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Who will flower in Scotland in 2026? – politicalbetting.com
Who will flower in Scotland in 2026? – politicalbetting.com
NEW from @IpsosScotland: Labour's favourability ratings have fallen in Scotland. Over half of the public think the Scottish Government is doing badly on key issues (NHS, living standards, economy). But fewer now than in March think a Labour Scottish Government would do better. pic.twitter.com/PhKmvOI5Iv
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https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/prisoners-points-reduce-jail-time-texas-3d2zzj0sr
I have to say, the US wouldn't the first place I would be looking at for prison reform ideas, but maybe they have good ideas.
And who can blame them ?
Also going with the Trump technique of "I didn't see it myself, but..."
Johnson: Clay Higgins is a dear friend of mine and a colleague from Louisiana, and a very frank and outspoken person. He's also a very principled man. I didn’t even see it but he tweeted something today about Haitians.
Reporter: He told them to get out of the country by Jan 20th
Johnson: 🙄 Ok. He was approached on the floor by colleagues who said that was offensive. He said he went to the back and he prayed about it, and he regretted it, and he pulled the post down. I'm sure he probably regrets the language he used. But you know, we move forward. We believe in redemption around here.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1839061279585218794
https://x.com/barret_zoph/status/1839095143397515452
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, and VP Research Barret Zoph
https://www.outlookbusiness.com/corporate/mira-murati-exits-altman-led-openai-bob-mcgraw-and-barret-zoph-follow-suit
3 in a day. It can't be the money, apparently median dev salary is $1m a year.
Otherwise, looks like a reasonable thing to do to reward engagement with rehabilitation, and how else do we deal with having approximately zero spare prison capacity?
The power of prayer.
Beyond that it's hard to say what's going on with OpenAi and those people will have knowledge about the situation that no one else has..
We only have incompetence, no extracting millions for personal gain etc. Dick turpin
was hung for less
Tax everything that breathes
Regulate everything else to extinction
Drive anyone mobile out of the country or into retirement
Give in to the unions at every turn
Make energy as expensive as possible
Cancel lots of infrastructure projects
Jack up the cost of, and regulation around, employing people until it's not worth it any more
Etc etc etc
Starmer's growth agenda
Pretend to want it
Maybe build some ugly, shoddy houses eventually, especially where nobody wants to live
... er ...
That's it
Exactly what you'd expect from a staggeringly arrogant and incompetent ex-Trotskyist lawyer who's never worked in industry or finance and doesn't know any economics or care to inform himself at all.
Lady Starmer looks like she means it, with real passion, whereas SSW looks like he's kissing his mum.
Almost every other European country would be an improvement on the British prison system, let alone the US one. But our governments live so immersed in the Anglo Saxon world that they will only take case studies from English speaking countries. Witness their obsession with the Australian approach to tax administration.
And yet Labour still don't look like they are actually going to do anything interesting with that majority. A bit of tinkering with spending and taxes.
This is going to become untenable for Keir Starmer. The revelations about Lord Alli’s apartment have only just started…
https://order-order.com/2024/09/26/downing-streets-fake-covid-home-defence-proven-wrong-within-30-minutes/
Cavaet emptor....recent record on scalps is very poor, and he was giving the big 'un during the GE about a scandal that was nothing.
Supposedly there is going to be an announcement on employment rights soon and from what I've seen online absolutely no-one likes the suggested changes...
I was making a jocular comment not a serious critique on prison reform.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/25/starmer-covid-broadcast-work-from-home-lord-alli-flat/ (£££)
Which implies Guido can have as many examples as there have been broadcasts, but also that they do not add up to very much.
It seems to be less about who is in charge than that people have far higher expectations than can be delivered. There's very little optimism, positivity or vision about anywhere in the world.
"Breaking news: a volcano has exploded in the Southlands, now known as Mordor. Luckily, no-one important was hurt by the tidal wave of lava."
That's a poor analogy; RoP series 1 was only 2022. Labour's hope has been for much longer than that...
Perhaps Game of Thrones season 8? Lost season 6?
The dates only starting partway through exam season is easily explained. Rishi did not call the election until 22nd May.
@JosiasJessop may have stumbled on the correct approach which is to attack Starmer for hypocrisy. It is hard to discern any technical offence.
Again with Starmer as lawyer not politician, he plays within the rules but without regard for the optics.
