Random pub quiz question, to which I don’t know the answer.
How many transport hubs are named after religious figures?
I only ask because I’m now sitting in the lounge at John Paul II airport in Krakow. Next stop: Frankfurt.
London Victoria is named after the former head of the Church of England. London Marylebone is named in part after Jesus's mum. London Blackfriars is named after a religious order.
Does Mohammed V International Airport in Morocco count? Or Corazón de Jesús airstrip in Panama?
When I was in my teens I heard an entire Gospel presentation based on a Journey round the London Underground. I can't recall whether it was a single sermon, or a series spread out over the day or the week. It may even have been based on just the Circle Line.
Looking back, it was quite creatively done. I can see how it could be created, looking at a list of Underground Stations.
Inevitably (whether you know how these sermons work or not) it ended at King's Cross for the (usually, not always) slightly foot shuffling British version of an altar call.
In the UK, pretty much everything named as a Saint, even though we do not think of them as such because they are named after places named after such people. On the Underground - St Paul's, St James Park, St John's Wood, St Pancras, Latimer Road (the martyr?). And many more.
Looks like they're hitting the Greens more than Lab.
One point off each in this poll, which is a bigger chunk of the green total. I think an established YP might reduce the average polling of Grn, Lab and LD by a point to 2 points with a few NOTA/Reform but not right wing thrown in Obviously we will see once regular polling commences. I guess Greens suffer because they are fishing the same pond. Will be interesting to see if LD as 'NOTA' votes peel off (i don't think dedicated LDs will be attracted)
Splendid, hope to combine the newly remodelled East Kilbride branch with Kilmarmock to Troon (westbound). Did the latter eastbound TWICE (2018, 2019), but for scheduling reasons never westbound.
It's annoying how a lot of places close earlier than they did 15 years ago. For instance my local swimming/gym place used to be open to 10:30pm on weekdays, then it was 10:15, then 10, and then after the pandemic it went down to 9pm. At the weekend it used to be 9, now it's 8.
It's annoying how a lot of places close earlier than they did 15 years ago. For instance my local swimming/gym place used to be open to 10:30pm on weekdays, then it was 10:15, then 10, and then after the pandemic it went down to 9pm.
Shops wise late night opening (used to be Thursday) has ceased to exist in Norwich.
US Navy’s big plan for drone fleets to counter China is stumbling hard, - Reuters
Test boats are crashing due to software bugs, a key autonomy contract with L3Harris got paused, and the Navy even fired the admiral running the program.
The way war is being fought is changing in front of our eyes and the USA is behind the curve. I have one son in Berlin and one in NY. Both of them say that they and their friends are being targeted with big money to join the defence industry due to their technical skills. The Germans are working very close with Ukraine and their technology is being tested on a daily basis. Being shot by another solider is disappearing instead soldiers face a constant fight with robots. This is robot wars in gruesome reality.
Sounds like a draw. One dead and one in prison so neither can vote. We have some odd election laws here. I was involved in a legal case (as a witness I hasten to add) where efforts were made to influence an election. A criminal act was involved but because it wasn't the agent or the candidate it had no impact. You can literally send canvassers out and get them to murder anyone who says they are going to vote for your opponent and it doesn't impact the election even if they get sent down for murder. Because in this case it involved fraud we realised they would have to declare it on the election expenses and bust the limit or not declare it and be subject to a challenge. I felt sorry for the agent as he was an innocent party.
US Navy’s big plan for drone fleets to counter China is stumbling hard, - Reuters
Test boats are crashing due to software bugs, a key autonomy contract with L3Harris got paused, and the Navy even fired the admiral running the program.
The way war is being fought is changing in front of our eyes and the USA is behind the curve. I have one son in Berlin and one in NY. Both of them say that they and their friends are being targeted with big money to join the defence industry due to their technical skills. The Germans are working very close with Ukraine and their technology is being tested on a daily basis. Being shot by another solider is disappearing instead soldiers face a constant fight with robots. This is robot wars in gruesome reality.
One off my sons works for a firm which manufactures drones. They're going great guns (ahem) in Ukraine.
What else did they expect? The voters couldn't have been clearer that they didn't want Sunakism. Then Starmer came in & brought us Sunakism-only-more-so.
Do you think Jenrick & Co really don't know the extremist political / violent neo-fascist / organised crime criminal nexus they are playing in the shallows of?
This guy (Matt Twomey) is an associate of Paul Golding, who is attached to Tommy Robinson and came up via the BNP and Britain First, amassing a criminal record along the way. eg Golding and Robinson:
Golding, of Hodder Bank, Stockport, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth, address and nationality.
Do you think Jenrick & Co really don't know the extremist political / violent neo-fascist / organised crime criminal nexus they are playing in the shallows of?
This guy (Matt Twomey) is an associate of Paul Golding, who is attached to Tommy Robinson and came up via the BNP and Britain First, amassing a criminal record along the way. eg Golding and Robinson:
Golding, of Hodder Bank, Stockport, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth, address and nationality.
It's annoying how a lot of places close earlier than they did 15 years ago. For instance my local swimming/gym place used to be open to 10:30pm on weekdays, then it was 10:15, then 10, and then after the pandemic it went down to 9pm. At the weekend it used to be 9, now it's 8.
