Even if we win tonight we are getting done over by the All Blacks, I'd rather lose a semi.
(Oh get your minds out of the gutter.)
All Blacks will be overwhelming favourites if England go though so the pressure will be on them, England have nothing to lose as nobody expected them to get to the final
I agree about the increase in the African population but part of the problem there is violent Islam, which was surely a spin-off from the Iraq War.
I mean, I greatly enjoyed it at the time but Iraq 2 was surely the greatest strategic blunder of the last century. It was completely unnecessary and surely marks the start of the decline of the west.
The economic decline of the West relative to the rest of the world is to be welcomed imo. The opposite would be a scandal.
I wholeheartedly agree on the relative economic decline (obvs not absolute).
But we should not welcome the decline in western values (or at least the values the west professes to hold - hypocrisy is a real problem). This is what Alan is picking up on I think - he is absolutely correct that democracy has lost legitimacy and we urgently need to rebuild that legitimacy to be able to promote it worldwide.
Right now I can see why developing nations might pick a Chinese social model over a European or American one, and that’s a problem in my eyes.
There is of course the problem with 'a Chinese social model' that there is no way of knowing, once they have it, that they have picked it.
Democracy on our model, with all its flaws, is the only basic format known to logic and reason which is able to test out at all, though imperfectly, the claim that 'we in power are doing what the people want'.
Very much agree. When I say I can see why developing nations might pick such a model, I mean the leaders of those nations not the populace. I’m not advocating such a choice in the slightest.
Though, in my darker moments, watching Russian aggression, democratic implosion in USA and the rise of populism globally, I do vaguely wonder if things go really south in my lifetime, historians might look back on 21st century and see the Chinese model as the least worst option.
Obviously a Uighur, Tibetan or (probably) Taiwanese would vociferously disagree.
I don't see how you can be both pro-democracy and complaining of populism. Democracy and populism are not the same, obviously, but populism is a normal facet of democracy which quite naturally arises whenever political leaders become too detached from the concerns of a large segment of the electorate.
Sorry, missed this.
Yes I see your point and I think reducing the disconnection between politicians and the population they serve is healthy, if sometimes a bit messy.
My fear is that the current round of populism is more than that - the fragmentation of political discourse and the power of segmented easy answers to tricky questions through eg targeted Facebook ads allows a populist to unwind the democratic process such that they can hold onto power even when their own disconnect with the people is as great as the politicians they displaced.
But perhaps it has ever been thus.
Well perhaps the establishment politicians had been spending for too much time working for their donors, rather than their electorate? If they’re only in it for themselves, why shouldn’t they be voted out?
Oh I agree with you. And if the end result is politicians that are in it for the electorate, all well and good.
But that’s not what seems to happen. More often eg with Johnson it’s democracy, trust and the rule of law that suffers from populism, such that the next lot of politicians find it even easier to ignore the electorate in favour of their own interests.
Supreme Court *freezes* Louisiana district court ruling that would’ve barred a wide range of contacts between executive branch officials and social media companies.
Even if we win tonight we are getting done over by the All Blacks, I'd rather lose a semi.
(Oh get your minds out of the gutter.)
All Blacks will be overwhelming favourites if England go though so the pressure will be on them, England have nothing to lose as nobody expected them to get to the final
Not so sure. Are you watching tonight? SA number one in the world and currently second best. Currently. Probably won’t last the 80…
I agree about the increase in the African population but part of the problem there is violent Islam, which was surely a spin-off from the Iraq War.
I mean, I greatly enjoyed it at the time but Iraq 2 was surely the greatest strategic blunder of the last century. It was completely unnecessary and surely marks the start of the decline of the west.
The economic decline of the West relative to the rest of the world is to be welcomed imo. The opposite would be a scandal.
I wholeheartedly agree on the relative economic decline (obvs not absolute).
But we should not welcome the decline in western values (or at least the values the west professes to hold - hypocrisy is a real problem). This is what Alan is picking up on I think - he is absolutely correct that democracy has lost legitimacy and we urgently need to rebuild that legitimacy to be able to promote it worldwide.
