Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
She's 49. You don't get to look that different at that age without some kind of work having been done, or illness or dental work (or Ozempic?). I genuinely thought she was a different actress
You take that back. She's not been able to do anything wrong in my eyes since she played that substitute English teacher with the slightly too tight sweater in Spooks.
Oi, I saw her first in 1997 in the video for “She’s a star” by James. Hands off.
I was rewatching an old Gomez video a while back :
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
She's 49. You don't get to look that different at that age without some kind of work having been done, or illness or dental work (or Ozempic?). I genuinely thought she was a different actress
DI Alex Drake.
She looks fine, but not like she’s enhanced
"Enhanced?" No. But she looks different, and not normal aging different. I've had another look and it doesn't look like cosmetic surgery (except possibly buccal fat removal?), more weight loss: her cheekbones are more prominent: indeed most of the skull. Her neck is going too, which is unusual for a woman her age. It's not the saggy look you get with aging, more like underskin fat removal, hence me thinking Ozempic/dental work/illness.
Season 1 is very very rewatchable I find. I don't know what it is, but it works a lot better than 2 and 3 (though I did like Jim Keats). Perhaps it just felt more like 1981 than seasons 2 and 3 (which didn't feel quite right for me).
The main trouble with Ashes to Ashes was that it seemed she was ALWAYS right, whereas in Life on Mars sometimes Tyler was, sometimes Gene Hunt was.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Is there another word for the destruction of an energy resource so that it cannot be used, even in extremis, other than sabotage?
You’ve never encountered cementing a plug into a well? I thought you were a fan of oil and gas?
I'm a fan, but I have never claimed expertise. If the plug is a necessary feature of ceasing to use the well and allows use to resume when necessary, I withdraw the comment.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
She's 49. You don't get to look that different at that age without some kind of work having been done, or illness or dental work (or Ozempic?). I genuinely thought she was a different actress
DI Alex Drake.
She looks fine, but not like she’s enhanced
"Enhanced?" No. But she looks different, and not normal aging different. I've had another look and it doesn't look like cosmetic surgery (except possibly buccal fat removal?), more weight loss: her cheekbones are more prominent: indeed most of the skull. Her neck is going too, which is unusual for a woman her age. It's not the saggy look you get with aging, more like underskin fat removal, hence me thinking Ozempic/dental work/illness.
Season 1 is very very rewatchable I find. I don't know what it is, but it works a lot better than 2 and 3 (though I did like Jim Keats). Perhaps it just felt more like 1981 than seasons 2 and 3 (which didn't feel quite right for me).
My guess at the time was we were watching the writers get older. Life on Mars was based on a pastiche of 1970s series like The Sweeney. Ashes to Ashes was based in the 1980s and more grounded in real events.
So maybe the writers were children in the 1970s and watched the 1980s on the news.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Pretty much saying what they were doing by stealth.
Loads of productive land will also be removed due to the increasingly prolific number of solar farms being approved. A lot of these will be done via rental agreements rather than energy companies buying the land
The land that is so productive that farms will go under without the inheritance tax relief, so the farmers claim?
The IHT stuff is a lottery, if you are young enough you can shift it across to the next generation now and live 7 years, put it into partnership or ltd company, use your wife/partner to transfer a share, there are plenty of options. Older farmers who have hung onto assets til they are 80 plus, or seriously ill are the ones who will be most at risk to the IHT change.
One of farmings biggest threats to its future is the younger generation wanting easier, better paid jobs for the amount of effort they put in. There will be a sea change in both attitude and farming over the next 20 years
With productive land, I'd argue you've slightly more options what to do. You can't build a new town 2000 feet up in the Pennines
The farm IHT should have been phased in over 7 years to enable farmers to carry out some tax planning. Re the Pennines, Buxton and Alston say hello. Is there anywhere on the Pennines with a large enough area over 2000 feet to build a town?