I always used to do my food shopping early in the morning. Since Covid nowhere now opens earlier than 8, which is too late to have time to do it before work. Luckily my nearest supermarket stays open until 10 but even then it's a bit of a rush to get in an out before then. It used to be a 24 hour one.
Do you think Jenrick & Co really don't know the extremist political / violent neo-fascist / organised crime criminal nexus they are playing in the shallows of?
This guy (Matt Twomey) is an associate of Paul Golding, who is attached to Tommy Robinson and came up via the BNP and Britain First, amassing a criminal record along the way. eg Golding and Robinson:
Golding, of Hodder Bank, Stockport, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth, address and nationality.
To demand that somebody cease to express a viewpoint, or question prevailing political philosophies and laws, because to do so is to, 'play in the shallows', or 'give succour to', or 'align with' unsavoury people is intellectually insupportable and frankly weasel-like behaviour.
If you disagree with something Jenrick is saying and think your explanations are better, make the argument rather than attempting to smear him by infantile semi-allegations.
US Navy’s big plan for drone fleets to counter China is stumbling hard, - Reuters
Test boats are crashing due to software bugs, a key autonomy contract with L3Harris got paused, and the Navy even fired the admiral running the program.
The way war is being fought is changing in front of our eyes and the USA is behind the curve. I have one son in Berlin and one in NY. Both of them say that they and their friends are being targeted with big money to join the defence industry due to their technical skills. The Germans are working very close with Ukraine and their technology is being tested on a daily basis. Being shot by another solider is disappearing instead soldiers face a constant fight with robots. This is robot wars in gruesome reality.
One off my sons works for a firm which manufactures drones. They're going great guns (ahem) in Ukraine.
Russia says no way unless it is involved in "securing" Ukraine.
It really is a surprise.
That LYING POS (aka DOPEY DONALD) promised he would SORT OUT the Ukraine/Russia War within TWENTY-FOUR HOURS! It's now ALMOST SEVEN MONTHS since he took office, and the war IS STILL ONGOING!
Russia says no way unless it is involved in "securing" Ukraine.
It really is a surprise.
That LYING POS (aka DOPEY DONALD) promised he would SORT OUT the Ukraine/Russia War within TWENTY-FOUR HOURS! It's now ALMOST SEVEN MONTHS since he took office, and the war IS STILL ONGOING!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!
Is that you, or Gavin Newsom, or the White House Twitter feed?
Russia says no way unless it is involved in "securing" Ukraine.
It really is a surprise.
That LYING POS (aka DOPEY DONALD) promised he would SORT OUT the Ukraine/Russia War within TWENTY-FOUR HOURS! It's now ALMOST SEVEN MONTHS since he took office, and the war IS STILL ONGOING!
Russia says no way unless it is involved in "securing" Ukraine.
It really is a surprise.
That LYING POS (aka DOPEY DONALD) promised he would SORT OUT the Ukraine/Russia War within TWENTY-FOUR HOURS! It's now ALMOST SEVEN MONTHS since he took office, and the war IS STILL ONGOING!
It's time for some facts about local Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and asylum hotels, to stop the nonsense. Lets have it right - concerns about illegal migration are valid, but people in our area are being targeted & its got to stop. 🧵 1/2
Russia says no way unless it is involved in "securing" Ukraine.
It really is a surprise.
So we have disagreements on: - Where the border should be - Whether a meaningful security guarantee can be given - Whether Putin will even meet Zelensky - ... And I assume lots more
My guess it Ukraine fades back off the headlines within a week as reality sets in
He read economics while running a business from his college room. He had a fax machine and a phone put in.
I read detective novels and drank cheap red wine by the bucketload.
I got on quite well with Sanjeev, largely because I was one of the few people in the year who didn't take him seriously. (I used to greet him "Ah, Sanjeev Gupta, Gupta Enterprises, sir!") He used to occasionally bother me when I worked at Goldman Sachs and he was looking for funding.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
Do you think Jenrick & Co really don't know the extremist political / violent neo-fascist / organised crime criminal nexus they are playing in the shallows of?
This guy (Matt Twomey) is an associate of Paul Golding, who is attached to Tommy Robinson and came up via the BNP and Britain First, amassing a criminal record along the way. eg Golding and Robinson:
Golding, of Hodder Bank, Stockport, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth, address and nationality.
To demand that somebody cease to express a viewpoint, or question prevailing political philosophies and laws, because to do so is to, 'play in the shallows', or 'give succour to', or 'align with' unsavoury people is intellectually insupportable and frankly weasel-like behaviour.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
TSE: had Mike Smithson and you met in person when he first asked you to be a guest editor? Just curious.
Yes and no.
We'd be in regular communication for about a year, as I used to send him articles from The Times as at the time they used Populus for their polls and he really rated Populus (plus on Saturday night I'd send him the polls from the daily YouGov).
I then sent him my thoughts on why I thought Chris Huhne had committed perjury based on articles in The Times.
OGH rang me en March 2012 and said he was going on holiday in May/June and he'd like me to edit PB.
We met up a few weeks later before I took the hot seat.
