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  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    malcolmg said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

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

    Fond memories though.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • ChrisChris Posts: 11,867

    Trump just posted a glitzy film segment on X about how US helped Greenland in WW2 and now they must stand together because of "Russian aggression".

    I mean WTAF??



    We are probably missing some history on this side of the Atlantic.

    The US pushed for sovereignty post WWII too. Suspect Trumps father and/or Roy Cohn were big fans of that and annoyed it didnt happen.

    https://apnews.com/article/9d4a8021c3650800fdf6dd5903f68972
    Yes, that would make perfect sense of Trump annexing Greenland.
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,994
    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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%
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995
    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
    Errr, divorce rates in the UK have collapsed.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    malcolmg said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • rottenboroughrottenborough Posts: 65,022
    malcolmg said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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?
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 623
    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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.
  • noneoftheabovenoneoftheabove Posts: 24,005
    edited March 28
    Pagan2 said:

    Andy_JS said:

    "How History Begins Again
    A Point of View

    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.'"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00290fh

    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.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995

    Andy_JS said:

    "How History Begins Again
    A Point of View

    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.'"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00290fh

    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.
    Also, that wasn't Fukuyama's contention.
  • 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?
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Pagan2 said:

    malcolmg said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,994

    malcolmg said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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.
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520

    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    https://x.com/steven_swinford/status/1905698663911030790

    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
  • malcolmgmalcolmg Posts: 43,994
    kinabalu said:

    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    kinabalu said:

    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 3,310
    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,581

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    An incredible letter:

    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’
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    glw said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @erichaywood.bsky.social‬

    Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.

    I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

    https://bsky.app/profile/erichaywood.bsky.social/post/3llhadmbv322t

    If the UK needs someone to tell Donald Trump to fuck off I'm fairly sure I could manage that job.
    Where is lee harvey oswald when you need him
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,581
    Pagan2 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Pagan2 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,581
    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

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

  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    glw said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @erichaywood.bsky.social‬

    Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.

    I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

    https://bsky.app/profile/erichaywood.bsky.social/post/3llhadmbv322t

    If the UK needs someone to tell Donald Trump to fuck off I'm fairly sure I could manage that job.
    50m applicants if the position were to be advertised.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    kinabalu said:

    glw said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @erichaywood.bsky.social‬

    Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.

    I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

    https://bsky.app/profile/erichaywood.bsky.social/post/3llhadmbv322t

    If the UK needs someone to tell Donald Trump to fuck off I'm fairly sure I could manage that job.
    50m applicants if the position were to be advertised.
    Hmm more adults than that by a few million we really have that many accountants?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    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
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    kle4 said:

    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

    Point 7 indicates syria is toast
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995
    kle4 said:

    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.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,308
    kle4 said:

    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.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Pagan2 said:

    malcolmg said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    RobD said:

    kle4 said:

    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....
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    rcs1000 said:

    kle4 said:

    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.
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,200
    I'm looking forward to Starmer's ban on sticks and stones. And words

    Letters, twigs and pebbles will be allowed
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,880
    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    malcolmg said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
    And you are correct
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    kle4 said:

    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.
  • Scott_xPScott_xP Posts: 37,401
    JD Vance

    What a dick
  • kinabalukinabalu Posts: 44,520
    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    glw said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @erichaywood.bsky.social‬

    Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.

    I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

    https://bsky.app/profile/erichaywood.bsky.social/post/3llhadmbv322t

    If the UK needs someone to tell Donald Trump to fuck off I'm fairly sure I could manage that job.
    50m applicants if the position were to be advertised.
    Hmm more adults than that by a few million we really have that many accountants?
    50m is my estimate of UK adults minus Reform supporters.
  • StillWatersStillWaters Posts: 9,581
    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,557

    Pagan2 said:

    malcolmg said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Battlebus said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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 :-)
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,256
    edited March 28
    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?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    kinabalu said:

    kle4 said:

    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.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    Roger said:

    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.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844


    (((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.

    I've rarely seen anything so unpopular.

    https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1905634237639688413

    Wait until the midterms.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,557
    Pagan2 said:

    glw said:

    Scott_xP said:

    @erichaywood.bsky.social‬

    Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.

    I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

    https://bsky.app/profile/erichaywood.bsky.social/post/3llhadmbv322t

    If the UK needs someone to tell Donald Trump to fuck off I'm fairly sure I could manage that job.
    Where is lee harvey oswald when you need him
    On the moon. With the Pope. Celebrating their win over Princess Di. If I remember my Weekly World News headline correctly.
  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,381
    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.
  • Big_G_NorthWalesBig_G_NorthWales Posts: 64,880
    Roger said:

    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995
    JD Vance:

    "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?
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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?
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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?

    They can't just rely on Sarah Palin seeing it and picking up the phone.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,557
    Andy_JS said:

    "How History Begins Again
    A Point of View

    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.'"

