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Starmer’s improving ratings – politicalbetting.com

SystemSystem Posts: 12,389
edited March 28 in General
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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  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,333
    edited March 28
    First, like Davey. 🟡
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,142
    I’m not Cassandra, that’s Frances White, but I have been saying for a while he has been growing into the job this year.
  • MoonRabbitMoonRabbit Posts: 14,008

    Shashank Joshi‬ ‪@shashj.bsky.social‬
    ·
    34m
    More deranged, dangerous threats. "We need Greenland for national security & international security...we'll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland" abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

    https://bsky.app/profile/shashj.bsky.social/post/3llh2t3eqp22p

    When did Trump first start talking about Greenland? Was it in his presidential campaign? Does he have a mandate from the voters? (I realise this is an academic point.)
    Howard Lutnick in one ear, Ronald Lauder in the other, and he trusts and listens to them.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,402
    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,333

    One thing that hasn't been talked about much is the decision to change almost all the names of the constituencies in the Senedd elections next year to Welsh ones. e.g Newport becomes Caesnewydd. Why on earth you would do this when the vast majority of people living in Newport would say they live in Newport I don't know. I don't know how much it will catch on. There has been broad acceptance of bilingualism in Wales but Welsh language enthusiasts have been pushing the 'Welsh preference' further and further. It could be a moment for a backlash. A nice little gift for Farage.

    Are Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party still going?
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,142

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    Glamorous Glasgow !
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,155
    edited March 28
    @TSE: "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    What?

    Architects, surely?
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 121,402
    God, I hate show offs, be modest and self effacing.

    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
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,155

    God, I hate show offs, be modest and self effacing.

    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

    Is that not a little "reverse snobbery"?

    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.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,308
    MattW said:

    God, I hate show offs, be modest and self effacing.

    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

    Is that not a little "reverse snobbery"?

    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.
    Literally anyone, including drunks? ;)
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,155
    RobD said:

    MattW said:

    God, I hate show offs, be modest and self effacing.

    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

    Is that not a little "reverse snobbery"?

    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.
    Literally anyone, including drunks? ;)
    Are you seriously insinuating that there are self-respecting celebrating barristers on a Friday who are *not* drunk?

    (Except the teetotalitarians like @TSE !)
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,428
    Taz said:

    I’m not Cassandra, that’s Frances White, but I have been saying for a while he has been growing into the job this year.

    He was barely intelligible at PMQs last week. I haven't watched this week - it's too cringey.
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,155
    edited March 28
    MattW said:

    RobD said:

    MattW said:

    God, I hate show offs, be modest and self effacing.

    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

    Is that not a little "reverse snobbery"?

    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.
    Literally anyone, including drunks? ;)
    Are you seriously insinuating that there are self-respecting celebrating barristers on a Friday who are *not* drunk?

    (Except the teetotalitarians like @TSE !)
    PS I note the legal blog headlined it "galloping" and reduced it to "trotting" in the first paragraph.

    It was probably written by a KC, as well.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,400
    JD arrives in Greenland. Greeted on the tarmac by 2 female officers. Wonder when they are getting fired...
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,115

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    Using the Trainspotting meme, a novel/film quintessentially Edinburghian, about the glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers? What a zinger!

    Hopefully BBC Scotland isn’t involved, an absolute guarantee it would be crap.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,400

    Using the Trainspotting meme, a novel/film quintessentially Edinburghian

    Shot mostly in Glasgow
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,877

    One thing that hasn't been talked about much is the decision to change almost all the names of the constituencies in the Senedd elections next year to Welsh ones. e.g Newport becomes Caesnewydd. Why on earth you would do this when the vast majority of people living in Newport would say they live in Newport I don't know. I don't know how much it will catch on. There has been broad acceptance of bilingualism in Wales but Welsh language enthusiasts have been pushing the 'Welsh preference' further and further. It could be a moment for a backlash. A nice little gift for Farage.

    Wales has moved towards much more use of Welsh place names for sometime and frankly I have no problem with it, and certainly it is not something Farage will benefit from nor is it necessary as Reform have a golden opportunity to take on the dreadful Welsh government on their failure on the economy, Wales NHS, and education

    Next year's Senedd battle will be very interesting though I will not vote for Reform, remaining loyal to the Ceidwadwyr Cymreig (Welsh conservatives)
  • CiceroCicero Posts: 3,321
    MattW said:

    @TSE: "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    What?

