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Louis Theroux is back with a new Jimmy Savile show this Sunday. Sounds like interesting viewing.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/sep/29/when-louis-theroux-met-jimmy-savile-again-gullible-bbc
This photo appears to show Jeremy Corbyn dining with Jackie Walker’s partner Graham Bash in Liverpool this week. Jackie uploaded the picture to her own Facebook page on Saturday. Corbyn and Bash have been close friends for over 30 years, Bash edited the hard-left Labour Briefing publication of which Corbyn sat on the editorial board, and is treasurer of John McDonnell’s Labour Representation Committee. The only reason Jackie hasn’t been kicked out of the Labour Party for anti-Semitism is that she and her boyfriend are best mates with the leader…
http://order-order.com/2016/09/29/jackie-walkers-friends-high-places/
I believe Jackie Walker remains a Labour party member and the unelected vice-chair of Momentum.
Batsman Joe Root is set to earn about £1m a year as part of a revamp of England's central contract system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/37504417
Shifty Chakrabarti looking very uncomfortable, those eyes darting about speak volumes.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/09/exclusive-shami-chakrabarti-set-become-shadow-attorney-general
Edited extra bit: apparently Labour did all the equality legislation. Except for broadening the franchise of the electorate and gay marriage, obviously.
Also we will be under no obligation to implement future directives. We may choose to do so in full or part if it makes sense but that importantly will be parliaments choice, not the EUs.
Indeed the EU wishing to avoid the situation where the UK dosent align with future directives could, perversely, give us more soft influence over them than we have hard influence now.
Chakrabati has had a far bigger influence on British political life than someone who has never been subject to the scrutiny of democratic elections should ever be allowed.
And I am not especially a fan.
An inspection of the history of atrocities by the IJA shows that all of the above is basically true of them as well. For example they slaughtered around 4 million ethnic Chinese in Manchuria, at least 1 in 20 Filipino civilians was killed by the Japanese, including 100,000 killed when they massacred the population of the capital Manila. An estimated 5 million were worked and starved to death by the Japanese on their construction projects in Malaysia, Burma etc, well over 100,000 died just on the single Burma Railway project. Numerous units were set up for "scientific experiments" including vivisection, testing of chemical and biological weapons, amputations without anaesthetic etc, including up to quarter of a million men, women and children just at Unit 731. An estimated 400,000 Chinese died on wide area tests of Bubonic Plague, Anthrax, Cholera etc. Any airmen, or persons captured at sea were executed out of hand. 400,000 Comfort women in forced brothels, cannibalism, widespread torture...
Makes me wonder how people who don't have cricket really get an understanding of the world.
Pretty ballsy of her to imply Neil had not read the report though.
What did strike me as odd was her response to why she joined Labour in order to do the report, as she talked about believing you need to change things from within in order to tackle them properly, to paraphrase. But she had earlier said this wasn't just a Labour matter, anti-semitism exists elsewhere too. So is she saying she only wants to fight anti-semitism as it exists in Labour rather than, as she has done for many years on civil liberties, tried to fight the problems in society at large?
That said, she seemed to hold up perfectly well until the question about the peerage, when either she struggled to find a clear answer, or she was pissed off and not doing a good job of pretending otherwise even, doing the sarcastic response thing even though Neil didn't seem particularly hostile.
Many a politician seems to get sarcastic and bitter at any sort of rigorous questioning, always seeming offended by it. Now, they may well have to answer the same question to different people many times, they may face what truly is undue focus on quite innocent issues on occasion, but that is surely part of the price of having a stake in running of this country, and of a free press, and while I do not deny it must be bloody hard, I wish they would stop acting like its unfair they keep getting asked things, or to clarify matters repeatedly. It looks shifty and petulant.
Journalists have it a lot easier, as we expect them to be a little pugnacious, and you have to push it quite far to be unreasonably rude.
Incidentally, I misspelled Chakrabarti by one letter and the suggested alternate was 'charismatic'. Not that she is bad by any means, but that amuses me.
It may be EU countries struggling to meet new British standards, particularly in things like animal welfare and losing out wheras we would still meet their requirements
Also things the landfill tax. This was imposed EU wide because places like Denmark were running out of landfill space and didnt want themselves put at a disadvantage by unilaterally adopting very expensive alternatives. So they got the EU to force the expensive alternatives on everyone including the UK where our aggregates industry means holes in the ground to dump landfill are plentiful. So post Brexit we can repeal the landfill tax making industry more competitive and Council Tax lower.
But we shall see.
She shamelessly (Shamilessly?) shoehorns in the referendum at the start from a very Remain perspective, even bringing up poor Jo Cox for no real reason.
