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Probably the biggest question over Joe Biden’s WH2020 bid and his greatest vulnerability is his age. If he does win on November 3rd he will be 78 years old on the day of inauguration on January 20th next year.
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Interesting analysis:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18639121.opinion-mark-smith-leaked-snp-email-shows-nicola-sturgeon-well/
As for Biden he managed to look fairly sprightly for a man of his age but it is still a completely ridiculous age to be seeking a job as tough and demanding as POTUS. You just need to look at how the average President ages through their term, even no drama Obama, and apply that to Biden. The only sensible conclusion is that his VP will be the next POTUS after him without the need for an election.
And as for her comments that she was minded to protest about the way the SQA had handled the exams fiasco....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8609899/Thousands-level-pupils-face-race-against-time-win-appeals.html
Not Johnson's greatest supporters, of course, but if they are hostile, a number of backbenchers will be calculating their next steps.
Let there be appeals but for every appeal successfully upgraded there has to be someone downgraded in return.
Amusing though that he was talking about running mates while cycling.
At least he wasn't jogging (as I recall, that didn't end well for Jimmy Carter).
Sometimes I got good results, sometimes very good and sometimes not so good.
But the only surprising results were always on the side of being better than I had expected.
And when I got bad results the person to blame was myself, sometimes but only sometimes that blame could be shared with crap teachers.
Woakes and Buttler, in addition to forcing me to eat a vandalised pizza, also ruined a lovely joke I had prepared that if you want massive cock-ups all you need to do is watch England try to bat.
I'm disinclined to sink money into relatively long term bets at odds that short, but that does look a bit long.
Verstappen's 6.5 to win in Spain with Ladbrokes. Trying to decide whether to back that. It'll be hot, but slower so maybe the tyre wear won't be a problem for Mercedes. The agony of choice.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-arrested-over-alleged-foreign-collusion
She couldn't get to the finish because she was laughing so much.
So were the rest of them!
“ The WA was always work in progress as at the end of this year, the UK has a right to a comprehensive agreement, one which treats the UK as a sovereign partner. A failure to observe this must lead to a rejection of the WA.”
https://twitter.com/mpiainds/status/1292705604612640770?s=21
I know there have been questions about his judgement in other fields, but his judgement on education has been impeccable.
Here's what he had to say on the substitute assessment system last month.
We are unconvinced that safeguards—such as additional guidance and practical recommendations—put in place by Ofqual will be sufficient to protect against bias and inaccuracy in calculated grades.
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/1834/documents/17976/default/
It's worth noting, in that report, he criticises OFQUAL and quotes the Royal Statistical Society, saying that OFQUAL were concealing key parts of their methodology.
And here's what he's saying today.
'Our select committee report predicted a potential Wild West system which favours the well-heeled and the sharp-elbowed, and doesn’t appear fair.'
In a sense, whatever happens on results day is now secondary, because this process has already failed. Nobody will have confidence in the results because it has become apparent that the process was flawed, chaotic and ill-conceived.
Why they thought that a smart idea remains a mystery.
Looks like you picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines.
I worked with him. Liked him too.
Now there's an "interesting" career path.
Pope is Catholic.
Higher take-up on the other side of the Pennines for some reason. Around 20 of them have gone in.
https://twitter.com/ailsa_henderson/status/1292715137506381824
That might lead to some interesting findings.
Alternatively we could save a lot of time and money by giving out 99% A grades (leaving the 1% B for Eton etc whose pupils will do well in any case).
After all how many people would chose an honest grade over a higher grade ?
So the maximum number would be happy.
Until in a few years they discovered that their grades and the self-regard that sometimes comes with it are not always viewed similarly by the rest of the world.
P.S. I am still waiting for an apology for your assertion yesterday that I was both a Tory and a Brexiteer, after a post from Marquee Mark that related the Claire Fox issue to Brexit. It wasn't me guv'.
Where's the confidence in his age and experience? In his achievements? He's not facing a younger, green opponent, but he's facing someone very inexperienced politically, which his years of experience contrast favourably with. I would be trying to sell him as a slick operator - a professional. No school like the old school. Instead they seem to be dubiously trying to reclaim lost vigour.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/
People are not there to support businesses, businesses are there to support people both in terms of services and jobs. If the business isn't where it needs to be then the business should move to people not the other way round. Cafe's etc will still be in the same demand just where they need to be has altered
And that was before this story broke.
https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-just-26-teachers-see-level-and-gcse-grading-fair
Just a thought...
Though since it’s our side, not sure what good it can do. The solution lies in catching and prosecuting the people smugglers in France.
Which would have been the solution of a fairly bright ten year old but was apparently beyond the combined wit of OFQUAL and the exam boards.
So go straight to the HoL, and take the £200 as he passed Go!
Arguing people should do something unnecessary just so others have jobs which are only there because of those people doing the unnecessary thing is to my mind asking people to dig holes so you others have jobs filling them in
Its well enough written but hopelessly partisan.
People are pretty adaptable and there is good and bad from most changes.
As I mentioned previously, our asylum processing centres should be overseas. I would suggest one in India, one in Africa, and one in Asia. These are easier for genuine asylum seekers to get to, and present no draw for non-genuine ones.
I mean their care home scandal is worse as one of the owners had to ship people in from England to manage the home during the outbreak,
I mean, if you're in the shoes of someone migrating across the continent and you pick up a paper saying "Anyone getting to the UK gets to stay and gets given free money," as per loads of their headlines, where would you head for?
Covid is a massive rapid realignment of the economy. It's already been brutal and its going to get much worse - the imbalance and instability was already there waiting for the black swan event to tip it over the edge. And very quickly we will see rapid change in the next piece of unsustainable lunacy - an army of zero hour workers scuttling around our towns making multiple repeat deliveries in diesel vans. Most of us have done a lot more direct to consumer shopping and we all need to stop.
I think it’s time to call bullshit and kick them all out.
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2020/08/09/news/sir_nicholas_soames_this_is_the_worst_cabinet_in_my_36_years_and_boris_will_never_be_churchill_-264279283/?refresh_ce