It's not been the best thought out policy since Starmer came in, but fortunately for Labour there are significantly fewer farmers in the country than either pensioners or welfare claimants. I didn't think they'd change tack in October, they definitely won't now.
Saying that some families have particularly difficult individual sets of circumstances, accidents and illness at a young age, single parents etc so will be hit by this much harder. If a farmer is 85 and still fully holding onto the reins with family working in tow, why didn't they transfer assets earlier? This was an obvious target for an incoming Labour government
It's the randomness of who it affects which should be the real discussion point.
Apologies my point about the height was more about the limits to land use higher up. I didn't expect Steve Reed to be so direct today, I think there will be a lot of continuing stock reduction off the hills by stealth over the next decade to 15 years, as older farmers sell up or retire. The hills still need to be managed either way.
There's a clear population shift away from large parts of remote rural areas in the UK, second homes, housing costs, lack of jobs, more money and better lifestyles for youngsters all playing a big part
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
She was a fabulous actress. I saw her once walking down (afair) Oxford Street - massive grin on her face - and very well aware of the little group of fans who were walking behind her too afraid to catch up and ask for autographs.
Just reading her Wikipedia page now :
"Her obituary in The Times read that "She could and should have achieved so much more. At Rada she was considered one of the most promising thespians of her generation by contemporaries such as Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt" but that her mental illness had "blighted her career""
Tragic - but she did seem to get a hell of a lot of kicks out of life.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP · 28m I am dreadfully sorry to lose Zarah from the Labour Party. The people running Labour at the moment need to ask themselves why a young, articulate, talented, extremely dedicated socialist feels she now has no home in the Labour Party and has to leave.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
All those hard left types who joined the Greens in last two months in order to elect Polanski and create the new new Left party vehicle now looking a bit stupid surely?
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
She's 49. You don't get to look that different at that age without some kind of work having been done, or illness or dental work (or Ozempic?). I genuinely thought she was a different actress
DI Alex Drake.
She looks fine, but not like she’s enhanced
"Enhanced?" No. But she looks different, and not normal aging different. I've had another look and it doesn't look like cosmetic surgery (except possibly buccal fat removal?), more weight loss: her cheekbones are more prominent: indeed most of the skull. Her neck is going too, which is unusual for a woman her age. It's not the saggy look you get with aging, more like underskin fat removal, hence me thinking Ozempic/dental work/illness.
Season 1 is very very rewatchable I find. I don't know what it is, but it works a lot better than 2 and 3 (though I did like Jim Keats). Perhaps it just felt more like 1981 than seasons 2 and 3 (which didn't feel quite right for me).
The main trouble with Ashes to Ashes was that it seemed she was ALWAYS right, whereas in Life on Mars sometimes Tyler was, sometimes Gene Hunt was.
I've just rewatched both series and much preferred Life on Mars which was contrary to my previous recollection. Firstly Life on Mars has a far better feeling for the time period than Ashes to Ashes. In the scene where Sam watches his mum at a family wedding I can almost smell the beer and dry roast peanuts in the local hall. Ashes to Ashes feels like the 80s filtered through action movies and music videos. Also if you strip away the time travelling stuff Life on Mars just works as a good old fashioned police procedural I'm the Sweeny mould. Ashes to Ashes was a master class in how to successfully end a series though. The finale still makes me emotional.
I know I joke about this with ‘memo to Kemi’ but whenever a Conservative frontbencher complains about Labour, it turns out it was the blue team wot dunnit. Every single time.
John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP · 28m I am dreadfully sorry to lose Zarah from the Labour Party. The people running Labour at the moment need to ask themselves why a young, articulate, talented, extremely dedicated socialist feels she now has no home in the Labour Party and has to leave.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
All those hard left types who joined the Greens in last two months in order to elect Polanski and create the new new Left party vehicle now looking a bit stupid surely?
