The drama of the situation is getting to me, I keep expecting a broadcast to be interrupted with a 'Prigozhin Lives!' exclamation like that cutscene from Tiberian Sun.
Rule of thumb, Putin - you cannot kill the messiah.
Putin IS the Messiah
If you did the Life of Brian window scene in Russia, everyone would expect it to end with a defenestration.
The drama of the situation is getting to me, I keep expecting a broadcast to be interrupted with a 'Prigozhin Lives!' exclamation like that cutscene from Tiberian Sun.
Rule of thumb, Putin - you cannot kill the messiah.
The drama of the situation is getting to me, I keep expecting a broadcast to be interrupted with a 'Prigozhin Lives!' exclamation like that cutscene from Tiberian Sun.
Rule of thumb, Putin - you cannot kill the messiah.
Any candidate for US president that gets ~65% of the vote from their party's primary voters is toast.
Normally yes. I suppose Trump path to winning is:
1. Ultraloyalists nominate him, regardless of trials. 2. The Democrat makes a terrible but non-fatal mistake, e.g. makes everyone think he's senile. 3. It's too late to choose a third candidate (one can't just stand, there are time limits and signature requirements to get on each state's ballot), so Trump wins.
Not more than a 10% chance IMO.
The bit I'm not sure about is the third candidate, Ralph Nader has stood but was he on the ballot in all 50 states or just some? Do not the requirements for getting on the ballot vary from state to state?
In 2000 general Ralph Nader was on the ballot in DC and every state EXCEPT for North Carolina, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
As for potential 3rd-party candidate, note that Ralph Perot did not announce he was running for President in 1992 until February of that year. He ended up with 18.9% of the popular vote.
Getting on the ballot is NOT too difficult in most states, and in few where it's hardest a candidate with real national appeal and potential should still be able to qualify.
Ross Perot at one stage led 1992 presidential polls.
Indeed in June 1992 one poll had Perot on 39% and Clinton and HW Bush on 24% each.
"#BREAKING: The bodies of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin pulled out from the wreckage have been identified."
It's always impressive how fast Russian authorities are at solving crimes and investigating "accidents", sometimes they even solve them before they occur.
This government is so unbelievably shit. Or maybe they actually hate kids in the state school system. That would explain a lot of what they get up to.
That's not incompetence by the DfE.
In fact, by their standards actually spotting a mistake of this size before it causes irreparable harm is quite a good performance.
My relative who runs a building company commented that the m2 cost in other bids for a school exceeded the cost for doing luxury basements in West London.
He semi joked that he would offer to do the local school, plus put a 30m swimming pool under it, for the prices on the tender.
I noticed that the plans were actually insane - glass walls with children facing the glass wall. So the board (mounted on the glass wall) would be invisible (contrast), because of the light around it….
London Tories hate Khan even more than Corbyn now, some achievement for him!
That might just reflect London Conservative confinement to the grumpier bits of Zone 6.
Philosophical question: If you don't think of yourself as being a Londoner, can you still be a London Conservative?
There are also still plenty of London Conservatives in Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster, London Tories tend to be found most amongst the richest in central London and homeowners in the outer suburbs
"#BREAKING: The bodies of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin pulled out from the wreckage have been identified."
It's always impressive how fast Russian authorities are at solving crimes and investigating "accidents", sometimes they even solve them before they occur.
Might have been dead before the bodies were even put on the plane.
I remember the case of a Kremlin critic who was shot dead just a few hundred yards from the Kremlin itself. Detective Putin took up the case immediately. Apparently it was a contract killing, with John Oliver I believe noting that the case would simply involving Putin paying the contractor what they were owed.
This government is so unbelievably shit. Or maybe they actually hate kids in the state school system. That would explain a lot of what they get up to.
That's not incompetence by the DfE.
In fact, by their standards actually spotting a mistake of this size before it causes irreparable harm is quite a good performance.
My relative who runs a building company commented that the m2 cost in other bids for a school exceeded the cost for doing luxury basements in West London.