Right now I can see why developing nations might pick a Chinese social model over a European or American one, and that’s a problem in my eyes.
There is of course the problem with 'a Chinese social model' that there is no way of knowing, once they have it, that they have picked it.
Democracy on our model, with all its flaws, is the only basic format known to logic and reason which is able to test out at all, though imperfectly, the claim that 'we in power are doing what the people want'.
Very much agree. When I say I can see why developing nations might pick such a model, I mean the leaders of those nations not the populace. I’m not advocating such a choice in the slightest.
Though, in my darker moments, watching Russian aggression, democratic implosion in USA and the rise of populism globally, I do vaguely wonder if things go really south in my lifetime, historians might look back on 21st century and see the Chinese model as the least worst option.
Obviously a Uighur, Tibetan or (probably) Taiwanese would vociferously disagree.
I don't see how you can be both pro-democracy and complaining of populism. Democracy and populism are not the same, obviously, but populism is a normal facet of democracy which quite naturally arises whenever political leaders become too detached from the concerns of a large segment of the electorate.
Sorry, missed this.
Yes I see your point and I think reducing the disconnection between politicians and the population they serve is healthy, if sometimes a bit messy.
My fear is that the current round of populism is more than that - the fragmentation of political discourse and the power of segmented easy answers to tricky questions through eg targeted Facebook ads allows a populist to unwind the democratic process such that they can hold onto power even when their own disconnect with the people is as great as the politicians they displaced.
But perhaps it has ever been thus.
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Supreme Court *freezes* Louisiana district court ruling that would’ve barred a wide range of contacts between executive branch officials and social media companies.
Supreme Court *freezes* Louisiana district court ruling that would’ve barred a wide range of contacts between executive branch officials and social media companies.
Even if we win tonight we are getting done over by the All Blacks, I'd rather lose a semi.
(Oh get your minds out of the gutter.)
All Blacks will be overwhelming favourites if England go though so the pressure will be on them, England have nothing to lose as nobody expected them to get to the final
All over, but still a great performance by England. No one expected this team to get to the semis and everyone expected this group to get destroyed by SA in a similar manner to Argentina yesterday. They've done brilliantly well to get this far and come this close to a final.
Supreme Court *freezes* Louisiana district court ruling that would’ve barred a wide range of contacts between executive branch officials and social media companies.
Supreme Court *freezes* Louisiana district court ruling that would’ve barred a wide range of contacts between executive branch officials and social media companies.
Supreme Court *freezes* Louisiana district court ruling that would’ve barred a wide range of contacts between executive branch officials and social media companies.
I just assume if Thomas is on the side of something it's probably in support of something corrupt.
Thomas and Alito will do anything to screw over a Democratic administration. With Gorsuch it's more that he doesn't want any government to have any powers.
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
But to be fair, Hunt is in a unique position. He won’t be leader, and best case he just stays CX in the unlikely event they win. Nowhere else for him to go.
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
All over, but still a great performance by England. No one expected this team to get to the semis and everyone expected this group to get destroyed by SA in a similar manner to Argentina yesterday. They've done brilliantly well to get this far and come this close to a final.
Quite frankly. Anyone who saw the draw expected them to be semi finalists. Anything else would have been a shock.
Supreme Court *freezes* Louisiana district court ruling that would’ve barred a wide range of contacts between executive branch officials and social media companies.
I agree about the increase in the African population but part of the problem there is violent Islam, which was surely a spin-off from the Iraq War.
I mean, I greatly enjoyed it at the time but Iraq 2 was surely the greatest strategic blunder of the last century. It was completely unnecessary and surely marks the start of the decline of the west.
The economic decline of the West relative to the rest of the world is to be welcomed imo. The opposite would be a scandal.
Iraq 2 contributed to economic decline, but that's really beside the point. We'd been struggling towards a principles based global order. Iraq fatally undermined what moral authority the U.S. and its allies had, and seriously divided western societies.
Yes because leaving Saddam Hussein in power, one of the most bloody dictators of the 20th century, would have been such a moral decision!
If postponed, we’d have ended up doing the same thing no more than five years later.