Later on, she's accused of not being able to name a major organisation supporting her point of view, saying she's doing this for people not organisations.
Anyone else see the irony?
I appreciate Sunil for one is not a fan however, for shame.
(Good evening, everyone)
Now howabout a silly walk...
We can argue which is the most heinous crime in the whole world (and the holocaust is probably in the top five) but that wasn't the point I was making.
There are deluded people who choose to believe that certain things never happened. You can find people who choose to believe that Kim Jong-Un is a great leader and went round an 18 hole golf course in 18 shots, that Stalin was a kind uncle and Genghis Khan was a social worker. Their bonkers ideas kill no one unless you think it's contagious.
Or is it a safe space you're after?
But criminalising it, as several EU countries have done, unless spouting it in away that causes a breach of the peace is equally bonkers (and just makes martyrs ofthem)
As is calling people who disagree with a weather theory deniers in an attempt to make out they are as unhinged and unpleasant as the godwins revisionists.
Sorry, Paul, you were too late. Anyway, it's not about Crosby, it's about people being offended by deluded people.
Pity, yes. Offence, no.
Bloody yanks. Nothing worse than a stranger talking to you on the train to work.
This is the classic and rigorously factual book of the War Crimes Trials of Tokyo:
A gruelling read, as is his book of the Nurenberg trials:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knights-Bushido-History-Japanese-Crimes/dp/1853676519
Farting silently on a very crowded tube train the hot summers morning after consuming some particularly fruity real ale then watching everyone looking at each other accusingly while unable to move is far more entertaining than talking to strangers though.
curveball
ˈkəːvbɔːl/
noun
BASEBALL
a delivery in which the pitcher causes the ball to deviate from a straight path by imparting spin.
"his three-speed curveball enabled him to win 20 games in two different seasons"
NORTH AMERICANinformal
something which is unexpected, surprising, or disruptive.
"there's always a curveball on every mission"
"Out of left field" is American slang meaning "unexpectedly", "odd" or "strange". The phrase came from baseball terminology referring to the area covered by the left fielder who has the farthest throw to first base.
The C of E seems to recognise pre-Reformation saints, but has no mechanism for recognising new ones. Not that I have ambitions in that direction...
Railways are still very labour intensive and labour costs have risen rather faster than both inflation and fares since 1914. Better alternatives to short diatance rail freight than horses and carts have also been invented.
https://www.railnews.co.uk/img/medium/news00333.jpg
One of my ancestors signed his death warrant.
I think you've gone a bit mad since Brexit.
Dem and Indies rates are above 2012 rates.
She was finding it hard work and then a harassed, tired commuter turned to her and politely pointed out that after a day at work people might be tired, might want to read or sleep and she was making that very difficult.
She didn't take it well........
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/missing-white-voters-could-elect-trump-but-first-they-need-to-register/
Put it this way, the Dems will have a far better idea who the Republicans can and should try and turn out than the Republicans do.
Not much fertile ground there for Trump, apart from perhaps CO?
You're judgement has gone completely mad in the last few months, not everything is Brexit or Bremain. Shami was a poor head of Liberty and we should be thankful that she's out, her report into anti-Semitism within the Labour party is just the latest in a long line of failures and Corbyn has rewarded that failure (or success depending on one's point of view) with a peerage. It proves that he is the same as any other politician, nothing more and nothing less.
Every person (actual individual person) in the country with metrics attached he'd to them about how likely they will vote and how likely they will vote Dem.
The Dem GOTV operation is machine - the software backing it has been commercialised and used in business.
(Oh, I caught up on the old thread.. a fair point about cookies on the poll thing. I wonder why they don't just block multiple IPs anyway, the number of people who would complain is probably near zero)
http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-subsidy-aggregation-1466638430
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#now
NASA is essentially paying for SpaceX.
E.g.: http://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-subsidy-aggregation-1466638430
(2) Whereas the Council resolution of 9 December 1996 on waste policy considers that, in the future, only safe and controlled landfill activities should be carried out throughout the Community;"
Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste
Funny how a rabidly pro EU chancellor introduced this legislation while the directive was being formulated.
On this topic, Reaction are stepping up a prototype for Sabre.
but nether of his last 2 successes including PayPal, did. SpaceX puts things in to orbit for a number of organisations including NASA, this is because he has developed the new technology to do it that is better than anybody else. TESLA mocks electric cars that are subsidised, but any company could do this its Elon Musk that has worked out how to use technology to make the best cars, in large numbers, relatively cheaply.
His mission to Mars is basically in competition to NASA, and he has IMHO already shown he is better at space travel with 12 years experience than NASA with 55ish.
It is complex, I still consider him a Libertarian hero, and I respect your opinion if you disagree with me.