The more the party system splits, the more attention should be paid to two features: The geographical 'pact' of Labour and LD who split the seats about 530/100 as to who is the main challenger to Reform and the Tories, which is an electoral sweet spot. And the increasing chance that the Tories and Reform have a fork in the road to come; the choice between an electoral pact or the chance of each destroying the chances of the other by both standing in each seat, taking up to 60% of the votes and still losing to Labour on 35%.
I know I joke about this with ‘memo to Kemi’ but whenever a Conservative frontbencher complains about Labour, it turns out it was the blue team wot dunnit. Every single time.
Except that like (probably) most of your posts, it turns out to be incorrect.
EXCLUSIVE: I understand Jeremy Corbyn has not agreed to join the new left party with Zarah Sultana yet
He is furious and bewildered at the way it has been launched without consultation.
As I posted earlier. Jumped the gun?
It would be exciting if the New Left party with its two members could manage to split before it's been launched. They're seeing what fun Reform and Advance and Reclaim and the like are having and want a bit of the action.
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
It’s simply good public policy to minimise the number of people wandering around who have psychological issues liable to make them commit random acts of violence.
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
"Lord Lipsey had previously worked as a journalist for The Sunday Times, New Society and The Economist and co-founded the short-lived Sunday Correspondent in 1988.
He was awarded a life peerage by former PM Tony Blair in 1999, and is credited with coining the phrases "New Labour" and "winter of discontent"."
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Yes, as in soccer player Phil but with one less ‘b’
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
The youth prefer "Bub". A shame.
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Yes, as in soccer player Phil but with one less ‘b’
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
The youth prefer "Bub". A shame.
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Jess Philips is a middle class grammar school girl. I was in the same year as her at school - well, the boys school next door. I suspect, though cannot prove, that she is full of affectations.
Surprisingly common. Moderately famous local historian Carl Chinn speaks awfully posh in real life, for example.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Yes, as in soccer player Phil but with one less ‘b’
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
The youth prefer "Bub". A shame.
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
So not a shortened version of Barbara.
No, short for baby. When another child is born, bab is simply transferred...
I know I joke about this with ‘memo to Kemi’ but whenever a Conservative frontbencher complains about Labour, it turns out it was the blue team wot dunnit. Every single time.
Except that like (probably) most of your posts, it turns out to be incorrect.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
My Mam informed me last week that it changed from Mam to Mum in Wigan between my birth and my brother's three and half years later. It's still very much Mam up here.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Yes, as in soccer player Phil but with one less ‘b’
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
The youth prefer "Bub". A shame.
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
I wonder if the American Mom originates from the Brummie. It certainly doesn’t seem to come from any other European languages that I’m aware of.
My daughter insists on calling her mother “Mama” despite now being on the cusp of secondary school. She doesn’t call me Papa though, which is disappointing for someone who grew up on Renault Clio ads.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Yes, as in soccer player Phil but with one less ‘b’
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
The youth prefer "Bub". A shame.
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
I wonder if the American Mom originates from the Brummie. It certainly doesn’t seem to come from any other European languages that I’m aware of.
My daughter insists on calling her mother “Mama” despite now being on the cusp of secondary school. She doesn’t call me Papa though, which is disappointing for someone who grew up on Renault Clio ads.
I would suggest to her to drop that before going to university. Merciless teasing would result, even at the poshest institution.
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
It’s simply good public policy to minimise the number of people wandering around who have psychological issues liable to make them commit random acts of violence.
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
What we don't need are policies of going after groups you don't like while pardoning groups you do like. Trump pardoned 1500 Jan 6 rioters. Was that good public policy? At least one death has resulted from this, as well as various crimes (burglary, child pornography, sexual assault, etc.).
A very instructive poll, because it explains the Green party’s current high vote share despite their total lack of media coverage, meaningful policy or direction. They are what Reform would be if there were no Farage.
Also hints at the persistent role of the SNP as repository for disaffected lefties north of the Border.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Jess Philips is a middle class grammar school girl. I was in the same year as her at school - well, the boys school next door. I suspect, though cannot prove, that she is full of affectations.