    Architects, surely?

    Refuse disposal operatives.

    "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."
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
  • GallowgateGallowgate Posts: 19,977
    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    Nimby Reform
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,112
    edited March 28
    "Starmer ‘disappointed’ Sentencing Council won’t change guidelines that have prompted fears of two tier justice

    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”."
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,155
    edited March 28
    Have we done Darren Grimes, Reform UK candidate for Tanfield Plain and Anfield? He probably doesn't mean the Overton Window. I'm not quite sure on the spellings.

    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).
  • AugustusCarp2AugustusCarp2 Posts: 272
    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,278
    Greetings from Terminal 4, Heathrow

    Can’t wait for my retirement when I’ll finally get to travel
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Scott_xP said:

    Using the Trainspotting meme, a novel/film quintessentially Edinburghian

    Shot mostly in Glasgow
    They didn't choose Fife then?
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,142
    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,308
    MattW said:

    Have we done Darren Grimes, Reform UK candidate for Tanfield Plain and Anfield? He probably doesn't mean the Overton Window. I'm not quite sure on the spellings.

    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).

    Unfortunately for Charles, he also has to pay a million quid in business rates.

    https://fullfact.org/news/buckingham-palace-pay-council-tax/
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,112
    Leon said:

    Greetings from Terminal 4, Heathrow

    Can’t wait for my retirement when I’ll finally get to travel

    Have a go on the Heathrow Pods if you have time. Terminal 5. Great fun.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There was a Kdrama which tried that a couple of years back. The first couple of episodes were quite entertaining, until it became clear - even to the innumerate - that the writers had only the haziest idea of what accountancy involved.

    The Koreans do produce great dramas about business, though. So if anyone could pull it off it would be them.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    That sounds quite easy to film.
    If not very interesting.
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,142
    MattW said:

    Have we done Darren Grimes, Reform UK candidate for Tanfield Plain and Anfield? He probably doesn't mean the Overton Window. I'm not quite sure on the spellings.

    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).

    Tanfield and Annfield Plain, surely ?
  • dixiedeandixiedean Posts: 29,868
    Not surprising.
    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.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.
  • FossFoss Posts: 1,339
    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
  • eekeek Posts: 29,487
    RobD said:

    MattW said:

    Have we done Darren Grimes, Reform UK candidate for Tanfield Plain and Anfield? He probably doesn't mean the Overton Window. I'm not quite sure on the spellings.

    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).

    Unfortunately for Charles, he also has to pay a million quid in business rates.

    https://fullfact.org/news/buckingham-palace-pay-council-tax/
    It’s one of those stupid statements where they really should use an expensive house in say Regent’s park as their reference point and not an office block with apartments attached
  • Pro_RataPro_Rata Posts: 5,537
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    That single shot technique could be effective?
  • UnpopularUnpopular Posts: 912

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    Channel 4 did a legal drama set in Leeds, I think it was called North Square, but it had Kevin McKidd in it, for some reason. It was a bit dire, but I think I only got an episode or two in.
  • RattersRatters Posts: 1,258

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    "You've used the wrong discount rate - do you know what this means?!"...
  • Stark_DawningStark_Dawning Posts: 9,949
    Unpopular said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    Channel 4 did a legal drama set in Leeds, I think it was called North Square, but it had Kevin McKidd in it, for some reason. It was a bit dire, but I think I only got an episode or two in.
    Yes, all I can remember about that was it had this geezerish, middle-aged clerk character who earnt a fortune and dined at the elite Leeds restaurants.
  • Luckyguy1983Luckyguy1983 Posts: 30,428
    kinabalu said:

    Scott_xP said:

    Using the Trainspotting meme, a novel/film quintessentially Edinburghian

    Shot mostly in Glasgow
    They didn't choose Fife then?
    Justice for Wick.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,400
    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    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
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,400

    dined at the elite Leeds restaurants.

