"Internal party polling shows the Lib Dems are fast closing on the Conservatives in the Chesham and Amershan by-election race, with one party analyst “confident” they can claim an upset victory.
Liberal Democrat polling figures, seen by City A.M., put the party on 41 per cent and the Conservatives on 45 per cent just days before the 17 June by-election in the usually safe Tory seat."
"Internal party polling shows the Lib Dems are fast closing on the Conservatives in the Chesham and Amershan by-election race, with one party analyst “confident” they can claim an upset victory.
Liberal Democrat polling figures, seen by City A.M., put the party on 41 per cent and the Conservatives on 45 per cent just days before the 17 June by-election in the usually safe Tory seat."
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
"Internal party polling shows the Lib Dems are fast closing on the Conservatives in the Chesham and Amershan by-election race, with one party analyst “confident” they can claim an upset victory.
Liberal Democrat polling figures, seen by City A.M., put the party on 41 per cent and the Conservatives on 45 per cent just days before the 17 June by-election in the usually safe Tory seat."
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
And BBC now running the GB News story...explaining what is cancel culture and woke....not sure GB News could have paid for that publicity.
Speaking to BBC News on Tuesday, Richard Wilson, director of media group Stop Funding Hate, said that the immediate controversial tone meant "it's no surprise" that a reputable brand such as Kopparberg are "stepping away, and refusing to align with this".
The group has begun compiling a list of brands advertising on the fledgling channel - urging its 120,000 followers on Twitter to exert pressure on them on social media.
Quite right....we can't have unvaccinated people dealing with the most vulnerable people in society day in day out.
It will have wide support
Shame that raising taxes to pay them a proper wage won't have that support.
You can always voluntarily pay more tax. HMRC will take it.
If I gave all my income voluntarily to HMRC and could get them to somehow hypothecate it to care workers rather than give it one of Hancock's mates it might increase their annual income by a few pennies each.
The government spends your (and my) tax money as they see fit according to what they think they can get away with from the voters.
They spend a lot of money in ways I don’t wish them to.
Indeed so if I think raising taxes to pay more for social care and wages in that sector is a good thing, donating my cash to hmrc, as you suggested, is a ridiculously inefficient way to go about it. Trying to convince others that if they really care about how we look after the elderly, the rich paying more tax has to be part of the solution seems better to me.
Maybe Scotland should field the women on Friday...
First, hubris. Next, nemesis.
England *should* flay Scotland alive, but never underestimate the ability of any English sporting side to screw up. The England football team have precisely one major tournament win in their entire history for a reason.
The BBC News article literally reads like a paid advertising promotion for GB News. It tells people what is on the channel and where it can be found (freeview channel 236 as well as other platforms including Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat)
Annoying list.
I have Amazon Prime, Netflix Basic, Roku and normal internet
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Do I not get a co credit as the sole proponent of this story for months!
By the way I meant to say to Topping yesterday, anyone that uses the phrase “little green men” in a pejorative way at this point of the game, marks themselves out as being at best intellectually incurious. If I’m polite about it. And in any case, if you’ve paid attention since as far back as Mulder and Scully, it should be “little grey men”.
"Internal party polling shows the Lib Dems are fast closing on the Conservatives in the Chesham and Amershan by-election race, with one party analyst “confident” they can claim an upset victory.
Liberal Democrat polling figures, seen by City A.M., put the party on 41 per cent and the Conservatives on 45 per cent just days before the 17 June by-election in the usually safe Tory seat."
I just had gin, tonic and fine quirky cheeses in the garden of a quite famous Tory judge (retired) who says he encountered Sir Kir ‘Royale’ Starmer many times as Kir Royale rose through the ranks
Says Kir is outstandingly intelligent. But… zero charisma… is true
Our best prime minister is probably a combo of Boris and Royale. Boris to win elections, Royale to rule
Retired Tory judge: target demographic for a dildo salesman?
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
Do I not get a co credit as the sole proponent of this story for months!