Surprisingly common. Moderately famous local historian Carl Chinn speaks awfully posh in real life, for example.
I’m well aware the authentic voice of the working class (sic) and self proclaimed daughter of a single mom is very middle class and from a well heeled background. She’s hardly our Ange. I always got the impression with her the ‘mom’ and ‘bab” and the other stuff was somewhat forced.
She’s also my sisters MP.
I saw Black Sabbath on the news earlier. A few of them still have the accent.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
My Mam informed me last week that it changed from Mam to Mum in Wigan between my birth and my brother's three and half years later. It's still very much Mam up here.
My mother in law realised she was being scammed after she had a text, purportedly, from her son with a new number as he’d ’lost his phone’.
She realised it was not kosher as the scammer said ‘mum’ not ‘mama’
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Yes, as in soccer player Phil but with one less ‘b’
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
The youth prefer "Bub". A shame.
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
So not a shortened version of Barbara.
No, short for baby. When another child is born, bab is simply transferred...
Like how Queen Victoria called Princess Beatrice "baby".
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
It’s simply good public policy to minimise the number of people wandering around who have psychological issues liable to make them commit random acts of violence.
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
What we don't need are policies of going after groups you don't like while pardoning groups you do like. Trump pardoned 1500 Jan 6 rioters. Was that good public policy? At least one death has resulted from this, as well as various crimes (burglary, child pornography, sexual assault, etc.).
According to this argument Starmer was wrong to let people out of prison (resulting in at least one death) to make space for rioters.
How do we get back to a world where politicians could say "I hate you, but we're still allies"? It was horribly imperfect, but better than this.
When they are treated as allies and not as a foreign body to be walled off and triangulated around. Starmer’s treated the left terribly. Its been lies, chicanery and expulsion since he was elected by them. Imagine expecting their votes now.
Unless Reform win and Zia Yusuf launches a coup to make himself Prime Minister instead.
At this rate, voters are going to have a party each. "I don't like any of them" will be a thing of the past.
And why not. Let’s get on with reforming our voting system to STV and we can enjoy a profusion of parties, which can set out in public their policy positions and then do the grown up thing and compromise - in public - once the votes are in an a coalition is needed.
Then we can wave farewell to interminable leadership contests and voters having to choose the least worst option, and we can get some innovation and experimentation into policy formation.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Yes, as in soccer player Phil but with one less ‘b’
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
The youth prefer "Bub". A shame.
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
I wonder if the American Mom originates from the Brummie. It certainly doesn’t seem to come from any other European languages that I’m aware of.
My daughter insists on calling her mother “Mama” despite now being on the cusp of secondary school. She doesn’t call me Papa though, which is disappointing for someone who grew up on Renault Clio ads.
In the West of Scotland, Papa is your grandfather. Your grandmother is Nana.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Jess Philips is a middle class grammar school girl. I was in the same year as her at school - well, the boys school next door. I suspect, though cannot prove, that she is full of affectations.
Surprisingly common. Moderately famous local historian Carl Chinn speaks awfully posh in real life, for example.
Philips went to the greatest university in the country and so how she pronounces Mum is of no consequence.
I know I joke about this with ‘memo to Kemi’ but whenever a Conservative frontbencher complains about Labour, it turns out it was the blue team wot dunnit. Every single time.
Except that like (probably) most of your posts, it turns out to be incorrect.
Feb 2022 - ordered to plug the wells Court cases to avoid doing so kick off Feb 2025 - with all court options exhausted they finally start fulfilling the order of Boris's Government.
You really do seem to have laser focus on any part of the story that matches your bias while attempting to get people to seeing the complete story...
Edit to add and from the last link - you seem to have missed this bit from your "it was Labour" argument...
“In August 2023 the UK business received notice from the Regulator requiring plug and abandoning of the two Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas exploration wells by the end of calendar year 2024. In December 2024 that deadline was extended by the Regulator to end June 2025. We are putting plans in place to comply with that instruction.”
