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% who think that Donald Trump will be convicted of a crime in the hush-money caseU.S. adult citizens: 24%Democrats: 35%Independents: 21%Republicans: 16%https://t.co/kXCVMP0jz6 pic.twitter.com/LauTg1zkTV
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Writing in her memoir Rebel Rising, the Australian actress says that the party was held in 2014 and hosted by a tech billionaire at a rented ranch on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
The comedian, 44, best known for Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, said that she did not realise the medieval-themed party was an orgy until 2am when a tray of “molly”, the slang term for MDMA, was passed around.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rebel-wilson-claims-british-royal-invited-orgy-bwbw75njl
How Biden plans to win swing states: make abortion the central issue
The president hopes that opposition to the overturning of Roe v Wade will be decisive in his battle against Donald Trump
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/biden-polls-abortion-election-swing-states-3l2lhqq26
2. Why would some MDMA being offered make her realise it was an orgy?
*apologies I know it's early. Blame TSE.
And his actual richness is open to question.
David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (b. 1961)
Lady Sarah Chatto (née Armstrong-Jones; b. 1964)
Samuel Chatto (b. 1996)
BREAKING: A dinghy with migrants has left the coast of France and is heading in the direction of the UK.
It comes after Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill was finally passed through the Lords yesterday.
Bring back St Edmund.
Oh no, hold on, he was an Italian and came across on a small boat from France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwMRRx8IciU
Mike Freer is the MP for Finchley & Golders Green who cites personal safety as the reason for leaving parliament and it is interesting to hear him discuss the threats and abuse faced by all MPs. Ironically, as he notes, the recent arson attack on (or near) his constituency office (discussed on this very pb) turned out to be due to a mentally disturbed arsonist and nothing to do with Freer or politics.
There are some interesting notes on former Prime Ministers, including Mrs Thatcher and Theresa May as assiduous constituency MPs. The "amusing anecdote" about touching up Boris really isn't.
Has Rishi forgotten it is the British Supreme Court which keeps sticking its oar in?
https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1782659259454398756
While I'm not into 'days' (though Saint George is at least the national saint), it'd be nice to go a year without the repetitive chorus of "He wasn't born here, you know".
Yes, I know. People bang on about it every year.
Saint George killed a dragon?
It’s up there with a virgin birth.
Let’s be honest he was high on magic mushrooms and in all likelihood killed a dragonfly.
"No I was there firster!"
"I started celebrating St George's Day last week!"
"Every day is St George's Day!"
It has been easy to make fun of the book by Liz Truss, Ten Years to Save the West. Reviewers have mocked the paranoia, lack of self-awareness and blaming of others for the disasters of her short premiership. It didn’t help when she held the book upside down on television. Most people have probably joined in the mirth and otherwise tried to forget it all. But for Conservatives like me, it is a reminder of the most excruciatingly embarrassing period in the modern history of our party, one for which a severe electoral price is still being paid.
It might come as a surprise, therefore, when I say that this book has to be taken seriously. Not because Truss is about to return to power, or because it is a deep study of how politics works, or because its proposals deserve support. I haven’t, as a critic of how government was conducted in those infamous 49 days, changed my mind. But I do think that the ideas this former prime minister expresses have become the common currency of many people on the right, in this country and abroad.
They tell us a great deal about the struggle over the future of conservatism — a struggle already taking place around the world and that will become urgent and intense in Britain if the Tories go into opposition after the coming election.
Truss perceives many of the institutions of government to have been “captured by left-wing ideology” or become excessively powerful, knitting together in a “deep state” that frustrates elected leaders. Her answer is to abolish a great many of them. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) would be eliminated, the Bank of England weakened, the Supreme Court abolished and the European Convention on Human Rights abandoned. Internationally, we would withdraw from the climate negotiations at Cop summits and seek to abolish the United Nations. The elected government — albeit elected by a very small number of people in her own case — would be liberated from all these agreements and constraints.
Before dismissing such notions as the rantings of a very disappointed ex-leader, we should note that they have a lot in common with the policies of more successful leaders overseas. In America, the Republicans have become largely subservient to a Trump agenda that includes “dismantling the deep state”, firing civil servants by presidential order, removing “Marxist” prosecutors and justifying the brazen attempt to overturn the outcome of the last presidential election.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sadly-liz-trusss-world-view-is-no-laughing-matter-w66z0knmj
Wouldn't be as big a hole as the one Sunak's dug for himself over Rwanda though.