By the way I meant to say to Topping yesterday, anyone that uses the phrase “little green men” in a pejorative way at this point of the game, marks themselves out as being at best intellectually incurious. If I’m polite about it. And in any case, if you’ve paid attention since as far back as Mulder and Scully, it should be “little grey men”.
But then, if you watch Resident Alien. you'd know that they are mainly grey and green, with highlights in red and blue.
There were queues round the block of very young people at Petersfield vaccination centre today. Dozens and dozens of them.
No let up as far as I can see.
That's great but to what end now? The scientists are saying vaccination isn't enough to bring an end to this. The whole political class is letting us down by giving this scientists a free hand to reshape the nature of this country without even as much as a single vote.
But the paradox here is that people support the lockdown. If there was a vote they would probably extend it.
No, I think if permanent lockdown was put to a vote it would lose. The issue here is that they're boiling the frog and idiots like Boris are falling for it.
I am not an opinion pollster but I would guess that people will support the current level of restrictions until such point as the double vaccination programme is concluded or the hospitalisation rate from the current problematic variant subsides. Thats the vibe I get. People seem to think that the current level of restriction isn't too difficult to live with rightly or wrongly. The scientists will inevitably be more on the cautious side, the politicians will need to read the public mood, it seems to me that Boris is doing that quite well at the moment, even though personally I agree that the restrictions should go.
restrictions might not be too bad for middle aged people but young are missing out on nightclubs, festivals and live music
I'm 56 and missing live music, worried I'm going to miss out on a festival in August, miss just being able to bimble along to the pub without booking, checking how many people are going to be there, etc, and independent travel mostly around Eastern Europe. As are most of my friends. Surely it's younger people with families who are happy in their locked down little worlds. We're the free generation.
Thats quite true, maybe the boomers (sorry to use that term) with their reunion tours etc will be hit as badly as the teenagers, who will always manage to find ways around restrictions like this.
"boomers" - Moderators! Are you gonna just ignore this disgraceful, degrading hate speech?
All my life yours truly has had to deal with the shame & stigma of being a "baby boomer". Just because my parents, and MANY others, were rendered both horny AND fertile by the shocks & stress of world war and global confrontation. And now you say we are LESS clever & conniving than our grandchildren. We, the generation who turned both cleverness and connivance into art forms!
Have you no decency, sir or madam? Haven't we suffered enough?!?
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
"15 Jun 2021 Revealed: Epstein and Maxwell implicated in multiple UK abuse claims over a decade By Channel 4 News Investigations Team Serious questions raised about why Met Police chose not to investigate alleged offences. Police said today they will ‘review the information’ reported by this programme."
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
There were queues round the block of very young people at Petersfield vaccination centre today. Dozens and dozens of them.
No let up as far as I can see.
That's great but to what end now? The scientists are saying vaccination isn't enough to bring an end to this. The whole political class is letting us down by giving this scientists a free hand to reshape the nature of this country without even as much as a single vote.
I'm as angry and disappointed at the continuation of restrictions as anyone else but that's not really accurate.
Its ridiculous this garbage was swallowed from the scientists and its irritating nobody with the numeracy and balls to stand up to them said "wait, this is ridiculous" or even "what JCVI groups will these tens of thousands dead be from ...
... But in 4 weeks time every single adult in the country will be vaccinated that wants to be, anyone left unvaccinated its their own damned fault by then, which isn't the case today. In 4 weeks time there'll be millions more with second jabs.
So as ridiculous as this extension is, its not permanent.
If you want to know which groups they expect to die -> it's all in their modelling papers and all over Twitter if you follow the right people. I'm astonished at the level of transparency which has become normal and expected in such a short space of time.
It's really groundbreaking and wonderful to see scientists & govt being this open about everything. And makes you wonder why more policymaking can't be honest like this.
Lib Dem internal polling also put them neck and neck in Caithness. In the end they came 7pts behind (SNP majority was 12pts in 2016). Doubtful though I am of interal poll leaks, they do often point to a correct direction of travel, so...
