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The more voters are educated the more likely they are to be negative about Johnson – politicalbettin

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  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Sweeney74 said:

    A wild mushroom risotto is one of my favourites to cook. Soak dried wild mushrooms. After frying the onions until soft, add chopped chestnut mushrooms and the drained/squeezed/chopped wild mushrooms (reserver the liquor), season to taste. Once the mushrooms are cooked add the risotto rice, stir and add a good glassful of white wine and reduce, then slowly add the reserved mushroom liquor. Finish with a nob of butter, grated parmesan and chopped parsley.
    Interesting to see how you do it - we just soak them in a mug of hot water from the kettle, rinse and sling them as they are into the rice and onion base with the fresh mushrooms, nothing more. But may be the soak precooks them a bit. We don't use the washing water cos of grit etc. but maybe ours are grubbier than some.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    You can get a 750 calories cheese and tomato pizza from Aldi for 66 pence.
    You can get a 960 calorie Pepperoni pizza for 79 pence.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Hello.

    Contra to earlier reports, I think Boris just gave the most important speech of his premiership.

    Despite the usual waffle, inappropriate asides, irrelevant detours, and awkward levity - he has in fact laid out the nature of the challenge facing this country and indeed the government’s high level response.

    It has long been a near obsession of mine that this country is both the most regionally unequal *and* the most centralised than any comparator economy. Boris agrees, and goes on to note that East German GDP has now accelerated past that of the UK’s “not-South”.

    It has been an astonishing failure of British policy making.

    Boris’s remedy appears to be four-fold:
    1. More devolution. Counties will follow metros.
    2. Connectivity funding (transport and broadband)
    3. Regionally focussed Industrial policy : Britain as “science” superpower
    4. Quality of life issues: crime, education but also town centre investment.

    To be honest, he gets it.
    It is obvious he has read and absorbed the literature.

    Whether or not the govt can truly deliver, I am highly skeptical; it requires a revolution in Westminster’s mindshift which I don’t yet see.

    Wow. Great comment thank you, and all the more insightful coming from you. Thanks.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,288

    It does give my wife migraines though. Not sure why, but maybe due to dehydration.
    Me, too.

    No idea why, as glutamate is everywhere in the body -
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate_receptor
    - but it does.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,119
    Maffew said:

    Would this be about the time for football final infections to start feeding through, or is that a bit optimistic?
    I think the rough timescales from exposure are: pre-symptomatic infectiousness from ~ day 3, symptoms onset is ~ day 5.

    So I'd be expecting peak of new symptoms to be tomorrow, but then people might leave it a day or so before taking a test, which would be the weekend, might as well wait until Monday, then tests on Monday reported Tuesday/Wednesday next week.

    Which would be a bit unfortunately timed for the couple of days immediately after restrictions loosened/removed.
  • You are correct, but you haven't explained why the first change happened. Why did Universities suddenly appoint more personal chairs?

    It happened because of house prices.

    Let us take Oxford. A starting Lecturer salary might be 40 k. That means our Lecturer can borrow an additional 120 k. He has to find a house costing 180 k, or thereabouts

    A three bedroom house in Jericho costs 695 k. Even a three bedroom house in Blackbird Leys -- where they hunt new Oxford University Lecturers with feral dogs -- costs 300 k. 😀
    Ah, I see. Your starting lecturer (= Assistant Professor) would be paid on national pay scales (observed since 1945 everywhere except Oxbridge, and largely mirrored there too) and it's not clear that her likelier elevation to the professorial grade in 20 years would make a Canal Street or Walton Terrace home affordable for her today. But I see that your point, though, is that the proliferation of full professors universities does allow them to pay at higher rates than the readership/Principal Lecturer rates of the old system. I'd misunderstood your point about mid-/late-career concerns about getting on the housing ladder with the discussion of American-style Assistant and Associate Professors elsewhere, which doesn't affect the starting lecturer's pay grade at all.

    We can agree for sure that not only are full professors proliferating, but promotion cases are now likelier to meet criteria that reward teaching and management contributions, as well as publications and grants.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,608

    Boris Johnson says he is not attracted to proposals for new taxes intended to reduce sugar and salt.

    The PM said a government-commissioned review of the food we eat was likely to contain good ideas, but he did not want to impact "hard-working people".

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57852513

    ...as he finished his snack of a Mars bar, Coca Cola and ready salted crisps.
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617
    Leon said:

    Not true. Whole Foods on my high street does wonderful fresh chicken stock, or chicken bone broth, in a pouch, ready to go. I'd love to say I've had better home-made - but I haven't.

    Might not be available in the wilds of Caledonia, mind
    These people? https://www.wholefoodsmarket.co.uk/

    I didn't know Caledonian had extended to the Thames upstream of Richmond, as well as Epping.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,288
    Andy_JS said:

    Will it be blamed on climate change?
    if you read the article, it already has.

    Of course, you can't put a single extreme weather event down to climate change, but a warmer atmosphere necessarily means more precipitation, so it will make events like this more common.
  • AnabobazinaAnabobazina Posts: 23,792

    I think the rough timescales from exposure are: pre-symptomatic infectiousness from ~ day 3, symptoms onset is ~ day 5.

    So I'd be expecting peak of new symptoms to be tomorrow, but then people might leave it a day or so before taking a test, which would be the weekend, might as well wait until Monday, then tests on Monday reported Tuesday/Wednesday next week.

