I think even the naughty step is considered too brutal now. 10 minutes reflection time before home time for all involved
"There's a once in god knows how many generations chance for a real breakthrough of a proper Left party in this country" "Great. Let's make sure we fuck this up with in-fighting shall we?"
Sir Keir is certainly playing high-risk politics with his ID cards. However, it could well split the Reform coalition asunder, which I'm sure is Sir Keir's devious intention.
The thing is ID cards are very popular with the public.
Sir Keir is certainly playing high-risk politics with his ID cards. However, it could well split the Reform coalition asunder, which I'm sure is Sir Keir's devious intention.
The thing is ID cards are very popular with the public.
Survation Holyrood Constituency vote SNP 37 Labour 20 Reform 18 Con 11 LD 7 Green 5 Alba 1
List vote SNP 31 Lab 18 Reform 15 Con 13 LD 11 Green 8 Alba 2
SNP almost knocking on an outright majority. Impossible as it is for much of PB to comprehend they’ve had a good few weeks if you ignore BBC Scotland headlines. Will Your Party get their act together before next May? I think not but if they did and came out with an indy curious offer they might do okay, ie a seat or two. Lot of ifs there of course.
Are they not about to get a second hand kicking re trans when Sandie Peggie wins bigly in her claim against Fife NHS (and indirectly the Scottish Governments ludicrous Trans policies)?
No idea, I leave that stuff to the toilet monitors.
I wonder if @turbotubbs is expecting to be one of the "Are you female?" toilet inspectors?
I'm not expecting any toilet inspectors. I am hoping that women will be allowed single sex spaces away from ALL men, including those who believe that they are women, and those who fantasize that they are women. Including those with all male genitalia, currently trying to impregnate their girlfriend and expecting women to change alongside them (see Durham).
If you don't believe in the right of women to have single sex spaces then you don't believe in women's rights.
Really? There are a lot of pro-trans feminists who you think don't believe in women's rights, then.
Let me ask a question: why should someone who has been through full gender transition for decades, and has been using women's facilities for those decades, now have to use male, or disabled if available, facilities? What has changed?
The law has been clarified. Men CANNOT become women by surgery, by fairy dust, by will power.
I have every sympathy for transwomen. And they have the same rights as everyone else, but just as they cannot become a horse they cannot become a woman.
I think even the naughty step is considered too brutal now. 10 minutes reflection time before home time for all involved
"There's a once in god knows how many generations chance for a real breakthrough of a proper Left party in this country" "Great. Let's make sure we fuck this up with in-fighting shall we?"
There may well be but it would include almost none of the people currently involved in Your Party.
Sir Keir is certainly playing high-risk politics with his ID cards. However, it could well split the Reform coalition asunder, which I'm sure is Sir Keir's devious intention.
The thing is ID cards are very popular with the public.
Only because most don't know which way is up.
To be fair I think it is more that the argument 'there's loads of people on the make/scamming/working illegally etc and HERE IS A TOOL TO STOP THEM' is the argument they are buying.
Survation Holyrood Constituency vote SNP 37 Labour 20 Reform 18 Con 11 LD 7 Green 5 Alba 1
List vote SNP 31 Lab 18 Reform 15 Con 13 LD 11 Green 8 Alba 2
SNP almost knocking on an outright majority. Impossible as it is for much of PB to comprehend they’ve had a good few weeks if you ignore BBC Scotland headlines. Will Your Party get their act together before next May? I think not but if they did and came out with an indy curious offer they might do okay, ie a seat or two. Lot of ifs there of course.
Are they not about to get a second hand kicking re trans when Sandie Peggie wins bigly in her claim against Fife NHS (and indirectly the Scottish Governments ludicrous Trans policies)?
No idea, I leave that stuff to the toilet monitors.
I wonder if @turbotubbs is expecting to be one of the "Are you female?" toilet inspectors?
I'm not expecting any toilet inspectors. I am hoping that women will be allowed single sex spaces away from ALL men, including those who believe that they are women, and those who fantasize that they are women. Including those with all male genitalia, currently trying to impregnate their girlfriend and expecting women to change alongside them (see Durham).
If you don't believe in the right of women to have single sex spaces then you don't believe in women's rights.