He semi joked that he would offer to do the local school, plus put a 30m swimming pool under it, for the prices on the tender.
I noticed that the plans were actually insane - glass walls with children facing the glass wall. So the board (mounted on the glass wall) would be invisible (contrast), because of the light around it….
Have they at least ditched the L-shaped classrooms?
"The leader of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a real patriot of his motherland – Yevgeny Prigozhin has died at the hands of traitors of Russia. But even in hell he'll be the best! Glory to Russia!"
"The leader of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a real patriot of his motherland – Yevgeny Prigozhin has died at the hands of traitors of Russia. But even in hell he'll be the best! Glory to Russia!"
"The leader of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a real patriot of his motherland – Yevgeny Prigozhin has died at the hands of traitors of Russia. But even in hell he'll be the best! Glory to Russia!"
This government is so unbelievably shit. Or maybe they actually hate kids in the state school system. That would explain a lot of what they get up to.
That's not incompetence by the DfE.
In fact, by their standards actually spotting a mistake of this size before it causes irreparable harm is quite a good performance.
My relative who runs a building company commented that the m2 cost in other bids for a school exceeded the cost for doing luxury basements in West London.
He semi joked that he would offer to do the local school, plus put a 30m swimming pool under it, for the prices on the tender.
I noticed that the plans were actually insane - glass walls with children facing the glass wall. So the board (mounted on the glass wall) would be invisible (contrast), because of the light around it….
Have they at least ditched the L-shaped classrooms?
No clue.
I just remember looking at the 3Ds and going WTAF.
That and talking to the caretaker of the Edwardian school my eldest went to. The roof trusses were oak - from ship breaking. He went up there every so often. Nothing changed in a hundred years. He reckoned that roof would outlive our grandchildren.
"The leader of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a real patriot of his motherland – Yevgeny Prigozhin has died at the hands of traitors of Russia. But even in hell he'll be the best! Glory to Russia!"
Nothing like shooting a plane out of the sky as a message for any Russian leadership thinking of crossing Putin.
It provided a window of opportunity?
It certainly seems to put pay to the theory that all the hoo ha over the mutiny was a put-up job by Prigozhin and Putin. Unless the whole thing is an elaborate cover for Prigozhin to get radical cosmetic surgery and retire to enjoy the fleshpots of the West.
Nothing like shooting a plane out of the sky as a message for any Russian leadership thinking of crossing Putin.
It provided a window of opportunity?
It certainly seems to put pay to the theory that all the hoo ha over the mutiny was a put-up job by Prigozhin and Putin. Unless the whole thing is an elaborate cover for Prigozhin to get radical cosmetic surgery and retire to enjoy the fleshpots of the West.
There are two things we have learned about Russia from its Special Military Operation
1. You should never believe anything it says until it is clearly corroborated by a more reliable source.
2. It is incompetent
So for the moment I await confirmation from elsewhere of who was on the plane, and if there has been some dastardly plot involved, it has probably gone wrong.
Nothing like shooting a plane out of the sky as a message for any Russian leadership thinking of crossing Putin.
It provided a window of opportunity?
It certainly seems to put pay to the theory that all the hoo ha over the mutiny was a put-up job by Prigozhin and Putin.
I could never really buy that theory. Sure it all petered out, but it hardly painted Putin in a very good light, with him calling someone a traitor as their forces went along the motorway, then announcing it was all fine later. However they span it that's weak looking. Granted, it's pretty baffling what Prigozhin was after with it all, but a put up job seemed weird.
She has good favourability with Tory voters and there are more Labour voters who rate Khan as unfavourable than her, with a lot of undecideds.
Depends how she plays it but could be close.
I don't have much faith these days in the electorate, but I don't believe they're crazy enough to come close to electing her in preference to Sadiq Khan.
Given housing crisis/soaring rents, is anyone else curious as to why Labour haven't made a bigger thing of short-term lets (Airbnb, for example)?
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
Darren Jones, Chair of the Business Select Committee, has achieved more than Kemi Badenoch, Business Secretary and Kevin Hollinrake, Minister for Postal Affairs have.