    Which would be a bit unfortunately timed for the couple of days immediately after restrictions loosened/removed.
    Still no idea why this matters.

    We know positive tests will rise UK wide for a goodly while yet – we might see them subside mid/late August. I have no idea why it matters whether they rise more quickly now, then slower later, or vice versa.

    The only explanation is that the axiomatic obsession with positive tests continues despite the fact that the goal is now to render this another endemic disease rather than a scary killer.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,923
    Carnyx said:

    Exactly - the classic way. Mistake to use other kinds. But basmati is great for kedgeree.
    Yes , agree on the kedgeree.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,119
    malcolmg said:

    You would be very lucky to buy a stock that comes anywhere close to a real homemade one. They are mainly shit and full of salt and assorted crap.
    Some farm shops will make stock themselves from the carcasses they have after creating the cuts of meat for sale. We bought a boned and rolled turkey this year, so they included the stock from the carcass with it.
  • OnlyLivingBoyOnlyLivingBoy Posts: 16,269
    malcolmg said:

    Never risotto if using basmati and I defy anyone to do a real risotto in a microwave.
    Always use arborio rice, I'm not a total barbarian. But honestly, the microwave risotto tastes no worse than one done on the hob and is much quicker and easier, making it a useful midweek staple when you've got half an hour to throw a meal together, not an occasional luxury when you have the time for a spot of lifestyle cooking.
  • rural_voterrural_voter Posts: 2,038
    rcs1000 said:

    Except all the debt is to the Bank of England, and will therefore never be repaid.

    It's quite a long game to try and screw the West over by giving people slightly degraded education for 15 months.
    Martin isn't referring to China but to the 'medical-industrial complex'. The term was coined ~50 years ago and this article appeared in 1980 (!)

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198010233031703

    The critics in 2021 are talking about so-called 'regulatory capture' = a polite term for top-to-bottom corruption, the same as existed in WHO in 2009 at the time of swine flu.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 33,926
    The people running the country seem to think there are two types of people: the wealthy who eat posh food all the time, and the poor who can't afford to eat anything except unhealthy food. In fact the vast majority of people are somewhere in the middle: they eat fairly inexpensive food most of the time, and go to Waitrose occasionally.
  • TOPPINGTOPPING Posts: 43,563
    Andy_JS said:

    The people running the country seem to think there are two types of people: the wealthy who eat posh food all the time, and the poor who can't afford to eat anything except unhealthy food. In fact the vast majority of people are somewhere in the middle: they eat fairly inexpensive food most of the time, and go to Waitrose occasionally.

    Agree. Except on the Waitrose thing. I think for many (millions of) people Waitrose is a different country, food shopping-wise.
  • LostPasswordLostPassword Posts: 19,119

    Still no idea why this matters.

    We know positive tests will rise UK wide for a goodly while yet – we might see them subside mid/late August. I have no idea why it matters whether they rise more quickly now, then slower later, or vice versa.

    The only explanation is that the axiomatic obsession with positive tests continues despite the fact that the goal is now to render this another endemic disease rather than a scary killer.
    Psychologically we are in difficult territory because plenty of people were saying the same last September/October and that didn't end well. I remember words like "casedemic" being invented, and something about it being good for young people to catch the virus to create herd immunity.

    Things are different now, because of the vaccines, but psychologically it takes time for people to adjust from the lesson learned last time at such high cost. It might actually help the adjustment if the Euro final helps to push case numbers above the January peak, and then everyone will be able to see that the vaccines work when the hospitals aren't swamped and deaths are much lower.
  • eekeek Posts: 29,399
    TOPPING said:

    Agree. Except on the Waitrose thing. I think for many (millions of) people Waitrose is a different country, food shopping-wise.
    Waitrose wouldn't waste my time crossing the front door.

    Booths on the other hand...
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,216
    MaxPB said:

    Nah, it's the cup final. Definitely expected.
    Whatever, you say, Max! The virus will MAGICALLY disappear after the 19th! :lol:
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,216
    Leon said:

    Not true. Whole Foods on my high street does wonderful fresh chicken stock, or chicken bone broth, in a pouch, ready to go. I'd love to say I've had better home-made - but I haven't.

    Might not be available in the wilds of Caledonia, mind
    There's an online company:

    https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/

    Highly recommended!
  • CarnyxCarnyx Posts: 44,617

    There's an online company:

    https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/

    Highly recommended!
    Thanks - we have a local hamster food emporium aka community foodstore but this could be very useful for the other bits and pieces.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504
    Carnyx said:

    Thanks - we have a local hamster food emporium aka community foodstore but this could be very useful for the other bits and pieces.
    "hamster food emporium"

    Mmmmm... roast guinea pig.....
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 53,504
    Cases by specimen date

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    Cases by specimen date and scaled to 100K

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    Age related data

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    Vaccinations

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    Hospitals vs Cases

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  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,130
    DavidL said:

    It's incredible isn't it? Brexit has destroyed the economy, the country is a pariah, the government's policies are, well choose between useless, incompetent and shameful, and we create 356k jobs in a month and is doing particularly well in NI. Next month employment will exceed the pre Covid level but Sunak will no doubt still be a, checks thread, "clown" and Boris totally incompetent.

    Of course all these incredibly well educated people will no doubt have factored this in. Who could doubt it?
    Amazing! Money's coming out of our backside but still this Tory government cuts overseas aid to the world's poorest. Hooray!
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 29,656
    Newer thread over there!
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