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Why you need an exorcist to deal with Boris Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Why you need an exorcist to deal with Boris Johnson – politicalbetting.com
Face of Boris Johnson spotted on a fruit as woman wanted to 'call an exorcist' https://t.co/WhseyfLu5d pic.twitter.com/dbd7EbxVRm
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I hate the heat.
Also, good morning, everyone.
Although any facial depiction that looks like a Cabbage Patch doll could be mistaken for Boris Johnson.
It's on days like this that I ponder the merits of aircon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(García_Martínez_and_Giménez)
(Boris Johnson should not be otherwise mistaken for Jesus.)
The car had been parked out in the heat for four hours, which reminds me I need to write a letter of complaint to Mercedes about their heat resistant steering wheels.
Today I shall be staying at home watching the cricket and Preston v Liverpool.
*Bought at really cheap prices from a website called Only Fans (google it).
Here it's 16C. Yesterday evening it was warm until quite late - still 24C at 8pm at the start of my constitutional, which then went down slowly. Umpteen people were out walking the dogs, including parents with young children, and a lovey-dovey young couple on the Friendship Bench. And plenty of scuffling in the field margins - teenage boys being teenage boys and trying to impress teenage girls, I guess.
Since the header is off topic already, I'll make a couple off topic observations myself before an early walk this morning to Newstead Abbey.
I think we will see reverse ferrets if the line is held, as we have already seen from Andrea Jenkyns in her support of green industry in Lincs.
I am sure the same PBers who were complaining about the government subsidising EVs complained vigorously when the Tories did the same.
Ful disclosure, this household has two EVs.
This anti-science populist bollocks is going to kill many many people.
Shaun Lintern
@ShaunLintern
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A child has died after contracting measles in Liverpool, where public health officials fear a growing outbreak of the disease.
Full story:
https://x.com/ShaunLintern/status/1944148188773929375
I absolutely despair of those parents that have refused to have their children given the MMR vaccine over recent years while they selfishly relied on the far greater sensible actions of other parents who did assuring UK herd immunity which again protected their own children from risk! Sadly over recent years that vital herd immunity in the UK which had eliminated these horrible viral infections that can cause serious illness and complications in unvaccinated children has not been maintained due to declining vaccination rates leading to recent outbreaks.
If there is one targeted and high profile emergency Government TV/Social media health campaign that should be launched yesterday across the UK like those that were so effective in the 60s/70s and 80s on a range of safety issues to warn of the dangers its this one which should explain the symptoms and risks to children developing mumps, measles or rubella and why it was so important for them to have the very safe MMR vaccine to prevent them and the risks they posed to children. It should also add in the importance to women who plan to get pregnant to check their rubella immunity status. Especially after the cynically targeting of key groups by the anti vaccine movement following the global Covid outbreak.
When the false claims that there was a link to the MMR vaccine and autism were made during Blair's government vast sums of money was spent trying to debunk the link rather than either an important health campaign explaining why the MMR vaccine was so important and how it provided herd immunity which was vital to eradicating these viruses and all the awful side effects. But not only that, sadly it also drained resources from the serious research into the causes and genetic links to autism that were making great inroads at the time that would have clearly shown that there was no link to the MMR vaccine other than a simple a coincidence in the timing of children getting it and some parents starting to notice the early symptoms of autism around the time their children got the vaccine.
Also the white noise they make can drown some of the more annoying ambient sounds out.
The OEMs need a BEV heavy line up to compete in the Chinese market and the Chinese OEMs are starting to dominate in other markets with their own BEV heavy line ups. The direction of travel is one way and it's going to accelerate despite the opinions of gammons who wear their ignorance with the conspicuous hubris of a Pride of Britain awardee.
The fact is we have spent very public little cash on the infrastructure for personal EVs - we can't get one because we live in a flat and the council haven't installed any charging points round here. My partner's work does not have a charging point, despite being NHS.
Oddly, the Highlands are actually really good for them, with most accommodation finding a way to get you charged up and quite a few public chargers available. In the end, everyone in the UK lives in a house, so driveway charging is only a very small hurdle to getting there - just needs some cash.
Even my parents are considering it.
Would like to have a car thats easier to drive? Costs buttons to run and needs minimal maintenance? That doesn't have any of the parts that broke on all your previous cars?
Yes!
Its an EV.
Eww no, they're rubbish, my mate said so.
Meanwhile the Johnsons are having a raucous holiday in Capri
"Watch moment Boris Johnson swigs fizz from bottle & sings on table during boozy night at celeb holiday haunt | The Sun" https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35817411/boris-johnson-carrie-baby-champagne-italian-nightclub/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QHS5ZRJ?th=1
Now that I look again it's gone up quite a bit in price since I got it. But then what hasn't....
There are no trees nor clouds on this walk, but it would be churlish to complain...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/12/anti-semitism-normalised-britain-british-board-jews-israel/#comment
(it is also the lead article in the print version, for those of you who skin read a 'paper')
Even Boris johnson's private life isn't that colourful.
