In other news, chap finds Roman fort. Good for him, though if the pic is anything like reality it was really quite a small fortlet. Maybe a couple of centuries and an orficer?
It's incredibly important not to forget Liz Truss, or history might repeat itself.
I hope history does repeat itself, only with the next Liz Truss actually being given a chance to enact her radical programme, instead of being hamstrung and hogtied by frit middle managers and sacrificed on the altar of convenient scapegoatery.
#InLizWeStillTruss
Possibly the Tories should look at how Truss lost her seat while Hunt saved his against the odds.
More likely that they will disappear down the rabbit hole.
Well,
1. Anti-Hunt activism was at its peak about a decade ago, whereas the Truss witch hunt is still very much ongoing. Rightly or wrongly (and I would argue wrongly, obviously) she has become one of the most reviled politicians in history. Jeremy has almost become a post-hate John Major type figure now.
2. Hunt's seat has a large number of genuine Lib Dem supporters, but relatively few tactical, rent-a-vote pondlife switchers, making it less volatile. Dare I say it, it probably has more voters who take an intellectual and considered approach to voting than most places...
3. Norfolk SW was always likely to have a far higher Reform vote, allowing the seat to be taken on a stupidly low share. (And conflating Reform supporters with Trussites because both are 'right wing' is to completely misunderstand either).
I never thought Truss as an individual was cut out to be PM, and I don't think she's particularly astute, clever or streetwise. However, her values and principles are fairly closely aligned with mine and in a world where people like me usually feel politically homeless, that matters.
What really, really sucks donkey dick is that her brief Premiership has set back 'Trussism' by decades, without ever putting the ideology to practical scrutiny, let alone delivering any of its benefits. And what is worse, she will be remembered and blamed not for what she did, but for what those reacting to what she might do, did.
Regardless, I don't think considering Hunt and Truss as two opposite extremes is an accurate analysis. In many ways I'd put them in the same wing of the party. Modernisers, socially liberal, did their best work under Cameron.
Wow just reading about the swimming controversy with the Chinese guy breaking the 100m record. Isn't anyone at WADA going to do anything about obvious doping by the Chinese?!
Anyone who's a fan of watching Poirot on TV knows this. He says it quite often.
Pause
That might be where I got it from!
I sometimes pronounce fabulous 'fableous'. I got it off Steve Wright bless him. A very funny man.
I pronounce progress as 'Progg-ress', the way Darth Vader does.
You must have really bad asthma.
"PROG-ress" is proper American pronunciation, of word that Brits mispronounce "PRO-gress".
I thought you normally cast your villains with Brit accents ?
"The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking - I highly suggest you try it."
Biden jokes with a reporter: "You're stuck with me as president for a while, kid. There's no way out. You've got me for at least another 100 days or so." https://x.com/atrupar/status/1819223179711176849
Wow just reading about the swimming controversy with the Chinese guy breaking the 100m record. Isn't anyone at WADA going to do anything about obvious doping by the Chinese?!
Rather unkind to devote a thread header to winding up LuckyGuy
Still, apart from the unfortunate pensioners, it won't be long before a truss is something that one used to buy from small surgical appliance and rubber goods shops in the West Port (or, if one is a Londoner, somewhere vaguely between Soho and the back of the British Museum).
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
Indeed, but stories like this don’t generate the clicks.
Well that's the thing:
Alarmist and wrong headlines get clicks. Nuance does not.
That's also part of the reason why JK Rowling has been driven mad by Twitter.
Lots of people have been driven mad by Twitter.
That Man Adams got there first;
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
Sparkling wine tip of the day. I’m drinking Prosecco, which is as we all know generally shit, but with a couple of shakes of angostura bitters. Makes it palatable.
Prosecco really is shit. The Fosters of sparkling wine.
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
Not entirely ready to believe that you are the great saviour from dullness. Nonetheless you've often posted worse theories
My kids used to call Robbie Williams, Robbilly Williams.
My brother used to call Lenny Henry "Lenry Henry".
Because my eyesight isn't great I often momentarily read 'Trump' as 'Turnip'. (Always rather amuses me, although I'd much prefer young persons eyes again)
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
Real men are supposed to be interested in trains, rather than spend their time effetely reviewing hotels and/or restaurants!
