The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
Are Ofsted inspectors employees or contractors?
@Northern_Al would probably be in a better position to answer but AIUI HMIs (i.e. senior inspectors) are employed by OFSTED while the rest of them are essentially headteachers and deputy headteachers who do it in their spare time, so contractors.
And they are very fucking furious right now about everything.
The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
If he fails as miserably as Spielman, does he become a Conservative peer too?
He can't, so he won't. Even if OFSTED actually collapses - and from here that looks a serious possibility - it will be her failure, not his, even if he is blamed.
If you are a contractor, you pay for your own training.
If this makes your business unviable, you just don't do it.
If this makes Ofsted unviable, don't whine about it just let it go tits up.
This sounds like a load of heads and deputy heads who think they are guaranteed some extra bunce.
Er - 27.5 hours? In term time? For which they would either have to fit it around a more than full time job or take unpaid leave? (Again, AIUI their schools are paid when they are out on inspections.)
I am a contractor. If you want me to do more than one hour of training for any given job, I am sending you a bill. For 27.5 hours (three solid days' work) I am sending you a very large bill.
The point is - and here I think you are overlooking the issue - if OFSTED goes tits up, well, in some ways probably good riddance. But its statutory duties will not disappear. Who discharges them? And how?
27.5 hours is four Saturdays. Suck it up.
The retired ones may well do so.
The serving ones may not actually have the time to do it at the weekends, given the deadlines, especially at the start of term when things are frantic anyway.
Again, though, my question - who discharges the necessary functions (and with all its faults they are necessary functions) of OFSTED if it implodes?
In any case, why learn some procedure for free if it might only get needed once, if Ofsted goes all supine later this year?
In which case, just don't do it. This seems to be a problem though.
a Reform government will immediately ABOLISH the moronic IR35 rules.
We will clear all the obstacles to allow you to increase your earnings and grow our British economy! 🇬🇧
Good, it was imposed by the last Labour government and persisted, to their discredit, through 14 years of nominally 'conservative' rule.
I hope Reform have factored in the revenue losses from income tax as a result.
There’s a reason IR35 was introduced. People who were actually employees pretending to be self employed. They’re still at it.
Merge National Insurance and Income Tax, get rid of things like Employers NICs that encourage employers to shift people off books and there'd be no reason to have IR35 or any of that other bullshit. Those perversions are created by taxing people inconsistently, meaning they'll seek to have their finances arranged optimally which is rational behaviour within an irrational system.
Absolutely agree, and I’ll be using the coming 2 months to argue the case for this sort of realignment.
The tricky one is CGT vs income tax. There are some strong arguments to treat them differently, but some quite compelling reasons not to.
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
Does anyone know if Rangers get another 4 men sent off, if the game has to be abandoned due to lack of players are Brugge awarded a default 3-0 win? A chance to save face for Russell Martin
Do European red cards carry on to league match suspensions? Old Firm match on Sunday which are the ones the fans really care about. Barry Ferguson may be in charge by then so Rangers will need all the squad they can get.
More chance of Bazza pulling on the shirt on Sunday than Igamane
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
PB has a lot of cricket fans and I think only one of us have ever said anything positive about The Hundred in four years.
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
PB has a lot of cricket fans and I think only one of us have ever said anything positive about The Hundred in four years.
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
PB has a lot of cricket fans and I think only one of us have ever said anything positive about The Hundred in four years.
I trust he was flagged.
The requests for the use of the banhammer was overwhelming.
The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
Are Ofsted inspectors employees or contractors?
@Northern_Al would probably be in a better position to answer but AIUI HMIs (i.e. senior inspectors) are employed by OFSTED while the rest of them are essentially headteachers and deputy headteachers who do it in their spare time, so contractors.
And they are very fucking furious right now about everything.
The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
If he fails as miserably as Spielman, does he become a Conservative peer too?
He can't, so he won't. Even if OFSTED actually collapses - and from here that looks a serious possibility - it will be her failure, not his, even if he is blamed.
If you are a contractor, you pay for your own training.
If this makes your business unviable, you just don't do it.
If this makes Ofsted unviable, don't whine about it just let it go tits up.
This sounds like a load of heads and deputy heads who think they are guaranteed some extra bunce.
Er - 27.5 hours? In term time? For which they would either have to fit it around a more than full time job or take unpaid leave? (Again, AIUI their schools are paid when they are out on inspections.)
I am a contractor. If you want me to do more than one hour of training for any given job, I am sending you a bill. For 27.5 hours (three solid days' work) I am sending you a very large bill.
The point is - and here I think you are overlooking the issue - if OFSTED goes tits up, well, in some ways probably good riddance. But its statutory duties will not disappear. Who discharges them? And how?
27.5 hours is four Saturdays. Suck it up.
The retired ones may well do so.
The serving ones may not actually have the time to do it at the weekends, given the deadlines, especially at the start of term when things are frantic anyway.
