I've just been listening to the Boris / Scholz press conference, and it's really quite excellent on both sides, though Scholz is being rather cautious on the timescale for a German pivot away from fossil fuels and Russian gas.
If BJ had been this good throughout, we'd be a hell of a lot further forward on Brexit without much of the acrimony, and Macron would be safely locked away somewhere.
I can only conclude that someone has a remote-controlled crushing-on-demand device on BJ's testicles.
Has someone appointed a real dominatrix to BJ's private office?
I saw my love walking down the aisle And as he passed me by, he turned And he smiled The preacher joined their hands And all the people began to stand When I shouted: "You know that should have been me Instead of her walking with you You know that it should have been me Getting ready to marry you Darling, darling You made a promise that we'd never part And then you turned around And broke my heart Now you're standing there saying 'I do' Holding hands with somebody new It should have been me Instead of her standing by you You know that it should have been me Getting ready to say 'I do'!"
Now on the arm of her daddy, she's walkin' down the aisle I see her catch my eye and give me a secret smile Maybe it's too old fashioned, but we once were close friends Oh but the way that she looks today, she never could have then
By denying a Ukrainian culture, Putin flattens his own What is ‘Russia,’ with all creativity and dissent crushed and only conformity remaining? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/06/putin-culture-ukraine-mayakovsky-gogol/ … Matters are murkier in Putin’s Russia. A war based upon a big lie is also hard on its culture of origin. Everyone is looking at the Russian nation — or perhaps, rather, for it. What does it do to a society to invade a neighbor, which it claims to love, on the basis of bottomless self-deception? Americans have not yet recovered from the lies they told about Iraq two decades ago, and the Russian deception campaign runs far deeper. How are Russian parents altered when they deny to their children in Ukraine that any war is taking place? What sort of nation makes war and then forbids the use of the very word? …
Watching the news and hearing what Ukrainians have suffered at the hands of Russian soldiers makes me wish that every single Russian soldier involved in these crimes be hung, drawn and quartered.
Unworthy of me I know.
But they are behaving like uncivilised savages and that their church is telling them to exterminate the Ukrainian nation shows that the rot has spread far beyond Putin.
When was Russia ever not rotten ?
Whether under the Mongols, Ivan the Terrible, the Czars, the communists or now Putin authoritarian brutality and vast inequality has been the common pattern.
And on the left appears to be Nick Candy, Holly Valance's husband - a billionaire property mogul and property developer who bankrolled and was a “senior figure” in Shaun Bailey’s London mayoral campaign. https://twitter.com/VinnyMcAv/status/1512439142407360513
What the eff were they thinking ? It’s as though they thought it was just some useful token which didn’t need enquiring into very deeply before tucking in the wallet.
The Non Dom status is awkward enough; the Green Card business quite something else.
And on the left appears to be Nick Candy, Holly Valance's husband - a billionaire property mogul and property developer who bankrolled and was a “senior figure” in Shaun Bailey’s London mayoral campaign. https://twitter.com/VinnyMcAv/status/1512439142407360513
Interesting to see all the photos on the wall - from the pomp of Trump's time as President. I don't think there's any way that he doesn't want to be the centre of attention again.
Documents seen by The Independent show trusts linked to Ms Murty, her family and companies linked to their businesses. In a number of them, Mr Sunak was listed as a beneficiary.
Wow, when her tax affairs first were reported I (a frothing at the mouth tax the rich until their pips squeak left-winger) didn't see what the issue was and felt that the "anger" totally confected.
Now.... now Sunak is showing all the sure foot of a blind arthritic elephant in a over crowded china shop.
The sad thing about this story is the emnity towards wealthy and successful people. There is no smoking gun here at all. Everything they have done is entirely legal. Being listed as a 'beneficiary' in a Cayman Islands trust.... so what.
If you don't like non dom status.... then scrap it. But if it is there, you cannot blame people for using it. And the expectation that she has somehow a greater obligation to Britain than anyone elses wife, is laughable. There are lots of international marriages going on; it is an inevitable consequence of globalisation. People are just projecting their own ideas about marriage - largely from a different age.... on to the Sunaks.
We have a shortage of sane and competent people going in to politics. These are the people that we elect to run the country. Why not have someone who is has been successful and is independently wealthy.... I don't see the problem. I have never been a particular fan of Sunak, but if he is hounded out over this it would be a bad loss.
The end point, is that no one successful, goes in to politics.... and we are nearly there already. We will just get a bunch of activists. We end up with Jared O'Mara 2; over and over again.
Less than a month after South Carolina authorities said they were ready to carry out executions by firing squad after transitioning away from lethal injection, the state has scheduled its first execution.
The Hill
I am strongly against the death penalty but not quite sure why firing squad is worth than lethal injection etc?
Isn't it because pharmaceutical companies and health professionals are increasingly restricting lethal injections for executions? Hence shooting, which loads of yanks can do.
Where's a vat of Malmsey wine when you need it?
Hanging is fine.
Except when the Yanks used an inexperienced hangman at Nuremburg, who had bungled quite a lot previously.
Good job that Goring topped himself; the trapdoor was too small and he may have stuck.
/dark sense of humour
You mean he would have been Hermanated?
I don't know "Hermanated".
But his profile was like a bastard child of Clown-Shoes Clarkson and the Fat Controller.
Ironically, the Americans got Fat Herman off the morphine and put him on prison rations, which dropped his weight a fair bit. As a result he was fairly alert, mentally, at his trial - by the end of the war he'd been a wreck....
As a nice touch, they refused to allow him new clothes - so he stood trial in his old tents...
That's actually correct, and I had forgotten.
I think he lost 60lb.
It was justice.
They got him pretty fit, well, and mentally all there.