A very instructive poll, because it explains the Green party’s current high vote share despite their total lack of media coverage, meaningful policy or direction. They are what Reform would be if there were no Farage.
Also hints at the persistent role of the SNP as repository for disaffected lefties north of the Border.
It also implies that a lot of Greens are watermelons. From those figures Polanski is on for a landslide.
The various independents and perhaps the Greens and Sultana have the potential for an electoral pact.
I know I joke about this with ‘memo to Kemi’ but whenever a Conservative frontbencher complains about Labour, it turns out it was the blue team wot dunnit. Every single time.
Except that like (probably) most of your posts, it turns out to be incorrect.
Feb 2022 - ordered to plug the wells Court cases to avoid doing so kick off Feb 2025 - with all court options exhausted they finally start fulfilling the order of Boris's Government.
You really do seem to have laser focus on any part of the story that matches your bias while attempting to get people to seeing the complete story...
Edit to add and from the last link - you seem to have missed this bit from your "it was Labour" argument...
“In August 2023 the UK business received notice from the Regulator requiring plug and abandoning of the two Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas exploration wells by the end of calendar year 2024. In December 2024 that deadline was extended by the Regulator to end June 2025. We are putting plans in place to comply with that instruction.”
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
For Midlander's it's mum.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Nonsense. I’m from Brum, it’s Mom. It always has been certainly where I grew up. West Mids is Mom. Jess Phillips even raised it in Parliament. She uses Mom a lot and also Bab.
Labour launch ten year nhs plan which will touch all our lives to varying degrees and BBC leads the main news on a footballer dying in a car crash and an investigation into illegal cigarettes.
Labour launch ten year nhs plan which will touch all our lives to varying degrees and BBC leads the main news on a footballer dying in a car crash and an investigation into illegal cigarettes.
No wonder our democracy is on life support.
I don't think the public believes the NHS is affected by anything other than funding, sadly.
How do we get back to a world where politicians could say "I hate you, but we're still allies"? It was horribly imperfect, but better than this.
When they are treated as allies and not as a foreign body to be walled off and triangulated around. Starmer’s treated the left terribly. Its been lies, chicanery and expulsion since he was elected by them. Imagine expecting their votes now.
The left are probably getting annoyed because they can anticipate that at the next election they're going to be presented with the choice "Vote Starmer or get Farage" and they find the idea of that choice rather unpalatable (understandably so).
A very instructive poll, because it explains the Green party’s current high vote share despite their total lack of media coverage, meaningful policy or direction. They are what Reform would be if there were no Farage.
Also hints at the persistent role of the SNP as repository for disaffected lefties north of the Border.
It also implies that a lot of Greens are watermelons. From those figures Polanski is on for a landslide.
The various independents and perhaps the Greens and Sultana have the potential for an electoral pact.
Poor old Jezza is probably racing round tonight talking to all the indy groups to tell them when they go live after the currants ejaculations on twitter I imagine the phrase 'im too old for this shit' has occured to him
Poor old Jezza is probably racing round tonight talking to all the indy groups to tell them when they go live after the currants ejaculations on twitter I imagine the phrase 'im too old for this shit' has occured to him
EXCLUSIVE: I understand Jeremy Corbyn has not agreed to join the new left party with Zarah Sultana yet
He is furious and bewildered at the way it has been launched without consultation.
As I posted earlier. Jumped the gun?
It would be exciting if the New Left party with its two members could manage to split before it's been launched. They're seeing what fun Reform and Advance and Reclaim and the like are having and want a bit of the action.
Talks of split on the left. Almost contains its glee.
The idea of a party on the left wouldn't get anywhere so no reason for the Telegraph to get gleeful about it. I think the 10% in Matt Goodwin's poll is a bit of an exaggeration.
Poor old Jezza is probably racing round tonight talking to all the indy groups to tell them when they go live after the currants ejaculations on twitter I imagine the phrase 'im too old for this shit' has occured to him
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
It’s simply good public policy to minimise the number of people wandering around who have psychological issues liable to make them commit random acts of violence.