So it's all thanks to Chris Huhne and Rupert Murdoch taking The Times behind a paywall that got me the job.
Edit The Times also used to commission Ipsos polls on Scotland which I also shared with OGH as we both knew the Indyref would be an epic betting market.
That really confused me - I'd just been reading this about the (local) Comic Con, held on top of a melting ice rink: the poor folk were not happy bunnies, but I didn't think they'd got that robust in their response.
'Ms Reid said traders were not properly warned about the ice rink.
She said: "We were told it shouldn't affect the stalls in any way, it would just be a bit cold. There was no mention of water on the floor, or of condensation.
"I walked in and saw puddles on parts of the floor.
"Staff were trying to dry the bits where people were walking around on, but they couldn't get enough room. So we were just standing in puddles all day."'
It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes
It's not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies' generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tech stocks tanked Tuesday, regarding broader fears that this bubble may have swelled about as large as it can go. Surely, there will be no wider repercussions for normal people if and when Nvidia, currently propping up the market like a load-bearing matchstick, finally runs out of fake companies to sell chips to. But getting in under the wire, before we're all bartering gas in the desert and people who can read become the priestly caste, is Microsoft, with the single most "Who asked for this?" application of AI I've seen yet: They're jamming it into Excel.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
That's because The Hundred is a solution is search of a problem.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
Funding, the ECB consider the Hundred a success because they've flogged the franchises off for hundreds of millions of pounds.
I mentioned last week I am attending a match as a guest of somebody involved buying the franchises next week.
He read economics while running a business from his college room. He had a fax machine and a phone put in.
I read detective novels and drank cheap red wine by the bucketload.
I got on quite well with Sanjeev, largely because I was one of the few people in the year who didn't take him seriously. (I used to greet him "Ah, Sanjeev Gupta, Gupta Enterprises, sir!") He used to occasionally bother me when I worked at Goldman Sachs and he was looking for funding.
...In October 2024, Gupta was being prosecuted by Companies House for failing to file accounts for 76 companies listed in Britain, including Liberty Commodities. Gupta pled not guilty..
Interesting change of direction in terms of career.
Surely just a Keynesian make work scheme - dog a hole and fill it in. Smuggle people on, fly them out, etc
There's a rural one too. Post war agriculture policy: pay farmers to pull up hedges, destroy woodland and poison the fields for about 60 years; then pay them to put it all back to normal again.
So let me get this right. The Government’s lawyers are arguing asylum hotels must remain open, the Prime Minister has said his policy is to close them because there’s lots of spare housing, and his Ministers are saying they’re unsustainable, but there aren’t any alternatives."
I don't see a contradiction: they are needed now, but policy is to get us to a situation where they aren't needed.
It is becoming very hard to see how Labour can turn their poll ratings around. They are no longer being given the benefit of doubt. On the other side it is intriguing how the Tories have taken on close down the asylum hotels. They have been the only party at the demos and Epping Council is Tory lead. I feel Farage has been too cautious on this and is losing control of the agenda.
No. Although EFDC led the way on getting the case to court to close the Bell Hotel no Tory councillors on EFDC attended the protests, even if Jenrick turned up when Kemi went to Epping she met with residents in a pub she did not attend the protests either.
The one Reform councillor on EFDC (who is also the Ongar county councillor) did attend the protests however as did representatives from the far right Homeland Party, the British Democrats and the UKIP leader
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
The bizarre thing (for me) is that I paid absolutely no attention to the first 4 series of the Hundred between 2021 and 2024 because I assumed it was total rubbish, but this year I've suddenly become interested in it. Maybe I decided some cricket is better than no cricket in August. I've been to 5 of them in person and the atmosphere is fantastic and there are lots of young families getting their children interested in the game, so I have to admit — I got it totally wrong for 5 years.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
The bizarre thing (for me) is that I paid absolutely no attention to the first 4 series of the Hundred between 2021 and 2024 because I assumed it was total rubbish, but this year I've suddenly become interested in it. Maybe I decided some cricket is better than no cricket in August. I've been to 5 of them in person and the atmosphere is fantastic and there are lots of young families getting their children interested in the game, so I have to admit — I got it totally wrong for 5 years.
I went to a game at Lords last year, and I agree they do a great job of getting young families there for the game.
Trump and Gabbard are doing to the intelligence community what they did to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
My understanding is that the list of people whose clearances have been revoked by Gabbard includes a career civil servant who was until recently the most senior Russia analyst in the CIA, and remains a senior official in the organisation. (The NYT previously reported that the list included a senior CIA analyst; see below).
They—like the NSA's Vinh Nguyen—were presumably targeted because of their prior association with the 'Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections', the report which described Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
I think that would constitute one of the most significant Russia-related purges we have seen to date & with potentially severe consequences for US intelligence analysts' ability to report honestly and candidly on Russia related issues.
Labour will be pleased with that, they are only down 1% with Corbyn's party, surprisingly the same percentage Reform are down when YP are included. The Greens hit most by Corbyn, down 2% on the last Focaldata poll when YP are included.
Not surprisingly neither the Tories or LDs affected at all, both keeping the same voteshare with YP included or not
I think these are the results of he court hearings relating to a collision near Newark which we discussed recently, I think known to @Richard_Tyndall .