They gave him a good lawyer and a fair trial.
And condemned the bastard based on the mountain of evidence.
Twisted and broken dawn, no days with sunlight The dying spark, you left your mark on me The promise of your kiss, but with someone else For the bitterest pill is mine to swallow The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill!
I've just been listening to the Boris / Scholz press conference, and it's really quite excellent on both sides, though Scholz is being rather cautious on the timescale for a German pivot away from fossil fuels and Russian gas.
If BJ had been this good throughout, we'd be a hell of a lot further forward on Brexit without much of the acrimony, and Macron would be safely locked away somewhere.
I can only conclude that someone has a remote-controlled crushing-on-demand device on BJ's testicles.
Has someone appointed a real dominatrix to BJ's private office?
"Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin!" - Krushchev.
They asked Chairman Mao what he thought would have happened if Kruschev had been assassinated, not Kennedy. Mao thought for a second, and replied “I’m sure Aristotle Onassis wouldn’t have married Mrs Kruschev.”
Less than a month after South Carolina authorities said they were ready to carry out executions by firing squad after transitioning away from lethal injection, the state has scheduled its first execution.
The Hill
I am strongly against the death penalty but not quite sure why firing squad is worth than lethal injection etc?
Isn't it because pharmaceutical companies and health professionals are increasingly restricting lethal injections for executions? Hence shooting, which loads of yanks can do.
Where's a vat of Malmsey wine when you need it?
Hanging is fine.
Except when the Yanks used an inexperienced hangman at Nuremburg, who had bungled quite a lot previously.
Good job that Goring topped himself; the trapdoor was too small and he may have stuck.
/dark sense of humour
You mean he would have been Hermanated?
I don't know "Hermanated".
But his profile was like a bastard child of Clown-Shoes Clarkson and the Fat Controller.
Ironically, the Americans got Fat Herman off the morphine and put him on prison rations, which dropped his weight a fair bit. As a result he was fairly alert, mentally, at his trial - by the end of the war he'd been a wreck....
As a nice touch, they refused to allow him new clothes - so he stood trial in his old tents...
That's actually correct, and I had forgotten.
I think he lost 60lb.
It was justice.
They got him pretty fit, well, and mentally all there.
They gave him a good lawyer and a fair trial.
And condemned the bastard based on the mountain of evidence.
Albeit he unfortunately had the last laugh in two ways:
1) When they read the verdict, the translation went wrong so he had to stop proceedings and tell them they were talking gibberish, leading the court to dissolve in uproar;
2) He managed to top himself before they could hang him.
Rishi Sunak confirms he held a US green card until October last year.
In order to get a green card he would have had to have declared himself a permanent resident in the US.
Drip drip drip
It's not really a drip anymore, it's resignation time. Sunak isn't Boris.
He's not, but he may be Winchester's third best Boris tribute act.
Though if this is all about Boris showing what happens to unsuccessful assassins, getting the Sunak's to pay more tax, then getting rid of Rishi is impressive.
I’ve got a melton Mowbray pork pie in the fridge. Has anyone seen lady leading the Pork Pie Plot recently? 🤢
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
Documents seen by The Independent show trusts linked to Ms Murty, her family and companies linked to their businesses. In a number of them, Mr Sunak was listed as a beneficiary.
Wow, when her tax affairs first were reported I (a frothing at the mouth tax the rich until their pips squeak left-winger) didn't see what the issue was and felt that the "anger" totally confected.
Now.... now Sunak is showing all the sure foot of a blind arthritic elephant in a over crowded china shop.
The sad thing about this story is the emnity towards wealthy and successful people. There is no smoking gun here at all. Everything they have done is entirely legal. Being listed as a 'beneficiary' in a Cayman Islands trust.... so what.
If you don't like non dom status.... then scrap it. But if it is there, you cannot blame people for using it. And the expectation that she has somehow a greater obligation to Britain than anyone elses wife, is laughable. There are lots of international marriages going on; it is an inevitable consequence of globalisation. People are just projecting their own ideas about marriage - largely from a different age.... on to the Sunaks.
We have a shortage of sane and competent people going in to politics. These are the people that we elect to run the country. Why not have someone who is has been successful and is independently wealthy.... I don't see the problem. I have never been a particular fan of Sunak, but if he is hounded out over this it would be a bad loss.
The end point, is that no one successful, goes in to politics.... and we are nearly there already. We will just get a bunch of activists. We end up with Jared O'Mara 2; over and over again.
Complete and utter fucking bollocks. Stanley Baldwin anonymously donated £6m in today's money, in 1919, to pay down the national debt.
There's a huge and worrying tendency, exemplified by you, to assume that the more our megarich insect overlords fuck us, the better we like it.
Twisted and broken dawn, no days with sunlight The dying spark, you left your mark on me The promise of your kiss, but with someone else For the bitterest pill is mine to swallow The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill!
Just dispense the flipping things Doc. It’s not rag mag week.
I've just been listening to the Boris / Scholz press conference, and it's really quite excellent on both sides, though Scholz is being rather cautious on the timescale for a German pivot away from fossil fuels and Russian gas.
If BJ had been this good throughout, we'd be a hell of a lot further forward on Brexit without much of the acrimony, and Macron would be safely locked away somewhere.
I can only conclude that someone has a remote-controlled crushing-on-demand device on BJ's testicles.
Has someone appointed a real dominatrix to BJ's private office?
"Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin!" - Krushchev.
They asked Chairman Mao what he thought would have happened if Kruschev had been assassinated, not Kennedy. Mao thought for a second, and replied “I’m sure Aristotle Onassis wouldn’t have married Mrs Kruschev.”