Again, though, my question - who discharges the necessary functions (and with all its faults they are necessary functions) of OFSTED if it implodes?
In any case, why learn some procedure for free if it might only get needed once, if Ofsted goes all supine later this year?
In which case, just don't do it. This seems to be a problem though.
I think a lot of them will probably be glad of an excuse to quit, from what I've seen. I don't think there would be quite so much resentment around this extra training if they weren't all absolutely livid with OFSTED as it is.
But again - that's probably not a great thing if it means OFSTED can't function. I've worked in a school that needed an OFSTED inspection because of major safeguarding issues that the board and for the matter of that the local safeguarding board were wilfully blind to, and it wasn't until OFSTED went in last year (long after I had stormed out along with half the other SLT) that things were finally sorted out and the persons concerned were brought to book.
Edit - yes, I'm OFSTED's fiercest critic, but I've never denied their importance or the positive impact they can have when properly managed. Also now the school in question has gone through some major changes as a result I can speak a bit more freely.
The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
Are Ofsted inspectors employees or contractors?
@Northern_Al would probably be in a better position to answer but AIUI HMIs (i.e. senior inspectors) are employed by OFSTED while the rest of them are essentially headteachers and deputy headteachers who do it in their spare time, so contractors.
And they are very fucking furious right now about everything.
The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
If he fails as miserably as Spielman, does he become a Conservative peer too?
He can't, so he won't. Even if OFSTED actually collapses - and from here that looks a serious possibility - it will be her failure, not his, even if he is blamed.
If you are a contractor, you pay for your own training.
If this makes your business unviable, you just don't do it.
If this makes Ofsted unviable, don't whine about it just let it go tits up.
This sounds like a load of heads and deputy heads who think they are guaranteed some extra bunce.
Er - 27.5 hours? In term time? For which they would either have to fit it around a more than full time job or take unpaid leave? (Again, AIUI their schools are paid when they are out on inspections.)
I am a contractor. If you want me to do more than one hour of training for any given job, I am sending you a bill. For 27.5 hours (three solid days' work) I am sending you a very large bill.
The point is - and here I think you are overlooking the issue - if OFSTED goes tits up, well, in some ways probably good riddance. But its statutory duties will not disappear. Who discharges them? And how?
27.5 hours is four Saturdays. Suck it up.
The retired ones may well do so.
The serving ones may not actually have the time to do it at the weekends, given the deadlines, especially at the start of term when things are frantic anyway.
Again, though, my question - who discharges the necessary functions (and with all its faults they are necessary functions) of OFSTED if it implodes?
In any case, why learn some procedure for free if it might only get needed once, if Ofsted goes all supine later this year?
In which case, just don't do it. This seems to be a problem though.
I think a lot of them will probably be glad of an excuse to quit, from what I've seen. I don't think there would be quite so much resentment around this extra training if they weren't all absolutely livid with OFSTED as it is.
But again - that's probably not a great thing if it means OFSTED can't function. I've worked in a school that needed an OFSTED inspection because of major safeguarding issues that the board and for the matter of that the local safeguarding board were wilfully blind to, and it wasn't until OFSTED went in last year (long after I had stormed out along with half the other SLT) that things were finally sorted out and the persons concerned were brought to book.
Edit - yes, I'm OFSTED's fiercest critic, but I've never denied their importance or the positive impact they can have when properly managed. Also now the school in question has gone through some major changes as a result I can speak a bit more freely.
Having someone from ‘outside’ tell you how to do your job can be challenging, especially when you are doing an excellent job and think the views from outside are partly ideology driven. Pharmacy schools are acredited by the GPHC. Bath had a really tough one in 2013, driven by a couple of things. The course wasn’t seen as integrated, despite students saying how well it came together by the end. And the assessment strategy wasn’t clearly enough defined for the panels liking.
Now my problem with this is that our students were coming top in the GPHCs own assessment, the pre-reg exam. So our teaching and end product was fine, just the GPHC didn’t like how we got there.
As a result we rewrite our entire curriculum. Not because our students were failing but because the regulator didn’t like our way of doing it.
The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
Are Ofsted inspectors employees or contractors?
@Northern_Al would probably be in a better position to answer but AIUI HMIs (i.e. senior inspectors) are employed by OFSTED while the rest of them are essentially headteachers and deputy headteachers who do it in their spare time, so contractors.
And they are very fucking furious right now about everything.
The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which training they will not be paid).
You have to feel sorry for Sir Martyn Oliver. None of this is his fault. He inherited a fundamentally broken system from a predecessor who was outrageously stupid and arrogant, at the same moment as a political change meant he was forced to push things along faster than he would like.
The greatest irony of all is that of course he was one of Spielman's fiercest critics - yet he will get blamed for the fallout from her mess if OFSTED implodes in the coming year.
If he fails as miserably as Spielman, does he become a Conservative peer too?
He can't, so he won't. Even if OFSTED actually collapses - and from here that looks a serious possibility - it will be her failure, not his, even if he is blamed.