Ian Ogilvy was a waste of a really good theme tune.
https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1782640131192537389?t=zE4uriLFMhHwmmstSuuRoQ&s=19
I like to think that it's a deep-rooted instinct inherited from proto-mammal ancestors who lived in the shadows of dinosaurs 66m years ago. That's bollocks of course but I still like to think it.
When is Rishi expecting to get a Massive Rwanda Bounce in the polls?
Typically pictured carrying a pair of sugar tongs so he can tweak the devil’s nose (WTF?)
He’s now the patron saint of investment bankers…
Both things skew the justice system, but money skews it more I think.
Cutting instead of raising NI to make work pay better? Very, very good idea, and one Hunt has continued, quite rightly.
Going for growth? Good idea.
It was the economy that brought her down, but it was on economics she was closest to what was needed and if she'd kept stumpt now then in the future I think her tenure could be looked back at better as badly handled but with some kernels of good ideas that her successors have adopted.
But instead she's going full MAGAite batshit crazy deep state conspiracy theory lunatic.
She'll be talking about pizza, sexual abuse and Pepe the Frog soon.
Authoritarians tend to aspire to centralised state power in the hands of a few. Those can be lefty or righty, and there are plenty of lefties and righties who would detest such a world too.
You are a free marketeer, in your world the markets are in charge, and the markets didn't like her or her economics.
Most catastrophes are because of being not far from what was needed, but the difference between being what's needed and not far from it is critical.
Want to catch a train? Standing on the platform waiting is a good idea. Being at home in bed is not, but nor is it catastrophic.
Standing on the tracks is not far from what was needed, but that mistake is catastrophic.
Truss did the metaphorical equivalent of running to catch a train, tumbling onto the tracks, with inevitable results.
St George, it seems, was born a Grecian
And got bumped off by Diocletian
An Englishman he really ain’t
So how come he’s their patron saint?
And you will find, in similar vein,
He’s claimed by Moscow *and* Ukraine,
Georgia, Malta, Bosnia too,
And several others in the queue
And as for all that dragon stuff,
It really is a load of guff
It’s just another permutation
Of fables found in every nation
So given that the English are
Almost entirely secular
They sure don’t need a patron saint
The notion is entirely quaint.
Unfunded tax cuts was Truss's approach - that's the head-in-the-sand path to penury. Most of the debt cases I see have followed the same path with their personal finances, it never ends well.
Doesn't excuse all those Conservative MPs who have voted that up is down because they say so. Especially the decent ones.
Implemented better, some of her ideas were good.
Hunt has himself continued with her flagship idea she had campaigned on during the leadership election, which was a reversal of Sunak and miltiple predecessors for decades doing the opposite.
It was the rest that accompanied it that was bullshit.
Quite rightly too that Hunt has continued with Truss's idea, because it was right.
And dragons are, after all, supposed to be rare.
Erosion fairly regularly exposes fossils where there are a lot of them.
China is particularly rich both in fossil remains and dragon legends.
Most miracles and mythos have a mundane explanation at their core
I remember a long time ago reading an article which sought to explain biblical miracles using natural causes. The one which always stuck in my mind was Joshua crossing the Jordan and the water drying up. They proved that if a tree trunk was wedged in a specific place upriver then the water would dry up where Joshua crossed in the manner described.
Hence the “miracle” resolves itself into “just the right thing happening at the right time”. Which you can put down to luck or divine intervention depending on your view. But it’s not unnatural.
And why on earth do we have ‘three lions’ and bang on about it as if it’s some kind of national symbol? Lions don’t live in little England except on some old buff’s country estate.
It’s ridiculous to glorify ‘three lions’. Dandelions would be more appropriate.
They don't really stand out as an odd thing to believe in, considering everything else they did.
Multiculturalism is nothing new.
That would explain her resort to conspiracy theory in order to account for her policies blowing up in her face.
A sober and accurate reflection of where we are at.
The damage caused by these evil tory ministers may take years to mend.
The presence of the 20th in line to the throne makes a difference from a collection of Californian slebs?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yam_Suph