"15 Jun 2021 Revealed: Epstein and Maxwell implicated in multiple UK abuse claims over a decade By Channel 4 News Investigations Team Serious questions raised about why Met Police chose not to investigate alleged offences. Police said today they will ‘review the information’ reported by this programme."
For those following the modelling debates, heres a handy summary of where Warwick thinks this summer is going to go:
Richard Bar chartChart with downwards trend @RP131 I've (roughly) extracted the Warwick models from the SPI-M-O document that accompanied yesterday's roadmap delay.
Should be interesting to keep an eye on these over the next 2 weeks.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
There were queues round the block of very young people at Petersfield vaccination centre today. Dozens and dozens of them.
No let up as far as I can see.
That's great but to what end now? The scientists are saying vaccination isn't enough to bring an end to this. The whole political class is letting us down by giving this scientists a free hand to reshape the nature of this country without even as much as a single vote.
I'm as angry and disappointed at the continuation of restrictions as anyone else but that's not really accurate.
Its ridiculous this garbage was swallowed from the scientists and its irritating nobody with the numeracy and balls to stand up to them said "wait, this is ridiculous" or even "what JCVI groups will these tens of thousands dead be from ...
... But in 4 weeks time every single adult in the country will be vaccinated that wants to be, anyone left unvaccinated its their own damned fault by then, which isn't the case today. In 4 weeks time there'll be millions more with second jabs.
So as ridiculous as this extension is, its not permanent.
Maybe, I don't know, but this is feeling very much like the 'government scientists' in an Anya Rand novel so far.
That the Soviet libertarian ?
She was born in 'imperial Russia, and witnessed the revelation, the civil war, and the early stages of the soviet era, but had a habit of speaking her mind even when it was not in her best interest, and her family help smuggle her out and to the US, where amongst other tings she wrought many books,
Her books, most of them, are fiction, but describe a reality that we seem to be approaching,
If you are intested I'm more than happy to buy you or anybody who wises any of her books, (her spelling is better than mine)
And she died suckling off the public teat, taking social security benefits from the US government. A hypocrite, like all other libertarians.
Ayna Rand, accepted social security, in her old age, in the same way that most people in the UK who have paid National Insurance in there working lives accept the state pension in their retirement.
But as so often if not always an ad-homely attack, cant atake the idea so attack the messenger, the same as the actions we see with GB News today, terrified of people having a chose in which news to watch, so go after the advertisers.
Lib Dem internal polling also put them neck and neck in Caithness. In the end they came 7pts behind (SNP majority was 12pts in 2016). Doubtful though I am of interal poll leaks, they do often point to a correct direction of travel, so...
The BBC News article literally reads like a paid advertising promotion for GB News. It tells people what is on the channel and where it can be found (freeview channel 236 as well as other platforms including Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat)
Annoying list.
I have Amazon Prime, Netflix Basic, Roku and normal internet
Critics of the channel are really playing into their hands. I'd be a bit concerned as I don't want an overtly right-wing channel with a mass audience like Fox, but the probability of them getting anywhere seems so small that I can't be bothered to oppose it even if I thought it wise.
Do I not get a co credit as the sole proponent of this story for months!
By the way I meant to say to Topping yesterday, anyone that uses the phrase “little green men” in a pejorative way at this point of the game, marks themselves out as being at best intellectually incurious. If I’m polite about it. And in any case, if you’ve paid attention since as far back as Mulder and Scully, it should be “little grey men”.
You were first! You switched me on to this
As it happens my explanation has switched back to a mixture of hyperbole, pilot error - and elaborate US psy-ops exploiting the same, but that is still a huge story - esp given the scale of the establishment reaction. Anyone who dismisses this as a ‘normal’ UFO flap really isn’t paying attention
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
The BBC News article literally reads like a paid advertising promotion for GB News. It tells people what is on the channel and where it can be found (freeview channel 236 as well as other platforms including Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat)
Annoying list.