A woman who killed two school pupils when she smashed into the back of a stationary car after sipping alcohol at the wheel and speeding at 96mph (154km/h) has been jailed for 10 years.
Natasha Allarakhia, 36, was speeding in her Audi Q2 on the A17 at North Rauceby, Lincolnshire, on 20 June last year when she failed to notice a Ford Fiesta which had stopped at temporary traffic lights.
The driver of the Fiesta, William Ray, 17, and passenger, Eddie Shore,18, died. A second passenger, Jack Prince, 17, suffered life-changing injuries.
Data was taken from the car: Data taken from the two vehicles showed Allarakhia did not take her foot off the accelerator until just two seconds before the crash and was only 121ft (37m) away from the Fiesta when her brakes were briefly applied.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
Funding, the ECB consider the Hundred a success because they've flogged the franchises off for hundreds of millions of pounds.
I mentioned last week I am attending a match as a guest of somebody involved buying the franchises next week.
I'm astonished they're getting that much money for them.
Elon Musk is reportedly considering supporting JD Vance for a potential 2028 presidential run.
Given Vance is VP he will be favourite for the GOP nomination but will need Musk's money too, ideologically Musk is now closer to Vance than Trump.
Problem for Vance is while he is more intelligent than Trump he is less charismatic
Ideologically, Musk and Vance differed hugely. In broad strokes, Vance wanted closed borders and to save jobs, while Musk wanted to sack everyone and open the borders. Things might have changed since but we'd need to see.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
The problem of the ECB not controlling the first class teams.
Trump and Gabbard are doing to the intelligence community what they did to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
My understanding is that the list of people whose clearances have been revoked by Gabbard includes a career civil servant who was until recently the most senior Russia analyst in the CIA, and remains a senior official in the organisation. (The NYT previously reported that the list included a senior CIA analyst; see below).
They—like the NSA's Vinh Nguyen—were presumably targeted because of their prior association with the 'Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections', the report which described Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
I think that would constitute one of the most significant Russia-related purges we have seen to date & with potentially severe consequences for US intelligence analysts' ability to report honestly and candidly on Russia related issues.
Elon Musk is reportedly considering supporting JD Vance for a potential 2028 presidential run.
Given Vance is VP he will be favourite for the GOP nomination but will need Musk's money too, ideologically Musk is now closer to Vance than Trump.
Problem for Vance is while he is more intelligent than Trump he is less charismatic
Ideologically, Musk and Vance differed hugely. In broad strokes, Vance wanted closed borders and to save jobs, while Musk wanted to sack everyone and open the borders. Things might have changed since but we'd need to see.
He's just cross because even the nonagenarians have more hair than him.
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old." https://x.com/atrupar/status/1958211663062040954
Trump and Gabbard are doing to the intelligence community what they did to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
My understanding is that the list of people whose clearances have been revoked by Gabbard includes a career civil servant who was until recently the most senior Russia analyst in the CIA, and remains a senior official in the organisation. (The NYT previously reported that the list included a senior CIA analyst; see below).
They—like the NSA's Vinh Nguyen—were presumably targeted because of their prior association with the 'Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections', the report which described Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
I think that would constitute one of the most significant Russia-related purges we have seen to date & with potentially severe consequences for US intelligence analysts' ability to report honestly and candidly on Russia related issues.
If Gabbard isn't a Russian asset, she's doing a remarkable impersonation of one.
Indeed, I’ve said to many people from when she was first mooted in the role that she is actually the most dangerous appointment of the lot.
It’s just sometimes completely unbelievable that we are here - most of us on here grew up with the news but also the films of the time of Cold War and how the US was the great bulwark against Russia. Everyone used to mock that the US won the Cold War without firing a shot and yet now it’s clear that Russia has beaten the US without firing a shot.
Reagan, Bush, Weinberger and all the other Cold War warriors would be turning in their graves. One man has undermined 70 years of US positioning and authority for venal and financial motives, not even an ideological takeover.
The President of the United States is a Russian asset.
Don't know if Trump, or others in the gangster kleptocracy, are Russian assets, but the key thing is that USA policy has switched sides, from 'USA and western alliance first' to 'America first'. The central concept is the world as split up into global powers and sphere of influence blocs.
Immediate consequences: The two power blocs of Europe, Russian and Western, are a matter for Europe. They are both nuclear powers. The Ukraine war is about where the line between the two is drawn. From an American point of view this is a little local difficulty and matters little as long as it isn't drawn somewhere silly. Like through the middle of France.
Another interesting question: Where does USA stand now in relation to who, outside the Americas (which includes Greenland), is in the USA sphere of influence and would be worth American military intervention. Some guesses: Israel (actually that's certain): Yes. Taiwan: No. Japan and South Korea: Yes. Australia and NZ: No. Turkey: No.
It's time for some facts about local Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and asylum hotels, to stop the nonsense. Lets have it right - concerns about illegal migration are valid, but people in our area are being targeted & its got to stop. 🧵 1/2
That vid is worth a listen. A building in Gannow, Burnley, 100m from a primary school was set on fire, after rumours circulated, including being pushed by a Ref UK Councillor (vid included), that it was going to be an HMO. In reality there is no application to be an HMO, and it will be supported social housing.