Since they were not officially married in 1963 (only in 1965 when he needed to make sure the Kremlin couldn't do her out of his pension when he died) it would have been impossible.
I would add though that Nina Khrushchev was a very remarkable woman. Fluent in five languages, a shrewd political tactician and with a knack for extremely hard work. So maybe that's Onassis' loss...
Twisted and broken dawn, no days with sunlight The dying spark, you left your mark on me The promise of your kiss, but with someone else For the bitterest pill is mine to swallow The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill!
Just dispense the flipping things Doc. It’s not rag mag week.
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
He doesn't need to go ever again, he's finally got the Oscar he's been after for years (and deserved, in fairness).
Less than a month after South Carolina authorities said they were ready to carry out executions by firing squad after transitioning away from lethal injection, the state has scheduled its first execution.
The Hill
I am strongly against the death penalty but not quite sure why firing squad is worth than lethal injection etc?
Isn't it because pharmaceutical companies and health professionals are increasingly restricting lethal injections for executions? Hence shooting, which loads of yanks can do.
Where's a vat of Malmsey wine when you need it?
Hanging is fine.
Except when the Yanks used an inexperienced hangman at Nuremburg, who had bungled quite a lot previously.
Good job that Goring topped himself; the trapdoor was too small and he may have stuck.
/dark sense of humour
You mean he would have been Hermanated?
I don't know "Hermanated".
But his profile was like a bastard child of Clown-Shoes Clarkson and the Fat Controller.
Ironically, the Americans got Fat Herman off the morphine and put him on prison rations, which dropped his weight a fair bit. As a result he was fairly alert, mentally, at his trial - by the end of the war he'd been a wreck....
As a nice touch, they refused to allow him new clothes - so he stood trial in his old tents...
That's actually correct, and I had forgotten.
I think he lost 60lb.
It was justice.
They got him pretty fit, well, and mentally all there.
They gave him a good lawyer and a fair trial.
And condemned the bastard based on the mountain of evidence.
Albeit he unfortunately had the last laugh in two ways:
1) When they read the verdict, the translation went wrong so he had to stop proceedings and tell them they were talking gibberish, leading the court to dissolve in uproar;
2) He managed to top himself before they could hang him.
Neither of those is really a victory. Dead is dead.
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
Documents seen by The Independent show trusts linked to Ms Murty, her family and companies linked to their businesses. In a number of them, Mr Sunak was listed as a beneficiary.
Wow, when her tax affairs first were reported I (a frothing at the mouth tax the rich until their pips squeak left-winger) didn't see what the issue was and felt that the "anger" totally confected.
Now.... now Sunak is showing all the sure foot of a blind arthritic elephant in a over crowded china shop.
The sad thing about this story is the emnity towards wealthy and successful people. There is no smoking gun here at all. Everything they have done is entirely legal. Being listed as a 'beneficiary' in a Cayman Islands trust.... so what.
If you don't like non dom status.... then scrap it. But if it is there, you cannot blame people for using it. And the expectation that she has somehow a greater obligation to Britain than anyone elses wife, is laughable. There are lots of international marriages going on; it is an inevitable consequence of globalisation. People are just projecting their own ideas about marriage - largely from a different age.... on to the Sunaks.
We have a shortage of sane and competent people going in to politics. These are the people that we elect to run the country. Why not have someone who is has been successful and is independently wealthy.... I don't see the problem. I have never been a particular fan of Sunak, but if he is hounded out over this it would be a bad loss.
The end point, is that no one successful, goes in to politics.... and we are nearly there already. We will just get a bunch of activists. We end up with Jared O'Mara 2; over and over again.
Complete and utter fucking bollocks. Stanley Baldwin anonymously donated £6m in today's money, in 1919, to pay down the national debt.
There's a huge and worrying tendency, exemplified by you, to assume that the more our megarich insect overlords fuck us, the better we like it.
They pay tax on their UK income though. Sunak is doing a (comparatively) poorly paid job as a public servant. They could have just lied low and stayed out of the public eye...
We probably are being fucked over by the 'mega rich'.... but they are not a good example.
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
Is that supposed to be a punishment?
The first time the Oscars have ever banned a slapper from attending.
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
Is that supposed to be a punishment?
Don't understand this at all. What's a brother meant to do when a brother is disrespecting his hoe? Is it clever or funny to mock someone for being bald? Even when it's a woman?
The majority seemed quite level headed people, a little coy about saying anything to camera about it - obviously living in a KGB state at war! Yet still not awfully supportive? Did you get the sense Francis if they all had a secret ballot in a fair election, most wouldn’t support it? One big caveat to this vox pop, it’s youngish people in a metropolitan area? Putin’s power base, much like Erdagons, is out in the sticks, elderly, religious, conservative in nature? And the second caveat would be, UK committing similar atrocities somewhere in world as Russia are in Ukraine, would a vox pop here also pick up this degree of turning heads away and disconnecting from it?
The majority seemed quite level headed people, a little coy about saying anything to camera about it - obviously living in a KGB state at war! Yet still not awfully supportive? Did you get the sense Francis if they all had a secret ballot in a fair election, most wouldn’t support it? One big caveat to this vox pop, it’s youngish people in a metropolitan area? Putin’s power base, much like Erdagons, is out in the sticks, elderly, religious, conservative in nature? And the second caveat would be, UK committing similar atrocities somewhere in world as Russia are in Ukraine, would a vox pop here also pick up this degree of turning heads away and disconnecting from it?
Yeah, fuck that. Where's the value in the 5:15 at Aintree?
How does Sunaks wife stay as a non-dom and pay UK tax on foreign earnings . Can you just offer to pay them money even though legally you don’t need to !
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
Is that supposed to be a punishment?
There's now going to be a John Wayne-style fistfight next year. Chairs smashed over heads, people thrown through windows.....