Why? There are brutal dictators all over the world be we don't feel the need to kill 200,000 people and spend $800bn a time to depose them.
They hadn’t stuck the finger up to Daddy Bush though
Daddy Bush decided not to topple Saddam after defeating him in the Gulf War and liberating Kuwait, even though Thatcher wanted to (first and probably last time we had a UK PM who was right of a US Republican President)
Hope so because state of the GOP we'd need something like PM Tommy Robinson to achieve that.
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
80 minutes on the clock and we could still have won it and been in the final. We'd have taken that a few weeks back.
Yes we overperformed.
I don’t agree. Arguably we have been underperforming fit a few years and this was more like it. Gutted, but expected not to be in the final and we aren’t.
That’s horrific. So much so that I hope it is somehow fake. Thanks for posting this stuff. I don’t really feel it’s appropriate to ‘like’ it but do value it.
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
Politicians wanting to do popular things so they get re-elected is a feature of democracy, not a bug. Hunt's plan to asphyxiate the economy under a record breaking tax burden whilst he continues to piss the money away on an unreformed state and then fuck off at the next election is unprecedented and despicable. He should stand down as Chancellor immediately.
80 minutes on the clock and we could still have won it and been in the final. We'd have taken that a few weeks back.
Yes we overperformed.
I don’t agree. Arguably we have been underperforming fit a few years and this was more like it. Gutted, but expected not to be in the final and we aren’t.
But expectations weren't that we'd get 2 mins and 1 pt from the final.
80 minutes on the clock and we could still have won it and been in the final. We'd have taken that a few weeks back.
Yes we overperformed.
I don’t agree. Arguably we have been underperforming fit a few years and this was more like it. Gutted, but expected not to be in the final and we aren’t.
Yeah we didn't do much wrong this world cup. The cricket OTOH is looking decidedly poor, with some poor decisions as to who is out there. Why is Archer out there as a replacement if he can't be used ?
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
Politicians wanting to do popular things so they get re-elected is a feature of democracy, not a bug. Hunt's plan to asphyxiate the economy under a record breaking tax burden whilst he continues to piss the money away on an unreformed state and then fuck off at the next election is unprecedented and despicable. He should stand down as Chancellor immediately.
Yes. But he's anti-woke. And that's all that matters to this Government.
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
Politicians wanting to do popular things so they get re-elected is a feature of democracy, not a bug. Hunt's plan to asphyxiate the economy under a record breaking tax burden whilst he continues to piss the money away on an unreformed state and then fuck off at the next election is unprecedented and despicable. He should stand down as Chancellor immediately.
As far as I’m concerned, the current chancellor needs to run in a GE because the governments economic policy is on the line in a campaign.
If Hunt is going to quit at the GE then he should have the good grace to quit as Chancellor.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has no plans to step down before the next election, his spokesman said after the Observer newspaper reported that Hunt would resign from Parliament before the vote
South Africa look destined to win the WC after scraping two single point wins. I really hope they don’t but fear the worst . England just needed one more score and it went downhill after they messed up in the SA corner .
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has no plans to step down before the next election, his spokesman said after the Observer newspaper reported that Hunt would resign from Parliament before the vote
So he will probably stand down at the next election then and not be a candidate
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has no plans to step down before the next election, his spokesman said after the Observer newspaper reported that Hunt would resign from Parliament before the vote
Well of course he’d deny it . Otherwise it would look like the rats leaving a sinking ship .
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
Politicians wanting to do popular things so they get re-elected is a feature of democracy, not a bug. Hunt's plan to asphyxiate the economy under a record breaking tax burden whilst he continues to piss the money away on an unreformed state and then fuck off at the next election is unprecedented and despicable. He should stand down as Chancellor immediately.
As far as I’m concerned, the current chancellor needs to run in a GE because the governments economic policy is on the line in a campaign.
If Hunt is going to quit at the GE then he should have the good grace to quit as Chancellor.
No, from Hunt's perspective the longer he stays as Chancellor and the more he cuts inflation and the deficit the better his CV looks for a highly paid city directorship or FTSE 100 company board post after he steps down as an MP.
