Your afternoon watch – politicalbetting.com
Your afternoon watch – politicalbetting.com
I hadn’t seen that @LadPolitics had done this – interesting little vignette! https://t.co/DHZr8DUn3o
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I hadn’t seen that @LadPolitics had done this – interesting little vignette! https://t.co/DHZr8DUn3o
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Jeez.
I’ve literally just walked from St James and through St James Park, then across the Mall to St James Palace and onwards - ever onwards - past Buck House and Piccadilly and the Ritz and now I’m on Albermarle St with the art galleries and caviar shops and it’s all, quite frankly, wonderful. Prosperous and beautiful and glistening in the sun and full of rich blonde people
Enough of this doomerism. Britain is doing fine
There appears to be a new header.
Sounds very American to me.
He should suggest that Zia is peddling stuff and nonsense.
Do people really change watches during the day?
I can only assume Vanilla have hired Liz Truss.
First off, "St. James's" is the other side of St. James's Park and then you can indeed go across the Mall to St. James's Palace but then...onwards past Buck House?? That is doubling back on yourself, you are already across the Mall and at SJP. Then Piccadilly and the Ritz and Albermarle Street fine.
Plus, it's St. James's, you wordsmith, you.
All fine pieces of quality Japanese Quartz, obvs.
If I wasn’t worried about getting mugged I would wear my Breitling more often, the downside with a Breitling isn’t I cannot use Apple Pay.
Is that Britain?
My soul fleeth unto the Lord before the morning watch; I say, before the morning watch.
I've seen Cotton Candy replace candyfloss recently, with my kids, and donut replace doughnut. Yuk.
Next: they'll be calling armbands waterwings.
Any issues, please reach out directly to him.
ps, this new font is horrible.
Much to my chagrin.
I’m still walking - I went down old Bond Street and then new Bond Street. Mile after mile past sothebys and the Louis Vuitton flagship. Then on - heedless of my safety - past south molton street and into Marylebone and ALL the way down wimpole street, not just part of it - all of it. Hours
And now I am in the Regent’s Park by the Nash terraces and it’s all Bentleys and Ferraris and the like. And happy people like me drinking free pouilly fusse in the sun
Where is this so-called “breadline Britain”??? It doesn’t exist. It’s a tabloid fiction, and it’s time we stopped listening to these doom-mongers
Does this look like a place on the verge of “civil strife”????
lol
gascoigne/lager/chicken/nhs fife.
https://x.com/euanmccolm/status/1946238816253092269
Newent doesn't have any tacky pseudo-Georgian fountains.
Prosperous Derbyshire - Reform heartland. Who’d have thunk it?
Who was the Regent? George. Prince Regent. George. Of the Georgian era
He literally ordained this park and its palatial surrounds. This is Georgian Central. It’s like you just said St Peter’s Basilica “isn’t very papal”
Most of Britain is a very pleasant looking country and a lot of our town environments aren’t too bad compared to places on the continent. Yes, we do have some very grim and soulless bits and I am not going to pretend that there are not significant challenges for our town centres, and urban environments alongside small town and rural economies. But if you are not careful you can walk into a pessimistic vision of the place as a hellscape, when that is very far from the truth.
The statement is now inaccessible due to the NHS Fife site going down. Fragments can be retrieved by looking at the news reporting, albeit skewed by the framing of the individual newspaper.
There is an archived version available but following a request from the mods I won't publish a link to the archive.
UK defence budget hit by paying for Afghan relocation costs. So far, Defence Eye has been told that at least the £850m of the emergency Afghan evacuation costs have come from the core budget. Progs not on contract (GBAD) have lost £00ms and been delayed
https://x.com/FTusa284/status/1946142312637067650
Like Leon, I can see only upside this afternoon.
After all, tomorrow is Saturday.
Before that the place was a greenhouse.
(Never believe anything you are told by a Londoner; they are all spivs in varying degrees.)
Unfortunately, that Boris was sacrificed on Alex de Pheffel's will to power, and the subsequent Boris is totally discredited. But there we are.
Q: "On Tuesday the president told a very detailed story about his uncle, John Trump, and Theodore Kaczynski, the late Unabomber. He said Dr. Trump taught Ted Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski was not identified as the Unabomber until 1996, 11 years after John Trump passed away. It would have been impossible for John Trump to have ever discussed the Unabomber with the president. So what was he talking about?"
Leavitt: "With so many issues going on in the world, I'm a little bit surprised you would ask such a question...The president's uncle did teach at MIT."
https://x.com/BulwarkOnline/status/1945910740478513349
Donald's good friend Jeffrey Epstein.
Just the part that funds it.
The sultry heatwave of the last weeks - the kind of heatwave that drove Sylvia Plath mad in the Belljar - has abated a tad.
New York architecture is sometimes awful, but America followed a Beaux-Arts tradition right up into the 1940s, which has left a much handsomer legacy than much anything London managed in the 20th century.
One of my editors, young guy, around 30, told me of his new fiancee, Rich American Catholic girl
She has a new favourite place on earth. Where? - Cornwall
She finds it "utterly enchanting" and magical and can't get enough of it, and says it has the best of Britain with a unique lovely spooky quality of its own (noom?!). And this isn't just the coast, she loves the moors and mines as well - the bleak stuff
It is interesting how others perceive us, for good AND bad
"During a company event at a Coldplay concert I offered my head of HR a Murray Mint
which she accepted. Whilst singing along to Yellow she accidentally swallowed the mint, and I was forced to perform the Heimlich maneuver just as the Jumbotron camera focused on us."
https://x.com/DachshundColin/status/1946102109402775593?s=19
Roll the tape. Trump: “Carson’s an enigma to me.”
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1946219558051684683
In a sane world, this would not be a sane stratagem.
Doesn’t it violate some rule of journalistic ethics to publish a letter like this without showing it to the victim of this hit piece?
Will the people who have bought into every hoax against President Trump show an ounce of skepticism before buying into this bizarre story?
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1945996088474800544
Paddy O'Connell on presenting duties on R4 PM tonight.
Why do the BBC keep promoting this useless t*sser? Next stop MasterChef!
When you said gossip I assumed you meant salacious gossip!
The White House is preparing an executive order requiring AI models to be 'politically neutral and unbiased' according to a report by the WSJ. Compliance will determine eligibility for federal contracts, so this is a big deal for all the labs. The EO is expected next week.
https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1946238951309885939