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00290fh

    I do like an optimist.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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.
    Yes, I enjoyed it a lot.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,948
    Roger said:

    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.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

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

    https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/trumps-secret-police-are-now-disappearing-students-for-their-op-eds/
  • glwglw Posts: 10,290
    Roger said:

    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.
  • Daveyboy1961Daveyboy1961 Posts: 4,422

    https://x.com/steven_swinford/status/1905698663911030790

    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.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    kinabalu said:

    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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,
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Nigelb said:

    kinabalu said:

    rcs1000 said:

    kinabalu said:

    Pagan2 said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844
    Pagan2 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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.
  • ohnotnowohnotnow Posts: 4,557
    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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?

    Canadians are sneaky, you see.

    You... do see? The Canadians. It all hangs together if you just stop thinking.
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 58,995
    Pagan2 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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?
    Well, I suspect the blooms from the (multiple) rocket launch would be the first thing that would be noticed.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Nigelb said:

    Pagan2 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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.
    Would make sense I guess if the enemy they fear is the uk and france our missiles might overfly greenland
  • gettingbettergettingbetter Posts: 578
    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.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    rcs1000 said:

    Pagan2 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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?
    Well, I suspect the blooms from the (multiple) rocket launch would be the first thing that would be noticed.
    Well the monitors maybe brain zonked on twinkies
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435
    edited March 28

    https://x.com/steven_swinford/status/1905698663911030790

    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.
    He's a Lib Dem councillor:

    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
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656

    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.

    Can we go with C?
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,948
    edited March 28
    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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?

    Possibly? Fylingdales and Clear cover some of the same area.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,656
    Nigelb said:

    An incredible letter:

    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’

    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
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,159
    Nigelb said:

    Pagan2 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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.
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 75,844

    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.
  • BlancheLivermoreBlancheLivermore Posts: 6,200
    I get the blues

    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
  • RogerRoger Posts: 20,256
    Eabhal said:

    Roger said:

    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.
    https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=farage+turns+his+back+on+the+eu+in+parliament#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c29f2609,vid:Fp3VnGMPOhE,st:0
  • StuartinromfordStuartinromford Posts: 18,159
    Cyclefree said:

    kinabalu said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    This whole tv legal drama thing is getting stale. What I'd like to see for a change (and I think I speak for many) is something focused on an Accountancy practice. There's plenty of thrills and spills there, I can assure you. So let's get a top writing team on that. It can still be set in Glasgow if that's deemed important.
    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.
  • solarflaresolarflare Posts: 3,871


    (((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.

    I've rarely seen anything so unpopular.

    https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1905634237639688413

    What percentage of Greenlanders think the US faked JD Vance?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    edited March 28

    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.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,907

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    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).
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256

    Nigelb said:

    Pagan2 said:

    rcs1000 said:

    JD Vance:

    "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.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    Nigelb said:

    An incredible letter:

    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’

    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.
  • bigglesbiggles Posts: 6,735
    Scott_xP said:

    JD Vance

    What a dick

    How have you seen it? Is he on Onlyfans?
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    DavidL said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    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.
  • FossFoss Posts: 1,339
    DavidL said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    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.
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,256
    edited March 28
    Like most mayoralties? Especially with all of England going to get them.

    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.
  • EabhalEabhal Posts: 9,948
    Roger said:

    Eabhal said:

    Roger said:

    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.
    https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=farage+turns+his+back+on+the+eu+in+parliament#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c29f2609,vid:Fp3VnGMPOhE,st:0
    Exactly. He's making a childish gesture against an establishment bureacracy, and he always comes across as a bit embarrassed by himself.

    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.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,907

    An incredible letter:

    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’

    They must be desperate. Don't they know we can't even get another runway at Heathrow?
  • MexicanpeteMexicanpete Posts: 30,869

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    So she gets sent back to the tenth floor french windows.
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,907
    edited March 28
    kle4 said:

    DavidL said:

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

    Counsels will follow "five young lawyers who once trained together at one of Scotland’s elite law schools, but are now scattered across the profession and find themselves facing each other in the courts of Glasgow".

    "Some will rise to the top, while others risk losing everything as their careers teeter on the edge when they lock horns in their biggest cases yet," the Beeb said in a press release.

    Counsels' "ambitious lawyers must navigate a legal battlefield where their friendships begin to fracture, love affairs crumble, and the fight for justice threatens to tear them all apart."

    Sadly, it means the vital work of transactional lawyers in non-contentious roles, poring over documents for hours on end, will continue to go ignored by the telly people.


    https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/bbc-capture-glossy-high-octane-world-glasgow-lawyers

    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.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 54,435

    Taz said:

    EU plans concessions to the Trumpdozer after tariffs - Bloomberg

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

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

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

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html
    It sounds like she screwed up by trying to bring something into the country that she shouldn't have and is just using the war critic angle in a bid for sympathy.
    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.
  • CyclefreeCyclefree Posts: 25,590
    And those plot lines are real.

    But if @Leon can't be arsed, it'll have to be the sober non-fiction version.

    Sigh....!
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