Sparkling wine tip of the day. I’m drinking Prosecco, which is as we all know generally shit, but with a couple of shakes of angostura bitters. Makes it palatable.
Prosecco really is shit. The Fosters of sparkling wine.
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
Real men are supposed to be interested in trains, rather than spend their time effetely reviewing hotels and/or restaurants!
I am 100% convinced the Olympics boxing “controversy” is manufactured by Russia through their control of the IBA
Fits their playbook !
I don't think so. Played around with this site and I reckon there is a case to answer. The result for Khelif varies depending on what you show it. But when it gets a look at the whole body, it says male.
I put in some women who I know are definitely women, including one I thought it might struggle with, and it was 95% confident of them being women every time.
If you can find one that it gets wrong, I'll accept that it's not infallible.
Literslly took me a minute to put one of the most famous female athletes in the world
You can’t trust AI anyway of things like this one of the open problems in image processing is an accurately detecting different kinds of fish !!
Has it not occurred to you that Britney Grier might actually be a man?
What this discussion demonstrates is that (some) PBers think that a person is a man or woman depending on their visual appearance. Is this a majority PB view?
If you asked someone to say how do we know someone is male or female, they wouldn't be able to explain it. We just know, don't we?
Honestly? I'd say that's a man's voice, but, I'm guessing there is no doubt about her, which has made me stop and think a bit more about the boxing situation.
Khelif's sex needs proper scientific evaluation. The problem is precisely noone is actually interested in the specifics with one side saying how everyone claiming she's a man is a raging transphobe and the other taking the fact she's got a hefty amount of punching power and her looks as positive proof that she's definitely a man. To my mind is simply boils down to does she have testes, internal or otherwise. That is what gives male advantage. And we do not know because noone is actually interested in the truth. Noone that matters anyway
One thing she isn’t is trans. She was born and brought up female. So this is a case of physiological difference- intersex. It’s a shame it’s got caught up in the culture wars over trans.
Yes, the two situations do not really raise precisely the same issues, but most of the language will treat it interchangably.
Rather unkind to devote a thread header to winding up LuckyGuy
Still, apart from the unfortunate pensioners, it won't be long before a truss is something that one used to buy from small surgical appliance and rubber goods shops in the West Port (or, if one is a Londoner, somewhere vaguely between Soho and the back of the British Museum).
They’re available, or were, on the NHS and some pharmacists fitted them. The training course was very basic but it was quite rewarding in that one would see a grumbling, bent over old man come in, and send him out standing tall and smiling. Usually, anyway.
That's interesting. I wonder if it was a misspelling, or whether the authors deliberately used the Spanish name for some reason?
Was a Spanish colony.
As sometimes happens, PB's taken something I thought was 'fact' - in this case, that Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea had deliberately changed 'Po' into 'Poo' for humour - and shown it to be much more nuanced, if not wrong...
The Spanish name WAS Fernando Po.
As sometimes happens on PB a fact people thought inviolate turns out to be more nuanced, and then @Sunil_Prasannan makes it more nuanced still. So Wiki for example has “For nearly 500 years, the island was known as Fernando Po (Portuguese: Fernando Pó; Spanish: Fernando Poo)” but other sites just have Po.
It's incredibly important not to forget Liz Truss, or history might repeat itself.
I hope history does repeat itself, only with the next Liz Truss actually being given a chance to enact her radical programme, instead of being hamstrung and hogtied by frit middle managers and sacrificed on the altar of convenient scapegoatery.
#InLizWeStillTruss
Possibly the Tories should look at how Truss lost her seat while Hunt saved his against the odds.
More likely that they will disappear down the rabbit hole.
Well,
1. Anti-Hunt activism was at its peak about a decade ago, whereas the Truss witch hunt is still very much ongoing. Rightly or wrongly (and I would argue wrongly, obviously) she has become one of the most reviled politicians in history. Jeremy has almost become a post-hate John Major type figure now.
2. Hunt's seat has a large number of genuine Lib Dem supporters, but relatively few tactical, rent-a-vote pondlife switchers, making it less volatile. Dare I say it, it probably has more voters who take an intellectual and considered approach to voting than most places...
