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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/03/03/rishi-sunaks-budget-used-john-mcdonnells-ideas-says-jeremy-corbyn/ (£££)
FPT: Would there be problems with a lower CT rate in Northern Ireland than the rest of the UK?
On a day when they could have led with the budget, the first minister of Scotland being accused of perjury, a global pandemic, schools being sent back with impossible safety measures, an academy chain going bust and all hell breaking loose in and over Northern Ireland...
...they led with the Duchess of Sussex giving an interview.
I sometimes wonder if they want to keep the licence fee.
Honestly the whole thing is just a nonsense - clearly there have been leaks against Harry and Meghan in recent days no doubt because of their interview, but equally clearly you cant expect a great deal of sympathy when your whole deal appears to be complaining about media attention and royal status whilst making use of both of those things.
If you are happier out of it, fine. If you have takes to tell, just do it already not this orchestrated media game of hints and clips and build up. That just makes it look like it's not important to them. And the rest of the royals can remember that playing things with a straight bat is preferable - just ignore it, as getting engaged will only rebound.
https://twitter.com/JakeWallis_ASPI/status/1367343148666523649
Looks more like November!
More or less on topic, the CoE seems to have a magic money forest, never mind a tree. And there's at least a small sting in the tail for pensioners, with the tax thresholds unchanged.
And you try being cheerful unintentionally waking up at 4am and then deciding to follow the Cricket...
Insomnia may be a condition, but nobody forces us to watch
car crashesEngland batting in the subcontinent.Noone would miss them...
Time he’s moved on. I want my government to be properly held account please.
Except that they are trying to leverage off something they have walked away from, and are not happy with the consequences of their chosen course of action.
She is stirring the pot for her own reasons. It won't end well.
I suspect the difference now is that the technology is there to do it without any real pain. Video conferencing is easy and the communication links are such that you can be in the Treasury in 3 hours (door to door)
It is difficult to showcase talent at the moment but while some of Starmers internal party work in purging the Trots is laudable, there is more than that to do.
Rayner or Nandy please, preferably Rayner.
Good for them.
Job hunting is soul destroying.
Hunting in a slump is never fun, particularly since I imagine work in solicitors’ offices has declined with fewer property transactions and the courts all shut.
It would make for an interesting contest...
And having dropped a seamer for a batsman, the wicket is seaming...
Fishing in things you say you have left is never a good idea.
If you are leaving something behind you ... leave it behind you.
If you are looking for the bubble, look here.
I've laid him again substantially this morning.
They're free people, free to make their own choices and do whatever they damn please. They don't owe the UK media or the monarchy anything. After the way they've been treated they absolutely can and should do whatever they want.
Their lives, their choice.
"These are not the droids you're looking for..."
A long time to tie up stake money, but can always trade out I suppose.
Doesn’t help me though of course.
Yes, I can see why it might make headlines in the Sun, or Mail, or Star, or Telegraph, or any of the rest of the tabloids, but public service broadcasting it ain’t.
It is celebrity gossip not news.
The only way that could change is if something else comes out during the campaign and that causes SNP voters to stay at home, leaving her well short on forming a government. But that doesn’t seem likely at the moment either.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/03/covid-19-elimination-versus-suppression
The Royal Family are a soap opera, and entering a critical phase. Within a few years we get a new monarch.
Most people seem to favour "nice but dim" but give me Harry and Meghan every time. At least they try to take a view on important issues.
Should someone who used to be in politics like Ed Balls, Portillo, Blair or anyone else "leave it behind" the moment they leave Parliament? Never speak to the media about politics ever again? Never write a memoir? Have nothing to say ever again on politics?
Should a Cricketer never speak about Cricket ever again once he stops batting or bowling for the last time?
If not it seems rank hypocrisy to apply that standard to Harry and Meghan. I couldn't care less about royal gossip but they're as free to talk as any other free person is - and celebrities speaking about their own lives and things they've left behind is as old as time.
Clearly news organisations do choose to emphasise things they think we ought to care about, not just the things we actually do care about.