And he's not letting up the pressure on the Post Office Board either.
If Labour win the next election I hope Starmer makes good use of him.
In other news, I saw Oppenheimer with my brother and mum at the BFI IMAX in London this afternoon. We all felt was rather good, I have to say!
Yes, I thought it was memorable. But even though I totally sympathise with the victims of McCarthyism, I thought the lengthy passages about committee hearings a bit long - yes, certainly unfair, but "X was unfair to Y in the 1950s" seems of limited interest in 2023. But the underlying theme resonates just the same.
Given housing crisis/soaring rents, is anyone else curious as to why Labour haven't made a bigger thing of short-term lets (Airbnb, for example)?
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
But Labour do it in Edinburgh, albeit as a minority Labour admin, already. Or are trying to. Not sure of detailed origin of policy. But it's presumably related to SNP/etc Government policy on things like protecting renters and not allowing them to be thrown out for Festival time, which for Slab and SKS would mean SNP Baaad under their respective versions of the Bain Principle.
My view of the Edinburgh Festival and its Fringe went down even more, to about minus 11, a few years ago whem some luvvies whined they couldn't get comfortable short term accommodation any more because the landlords weren't allowed to evict at short notice.
Just heard the news. Pretty stupid to get on that plane.
He wasn't the cleverest. Once he started the mutiny, it was only going to end in his death or Putin's. He backed down, so it's his death he signed.
Even if you believe that his family was threatened to get him to back down, that just shows his stupidity even more. He should've got them to safety before starting his little escapade.
Prigozhin was an idiot. He deserved what he got. But lets hope the person who got him meets a similar end soon too.
Given housing crisis/soaring rents, is anyone else curious as to why Labour haven't made a bigger thing of short-term lets (Airbnb, for example)?
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
But Labour do it in Edinburgh, albeit as a minority Labour admin, already. Or are trying to. Not sure of detailed origin of policy. But it's presumably related to SNP/etc Government policy on things like protecting renters and not allowing them to be thrown out for Festival time, which for Slab and SKS would mean SNP Baaad under their respective versions of the Bain Principle.
My view of the Edinburgh Festival and its Fringe went down even more, to about minus 11, a few years ago whem some luvvies whined they couldn't get comfortable short term accommodation any more because the landlords weren't allowed to evict at short notice.
I used to be on one of the 9 month contracts. Positive and negatives, but had a very relaxed landlord which helped. But yes, I think the policy has had a strange side effect of permanent airbnbs rather than seasonal ones - it's still worth it just for renting out in August.
Anyway, my point is that it could be Labour's "jobs tax" (National Insurance in 2010) if rolled out UK-wide. A strong signal to the mortgage/renting class, while pissing off only the most of exploitative of landlords. Would also go down well in rural areas like Cornwall/Skye, but those aren't really target seats.
Given housing crisis/soaring rents, is anyone else curious as to why Labour haven't made a bigger thing of short-term lets (Airbnb, for example)?
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
But Labour do it in Edinburgh, albeit as a minority Labour admin, already. Or are trying to. Not sure of detailed origin of policy. But it's presumably related to SNP/etc Government policy on things like protecting renters and not allowing them to be thrown out for Festival time, which for Slab and SKS would mean SNP Baaad under their respective versions of the Bain Principle.
My view of the Edinburgh Festival and its Fringe went down even more, to about minus 11, a few years ago whem some luvvies whined they couldn't get comfortable short term accommodation any more because the landlords weren't allowed to evict at short notice.
Darren Jones, Chair of the Business Select Committee, has achieved more than Kemi Badenoch, Business Secretary and Kevin Hollinrake, Minister for Postal Affairs have.
And he's not letting up the pressure on the Post Office Board either.
If Labour win the next election I hope Starmer makes good use of him.
Select Committee chairs tend to have more knowledge of their brief than most ministers.
Not least because they have usually been in post longer - which is certainly true of this government and its revolving ministries.
Given housing crisis/soaring rents, is anyone else curious as to why Labour haven't made a bigger thing of short-term lets (Airbnb, for example)?