3. Norfolk SW was always likely to have a far higher Reform vote, allowing the seat to be taken on a stupidly low share. (And conflating Reform supporters with Trussites because both are 'right wing' is to completely misunderstand either).
I never thought Truss as an individual was cut out to be PM, and I don't think she's particularly astute, clever or streetwise. However, her values and principles are fairly closely aligned with mine and in a world where people like me usually feel politically homeless, that matters.
What really, really sucks donkey dick is that her brief Premiership has set back 'Trussism' by decades, without ever putting the ideology to practical scrutiny, let alone delivering any of its benefits. And what is worse, she will be remembered and blamed not for what she did, but for what those reacting to what she might do, did.
Regardless, I don't think considering Hunt and Truss as two opposite extremes is an accurate analysis. In many ways I'd put them in the same wing of the party. Modernisers, socially liberal, did their best work under Cameron.
Wait:
What was Truss-ism?
I ask because I know and like Kwasi. What was the burning intellectual passion that was Truss-ism?
From where I was standing it seemed like - if it was anything - it was a return to the 1960s where you got the economy moving by cutting taxes and increasing spending. Albeit, I suspect she wouldn't like it described that way.
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
Real men are supposed to be interested in trains, rather than spend their time effetely reviewing hotels and/or restaurants!
Sparkling wine tip of the day. I’m drinking Prosecco, which is as we all know generally shit, but with a couple of shakes of angostura bitters. Makes it palatable.
Prosecco really is shit. The Fosters of sparkling wine.
Just ask for champagne instead.
A pint of mild would be preferable.
You can actually get good Prosecco. It’s never amazing (in my experience) but the AOC stuff can be zesty yet dry and a nice sparkler. Trouble is the Prosecco explosion means a trillion people are churning it out and they are in grave danger of making it the Liebfraumilch of its era
German wine used to be serious business. Highly respected. Two decades of blue nun destroyed it and it has never recovered
Requesting that sort of thing in, say, a good French restaurant might produce interesting effects. If only there was someone here on PB currently sitting in a g... Ah @Leon- at last, an experiment to test your devotion to PB!
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
What's interesting about that post is it demonstrates, for all your protestations, that you do read PB even when you've been banned. Every post. Even the ones you profess to find boring.
Are you sure you find us as dull and trivial as you pretend?
(It's also worth noting the discussion about the WCML centred around an important policy point - what to do with HS2, which needs to be completed to Crewe to bypass major capacity constraints in southern Staffordshire. Admittedly, we got a bit bogged down bickering over exactly how severe those constraints *are* but it's still a major issue that has pretty significant ramifications for politics and indeed the country.)
It's incredibly important not to forget Liz Truss, or history might repeat itself.
I hope history does repeat itself, only with the next Liz Truss actually being given a chance to enact her radical programme, instead of being hamstrung and hogtied by frit middle managers and sacrificed on the altar of convenient scapegoatery.
#InLizWeStillTruss
Possibly the Tories should look at how Truss lost her seat while Hunt saved his against the odds.
More likely that they will disappear down the rabbit hole.
Well,
1. Anti-Hunt activism was at its peak about a decade ago, whereas the Truss witch hunt is still very much ongoing. Rightly or wrongly (and I would argue wrongly, obviously) she has become one of the most reviled politicians in history. Jeremy has almost become a post-hate John Major type figure now.
2. Hunt's seat has a large number of genuine Lib Dem supporters, but relatively few tactical, rent-a-vote pondlife switchers, making it less volatile. Dare I say it, it probably has more voters who take an intellectual and considered approach to voting than most places...
3. Norfolk SW was always likely to have a far higher Reform vote, allowing the seat to be taken on a stupidly low share. (And conflating Reform supporters with Trussites because both are 'right wing' is to completely misunderstand either).
I never thought Truss as an individual was cut out to be PM, and I don't think she's particularly astute, clever or streetwise. However, her values and principles are fairly closely aligned with mine and in a world where people like me usually feel politically homeless, that matters.
What really, really sucks donkey dick is that her brief Premiership has set back 'Trussism' by decades, without ever putting the ideology to practical scrutiny, let alone delivering any of its benefits. And what is worse, she will be remembered and blamed not for what she did, but for what those reacting to what she might do, did.
