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Johnsons needs to be more careful about off the cuff comments like this – politicalbetting.com
Johnsons needs to be more careful about off the cuff comments like this – politicalbetting.com
Only a matter of time before we see a 'clarification', if not an apology, for his remarks.Story by @journoamrogers https://t.co/7B2eeyGU2a
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The main difference was a redundant miner's chance of walking into a reasonably paid new job.
I have no dog in this fight, but that magazine has boasted some amazing writers in its 2 centuries of publication.
Douglas Murray went through ALL 200 years of them and chose the four best articles ever. And, when you read them, it is hard not to sit back with a certain awed, dumbstruck admiration. Just pure journalistic genius. The kind of stuff you cannot fake.
Occasionally, one simply has to stand, and applaud.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/four-of-the-best-spectator-pieces-i-ve-ever-read
A family-run farm has won a legal battle against the multimillion-pound makers of plant milk, Oatly, which accused it of trademark infringement.
Oatly brought legal action against Glebe Farm Foods, in Cambridgeshire, saying their product PureOaty took "unfair advantage" of their own drink.
A High Court judge ruled in favour of the farm saying he did not see "any risk of injury to the distinctive character" of the Oatly brand...
A spokeswoman for Oatly said the company would not be appealing the decision.
"For us, this case has always been about protecting our trademark and how the single letter Y creates too much of a similarity between Oaty and Oatly."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-58102252
Is that too much to ask of a cruel, cold world?
'Would thou like t'work down t'mine?'
Yes % DK% No %
Us old fossils may not have moved on. Miners and the desolation of the communities they had are still vivid images in our minds. There is no sanitisation of that period.
However that does not mean that an awful lot of good hasn't arisen from closing mines. The good may be unintended consequences, but this far after the act there is more positive than negative from a policy of 40 years ago.
Barcelona say Lionel Messi will not be staying at the club "because of financial and structural obstacles"...
Barcelona had said Messi was poised to extend his 21-year career with the club by signing the new deal on Thursday, and blame La Liga for the failure to do so.
He had reached an agreement to stay with the Catalan side until 2026 - but La Liga said the club must reduce wages before he and any new players can be registered.
"Despite FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi having reached an agreement and the clear intention of both parties to sign a new contract today, this cannot happen because of financial and structural obstacles [Spanish La Liga regulations]," the club said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58108298
Is that the one with the Honda C50 in front?
He’d have done less damage if he’d just had that quiet chat with the First Minister.
https://www.ft.com/content/c2c8565a-e282-481c-8897-0530b0c81bce
What the Scots think of him is probably going to have about as much bearing on the next election as the views of the French - he's unlikely to need a single vote in Scotland to form a working majority.
Different story for Starmer of course, as his performance on Scotland is the potential difference between a difficult coalition with the Nat's and governing on his own right (but in both cases only if Johnson loses enough English votes).
England has gone bonkers.
A number of mining towns had very little in the way of alternative employment, because they were built solely for the mine. Labour or Tory made little difference to that. It was just a matter of geography. Trying to invent a new industry in an out of the way place just didn't work.
Starmer’s key problem is that the Scottish Labour party have very clearly and very publicly hitched their wagon to the Tory train. If they are to have any hope of making inroads into SNP territory they have to drop all links to the Conservatives pronto.
But then, they were so stupid that their opinion probably wasn’t worth an awful lot.
https://twitter.com/SwissRamble/status/1419540799440707584
Today's wasn't a mega-gaffe. Hardly anybody likes him north of the border, except maybe a few who have voted at least once in their lives for UKIP. That's a very small part of the electorate. I haven't seen a popularity McSubsample but that's going by the impression I get. Not even Scottish Tory activists and representatives like him. But there probably won't be another Holyrood election until 2026, so I don't think he'll b*llocks things up north of the border. He's obviously the wrong person to lead Britain during an independence referendum in Scotland and he could easily have a Gillian Duffy moment during a campaign. In the unlikely event there's an indyref rerun when he would otherwise be in office, he will be removed for that reason.
That's UNLESS he can pull a plan out of his pocket for reforming the Union in a popular way. (Such an option has been thought of, but I can't mention it here.)
He remains the guy who's headed for the big banana skin moment that doesn't actually come and may in fact never come.
I hope I'm wrong by the way and there's a big swing back to Labour in the north of England...
They paid LFC £142 million for Coutinho which allowed us to sign Van Dijk and Alisson Becker.
Helped end the thirty years of hurt and helped us win old big ears for a sixth time.