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
I would guess it's because lots of voters love using airbnb, and Labour don't want to give the right-wing press/the Tories an easy target with a policy that would make it simple to present Labour as fun-haters coming for people's affordable domestic holidays.
Hotels/B&Bs are generally pretty bad value in Britain, and the absence of any kitchen facilities makes the rest of the holiday more expensive, because it's harder to eat as cheaply. Airbnbs are a godsend for people on a budget.
Given housing crisis/soaring rents, is anyone else curious as to why Labour haven't made a bigger thing of short-term lets (Airbnb, for example)?
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
I would guess it's because lots of voters love using airbnb, and Labour don't want to give the right-wing press/the Tories an easy target with a policy that would make it easy to present Labour as fun-haters coming for people's affordable domestic holidays.
Hotels/B&Bs are generally pretty bad value in Britain, and the absence of any kitchen facilities makes the rest of the holiday more expensive, because it's harder to eat as cheaply. Airbnbs are a godsend for people on a budget.
Good point. I suppose we are net positive tourists in Edinburgh, which is unusual.
Given housing crisis/soaring rents, is anyone else curious as to why Labour haven't made a bigger thing of short-term lets (Airbnb, for example)?
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
But Labour do it in Edinburgh, albeit as a minority Labour admin, already. Or are trying to. Not sure of detailed origin of policy. But it's presumably related to SNP/etc Government policy on things like protecting renters and not allowing them to be thrown out for Festival time, which for Slab and SKS would mean SNP Baaad under their respective versions of the Bain Principle.
My view of the Edinburgh Festival and its Fringe went down even more, to about minus 11, a few years ago whem some luvvies whined they couldn't get comfortable short term accommodation any more because the landlords weren't allowed to evict at short notice.
I used to be on one of the 9 month contracts. Positive and negatives, but had a very relaxed landlord which helped. But yes, I think the policy has had a strange side effect of permanent airbnbs rather than seasonal ones - it's still worth it just for renting out in August.
Anyway, my point is that it could be Labour's "jobs tax" (National Insurance in 2010) if rolled out UK-wide. A strong signal to the mortgage/renting class, while pissing off only the most of exploitative of landlords. Would also go down well in rural areas like Cornwall/Skye, but those aren't really target seats.
The crackdown in airbnbs is allegedly causing a great reduction (see Times today or a day or two ago). Lots of slanted stuff and axe-grinding from the landlords. But **** them, is the mood, it seems. The resentment in Edinburgh is already huge what with the abuses of stag parties, airbnb, filth, noise and disruption, the rise in student numbers, and the commercial student barracks already popping up here and there, so I gather.
As for other areas, it would presumably be purely optional for each council - analogous to the stuff on holiday homes being provided by the SNP, Llafur and the "Conservative" Party in London. If there is no problem, the councils are less likely to activate the powers - and if there is a problem, there are votes in activating them, so I can't quite see the issue.
The list of killed passengers, now published, includes not only Prigozhin and Utkin/Wagner, but also Valery Chekalov, the feared head of security for Prigozhin who, among other duties over the years, surveilled, harassed and attacked journalists who dared investigate his boss. https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1694442299319562749
Re the mood in Edinburgh, where depopulation for the sake of airbnbs is an issue:
Irsvine Welsh a year or so back:
‘In places like our capital – a global tourist attraction – the people living there are increasingly irrelevant in a city being increasingly redesigned to attract tourists, wealthy students, businesses and housing developers. The people who bring income are paramount, and our modern culture of cheap Airbnb accommodation, landlordism and commercial development constantly feeds the dominant narrative telling us that so-called “legacy citizens” are unnecessary, even a hindrance, to the city’s progress.'
Darren Jones, Chair of the Business Select Committee, has achieved more than Kemi Badenoch, Business Secretary and Kevin Hollinrake, Minister for Postal Affairs have.
And he's not letting up the pressure on the Post Office Board either.
If Labour win the next election I hope Starmer makes good use of him.