    What, Taco Bell?
  • RattersRatters Posts: 1,258
    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
  • Andy_JSAndy_JS Posts: 34,112
    So is Starmer going to introduce legislation to force the Sentencing Council to change their guidelines? He says he's very disappointed by their failure to change their advice.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There was a Kdrama which tried that a couple of years back. The first couple of episodes were quite entertaining, until it became clear - even to the innumerate - that the writers had only the haziest idea of what accountancy involved.

    The Koreans do produce great dramas about business, though. So if anyone could pull it off it would be them.
    Really? Well they're front of the curve these days so that bodes well.

    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.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,381
    Afternoon all :)

    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.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,868
    Scott_xP said:

    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    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
    And your point is? Reform haven't exactly been backwards in coming forward for the Trump-Putin axis of evil.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,492
    Farage and Starmer tied on favourables but Davey does best net favourable wise.

    Badenoch will at least be relieved she is ahead of Reeves who must be at risk in the next reshuffle
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    kinabalu said:

    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There was a Kdrama which tried that a couple of years back. The first couple of episodes were quite entertaining, until it became clear - even to the innumerate - that the writers had only the haziest idea of what accountancy involved.

    The Koreans do produce great dramas about business, though. So if anyone could pull it off it would be them.
    Really? Well they're front of the curve these days so that bodes well.

    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.
    It was something like that, yes.
    It was rubbish, though.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,492
    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    Jack Nicholson was an actuary in About Schmidt
  • TheuniondivvieTheuniondivvie Posts: 43,115
    edited March 28
    Scott_xP said:

    Using the Trainspotting meme, a novel/film quintessentially Edinburghian

    Shot mostly in Glasgow
    Perhaps Counsels will return the favour and film in Auld Reekie for a bit of douceness. DavidL sidling into shot…
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,752

    Scott_xP said:

    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    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
    And your point is? Reform haven't exactly been backwards in coming forward for the Trump-Putin axis of evil.
    It needs to be investigated, thoroughly. Hopefully jail time for anyone involved in sanctions busting and selling military equipment to an enemy that has stated it would like UK removed from the face of the earth
  • TazTaz Posts: 17,142
    I picked a fantastic time to move my DC company pension to my SIPP., 😂
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,492
    edited March 28
    Unpopular said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    Channel 4 did a legal drama set in Leeds, I think it was called North Square, but it had Kevin McKidd in it, for some reason. It was a bit dire, but I think I only got an episode or two in.
    It was quite good, Penny Jones was in it too pre Silk and is still on 4OD.

    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
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,752
    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    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.

    All the others listed were highly qualified for the role compared to the CV fraudster and freebie glutton.
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,752
    kinabalu said:

    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
    Like Chartered Accountants?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    edited March 28
    Scott_xP said:

    dined at the elite Leeds restaurants.

    What, Taco Bell?
    Psycho Sandbar.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Pro_Rata said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    That single shot technique could be effective?
    Yes, I suppose it could. A Warhol type aesthetic might work. Just put the camera there and let it roll for a few hours.
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,752
    Leon said:

    Greetings from Terminal 4, Heathrow

    Can’t wait for my retirement when I’ll finally get to travel

    Nobody cares either way.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,925

    Scott_xP said:

    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    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
    And your point is? Reform haven't exactly been backwards in coming forward for the Trump-Putin axis of evil.
    Yes, but I thought they were fellow travellers, not actually traitors!
  • gettingbettergettingbetter Posts: 577

    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    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.

    All the others listed were highly qualified for the role compared to the CV fraudster and freebie glutton.
    I think John Healey might have been a better choice, but I suppose that given the international situation he is needed at Defence.
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,868
    viewcode said:

    Scott_xP said:

    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    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
    And your point is? Reform haven't exactly been backwards in coming forward for the Trump-Putin axis of evil.
    Yes, but I thought they were fellow travellers, not actually traitors!
    I keep getting beaten down for being an even more boring tw@t than normal whenever I remind the team that we once had a Foreign Secretary, a Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs no less, who shook off his minders to attend a Bunga Bunga Party run by the KGB!
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Foss said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
    And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
  • Nigel_ForemainNigel_Foremain Posts: 14,752

    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    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.

