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For those expecting to wake up to discover who has won the Iowa caucuses then I’m sorry. I stayed up all night and went to bed at 5 a.m. without knowing what had happened.
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Opinion of footy fans in 1 word: can't count.
https://twitter.com/jmpascol/status/1224375688184107008?s=21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTLR8R9JXz4
I don't know any cricket fans who can't stand DRS or object to Umpires Call when the margins are tight.
Maybe every primary can have crap IT and apps please?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha........."
It rather reminds me of the huge Press Corps, not to mention the England Manager and his entourage attending in person the draw for a major football competition, as if their presence has even the tiniest impact on the outcome. Why not simply stay at home instead and hear it live, together with the international reaction, broadcast on the world's media.
If he wants to follow the really big U.S. political story, I'd suggest OGH instead closely follows Michael Bloomberg's steady progress to The White House, looking like value at 14 on the Betfair Exchange.
DYOR.
I’m such a grammar geek.
We simply cannot go back to completely wrong decisions being given. If it cannot be decided in 30 sec, then the refs decision should stand.
http://www.theifab.com/laws/chapter/38/section/113/
6. There is no time limit for the review process as accuracy is more important than speed.
On which point - https://twitter.com/herdyshepherd1/status/1224559220579803137?s=21.
Of course my group of cricket-watchers at Essex can always tell when an LBW decision is wrong, or whether the ball has been nicked, even when we are sitting in the stands quite a way away and not behind the bowlers arm.
VAR for offside is what really should have the Umpire's Call element like the ball tracker in DRS. DRS ball tracker takes a moment to appear but the second it appears the result is there with the trafic light coding - no squabbling.
In DRS the whole ball width needs to be either on the stumps or off the stumps for it not to be umpire's call - I'd use the same logic in football. The moment the lines appear if they are not at least a football's width apart then stick with the on field referees call. If they are at least a football's width apart then you have an instant decision from VAR. Job done.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/streatham-terror-attack-extremists-can-be-deradicalised-but-it-takes-resources-t7gkwdm07
and
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/london-bridge-attack-i-told-ministers-we-were-treating-terrorist-prisoners-with-jaw-dropping-naivety-did-they-listen-9ngbtgt7z.
And this is the report, as published by the government - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice/summary-of-the-main-findings-of-the-review-of-islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice
Made for a hell of a game though!
1. The Americans have consistently stated that they don’t want labels. They view labelling as a non-tariff barrier though I expect their real concern is that people would choose not to have their food precisely because of concerns about health or animal welfare.
2. Labelling does not deal with food used by processing industries etc so people could find themselves having it even if they don’t want it.
3. If production methods are illegal here we simply should not permit the import of stuff produced using such methods regardless of labelling. That would be like saying that we would allow unsafe car seats for babies to be imported and sold here provided they were labelled as such. It’s nonsensical.
I do not see the need for an FTA with the US so I certainly would not compromise on this point. But I rather fear that this government will in its desperation for a deal.
2. True but I don't care so much about that. If you're buying processed foods there's all sorts of steps in the middle, if you want control over your food then that's for fresh food. And if the people in the middle of processed foods have a verified supply chain they should be able to label it as per step 1.
3. There's already all sort of hypocrisy in the law. Taxis don't need baby seats. If there's a scientific reason for it to be illegal then we can stick with that ban, but if its just cultural or whatever and there's no science behind it I'd rather see the ban lifted anyway domestically too.
I bought some petrol this morning and after paying the cashier handed me a folded up newspaper and said "for you", I said "thank you", turned to walk off then saw that it was The Sun. I just handed the cashier the paper back and said "I'm from Merseyside" and he laughed.
I wouldn't read The Sun if you paid me to, not just for free.
Some years ago I attended a course on 'Islam in the Modern World' organised by the WEA. The speaker was a Bengali Muslim who had fought in several conflicts.... Balkans, Afghanistan, but, while retaining a strong faith had become de-radicalised as a result of both experiences and contact with more peaceful imams. The experience reinforced my belief that 'simply' locking people up isn't the whole answer; as with many other anti-social activities, concurrent re-education is essential.
https://twitter.com/LukeFrancis88/status/1224424807846109190
(*OK I'm quite enjoying it anyway)
Ann Seltzer's final poll was spot on!
https://labourlist.org/2020/02/what-clp-nominations-tell-us-about-labours-leadership-race-so-far/
The author reveals his preference on the last line, but the article seems scrupulously objective.