Twisted and broken dawn, no days with sunlight The dying spark, you left your mark on me The promise of your kiss, but with someone else For the bitterest pill is mine to swallow The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows The bitterest pill is mine to take If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill!
Just dispense the flipping things Doc. It’s not rag mag week.
So what about the GN tomorrow?
I thought I would be professional and wait for the going stick, check the non runners (they might wake up with a cough) and post shortly after 9am Saturday.
The majority seemed quite level headed people, a little coy about saying anything to camera about it - obviously living in a KGB state at war! Yet still not awfully supportive? Did you get the sense Francis if they all had a secret ballot in a fair election, most wouldn’t support it? One big caveat to this vox pop, it’s youngish people in a metropolitan area? Putin’s power base, much like Erdagons, is out in the sticks, elderly, religious, conservative in nature? And the second caveat would be, UK committing similar atrocities somewhere in world as Russia are in Ukraine, would a vox pop here also pick up this degree of turning heads away and disconnecting from it?
Yeah, fuck that. Where's the value in the 5:15 at Aintree?
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
Is that supposed to be a punishment?
There's now going to be a John Wayne-style fistfight next year. Chairs smashed over heads, people thrown through windows.....
Would be better to have the fight scene from Blazing Saddles where they end up in the canteen.
As someone might have said, you wait ages for a 35% swing and two come along at once.
A very good of local by-election results for the Greens and for the LDs - probably means nothing but I do wonder if we'll see a big anti-duopoly vote in a month's time. That's the thing with anger - it can lash out in all directions.
The expectations management game is under way, it seems, ahead of the local elections. The problem for Labour in London is how well they did last time. The vote split was (roughly) LAB 44, CON 29, LD 13. In councillors that meant 1,128 for Labour, 508 for the Conservatives and 152 for the LDs.
Obviously, we have boundary changes as OGH has noted so Labour, for example, will move up 6 simply because Newham is increasing from 60 to 66 due to rising population whereas other areas will see fewer councillors so councillor numbers may not tell the whole story.
The key is often when councils change hands as we know - can the LDs hold all three of their councils, will the Conservatives hold their seven? We've already some Conservative-inclined claim holding on to Kensington & Chelsea would represent success but if Labour said they'd have a good night if they held Lambeth, no one would be convinced.
There's also the complexity of turnout - last time only Richmond saw a turnout above 50% while in Barking & Dagenham turnout was 29.5%.
Now that we can’t vote in European elections, the local elections will be the best opportunity for people to cast a protest vote.
I've just been listening to the Boris / Scholz press conference, and it's really quite excellent on both sides, though Scholz is being rather cautious on the timescale for a German pivot away from fossil fuels and Russian gas.
If BJ had been this good throughout, we'd be a hell of a lot further forward on Brexit without much of the acrimony, and Macron would be safely locked away somewhere.
I can only conclude that someone has a remote-controlled crushing-on-demand device on BJ's testicles.
Has someone appointed a real dominatrix to BJ's private office?
"Berlin is the testicles of the West. When I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin!" - Krushchev.
They asked Chairman Mao what he thought would have happened if Kruschev had been assassinated, not Kennedy. Mao thought for a second, and replied “I’m sure Aristotle Onassis wouldn’t have married Mrs Kruschev.”
Since they were not officially married in 1963 (only in 1965 when he needed to make sure the Kremlin couldn't do her out of his pension when he died) it would have been impossible.
I would add though that Nina Khrushchev was a very remarkable woman. Fluent in five languages, a shrewd political tactician and with a knack for extremely hard work. So maybe that's Onassis' loss...
It must have been lost in translation, like in Red Monarch on BritBox,
You are never wrong ydoethur, Aristotle Onassis loss
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
Is that supposed to be a punishment?
There's now going to be a John Wayne-style fistfight next year. Chairs smashed over heads, people thrown through windows.....
Would be better to have the fight scene from Blazing Saddles where they end up in the canteen.
Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.
How does Sunaks wife stay as a non-dom and pay UK tax on foreign earnings . Can you just offer to pay them money even though legally you don’t need to !
Yes. You don't tick the box on the tax return claiming non-dom status.
As someone might have said, you wait ages for a 35% swing and two come along at once.
A very good of local by-election results for the Greens and for the LDs - probably means nothing but I do wonder if we'll see a big anti-duopoly vote in a month's time. That's the thing with anger - it can lash out in all directions.
The expectations management game is under way, it seems, ahead of the local elections. The problem for Labour in London is how well they did last time. The vote split was (roughly) LAB 44, CON 29, LD 13. In councillors that meant 1,128 for Labour, 508 for the Conservatives and 152 for the LDs.
Obviously, we have boundary changes as OGH has noted so Labour, for example, will move up 6 simply because Newham is increasing from 60 to 66 due to rising population whereas other areas will see fewer councillors so councillor numbers may not tell the whole story.
The key is often when councils change hands as we know - can the LDs hold all three of their councils, will the Conservatives hold their seven? We've already some Conservative-inclined claim holding on to Kensington & Chelsea would represent success but if Labour said they'd have a good night if they held Lambeth, no one would be convinced.
There's also the complexity of turnout - last time only Richmond saw a turnout above 50% while in Barking & Dagenham turnout was 29.5%.
Now that we can’t vote in European elections, the local elections will be the best opportunity for people to cast a protest vote.
No, that's the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, for those unfortunate enough to have them. The ultimate 'cock and balls' voting opportunity.
I thought I would be professional and wait for the going stick, check the non runners (they might wake up with a cough) and post shortly after 9am Saturday.
It's not a race from a punting point of view which I enjoy.