The pound is at a recent high vs the dollar at the moment, and the Chinese are starting to agree with the Saudis to buy some oil priced in Yuan, so the dollar could be about to take something of a devaluation, unprecedented in living memory.
Which I suppose is why I'm not on millions a year.
Then the others, who for them it is the interesting work and the money doesn't actually matter that much to them. They know they will never go without a well paid job and so its doing things that are super intellectually stimulating.
But the plebs don't matter, as long as you're on the gravy train that gives you thousands of pounds worth of 'gifts'...
From which we can conclude that the people who accumulate the most cash aren't the most useful or valuable, but the ones who are most interested in accumulating cash.
Which is a model that seems to fit the data.
That is not impossible as Salmond was FM from 2007 to 2011 with confidence and supply from Scottish Tories
Also, LOL.
https://x.com/joshuapliu/status/1839063992876040362
Other fields, many do stay in academia because it is a better place to be, or the private sector position certainly doesn't pay the mega bucks.
An acquaintance only ever works for startups; he is known as a bit of a startup king. He'll join a new company, work with them for a year or two, then get bored and move on. He is in demand and he is very much an all-rounder who is willing to do the 'little' work that many 'geniuses' decry.
(*) One so new that me and a friend had to drive to the other side of Cambridge to pick up our PCs on our first day, and we had about five phone lines for the entire company...
We certainly do here in Wales
Latest from Drakeford
'We are considering increasing income tax rates as we are not bound by Labour's promises' !!!
Also, as a statistical sample they have a prison population of nearly 2 million, so there are also so many things *not* to learn from there.
The one that always reminds me of that is that State to State transfer of suspects is termed "extradition".
I think the important question will be knitting ideas into a coherent process, which enables an effective evaluation of what works here for which groups of offenders, rather than creating a collage made up of bits and pieces of sticky plaster.
The owner excited decided he wanted to test just how good the ruggedization was, specs said will survive a drop from some big height, so he proceeded to gather everybody around and throw it out the second floor window......well, not much dev work was done for the next month.
The US Treasury still seems to be getting its bond auctions away okay at reasonable rates so there is demand at the moment.
Anway, a sight to gladden all hearts.
https://x.com/conor_matchett/status/1838698441024667874
Head Count were the ones who had nothing, and whose votes would have next to no value.
"A systematic review of criminal recidivism rates worldwide: 3-year update - PMC" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/
What’s new now is that the OPEC states are signing up to the BRICS group, and taking decisions with less reference to the Americans and Europeans. The Chinese are pushing hard the idea of pricing O&G product in Yuan to all of the BRICS nations, with the intention of crashing the dollar setting up a second global reserve currency among the 2nd and 3rd worlds.
US Treasury Bond auctions are indeed still okay at the moment. But ask Liz Truss how quickly that can change.
It's comforting on one level to see that voters across so many nations have been pig-shit thick about Covid, the Russo-Ukraine war and the causes of inflation.
The only people pulling drives from running systems should be the salesman on his own demo environment.
https://x.com/zarahsultana/status/1838952547039519231?t=eFEioxGgv9uQpQOTlw91IA&s=19
At present, it's not the Euro imo - though that could change a little if Russia collapses. In that case China would be paying attention to getting at least Manchuria back, and perhaps a lot more territory as a bonus.
But, it also had a pejorative meaning by then, “Plebs sordida” (ie Great Unwashed).
Just Another Tory
But it is interesting that the Head Count are barely mentioned. So low that the rich (who ran Rome, by explicit definition) barely bothered to insult them.
EDIT: and by numbers, they were the biggest group.
This month finally, finally saw crossover in the 2yr-10yr split after a near record long period of inversion. That is to say, a 10yr bond now pays a higher yield than a 2yr.
You’ll know the brown stuff is really about to fly when the 3mth yield falls below the 10yr yield. Early 2025 seems a good bet. The powers that be have kept the entire machine pumped headed into 5th Nov at all cost.
The operator then calmly looked through the punch cards and slotted them back in the right order in about ten minutes, using the numbers that they habitually lightly pencilled on to each punch card in case some buffoon dropped the box, and much of the department took a long and leisurely lunch break.
Typically it would be several times the size of someone's house to acomodate a crew of abut 12 and equipment that would take up more space than the crew.
You expect this ignorance from Guido and his super-dim readers but not on PB.
Trump fantasising he can change that by more drilling is... fantasy.
And pursuing economic isolationism, which he's essentially proposing, is likely to accelerate rather than halt the process.