If you are a contractor, you pay for your own training.
If this makes your business unviable, you just don't do it.
If this makes Ofsted unviable, don't whine about it just let it go tits up.
This sounds like a load of heads and deputy heads who think they are guaranteed some extra bunce.
Er - 27.5 hours? In term time? For which they would either have to fit it around a more than full time job or take unpaid leave? (Again, AIUI their schools are paid when they are out on inspections.)
I am a contractor. If you want me to do more than one hour of training for any given job, I am sending you a bill. For 27.5 hours (three solid days' work) I am sending you a very large bill.
The point is - and here I think you are overlooking the issue - if OFSTED goes tits up, well, in some ways probably good riddance. But its statutory duties will not disappear. Who discharges them? And how?
27.5 hours is four Saturdays. Suck it up.
The retired ones may well do so.
The serving ones may not actually have the time to do it at the weekends, given the deadlines, especially at the start of term when things are frantic anyway.
Again, though, my question - who discharges the necessary functions (and with all its faults they are necessary functions) of OFSTED if it implodes?
Here is a good video about Russian gunpowder factories going up in smoke - well, spectacular explosions, really - which could be as decisive for the war as the oil refineries, but gets less publicity.
So the Yanks get to sink the Ark, Royal Oak, Pedestal convoy, etc. etc.?
Mind, just been reading Rodgers' third and final history of the RN. Given what King and some - but not all, not by a long shot - USN officers thought of the RN (even if it was not as bad as what they thought of the US Army and especially Macarthur), it would be an easy mistake for an AI.
Edit: hydroplanes on the sail!? Must be the German fortress in the Arctic, sorry Antarctic.
I'm just reading a little about President Hoover (in The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter) and it includes this amazing detail about his work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium during WWI:
"For four years.. Hoover's commission fed ten million people. The task was accomplished with astonishing efficiency, and when the commission's accounts were tallied at the close of operations its overhead was found to be only three eighths of one per cent of total expenditures.."
Sounds like he was spectacularly ill-suited to be President though. I don't know why I find it so surprising that he should have been successful at many things prior to becoming President, but I am.
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
PB has a lot of cricket fans and I think only one of us have ever said anything positive about The Hundred in four years.
I trust he was flagged.
The requests for the use of the banhammer was overwhelming.
Was that me? I said I quite liked that the teams are sponsored by crisps. Apart from that, it's an abomination. And a double tragedy as the T20 is such a wonderful format.
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
PB has a lot of cricket fans and I think only one of us have ever said anything positive about The Hundred in four years.
I trust he was flagged.
The requests for the use of the banhammer was overwhelming.
Was that me? I said I quite liked that the teams are sponsored by crisps. Apart from that, it's an abomination. And a double tragedy as the T20 is such a wonderful format.
I'm just reading a little about President Hoover (in The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter) and it includes this amazing detail about his work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium during WWI:
"For four years.. Hoover's commission fed ten million people. The task was accomplished with astonishing efficiency, and when the commission's accounts were tallied at the close of operations its overhead was found to be only three eighths of one per cent of total expenditures.."
Sounds like he was spectacularly ill-suited to be President though. I don't know why I find it so surprising that he should have been successful at many things prior to becoming President, but I am.
There are still streets and squares in little Belgian towns named after him.
In other news I just has Wiener schnitzel in graz’s most famous restaurant which is inside a magnificent Renaissance courtyard in the UNESCO listed core of beautiful central Graz
I figured it would be the platonic ideal of Wiener schnitzels and I might finally like it
Nope. It’s still just a chunk of dull thin breaded veal
Is this the most boring national dish in the world?
The national dish of Equatorial Guinea is succotash. Beans, corn, vegetables.
Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 31, is being ousted, according to three sources familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were not authorized to share the information.
Her departure leaves the agency leaderless at a perilous time. Morale, which was already low after deep staff cuts this spring, plummeted after a gunman opened fire on the agency’s main campus in Atlanta on August 8, pocking the buildings with hundreds of bullet holes and killing DeKalb County police officer David Rose.
His and the LDs lumbering oafishness is one of the untold great political stories.
Clegg is partly to blame, having crashed the car and run off from the scene, but the main blame is on the UK public. Talk about a bad break up!
You’ll forgive me if I don’t take your analysis too seriously. As a Conservative, it must still annoy you lost 250 seats in July 2024 and the result for your party in terms of seats and vote share was the worst since 1832.
Even now you’re in a statistical tie with the LDs for third place with YouGov having lost a quarter or more of those who did vote Conservative in 2024.
In the local by elections in the once solid heartland of Surrey last week, the Conservatives lost seats to both Reform and the “lumbering oafishness” of the Liberal Democrats with vote shares down a third to a half from 2021.
It does annoy, you're quite right.
I am, or more accurately was, a lifelong Tory.
I think you can judge my political views most accurately if I say that I'd have voted coalition rather than Tory in 2015.