I can count the number of times I've backed the winner in the last 30 years on the fingers of one hand - my last big win was PINEAU DE RE in 2014 who I backed at 33s after I overheard Brendan Powell Senior telling some people at Plumpton Leighton Aspell had told him the horse had a big chance.
So much for hours of detailed form analysis.
It's a different race now from what it was - arguably more competitive and at the same time less. There's much less complete dead wood in the race but the overall rise in quality means the winner is often well fancied - the last four have been 14/1, 10/1, 4/1 and 11/1.
I saw my love walking down the aisle And as he passed me by, he turned And he smiled The preacher joined their hands And all the people began to stand When I shouted: "You know that should have been me Instead of her walking with you You know that it should have been me Getting ready to marry you Darling, darling You made a promise that we'd never part And then you turned around And broke my heart Now you're standing there saying 'I do' Holding hands with somebody new It should have been me Instead of her standing by you You know that it should have been me Getting ready to say 'I do'!"
Now on the arm of her daddy, she's walkin' down the aisle I see her catch my eye and give me a secret smile Maybe it's too old fashioned, but we once were close friends Oh but the way that she looks today, she never could have then
I once loved a lass, and I loved her so well, And I hated all others, who spoke of her ill. And now she's rewarded me, well for my love, For she's gone, and she's wed another.
And I saw my love, up to the church go, With bride and brides-maidens, she made a fine show. And I followed on, with my heart full of woe, For she's gone, and she's wed another.
I saw my love, as she sat doon to dine. I sat doon beside her, and poured the wine. And I thought of the lassie, that should have been mine, Now she's gone, and she's wed another.
All men in yon forest, they asked of me, “How many strawberries, grow in the salt sea?” And I answered them, with a tear in my eye, “How many ships, sail in the forest?”
Oh dig me a grave, and dig it sae deep, And cover it over, with wee flowers sae sweet. And I lay me doon, for to tak' a long sleep, And maybe in time, I'll forget her.
So they dug him a grave, and they dug it sae deep, And they covered it over, with wee flowers sae sweet, And he lay him doon, for to take a long sleep, And maybe in time, he'll forget her.
How does Sunaks wife stay as a non-dom and pay UK tax on foreign earnings . Can you just offer to pay them money even though legally you don’t need to !
You don't have to offer, the liability is there automatically unless you take steps, and pay a lot of money, to make it go away.
Do you ever get the feeling that rhetorical questions don't always work?
How does Sunaks wife stay as a non-dom and pay UK tax on foreign earnings . Can you just offer to pay them money even though legally you don’t need to !
How does Sunaks wife stay as a non-dom and pay UK tax on foreign earnings . Can you just offer to pay them money even though legally you don’t need to !
As someone might have said, you wait ages for a 35% swing and two come along at once.
A very good of local by-election results for the Greens and for the LDs - probably means nothing but I do wonder if we'll see a big anti-duopoly vote in a month's time. That's the thing with anger - it can lash out in all directions.
The expectations management game is under way, it seems, ahead of the local elections. The problem for Labour in London is how well they did last time. The vote split was (roughly) LAB 44, CON 29, LD 13. In councillors that meant 1,128 for Labour, 508 for the Conservatives and 152 for the LDs.
Obviously, we have boundary changes as OGH has noted so Labour, for example, will move up 6 simply because Newham is increasing from 60 to 66 due to rising population whereas other areas will see fewer councillors so councillor numbers may not tell the whole story.
The key is often when councils change hands as we know - can the LDs hold all three of their councils, will the Conservatives hold their seven? We've already some Conservative-inclined claim holding on to Kensington & Chelsea would represent success but if Labour said they'd have a good night if they held Lambeth, no one would be convinced.
There's also the complexity of turnout - last time only Richmond saw a turnout above 50% while in Barking & Dagenham turnout was 29.5%.
Now that we can’t vote in European elections, the local elections will be the best opportunity for people to cast a protest vote.
No, that's the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, for those unfortunate enough to have them. The ultimate 'cock and balls' voting opportunity.
The only elections I refuse to vote in. I don't even want to spoil my paper and boost the turnout.
Anything to do with electioneering? (Innocent face).
Yes. But also to do with the Polish PM's antisemitism.
In the context of Russia invading its neighbours to 'denazify' them, it might not be a wise narrative to promote.
@SamRamani2 The Russian Foreign Ministry transfers its "denazification" rhetoric on Ukraine to Latvia:
"The ruling regime in Latvia has long been well known for its neo-Nazi preferences and attempts to whitewash the atrocities of Nazi Germany 's henchmen"
I thought I would be professional and wait for the going stick, check the non runners (they might wake up with a cough) and post shortly after 9am Saturday.
It's not a race from a punting point of view which I enjoy.
I can count the number of times I've backed the winner in the last 30 years on the fingers of one hand - my last big win was PINEAU DE RE in 2014 who I backed at 33s after I overheard Brendan Powell Senior telling some people at Plumpton Leighton Aspell had told him the horse had a big chance.
So much for hours of detailed form analysis.
It's a different race now from what it was - arguably more competitive and at the same time less. There's much less complete dead wood in the race but the overall rise in quality means the winner is often well fancied - the last four have been 14/1, 10/1, 4/1 and 11/1.
Yes they have continually changed the course, and it attracts better horses in, like Eclair Surf sneaking in quite late. When I was young it seemed to be soft conditions more than recently, the good going favours the quicker horses and quicker time doesn’t it? If it was a hurdle race for example, even at that distance I would be confident of picking out a winner, probably Eclair Surf would be there at finish if it wasn’t for the jumping.
When flat season kicks in Stodge, 2yr olds over 7f, if I bet at all it will be on your tips. I’ll be differing to you and PBs other flat experts.
