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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
Let me guess you are an accountant
Yes, but a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
Let me guess you are an accountant
Has there been a tv drama series about a turnip farmer?
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
94% failure rate given we are living longer. Must be a design fault.
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
Both theories suffer from a lack of imagination and extrapolation of the present to the future. We are about to enter unprecedented technological and biological changes. No-one knows how society will be structured after those.
What unprecedented tech and biological changes....please don't say ai for tech because its really not true.....its just a more sophisticated rules engine its not aware, it cant think, its not sentient
From a political standpoint surveillance and propaganda technologies are clearly and rapidly already shifting the dynamics.
Before AI kicks in, not the current LLM versions, I suspect the next set of changes may be driven by biotech, things like super soldiers or gene editing to produce superior and dominant humans for the elite. Eventually I think it will be AI but that is further down the road.
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
I think you mean "faucet".
Ha, I nearly did that but decided to play it straight so people would know I'm not joking around.
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
Both theories suffer from a lack of imagination and extrapolation of the present to the future. We are about to enter unprecedented technological and biological changes. No-one knows how society will be structured after those.
Meanwhile the US economy teeters on the edge of going down the shitter. Apparently Trump likes to think of himself as the new McKinley. Will someone remind him and Vance what happened to McKinley?
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
I am one of those 6%
Congratulations
I am in no way implyling forming life long commitments is a bad thing in anyway. Just pointing out the statement "The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships."
Actually applies to most of us. The average marriage length in the uk is now 12 years
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
Let me guess you are an accountant
Has there been a tv drama series about a turnip farmer?
Would be a thriller , Oscar's , bafta's by the barrowload for sure. Missing a blockbuster for sure.
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
I think you mean "faucet".
Accountants aren't known for turning on the waterworks.
I hate how you people turn everything into a joke.
Accountancy (esp chartered) does tap into some fundamental truths about life.
Police sent six uniformed officers to arrest two parents who complained about their school on a WhatsApp group
Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were put in a cell for eight hours by Hertfordshire police after sending emails to their primary school and making criticisms of the leadership on WhatsApp
They were questioned on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
I think you mean "faucet".
Accountants aren't known for turning on the waterworks.
I hate how you people turn everything into a joke.
Accountancy (esp chartered) does tap into some fundamental truths about life.
I am rolling about the floor after reading that one, a cracker
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
94% failure rate given we are living longer. Must be a design fault.
She doesn't make mistakes, marriage is a human construct so the flaw lies there
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
I think you mean "faucet".
Accountants aren't known for turning on the waterworks.
I hate how you people turn everything into a joke.
Accountancy (esp chartered) does tap into some fundamental truths about life.
If we can't laugh we will just cry and slit our throats
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
Good point.
Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
Hey accountants are only allowed to exist to make software engineers appear relatively attractive and interesting
It was (non-financial) auditors who were the subject of the story I was told:
How do you tell the difference between an auditor and a computer? The computer's the one with the personality.
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
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.
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.
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Where should she have been deported too?
She should have been allowed to correct the form. She wasn’t concealing the frogs - bloody great big box of them
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Where should she have been deported too?
She should have been allowed to correct the form. She wasn’t concealing the frogs - bloody great big box of them
The states have always been arseholes...one mistake you get turned round. I almost got sent home for not having enough t shirts to wear once despite telling them yeah because I was going to get some more out there
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Where should she have been deported too?
She should have been allowed to correct the form. She wasn’t concealing the frogs - bloody great big box of them
The states have always been arseholes...one mistake you get turned round. I almost got sent home for not having enough t shirts to wear once despite telling them yeah because I was going to get some more out there
She had a working visa. Not just a tourist - the frogs embryos were for a research project at Harvard
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Where should she have been deported too?
She should have been allowed to correct the form. She wasn’t concealing the frogs - bloody great big box of them
The states have always been arseholes...one mistake you get turned round. I almost got sent home for not having enough t shirts to wear once despite telling them yeah because I was going to get some more out there
She had a working visa. Not just a tourist - the frogs embryos were for a research project at Harvard
Look I am not a fan of america.....check first what you can bring in , if its not allowed dont bring it....lots of places like that around the world and while I think trump is scum its not necessarily down to his admin...the states were just like this in 2000
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.
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.
A dramatic description. Wouldn't put anything past the Trump White House - not just not supporting Ukraine, but being vindictive towards them.