Why it's of great public interest is curious. Perhaps it's that it's about a celebrity family that everyone is familiar with and the essence of the dispute - tradition vs disruption - is something people can get their heads round, and of course the same sort of thing is familiar from Diana, in that case with a tragic ending.
Best of luck to him.
That and the prior Stamp Duty holiday deadline. That said, in my local area property seems to be continuing to come onto the market with no sign of any price drops yet...
I don't.
In short I suspect that the smaller firms are the better bet right now.
Qu 1) how’s your uncle
Qu 2) how’s your dad. Not that one.
Etc... let’s see if Oprah has the onions. She was pretty easy on Jacko back in the day.
Do you think it should be?
I think they've been very shabbily treated by the media, but there is a suggestion of hypocrisy about their recent actions.
I shall go and do some marking. See you later.
As I said, if they have tales to tell, do it. Trailing for weeks in advance, leaking titbits and so on, that's what you do if you are hawking a product.
What it tells me is they dont care all that much about what they are saying as they are doing it in a way to manage a brand they can sell, rather than just say straight up what they mean if it is important. It would be huge news regardless
And yes the main royals do that. But they aren't pretending not to want to play the royal and media game.
I'd like to see Meghan go back to acting and Harry could do any number of things now, they seem happier together than he was previously so great for them. But the careful orchestration of royal esque media management makes their disdain for such things look hypocritical.
Either you play the game or you dont. They are, whilst pretending they aren't.
It’s my experience too that smaller firms are mostly back in their offices while the bigger firms are not. However of course smaller firms are more wary and risk-adverse with their recruitment. I’ve been targeting both smaller firms and larger firms but as @AlastairMeeks has previously advised, and I agree with him, larger firms seem to value my previous engineering career work experience and “non-traditional” background more. Despite this I’d probably prefer to work for a small to medium sized firm.
We ride on!
Fox Jr 2 is the budding actor. I expect him to be on the payroll for longer!
A talent that Westminster Labour are sadly missing
Of course they are free to do whatever they want, however starting a so-called "new chapter" (BBC headline) by giving high profile interviews 15 months after "moving on" does not seem wise.
I've made 2 points:
1 - This couple are minor celebs and I don't think relevant.
2 - Not moving on does not seem very wise.
If you have issues with your family, playing out the drama in the press is questionable.
I was just observing that @DecrepitJohnL was being ridiculous claiming it - and everything else - as part of a Corbynite agenda
It’s like claiming only Democrats like motherhood and apple pie
Retire from public life and do their own thing
Press Statement by Alex Salmond
1. Mr Salmond has lodged a formal complaint with the Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government under the civil service code, on the conduct of the official who is alleged to have breached civil service rules, by disclosing the name of a complainant in the Scottish Government process.
2. A letter has been sent to the Parliamentary Committee Convener supplying further requested evidence but also noting that we could complete our evidence if the Parliament would serve a Section 23 Order on Levy & McRae as suggested last Friday.
3. Mr Salmond will be interviewed by Mr James Hamilton, Independent Investigator on the Ministerial Code, this week.
4. The requested information that was supplied today is a) the minutes of the Commission and Diligence of late December 2018, b) the minute of proceedings of the Court decision of 8th January 2019 at which the Government decisions were found to be “unlawful”, “procedurally unfair” and “tainted by apparent bias” and c) a specific witness statement requested by the Committee.
5. That witness statement provides further corroboration for Mr Salmond’s evidence before the Committee. On all key points with varying accounts Mr Salmond was asked by the Committee to provide corroboration and has now done so with multiple independent witnesses. The First Minister has not provided the Committee with any such corroboration.
As far as I know they've never complained about the way Oprah has treated them so why shouldn't they talk to Oprah?
Mail on the naughty list, Oprah on the nice list as far as they're concerned. I don't see how that's weird.
Of course it is hard for Labour to effectively oppose a budget that was far more Labour than Tory in outlook with large deficits, large tax increases, large amounts of public spending and a bit of shuffling of civil servants chucked in. Its a problem Labour have to handle though. The Tories had the same problem at a fundamental level under Blair despite Brown's bombastic announcements of tuppance ha'pny on this and that and fiendishly complex schemes on the other. Labour are facing a Labour government in everything but name and they need to think hard about this.