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The Rise (and Fall?) of Cressida Dick – politicalbetting.com
The Rise (and Fall?) of Cressida Dick – politicalbetting.com
It could almost be the title of a Waugh novel. Or perhaps one of those mystery-cum-romances written by upper-class lady novelists in the immediate post-war era – when driving fast cars in the South of France while sparring with strong-jawed heroes with a past was the height of sophistication.
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Dick out!
When do we want it?
Now!
Dick out now!
But that's a bar so low that it is touching the floor.
In that respect I kinda approve of it
Everyone was tense, everyone was on edge. A suicide bombing and a further, failed suicide bombing. A suspect on the tube.
If the Met had held their hands up, admitted the whole thing was a dreadful mistake that cost an innocent man his life, and apologised, I think we would all have felt sympathy for them. Not as much as for the unfortunate de Menezes, but a great deal.
Instead, under Dick’s own orders, officers:
1) Lied about their methods of identification
2) Lied about what procedures were followed when the suspect was under surveillance;
3) Lied about the identity of the victim;
4) Lied about the events of the actual shooting;
5) Lied about the aftermath.
All of a piece with Dick’s behaviour elsewhere that @Cyclefree notes.
It’s cowardice and criminality. Somebody who hasn’t the courage or integrity to face their failures.
That’s why she should have been dismissed after the inquest, not promoted, and certainly not when she finally retired have been brought back as Commissioner.
Too many like her in senior public roles though. Don’t get me started on the vile Amanda Spielman...
I'd redenominate at the rate of one current penny to one farthing, so that the decimal pound would then be worth 2s 1d, and the postdecimal pound would be worth £9.60 in today's money. The £1 and 10/- notes would then both make a triumphant return.
Lots of fun for all the family.
Ah yes of course. Silly me.
I buy by volume, not weight. Three apples. Six sausages. A small joint of meat. Five carrots. A jar of jam.
Sure, you need to be able to fix the price by weight but that’s almost an irrelevance to the purchaser.
Except in pubs, where everything is imperial anyway.
So please file this under ‘yet another burst of pointless virtue signalling.’
Turkey better 2nd half
That's a headline grabber to distract from something else.
It's weird when I've met really able, good senior officers.
da iawn
Go Wales!
@Cyclefree for Commissioner of the Met.
She’s got no practical experience of frontline policing, but then, nor have most of their senior officers.
And she does at least catch crooks rather than promote them.
Finally, watching her clean out the Augean Stables would be funny as fuck.
Impressive
Choc Ices and any sort of cracker can't be long for this world .....as for coconuts, going to need to come up with a new word for them.
And BTW everyone knows pints, for obvious reasons, and miles, ditto, and if you know miles you are into the system of yards, feel and inches.
How many pounds in a stone, pints in a gallon, yards in a mile simply hasn't been taught in school.
Pretty pointless as few buy stuff this way anyway. Fascinating that they choose to roll back an Act from that notorious woke purveyor of Red Tape, M. Thatcher.
The answer ‘all of them’ shook her a lot. It just hadn’t occurred to her that with all distances, speeds and liquids (oil apart) measured in imperial, that it’s still a key part of everyday life.
Of course, in shops as I note above it’s a bit different.
They are jive talking in da valley tonight.
I very much plan to trust the police without reservation in the future. They need to work out how they make themselves worthy of that. I almost trust them in the process, but doesn't hurt to look over their shoulders.
Besides units that don't need anything doing them. I could say my height and weight in imperial, drive in miles and drink in pints . . . But anything that needs calculations? Give me SI units all day, every day.
More often than not, the more upmarket and/or expensive the retailer, the stingier the sizing. If your medium top from Tesco is baggy, the equivalent in M&S will be comfortable and in Reiss you'll need to have a good figure not to be bulging in the wrong places. If you're buying the pricier fashion labels you may need to upsize to a large.
Alternatively, are you sure that it's not the clothes that are getting smaller, but...? Never fake it, you'll be found out when it counts.
It also helps that that’s what everyone else uses.
BUt truthfully, I have no very strong feelings about it. I see it as a classic distraction issue.
Metric measurements are in all ways better, and we should abandon the Imperial units, and even more so the US should.
I think the length of the cricket pitch is because it’s exactly sixty two and a half squirrels or something?
And the beast from 50,000 fathoms must be halfway to the moon.
No-one truly thinks it should be a crime do they?