NEW: @FT obtained new US proposal. The Trump admin is pushing to gain sweeping control over all of Ukraine’s major minerals and energy assets, while offering Kyiv no security guarantees, in an aggressive expansion of previous demands https://nitter.poast.org/ChristopherJM/status/1905297287221272735#m
The latest U.S. proposal essentially turns Ukraine from a sovereign country to the property of a Delaware corporation, which would have monopoly rights over its natural resources and all infrastructure, and the power to inspect all its government offices, until the end of time. Inspired by King Leopold’s Congo. Obviously there is zero chance Ukraine will accept this. https://nitter.poast.org/yarotrof/status/1905325879091466511#m
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
I am one of those 6%
Congratulations
My wife and I have our 61st wedding anniversary in May having received a personal diamond anniversary card from Charles and Camilla last year
Need to last another 4 years for another one at 65 years of marriage !!!!!
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
Translation: we're not very keen on multi-party democracy.
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
From one of the three great universities, no doubt.
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
I am one of those 6%
Congratulations
My wife and I have our 61st wedding anniversary in May having received a personal diamond anniversary card from Charles and Camilla last year
Need to last another 4 years for another one at 65 years of marriage !!!!!
Congratulations too. As I said not claiming its a bad thing. Merely saying its far for customary
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
From one of the three great universities, no doubt.
Well those so educated have made such a superlative job of britain....
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
Translation: we're not very keen on multi-party democracy.
Who is thesedays? Very much becoming out of favour.
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
I am one of those 6%
Congratulations
My wife and I have our 61st wedding anniversary in May having received a personal diamond anniversary card from Charles and Camilla last year
Need to last another 4 years for another one at 65 years of marriage !!!!!
Congratulations too. As I said not claiming its a bad thing. Merely saying its far for customary
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
It does merit scepticism but it also merits being given a chance.
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.
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Where should she have been deported too?
She should have been allowed to correct the form. She wasn’t concealing the frogs - bloody great big box of them
The states have always been arseholes...one mistake you get turned round. I almost got sent home for not having enough t shirts to wear once despite telling them yeah because I was going to get some more out there
She had a working visa. Not just a tourist - the frogs embryos were for a research project at Harvard
Look I am not a fan of america.....check first what you can bring in , if its not allowed dont bring it....lots of places like that around the world and while I think trump is scum its not necessarily down to his admin...the states were just like this in 2000
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.
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.
There are so many tropes in tv cop dramas.
The top boss always just wants to get the case closed and doesn't care how.
For a female murder victim under 30 the autopsy will reveal she was pregnant.
The perp is the person most unlikely until about 10 mins from the end.
Etc etc
(with that latter 'rule', it means if they only knew they were in a drama the police could solve the case immediately)
The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships.
Well that describes most of humanity
Speak for yourself!
The average person probably meets 1000+ people on a fairly regular basis during the course of their life The average person has an average of 3 to 5 close friends
A conversion rate of people I interact with regularly to close friend therefore is at best 0.5%.....this suggests yes people on the whole have an inability to form close personal connections....romantic ones even less so as told by the divorce rate....the number of people reaching 50 years happily married to the same person is tiny
Any idea about that ratio. Asking for a friend
Currently most people managing 50 years is 6% of marriages....however you have to bear in mind in the day they married people regarded marriage as for life more....I expect that percentage to drop rapidly
I am one of those 6%
Congratulations
My wife and I have our 61st wedding anniversary in May having received a personal diamond anniversary card from Charles and Camilla last year
Need to last another 4 years for another one at 65 years of marriage !!!!!
Awww :-) Congratulations to you both. And here's to many more after that :-)
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more ignorant and rude senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
I think everyone will be cautiously sceptical of positive outcomes in such a tense region, it's not exactly been super smooth sailing, but hopefully against the odds it will. The big portfolios going to the faction which instigated the collapse - consolidation of power? I have no idea, international media has moved on from Syria.
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government? 1- A transitional government of 22 ministers 2- The first government since the fall of Assad 3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29 4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration 5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers 6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze 7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities 8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011 9- It will include at least one woman 10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) 11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio 12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya 13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency 14- The government will not include political blocs 15- it will not include representatives from SDF https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
It does merit scepticism but it also merits being given a chance.
It would not take much to be an improvement on the chaos and bloodshed of the last decade or so, and the decades of brutal repression before then.
Though the US Director of National Intelligence would disagree Assad was that bad.