I have Amazon Prime, Netflix Basic, Roku and normal internet
Critics of the channel are really playing into their hands. I'd be a bit concerned as I don't want an overtly right-wing channel with a mass audience like Fox, but the probability of them getting anywhere seems so small that I can't be bothered to oppose it even if I thought it wise.
Fox News issue isn't it being right wing, the problem is that some hosts are highly inaccurate / misleading and those are the ones that get the big viewership.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
Does twitter really matter?. It has no relevance to my life nor affect the way I vote in any shape or form.
For those following the modelling debates, heres a handy summary of where Warwick thinks this summer is going to go:
Richard Bar chartChart with downwards trend @RP131 I've (roughly) extracted the Warwick models from the SPI-M-O document that accompanied yesterday's roadmap delay.
Should be interesting to keep an eye on these over the next 2 weeks.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
I just had gin, tonic and fine quirky cheeses in the garden of a quite famous Tory judge (retired) who says he encountered Sir Kir ‘Royale’ Starmer many times as Kir Royale rose through the ranks
Says Kir is outstandingly intelligent. But… zero charisma… is true
Our best prime minister is probably a combo of Boris and Royale. Boris to win elections, Royale to rule
I think that you should write a London newspaper column, say twice a week, with at least one-third (better more) devoted to your wanders to & fro across the (mostly London & English) countryside. With the spice of your views on whatever topic has got you interested - obsessed - enthralled - enraged at any given moment.
Certainly your word pictures, culinary reviews AND high-brow chit-chat are some of the best of PB.
Matthew Syed of The Times seems to have disappointed some if his followers by tweeting this
‘Catching up with @GBNEWS Andrew Neil Show. @afneil outstanding as usual. A strong programme. Technical and set issues for sure. Covid analysis impressive from @tomhfh and @DarrenGBNews. Definitely going to watch more...’
Quite right....we can't have unvaccinated people dealing with the most vulnerable people in society day in day out.
It will have wide support
Shame that raising taxes to pay them a proper wage won't have that support.
You can always voluntarily pay more tax. HMRC will take it.
If I gave all my income voluntarily to HMRC and could get them to somehow hypothecate it to care workers rather than give it one of Hancock's mates it might increase their annual income by a few pennies each.
The government spends your (and my) tax money as they see fit according to what they think they can get away with from the voters.
They spend a lot of money in ways I don’t wish them to.
Indeed so if I think raising taxes to pay more for social care and wages in that sector is a good thing, donating my cash to hmrc, as you suggested, is a ridiculously inefficient way to go about it. Trying to convince others that if they really care about how we look after the elderly, the rich paying more tax has to be part of the solution seems better to me.
Not to me. I already pay more than enough tax. Of course the lowest paid, not just care staff, should get more. Just raising tax for any reason makes it easier to raise tax for the next reason. The government need to target the revenues rather than just sounding our money.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Maybe Scotland should field the women on Friday...
First, hubris. Next, nemesis.
England *should* flay Scotland alive, but never underestimate the ability of any English sporting side to screw up. The England football team have precisely one major tournament win in their entire history for a reason.
Temperature. Most tournaments are played in ludicrously high temperatures. Not being good enough doesn't help either.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
Lin-Manuel Miranda is having to publicly apologise about the casting of his new film. The cast of the film is ethnically diverse, but not quite diverse enough for the outrage fanatics.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Pedantic point. Humanistic means not looking to religious tradition. Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
Good point, they probably meant humane/humanitarian values. I don't really care about GB News, as I'm not likely to ever watch it as I barely watch any TV, but it just struck me that today was not a good day for IKEA to be acting all holier-than-thou.
I am not sure Ikea have a leg to stand on period....
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
We are in a crazy world where twitter celebrates defunding a news channel they think is akin to nazi propaganda because it is to the right on cultural issues by a company set up by a literal nazi supporter...