    All the others listed were highly qualified for the role compared to the CV fraudster and freebie glutton.
    I think John Healey might have been a better choice, but I suppose that given the international situation he is needed at Defence.
    Probably anyone would have been better. I do wonder whether Starmer knew her CV was a work of fiction. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not, but it still does not excuse the fact that he hasn't sacked her. Maybe he fears she might reveal the true extent of his freebie taking.
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,200
    Oh ffs..

    Gonna have to sharpen my Samurai sword
  • HYUFDHYUFD Posts: 126,492
    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    Even if they did that would only be to get partial not full relief from the Trump tariffs
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    That sounds quite easy to film.
    If not very interesting.
    I meant to film *compellingly*.

    This is such a tough school sometimes.
  • eekeek Posts: 29,487

    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    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.

    All the others listed were highly qualified for the role compared to the CV fraudster and freebie glutton.
    I think John Healey might have been a better choice, but I suppose that given the international situation he is needed at Defence.
    Probably anyone would have been better. I do wonder whether Starmer knew her CV was a work of fiction. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not, but it still does not excuse the fact that he hasn't sacked her. Maybe he fears she might reveal the true extent of his freebie taking.
    The reason why Reeves stays is:

    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.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,333
    Scott_xP said:

    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    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
    That is potentially huge. The other parties need to bang on about this.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520

    kinabalu said:

    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    A sterling service to the nation. Actuaries are great people. It's just that they're not very filmable.
    Like Chartered Accountants?
    It's a simplification but I'd say Actuaries are the "roundheads" to the Chartered Accountants "cavaliers".
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 13,333
    Andy_JS said:

    So is Starmer going to introduce legislation to force the Sentencing Council to change their guidelines? He says he's very disappointed by their failure to change their advice.

    I'm very disappointed in the cat, who jumped up on the kitchen island and ate the butter, but I'm not going to introduce legislation.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There was a Kdrama which tried that a couple of years back. The first couple of episodes were quite entertaining, until it became clear - even to the innumerate - that the writers had only the haziest idea of what accountancy involved.

    The Koreans do produce great dramas about business, though. So if anyone could pull it off it would be them.
    Really? Well they're front of the curve these days so that bodes well.

    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.
    It was something like that, yes.
    It was rubbish, though.
    I just looked it up to remind myself; called Numbers.

    It started really well, with a disclaimer of opinion (gasp) precipitating corporate shenanigans, but rather lost its way.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    eek said:

    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    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.

    All the others listed were highly qualified for the role compared to the CV fraudster and freebie glutton.
    I think John Healey might have been a better choice, but I suppose that given the international situation he is needed at Defence.
    Probably anyone would have been better. I do wonder whether Starmer knew her CV was a work of fiction. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not, but it still does not excuse the fact that he hasn't sacked her. Maybe he fears she might reveal the true extent of his freebie taking.
    The reason why Reeves stays is:

    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.
    Also she has zero ambition to be PM and is therefore no threat to Starmer.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    I would imagine in Trump world everyone is fully Trump like or his opposite, they don't like middle grounds.

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    Scott_xP said:

    @erichaywood.bsky.social‬

    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

    Poilievre has jumped on the eff the US bandwagon.
    https://x.com/DemosKratosCA/status/1905355524469666169
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 23,925
    I am rather sad about the fact that we seem to have forgotten "This Life"
    Scottish readers also seem to have forgotten "The Advocates"
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    kinabalu said:

    Foss said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
    And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
    Shawshank Redemption, of course.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,256

    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    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.

    All the others listed were highly qualified for the role compared to the CV fraudster and freebie glutton.
    I think John Healey might have been a better choice, but I suppose that given the international situation he is needed at Defence.
    Probably anyone would have been better. I do wonder whether Starmer knew her CV was a work of fiction. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not, but it still does not excuse the fact that he hasn't sacked her. Maybe he fears she might reveal the true extent of his freebie taking.
    I read that and I thought i was reading your post from a week ago. Then I thought it could be two weeks ago. Do you ever write an original post?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    Nigelb said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @erichaywood.bsky.social‬

    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

    Poilievre has jumped on the eff the US bandwagon.
    https://x.com/DemosKratosCA/status/1905355524469666169
    The Canadian right are clearly scrambling for an angle. Pollievre avoided the Trump moniker for years despite opponent efforts, but with all this nonsense people are apparently liking what Carney is selling.