As such I would really quite like to have a possible vote that was an alternative to my longstanding Tory one. There should be a degree of comfort for that with the LDs. There's not though, and it's been a while since that was true.
I sympathise to an extent.
The brief philosophical convergence of Cameron’s “liberal conservatism” and the Orange Bookers made the Coalition possible but the political cost of the arrangement killed off the Liberal Democrats as William Hague correctly surmised in the aftermath of the 2010 GE.
There are many in both parties who enjoyed the old adversarial relationship and preferred that to what could have been a political realignment. The emergence of “Europe” as an issue further fractured a relationship which had become strained by 2012-13. It didn’t help Conservative activists started working Liberal Democrats seats hard and that work paid dividends for the Conservatives in 2015 though that victory turned out to be the epitome of a poisoned chalice.
Could Cameron and Clegg have sold Coalition 2.0 to their parties and on what basis? Running as Coalition candidates would have smacked of the 1918 Coupon election - had the two leaders tried, would one or both parties have split?
It’s easy for me to see 2024 as revenge for 2015 but the party won seats last year it never got close to between 1997 and 2010 - Chichester being a good example, Surrey Heath another. Such gains would not have been possible but for thousands of disillusioned Conservatives feeling comfortable enough to vote Liberal Democrat or staying home relaxed about a possible Liberal Democrat win.
Perhaps the relevant question for you is where has your old Conservative Party gone and why did it choose to abandon ground on which it had enjoyed electoral success over decades to chase a populist chimera?
"The emergence of “Europe” as an issue further fractured a relationship which had become strained by 2012-13."
Except it was the elephant in the room in 2010. The LibDems made it a condition of Coalition that "though shalt not" discuss European membership. A referendum in 2011 supported by Cameron and Clegg would have locked us into ever closer union - eternally. Silencing the matter allowed Farage to run with it, then Boris to see it as a way to the Top Job.
Epic failure by the LibDems - that ultimately gave us Brexit.
Blaming the Lib Dems for Brexit seems a bit ... harsh?
An 18-minute penalty shootout to bin us out against League Two Grimsby Town.
I know the club is broken at a fundamental level. But whatever problems we have - and they are endless - the answer is not Ruben Amorim.
It literally doesn't matter who the manager is at Man Utd for at least the next five years. No manager can fix the club. It can't be fixed until the Glazers are gone.
My movers were a pair of Liverpool fans, and the most cutting things they said to me were, "sorry for your troubles," and, "can understand turning to cricket when your football is so bad."
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
PB has a lot of cricket fans and I think only one of us have ever said anything positive about The Hundred in four years.
An 18-minute penalty shootout to bin us out against League Two Grimsby Town.
I know the club is broken at a fundamental level. But whatever problems we have - and they are endless - the answer is not Ruben Amorim.
It literally doesn't matter who the manager is at Man Utd for at least the next five years. No manager can fix the club. It can't be fixed until the Glazers are gone.
My movers were a pair of Liverpool fans, and the most cutting things they said to me were, "sorry for your troubles," and, "can understand turning to cricket when your football is so bad."
Awkward echoes of the national (perhaps global?) political scene. We can boo the manager, we can condemn their lack of inspirational leadership, we can sack them. But as long as the owners insist on extracting more than they put in, there are limits on what any manager can do.
NEW Quinnipiac POLL --TRUMP job approval 37%, disapprove 55% --67% disapprove of Trump's handling of Epstein files --By 56-41% people disapprove of troops in DC --By 60-32% people oppose sending more military aid to Israel --76% do not trust Putin to honor a peace deal
An 18-minute penalty shootout to bin us out against League Two Grimsby Town.
I know the club is broken at a fundamental level. But whatever problems we have - and they are endless - the answer is not Ruben Amorim.
It literally doesn't matter who the manager is at Man Utd for at least the next five years. No manager can fix the club. It can't be fixed until the Glazers are gone.
My movers were a pair of Liverpool fans, and the most cutting things they said to me were, "sorry for your troubles," and, "can understand turning to cricket when your football is so bad."
Awkward echoes of the national (perhaps global?) political scene. We can boo the manager, we can condemn their lack of inspirational leadership, we can sack them. But as long as the owners insist on extracting more than they put in, there are limits on what any manager can do.
They just spent 200 million on 3 attacking players but forgot they do not have a goalkeeper fit to wear the shirt
Never seen such a pathetic display from a manager as Amorin in that shootout tbh
So odd. Against Fulham he couldn’t even watch them defending corners
This is why he needs to go. I don't know what is worse - dogmatically sticking to an unworkable inflexible formation? Or being unable to watch the consequences of his actions?
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
Question of @ydoethur or any other cricket fans who might know. Why are Hampshirevplaying their quarter final away tomorrow despite finishing second in the group. Seems odd. Clash with the hundred?
The Rose Bowl is being used by the Southern Brave in The Hundred tomorrow.
Yep - I’ve just seen a message from the club.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
PB has a lot of cricket fans and I think only one of us have ever said anything positive about The Hundred in four years.