There was a statement that they had a full paper trail, FWTW.
Coincidentally a lot of the people going all Priti currently also seem to venerate Maajid Nawaz as their favourite reformed Islamist. Presumably they think he should have been chucked into Belmarsh when returning to the UK after being locked up in Egypt.
It is releasing people that doesn't.
Either would require much more funding than the government seems willing to spend - but the former would be both cheaper, and more realistic.
Permanently incarcerating individuals who may originally have been sentenced for only three years is simply not going to work.
There seems to be a trend in major Western nations worldwide (and some minor ones, like Ireland) for the young to vote for the nuttiest anti-establishment parties or candidates they can.
Corbyn, Sanders, SNP, Sinn Fein, and perhaps the Greens en-mass in Germany too.
At the moment, our incarceration policies seem to be resulting in more, not fewer, dangerously radicalised individuals.
Or just very unhappy:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/dec/03/british-schoolchildren-among-least-satisfied-with-their-lives-says-oecd-report
(cries quietly in IT support)
I love the way things not just go wrong, they go wrong in predictable ways. Hey, let's put a major IT change into production at the time of its maximum usage! What could possibly for wrong???
(bites lip)
Do Americans want this sort of chaos in government?
- FF are still tainted by the unholy mess they made of the economy leading up to the financial crisis, which hit Ireland so badly;
- FG have been hit partly by the normal strains of being in government, and partly by some unforced errors of their own, with housing and healthcare both bad issues for them;
- Labour are still tainted by their coalition with FG in the post-crash government which had to impose swingeing austerity;
- The Greens were badly tainted by the coalition with FF before the financial crash but are the only party (apart from SF) who are now on the up.
This guy was radicalised before he went inside. That's why he was jailed in the first place.
We have animal welfare and environmental standards for a reason. Allowing the import of food which does not share those standards is not just a risk to our health but also risks our home grown industry. That means we lose choice, risk our health and degrade our environment. That is - to me - too high a price to pay.
Having different laws on holiday pay or pensions does not have the same prejudicial effects on consumers, producers here or our wider society. Use of slave/child labour is abhorrent for other reasons.
There is little point in claiming that we have high standards in an area and then allow imports which have the effect of undermining or eliminating those very standards. Either they matter to us or they don’t. If they matter then we stand up for them.
Murderers and attempted murderers (and terrorists) should get automatic whole life sentences to be released only if they satisfy the parole board that they are now safe.
Any recidivism should lead to an investigation as to what the parole board got wrong.
Carrot and stick. It's not either/or, we need both.
Have the Boomers Pinched Their Children’s Futures? - with Lord David Willetts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
Its impossible to stop young men getting access to radicalising material in a free society.
(Previous result 3 independents, one FF, one Lab).
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/election-2020/bitesize-ballot-a-guide-to-tipperary-hopefuls-as-parties-set-to-pile-support-on-candidates-following-death-of-marese-skehan-38923046.html
https://order-order.com/2019/12/20/spad-wages-revealed/
Is this true, or is Guido lying?
It's letting said dangerously radicalised types out which then allows them to kill people on a practical level.
What doesn't seem to be working very well is attempting to half-heartedly deradicalise, then letting them go. It seems quite a lot of them are like Toad of Toad Hall in the smoking room, quite content to be reformed to be released, then return to their old ways once outside.
And for that you want to introduce preventive life sentences ?
As we saw with the London Bridge murderer, it is entirely likely that someone would be able "to satisfy the parole board they are now safe", and still go on to offend.
You are suggesting a highly expensive solution which would likely not be a great deal more effective than what we have now, and would introduce the principle of lifetime incarceration on suspicion into English law.
I do not think that would turn out well.
And a riot where if the rioters die, in their minds they're martyrs.
Your second point is quite true, and is what those running the service have been saying for some time.
https://twitter.com/jamiedmaxwell/status/1224650880974311424?s=20