There were queues round the block of very young people at Petersfield vaccination centre today. Dozens and dozens of them.
No let up as far as I can see.
That's great but to what end now? The scientists are saying vaccination isn't enough to bring an end to this. The whole political class is letting us down by giving this scientists a free hand to reshape the nature of this country without even as much as a single vote.
But the paradox here is that people support the lockdown. If there was a vote they would probably extend it.
No, I think if permanent lockdown was put to a vote it would lose. The issue here is that they're boiling the frog and idiots like Boris are falling for it.
I am not an opinion pollster but I would guess that people will support the current level of restrictions until such point as the double vaccination programme is concluded or the hospitalisation rate from the current problematic variant subsides. Thats the vibe I get. People seem to think that the current level of restriction isn't too difficult to live with rightly or wrongly. The scientists will inevitably be more on the cautious side, the politicians will need to read the public mood, it seems to me that Boris is doing that quite well at the moment, even though personally I agree that the restrictions should go.
restrictions might not be too bad for middle aged people but young are missing out on nightclubs, festivals and live music
I'm 56 and missing live music, worried I'm going to miss out on a festival in August, miss just being able to bimble along to the pub without booking, checking how many people are going to be there, etc, and independent travel mostly around Eastern Europe. As are most of my friends. Surely it's younger people with families who are happy in their locked down little worlds. We're the free generation.
Thats quite true, maybe the boomers (sorry to use that term) with their reunion tours etc will be hit as badly as the teenagers, who will always manage to find ways around restrictions like this.
"boomers" - Moderators! Are you gonna just ignore this disgraceful, degrading hate speech?
All my life yours truly has had to deal with the shame & stigma of being a "baby boomer". Just because my parents, and MANY others, were rendered both horny AND fertile by the shocks & stress of world war and global confrontation. And now you say we are LESS clever & conniving than our grandchildren. We, the generation who turned both cleverness and connivance into art forms!
Have you no decency, sir or madam? Haven't we suffered enough?!?
The BBC News article literally reads like a paid advertising promotion for GB News. It tells people what is on the channel and where it can be found (freeview channel 236 as well as other platforms including Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat)
Annoying list.
I have Amazon Prime, Netflix Basic, Roku and normal internet
Do I not get a co credit as the sole proponent of this story for months!
By the way I meant to say to Topping yesterday, anyone that uses the phrase “little green men” in a pejorative way at this point of the game, marks themselves out as being at best intellectually incurious. If I’m polite about it. And in any case, if you’ve paid attention since as far back as Mulder and Scully, it should be “little grey men”.
You were first! You switched me on to this
As it happens my explanation has switched back to a mixture of hyperbole, pilot error - and elaborate US psy-ops exploiting the same, but that is still a huge story - esp given the scale of the establishment reaction. Anyone who dismisses this as a ‘normal’ UFO flap really isn’t paying attention
And I do not rule out other conclusions
The cross party, multi administration psyops conspiracy theory is too far fetched for me. The only non-“exotic” explanation that makes even remote sense, is that mundane misinterpreted observations have captured the imagination of a hardcore of the US security state and it’s taken on a life of its own with each retelling. Secret US tech and foreign tech make no sense at all to me.
But to be honest this looks less likely than the simple conclusion that there is non human technology on earth / in its atmosphere (which has probably been here a long time, probably predating us). There really is no reason why this should be considered a fantastical explanation, it’s the most simple and logical explanation of the wealth of public evidence. And of course the multiple statements by various individuals with past or present top classification security status.
There were queues round the block of very young people at Petersfield vaccination centre today. Dozens and dozens of them.
No let up as far as I can see.
That's great but to what end now? The scientists are saying vaccination isn't enough to bring an end to this. The whole political class is letting us down by giving this scientists a free hand to reshape the nature of this country without even as much as a single vote.
I'm as angry and disappointed at the continuation of restrictions as anyone else but that's not really accurate.