Other countries have followed the same transition, and almost all have had similar dislocated communities, from Picardy, to the Appalachians to the Donbass. To a degree it was inevitable, but the precipitate nature of the transition was perhaps unnecessary, as was the Thatcherites seeming rather uncaring or even gleeful about it.
https://www.ft.com/content/34ec43b9-5dcd-46cd-b284-093e8f13714d
Conflating criticism of the SNP with criticism of Scotland.
Fortunately the majority of Scots know that too.
Former miners' union leader Arthur Scargill tried to use laws introduced by Margaret Thatcher to buy a council flat in London, the BBC has found.
In 1993 he applied to buy the flat on the prestigious Barbican estate under the right-to-buy scheme championed by Thatcher, his political enemy.
News that he tried to exploit a flagship Conservative policy has angered current miners' union leaders.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25731328
Please tell us that it’s not Gordon Brown’s 52,168th federalism relaunch.
The youngest monks are in their sixties though, and mostly Polish. I do wonder how long the traditions can go on.
It is in the political violence section, in the same section as the Orange Order, Sevco fans, and the SDL.
Although not at the same level of frequency fortunately.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/snp-mp-joanna-cherry-boosted-24203922
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2021/07/30/cherry-disappointed-with-snp-as-man-who-sent-twitter-abuse-sentenced/
It is also in our section of equality, we take pride and wider LGBTQIA+ issues very seriously. It triggers the extremes in society.
One of many interesting snippets in Orwell's diaries is that pre-nationalised British mines were among the last in Europe to provide showers/baths for their miners, and initially it was done by subscriptions from the miners themselves. A mystery why the miners were suspicious of their bosses..
“Frequent or rough masturbation can cause minor skin irritation. Forcefully bending an erect penis can rupture the chambers that fill with blood, a rare but gruesome condition called penile fracture.
Köhler has seen guys with it after vigorous masturbation. "Afterward, the penis looks like an eggplant," he says. "It's purple and swollen." Most men need surgery to repair it.”
Ouch! Take care Fraser!
https://www.webmd.com/men/guide/male-masturbation-5-things-you-didnt-know
Margaret Thatcher understood the threat of climate change and the impact on the environment - her speech to the UN in November 1989 was unfortunately overshadowed by the small matter of the fall of the Berlin Wall 24 hours later.
The cynic might of course argue it was a response to the surge in popularity of the Greens at the 1989 European elections but at least Thatcher started to see the issue.
After that, however, environmental issues faded out of the limelight and some in the Conservative Party, possibly those who had affiliations to the fossil fuel industry, opted to peddle some of the climate change denial lines and I can honestly not remember a single Labour politician talking much about the environment during the Blair years.
David Cameron was the first Conservative I can recall after Thatcher saying anything about the environment though again the cynic might argue it was both about trying to get LD votes and a change from "banging on about Europe".
Johnson sounds confident if not cocky. Perhaps he believes he can say anything and there will be plenty to defend him or excuse him or seek to justify him. To be fair, a GE victory and an 80-seat majority will do that and I suspect he looks at the short-term post-Covid environment with happy people and a surging economy and he thinks it's all going his way.
Well, that's hubris for you - doesn't often end well.
Have you encountered Dr Trouble's hot chili sauce?
Matthew Parris has, apparently, been banging on about it for months. It's made in Zimbabwe of all places, and it is utter genius. Very smoky, very rich, must be used sparingly, but omg
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-Trouble-African-Lemon-Chilli/dp/B07QVFYDBG?th=1
I prefer the double oak smoked chile to the lemon version. Both are Wow
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/dr-troubles-sauce-is-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-cm3thlbh6
I had a ham and cheese sourdough toastie the other day - thick lovely ham, tangy mature Cheddar, some tiger tomatoes, I took out the Dijon mustard and added Dr Trouble and flash fried the result
SENSATIONAL
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/oct/16/11
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern_Review
She was a political giant, for all her faults. Wow she would have been good in charge with the pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnAzoDtwCBg&t=10s
I also accurately predicted that Alba would do shite in the Holyrood elections when one of your fellow Nats was predicting 12%-14% minimum for Alba on the list.
I also successfully tipped the SCons would get over 9.5 seats in 2017 at 20/1.
@DavidL, I seem to recall you are a Scottish lawyer (apols if I have got that wrong).
Do you or any other PB posters know if there's a way to find out details of Sheriff Court judgements? I am specifically interested in a case from this monday, 2nd August, at Jedburgh Sheriff Court .
Thanks in anticipation.
I think it was when Sir John Curtice predicted Alba would end up with one MSP and that it was unlikely to be Salmond.
If you remember I kept on flagging up just how bad Salmond's ratings were, even worse than the PM in Scotland.