Make you r own evaluation.
To me it smacks of Lee Anderson inventing a non-existent asylum hotel here in 2024; the not-an-asylum-hotel he pointed to was even over the border in Derbyshire.
We need to work to fix the issue, and have police crack down harshly on those seeking to exploit it for their own gain.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
Welsh Fire are having a mare at the Hundred. The men's team has won just one march and the women have lost all of theirs.
I'm a cricket fan, I don't care.
Prompted by this post, I've been to have a look at tge BBC cricket page and just found something else to vex me about the Hundred: in the scores and tables, they appear to have dropped any attempt to link teams with places: instead, teams are just reported as 'Fire', 'Spirit', 'Originals', amd so on. Now of course, I find 'Welsh', 'Southern' and 'Trent' daft. ("Who are we playing Dad?" "Southern"). But less daft than nothing at all.
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex. And you are missing ten teams. And a ball each over.
I don't understand the problem that the Hundred is meant to solve that 20:20 doesn’t.
Funding, the ECB consider the Hundred a success because they've flogged the franchises off for hundreds of millions of pounds.
I mentioned last week I am attending a match as a guest of somebody involved buying the franchises next week.
I actually pitched a version of this to Barry Hearn via a mate about twelve years ago albeit it was just t20 but with regions (creating a team from two or three counties) and franchise players rather than changing the format, but he didn't fancy it
It's time for some facts about local Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and asylum hotels, to stop the nonsense. Lets have it right - concerns about illegal migration are valid, but people in our area are being targeted & its got to stop. 🧵 1/2
That vid is worth a listen. A building in Gannow, Burnley, 100m from a primary school was set on fire, after rumours circulated, including being pushed by a Ref UK Councillor (vid included), that it was going to be an HMO. In reality there is no application to be an HMO but supported social housing.
It smacks of Lee Anderson inventing a non-existent asylum hotel here in 2024; the not-an-asylum-hotel he pointed to was even over the border in Derbyshire.
We need to work to fix the issue, and have police crack down harshly on those seeking to exploit it for their own gain.
Labour MPs are going to discover that you can take a side, following which a group of people will support you whicever side you take, or you can try to steer a course down the centrist middle, at which point everyone will be against you. There isn't a centrist position reconciling most people.
It's time for some facts about local Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and asylum hotels, to stop the nonsense. Lets have it right - concerns about illegal migration are valid, but people in our area are being targeted & its got to stop. 🧵 1/2
That vid is worth a listen. A building in Gannow, Burnley, 100m from a primary school was set on fire, after rumours circulated, including being pushed by a Ref UK Councillor (vid included), that it was going to be an HMO. In reality there is no application to be an HMO but supported social housing.
It smacks of Lee Anderson inventing a non-existent asylum hotel here in 2024; the not-an-asylum-hotel he pointed to was even over the border in Derbyshire.
We need to work to fix the issue, and have police crack down harshly on those seeking to exploit it for their own gain.
Summer is nearly at its end, the days are cooling, and the Mail and Telegraph have yet to trigger the riot they’ve been urging since the sun came out in May. Tick tock, boys, tick tock. No one likes pushing flaming wheelie bins in the Autumn rains .
Trump and Gabbard are doing to the intelligence community what they did to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
My understanding is that the list of people whose clearances have been revoked by Gabbard includes a career civil servant who was until recently the most senior Russia analyst in the CIA, and remains a senior official in the organisation. (The NYT previously reported that the list included a senior CIA analyst; see below).
They—like the NSA's Vinh Nguyen—were presumably targeted because of their prior association with the 'Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections', the report which described Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
I think that would constitute one of the most significant Russia-related purges we have seen to date & with potentially severe consequences for US intelligence analysts' ability to report honestly and candidly on Russia related issues.
If Gabbard isn't a Russian asset, she's doing a remarkable impersonation of one.
Indeed, I’ve said to many people from when she was first mooted in the role that she is actually the most dangerous appointment of the lot.
It’s just sometimes completely unbelievable that we are here - most of us on here grew up with the news but also the films of the time of Cold War and how the US was the great bulwark against Russia. Everyone used to mock that the US won the Cold War without firing a shot and yet now it’s clear that Russia has beaten the US without firing a shot.
Reagan, Bush, Weinberger and all the other Cold War warriors would be turning in their graves. One man has undermined 70 years of US positioning and authority for venal and financial motives, not even an ideological takeover.
Yes. One comment though; American isolationism, while I am against it, is not an entirely irrational position, Especially when put up against the catastrophes of American interventionism since 2001.
What is irrational however is to do it in an unplanned way and without time - which is years - for the rest of the world, including Euronato (or whatever we should call it) to get its ducks in a row.
The much maligned Rory (who in the alternative sane world is currently our PM) also gets this, as is clear from recent The Rest is Politics, worth a listen.
It's time for some facts about local Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and asylum hotels, to stop the nonsense. Lets have it right - concerns about illegal migration are valid, but people in our area are being targeted & its got to stop. 🧵 1/2
That vid is worth a listen. A building in Gannow, Burnley, 100m from a primary school was set on fire, after rumours circulated, including being pushed by a Ref UK Councillor (vid included), that it was going to be an HMO. In reality there is no application to be an HMO, and it will be supported social housing.