Really? There are a lot of pro-trans feminists who you think don't believe in women's rights, then.
Let me ask a question: why should someone who has been through full gender transition for decades, and has been using women's facilities for those decades, now have to use male, or disabled if available, facilities? What has changed?
The law has been clarified. Men CANNOT become women by surgery, by fairy dust, by will power.
I have every sympathy for transwomen. And they have the same rights as everyone else, but just as they cannot become a horse they cannot become a woman.
Hang on a sec, that's not what the court said. They said that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, a person could not change their sex. But the Equality Act also states that a person should not be discriminated against on the basis of their transgender identity.
So it's not as simple as saying that, "trans women are men," just as it was never as simple as saying that, "trans women are women."
Meanwhile, in the Irish Presidential election campaign...
Every nation has its idiots.
It does but on the other hand, it has been conventional wisdom since the end of the war that Germany should not rearm. Our Irish friend might not have noticed the shift in the zeitgeist.
Completely wrong.
West Germany rearmed in the late 1950s. As did East Germany.
Until the early 90s the West German military (and then a united Germany) had a vast tank park and the largest airforce in Europe.
This is why Germany has a vast store of slightly rusty Leopard tanks to send to Ukraine.
This armament included the American policy of “lending” them nuclear weapons.
Which led to the following fun interaction -
In the late 50s and early 60s, West German fighter bombers stood alert with American nuclear weapons slung under their wings, sat on the ground.
One of the American officers in charge of the weapons got talking to a pilot. Who he noticed was wearing an Iron Cross. Turned out that the German pilot had quite possibly shot the American down, during WWII - been in the same air battle, anyway.
It should be obvious I did not mean the Germans had no soldiers at all but of course they did have legal and constitutional limits designed to stop their armed forces being large enough to invade Luxembourg (that have only recently been lifted), as you are no doubt aware.
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
I think Starmer is massively underestimating the kickback on this.
Plausibly. If Farage comes out against and makes it into a “nasty government trampling on the rights of the British people when they just need to get on with deporting X, Y, Z” I think that will generate enough heat from the populist right. Whether that feeds into wider public perception, jury is out I think.
I don't like Corbyn at all, and I have little time for the left. However if Tony Benn had said he was firmly opposed (I think he may well have said such a thing) then I'd have been really interested as to his thoughts. Politics is becoming poorer.
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
They haven't been a liberal party since the merger
Beneath the headline majority support for ID cards this drops significantly especially in people over 55 if it’s a digital ID .
I don't expect the government will provide phones and data plans, so anyone with no smartphone is buggered for a wodge of cash and at least 60 quid a year. ID tax
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
According to Luke Tryl it's 54 to 18% in favour. What's more two of the main Parties big thinkers Tony Blair and William Hague are supporters so that's good enough for me
Beneath the headline majority support for ID cards this drops significantly especially in people over 55 if it’s a digital ID .
I don't expect the government will provide phones and data plans, so anyone with no smartphone is buggered for a wodge of cash and at least 60 quid a year. ID tax
They could easily come up with some sort of passive solution for those that didn't want to use their phone akin to a bankcard.
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
According to Luke Tryl it's 54 to 18% in favour. What's more two of the main Parties big thinkers Tony Blair and William Hague are supporters so that's good enough for me
The devil will be in the detail. But IMO it's very difficult, of not impossible, to alter the detail so that it is beneficial to the public and individuals. And very easy to have the details to be far from benficial.
Do you trust this government - any government - to get the details right?
Beneath the headline majority support for ID cards this drops significantly especially in people over 55 if it’s a digital ID .
I don't expect the government will provide phones and data plans, so anyone with no smartphone is buggered for a wodge of cash and at least 60 quid a year. ID tax
I don’t see why they just don’t give people a choice of either digital or card or both.
Beneath the headline majority support for ID cards this drops significantly especially in people over 55 if it’s a digital ID .
I don't expect the government will provide phones and data plans, so anyone with no smartphone is buggered for a wodge of cash and at least 60 quid a year. ID tax
or they do what happens in the rest of the world and they are given a chip and pin card as a digital ID, either for nothing or it's provided for free.
