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Starmer’s improving ratings – politicalbetting.com
Starmer’s improving ratings – politicalbetting.com
This polling from Ipsos isn’t surprising, plenty of us expected Starmer’s statesmanship to see his ratings improve and Farage’s ratings to fall (and Ed Davey’s unambiguous criticisms of Trump would see a boost too.)
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Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".
"Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.
Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."
Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.
https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers
What?
Architects, surely?
A new KC has celebrated her elevation by trotting to her chambers on horseback.
Jane Russell KC told RollOnFriday she rode from the ceremony appointing 105 new King’s Counsel at Westminster Hall back to Essex Court “to honour the important role that horses have played in my life and also in London’s life”.
https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/barrister-gallops-through-london-celebrate-becoming-kc
Literally (Yay!) anyone has the right to ride a horse through the City of London on a public road.
I hope all the Taxi Drivers gave her the required 2m clearance.
(Except the teetotalitarians like @TSE !)
It was probably written by a KC, as well.
Hopefully BBC Scotland isn’t involved, an absolute guarantee it would be crap.
Next year's Senedd battle will be very interesting though I will not vote for Reform, remaining loyal to the Ceidwadwyr Cymreig (Welsh conservatives)
"Shuggy, the rat catcher in Glasgow´s glamorous east end faces a dilemma when his pal Jamesie from his days at high flying Springburn Academy announces in the glittering surroundings of the Lauriston Inn that he is set to leave the cutting edge world of rodent control and join a new elite squad of refuse disposal operatives working to rid the city from a recent plague of cockroaches. Tension mounts when Robina, who has a past with both men, as well as quite a few others in Blytheswood Square, tells Shuggy that they´re out of Buckie and White Lighting. Friendships are put to the test as Jamesie goes on a bender to celebrate but the Corpy announces a further round of cuts to the recycling budget."
I’m also surprised the leaked policy platform
1) does not mention immigration once
2) positions net-zero as ‘the next Brexit’, which seems way off, focus on migration or justice/public safety surely?..
https://x.com/meIisactu/status/1905561810817679501
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/mar/28/keir-starmer-labour-transport-north-england-latest-politics-news-live
"Starmer: "Look, I’m disappointed in this response, and the lord chancellor is obviously continuing to engage on this, and we’re considering our response.
All options are on the table. I’m disappointed at this outcome, and now we will have to consider what we do as a result."
At the Downing Street lobby briefing, asked what the government would do next and whether the government would rush through emergency legislation, the No 10 spokesperson said he did not want to “get ahead” of the government’s response. But he said all options were on the table, and he pointed out that Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has described the current guidelines as “unacceptable”."
I’ve never been in a window before – so that’s a first. I walked away from a well-paid job, a cosy number in tellyland, to come back home and stick my neck out for the people, the places – and yes, even the pothole-riddled, bin-missed, crime-plagued paradise that is my beloved county. Some say I’m mad. My bank manager certainly does. But me? Not a flicker of regret. This is principled madness – which makes it all the more hilarious when the oat-milk Marxists screech ‘far-right grifter’ from their London postcodes and subsidised smugness. If this is a grift, I’m doing it wrong – we pay £444 more in council tax up here than Buckingham bloody Palace. My media work will speak for my people. My political work will aim to DO for them. That’s what really terrifies the lefty lot who’ve had it all their own way for far too long.
(I may just have missed this one from Twitter).
Can’t wait for my retirement when I’ll finally get to travel
https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61
https://fullfact.org/news/buckingham-palace-pay-council-tax/
The Koreans do produce great dramas about business, though. So if anyone could pull it off it would be them.
If not very interesting.
Been a while since we've had a competent Tory government balancing the books on the backs of the most unfortunate and crawling up the Yankee's backside.
Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
https://bsky.app/profile/erichaywood.bsky.social/post/3llhadmbv322t
Blimey. One of Nigel Farage's biggest donors, and the owner of 55 Tufton Street, is helping the Russian military effort
https://bsky.app/profile/jolyonmaugham.bsky.social/post/3llha7ssdpc2e
You're welcome.
You could have the main storyline being corruption at a big client company. It's uncovered by an idealistic superbright junior on the annual audit but his or her (probably her) attempts to expose it are countered by the senior partner who's in collusion with the crooked CEO of the company. They will stop at nothing (including murder) to keep the truth from coming out. The junior auditor is soon fighting not just for her career but for her life.
And to complicate matters her boyfriend is the son of the senior partner.
We all know in difficult times the Chancellor acts as a human shield for the Prime Minister.
If they are a techniocrat or have no reasonable prospect of becoming Prime Minister themselves, that's fine but if they aspire to move "next door", it's not good if you suffer unpopularity in advance of even becoming primus inter pares.
Reeves will never be Prime Minister - of that we can be reasonably certain - but then we could say the same about Alastair Darling and Norman Lamont but the likes of Osborne, Brown and Sunak all aspired to the top job.
Badenoch will at least be relieved she is ahead of Reeves who must be at risk in the next reshuffle
It was rubbish, though.
90% of legal dramas are about criminal lawyers as crime sells, conveyancing and tax and contract law doesn’t. Though the BBC did do a short lived drama about city lawyers called Trusts with Robson Green and Split covered divorce lawyers
Gonna have to sharpen my Samurai sword
This is such a tough school sometimes.
1) there is a lot more pain to come that she can cop the blame for
2) there isn't an obvious replacement yet..
For 2 - remember my point few people want to go into politics there are far easier ways to earn more money.
It started really well, with a disclaimer of opinion (gasp) precipitating corporate shenanigans, but rather lost its way.
https://x.com/DemosKratosCA/status/1905355524469666169
Scottish readers also seem to have forgotten "The Advocates"
Now his online supporters are reduced to whinging that Carney is phoney (may well be for all I know), and even pushing that Trump is basically endorsing him in an effort to regain momentum.
Will it work? Who knows, but it smacks of desperation.
Her decisions to delay her budget for nearly four months and to spend that time badmouthing the economy looks evermore like a bad error.
"It's cold as shit here.."
https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1905667237781889501
Reeves is within just 5 points of sharing worst ever Chancellor with Kwasi Kwarteng, and is worse than Hunt and Sunak at 51% against 44%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Malry's_Own_Double-Entry_(film)
British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
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Zelensky: I told Trump that in three years there will be another president in US. Putin can break promises he makes to you. Who will be responsible then?
Then I read:
And I thought, were you deliberately trying to mislead? Because failure to declare something legal (but declarable) is not something that would normally result in a visa being pulled.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/02/australia-biosecurity-act-change-visa-cancellation-meat-plant-declaration
Visitors to Australia will soon be warned that concealing plant and animal products at the bottom of their suitcase is now grounds for visa cancellation, under new powers for the immigration minister.
New regulations add concealing goods that require a permit to import because they pose a biosecurity risk to existing grounds to cancel visas. The rules apply to visitors including international students, working holidaymakers, maritime crew and temporary workers.