Make your own evaluation.
To me it smacks of Lee Anderson inventing a non-existent asylum hotel here in 2024; the not-an-asylum-hotel he pointed to was even over the border in Derbyshire.
We need to work to fix the issue, and have police crack down harshly on those seeking to exploit it for their own gain.
It's classically what happens with inflammatory local campaigns. Whispers and rumours provoke action by those with no information and particular concerns which turns into obsessions.
Lots of concerns, some valid, some invalid, some folk tales, some like traditional Nimby planning stories, which then land in the wrong place - in this case on a social housing project.
It's time for some facts about local Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and asylum hotels, to stop the nonsense. Lets have it right - concerns about illegal migration are valid, but people in our area are being targeted & its got to stop. 🧵 1/2
That vid is worth a listen. A building in Gannow, Burnley, 100m from a primary school was set on fire, after rumours circulated, including being pushed by a Ref UK Councillor (vid included), that it was going to be an HMO. In reality there is no application to be an HMO, and it will be supported social housing.
Make you r own evaluation.
To me it smacks of Lee Anderson inventing a non-existent asylum hotel here in 2024; the not-an-asylum-hotel he pointed to was even over the border in Derbyshire.
We need to work to fix the issue, and have police crack down harshly on those seeking to exploit it for their own gain.
It's classically what happens with inflammatory local campaigns. Whispers and rumours provoke action by those with no information and particular concerns which turns into obsessions.
Lots of concerns, some valid, some folk tales, which then land in the wrong place - in this case on a social housing project.
As the father of mixed race children I found this story chilling.
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
A family say their lives have been ruined after a video of a black man and his brother playing in the park with his white granddaughters was shared by Tommy Robinson and weaponised by the far right.
Olajuwon Ayeni, a musician from Redcar, North Yorkshire, has been racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile in the week since the family video was stolen from the TikTok account of his wife, Natalie, whom he married five years ago, and shared by extremists online.
On Tuesday, the couple’s local MP, Anna Turley, was forced to write a letter providing a reference of good character for Ayeni when he was suspended by his management after the online disinformation.
“I’m devastated to receive the email from my management,” Ayeni said. “Music is my life. My social media will be damaged, my career will be tarnished … but I am determined to show the truth and hopefully clear it up.”
He and Natalie say they have been living in fear since being threatened in the street after Robinson shared the video with his 1.4 million followers. The far-right activist wrote on his X account: “Wtf is even going on here? Where are the parents?!”
There's a little bit of hype in the piece, and it is more complex. It quotes 720k empties, which will include eg all the ones on sale, stuck in estates and so on aiui, and 265k >6 month empties - which are the real targets, which is not actually THAT many. It's only 1% of stock, which is massively lower than comparable countries.
In depth personal renovation is not so much a thing these days with eg 2 earner couples, and small LLs who would take on wrecks for rental have been hit really hard since Osborne's 2015 targeting, and increasingly savage regulation, plus all the politics. Corporate LLs won't touch small projects.
These days you will be paying expenses such as Council Tax on it as you renovate, since there will only be one lot of exemption and the previous owner will have had that and it may only have been one month ... unless eg very difficult to obtain exceptions.
Plus Council Grants, especially in London, tend to have onerous conditions (eg rent it to the Council for X years, by which time it will need another renovation).
And is it another non-statutory thing Councils have no money for?
The other thing that struck me (having had to deal with a relative's demise and house sale overlapping with the covid period) is the definition of the short term empties category,, which as you say are to be expected (and indeed a good sign of housing turnover, cf. the perennial complaints about house-blocking oldies sans families on here). But it ought also to inclide those bona fide houses which were intended to be short term for sale but which have encountered the delays of late, for instance in probate. Even a month or two delay in probate would shift a case from the short term to the long term, without really changing the actual situation. So the rise might be an aretefact of probate/bank/legal delays.
I'd be interested to hear from PBers who have handled parent's houses as to what happened with Council Tax, and I assume it just continued until it was eventually put up for sale - unless there was an exemption (I don't know).
I avoided that since mum lived with me and the house was jointly owned. That caused complications as it left a family member inheriting the other half, and there was some unpleasantness with attempted leverage, and also she died 6 years after gifting me half.
Generally Councils are shit-hot, and if you do a newbuild their officer may come round and look through the windows to see if you are in yet. There are tricks - such as making sure there is physically no water supply - that preempt it, but they get VERY cross.
I think we got 6 months free from the date of death but we are back to paying the CT now. This is Scotland, of course, and it may be different south of the border.