As someone might have said, you wait ages for a 35% swing and two come along at once.
A very good of local by-election results for the Greens and for the LDs - probably means nothing but I do wonder if we'll see a big anti-duopoly vote in a month's time. That's the thing with anger - it can lash out in all directions.
The expectations management game is under way, it seems, ahead of the local elections. The problem for Labour in London is how well they did last time. The vote split was (roughly) LAB 44, CON 29, LD 13. In councillors that meant 1,128 for Labour, 508 for the Conservatives and 152 for the LDs.
Obviously, we have boundary changes as OGH has noted so Labour, for example, will move up 6 simply because Newham is increasing from 60 to 66 due to rising population whereas other areas will see fewer councillors so councillor numbers may not tell the whole story.
The key is often when councils change hands as we know - can the LDs hold all three of their councils, will the Conservatives hold their seven? We've already some Conservative-inclined claim holding on to Kensington & Chelsea would represent success but if Labour said they'd have a good night if they held Lambeth, no one would be convinced.
There's also the complexity of turnout - last time only Richmond saw a turnout above 50% while in Barking & Dagenham turnout was 29.5%.
Now that we can’t vote in European elections, the local elections will be the best opportunity for people to cast a protest vote.
No, that's the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, for those unfortunate enough to have them. The ultimate 'cock and balls' voting opportunity.
The only elections I refuse to vote in. I don't even want to spoil my paper and boost the turnout.
Fortunately the role has been abolished in West Yorkshire, now we have the "Queen of the North ".
Anything to do with electioneering? (Innocent face).
Yes. But also to do with the Polish PM's antisemitism.
In the context of Russia invading its neighbours to 'denazify' them, it might not be a wise narrative to promote.
@SamRamani2 The Russian Foreign Ministry transfers its "denazification" rhetoric on Ukraine to Latvia:
"The ruling regime in Latvia has long been well known for its neo-Nazi preferences and attempts to whitewash the atrocities of Nazi Germany 's henchmen"
Are we allowed to mention Russia being an ally of Nazi Germany and sending it war matériel for two years? Or is that something Russians seek to whitewash?
Anything to do with electioneering? (Innocent face).
Yes. But also to do with the Polish PM's antisemitism.
In the context of Russia invading its neighbours to 'denazify' them, it might not be a wise narrative to promote.
It is, nevertheless, probably true.
At the very least, like Corbyn, he chooses to hang out with antisemites.
Now you might argue it is not a good time to say such things, but it doesn't seem like Macron is something completely outrageous.
It's also perfectly possible that the Polish PM is absolutely right in standing up to Russia and in supporting Ukraine, but has some features that make him less than perfect.
As someone might have said, you wait ages for a 35% swing and two come along at once.
A very good of local by-election results for the Greens and for the LDs - probably means nothing but I do wonder if we'll see a big anti-duopoly vote in a month's time. That's the thing with anger - it can lash out in all directions.
The expectations management game is under way, it seems, ahead of the local elections. The problem for Labour in London is how well they did last time. The vote split was (roughly) LAB 44, CON 29, LD 13. In councillors that meant 1,128 for Labour, 508 for the Conservatives and 152 for the LDs.
Obviously, we have boundary changes as OGH has noted so Labour, for example, will move up 6 simply because Newham is increasing from 60 to 66 due to rising population whereas other areas will see fewer councillors so councillor numbers may not tell the whole story.
The key is often when councils change hands as we know - can the LDs hold all three of their councils, will the Conservatives hold their seven? We've already some Conservative-inclined claim holding on to Kensington & Chelsea would represent success but if Labour said they'd have a good night if they held Lambeth, no one would be convinced.
There's also the complexity of turnout - last time only Richmond saw a turnout above 50% while in Barking & Dagenham turnout was 29.5%.
Now that we can’t vote in European elections, the local elections will be the best opportunity for people to cast a protest vote.
No, that's the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, for those unfortunate enough to have them. The ultimate 'cock and balls' voting opportunity.
That's indeed no joke, I've come across more scrawled penises in those than any other type (still not all that many, but more than the usual one or two).
As someone might have said, you wait ages for a 35% swing and two come along at once.
A very good of local by-election results for the Greens and for the LDs - probably means nothing but I do wonder if we'll see a big anti-duopoly vote in a month's time. That's the thing with anger - it can lash out in all directions.
The expectations management game is under way, it seems, ahead of the local elections. The problem for Labour in London is how well they did last time. The vote split was (roughly) LAB 44, CON 29, LD 13. In councillors that meant 1,128 for Labour, 508 for the Conservatives and 152 for the LDs.
Obviously, we have boundary changes as OGH has noted so Labour, for example, will move up 6 simply because Newham is increasing from 60 to 66 due to rising population whereas other areas will see fewer councillors so councillor numbers may not tell the whole story.
The key is often when councils change hands as we know - can the LDs hold all three of their councils, will the Conservatives hold their seven? We've already some Conservative-inclined claim holding on to Kensington & Chelsea would represent success but if Labour said they'd have a good night if they held Lambeth, no one would be convinced.
There's also the complexity of turnout - last time only Richmond saw a turnout above 50% while in Barking & Dagenham turnout was 29.5%.
Now that we can’t vote in European elections, the local elections will be the best opportunity for people to cast a protest vote.
No, that's the Police and Crime Commissioner elections, for those unfortunate enough to have them. The ultimate 'cock and balls' voting opportunity.
That's indeed no joke, I've come across more scrawled penises in those than any other type (still not all that many, but more than the usual one or two).
Anything to do with electioneering? (Innocent face).
Yes. But also to do with the Polish PM's antisemitism.
In the context of Russia invading its neighbours to 'denazify' them, it might not be a wise narrative to promote.