He also then doesn't have to face the indignity of being rejected by the common people a la Portillo in his marginal seat on election night as he won't be a Tory candidate again (if he stays in Parliament it will only be with a peerage where no ballot box needed to get it)
South Africa look destined to win the WC after scraping two single point wins. I really hope they don’t but fear the worst . England just needed one more score and it went downhill after they messed up in the SA corner .
They never seemed to have the ball in their hands after that point.
I can't remember such a narrow margin in a match where one team had its scrum continually demolished and had no attacking flair.
So England shouldn't be downhearted and they now get a comfortable win over Argentina and third place instead of being thrashed by the Polynesian Globetrotters in the final.
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
Politicians wanting to do popular things so they get re-elected is a feature of democracy, not a bug. Hunt's plan to asphyxiate the economy under a record breaking tax burden whilst he continues to piss the money away on an unreformed state and then fuck off at the next election is unprecedented and despicable. He should stand down as Chancellor immediately.
As far as I’m concerned, the current chancellor needs to run in a GE because the governments economic policy is on the line in a campaign.
If Hunt is going to quit at the GE then he should have the good grace to quit as Chancellor.
No, from Hunt's perspective the longer he stays as Chancellor and the more he cuts inflation and the deficit the better his CV looks for a highly paid city directorship or FTSE 100 company board post after he steps down as an MP.
He also then doesn't have to face the indignity of being rejected by the common people a la Portillo in his marginal seat on election night as he won't be a Tory candidate again (if he stays in Parliament it will only be with a peerage where no ballot box needed to get it)
That might be how he calculates it but you can’t run an election campaign without a chancellor. So if his heart isn’t in it he needs to let someone else have a go at the pre-election budget.
People said the same about Huckabee in 2008 or Santorum in 2012 or even Carter in 1976, Iowa is won bit by bit and even 13 could make the difference in a close election. Santorum beat Romney by just 34 votes in the 2012 Iowa caucuses.
Pence also has the hardest line against abortion in the evangelical heavy state and his senior adviser also was an adviser to Huckabee and Santorum
Hunt has already been selected for one of the new Surrey seats (I think the one based around Godalming), which has a notional majority of about 7,500 over the LibDems. He is also regarded as a solid constituency MP....but he would face a tough fight.
People said the same about Huckabee in 2008 or Santorum in 2012 or even Carter in 1976, Iowa is won bit by bit and even 13 could make the difference in a close election. Santorum beat Romney by just 34 votes in the 2012 Iowa caucuses.
Pence also has the hardest line against abortion in the evangelical heavy state
Yes, that struck me on reading that. The whole point of the Iowa caucus is that 15 people can make a difference on the snowy night in January surely?
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
Politicians wanting to do popular things so they get re-elected is a feature of democracy, not a bug. Hunt's plan to asphyxiate the economy under a record breaking tax burden whilst he continues to piss the money away on an unreformed state and then fuck off at the next election is unprecedented and despicable. He should stand down as Chancellor immediately.
As far as I’m concerned, the current chancellor needs to run in a GE because the governments economic policy is on the line in a campaign.
If Hunt is going to quit at the GE then he should have the good grace to quit as Chancellor.
No, from Hunt's perspective the longer he stays as Chancellor and the more he cuts inflation and the deficit the better his CV looks for a highly paid city directorship or FTSE 100 company board post after he steps down as an MP.
He also then doesn't have to face the indignity of being rejected by the common people a la Portillo in his marginal seat on election night as he won't be a Tory candidate again (if he stays in Parliament it will only be with a peerage where no ballot box needed to get it)
That might be how he calculates it but you can’t run an election campaign without a chancellor. So if his heart isn’t in it he needs to let someone else have a go at the pre-election budget.
Is there anything beyond rumours at the moment?
And whilst there might not be any properly safe Conservative seats right now, Godalming and Ash doesn't look too bad...
People said the same about Huckabee in 2008 or Santorum in 2012 or even Carter in 1976, Iowa is won bit by bit and even 13 could make the difference in a close election. Santorum beat Romney by just 34 votes in the 2012 Iowa caucuses.