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Florida man who fatally stabbed friend over Trump convicted of second-degree murder
Donald Jamesbrown Henry and Shawn Popp got into a fight over ‘Trump going bankrupt’ when the latter was attacked
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/florida-man-stabbed-friend-trump-murder-conviction
I think an established YP might reduce the average polling of Grn, Lab and LD by a point to 2 points with a few NOTA/Reform but not right wing thrown in
Obviously we will see once regular polling commences. I guess Greens suffer because they are fishing the same pond. Will be interesting to see if LD as 'NOTA' votes peel off (i don't think dedicated LDs will be attracted)
https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/exposed-britain-firsts-march-for-remigration-led-by-convicted-people-smuggler/
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/salford-gang-jailed-for-failed-smuggling-bids
The way war is being fought is changing in front of our eyes and the USA is behind the curve. I have one son in Berlin and one in NY. Both of them say that they and their friends are being targeted with big money to join the defence industry due to their technical skills. The Germans are working very close with Ukraine and their technology is being tested on a daily basis. Being shot by another solider is disappearing instead soldiers face a constant fight with robots. This is robot wars in gruesome reality.
Andrew Lilico
@andrew_lilico
What else did they expect? The voters couldn't have been clearer that they didn't want Sunakism. Then Starmer came in & brought us Sunakism-only-more-so.
https://x.com/andrew_lilico/status/1958135945879798078
Do you think Jenrick & Co really don't know the extremist political / violent neo-fascist / organised crime criminal nexus they are playing in the shallows of?
This guy (Matt Twomey) is an associate of Paul Golding, who is attached to Tommy Robinson and came up via the BNP and Britain First, amassing a criminal record along the way. eg Golding and Robinson:
Golding, of Hodder Bank, Stockport, spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth, address and nationality.
English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, watched the proceedings in the court’s physically distanced public gallery.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/20/britain-first-leader-paul-golding-convicted-under-terrorism-law
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0yd0829m4o
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev_Gupta
If you disagree with something Jenrick is saying and think your explanations are better, make the argument rather than attempting to smear him by infantile semi-allegations.
Sorry
@atrupar
Vance and Hegseth are meeting with National Guard troops in DC as protesters loudly chant "Free DC!"
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1958208860398714982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqfsiSpfv-g
Russia says no way unless it is involved in "securing" Ukraine.
It really is a surprise.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!
Burnley MP speaks out:
Oliver Ryan MP
@OliverRyanUK
Things are getting serious now.
It's time for some facts about local Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and asylum hotels, to stop the nonsense. Lets have it right - concerns about illegal migration are valid, but people in our area are being targeted & its got to stop.
🧵 1/2
https://x.com/OliverRyanUK/status/1958203397963714910
- Where the border should be
- Whether a meaningful security guarantee can be given
- Whether Putin will even meet Zelensky
- ... And I assume lots more
My guess it Ukraine fades back off the headlines within a week as reality sets in
We were both in the same year at Trinity.
He read economics while running a business from his college room. He had a fax machine and a phone put in.
I read detective novels and drank cheap red wine by the bucketload.
I got on quite well with Sanjeev, largely because I was one of the few people in the year who didn't take him seriously. (I used to greet him "Ah, Sanjeev Gupta, Gupta Enterprises, sir!") He used to occasionally bother me when I worked at Goldman Sachs and he was looking for funding.
(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
Newsom's social media strategy/opposition to Trump is working.
He's gained millions of social media followers. Google searches for him are up like a rocket.
He's now the frontrunner for the 2028 Dem nomination per the prediction markets.
It's cause Democrats want a fighter.
https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1958198697285607695
if you've never seen a guy try to sound tough while whining about getting his ass kicked by 90 year olds, check this out
https://bsky.app/profile/jamisonfoser.bsky.social/post/3lwtwvtbfkk2s
Hundred: Your teams are Lancashire, Yorkshire, Nottingamshire, Warwickshire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Surrey and Middlesex.
And you are missing ten teams.
And a ball each over.
We'd be in regular communication for about a year, as I used to send him articles from The Times as at the time they used Populus for their polls and he really rated Populus (plus on Saturday night I'd send him the polls from the daily YouGov).
I then sent him my thoughts on why I thought Chris Huhne had committed perjury based on articles in The Times.
OGH rang me en March 2012 and said he was going on holiday in May/June and he'd like me to edit PB.
We met up a few weeks later before I took the hot seat.
So it's all thanks to Chris Huhne and Rupert Murdoch taking The Times behind a paywall that got me the job.
Edit The Times also used to commission Ipsos polls on Scotland which I also shared with OGH as we both knew the Indyref would be an epic betting market.
'Ms Reid said traders were not properly warned about the ice rink.
She said: "We were told it shouldn't affect the stalls in any way, it would just be a bit cold. There was no mention of water on the floor, or of condensation.
"I walked in and saw puddles on parts of the floor.
"Staff were trying to dry the bits where people were walking around on, but they couldn't get enough room. So we were just standing in puddles all day."'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2v8k9zmzeo
It's not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies' generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tech stocks tanked Tuesday, regarding broader fears that this bubble may have swelled about as large as it can go. Surely, there will be no wider repercussions for normal people if and when Nvidia, currently propping up the market like a load-bearing matchstick, finally runs out of fake companies to sell chips to. But getting in under the wire, before we're all bartering gas in the desert and people who can read become the priestly caste, is Microsoft, with the single most "Who asked for this?" application of AI I've seen yet: They're jamming it into Excel.
https://defector.com/it-took-many-years-and-billions-of-dollars-but-microsoft-finally-invented-a-calculator-that-is-wrong-sometimes
I mentioned last week I am attending a match as a guest of somebody involved buying the franchises next week.