Regardless, I don't think considering Hunt and Truss as two opposite extremes is an accurate analysis. In many ways I'd put them in the same wing of the party. Modernisers, socially liberal, did their best work under Cameron.
Wait:
What was Truss-ism?
I ask because I know and like Kwasi. What was the burning intellectual passion that was Truss-ism?
From where I was standing it seemed like - if it was anything - it was a return to the 1960s where you got the economy moving by cutting taxes and increasing spending. Albeit, I suspect she wouldn't like it described that way.
Not sure that's right. She wasn't a Keynesian trying to give the economy a somewhat inflationary, temporary kick up the arse due to markets freezing up.
It was all a touchingly naive belief in the power of low tax - incentivising entrepreneurs through aggressive tax cutting would unleash permanently higher growth, and the Laffer curve meant no piper to pay.
Difference between short run stimulus and supposed long run miracle.
I’m probably getting a €500 meal here. Fortunately, not paying
I seem to have logged onto some bloody travelog again. Any idea how I get into PB instead?
Talk about the need for a tram network connecting Worksop with newent
That would be blinkin' handy, but we'd need a new line between Ledbury and Newent. How do Labour propose to fund such a venture?
I don't think they've built over the old track bed to any great extent, have they? It's certainly still intact between Dymock and Newent, although beyond that road improvements have taken most of it.
There's one place where the restored canal might be slightly in the way, but only briefly.
Edit - I suppose you'd have to dig out the old cutting at Four Oaks, but that's not that big an undertaking.
Now the Roberts Court has give free rein to Presidential crime, the Senate is the one institution that can take this up.
Dear @JudiciaryGOP: This seems like a big deal. Then Attorney General Bill Barr allegedly stopped an investigation into whether or not Egypt injected $10 million into the Trump for President campaign in 2016.
Interesting that one factor identified is different agencies being on their own radio networks. This issue of inter-agency communication (and the lack of it) has also been a factor in this country, for instance the Ariana Grande concert bombing.
I just don’t buy this. Not only was the shooter the only 20 year old in America with literally zero internet presence - and no motivation? - but it turns out his home is as “clean as a lab”. Not a speck of evidence either way or anything. A 20 year old guy with a home as “clean as a lab”?
The whole thing is exceptionally suspicious
And, for clarity, I’ve no idea who recruited him or why or how or anything, but I feel pretty sure this is not the whole story
Bore off. Only because you want it to not be the whole story because you are a FICTION WRITER.
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Remember lab leak. They told us that was a “racist conspiracy theory”. When in fact it was the entire scientific and political establishment conspiring to crush the most obviously plausible hypothesis for what happened in Wuhan
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
What's interesting about that post is it demonstrates, for all your protestations, that you do read PB even when you've been banned. Every post. Even the ones you profess to find boring.
Are you sure you find us as dull and trivial as you pretend?
(It's also worth noting the discussion about the WCML centred around an important policy point - what to do with HS2, which needs to be completed to Crewe to bypass major capacity constraints in southern Staffordshire. Admittedly, we got a bit bogged down bickering over exactly how severe those constraints *are* but it's still a major issue that has pretty significant ramifications for politics and indeed the country.)
One that perfectly illustrates the short term tactical rather than strategic thinking that blights us.
I’m probably getting a €500 meal here. Fortunately, not paying
I seem to have logged onto some bloody travelog again. Any idea how I get into PB instead?
Talk about the need for a tram network connecting Worksop with newent
That would be blinkin' handy, but we'd need a new line between Ledbury and Newent. How do Labour propose to fund such a venture?
I don't think they've built over the old track bed to any great extent, have they? It's certainly still intact between Dymock and Newent, although beyond that road improvements have taken most of it.
There's one place where the restored canal might be slightly in the way, but only briefly.
Edit - I suppose you'd have to dig out the old cutting at Four Oaks, but that's not that big an undertaking.
The linebank remains from the station along the the Rec, and there is a walkway under the bridges in Bridge Street and Woodleigh Road and then it seems to peter out somewhere along New Street ( on the way to Dymock).I am assuming it went all the way to Gloucester. Before my time though. So technically we could go all the way from Worksop to Gloucester. Handy!