Husband tells me that, if England now succeed in winning their group they will get the second placed team from the group of death, so it looks as if Wales have a decent chance of outlasting us for the second time on the bounce, I'm afraid.
And if you think that’s ‘woke’, just reflect.
Hurrah.
That sead, metric while not perfect, is on the whole a better system in most ways to imperial, and having 2 systems in parallel is not efficient.
Metric is used for most economic activity, and is growing in use, its time, IMHO to switch road distance and speeds to km and and km/h. doing so while not simple, on the day, would finally and firmly get people to accept that we are using the medic system and that will not change.
So legalise selling a lb of bananas and change the roads to km.
Otherwise it’s just confusion for consumers.
P.S. do we have the list of who voted against?
https://twitter.com/lauraamalasunta/status/1404885230683668487?s=21
Telegraph: How dare they have LGBT stuff at National Trust properties!
Every NT house guide: The last owner was Lord David 'Daphne' Ducky-Woopsington. Despite his keen interest in lady's fashion, he never married. His art collection includes over 50 paintings of St Sebastian...
Will there need to be a binding vote at some point on the foreign aid cut? If the Government's MPs are feeling that rebellious then it could easily be lost (albeit that, yes, it won't be the same group kicking up a fuss.)
NASA’s Juno probe is beginning an extended mission that may not have been possible if it hadn’t experienced engine trouble when it first arrived at the giant planet.
For something that was to have been done and thrown away three years ago, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has a busy schedule ahead exploring Jupiter and its big moons.
The spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, and has survived bombardment from intense radiation at the largest of the solar system’s planets. It is now finishing its primary mission, but NASA has granted it a four-year extension and 42 more orbits. Last week, it zipped past Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.
“Basically, we designed and built an armored tank,” said Scott J. Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, who is the mission’s principal investigator. “And it’s worked.”
Jupiter is essentially a big ball of mostly hydrogen, but it has turned out to be a pretty complicated ball. The mission’s discoveries include lightning higher up than thought possible, rings of stable storms at the north and south poles, and winds extending so deep into the interior that they might push around the planet’s magnetic fields.
“I think this has been a revelation,” said David J. Stevenson, a professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology and a co-investigator on the mission.
Juno’s highly elliptical path, pitched up at almost a 90-degree angle to the orbits of Jupiter’s moons, passes over the planet’s north and south poles. On each orbit, Juno swoops in, reaching a top speed of 130,000 miles per hour as it passes within a few thousand miles of Jupiter’s clouds.
An early problem with the propulsion system led mission managers to forego an engine firing that would have shortened the orbit to 14 days from 53 days. The mission’s scientists had to be more patient but that has become a blessing.
In the original timeline, Juno would have completed its work by early 2018. With the spacecraft’s more languid trajectories, researchers will get to watch changes in and around Jupiter that they might have missed had the mission wrapped up sooner. . . .
Similarly a quarter pounder is one burger. Just as a patty is one. How many ounces that is, how many stone it is, isn't relevant.
A pound of mince would be four quarter pounders to me, not the other way around.
Metric, on the other hand, is a ripe bastard to divide into anything beyond quarters.
*The slightly less pointless furlong would be another example. Should be 1600 yards to the mile, rather than 8 furlongs so 1760. But 1760 is still - just about - base 16.
Nostalgia for lost youth, whatever that means, is a powerful force. For Baby Boomers, it's the time that Britain had won the war and hadn't quite realised that it wasn't going to enjoy the spoils in the way that had happened before. For others, it's when you could stroll into your friendly local greengrocer and ask for a pound of tomatoes. For Andrew Neil, it's when he was important and reshaping The Sunday Times or launching Sky TV. For Boris, it's when he could say or write stuff and cause trouble with no consequences.
And that's why you-know-what won't be settled ever. Because their lost youth involves a Brapprochment from here.
It was presented to me at a very boozy lunch indeed by the officers concerned who were a fun lot. I developed a high regard for them. At the start they viewed me with the deepest suspicion, what with me being - they thought - some sort of posh City girl they could bamboozle. But I soon put them right and after that we worked together fine.
The pity of it all is that there are plenty of good officers. The police do a necessary and often horrible job. But the culture and leadership is appalling and no-one at the top or the Home Office is willing to do what is necessary. The police need the sort of kicking and culture change finance got.
And that is something I am EXPERT in.
There are some very interesting comments in the report about the culture of the NHS, the Francis report etc. Much of what it says is applicable elsewhere. It is a very long read indeed but worth it.