I changed my mind about it this year.
More joy in heaven over one sinner that repents, etc.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
United's forwards have been dreadful so fixing that is correct but in goal and midfield they are light years away from challenging for anything
Never seen such a pathetic display from a manager as Amorin in that shootout tbh
So odd. Against Fulham he couldn’t even watch them defending corners
This is why he needs to go. I don't know what is worse - dogmatically sticking to an unworkable inflexible formation? Or being unable to watch the consequences of his actions?
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on July 31, is being ousted, according to three sources familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were not authorized to share the information.
Her departure leaves the agency leaderless at a perilous time. Morale, which was already low after deep staff cuts this spring, plummeted after a gunman opened fire on the agency’s main campus in Atlanta on August 8, pocking the buildings with hundreds of bullet holes and killing DeKalb County police officer David Rose.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
United's forwards have been dreadful so fixing that is correct but in goal and midfield they are light years away from challenging for anything
And. As you can see. Forwards aren't worth a penny if no one creates chances for them.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
They’ll get Russell Martin next.
Feel a bit sorry for him, Buddhist Green voter (thanks to Isam for those revelations) is not suitable for the Ibrox mincing machine,
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
They’ll get Russell Martin next.
Don't be like that, he managed a team to Europa League qualification tonight.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
United's forwards have been dreadful so fixing that is correct but in goal and midfield they are light years away from challenging for anything
And. As you can see. Forwards aren't worth a penny if no one creates chances for them.
That is why they need to resolve their midfield
Though my daughter, who has been a United supporter and until recently a season ticket holder for over 40 years, says that at least they can now concentrate on the relegation battle !!!!!!
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
United's forwards have been dreadful so fixing that is correct but in goal and midfield they are light years away from challenging for anything
And. As you can see. Forwards aren't worth a penny if no one creates chances for them.
That is why they need to resolve their midfield
Though my daughter, who has been a United supporter and until recently a season ticket holder for over 40 years, says that at least they can now concentrate on the relegation battle !!!!!!
You should be ok. Brentford Bournemouth West Ham Leeds Sunderland Burnley. You should finish ahead of all of those. Not sure you finished 14 last season?
They'd be pretty stupid to stand against Reform UK because all it'll do is split the populist/right vote. The only exception to that is Lowe's seat in Great Yarmouth.
I really have a feeling West Ham should get Postecoglu in. He is perfect for them, the fans would love him
They'll get relegated along the way. Maybe have a few glory days, though no cups. At least we got a cup out of it. Either United or West ham should get Nuno when forest kick him out for whatever nonsense reason the owner comes up with.
Not really. They need a passable goalie. An average PL standard one would be a huge upgrade. Trouble is. They aren't the big money club anymore. And aren't going to attract all the talented youngsters in the NW like they used to. And with no European football pretty soon the foreign world class will dry up. (They are already down to a Top 7 finish - looks unlikely- or the FA Cup for season 26-7). But their fans haven't twigged that yet.
They'd be pretty stupid to stand against Reform UK because all it'll do is split the populist/right vote. The only exception to that is Lowe's seat in Great Yarmouth.
For the umpteenth time, the rent you can charge for your property is a function of the supply and demand for rental properties, not the underlying costs to you. Otherwise, outright owners would be charging next to nothing in rent.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
They’ll get Russell Martin next.
Feel a bit sorry for him, Buddhist Green voter (thanks to Isam for those revelations) is not suitable for the Ibrox mincing machine,
"I don't think we'll get beat 6-0 again" really is an outstanding quote. PS. I don't think he claims to be a Buddhist. He's just read a book and meditates.
Not really. They need a passable goalie. An average PL standard one would be a huge upgrade. Trouble is. They aren't the big money club anymore. And aren't going to attract all the talented youngsters in the NW like they used to. And with no European football pretty soon the foreign world class will dry up. (They are already down to a Top 7 finish - looks unlikely- or the FA Cup for season 26-7). But their fans haven't twigged that yet.
I have and frankly I doubt Amorin will survive if results dont rapidly improve
I'm just reading a little about President Hoover (in The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter) and it includes this amazing detail about his work with the Commission for Relief in Belgium during WWI:
"For four years.. Hoover's commission fed ten million people. The task was accomplished with astonishing efficiency, and when the commission's accounts were tallied at the close of operations its overhead was found to be only three eighths of one per cent of total expenditures.."
Sounds like he was spectacularly ill-suited to be President though. I don't know why I find it so surprising that he should have been successful at many things prior to becoming President, but I am.
There are still streets and squares in little Belgian towns named after him.
He did the same for Bolshevik Russia after the war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Famine_Relief_Act ..At its peak, the ARA employed 300 Americans, more than 120,000 Russians and fed 10.5 million people daily. Its Russian operations were headed by Col. William N. Haskell. The Medical Division of the ARA functioned from November 1921 to June 1923 and helped overcome the typhus epidemic then ravaging Russia. The ARA's famine relief operations ran in parallel with much smaller Mennonite, Jewish and Quaker famine relief operations in Russia.