It's incredibly important not to forget Liz Truss, or history might repeat itself.
I hope history does repeat itself, only with the next Liz Truss actually being given a chance to enact her radical programme, instead of being hamstrung and hogtied by frit middle managers and sacrificed on the altar of convenient scapegoatery.
#InLizWeStillTruss
Possibly the Tories should look at how Truss lost her seat while Hunt saved his against the odds.
More likely that they will disappear down the rabbit hole.
Well,
1. Anti-Hunt activism was at its peak about a decade ago, whereas the Truss witch hunt is still very much ongoing. Rightly or wrongly (and I would argue wrongly, obviously) she has become one of the most reviled politicians in history. Jeremy has almost become a post-hate John Major type figure now.
2. Hunt's seat has a large number of genuine Lib Dem supporters, but relatively few tactical, rent-a-vote pondlife switchers, making it less volatile. Dare I say it, it probably has more voters who take an intellectual and considered approach to voting than most places...
3. Norfolk SW was always likely to have a far higher Reform vote, allowing the seat to be taken on a stupidly low share. (And conflating Reform supporters with Trussites because both are 'right wing' is to completely misunderstand either).
I never thought Truss as an individual was cut out to be PM, and I don't think she's particularly astute, clever or streetwise. However, her values and principles are fairly closely aligned with mine and in a world where people like me usually feel politically homeless, that matters.
What really, really sucks donkey dick is that her brief Premiership has set back 'Trussism' by decades, without ever putting the ideology to practical scrutiny, let alone delivering any of its benefits. And what is worse, she will be remembered and blamed not for what she did, but for what those reacting to what she might do, did.
Regardless, I don't think considering Hunt and Truss as two opposite extremes is an accurate analysis. In many ways I'd put them in the same wing of the party. Modernisers, socially liberal, did their best work under Cameron.
Wait:
What was Truss-ism?
I ask because I know and like Kwasi. What was the burning intellectual passion that was Truss-ism?
From where I was standing it seemed like - if it was anything - it was a return to the 1960s where you got the economy moving by cutting taxes and increasing spending. Albeit, I suspect she wouldn't like it described that way.
Not sure that's right. She wasn't a Keynesian trying to give the economy a somewhat inflationary, temporary kick up the arse due to markets freezing up.
It was all a touchingly naive belief in the power of low tax - incentivising entrepreneurs through aggressive tax cutting would unleash permanently higher growth, and the Laffer curve meant no piper to pay.
Difference between short run stimulus and supposed long run miracle.
She wanted to unleash the animal spirits but what was unleashed was mayhem in the markets.
The best political attacks are the ones that everyone knows are true.
“He sits there on his phone, grumpy that the hostages are home, mad that he doesn't get to say he and Putin have some special deal...He's always Trump first, America last.” https://x.com/AccountableGOP/status/1819381127879987434
I’m probably getting a €500 meal here. Fortunately, not paying
I had a battered cod brioche roll with salad and chips at the Red Lion. Paid for it. Lovely stuff.
I’ve been travelling all year. The two beat dishes I’ve had in that time are
1. A borscht in transnistria which cost £2 with a cold beer
And a
2. “Zama”. A spicy Moldovan broth at a radisson hotel in Kishinev. £5
I misread that as 'a spicy Moldovan brothel at a random hotel in Kishinev.'
It still made sense...
It would be a more fascinating narrative than beetroot soup in a chain hotel.
That’s the whole point. You dummy
A chain hotel like radisson in Chisinau is still sufficiently connected to the Moldovan world around it, they serve serve genuine Moldovan food and it is fab and fresh and unprocessed (and also fucking spicy) not dreary club sandwiches or bland versions of curry
It's incredibly important not to forget Liz Truss, or history might repeat itself.
I hope history does repeat itself, only with the next Liz Truss actually being given a chance to enact her radical programme, instead of being hamstrung and hogtied by frit middle managers and sacrificed on the altar of convenient scapegoatery.
#InLizWeStillTruss
Possibly the Tories should look at how Truss lost her seat while Hunt saved his against the odds.
More likely that they will disappear down the rabbit hole.