AFAIK ( Mr Tesla may know more, as he will have researched the inferior Plan B ) Scotland has a larger selection of Local Authority provided and free points, but it has been in decline, and (I presume) funding is either from Holyrood, or via the Block Grant or the Barnet process.
(I have no idea how much has been funded in England, but I do try and keep an eye on moved to obstruct our pavements, which are pedestrian spaces, with charging cable trip hazards.)
How big are the wheelchair spaces on all those electric buses?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/978685d95bdcf29c
My only problem with EVs are that they are too f*cking quiet, my last speeding points was when I thought I was doing below 50mph in a 50 and when the camera flashed I was doing 72mph, the sound car was making felt I was driving close to 45mph.
Boris is 61.
He is a decorum-free zone. So, yep, twattish.
The early part of the thread I saw is full of comments about "a certain community" and all the other usual stuff. Very few seem to have read the "middle class" bit of the headline.
One thing that has been bubbling away, and I'm not sure what the answer is, I suspect it is complex.
One thing that (rightly) is said that you cannot hold Jews responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, but in that photo in the Telegraph article (and elsewhere) you see Jewish people using the Israeli flag at antisemitism rallies which I think clouds the issue.
I think Edward Leigh (or somebody else) who is a longstanding Friend of Israel has said accusations of antisemitism are thrown when people rightly condemn the genocide in Gaza.
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Partly the refusal of Generation Boomer to let go of the cultural baton.
Partly the self-radicalisation doom loop of niche media like newspapers.
'The review was co-authored by Lord Mann, the Government’s anti-Semitism adviser, and Dame Penny Mordaunt, the former defence secretary.
Writing in The Telegraph, they said they had been “stunned into silence” by the evidence gathered during six months of research for the Commission on Anti-Semitism.'
Would that it were so.
Guidelines for 61-75 are: "Disqualify 7 – 28 days OR 4 – 6 points".
I had that on one or two occasions before I adapted to the move from a Vauxhall Corsa to a big, quiet diesel.
As for why they are struggling, I have the answer. Grit Bin removal row here in the shire, SNP councillor trying to score points, I noted the £34m a year not provided to the shire by Holyrood because funding is prioritised to the central belt, and he posted an "info"graphic that Westminster is underfunding Holyrood.
So if Aberdeenshire are pulling grit bins, and Glasgow aren't installing charging posts, the fault lies with the English. Hi.
I've got a Model 3 Performance for the weekend for filming. Spanked it round the North East 250 yesterday. Had a little power left in the battery so did a few more launches just before arriving home so that it was down to 1%. But looking at the screen showed there is at least 4kWh in there - and a further 3kWh of hard buffer.
So even if it showed 0% there's still miles left in it. Same as with a fuel car when the gauge shows nothing left.
Subsidies for charging points need to be limited/scaled by actual availability (too many broken), price charged & capability of power delivery. An ease of use metric is also required.
It is still the case that Tesla are so far in front on charging, that it’s barely a contest. The other systems are more expensive and have most of the features of the less useful parking apps.
In the aftermath of the October 7 attacks and the pre-emotive anti-Israel “demonstrations” a lot of British Jews made the point that this is why Israel needs to exist. Jews need somewhere they can retreat to if things get really bad.
So I don’t think Jews waving Israeli flags means anything more than that and anyone saying it clouds the issue just wants an excuse to hate Jews.
Part of why this country is so broken is that council services are crumbling away. Unlike in other parts of the public sector there isn't much that can be saved through efficiencies or structure - that's already happened. So either we fund things or communities get left to their own devices at higher cost.
Fuxake.
For £200, I'd not recommend it for that reason. Cheaper would be some sort of frozen tie-like material provided you do not wrap it all the way round and risk strangulation.
Some might say it was green washing - but the people in it, didn’t take that view. At one point the vast majority of solar cells made in Europe were ours.
Every time we talked to the car manufacturers, they would say “the real, working hydrogen fuel cell cars will be a year or two. As are the electric cars.”
Always the future.
And the government would need to spend trillions on the refuelling network. Of course.
Despite all that has followed, the Tesla supercharger network is still a thing of genius. Certainly compared to the competition.
People are right to be angry when they see others disrespecting our laws.
Now, those who try to make the crossing illegally will soon find themselves back where they started.
That is a real deterrent.
Britain should keep the Elgin Marbles.
Those trying to undermine our national culture should be taken on, not appeased.
https://x.com/trussliz/status/1943622892543005181
I hadn't realised stealing other nations' heritage was our national culture. But this needs to stop. It's a Disgrace.
The noise about not being able to charge is quite a minority concern, especially in London where car ownership is significantly lower than elsewhere.
Much of the fix is about practical alternatives, whether active travel of some sort, or public transport.
PHEVs are a nightmare if you don’t have off street parking because with their short electric range you have to charge them several times a week. With the Zoe I could do lots of drives, gradually use up the range and then do a full recharge when a space appeared in front of the house.
By the way that stat: 70% have off street parking? The only people with drives or off street parking here are in £2m+ houses.