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more detestable senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
Putin apologism aside (and that is a big one) Farage does not hold a candle to Vance.
(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten · 4h Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).
85% of Greenlanders are opposed.
Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.
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.
Interesting to see the concept of a "supply side progressive". To quote the article from earlier: "What the US badly needs to do is build, they argue – build more houses, public transportation, power plants and other infrastructure" – but that isn’t happening.
This all sounds a bit New Deal to this observer - pay one man to dig a hole and another to fill it in again. Few would argue the wisdom of long term capital expenditure on infrastructure and even housing and few have questionned borrowing to fund these capital projects.
If that is the definition of being a supply side progressive, I could be one but every time I hear "supply side" over here, it usually means tax and some notions of reducing regulation which are rarely if at all well defined.
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more ignorant and rude senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
He is worse and more dangerous than Farage who admittedly has had his moments
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Where should she have been deported too?
She should have been allowed to correct the form. She wasn’t concealing the frogs - bloody great big box of them
The states have always been arseholes...one mistake you get turned round. I almost got sent home for not having enough t shirts to wear once despite telling them yeah because I was going to get some more out there
She had a working visa. Not just a tourist - the frogs embryos were for a research project at Harvard
Look I am not a fan of america.....check first what you can bring in , if its not allowed dont bring it....lots of places like that around the world and while I think trump is scum its not necessarily down to his admin...the states were just like this in 2000
It was allowed but needed to be declared.
Not declaring stuff that needs declaring they treat the same as smuggling....they always have....she would have been deported in 2000ad too
The celebrated American theorist, Francis Fukuyama, in his book 'The End of History and the Last Man' argued that US-style liberalism was the ultimate destination for all mankind, 'the final form of human government'.
John Gray explains why he believes his prophecy has been turned on its head.
'As in the past, many human beings will live under tyrannies, theocracies, and empires of various kinds,' John writes. 'Failed states and zones of anarchy will be common. Democratic nations are likely to be rare, and often short-lived.'"
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
Good point.
Back to the software engineer thrillers then?
Anyone watched Halt and Catch Fire over the years? I think now series 3 or 4.
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more ignorant and rude senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
To give him his due, I don't think Farage is anywhere near as bad as Vance. He's certainly not as rude, and his instinct is to punch up rather than down.
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.
Not quite. She made a mistake on the customs form. Usual penalty $500.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
Where should she have been deported too?
She should have been allowed to correct the form. She wasn’t concealing the frogs - bloody great big box of them
The states have always been arseholes...one mistake you get turned round. I almost got sent home for not having enough t shirts to wear once despite telling them yeah because I was going to get some more out there
She had a working visa. Not just a tourist - the frogs embryos were for a research project at Harvard
Look I am not a fan of america.....check first what you can bring in , if its not allowed dont bring it....lots of places like that around the world and while I think trump is scum its not necessarily down to his admin...the states were just like this in 2000
It was allowed but needed to be declared.
Not declaring stuff that needs declaring they treat the same as smuggling....they always have....she would have been deported in 2000ad too
You really want something to get het up about it try this
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more ignorant and rude senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
He's actually worse than Farage. Farage does at times show some real humour and charm.
Police sent six uniformed officers to arrest two parents who complained about their school on a WhatsApp group
Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were put in a cell for eight hours by Hertfordshire police after sending emails to their primary school and making criticisms of the leadership on WhatsApp
They were questioned on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications
I wonder what they were saying. You do get some really vile parents.
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
I think you mean "faucet".
Accountants aren't known for turning on the waterworks.
I hate how you people turn everything into a joke.
Accountancy (esp chartered) does tap into some fundamental truths about life.
Death and taxes… Yep, one out of two is pretty good,
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.
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.
The three part set of episodes where someones pen leaks because another accountant took their pocket protector for their own?
I bet you've never been inside a big ticket accounting firm. It's a high octane environment that tests every facet of your character.
I think you mean "faucet".
Accountants aren't known for turning on the waterworks.
I hate how you people turn everything into a joke.
Accountancy (esp chartered) does tap into some fundamental truths about life.
Death and taxes… Yep, one out of two is pretty good,
At least accountants are only the fourth most hated people they score higher than estate agents, politicians and lawyers
A bit of fun on a Friday night. Which would you prefer. A. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes President of the USA and Nigel Farage our PM. B. Mr. J.D.Vance President of the USA and Sir Keir Stamer our PM. Each with a full term.