@SamRamani2 The Russian Foreign Ministry transfers its "denazification" rhetoric on Ukraine to Latvia:
"The ruling regime in Latvia has long been well known for its neo-Nazi preferences and attempts to whitewash the atrocities of Nazi Germany 's henchmen"
Are we allowed to mention Russia being an ally of Nazi Germany and sending it war matériel for two years? Or is that something Russians seek to whitewash?
If I were talking to the Russian government right now, my only questions would be what are they smoking and where do I get some?
Not for personal use, you understand. Twelve ounces of whatever it is they're on sold in the right market would clear the national debt.
Fearne Cotton is playing some great 90 hits on her Radio 2 show. KLF — 3AM Eternal atm.
If that sort of thing is your cup of tea, have you been watching the BBC series on Top of the Pops? Very watchable. They're up to 1993. The thing I like best about it is all the songs which I remember but which didn't really move me at all at the time, and where the individuals involved turn out to be gratifyingly articulate and likeable. We watched TOTP despite 80% of it leaving us cold for the odd occasion when someone from our tribe would be on. And as a consequence we were exposed to everyone else's stuff too. I slightly miss that.
Documents seen by The Independent show trusts linked to Ms Murty, her family and companies linked to their businesses. In a number of them, Mr Sunak was listed as a beneficiary.
Wow, when her tax affairs first were reported I (a frothing at the mouth tax the rich until their pips squeak left-winger) didn't see what the issue was and felt that the "anger" totally confected.
Now.... now Sunak is showing all the sure foot of a blind arthritic elephant in a over crowded china shop.
The sad thing about this story is the emnity towards wealthy and successful people. There is no smoking gun here at all. Everything they have done is entirely legal. Being listed as a 'beneficiary' in a Cayman Islands trust.... so what.
If you don't like non dom status.... then scrap it. But if it is there, you cannot blame people for using it. And the expectation that she has somehow a greater obligation to Britain than anyone elses wife, is laughable. There are lots of international marriages going on; it is an inevitable consequence of globalisation. People are just projecting their own ideas about marriage - largely from a different age.... on to the Sunaks.
We have a shortage of sane and competent people going in to politics. These are the people that we elect to run the country. Why not have someone who is has been successful and is independently wealthy.... I don't see the problem. I have never been a particular fan of Sunak, but if he is hounded out over this it would be a bad loss.
The end point, is that no one successful, goes in to politics.... and we are nearly there already. We will just get a bunch of activists. We end up with Jared O'Mara 2; over and over again.
I mostly agree. From my left-wing position I think that frothing over individuals taking advantage of a deliberately-created loophole is a distraction and unfair as well. Change the system so that it rewards people for doing what we want - making nondom status vastly more expensive would be a start, so that in the end it's usually more sensible just to pay tax in the country where you live..
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But, surely we are all left with one thought after todays back and forth?
Where is Dom?
Like a Borscht
Put Beetroot in there too
Like a Borscht"
NEW
Rishi Sunak's Green Card controversy just made the White House Daily Briefing... https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1512511744014442502
White House asked why Rishi Sunak had a Green Card when the guidelines say you can't be a member of a foreign government
White House spox promises to speak to State Department
👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️ https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1512522060844740614
I see her catch my eye and give me a secret smile
Maybe it's too old fashioned, but we once were close friends
Oh but the way that she looks today, she never could have then
By denying a Ukrainian culture, Putin flattens his own
What is ‘Russia,’ with all creativity and dissent crushed and only conformity remaining?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/06/putin-culture-ukraine-mayakovsky-gogol/
… Matters are murkier in Putin’s Russia. A war based upon a big lie is also hard on its culture of origin. Everyone is looking at the Russian nation — or perhaps, rather, for it. What does it do to a society to invade a neighbor, which it claims to love, on the basis of bottomless self-deception? Americans have not yet recovered from the lies they told about Iraq two decades ago, and the Russian deception campaign runs far deeper. How are Russian parents altered when they deny to their children in Ukraine that any war is taking place? What sort of nation makes war and then forbids the use of the very word? …
The moral of the story? Don't mess with BigDog.
Whether under the Mongols, Ivan the Terrible, the Czars, the communists or now Putin authoritarian brutality and vast inequality has been the common pattern.
Remarkable. Is he still trolling the world?
And on the left appears to be Nick Candy, Holly Valance's husband - a billionaire property mogul and property developer who bankrolled and was a “senior figure” in Shaun Bailey’s London mayoral campaign. https://twitter.com/VinnyMcAv/status/1512439142407360513
It’s as though they thought it was just some useful token which didn’t need enquiring into very deeply before tucking in the wallet.
The Non Dom status is awkward enough; the Green Card business quite something else.
When the Chancellor can’t even honestly say which country he lives in how on earth can we trust him with our taxes?
https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1512525006701535236
Trump looks disgustingly and worryingly healthy though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV2zEZozhOw
And is Madison Cawthorn now trying to save his job ?
And more will come. We will now propose another €500 million to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian people are holding up the torch of freedom for all of us. https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1512525016910471170/photo/1
GRN: 43.8% (+27.0)
CON: 26.5% (-13.7)
IND: 23.6% (-6.7)
LAB: 6.1% (-6.6)
Votes cast: 1,355
Green GAIN from Conservative.
If you don't like non dom status.... then scrap it. But if it is there, you cannot blame people for using it. And the expectation that she has somehow a greater obligation to Britain than anyone elses wife, is laughable. There are lots of international marriages going on; it is an inevitable consequence of globalisation. People are just projecting their own ideas about marriage - largely from a different age.... on to the Sunaks.