The ARA's operations in Russia were shut down on June 15, 1923, after it was discovered that Russia under Lenin had renewed the export of grain...
Collectivisation continued, of course, and subsequently millions starved.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
They’ll get Russell Martin next.
Feel a bit sorry for him, Buddhist Green voter (thanks to Isam for those revelations) is not suitable for the Ibrox mincing machine,
"I don't think we'll get beat 6-0 again" really is an outstanding quote. PS. I don't think he claims to be a Buddhist. He's just read a book and meditates.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
They’ll get Russell Martin next.
Feel a bit sorry for him, Buddhist Green voter (thanks to Isam for those revelations) is not suitable for the Ibrox mincing machine,
"I don't think we'll get beat 6-0 again" really is an outstanding quote. PS. I don't think he claims to be a Buddhist. He's just read a book and meditates.
A wee touch of the Buddha as we say in Glasgow.
Although Buddha's very first teaching opened with "You shall know true sufferings." So maybe he's an emanation.
You can tell a club is poorly run when they respond to an awful season by spending hundreds of millions on forwards. That's almost never the issue. That's to buy off the fans. Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest). Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford. As Spurs did. And Everton. Preferably both.
They’ll get Russell Martin next.
Feel a bit sorry for him, Buddhist Green voter (thanks to Isam for those revelations) is not suitable for the Ibrox mincing machine,
"I don't think we'll get beat 6-0 again" really is an outstanding quote. PS. I don't think he claims to be a Buddhist. He's just read a book and meditates.
A wee touch of the Buddha as we say in Glasgow.
Although Buddha's very first teaching opened with "You shall know true sufferings." So maybe he's an emanation.
Maybe he lived in Edinburgh and pined for Glasgow.
They'd be pretty stupid to stand against Reform UK because all it'll do is split the populist/right vote. The only exception to that is Lowe's seat in Great Yarmouth.
Habib has just done an interview with Andrew Gold. He didn't say much on Robinson, sticking to his view that the Attorney General should not have intervened in a civil case. Much more about Farage who he dismissed as self interested and controlling Reform as his own personal fiefdom. As for tactical voting remember we are still four years away from the election.
In other news the Russian economy looks more and more strained thanks to the Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries. Hopefully the Flamingo cruise missiles will help to starve the bear further. My biggest concern is that Trump will try and sabotage it to help Putin.
For the umpteenth time, the rent you can charge for your property is a function of the supply and demand for rental properties, not the underlying costs to you. Otherwise, outright owners would be charging next to nothing in rent.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
I have no real idea how the rental market works. But my nice neighbour is having to move out after her landlord - who has for sure paid off the mortgage on the place - put up the rent by £170/month. Neighbour has lived there for getting on fifteen years. It makes me terribly sad.
"Centrist Dad" Adam Boulton has just said on the Sky News Paper Review that it "may not be such a bad thing for the planet" if the birth rate in the UK is only 1.4 children per woman.
Because, of course, the largest population increases are taking place in the UK and Europe, and not in Africa/Asia.
For the umpteenth time, the rent you can charge for your property is a function of the supply and demand for rental properties, not the underlying costs to you. Otherwise, outright owners would be charging next to nothing in rent.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
I have no real idea how the rental market works. But my nice neighbour is having to move out after her landlord - who has for sure paid off the mortgage on the place - put up the rent by £170/month. Neighbour has lived there for getting on fifteen years. It makes me terribly sad.
That’s awful . You’d think the landlord might appreciate a good tenant whose been there for such a long time.
They'd be pretty stupid to stand against Reform UK because all it'll do is split the populist/right vote. The only exception to that is Lowe's seat in Great Yarmouth.
Habib has just done an interview with Andrew Gold. He didn't say much on Robinson, sticking to his view that the Attorney General should not have intervened in a civil case. Much more about Farage who he dismissed as self interested and controlling Reform as his own personal fiefdom. As for tactical voting remember we are still four years away from the election.
In other news the Russian economy looks more and more strained thanks to the Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries. Hopefully the Flamingo cruise missiles will help to starve the bear further. My biggest concern is that Trump will try and sabotage it to help Putin.
The irony of petrol rationing in Sakhalin
Refineries are multiple square miles of pipes under pressure full of varying grades of inflamables.
For the umpteenth time, the rent you can charge for your property is a function of the supply and demand for rental properties, not the underlying costs to you. Otherwise, outright owners would be charging next to nothing in rent.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
I have no real idea how the rental market works. But my nice neighbour is having to move out after her landlord - who has for sure paid off the mortgage on the place - put up the rent by £170/month. Neighbour has lived there for getting on fifteen years. It makes me terribly sad.
You aren't happy they get a sixth cruise this year? Your lack of compassion for those who've slaved away all their lives is unkind.