Pence also has the hardest line against abortion in the evangelical heavy state
Yes, that struck me on reading that. The whole point of the Iowa caucus is that 15 people can make a difference on the snowy night in January surely?
Exactly and even more so a snowy night in January where only diehard Iowa Republicans and anti abortion evangelicals will bother to turn out for the Republican caucuses in the state
Fairly remarkable for a Chancellor to decide, while in office, that he won't run at the next election.
Not that surprising if his party is heading for opposition, his prospects of being next party leader are near zero and he has the chance to make more money in the private sector outside
I don't see why he remains in position now, if this is his attitude. There's no long term commitment to the British economy - no plan to return it to prosperity. The Chancellor should at least be pretending to be committed long term, whether it's likely that his party will remain in office or not. I can't remember similar circumstances in my lifetime.
He is committed to reducing the deficit and inflation and as he is not standing for re election does not need to worry about being popular (albeit the Tory manifesto may still propose tax cuts even if he won't)
Politicians wanting to do popular things so they get re-elected is a feature of democracy, not a bug. Hunt's plan to asphyxiate the economy under a record breaking tax burden whilst he continues to piss the money away on an unreformed state and then fuck off at the next election is unprecedented and despicable. He should stand down as Chancellor immediately.
As far as I’m concerned, the current chancellor needs to run in a GE because the governments economic policy is on the line in a campaign.
If Hunt is going to quit at the GE then he should have the good grace to quit as Chancellor.
He has issued a denial of sorts, but it's likely he'll get pressed on this in interviews, and if he does plan to step down 'at' the next election (as opposed to 'before' it) he'll be asked if he plans to fight the election, and then either need to commit to a brazen lie, or his 'clever' wording is going to look really bad.
Any authority he has as Chancellor is seriously called into question by this.
Scrums are all about props. Not a glamorous position but do 90% of the important work in scrums.
We matched them with the original lineup, but our own tired starting lineup struggled against their replacements. We brought on our replacement props but they simply aren't as good at scrums as Marler/Cole. And the game (both our own scrum on the half way line that led to their five metre lineout and a try; plus the final kick) was decided from their dominant from from around 50 minutes onwards.
Disappointing to lose a match in the scrum in that way where we were otherwise the better team on the day, but it certainly showed we deserved to be in the semi final so means we leave the tournament with our heads held high.
Hunt has already been selected for one of the new Surrey seats (I think the one based around Godalming), which has a notional majority of about 7,500 over the LibDems. He is also regarded as a solid constituency MP....but he would face a tough fight.
I think the prospect of losing to smug jeering LDs as he is humiliated on stage as he loses the seat is too much for him to risk, even losing to Labour is better than losing to the LDs for most Tories.
It is darkly diverting watching progressive left wing pro-immigration Jews on TwiX now suddenly seeing the terrible downsides of multiculturalism
Very hard to see how this plays out
Why don't you just let rip with the anti muslim prejudice instead of dressing it up with these artful constructions?
Because I’m making a particular point which you are determined to misconstrue
Whatevs
'Multiculturalism doesn't work'
Isn't that it? Your particular point?
No. It isn’t
I mean we can continue your infantile discourse if you like, but I’m making a more sophisticated point
Jewish people of the left - previously progressive, pro immigration and pro multiculturalism - are suddenly realising these polices are a disaster for them
As they are a vocal and influential constituency within the left - in Britain and elsewhere - this will have a significant effect on our politics. I have Jewish friends who have made exactly this intellectual leap in the past week
Multiculturalism would be the death of Israel, the only nation globally Jews can truly be safe after the Holocaust as it is the only nation where they are the majority
It's not about multiculturalism in Israel but multiculturalism in the West. This tweet I quoted earlier sums up the change of sentiment:
I don't think non-Jews really grasp that Jewish people's fundamental social trust has been permanently undermined. We now know that our companies' DEI officers would gleefully celebrate our deaths if we were killed by the right people.