We have a shortage of sane and competent people going in to politics. These are the people that we elect to run the country. Why not have someone who is has been successful and is independently wealthy.... I don't see the problem. I have never been a particular fan of Sunak, but if he is hounded out over this it would be a bad loss.
The end point, is that no one successful, goes in to politics.... and we are nearly there already. We will just get a bunch of activists. We end up with Jared O'Mara 2; over and over again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNMaDbJDTk
They got him pretty fit, well, and mentally all there.
They gave him a good lawyer and a fair trial.
And condemned the bastard based on the mountain of evidence.
The dying spark, you left your mark on me
The promise of your kiss, but with someone else
For the bitterest pill is mine to swallow
The love I gave hangs in sad coloured, mocking shadows
The bitterest pill is mine to take
If I took if for a hundred years, I couldn't feel anymore ill!
“I’m sure Aristotle Onassis wouldn’t have married Mrs Kruschev.”
And being a sufferer of agoraphobia would probably rule him out from being a leadership contender.
1) When they read the verdict, the translation went wrong so he had to stop proceedings and tell them they were talking gibberish, leading the court to dissolve in uproar;
2) He managed to top himself before they could hang him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/08/boris-johnson-britains-foreign-minister-may-have-finally-given-up-his-u-s-citizenship/
There's a huge and worrying tendency, exemplified by you, to assume that the more our megarich insect overlords fuck us, the better we like it.
I would add though that Nina Khrushchev was a very remarkable woman. Fluent in five languages, a shrewd political tactician and with a knack for extremely hard work. So maybe that's Onassis' loss...
Sunak is doing a (comparatively) poorly paid job as a public servant.
They could have just lied low and stayed out of the public eye...
We probably are being fucked over by the 'mega rich'....
but they are not a good example.
https://twitter.com/TmorrowsPapers/status/1512532799743565824
The majority seemed quite level headed people, a little coy about saying anything to camera about it - obviously living in a KGB state at war! Yet still not awfully supportive? Did you get the sense Francis if they all had a secret ballot in a fair election, most wouldn’t support it? One big caveat to this vox pop, it’s youngish people in a metropolitan area? Putin’s power base, much like Erdagons, is out in the sticks, elderly, religious, conservative in nature? And the second caveat would be, UK committing similar atrocities somewhere in world as Russia are in Ukraine, would a vox pop here also pick up this degree of turning heads away and disconnecting from it?
You are never wrong ydoethur, Aristotle Onassis loss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o
Ipsos .
Fieldwork today with a large sample size of 10,425. Changes with their previous large sample poll of April 2 to 4.
Macron 26.5
Le Pen 22.5 (+1)
Mélenchon 17.5 (+1.5)
Zemmour 9 (-1 )
Pécresse 8.5
I can count the number of times I've backed the winner in the last 30 years on the fingers of one hand - my last big win was PINEAU DE RE in 2014 who I backed at 33s after I overheard Brendan Powell Senior telling some people at Plumpton Leighton Aspell had told him the horse had a big chance.
So much for hours of detailed form analysis.
It's a different race now from what it was - arguably more competitive and at the same time less. There's much less complete dead wood in the race but the overall rise in quality means the winner is often well fancied - the last four have been 14/1, 10/1, 4/1 and 11/1.
and I loved her so well,
And I hated all others,
who spoke of her ill.
And now she's rewarded me,
well for my love,
For she's gone,
and she's wed another.
And I saw my love,
up to the church go,
With bride and brides-maidens,
she made a fine show.
And I followed on,
with my heart full of woe,
For she's gone,
and she's wed another.
I saw my love,
as she sat doon to dine.
I sat doon beside her,
and poured the wine.
And I thought of the lassie,
that should have been mine,
Now she's gone,
and she's wed another.
All men in yon forest,
they asked of me,
“How many strawberries,
grow in the salt sea?”
And I answered them,
with a tear in my eye,
“How many ships,
sail in the forest?”
Oh dig me a grave,
and dig it sae deep,
And cover it over,
with wee flowers sae sweet.
And I lay me doon,
for to tak' a long sleep,
And maybe in time,
I'll forget her.
So they dug him a grave,
and they dug it sae deep,
And they covered it over,
with wee flowers sae sweet,
And he lay him doon,
for to take a long sleep,
And maybe in time,
he'll forget her.
Do you ever get the feeling that rhetorical questions don't always work?
Voluntary payments / donations to government
@SamRamani2
The Russian Foreign Ministry transfers its "denazification" rhetoric on Ukraine to Latvia:
"The ruling regime in Latvia has long been well known for its neo-Nazi preferences and attempts to whitewash the atrocities of Nazi Germany 's henchmen"
https://twitter.com/SamRamani2/status/1512491275630559244
When flat season kicks in Stodge, 2yr olds over 7f, if I bet at all it will be on your tips. I’ll be differing to you and PBs other flat experts.
Fearne Cotton is playing some great 90 hits on her Radio 2 show. KLF — 3AM Eternal atm.
At the very least, like Corbyn, he chooses to hang out with antisemites.
Now you might argue it is not a good time to say such things, but it doesn't seem like Macron is something completely outrageous.
It's also perfectly possible that the Polish PM is absolutely right in standing up to Russia and in supporting Ukraine, but has some features that make him less than perfect.
Not for personal use, you understand. Twelve ounces of whatever it is they're on sold in the right market would clear the national debt.
We watched TOTP despite 80% of it leaving us cold for the odd occasion when someone from our tribe would be on. And as a consequence we were exposed to everyone else's stuff too. I slightly miss that.
At the very least though getting candidate status seems unproblematic, you can be in there for ages after all.
Good night.
Just crawling into the 90's - late 99 - was another of my all time desert island discs - James with "Just Like Fred Astaire".