For the umpteenth time, the rent you can charge for your property is a function of the supply and demand for rental properties, not the underlying costs to you. Otherwise, outright owners would be charging next to nothing in rent.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
I have no real idea how the rental market works. But my nice neighbour is having to move out after her landlord - who has for sure paid off the mortgage on the place - put up the rent by £170/month. Neighbour has lived there for getting on fifteen years. It makes me terribly sad.
Grim. There have been some attempts to avoid this in Scotland by reducing the rate at which you can increase rents, but as ever with the housing market this can induce some perverse outcomes. It effectively stores up the rent until the next tenant comes in, but that means tenants are desperate not to move, thereby giving landlords a lot of power.
I haven't increased the rent at all on my place because there is a lot of value in having a good tenant - but give it 5 years and I'll soon be charging significantly below the market rate.
For the umpteenth time, the rent you can charge for your property is a function of the supply and demand for rental properties, not the underlying costs to you. Otherwise, outright owners would be charging next to nothing in rent.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
I have no real idea how the rental market works. But my nice neighbour is having to move out after her landlord - who has for sure paid off the mortgage on the place - put up the rent by £170/month. Neighbour has lived there for getting on fifteen years. It makes me terribly sad.
Grim. There have been some attempts to avoid this in Scotland by reducing the rate at which you can increase rents, but as ever with the housing market this can induce some perverse outcomes. It effectively stores up the rent until the next tenant comes in, but that means tenants are desperate not to move, thereby giving landlords a lot of power.
I haven't increased the rent at all on my place because there is a lot of value in having a good tenant - but give it 5 years and I'll soon be charging significantly below the market rate.
For the umpteenth time, the rent you can charge for your property is a function of the supply and demand for rental properties, not the underlying costs to you. Otherwise, outright owners would be charging next to nothing in rent.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
I have no real idea how the rental market works. But my nice neighbour is having to move out after her landlord - who has for sure paid off the mortgage on the place - put up the rent by £170/month. Neighbour has lived there for getting on fifteen years. It makes me terribly sad.
Grim. There have been some attempts to avoid this in Scotland by reducing the rate at which you can increase rents, but as ever with the housing market this can induce some perverse outcomes. It effectively stores up the rent until the next tenant comes in, but that means tenants are desperate not to move, thereby giving landlords a lot of power.
I haven't increased the rent at all on my place because there is a lot of value in having a good tenant - but give it 5 years and I'll soon be charging significantly below the market rate.
You could always sell up.
Yep. But while housing is such an attractive store of wealth, I won't. This NICs change might help in that decision though.
(It's also personal stuff like having somewhere to move back to if my relationship breaks down).
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The tricky one is CGT vs income tax. There are some strong arguments to treat them differently, but some quite compelling reasons not to.
Frankly it’s a fucking disgrace that Hampshire are forced to concede home advantage in this way. Fuck the ECB. Fuck the Hundred. Fuck em all.
https://x.com/paddypower/status/1960806119850565798
Landlords could face national insurance on rental income in budget
The Treasury is considering a plan to apply contributions on the ‘unearned income’ as Rachel Reeves addresses a £40bn hole in public finances
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/landlords-national-insurance-tax-rental-income-xr085xd6s
But again - that's probably not a great thing if it means OFSTED can't function. I've worked in a school that needed an OFSTED inspection because of major safeguarding issues that the board and for the matter of that the local safeguarding board were wilfully blind to, and it wasn't until OFSTED went in last year (long after I had stormed out along with half the other SLT) that things were finally sorted out and the persons concerned were brought to book.
Edit - yes, I'm OFSTED's fiercest critic, but I've never denied their importance or the positive impact they can have when properly managed. Also now the school in question has gone through some major changes as a result I can speak a bit more freely.
Wont happen.
Landlords would just slap the NI onto rents.
I'll believe that will happen when I see a pig flying over Cannock Chase.
Pharmacy schools are acredited by the GPHC. Bath had a really tough one in 2013, driven by a couple of things. The course wasn’t seen as integrated, despite students saying how well it came together by the end. And the assessment strategy wasn’t clearly enough defined for the panels liking.
Now my problem with this is that our students were coming top in the GPHCs own assessment, the pre-reg exam. So our teaching and end product was fine, just the GPHC didn’t like how we got there.
As a result we rewrite our entire curriculum. Not because our students were failing but because the regulator didn’t like our way of doing it.
It still rankles to this day.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=122258127926021854&set=a.122128161110021854&type=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGv273oNqQ
The Ukrainians really are doing some amazing stuff, setting the Russians back years. Glorious work.
Mind, just been reading Rodgers' third and final history of the RN. Given what King and some - but not all, not by a long shot - USN officers thought of the RN (even if it was not as bad as what they thought of the US Army and especially Macarthur), it would be an easy mistake for an AI.
Edit: hydroplanes on the sail!? Must be the German fortress in the Arctic, sorry Antarctic.
"For four years.. Hoover's commission fed ten million people. The task was accomplished with astonishing efficiency, and when the commission's accounts were tallied at the close of operations its overhead was found to be only three eighths of one per cent of total expenditures.."