It's good to have MPs like this of whatever party.
Re the mood in Edinburgh, where depopulation for the sake of airbnbs is an issue:
Irsvine Welsh a year or so back:
‘In places like our capital – a global tourist attraction – the people living there are increasingly irrelevant in a city being increasingly redesigned to attract tourists, wealthy students, businesses and housing developers. The people who bring income are paramount, and our modern culture of cheap Airbnb accommodation, landlordism and commercial development constantly feeds the dominant narrative telling us that so-called “legacy citizens” are unnecessary, even a hindrance, to the city’s progress.'
Re the mood in Edinburgh, where depopulation for the sake of airbnbs is an issue:
Irsvine Welsh a year or so back:
‘In places like our capital – a global tourist attraction – the people living there are increasingly irrelevant in a city being increasingly redesigned to attract tourists, wealthy students, businesses and housing developers. The people who bring income are paramount, and our modern culture of cheap Airbnb accommodation, landlordism and commercial development constantly feeds the dominant narrative telling us that so-called “legacy citizens” are unnecessary, even a hindrance, to the city’s progress.'
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In fact, by their standards actually spotting a mistake of this size before it causes irreparable harm is quite a good performance.
Disruption as buildings shut due to safety fears while others under construction have had to be demolished
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/23/staggering-incompetence-dfe-under-fire-new-school-buildings-closed
Nick Gibb, looking ever more cadaverous features prominently.
https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1694413821811560792/photo/1
Let's see a similar poll for leader popularity among Boston and Skegness Tory voters. Not going to be Sunak is it?
Just as the jokes teachers tell about them are not funny because they're true.
Anyway, Keith has a 25 point lead on today's poll. Crank left said non crankies insisted any other leader would be 20 points ahead. And he's 25 ahead.
YOU EXPLAIN
Besides, UK national wealth only estimated at 10tn!
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/bulletins/nationalbalancesheet/2021
"#BREAKING: The bodies of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin pulled out from the wreckage have been identified."
Indeed in June 1992 one poll had Perot on 39% and Clinton and HW Bush on 24% each.
If it wasn't for Clinton's big post convention bounce in July Perot might even have won
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polling_for_United_States_presidential_elections#1992
📊Net rating with London *Conservative* voters:
🔵 Susan Hall +37
🔵 Rishi Sunak +3
🔴 Keir Starmer -42
⚪️ Jeremy Corbyn -62
🔴 Sadiq Khan -70
Via @YouGov, 9-14 August 2023
https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1694415560686088407
Philosophical question: If you don't think of yourself as being a Londoner, can you still be a London Conservative?
He semi joked that he would offer to do the local school, plus put a 30m swimming pool under it, for the prices on the tender.
I noticed that the plans were actually insane - glass walls with children facing the glass wall. So the board (mounted on the glass wall) would be invisible (contrast), because of the light around it….
I remember the case of a Kremlin critic who was shot dead just a few hundred yards from the Kremlin itself. Detective Putin took up the case immediately. Apparently it was a contract killing, with John Oliver I believe noting that the case would simply involving Putin paying the contractor what they were owed.
"The leader of the Wagner Group, a Hero of Russia, a real patriot of his motherland – Yevgeny Prigozhin has died at the hands of traitors of Russia. But even in hell he'll be the best! Glory to Russia!"
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1694433544305623161
I just remember looking at the 3Ds and going WTAF.
That and talking to the caretaker of the Edwardian school my eldest went to. The roof trusses were oak - from ship breaking. He went up there every so often. Nothing changed in a hundred years. He reckoned that roof would outlive our grandchildren.
https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1694427438804021757
Could they break Derby's record?
"Russia says Yevgeny Prigozhin was on a plane that crashed on a flight from Moscow to St Petersburg. All passengers and crew, are dead.
Wagner-linked channels say Russian air defense *shot down the plane* – the same private jet Prigozhin regularly uses."
But who knows.
Although they do get a £100 million loan from MSP for the stadium.
Yevgeny Prigozhin.
It only goes to show
That not all Evil Geniuses
Are Geniuses.
She has good favourability with Tory voters and there are more Labour voters who rate Khan as unfavourable than her, with a lot of undecideds.
Depends how she plays it but could be close.
1. You should never believe anything it says until it is clearly corroborated by a more reliable source.
2. It is incompetent
So for the moment I await confirmation from elsewhere of who was on the plane, and if there has been some dastardly plot involved, it has probably gone wrong.
Ronnie and Reggie were very nice to their Mum. But Vladimir wasn't.
Daniel Farson: 'Yes. I rather liked them. After all, they only killed their own kind.'
Arthur Mullard: 'Yuss. 'uman beings.'
It would be a be an easy way to target 'commercial' landlords, would pick up votes from people who are struggling with rent/mortgages, and people like me who are constantly disturbed by noisy guests. It is also a cheap and easy compared to more substantive, and therefore controversial, solutions like building new homes or taxing empty bedrooms.
Argument against - a niche issue? Big one in Edinburgh, but we are tourist central.
And he's not letting up the pressure on the Post Office Board either.
If Labour win the next election I hope Starmer makes good use of him.
Hell of a lapse of common sense by Prigozhin when he could’ve been living it up in some Bosch-esque compound in a failing African state somewhere.
Speaking of which, Wagner’s influence in many African countries has been considerable. There will be ramifications.
I put it alongside my (cough) left-field hunch that the Tories are about to be usurped in the two-party system by the Lib Dems.
(*You will of course rightly enjoy a huge 'told you so' moment should an unlikely miracle occur.)
My view of the Edinburgh Festival and its Fringe went down even more, to about minus 11, a few years ago whem some luvvies whined they couldn't get comfortable short term accommodation any more because the landlords weren't allowed to evict at short notice.
Once he started the mutiny, it was only going to end in his death or Putin's. He backed down, so it's his death he signed.
Even if you believe that his family was threatened to get him to back down, that just shows his stupidity even more. He should've got them to safety before starting his little escapade.
Prigozhin was an idiot. He deserved what he got. But lets hope the person who got him meets a similar end soon too.
Anyway, my point is that it could be Labour's "jobs tax" (National Insurance in 2010) if rolled out UK-wide. A strong signal to the mortgage/renting class, while pissing off only the most of exploitative of landlords. Would also go down well in rural areas like Cornwall/Skye, but those aren't really target seats.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-66406418
But let's not have the DT miss its fun and smearing, evne if it is a unionist party doing the running. .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/nicola-sturgeon-holiday-lets-cost-edinburgh-festival-fringe/
Not least because they have usually been in post longer - which is certainly true of this government and its revolving ministries.
Hotels/B&Bs are generally pretty bad value in Britain, and the absence of any kitchen facilities makes the rest of the holiday more expensive, because it's harder to eat as cheaply. Airbnbs are a godsend for people on a budget.
As for other areas, it would presumably be purely optional for each council - analogous to the stuff on holiday homes being provided by the SNP, Llafur and the "Conservative" Party in London. If there is no problem, the councils are less likely to activate the powers - and if there is a problem, there are votes in activating them, so I can't quite see the issue.
The list of killed passengers, now published, includes not only Prigozhin and Utkin/Wagner, but also Valery Chekalov, the feared head of security for Prigozhin who, among other duties over the years, surveilled, harassed and attacked journalists who dared investigate his boss.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1694442299319562749
https://twitter.com/JayShams/status/1694452409664204898
Rudy couldn't even crack a smile for his.
Irsvine Welsh a year or so back:
‘In places like our capital – a global tourist attraction – the people living there are increasingly irrelevant in a city being increasingly redesigned to attract tourists, wealthy students, businesses and housing developers. The people who bring income are paramount, and our modern culture of cheap Airbnb accommodation, landlordism and commercial development constantly feeds the dominant narrative telling us that so-called “legacy citizens” are unnecessary, even a hindrance, to the city’s progress.'
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/irvine-welsh-ian-rankin-and-alexander-mccall-smith-join-forces-3521951