Its ridiculous this garbage was swallowed from the scientists and its irritating nobody with the numeracy and balls to stand up to them said "wait, this is ridiculous" or even "what JCVI groups will these tens of thousands dead be from ...
... But in 4 weeks time every single adult in the country will be vaccinated that wants to be, anyone left unvaccinated its their own damned fault by then, which isn't the case today. In 4 weeks time there'll be millions more with second jabs.
So as ridiculous as this extension is, its not permanent.
Let's see where we are next month. After all, there are plenty more vaccination excuses left to use: presumably the vast bulk of the under 40s won't have been jabbed twice, the vaccines are supposedly much less effective against Delta on a single dose, some of the youngsters won't have had their first jabs for long enough even for those to take effect, many of the scientists are almost certain to shift the target to children, and the modellers will scream that the anti-vaxxers plus the elderly for whom the vaccinations haven't worked well will still be entirely sufficient to destroy the NHS if we don't lock down, to a greater or lesser extent, quite literally forever.
It's what the public health fascists ultimately want, and they're determined to have it.
I vape, (AKA electric cigarette) and like 98-99% of us I'm and ex smoker, only 1-2% of vapers are not ex-smokers, encouraging or at lest not impeding Vaping, would improve many more people health than trying to limit it. however teh Public heath altoratys around the would have tried to do this, the UK is better than most, but still we have petty stupid regulations. all to save the 1-2% of people who previously did not smock.
Its not about real public heath its about the desire to be the savvier, and all the kudos, respect and power that comes with it.
COVID and the pandemic are much more 'front page news' making it both harder for them to go too over the top but also more seductive.
I'm not saying all the people coming out with modals started off as bad people, just that ones you have been impotent and parsed for 15 months it will be very hard to let that go.
I vape and smoke. Also patches and lozenges. Call me the Nicotine Kid. No gum though. I've kicked that.
I just had gin, tonic and fine quirky cheeses in the garden of a quite famous Tory judge (retired) who says he encountered Sir Kir ‘Royale’ Starmer many times as Kir Royale rose through the ranks
Says Kir is outstandingly intelligent. But… zero charisma… is true
Our best prime minister is probably a combo of Boris and Royale. Boris to win elections, Royale to rule
I wish they wouldn't keep saying 'break the link between infections and Hospitalisations' because it makes it sound like cases can sky rocket in short order and Hospitalisations will just sit limply at nothing. To state the bleeding obvious, if you think about it for the briefest second, you realise that is patently untrue, yet it has a powerful hold on the mind set.
It has been more a gradual divergence over time - cases fall 10%, Hospitalisations 20%, deaths 30% and so on week after week. They still head in broad synchronisation.
As the roughest estimate it looks to me like Hospitalisations have fallen around 2/3 relative to infections, and deaths about 4/5 relative to Hospitalisations since New Year.
Broadly, if Bolton peak infection levels become widespread, i.e. under current regs, we'd end up up to around 5000 people in hospital, depending on how much the peak was staggered between different localities. I'm not sure what the multiplier with different regulations would actually be, but it would be a significant wave. 5000 is probably manageable and still allows for some progress on the cancer etc backlog during the summer months, two or three times that, not so much. Mind you, a bigger peak would probably blow out fairly quick as both infection and vaccination propelled us quite rapidly towards Delta's higher herd immunity bar (again, a convergence not a point event).
So, I think holding was ultimately the right decision. I've been a dyed in the wool incrementalist throughout this pandemic, and the July one-hit pinky promise unlock looks rash to me.
I'd like to see more imagination as to the how the roadmap might change to allow unlocking to progress even if that is in bits - e.g. changing all the personal bits of legislation to advice, this summer is the right time to emulate elements of the Swedish approach (I'd like to see that sooner if possible). I'd like full view on how businesses can operate in the months to come (e.g. no vertical drinking anywhere, but bar service OK, intervals at full cinemas etc etc). I'd like to see isolation replaced by self-testing for contacts, I'd like to see all advised vaccine or test or formal exemption for attending group events, I'd like to see masking gone for more distanced/short-term indoor interactions, e.g. supermarkets.