Amazing how much of the planet have been down this route and yet they managed to deliver it without all these horrors to their populations !!!
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Be interesting to see how many LD MPs refuse to go along with Davey on ID cards.
“A Blairite, a Brownite, a Milibandite, a Corbynite and a Trussite walk into a pub. 'Hello, Mr Burnham,' says the barman.”
You had it right earlier. If Bernham was worth considering he wouldn't have given the story to the Telegraph. His ambition and lack of judgement has possibly even screwed things up for Lucy Powell
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
It is indeed, and I have only just rejoined. I’ve dropped them a note saying that I will be resigning again if they don’t oppose Labour’s plans.
Kemi against the proposal but not the principle necessarily. Calls for a proper national debate on cards and avoidance of burdens on law abiding citizens Bit half arsed
Has Starmer misread the room again and all because his obsession with Farage ?
Yes he has, but no to the Farage connection. ID cards is a Blair obsession, possibly via [edit: Mandelson]. You can see it might appeal to a technocratic lawyer with the political judgement of an autopen.
Kemi against the proposal but not the principle necessarily. Calls for a proper national debate on cards and avoidance of burdens on law abiding citizens Bit half arsed
Yeah, I can see why you say that but it does rather reflect where I am. I am not sure about ID cards but frankly I carry around my driving licence, my AD ID card, credit cards, my membership of the Faculty of Advocates and, perhaps most importantly, my Costa benefits card. I am struggling to get too excited about another piece of plastic, especially one that does not give me a free coffee from time to time.
Has Starmer misread the room again and all because his obsession with Farage ?
If anything this will help Reform . ID cards remain very divisive and I don’t see much electoral gain and a lot of possible pain for Labour .
I have an ID card from Cyprus because my parents were born there and have no issue with using one . Will Brits accept that they have to give finger prints ? I had to in Cyprus .
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
According to Luke Tryl it's 54 to 18% in favour. What's more two of the main Parties big thinkers Tony Blair and William Hague are supporters so that's good enough for me
The devil will be in the detail. But IMO it's very difficult, of not impossible, to alter the detail so that it is beneficial to the public and individuals. And very easy to have the details to be far from benficial.
Do you trust this government - any government - to get the details right?
The UK government has just gone ahead with the Online Safety Act which essentially says "give your personal data to anyone who asks in order to prove your age" in a complete about-turn on 20 years of warning people not to share personal data with everyone on the net. They didn't wait for fancy biometric verified mDOC zero-knowledge proof of age systems, they went for the worst possible options for privacy and security.
I'll be amazed if the Digital ID is well thought out.
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
Isn’t he famously wrong about everything though? @Luckyguy1983 should view it as a compliment.
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
You weren’t served pineapple pizza at lunch again, were you?
What an absolutely pathetic joke that Labour aren't doing anything in their manifesto, such as getting homes built, but are going to introduce ID cards digital ID which was not in the manifesto.
It will do absolutely Jack Shit to deal with those who pay cash in hand to those working illegally too, as existing laws are already breached for that.
In the spirit of loving grace, a friend of mine - who knows an extraordinary number of important and talented people (it's her job, basically) went to a dinner party the other day where she was plonked next to Douglas Alexander, the ScotchSec. She's on the right, but she said "he was one of the nicest men I have met, and - more importantly - one of the most interesting and intelligent"
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
I actually agree with your sensible rule about not being gratuitously or obscenely abusive. It calmed everyone down, and it worked. I am glad it persists (also it made us all more creative in our hectoring, which makes for more amusing reading). As a result I've even reduced my ordnance of C bombs and F missiles, in general
However, let us please have the rules applied equally. Ta
In the spirit of loving grace, a friend of mine - who knows an extraordinary number of important and talented people (it's her job, basically) went to a dinner party the other day where she was plonked next to Douglas Alexander, the ScotchSec. She's on the right, but she said "he was one of the nicest men I have met, and - more importantly - one of the most interesting and intelligent"
I too was surprised, but that's what she said
I have heard him speak and he was surprisingly interesting.
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
You weren’t served pineapple pizza at lunch again, were you?
My youngest son dropped my iPhone 17 Pro Max which I only got on Tuesday and cracked the screen.