Well,
1. Anti-Hunt activism was at its peak about a decade ago, whereas the Truss witch hunt is still very much ongoing. Rightly or wrongly (and I would argue wrongly, obviously) she has become one of the most reviled politicians in history. Jeremy has almost become a post-hate John Major type figure now.
2. Hunt's seat has a large number of genuine Lib Dem supporters, but relatively few tactical, rent-a-vote pondlife switchers, making it less volatile. Dare I say it, it probably has more voters who take an intellectual and considered approach to voting than most places...
3. Norfolk SW was always likely to have a far higher Reform vote, allowing the seat to be taken on a stupidly low share. (And conflating Reform supporters with Trussites because both are 'right wing' is to completely misunderstand either).
I never thought Truss as an individual was cut out to be PM, and I don't think she's particularly astute, clever or streetwise. However, her values and principles are fairly closely aligned with mine and in a world where people like me usually feel politically homeless, that matters.
What really, really sucks donkey dick is that her brief Premiership has set back 'Trussism' by decades, without ever putting the ideology to practical scrutiny, let alone delivering any of its benefits. And what is worse, she will be remembered and blamed not for what she did, but for what those reacting to what she might do, did.
Regardless, I don't think considering Hunt and Truss as two opposite extremes is an accurate analysis. In many ways I'd put them in the same wing of the party. Modernisers, socially liberal, did their best work under Cameron.
Wait:
What was Truss-ism?
I ask because I know and like Kwasi. What was the burning intellectual passion that was Truss-ism?
From where I was standing it seemed like - if it was anything - it was a return to the 1960s where you got the economy moving by cutting taxes and increasing spending. Albeit, I suspect she wouldn't like it described that way.
Not sure that's right. She wasn't a Keynesian trying to give the economy a somewhat inflationary, temporary kick up the arse due to markets freezing up.
It was all a touchingly naive belief in the power of low tax - incentivising entrepreneurs through aggressive tax cutting would unleash permanently higher growth, and the Laffer curve meant no piper to pay.
Difference between short run stimulus and supposed long run miracle.
She wanted to unleash the animal spirits but what was unleashed was mayhem in the markets.
Nothing with the theory. But whenever you rely on people lending you money to do what you want, you pretty much have to play things their way. As true for rightists as it is for leftists.
I’m probably getting a €500 meal here. Fortunately, not paying
I had a battered cod brioche roll with salad and chips at the Red Lion. Paid for it. Lovely stuff.
Chicken Kathmandu from the Great Kathmandu, West Didsbury. Which was the second curry I had after I moved back to Greater Manchester 16 years ago was so good it's what I've had ever since. It has both eggs AND potatoes.
For the avoidance of doubt regarding my earlier comment, the act of fellatio was not in progress nor in prospect in or near the kitchen where and when I mispronounced the word "fellatio".
For the avoidance of doubt regarding my earlier comment, the act of fellatio was not in progress nor in prospect in or near the kitchen where and when I mispronounced the word "fellatio".
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In other news, chap finds Roman fort. Good for him, though if the pic is anything like reality it was really quite a small fortlet. Maybe a couple of centuries and an orficer?
1. Anti-Hunt activism was at its peak about a decade ago, whereas the Truss witch hunt is still very much ongoing. Rightly or wrongly (and I would argue wrongly, obviously) she has become one of the most reviled politicians in history. Jeremy has almost become a post-hate John Major type figure now.
2. Hunt's seat has a large number of genuine Lib Dem supporters, but relatively few tactical, rent-a-vote pondlife switchers, making it less volatile. Dare I say it, it probably has more voters who take an intellectual and considered approach to voting than most places...
3. Norfolk SW was always likely to have a far higher Reform vote, allowing the seat to be taken on a stupidly low share. (And conflating Reform supporters with Trussites because both are 'right wing' is to completely misunderstand either).
I never thought Truss as an individual was cut out to be PM, and I don't think she's particularly astute, clever or streetwise. However, her values and principles are fairly closely aligned with mine and in a world where people like me usually feel politically homeless, that matters.
What really, really sucks donkey dick is that her brief Premiership has set back 'Trussism' by decades, without ever putting the ideology to practical scrutiny, let alone delivering any of its benefits. And what is worse, she will be remembered and blamed not for what she did, but for what those reacting to what she might do, did.