Problem for Vance is while he is more intelligent than Trump he is less charismatic
The one Reform councillor on EFDC (who is also the Ongar county councillor) did attend the protests however as did representatives from the far right Homeland Party, the British Democrats and the UKIP leader
An unnecessary problem.
My understanding is that the list of people whose clearances have been revoked by Gabbard includes a career civil servant who was until recently the most senior Russia analyst in the CIA, and remains a senior official in the organisation. (The NYT previously reported that the list included a senior CIA analyst; see below).
They—like the NSA's Vinh Nguyen—were presumably targeted because of their prior association with the 'Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent Elections', the report which described Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
I think that would constitute one of the most significant Russia-related purges we have seen to date & with potentially severe consequences for US intelligence analysts' ability to report honestly and candidly on Russia related issues.
https://x.com/shashj/status/1958239330897662171
Not surprisingly neither the Tories or LDs affected at all, both keeping the same voteshare with YP included or not
A woman who killed two school pupils when she smashed into the back of a stationary car after sipping alcohol at the wheel and speeding at 96mph (154km/h) has been jailed for 10 years.
Natasha Allarakhia, 36, was speeding in her Audi Q2 on the A17 at North Rauceby, Lincolnshire, on 20 June last year when she failed to notice a Ford Fiesta which had stopped at temporary traffic lights.
The driver of the Fiesta, William Ray, 17, and passenger, Eddie Shore,18, died. A second passenger, Jack Prince, 17, suffered life-changing injuries.
Previously, Allarakhia, of Turner Crescent, Norwich, had pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnj5rmpn1o
Data was taken from the car:
Data taken from the two vehicles showed Allarakhia did not take her foot off the accelerator until just two seconds before the crash and was only 121ft (37m) away from the Fiesta when her brakes were briefly applied.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgnj5rmpn1o
They've essentially recreated the entire aesthetic from the original movie, but with a big budget and 21stC sensibilities.
It shouldn't work - objectively it's not very convincing as sci-fi - but it's as creepy as the original, and it does.
Ideology is secondary.
1. To weaken the USA economically
2. To weaken the USA militarily
3. To weaken the USA geopolitically.
It’s the opposite of Make America Great Again.
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1958211663062040954
It’s just sometimes completely unbelievable that we are here - most of us on here grew up with the news but also the films of the time of Cold War and how the US was the great bulwark against Russia. Everyone used to mock that the US won the Cold War without firing a shot and yet now it’s clear that Russia has beaten the US without firing a shot.
Reagan, Bush, Weinberger and all the other Cold War warriors would be turning in their graves. One man has undermined 70 years of US positioning and authority for venal and financial motives, not even an ideological takeover.
Immediate consequences: The two power blocs of Europe, Russian and Western, are a matter for Europe. They are both nuclear powers. The Ukraine war is about where the line between the two is drawn. From an American point of view this is a little local difficulty and matters little as long as it isn't drawn somewhere silly. Like through the middle of France.
Another interesting question: Where does USA stand now in relation to who, outside the Americas (which includes Greenland), is in the USA sphere of influence and would be worth American military intervention. Some guesses: Israel (actually that's certain): Yes. Taiwan: No. Japan and South Korea: Yes. Australia and NZ: No. Turkey: No.
Make you r own evaluation.
To me it smacks of Lee Anderson inventing a non-existent asylum hotel here in 2024; the not-an-asylum-hotel he pointed to was even over the border in Derbyshire.
We need to work to fix the issue, and have police crack down harshly on those seeking to exploit it for their own gain.
Just like the whole of USA politics is now.
Isn't that called terrorism these days ?
Exceptional, morally urgent and utterly clear sighted column in the Telegraph. Yes, you read that right.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/19/for-all-the-noise-trump-is-ever-less-relevant-on-ukraine/
What is irrational however is to do it in an unplanned way and without time - which is years - for the rest of the world, including Euronato (or whatever we should call it) to get its ducks in a row.
Lots of concerns, some valid, some invalid, some folk tales, some like traditional Nimby planning stories, which then land in the wrong place - in this case on a social housing project.
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
A family say their lives have been ruined after a video of a black man and his brother playing in the park with his white granddaughters was shared by Tommy Robinson and weaponised by the far right.
Olajuwon Ayeni, a musician from Redcar, North Yorkshire, has been racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile in the week since the family video was stolen from the TikTok account of his wife, Natalie, whom he married five years ago, and shared by extremists online.
On Tuesday, the couple’s local MP, Anna Turley, was forced to write a letter providing a reference of good character for Ayeni when he was suspended by his management after the online disinformation.
“I’m devastated to receive the email from my management,” Ayeni said. “Music is my life. My social media will be damaged, my career will be tarnished … but I am determined to show the truth and hopefully clear it up.”
He and Natalie say they have been living in fear since being threatened in the street after Robinson shared the video with his 1.4 million followers. The far-right activist wrote on his X account: “Wtf is even going on here? Where are the parents?!”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/family-in-fear-after-tommy-robinson-shares-video-of-black-man-with-white-granddaughters
Congratulations. It is great fun being a parent, even if a bit wearing at times.