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
Yes, if ever I get violently attacked I'm very keen for it to be one of our own that does it.
Talks of split on the left. Almost contains its glee.
Splits on the left might be exactly what Starmer needs for a reboot. He was at his most ruthlessly effective purging the Corbynites. Boris’ purge of the remainers certainly gave him a spring in his step.
Talks of split on the left. Almost contains its glee.
The idea of a party on the left wouldn't get anywhere so no reason for the Telegraph to get gleeful about it. I think the 10% in Matt Goodwin's poll is a bit of an exaggeration.
Similar to Reform in a way- FInd Our Now does some pretty aggressive things with enthusiasm/certainty to vote. That helps politicians like Farage and Corbyn who induce loyalty from their supporters that other leaders can only dream of.
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
It’s simply good public policy to minimise the number of people wandering around who have psychological issues liable to make them commit random acts of violence.
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
Yes, if ever I get violently attacked I'm very keen for it to be one of our own that does it.
It’s the difference between thinking that the perpetrator should have been sectioned and thinking that they shouldn’t have been let in.
I was thinking about that leak about Corbyn and Sultana co-leading a new party. I'm sure journalists and others are looking forward to watching Corbyn's anguished denials on camera.
Some farms will be taken entirely out of food production under plans to make space for nature, the environment secretary has said.
Speaking at the Groundswell farming festival in Hertfordshire, Steve Reed said a revamp of the post Brexit farming subsidies and a new land use plan will be aimed at increasing food production in the most productive areas and decreasing or completely removing it in the least productive. In reality, this means many upland farmers may be incentivised to stop farming.
Vile agenda.
A good reminder that Labour are malign as well as incompetent.
There are a lot of metropolitan elite who think food comes from shops, nobody wants to invade, the system isn't broken and if everybody was just nice to each other it will all work out.
Sounds like the Union of Traken.
Didn’t end too well.
The Master blew it up?
He certainly finished it off. Something to do with entropy. Which carries over to the next story.
I was Ainley making a feeble attempt at humour.
It would simm so, yes.
Roger, that.
Dhawan that got away.
He sacha'd away
(I'm logging off now before we get onto the Big Finish Masters, of which there are many... )
I think James Dreyfus is verboten now anyway. I’ve still got over a hundred Big Finish stories to listen to from the first 150. After that I stopped buying.
If you've not watched their interview with Jacqueline Pearce (AKA 'Servalan') it's very worth a go. RIP.
Ooh, I’ll have to dig it out. She was far more than just Servalan, did a few good horror movies too.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
Mum.
Not if you’re a Midlander, which I am, and up here in the North East it’s Mam.
My Mam informed me last week that it changed from Mam to Mum in Wigan between my birth and my brother's three and half years later. It's still very much Mam up here.
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
It’s simply good public policy to minimise the number of people wandering around who have psychological issues liable to make them commit random acts of violence.
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
Yes, if ever I get violently attacked I'm very keen for it to be one of our own that does it.
It’s the difference between thinking that the perpetrator should have been sectioned and thinking that they shouldn’t have been let in.
Almost certainly. If theres a row (and i dont really see team Jezza getting on the blower to the Times to bitch) it will be about the timing Hes already confirned its on its way and hes in discussions. Any withdrawal now kills the project permanently
It's a pretty obvious way to try and stir up racial hatred to post about every time someone from the group you want people to hate commits a violent crime. What you are, of course, doing is ignoring the context, all the times when someone from other groups commits a similar crime.
It’s simply good public policy to minimise the number of people wandering around who have psychological issues liable to make them commit random acts of violence.
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
Yes, if ever I get violently attacked I'm very keen for it to be one of our own that does it.
It’s the difference between thinking that the perpetrator should have been sectioned and thinking that they shouldn’t have been let in.