    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.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    .
    HYUFD said:

    Ratters said:

    kinabalu said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Sounds a bit too racy for me ..... what about Actuaries?
    Oh gosh no. They do nothing but stare at numbers. Very hard to film.
    You could argue that actuaries, by creating LDI, brought down Liz Truss.

    You're welcome.
    Jack Nicholson was an actuary in About Schmidt
    You have forgotten the most famous of all - Double Indemnity.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256

    Scott_xP said:

    Nigelb said:

    After this morning's revelation that Reform are planning to "counter housebuilding", a couple more gems from their new policy group:

    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

    @jolyonmaugham.bsky.social‬

    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
    And your point is? Reform haven't exactly been backwards in coming forward for the Trump-Putin axis of evil.
    The top figures tend to equivocate from time to time, when they worry about going too far, but the general position is pretty clear.
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 27,383
    Re Reeves, has it been mentioned that GDP has been revised upwards for each of the three quarters before she became Chancellor ?

    Her decisions to delay her budget for nearly four months and to spend that time badmouthing the economy looks evermore like a bad error.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    edited March 28
    Getting donut shop vibes from the JD Vance visit:

    "It's cold as shit here.."
    https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1905667237781889501
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    Foss said:

    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    There's a Ben Affleck flick where he plays an accountant. It appears to be a far more violent trade than my careers advisor led me to believe.
    And wasn't Marty the central character in Ozark an accountant? Looks like I was wrong and there's no shortage of tv accounting drama. Perhaps "actuaries" are the way to go after all.
    Shawshank Redemption, of course.
    Slow burn ascent to be in the top 3 of many "greatest film" lists.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,022
    Nigelb said:

    Getting donut shop vibes from the JD Vance visit:

    "It's cold as shit here.."
    https://x.com/OJoelsen/status/1905667237781889501

    "...which is exactly what we want for our new forthcoming gulags."
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    edited March 28
    Andy_JS said:

    So is Starmer going to introduce legislation to force the Sentencing Council to change their guidelines? He says he's very disappointed by their failure to change their advice.

    Punchy letter from the council. Basically 'we did everything by the book, no one raised any concerns, and you're all complaining about something that is not happening so go away'?
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,877
    Roger said:

    stodge said:

    Afternoon all :)

    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.

    All the others listed were highly qualified for the role compared to the CV fraudster and freebie glutton.
    I think John Healey might have been a better choice, but I suppose that given the international situation he is needed at Defence.
    Probably anyone would have been better. I do wonder whether Starmer knew her CV was a work of fiction. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he did not, but it still does not excuse the fact that he hasn't sacked her. Maybe he fears she might reveal the true extent of his freebie taking.
    I read that and I thought i was reading your post from a week ago. Then I thought it could be two weeks ago. Do you ever write an original post?
    Nothing wrong in repeating an obvious truth

    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%
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 27,383
    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    Best ever accountancy based film:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Malry's_Own_Double-Entry_(film)
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    kinabalu said:

    The BBC has commissioned a legal drama set in the "glossy, high-octane world of Glasgow lawyers".

    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

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    It's notable (to me anyway) that about 15 years ago cop procedurals had obviously gotten stale since most new shows were about various 'consultants' solving crimes as we'd clearly gotten bored of cops doing so. Legal dramas I don't think are so ubiquitous so may have lasted longer.

    British TV shows are usually pretty bad anyway so in fairness it may be different now.
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,022
    Not sure this is a wise thing to say to Trumpski:

    Tymofiy Mylovanov
    @Mylovanov
    ·
    20h
    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?
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 623
    Leon said:

    Greetings from Terminal 4, Heathrow

    Can’t wait for my retirement when I’ll finally get to travel

    Hello from the other end of T4. Terrible place. Have retired to Spoons
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    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.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    rcs1000 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

    https://x.com/wallstengine/status/1905609090606456980?s=61

    People looking for a western counterweight to Trump will need to look to Canada rather than Europe.

    What do you think about this one from your team? Critic of Putin arrested and due to be sent back to Russia.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    When you wrote that, I thought "bringing drugs into the US, well, more fool her".

    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.
    Biosecurity is taken seriously by serious countries:

    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.
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