Sounds like he was spectacularly ill-suited to be President though. I don't know why I find it so surprising that he should have been successful at many things prior to becoming President, but I am.
Feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
Gotta be better than this farce…
An 18-minute penalty shootout to bin us out against League Two Grimsby Town.
I know the club is broken at a fundamental level. But whatever problems we have - and they are endless - the answer is not Ruben Amorim.
Apart from that, it's an abomination. And a double tragedy as the T20 is such a wonderful format.
Mind you, 24-23 was close.
Hardly surprising everybody eats pizza.
Her departure leaves the agency leaderless at a perilous time. Morale, which was already low after deep staff cuts this spring, plummeted after a gunman opened fire on the agency’s main campus in Atlanta on August 8, pocking the buildings with hundreds of bullet holes and killing DeKalb County police officer David Rose.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/27/health/cdc-director-monarez
And consequently, very funny.
Amorin spent the Fulham match with his head in his hands
Time to move on
My movers were a pair of Liverpool fans, and the most cutting things they said to me were, "sorry for your troubles," and, "can understand turning to cricket when your football is so bad."
https://x.com/christiancalgie/status/1960815096260616683
NEW Quinnipiac POLL
--TRUMP job approval 37%, disapprove 55%
--67% disapprove of Trump's handling of Epstein files
--By 56-41% people disapprove of troops in DC
--By 60-32% people oppose sending more military aid to Israel
--76% do not trust Putin to honor a peace deal
https://x.com/LarrySabato/status/1960775227287462162
That's almost never the issue.
That's to buy off the fans.
Either you honestly analyse the players needed (it is usually the midfield, whichever end of the pitch the problems manifest).
Or you get the best manager in the league you can afford.
As Spurs did. And Everton.
Preferably both.
Though my daughter, who has been a United supporter and until recently a season ticket holder for over 40 years, says that at least they can now concentrate on the relegation battle !!!!!!
They need a world class goalkeeper and midfield
Gary Neville’s ‘infamous’ 28 games (in all competitions) as Valencia manager:
✅ 10 wins
🤝 7 draws
❌ 11 defeats
Ruben Amorim’s last 28 games (in all competitions) as Manchester United manager:
✅ 9 wins
🤝 7 draws
❌ 12 defeats
Trouble is. They aren't the big money club anymore. And aren't going to attract all the talented youngsters in the NW like they used to.
And with no European football pretty soon the foreign world class will dry up. (They are already down to a Top 7 finish - looks unlikely- or the FA Cup for season 26-7).
But their fans haven't twigged that yet.
This will restrict supply of rental properties somewhat as they become uneconomical for some landlords. By the same token, that means there will be more people not renting as more houses come on the market to buy, so demand for rental properties will fall too. The net effect on rents is difficult to work out as it depends on elasticities etc etc, but it's not impossible that rents actually fall as a result.
Charging NICs on everything is a roundabout way of merging NICs and Income Tax. I approve, though it will certainly harm my finances.
PS. I don't think he claims to be a Buddhist. He's just read a book and meditates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Famine_Relief_Act
..At its peak, the ARA employed 300 Americans, more than 120,000 Russians and fed 10.5 million people daily. Its Russian operations were headed by Col. William N. Haskell. The Medical Division of the ARA functioned from November 1921 to June 1923 and helped overcome the typhus epidemic then ravaging Russia. The ARA's famine relief operations ran in parallel with much smaller Mennonite, Jewish and Quaker famine relief operations in Russia.
The ARA's operations in Russia were shut down on June 15, 1923, after it was discovered that Russia under Lenin had renewed the export of grain...
Collectivisation continued, of course, and subsequently millions starved.
I'll look forward to reading absolutely nothing about it in most of the UK press.
BREAKING: At least 3 CDC leaders have resigned tonight:
Dan Jernigan, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Deb Houry, chief medical officer
Demetre Daskalakis, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Possibly more TK
So maybe he's an emanation.
Grimsby are away to Sheff Wednesday.
Which prompts me to ask where is BJO?
And SeashantyIrish for that matter.
Do hope they are OK?
In other news the Russian economy looks more and more strained thanks to the Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries. Hopefully the Flamingo cruise missiles will help to starve the bear further. My biggest concern is that Trump will try and sabotage it to help Putin.
Because, of course, the largest population increases are taking place in the UK and Europe, and not in Africa/Asia.
Refineries are multiple square miles of pipes under pressure full of varying grades of inflamables.
Your lack of compassion for those who've slaved away all their lives is unkind.
I haven't increased the rent at all on my place because there is a lot of value in having a good tenant - but give it 5 years and I'll soon be charging significantly below the market rate.
(It's also personal stuff like having somewhere to move back to if my relationship breaks down).
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/profile/SeaShantyIrish2
BJO was last active on August 4th this year.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/profile/BigJohnOwls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZupQksNbq0