day after day, every one a new angle.
This evening - “Govt coverup to justify ending of masks in schools”.
The story appears to be that Number 10 leant on PHE not to publish data on the Indian variant in schools. Shades of sexing up the WMDs dossier, also at Number 10's behest?
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What’s the record? 45?
I’d love to think it would smash that...
I am shocked to hear this news. Truly shocked.
I hope he's ok. I have messaged him.
I’m late to the party, but did my bit to help your post upthread break the PB likes record.
Get well soon, John.
Cases are up and it looks like we are seeing some more admissions. However, admissions are up only in 18-64 group (sadly no finer detail on the groups) - older groups continue to fall.
Similarly, with cases, in the 0-44 groups there is a rise - with falls for the older groups
*to yesterday
Credit to Vince for trying to force a result.
However, the BBC are giving it just as much airtime.
Now that’s what I call circular posting.
Edit - and now somebody’s liked a post about me liking a post by another poster about liking a...oh FFS forget it.
So leader of the opposition as well
If it's a very localised problem that's affecting specific areas where there's been heavy seeding of the variant from India and lower than average uptake of the vaccines, then there's no particular reason to suppose that it will become a serious issue for most of us (and resources, in the form of blanket testing and vaccinations, can be used to crush the disease in the relevant places.)
If this indeed transpires to be the case then one would expect phase 4 to go ahead in England in a month's time. If the Government is going to foot-drag then it will require a very convincing explanation for so doing.
Does anyone have any good Eurovision tips for tonight?
(Sorry, John. The beers will be on me when we next meet!)
Similarly, for hospitalisations, there is a small rise in the unvaccinated age groups, but a fall in the vaccinated.
See graphs below...
Could have got quite a price on the double I would have thought.
The most popular entries, measured by numbers of bets placed at Ladbrokes, are:
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2. Iceland 🇮🇸 14/1
3. Switzerland 🇨🇭 10/1
4. UK 🇬🇧 66/1
5. Italy 🇮🇹 2/1
https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1396151293278924803
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mowKhHfp6nk
I like Graham Norton, but somehow I don't think he has it in him to create a diplomatic incident in the way Wogan did in 2001.
02/05/2021 1.2
03/05/2021 1.3
04/05/2021 1.2
05/05/2021 1.1
06/05/2021 1
07/05/2021 1
08/05/2021 1
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13/05/2021 0.9
14/05/2021 0.9
15/05/2021 1.1
16/05/2021 1.2
17/05/2021 1.2
Number of cases in Harrow
07/05/2021 16
08/05/2021 5
09/05/2021 8
10/05/2021 10
11/05/2021 12
12/05/2021 7
13/05/2021 10
14/05/2021 14
15/05/2021 12
16/05/2021 6
17/05/2021 11
18/05/2021 8
19/05/2021 5
20/05/2021 9
21/05/2021 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT6yOIC6ihI
You can back at over 500/1 on Betfair.
I usually watch it just to laugh at Europeans, or watch very very carefully when it's acts like the Polish washerwomen.
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https://twitter.com/LadPolitics/status/1396154150468169737
A news anchor just doesn't know what to say at about 20:10
https://twitter.com/ufoartwork/status/1396054101373427714
Unless anyone knows better, I’m saying that’s a new record.
Portugal is flying under the radar a bit and may get top 10. Also, Serbia is getting much more impressive views/listens than their betting odds reflect. UK, Spain and Germany are good candidates for bottom 5.
Winner? Probably Italy, but Switzerland and France in with a shout too.
Smallish stakes;
Top ten;
Portugal @2.02
Serbia@5.5
Belgium @14
And a few spare quid on ^ to win at silly long odds.
To any lurkers, don’t follow me in. I have an absolutely crap record betting on Eurovision!
Good to hear you're recovering and got good car, good luck in making a swift, full recovery.
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I don't watch Eurovision but here is a video posted today by an experienced Eurovision punter:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMWheXGGqk
Literally, a goose
It will be incredible if it turns out the American political and journalistic elite, up to and including President Obama, got all excited, and created the headlines of the century, by misidentifying a goose as ET
No it wouldn't be. We've been going around this loop for at least fifty years, probably longer. Since film was invented.
This evening - “Govt coverup to justify ending of masks in schools”.
The idea that all these folk have been deceived by a pilot misidentifying a goose is almost as incredible as aliens popping by for tea
Either way, we get something incredible happening! That's good. Incredible things are fun
I think if there was live HD footage of the aliens landing on Regent's Park to play their intergalactic love-bassoons, they'd find a way to debunk it as CGI, with extra Deep Fakery
This story is so bizarre it is hard to stay sane as you plot it out. It's like trying to prove or disprove God. You can't, really
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/22/no-10-tried-to-block-data-on-spread-of-new-covid-variant-in-english-schools
A nation mourns...
Desperately uninteresting stuff.
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NEW: Free Palestine protesters smash up car on High Street Kensington
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1396172830908239877?s=20
That's really gonna help Palestine, isn't it? Smashing up a fancy car in London. Did the driver look Jewish?