I hadn’t considered that. It’s an important point
My wife was saying this today about where she works, though she's only half Jewish through her dad's side she's considering going to work for a Jewish company, she doesn't trust HR teams at her own company due to some of the stuff that she's seen on their internal communication channels. It's weird because her company is run by a Jewish CEO so either he isn't being told about this or the HR team are attempting hide it from him. I've got his email and have met him a few times through my workplace and I did say I'd be happy to message him and tell him that he needs to sack the whole team for antisemitism but she doesn't want her fingerprints on it in case there's people in the company that will retaliate.
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(Oh get your minds out of the gutter.)
But that’s not what seems to happen. More often eg with Johnson it’s democracy, trust and the rule of law that suffers from populism, such that the next lot of politicians find it even easier to ignore the electorate in favour of their own interests.
This is going to be a long 20 minutes.
Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch publicly dissent in separate opinion.
https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1715460651399717106
A politically connected Detroit synagogue president was found stabbed dead this morning outside her home. She was 40.
https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1715814820698619931
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a243_7l48.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23a243.html
Hence a number of attempts to ban Executive Branch contacting/connecting with social media outfits.
Anyone who saw the draw expected them to be semi finalists.
Anything else would have been a shock.
A noble defeat and we went further than the Welsh, Scots, Irish, French, and Australia.
If we'd just held our own we would have won.
Not 50, not 60, not even 70..
80.
Oh, shit…
This photo from a pro-Palestinian rally in Warsaw has shocked the world.
Visegrad24 has identified the young woman in the photo.
Meet Marie Andersen.
She is a Norwegian medical student at the Medical University of Warsaw.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715792860241363377
Thanks for posting this stuff. I don’t really feel it’s appropriate to ‘like’ it but do value it.
If Hunt is going to quit at the GE then he should have the good grace to quit as Chancellor.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt has no plans to step down before the next election, his spokesman said after the Observer newspaper reported that Hunt would resign from Parliament before the vote
I love it. It’s like Naples but WORSE
He also then doesn't have to face the indignity of being rejected by the common people a la Portillo in his marginal seat on election night as he won't be a Tory candidate again (if he stays in Parliament it will only be with a peerage where no ballot box needed to get it)
I can't remember such a narrow margin in a match where one team had its scrum continually demolished and had no attacking flair.
So England shouldn't be downhearted and they now get a comfortable win over Argentina and third place instead of being thrashed by the Polynesian Globetrotters in the final.
He Was Once a Favorite of the Right. Now, Mike Pence Can’t Get a Crowd of 15 to a Pizza Ranch.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/21/mike-pence-sad-presidential-campaign-00122589
You could start with 14 immensely likeable chaps but add Owen Farrell and you create a team impossible to love.
Pence also has the hardest line against abortion in the evangelical heavy state and his senior adviser also was an adviser to Huckabee and Santorum
One of the characters is running for President
Just giving away one fewer penalty at a scrum would likely have been enough for example.
I was barely disappointed that they lost.
And whilst there might not be any properly safe Conservative seats right now, Godalming and Ash doesn't look too bad...
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/calcwork23.py?seat=Godalming and Ash
Any authority he has as Chancellor is seriously called into question by this.
Scrums are all about props. Not a glamorous position but do 90% of the important work in scrums.
We matched them with the original lineup, but our own tired starting lineup struggled against their replacements. We brought on our replacement props but they simply aren't as good at scrums as Marler/Cole. And the game (both our own scrum on the half way line that led to their five metre lineout and a try; plus the final kick) was decided from their dominant from from around 50 minutes onwards.
Disappointing to lose a match in the scrum in that way where we were otherwise the better team on the day, but it certainly showed we deserved to be in the semi final so means we leave the tournament with our heads held high.
Ask Chris Patten when he lost Bath in 1992 to them despite being Tory Party chairman
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-29932217
(Also, those grapes I had with the cheese were a bit sharp I thought.)
The video, posted on X - formerly known as Twitter, appears to show the driver chanting over the announcement system on the Central line."
https://news.sky.com/story/police-investigating-tube-driver-leading-passengers-in-pro-palestine-chant-12989198