Even if we can't unlock we can push things forward bit by bit by bit, until the links of cases to harms are so diverged it doesn't matter.
I just had gin, tonic and fine quirky cheeses in the garden of a quite famous Tory judge (retired) who says he encountered Sir Kir ‘Royale’ Starmer many times as Kir Royale rose through the ranks
Says Kir is outstandingly intelligent. But… zero charisma… is true
Our best prime minister is probably a combo of Boris and Royale. Boris to win elections, Royale to rule
The BBC News article literally reads like a paid advertising promotion for GB News. It tells people what is on the channel and where it can be found (freeview channel 236 as well as other platforms including Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat)
Annoying list.
I have Amazon Prime, Netflix Basic, Roku and normal internet
Critics of the channel are really playing into their hands. I'd be a bit concerned as I don't want an overtly right-wing channel with a mass audience like Fox, but the probability of them getting anywhere seems so small that I can't be bothered to oppose it even if I thought it wise.
My lip curls when I watch it - and that's uncomfortable so I won't be persisting with it.
I just had gin, tonic and fine quirky cheeses in the garden of a quite famous Tory judge (retired) who says he encountered Sir Kir ‘Royale’ Starmer many times as Kir Royale rose through the ranks
Says Kir is outstandingly intelligent. But… zero charisma… is true
Our best prime minister is probably a combo of Boris and Royale. Boris to win elections, Royale to rule
I think that you should write a London newspaper column, say twice a week, with at least one-third (better more) devoted to your wanders to & fro across the (mostly London & English) countryside. With the spice of your views on whatever topic has got you interested - obsessed - enthralled - enraged at any given moment.
Certainly your word pictures, culinary reviews AND high-brow chit-chat are some of the best of PB.
“IKEA has not knowingly advertised on GB News. We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people. 2/3"
Have any of these companies actually watched it? The statements they are making makes it sound like GBNews output is one step away from the Daily Stormer, not basically a losd of people who were all on BBC, Sky and mainstream radio only a few weeks ago.
I would pull my advertising not just for the politics, but for the sub-teenager in his bedroom YouTube channel production standards.
Perhaps on the de luxe HD version they will employ a trained sound engineer who can sync the sound with the picture.
Comments
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/15/ikea-fined-1m-by-french-court-for-spying-on-staff
No - VAR
Some player though.
England *should* flay Scotland alive, but never underestimate the ability of any English sporting side to screw up. The England football team have precisely one major tournament win in their entire history for a reason.
...or U-Boats, as they call them.
I have Amazon Prime, Netflix Basic, Roku and normal internet
Is there much God bothering on GB News?
Whenever I have tried to assemble IKEA crap, I am pretty soon loudly exclaiming "Jesus Christ"
By the way I meant to say to Topping yesterday, anyone that uses the phrase “little green men” in a pejorative way at this point of the game, marks themselves out as being at best intellectually incurious. If I’m polite about it. And in any case, if you’ve paid attention since as far back as Mulder and Scully, it should be “little grey men”.
All my life yours truly has had to deal with the shame & stigma of being a "baby boomer". Just because my parents, and MANY others, were rendered both horny AND fertile by the shocks & stress of world war and global confrontation. And now you say we are LESS clever & conniving than our grandchildren. We, the generation who turned both cleverness and connivance into art forms!
Have you no decency, sir or madam? Haven't we suffered enough?!?
The founder of the Ikea furniture chain, Ingvar Kamprad, is facing further questions about his Nazi past following claims in a new book.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14661582
It's really groundbreaking and wonderful to see scientists & govt being this open about everything. And makes you wonder why more policymaking can't be honest like this.
