Patriotic Brits reject the monarchy – politicalbetting.com
Patriotic Brits reject the monarchy – politicalbetting.com
?Are young people still proud to be British? As @cazjwheeler explains in today’s @thetimes our polling of over 1000 16-17 year olds finds they are as proud to be British as adults 18+ but sometimes express it differently. Piece: https://t.co/TVLtc4CQcE pic.twitter.com/WSdpJjRbRB
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg2xknwyp7o
Whether Prince Harry still counts as proper royalty is left as an exercise for the reader (and the pollster).
*Innocent face*
But the Stuarts screwed up again big time within, oh, a generation of the counter-revolution of 1660. And they had to do some fairly drastic changes to concepts of divine right and royal succession to sort of preserve a kingdom, not to mention allow the big nobs to perform regulatory capture.
Kinda embarrassing really.
But the response was Olly over the top.
Just noticed Brexit is at just 5% but if you read on here it is the cause of everything !!!!
KCIII has failed to be the toxic monarch republicans expected and hoped for because a modern monarch doesn't have to do anything except turn up. If someone like Charles - who let's face it, it's both a bit of a shit and a bit of an idiot - can manage not to bungle it, then it's hard to see the circumstances in which the British public would turn against the monarchy.
I'm not sure I'd have used the phrase "a bit of a shit and a bit of an idiot" but it certainly wasn't obvious before he took over what positive qualities he would bring to the role to make us like the monarchy - but I think you are right in that the bar is actually rather lower than we imagined.
But it isn't infinitely lower. Low though the bar is, it's easy to imagine a monarch who fails to meet it - just look at his brother or his younger son.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/09/bbc-reform-uk-tim-davie-mps?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Netanyahu is definitely insane
What's slightly unusual is that he's shooting other people rather than his own to hang on to power.
Jake summed up the situation well. If the monarchy is ever abolished the PM could be head of state
https://x.com/EdwardJDavey/status/1965420701143171354
@EdwardJDavey
The BBC are constantly fawning over Farage's every move despite Reform only having four MPs. Our national broadcaster should reflect the whole country, not just one man’s ego.
Or were you referring metaphorically to his nervous breakdown?
The good news is a few hundred miles off course and they hit Isabell Oakshott and Richard Tice
Edit: of course, sorry, it was Charles I who was Scots, not James who was London born.
Although it apparently also goes to fund the growth of padel. Maybe it's that that Netanyahu objects to.
Britain as a republic is not so hard to imagine. I agree it's hard to think of the United Kingdom as a republic.
Although by that logic, we have just had a Scottish monarch for 70 years.
But I do object to that coverage lacking analysis and sometimes being positively sycophantic, as was the case with Chris Mason's oleaginous report on the Reform Conference, which essentially consisted of cheering the party to the rafters. And given that Mason is the BBC's Political Editor, that's not satisfactory.
An MQ-9 missile fired at a UAP in Yenen, seems to bounce off it.
https://x.com/IREPWorld/status/1965442923601793036
I would argue that England and Wales made extraordinary progress during the interregnum.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15080217/Relaxing-bathrobe-best-pal-Jeffrey-Epstein-Britains-ambassador-Washington-Lord-Mandelson-youve-never-seen-before.html
He can’t survive this. These images even worse than pictures that destroyed Prince Andrew.
And every time, there's a nothingburger.
I have all the skills to be a great diplomat (subtlety etc) plus I really want to be addressed as ‘your excellency’ and end up with a GCMG.
I did think about joining the Foreign Office after university for those two reasons but realised the private sector paid more.
Much more interesting than the previous hearing, overall, I think. Who knows what it shows.
That's a distinction that every schoolboy used to understand.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This... is not.
As for low IQ: at least you've not been claiming the Deltics were a good engine. That really is a low-IQ claim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_diplomatic_crisis
*innocent face*
LibDems 3,519,143 votes – 72 MPs.
If the Honourable Member for falling in the water really cared about proportional representation, he would have insisted that Farage, not he, gets the guaranteed two PMQs each week.
This is neither Liberal nor Democratic.
https://x.com/libdems/status/1965399385505661322?s=61
I also cannot see how this does them any favours or harms Reform. It simply plays into the Reform claim of being an insurgent the main parties all oppose.
The Apple Puzzle
On a tree, half of the apples have holes made by wasps.
• One boy picked 3 apples at random and said “at least one of mine has no holes.”
• Another boy picked 4 apples similarly. He showed me one of them at random, and it had no holes. He put it back.
If you may take just one apple from either boy’s bag, from which boy do you have the better chance of picking an apple without holes?
Let's number the apples physically, so child A has apples numbered 1-3, child B has apples numbered 1-4.
We will designated G as good, B as bad
Child A says, at least one of mine has no holes.
This rules in (at equal probability):
ggg, ggb, GBG, bgg, gbb, bgb, bbg
and rules out:
Bbb
Shifts the probability of picking a good apple from 12/24 to 12/21 by removing the 3 bads option = 57.1%
We have not used the numbers.
Child B removes 1 apple from the bag, at random, and finds it is good. For the sake of argument we'll say apple 1 has been removed, though it works exactly the same if apples 2 or 3 or 4 are found to be good.
This rules in (at equal probability):
Gggg, gggb, ggbg, gbgg, ggbb, gbgb, gbbg, gbbb
and rules out:
Bggg, bggb, bgbg, bbgg, bgbb, bbgb, bbbg, bbbb
(Notice how much more has been ruled out by saying apple #1 of the 4 is good rather than one of the three apples is good)
Shifts the probability of picking a good apple from 32/64 to 20/32 by removing all the bad apple #1 options) = 62.5%
‘We can see the UFO dogging an American Hellfire missile.’
What kind of UFO is it is it goes dogging !
Seriously, it may be an autocorrect for 'dodging' - but it looks as if there was an oblique impact which didn't initiate the fuze for some reason, but had some effect on trajectory.
But, in political terms, that's a long, long time away.
How on earth can Mandelson explain this away
Replace Davey with someone that's not an obvious womens candidate (cf Labour deputy) and they could be the next government. That they fail to realise this is astonishing.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/09/how-keir-starmers-polling-became-one-of-the-worst-in-the-west-in-charts?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Press Release frmo the House Oversight Committee re: the Epstein book.
https://oversight.house.gov/release/oversight-committee-releases-records-provided-by-the-epstein-estate-chairman-comer-provides-statement/
(With a link to the released copy.)
Maybe someone will emerge from the Conference. Maybe RP (of this parish) has some idea.
"All this talk about polling reminds me of an intriguing puzzle I devised from recent experiences with wasp-damaged apples.
Anyone who is into the difficulties of polling and sampling may find it interesting. Please post your answers but don't spoil the fun by giving any reasoning or explanation yet:
Two children pick apples from the same wasp-busy tree.
Child A picks 3 apples and says: “At least one of mine has no wasp holes.”
Child B picks 4 apples and shows you one that is definitely hole-free, then puts it back in the bag.
You may take one apple from one child’s bag.
From which bag do you have the better chance of getting an apple without holes — A’s or B’s?"
He was big into environmentalism when that got you laughed at. See also sustainable agriculture…
He also raised issues of race before became fashionable - stuff like embarrassing the Army as to why there were no black soldiers in the guards. Reached out to other faiths etc.
On a number of big issues he was way ahead of the curve.
https://x.com/MattCartoonist/status/1965457365001453724