Still in working order but decided to sell it off cheap.
Below are the specs
13 year old British Male Speaks English Price negotiable
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
Out of curiosity, when is the day?
I generally take it as read that its not a good idea to piss you off.
Some interesting information about who might be playing a mucb bigger role in handling your identity card details. Yes, it's everybody's favourite Bond villain, Peter Thiel.
From the tech deals anoumced last week : "The new investment programme is designed to strengthen the data analytics company Palantir’s role across the UK economy, with projects spanning defence, health, policing, and other public sector services."
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
I actually agree with your sensible rule about not being gratuitously or obscenely abusive. It calmed everyone down, and it worked. I am glad it persists (also it made us all more creative in our hectoring, which makes for more amusing reading). As a result I've even reduced my ordnance of C bombs and F missiles, in general
However, let us please have the rules applied equally. Ta
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
You weren’t served pineapple pizza at lunch again, were you?
My youngest son dropped my iPhone 17 Pro Max which I only got on Tuesday and cracked the screen.
Still in working order but decided to sell it off cheap.
Below are the specs
13 year old British Male Speaks English Price negotiable
Think of it this way: what’s better than having one iPhone 17 Pro Max? Having two!
Beneath the headline majority support for ID cards this drops significantly especially in people over 55 if it’s a digital ID .
I don't expect the government will provide phones and data plans, so anyone with no smartphone is buggered for a wodge of cash and at least 60 quid a year. ID tax
or they do what happens in the rest of the world and they are given a chip and pin card as a digital ID, either for nothing or it's provided for free.
Amazing how much of the planet have been down this route and yet they managed to deliver it without all these horrors to their populations !!!
The answer is simple - ID cards that are simply ID cards are easy. Too easy in fact. I could get the whole thing implemented for a tiny sum of money. The real cost is in verifying identity to create records and issue ID cards.
You’d obviously have a physical card, as well as digital, in my system.
The card would be your drivers license - so would be issued as replaced. Also issued with any new passports.
It’s the mad Minority Report fantasies that cost the billions and break all the rules on data security.
This doesn't fill one with confidence about databases.
"Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack
Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain. The gang of cyber criminals is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India. The criminals say they also have information about the children's parents and carers as well as safeguarding notes. They claim to have contacted some parents by phone as part of their extortion tactics."
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
You weren’t served pineapple pizza at lunch again, were you?
My youngest son dropped my iPhone 17 Pro Max which I only got on Tuesday and cracked the screen.
Still in working order but decided to sell it off cheap.
Below are the specs
13 year old British Male Speaks English Price negotiable
Think of it this way: what’s better than having one iPhone 17 Pro Max? Having two!
It's insured with Apple Care but the earliest slot I can get in Sheffield is next week, I am having to go to the Apple store in Edinburgh to get it fixed tomorrow.
There's no available slots for me nearby until the middle of next week.
Some interesting information about who might be playing a mucb bigger role in handling your identity card details. Yes, it's everybody's favourite Bond villain, Peter Thiel.
From the tech deals anoumced last week : "The new investment programme is designed to strengthen the data analytics company Palantir’s role across the UK economy, with projects spanning defence, health, policing, and other public sector services."
We could always have the Palantir sales team and the Oracle sales team fight it out, Battle Royale-style?
In the spirit of loving grace, a friend of mine - who knows an extraordinary number of important and talented people (it's her job, basically) went to a dinner party the other day where she was plonked next to Douglas Alexander, the ScotchSec. She's on the right, but she said "he was one of the nicest men I have met, and - more importantly - one of the most interesting and intelligent"
I too was surprised, but that's what she said
I have heard him speak and he was surprisingly interesting.
I don't know everyone is so down on him generally. One of the better ministers of the Blair years - a time when there were quite a few decent ministers - solid calm communicator, clearly in it for the long game as he came back, and survivor of notoriously vicious internecine scottish lab politics.
This doesn't fill one with confidence about databases.
"Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack
Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain. The gang of cyber criminals is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India. The criminals say they also have information about the children's parents and carers as well as safeguarding notes. They claim to have contacted some parents by phone as part of their extortion tactics."
"Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel with backing from the CIA’s venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, and was designed to revive the Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, a DARPA initiative aimed at comprehensive surveillance of Americans. TIA was supposedly discontinued due to privacy concerns, but Palantir effectively continued its programme."
Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom · 2h I don’t know why Hegseth is calling this big jamboree in until I do. I can’t really evaluate it. On its face, pulling all these guys from all over the world and making them all sit in one place seems kind of stupid.
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
According to Luke Tryl it's 54 to 18% in favour. What's more two of the main Parties big thinkers Tony Blair and William Hague are supporters so that's good enough for me
The devil will be in the detail. But IMO it's very difficult, of not impossible, to alter the detail so that it is beneficial to the public and individuals. And very easy to have the details to be far from benficial.
Do you trust this government - any government - to get the details right?
The UK government has just gone ahead with the Online Safety Act which essentially says "give your personal data to anyone who asks in order to prove your age" in a complete about-turn on 20 years of warning people not to share personal data with everyone on the net. They didn't wait for fancy biometric verified mDOC zero-knowledge proof of age systems, they went for the worst possible options for privacy and security.
I'll be amazed if the Digital ID is well thought out.
Am I the only one to notice that since we made it harder to access porn people dealt with their 'frustration' by protesting outside hotels.
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
You weren’t served pineapple pizza at lunch again, were you?
My youngest son dropped my iPhone 17 Pro Max which I only got on Tuesday and cracked the screen.
Still in working order but decided to sell it off cheap.
Below are the specs
13 year old British Male Speaks English Price negotiable
Think of it this way: what’s better than having one iPhone 17 Pro Max? Having two!
It's insured with Apple Care but the earliest slot I can get in Sheffield is next week, I am having to go to the Apple store in Edinburgh to get it fixed tomorrow.
There's no available slots for me nearby until the middle of next week.
You're going from Sheffield to Edinburgh..... just to get a phone fixed?!
"Palantir’s software, particularly Gotham, is used for predictive policing and “pre-crime” applications, tracking individuals suspected of potential criminal activity before any crime occurs. This enables profiling and targeting based on data patterns, eroding privacy and due process.
Palantir’s data harvesting creates detailed digital profiles of individuals, which can also be used for surveillance. Palantir is connected to the “PayPal Mafia,” a group of influential tech figures led by Peter Thiel, who wield significant political power. Palantir benefits from both Democrat and Republican administrations, with consistent contract growth regardless of who is in office:"
Any relationship between Davey's conference vote on changing opposition to ID cards and today's announcement from the governement, do we reckon? In no direction, either direction, or both?
Absolutely shameful that a liberal party could get behind this IMHO.
It is indeed, and I have only just rejoined. I’ve dropped them a note saying that I will be resigning again if they don’t oppose Labour’s plans.
What an absolutely pathetic joke that Labour aren't doing anything in their manifesto, such as getting homes built, but are going to introduce ID cards digital ID which was not in the manifesto.
It will do absolutely Jack Shit to deal with those who pay cash in hand to those working illegally too, as existing laws are already breached for that.
I have a cunning plan to kill the demand for ID cards. Tell the Civil Service and others of the administration class that they will replace passports, driving licences, NI cards, railcards and bus passes. They will also act as proof of ID for the NHS. Therefore the departments dealing with these will no longer be required, and can be closed down, saving £billions.
It would be a fair criticism of me that I get a lot of my opinions from The Spectator, because it's really the one bit of the media I read the most. And I think the first thing I read about a topic, if it reads convincingly, usually becomes my opinion till something else comes along.
So I am now officially against Northern Powerhouse Rail. I was all for it, till I read this fairly damning account of it, which is basically that it's not going to do anything for the North, because it's basically more of the HS2 project, just gussied up by Obsborne to look like his own genius levelling up scheme.