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/scientific-evidence-supporting-the-government-response-to-coronavirus-covid-19
https://twitter.com/bnhwalker/status/1404900752376619013
Richard Bar chartChart with downwards trend
@RP131
I've (roughly) extracted the Warwick models from the SPI-M-O document that accompanied yesterday's roadmap delay.
Should be interesting to keep an eye on these over the next 2 weeks.
https://twitter.com/RP131/status/1404748268979081217
But as so often if not always an ad-homely attack, cant atake the idea so attack the messenger, the same as the actions we see with GB News today, terrified of people having a chose in which news to watch, so go after the advertisers.
But you would hardly expect them to announce "We're miles behind. You might as well not bother."
Pinch of salt.
Expect a decent swing, mind.
Edit Var
Edit2 offside
1-0 france
NEW: Ireland’s @LeoVaradkar says that he believes “in the unification of our island and I believe it can happen in my lifetime”
Adding “the views of unionists must be acknowledged, understood and respected but no one group can have a veto on Ireland’s future
https://twitter.com/DarrenGBNews/status/1404871380798165006?s=20
As it happens my explanation has switched back to a mixture of hyperbole, pilot error - and elaborate
US psy-ops exploiting the same, but that is still a huge story - esp given the scale of the establishment reaction. Anyone who dismisses this as a ‘normal’ UFO flap really isn’t paying attention
And I do not rule out other conclusions
Neil Henderson
@hendopolis
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FT UK: Chancellor faces £4bn bill to keep Tories’ triple lock pension pledge #TomorrowsPapersToday
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/15/time-to-go-joe-root-should-quit-england-captaincy-for-his-own-good
Fairly persuasive.
‘Catching up with @GBNEWS Andrew Neil Show. @afneil outstanding as usual. A strong programme. Technical and set issues for sure. Covid analysis impressive from @tomhfh and @DarrenGBNews. Definitely going to watch more...’
NEW THREAD
England can go as far as the point they run into one of them.
But to be honest this looks less likely than the simple conclusion that there is non human technology on earth / in its atmosphere (which has probably been here a long time, probably predating us). There really is no reason why this should be considered a fantastical explanation, it’s the most simple and logical explanation of the wealth of public evidence. And of course the multiple statements by various individuals with past or present top classification security status.
It has been more a gradual divergence over time - cases fall 10%, Hospitalisations 20%, deaths 30% and so on week after week. They still head in broad synchronisation.
As the roughest estimate it looks to me like Hospitalisations have fallen around 2/3 relative to infections, and deaths about 4/5 relative to Hospitalisations since New Year.
Broadly, if Bolton peak infection levels become widespread, i.e. under current regs, we'd end up up to around 5000 people in hospital, depending on how much the peak was staggered between different localities. I'm not sure what the multiplier with different regulations would actually be, but it would be a significant wave. 5000 is probably manageable and still allows for some progress on the cancer etc backlog during the summer months, two or three times that, not so much. Mind you, a bigger peak would probably blow out fairly quick as both infection and vaccination propelled us quite rapidly towards Delta's higher herd immunity bar (again, a convergence not a point event).
So, I think holding was ultimately the right decision. I've been a dyed in the wool incrementalist throughout this pandemic, and the July one-hit pinky promise unlock looks rash to me.
I'd like to see more imagination as to the how the roadmap might change to allow unlocking to progress even if that is in bits - e.g. changing all the personal bits of legislation to advice, this summer is the right time to emulate elements of the Swedish approach (I'd like to see that sooner if possible). I'd like full view on how businesses can operate in the months to come (e.g. no vertical drinking anywhere, but bar service OK, intervals at full cinemas etc etc). I'd like to see isolation replaced by self-testing for contacts, I'd like to see all advised vaccine or test or formal exemption for attending group events, I'd like to see masking gone for more distanced/short-term indoor interactions, e.g. supermarkets.
Even if we can't unlock we can push things forward bit by bit by bit, until the links of cases to harms are so diverged it doesn't matter.
Perhaps on the de luxe HD version they will employ a trained sound engineer who can sync the sound with the picture.