Now that the budget bill has passed Congress, we can see what the projections look like for deficits, government debt, and debt service expenses. In brief, the bill is expected to lead to spending of about $7 trillion a year with inflows of about $5 trillion a year, so the debt, which is now about 6x of the money taken in, 100 percent of GDP, and about $230,000 per American family, will rise over ten years to about 7.5x the money taken in, 130 percent of GDP, and $425,000 per family. That will increase interest and principal payments on the debt from about $10 trillion ($1 trillion in interest, $9 trillion in principal) to about $18 trillion (of which $2 trillion is interest payments), which will lead to either a big squeezing out (and cutting off) of spending and/or unimaginable tax increases, or a lot of printing and devaluing of money and pushing interest rates to unattractively low levels.
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https://youtu.be/MEdRtVuYJ5A?si=Nlw5jbPYlMiNL2iX
Has he really poured concrete down gas wells?
Is there another word for the destruction of an energy resource so that it cannot be used, even in extremis, other than sabotage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wkYocRVnYc
A couple of people I recognised from later successes.
Seven members of a suspected organised crime group believed to have made millions have been arrested in West Yorkshire and Essex.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/suspected-people-smuggling-gang-taken-down-in-nationwide-strikes
Government press release.
I love that story of her going round to a fan’s house to discipline him after he wrote her a letter and told her to come after a certain time as him mom will be in bed.
So maybe the writers were children in the 1970s and watched the 1980s on the news.
Saying that some families have particularly difficult individual sets of circumstances, accidents and illness at a young age, single parents etc so will be hit by this much harder. If a farmer is 85 and still fully holding onto the reins with family working in tow, why didn't they transfer assets earlier? This was an obvious target for an incoming Labour government
It's the randomness of who it affects which should be the real discussion point.
Apologies my point about the height was more about the limits to land use higher up. I didn't expect Steve Reed to be so direct today, I think there will be a lot of continuing stock reduction off the hills by stealth over the next decade to 15 years, as older farmers sell up or retire. The hills still need to be managed either way.
There's a clear population shift away from large parts of remote rural areas in the UK, second homes, housing costs, lack of jobs, more money and better lifestyles for youngsters all playing a big part
Just reading her Wikipedia page now :
"Her obituary in The Times read that "She could and should have achieved so much more. At Rada she was considered one of the most promising thespians of her generation by contemporaries such as Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt" but that her mental illness had "blighted her career""
Tragic - but she did seem to get a hell of a lot of kicks out of life.
@Gabriel_Pogrund
EXCLUSIVE: I understand Jeremy Corbyn has not agreed to join the new left party with Zarah Sultana yet
He is furious and bewildered at the way it has been launched without consultation.
Can that be true?
John McDonnell
@johnmcdonnellMP
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I am dreadfully sorry to lose Zarah from the Labour Party. The people running Labour at the moment need to ask themselves why a young, articulate, talented, extremely dedicated socialist feels she now has no home in the Labour Party and has to leave.
"Mom" is American English and deprecated.
Thoughts and prayers with the boob whisperer
https://bsky.app/profile/generalboles.bsky.social/post/3lt3jhofpzs2z
Westminster voting intention in the event of a "New Corbyn-led party"
REF: 27% (-)
LAB: 20% (-3)
CON: 20% (-)
CORB: 10% (+10)
LDEM: 14% (-)
GRN: 5% (-4)
SNP: 2% (-1)
via More in Common
Chgs. w/ standard VI question
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/polling/2025/06/the-phantom-threat-of-corbyn-2-0
https://bsky.app/profile/britainelects.com/post/3lt3jflhlek2e
How do we get back to a world where politicians could say "I hate you, but we're still allies"? It was horribly imperfect, but better than this.