Regardless, I don't think considering Hunt and Truss as two opposite extremes is an accurate analysis. In many ways I'd put them in the same wing of the party. Modernisers, socially liberal, did their best work under Cameron.
The weirdo right seem to be losing their collective shit.
Biden jokes with a reporter: "You're stuck with me as president for a while, kid. There's no way out. You've got me for at least another 100 days or so."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1819223179711176849
I can't recall a single "event" where you haven't seen a conspiracy.
The truth is just too boring for you.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
Just ask for champagne instead.
The conspiracy existed. It was real. And they tried to deflect from it by accusing anyone with “wrongthink” of believing in “racist conspiracy theories” of their own
PB lacks narrative imagination. I try to provide it. Without me all you do is talk about the fucking west coast main line. It is unbelievably dull
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It’s paired with a Camargue oyster with petrossian caviar with that dried Japanese tuna belly. And it’s amazing
I’ll try and keep you all posted as it proceeds. The chef is about 22
Usually, anyway.
Besides, all the other Imperials in those movies were Brits, so Vader should have said PRO gress.
What was Truss-ism?
I ask because I know and like Kwasi. What was the burning intellectual passion that was Truss-ism?
From where I was standing it seemed like - if it was anything - it was a return to the 1960s where you got the economy moving by cutting taxes and increasing spending. Albeit, I suspect she wouldn't like it described that way.
I assume he may have still have some influence with the rioting nutjobs. At least at the fringes.
"Respect the victims. Support the police. Go home." or somesuch formulation. When he puts his mind to it, he's good at this stuff.
Can't see too much trouble, the hot humid air is gone.
Citation needed.
Cruffin - a croissant/muffin hybrid.
German wine used to be serious business. Highly respected. Two decades of blue nun destroyed it and it has never recovered
Are you sure you find us as dull and trivial as you pretend?
(It's also worth noting the discussion about the WCML centred around an important policy point - what to do with HS2, which needs to be completed to Crewe to bypass major capacity constraints in southern Staffordshire. Admittedly, we got a bit bogged down bickering over exactly how severe those constraints *are* but it's still a major issue that has pretty significant ramifications for politics and indeed the country.)
It was all a touchingly naive belief in the power of low tax - incentivising entrepreneurs through aggressive tax cutting would unleash permanently higher growth, and the Laffer curve meant no piper to pay.
Difference between short run stimulus and supposed long run miracle.
There's one place where the restored canal might be slightly in the way, but only briefly.
Edit - I suppose you'd have to dig out the old cutting at Four Oaks, but that's not that big an undertaking.
He’ll be off again at some point.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ5wh3kspRk
Dear @JudiciaryGOP: This seems like a big deal. Then Attorney General Bill Barr allegedly stopped an investigation into whether or not Egypt injected $10 million into the Trump for President campaign in 2016.
You need to hold a hearing on this explosive allegation.
https://x.com/tedlieu/status/1819416011193581715
A bandol rose. Who knew?
“He sits there on his phone, grumpy that the hostages are home, mad that he doesn't get to say he and Putin have some special deal...He's always Trump first, America last.”
https://x.com/AccountableGOP/status/1819381127879987434
1. A borscht in transnistria which cost £2 with a cold beer
And a
2. “Zama”. A spicy Moldovan broth at a radisson hotel in Kishinev. £5
It still made sense...
"Passionate but fallacious".
A chain hotel like radisson in Chisinau is still sufficiently connected to the Moldovan world around it, they serve serve genuine Moldovan food and it is fab and fresh and unprocessed (and also fucking spicy) not dreary club sandwiches or bland versions of curry
Zama
https://www.internationalcuisine.com/moldovan-zeama/
It’s not beetroot. That’s borscht
If you have the chance, 2022 Bandol Blanc is an eye-opener.
"Alas poor Yorick, I knew him. Fellatio."
It could even be a magic word in Harry Potter.
It has both eggs AND potatoes.
A U.S. citizen was caught smuggling 4 million fentanyl pills weighing over 1,000 pounds in his pickup truck at a port of entry.
https://x.com/HouseJudiciary/status/1819375650899161113
Not a bad week for the administration.
I'm sure that has cheered you all up. 👍
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1819465211440779456
In which case we project the project of the project project
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