Police sent six uniformed officers to arrest two parents who complained about their school on a WhatsApp group
Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were put in a cell for eight hours by Hertfordshire police after sending emails to their primary school and making criticisms of the leadership on WhatsApp
They were questioned on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications
I wonder what they were saying. You do get some really vile parents.
A bit of fun on a Friday night. Which would you prefer. A. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes President of the USA and Nigel Farage our PM. B. Mr. J.D.Vance President of the USA and Sir Keir Stamer our PM. Each with a full term.
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
Yes, if they want one within the next thirty years, why would they ask us ?
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
Yes, if they want one within the next thirty years, why would they ask us ?
Just cause it takes us 30 years to build a runway here doesnt mean they cant do it quicker in pakistan
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.
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.
No, no no.
What you need is a drama set up in an investigative team in the City with a feisty, charismatic female lawyer in charge of a team of brilliant oddballs, police-style work, some of it involving the actual police, lots of thrilling romans-a-clef plot lines involving, ooh, I dunno, a Scottish bank, some politicians and a takeover going disastrously wrong, crooked traders, US and Swiss banks involved in Italian corruption cases with Sicilian cement manufacturers, whistleblowings about the Vatican bank, the discovery that a bank has hired the son of a Ukrainian mafioso with close links to the Kremlin, the salesman doing some insider dealing through a Franco-Lebanese bank with close links to some very disreputable Middle Eastern politicians and so on.
It will shed a new perspective on lawyers, investigators, finance and politics and all through some interesting characters. Not yer usual City blokes snorting coke - such a cliche. I have the plot lines, character names and quickie portraits of their foibles.
What we need is a thriller writer. One who can also add some exotic sex for some of the characters. Now where might we find such a person?
"If an enemy fired a missile on the U.S., it would be the American soldiers at the Greenland base who would alert their countrymen".
Really?
Don't most strategic nukes follow a trans polar trajectory?
South pole if they’re being really tricksy.
Vance, as usual, is spouting bollocks in his charmless way.
Which highlights the importance of Trump's charisma to the whole MAGA operation. Trump has been spouting similar charmless bollocks for over a decade. But he does it in a way that has got him to the White House twice. Take away the rizz (as I understand the young people call it), and the curtain falls away pretty quickly.
Thank goodness that Trump's particular talent is so rare, or humanity would never get anything good done.
A bit of fun on a Friday night. Which would you prefer. A. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes President of the USA and Nigel Farage our PM. B. Mr. J.D.Vance President of the USA and Sir Keir Stamer our PM. Each with a full term.
I’d rather neither, but if those are the only two choices, then A without hesitation.
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more ignorant and rude senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
To give him his due, I don't think Farage is anywhere near as bad as Vance. He's certainly not as rude, and his instinct is to punch up rather than down.
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.
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.
No, no no.
What you need is a drama set up in an investigative team in the City with a feisty, charismatic female lawyer in charge of a team of brilliant oddballs, police-style work, some of it involving the actual police, lots of thrilling romans-a-clef plot lines involving, ooh, I dunno, a Scottish bank, some politicians and a takeover going disastrously wrong, crooked traders, US and Swiss banks involved in Italian corruption cases with Sicilian cement manufacturers, whistleblowings about the Vatican bank, the discovery that a bank has hired the son of a Ukrainian mafioso with close links to the Kremlin, the salesman doing some insider dealing through a Franco-Lebanese bank with close links to some very disreputable Middle Eastern politicians and so on.
It will shed a new perspective on lawyers, investigators, finance and politics and all through some interesting characters. Not yer usual City blokes snorting coke - such a cliche. I have the plot lines, character names and quickie portraits of their foibles.
What we need is a thriller writer. One who can also add some exotic sex for some of the characters. Now where might we find such a person?
Last seen getting himself worked up over something on the internet. Maybe he should heed the warning of that Spectator columnist who ended up in hospital that way.
(((Harry Enten))) @ForecasterEnten · 4h Just 6% of Greenlanders want to join the United States. There are more people who think we faked the moon landing (~10%).
85% of Greenlanders are opposed.
Meanwhile, less than 30% of Americans want Greenland to join the U.S.
A bit of fun on a Friday night. Which would you prefer. A. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes President of the USA and Nigel Farage our PM. B. Mr. J.D.Vance President of the USA and Sir Keir Stamer our PM. Each with a full term.