https://projectbritain.com/americanspelling.html
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mom-mum-mp-jess-phillips-12308391
You've had to go to Germany for your case. Here's an axe attack in the UK from 2023, https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/nottinghamshire/news/news/2024/september/brothers-jailed-for-brutal-axe-attack/ , by Leon Oakden-Gostling and Reece Oakden. Here's David Richards, imprisoned in 2023 for another UK axe attack: https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/death-dreamboys-boss-jailed-attacking-9547066 Thomas Hooson, Leon Headey and Lee Fraser were charged in Scotland for another axe attack: https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/news/third-man-appears-in-court-on-alleged-highland-axe-attack-334965/ Rhys Jolley, 2023, Cambridgeshire, axe attack: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66923638 Let's jump to 2025: Stuart Whittaker was charged with an axe attack in Cheshire: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyv30qy1k6o I could go on. White British people sometimes commit axe attacks too. We don't want anyone to commit axe attacks, but the solution to that is not to try to whip up hysteria against one group like your hero Donald Trump.
His sister is also into the acting game and was in Monk.
https://drillordrop.com/2025/02/27/plugging-of-fracked-wells-start-imminent/
As you correctly point out, we have more than enough of our own. Enoch Powell was perhaps wrong to close the asylums.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgq7nxzvk0yo
"Lord Lipsey had previously worked as a journalist for The Sunday Times, New Society and The Economist and co-founded the short-lived Sunday Correspondent in 1988.
He was awarded a life peerage by former PM Tony Blair in 1999, and is credited with coining the phrases "New Labour" and "winter of discontent"."
It’s a regional term of endearment like ‘me duck’.
Westminster voting intention in the event of a "New Corbyn-led party"
REF: 27% (-)
LAB: 20% (-3)
CON: 20% (-)
CORB: 10% (+10)
LDEM: 14% (-)
GRN: 5% (-4)
SNP: 2% (-1)
via More in Common
It was also the traditional name for the youngest child, who was not called by their real name until they were four or five years old. I had a great aunt called "Bab" until she died in her nineties.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
House Republicans give a big group thumbs up after passing Trump's big bill
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1940869714126705064
Surprisingly common. Moderately famous local historian Carl Chinn speaks awfully posh in real life, for example.
If something is beginning to look inevitable, let’s talk about it.
By Andrew Marr" (£)
https://www.newstatesman.com
It's still very much Mam up here.
My daughter insists on calling her mother “Mama” despite now being on the cusp of secondary school. She doesn’t call me Papa though, which is disappointing for someone who grew up on Renault Clio ads.
Also hints at the persistent role of the SNP as repository for disaffected lefties north of the Border.
She’s also my sisters MP.
I saw Black Sabbath on the news earlier. A few of them still have the accent.
She realised it was not kosher as the scammer said ‘mum’ not ‘mama’
Then we can wave farewell to interminable leadership contests and voters having to choose the least worst option, and we can get some innovation and experimentation into policy formation.
Feb 2022 - ordered to plug the wells
Court cases to avoid doing so kick off
Feb 2025 - with all court options exhausted they finally start fulfilling the order of Boris's Government.
You really do seem to have laser focus on any part of the story that matches your bias while attempting to get people to seeing the complete story...
Edit to add and from the last link - you seem to have missed this bit from your "it was Labour" argument...
“In August 2023 the UK business received notice from the Regulator requiring plug and abandoning of the two Preston New Road (PNR) shale gas exploration wells by the end of calendar year 2024. In December 2024 that deadline was extended by the Regulator to end June 2025. We are putting plans in place to comply with that instruction.”
Wasn't Rishi in power in August 2023?
be all over it.
The various independents and perhaps the Greens and Sultana have the potential for an electoral pact.
Polanski has come out in support on Social Media
https://bsky.app/profile/zackpolanski.bsky.social/post/3lt3ihwrsxk2u
No wonder our democracy is on life support.
I imagine the phrase 'im too old for this shit' has occured to him
Left Behind
Left on the Shelf
Left Out
Leftovers
Left High and Dry
Left Dangling
Nothing Left
Talks of split on the left. Almost contains its glee.
https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1940508029897617452
Hes already confirned its on its way and hes in discussions. Any withdrawal now kills the project permanently
https://x.com/RayDalio/status/1940842227409748385