We'll get there, but we're not there yet.
A few notes: there was not much litter in the areas we went. We waited a maximum of three minutes for every train, bar the first one, which we arrived early for. The Lizzie line is a really useful route wrt connections. London was packed but happy in the sun. We broke the cardinal rule and chatted to strangers on the tube.
Most of all, despite what some on here claim, London was wonderful.
(Me and my son also went up the Cutty Sark's rigging, which you can now climb. It was fairly expensive, but great fun and well worth doing for the views and experience.)
Universities are doomed. We need to tell our kids to go elsewhere, learn a trade, don’t take on all that debt
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256580895671
Now on a Sunday morning it’s heaving. The car park is full, hundreds of people ticking into coffee and pastries in the courtyard of the old stables, and the most incredible landscaped gardening you’ll find in any public amenity. Sissinghurst level.
All thanks to a heritage lottery grant in 2014 and some mayoral funding more recently, plus Lewisham deciding to prioritise it and invite businesses in which presumably pay decent rents to ply their trade.
Crystal Palace park is another example of how it can be done.
Those saying local public services are a bottomless money pit forget that only parts of it - social care mainly - are so voracious. Civic beauty really doesn’t cost that much by comparison.
Also should note car owners are more likely to live in houses with driveways than the population as a whole.
Unfortunately manufacturers seem more intent on putting in useless bells and whistles rather than a bigger battery. I have been looking at second hand EVs and often it goes basic model - fancy model - fancy model with longer range, I want basic model with longer range.
https://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-are-there-in-london.pdf
They seem to be trying to recruit members for the Greenwich Museums
Climb the rigging: "Adult: £60 | Child (10-17): £49 | Student: £55, Members: £30. "
Following the Join Now link:
"Membership: Single Membership £65, Joint Membership £85, Family Membership (1+4 sprogs) £75, (2+4 sprogs) £95". +£10 for Credit / Debit card.
For anyone who has ever done any programming - a quiz to reveal the utter insanity of Javascript's Date function... https://jsdate.wtf/
* This note incorporates Daily Mail news values.
Leigh is right that the Israeli government has, I think deliberately, blurred the line between criticising their actions and antisemitism.
But equally, antisemites have co-opted opposition to Israeli actions for their own purposes.
*Absolutely extraordinary if you consider that in Germany 65% of households in live in flats. No wonder we have such pressure on the green belt as we refuse to build upward even in our biggest city.
What government needs to do is recognise we missed the manufacturing opportunity by inaction a decade or more back.
If that means attracting Chinese manufacturers over here (particularly batteries), so be it.
£15000 would get you a good one, still with 4 years manufacturer's warranty.
Wearing other hats, Moore is one of the Evangelical fixers around Trump.
It illustrates how totally different are perspectives of different groups and different places. The values expressed are very much "from one view.
The interview is with CBN - Christian Broadcasting Network, on a programme called the 700 Club, which some may remember as a kind of "News & Views" programme which is their headline programme, and has been around since 1966.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENQPq1ndO9o
(Updated)
But, one must remember, many Israelis also find them loathsome and fascistic.
Jaguar iPaces are available extremely cheaply but I presume that means they are a mare to run. And I don't need or want anything that big.
Have been tempted by the MG4. However the biggest block is that since retiring I use the car only 2-3 times a week for short runs and I now begrudge the capital expenditure. Having a senior rail card means I can travel by train cheaply too. However my Megane is 16 years old and feels increasingly clunky, also if I got an EV I am sure I would use it for some trips away.
But saying one flag is fine and the other 'clouds the issue' is an odd argument.
You also see it with Palestinians calling what's happening in Gaza "genocide" rather than "ethnic cleansing", which is less emotive but fits much better.
And so on.
Of course when you call them out on this you look pedantic, or even, God forbid, lawyerly. And it needs effort, which is why lazy journalists never bother.
The talent pipeline in the UK has completely collapsed at the top of the funnel. There's hardly any junior hires for highly skilled careers and we're increasingly relying on the 2015-2019 graduate cohorts to fill mid and senior roles whole those who graduated since 2020 are struggling to get meaningful junior roles to start their careers.
Once again I'll say it, if you've got kids between 12 and 16 you should advise them to pick something practical or vocational that isn't easy to automate. I have two and one on the way, o genuinely have no idea what the world will look like by the time they're 16 and making those big life choices, I just have to hope everything is settled by then and career choices/pathways are easier.
https://home.dk/salg/lejligheder/lehwaldsvej-3-9d-2800-kongens-lyngby/sag-1530003573/
and wouldn't have dreamed of wanting to live in a house. I get that many people want to have a private garden, but there's at least an argument to be had about the virtues of covering the country with single houses.
This was all predictable - as indeed Musk did - well over a decade ago.
The denial by western manufacturers, regularly shows on PB over the years, was off the charts.
The Innovator's Dilemma was published almost three decades ago. It remains one of the best texts in the subject.
Sooner or later, all manufacturing is the tech industry.