A. I feel like Farage would get captured by the institutions of state fairly easily, he's not that anti-establishment and his Putin apologism would have to be abandoned, and AOC would, unlike Trump and the supine GOP, be constrained by Congress and the Courts.
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.
Well, that is because they are boring. Court is where the action is and we are way sexier than office based bureaucrats (sorry, my wife's laughter is distracting me).
"If an enemy fired a missile on the U.S., it would be the American soldiers at the Greenland base who would alert their countrymen".
Really?
Don't most strategic nukes follow a trans polar trajectory?
South pole if they’re being really tricksy.
Vance, as usual, is spouting bollocks in his charmless way.
Which highlights the importance of Trump's charisma to the whole MAGA operation. Trump has been spouting similar charmless bollocks for over a decade. But he does it in a way that has got him to the White House twice. Take away the rizz (as I understand the young people call it), and the curtain falls away pretty quickly.
Thank goodness that Trump's particular talent is so rare, or humanity would never get anything good done.
I don't understand it in the least, but Trump really does lead and captured the GOP base then establishment heart and soul.
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
Yes, if they want one within the next thirty years, why would they ask us ?
A quick google tells me there are 43 species of bat in Pakistan, a British run operation wouldn't stand a chance.
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.
Well, that is because they are boring. Court is where the action is and we are way sexier than office based bureaucrats (sorry, my wife's laughter is distracting me).
Suits with the Duchess of Sussex had its lawyers going to court pretty rarely. Of course law stuff is just backdrop for personal drama in those kind of shows, so not really legal dramas really.
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.
Well, that is because they are boring. Court is where the action is and we are way sexier than office based bureaucrats (sorry, my wife's laughter is distracting me).
You could do an upstairs/downstairs thing where the downstairs part is populated by legal secretaries at a mid-sized provincial law firm with all the bitchiness that entails.
I've just watched JD Vance speak to the Greenlanders. Can anyone think of a more ignorant and rude senior politician in recent years with the possible exception of Farage?
To give him his due, I don't think Farage is anywhere near as bad as Vance. He's certainly not as rude, and his instinct is to punch up rather than down.
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
They must be desperate. Don't they know we can't even get another runway at Heathrow?
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.
So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
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.
Well, that is because they are boring. Court is where the action is and we are way sexier than office based bureaucrats (sorry, my wife's laughter is distracting me).
Suits with the Duchess of Sussex had its lawyers going to court pretty rarely. Of course law stuff is just backdrop for personal drama in those kind of shows, so not really legal dramas really.
I quite enjoyed Suits although the premise underlying it was fairly absurd.
LA Law was the best lawyer program ever. Susan Dey. Oh my word.
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.
So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
I don’t think she’s likely to be on anyone’s radar as a dissident.
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Fond memories though.
Before AI kicks in, not the current LLM versions, I suspect the next set of changes may be driven by biotech, things like super soldiers or gene editing to produce superior and dominant humans for the elite. Eventually I think it will be AI but that is further down the road.
"The central detective always has a shedload of personal issues and is fundamentally unable to form any meaningful romantic relationships."
Actually applies to most of us. The average marriage length in the uk is now 12 years
Accountancy (esp chartered) does tap into some fundamental truths about life.
Police sent six uniformed officers to arrest two parents who complained about their school on a WhatsApp group
Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were put in a cell for eight hours by Hertfordshire police after sending emails to their primary school and making criticisms of the leadership on WhatsApp
They were questioned on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications
How do you tell the difference between an auditor and a computer? The computer's the one with the personality.
Not revoking a visa and deporting to a state where she is liable to face torture
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1905705215862657309
Twenty (20) members of parliament have called for Britain to help build an INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT in Pakistan to help closen our ties with the Mirpuri community.
‘The Kashmiri diaspora in the UK […] have concerns regarding the journey times by road’
NEW: @FT obtained new US proposal. The Trump admin is pushing to gain sweeping control over all of Ukraine’s major minerals and energy assets, while offering Kyiv no security guarantees, in an aggressive expansion of previous demands
https://nitter.poast.org/ChristopherJM/status/1905297287221272735#m
The latest U.S. proposal essentially turns Ukraine from a sovereign country to the property of a Delaware corporation, which would have monopoly rights over its natural resources and all infrastructure, and the power to inspect all its government offices, until the end of time. Inspired by King Leopold’s Congo. Obviously there is zero chance Ukraine will accept this.
https://nitter.poast.org/yarotrof/status/1905325879091466511#m
Point 7 makes me chuckle a bit though
Exclusive: What do we know about the new Syrian government?
1- A transitional government of 22 ministers
2- The first government since the fall of Assad
3- It will be announced on Saturday evening, March 29
4- It will not include a prime minister. The political system is presidential, according to the new constitutional declaration
5- It will have a Secretary-General for the Council of Ministers
6- The government will include Arab and Kurdish ministers, Christians and Muslims, Sunnis, Alawites, and Druze
7- It will include businessmen, technocrats, and qualified graduates of Western universities
8- It will include at least one minister who served under Bashar al-Assad and then defected in 2011
9- It will include at least one woman
10- The ministers of defense, foreign affairs, justice, and interior. Sovereign portfolios will be assigned to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
11- Current Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir is expected to assume a ministerial portfolio
12- A new governor for the Central Bank of Syria. Candidate Abdul Qader Hasriyya
13- A new bodies will be announced and will be subordinate to the presidency
14- The government will not include political blocs
15- it will not include representatives from SDF
https://nitter.poast.org/ibrahimhamidi/status/1905331952325971972#m
Need to last another 4 years for another one at 65 years of marriage !!!!!
Letters, twigs and pebbles will be allowed
What a dick
Though the US Director of National Intelligence would disagree Assad was that bad.
This all sounds a bit New Deal to this observer - pay one man to dig a hole and another to fill it in again. Few would argue the wisdom of long term capital expenditure on infrastructure and even housing and few have questionned borrowing to fund these capital projects.
If that is the definition of being a supply side progressive, I could be one but every time I hear "supply side" over here, it usually means tax and some notions of reducing regulation which are rarely if at all well defined.
"If an enemy fired a missile on the U.S., it would be the American soldiers at the Greenland base who would alert their countrymen".
Really?
He has a point about Denmark not doing enough to keep Greenland safe from aggressive incursions. Him for example.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/trumps-secret-police-are-now-disappearing-students-for-their-op-eds/
Yep, one out of two is pretty good,
Vance, as usual, is spouting bollocks in his charmless way.
You... do see? The Canadians. It all hangs together if you just stop thinking.
A. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes President of the USA and Nigel Farage our PM.
B. Mr. J.D.Vance President of the USA and Sir Keir Stamer our PM.
Each with a full term.
https://www.hertsmerelibdems.org.uk/our-team/bushey-park
Here he’s talking about the incident with screenshots of what was said:
https://x.com/timesradio/status/1905693691416883419
What you need is a drama set up in an investigative team in the City with a feisty, charismatic female lawyer in charge of a team of brilliant oddballs, police-style work, some of it involving the actual police, lots of thrilling romans-a-clef plot lines involving, ooh, I dunno, a Scottish bank, some politicians and a takeover going disastrously wrong, crooked traders, US and Swiss banks involved in Italian corruption cases with Sicilian cement manufacturers, whistleblowings about the Vatican bank, the discovery that a bank has hired the son of a Ukrainian mafioso with close links to the Kremlin, the salesman doing some insider dealing through a Franco-Lebanese bank with close links to some very disreputable Middle Eastern politicians and so on.
It will shed a new perspective on lawyers, investigators, finance and politics and all through some interesting characters. Not yer usual City blokes snorting coke - such a cliche. I have the plot lines, character names and quickie portraits of their foibles.
What we need is a thriller writer. One who can also add some exotic sex for some of the characters. Now where might we find such a person?
Thank goodness that Trump's particular talent is so rare, or humanity would never get anything good done.
My favourite Tuba Skinny track
There's a guy playing the washboard. And I met the chap on the clarinet, Ewan Bleach, about fifteen years ago at a few gigs in London
https://youtu.be/hTainjvzeoI
https://x.com/reformparty_uk/status/1905714704439554223?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Arron Banks...has been announced as Reform’s candidate for West of England Mayor. Banks says in his campaign video he had a look at what the mayor has done and concluded he has “achieved nothing.
https://order-order.com/2025/03/28/reform-announces-arron-banks-as-candidate-for-west-of-england-mayor/
Edit: Apparently TUD and I are the most dialled in to Reform social media, naturally.
I cannot imagine him attacking Zelensky in person in the same way that Vance did, particularly from a position of power inside the White House.
LA Law was the best lawyer program ever. Susan Dey. Oh my word.
But if @Leon can't be arsed, it'll have to be the sober non-fiction version.
Sigh....!