Osborne did that a lot. The OBR for example was meant to be a great way to ensure Tory style fiscal rectitude, but it wasn't - it was actually a quango designed to ready us for monetary union. Northern Powerhouse Rail sounds brilliant, but it turns out:
Called Northern Powerhouse Rail, this section alone will cost a claimed £17 billion (in reality, perhaps £30 billion). It will be a high-speed railway on which trains can never reach high speeds, because the stations are too close together. It will leave Manchester via a vastly expensive new eight-mile tunnel in the wrong direction – roughly south, only then turning west towards Liverpool, hence the longer journey time. The official reason for doing it like this is to serve Manchester Airport. But the ‘airport’ station would be almost a mile away from the airport. You’d have to transfer by bus.
So until another, better take comes along, I'm adopting Gilligan's view that NPR is shite and we should do a Queen Elizabeth line for Northern England instead. We're out of the EU now, we can do what the populace actually needs, not continue with their ludicrous grand projets and have to pretend they're working for people.
I'm surprised that's the criticism you think is the fairest. That you are a nasty racist piece of shit roughly on a par with the 'white baby' chancer would be my take. Maybe you havre to be of a particular mindset to both to read or write for that publication?
Is gratuitous, vulgar, foul-mouthed abuse of other posters now AOK again? I thought we were warned off that, coz it got a bit heated
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
No.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
You weren’t served pineapple pizza at lunch again, were you?
My youngest son dropped my iPhone 17 Pro Max which I only got on Tuesday and cracked the screen.
Still in working order but decided to sell it off cheap.
Below are the specs
13 year old British Male Speaks English Price negotiable
Think of it this way: what’s better than having one iPhone 17 Pro Max? Having two!
It's insured with Apple Care but the earliest slot I can get in Sheffield is next week, I am having to go to the Apple store in Edinburgh to get it fixed tomorrow.
There's no available slots for me nearby until the middle of next week.
You're going from Sheffield to Edinburgh..... just to get a phone fixed?!
The Apple Pro Max 17 must be bloody good!
Yes and yes.
Reality is that I've got a few things on this weekend and early next week (such as meeting JohnO and having lunch in Claridge's again) and I need my phone.
All my tickets, Uber bookings, etc are all on there.
Comments
"Great. Let's make sure we fuck this up with in-fighting shall we?"
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-algorithm-will-see-you-now/
This is the reason I am still unconvinced, especially given the current direction of travel of western democracies.
I was implacably opposed to ID when Blair was around for the reasons given in that piece.*
Not to do a Leon and start name dropping but I once interviewed Richard Stallman about the plans for a very minor publication many moons ago.
* Edit: Indeed, I may still have a "No ID' t-shirt from the time in a box under the eaves somewhere.
We cannot be killed
'Shortly there will be an election, in which Labour will increase its majority'
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/09/labour-majority-increase
Narrator: There was no election in 2007 and Labour didn't win an election for another seventeen years.
"Burnham would be Labour’s Liz Truss, say Starmer allies"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/25/andy-burnham-labour-liz-truss-starmer-allies/
🚨NEW: Jeremy Corbyn:
"I firmly oppose the government’s plans for compulsory digital ID cards""
https://x.com/GBPolitcs/status/1971248734949556452
🍿
“A Blairite, a Brownite, a Milibandite, a Corbynite and a Trussite walk into a pub. 'Hello, Mr Burnham,' says the barman.”
I don't like Corbyn at all, and I have little time for the left. However if Tony Benn had said he was firmly opposed (I think he may well have said such a thing) then I'd have been really interested as to his thoughts. Politics is becoming poorer.
ID tax
Do you trust this government - any government - to get the details right?
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/blogs/pseph_tactical_2025.html
Amazing how much of the planet have been down this route and yet they managed to deliver it without all these horrors to their populations !!!
Lib Dems oppose ID cards
Bit half arsed
Safe pair of hands... Scottish Secretary @D_G_Alexander poses next to a gasholder in Edinburgh to promote UK Govt regeneration funding
https://x.com/DMScotPol/status/1971258989087432955/photo/1
Well, guess what?
"US Energy Secretary stated that the US must continue purchasing enriched uranium from Russia due to a lack of domestic capacity."
https://x.com/UkrReview/status/1971261710477689140
I have an ID card from Cyprus because my parents were born there and have no issue with using one . Will Brits accept that they have to give finger prints ? I had to in Cyprus .
But if pin-head, potty mouthed tragic retired tampon ad exec @Roger is allowed to say all this, then I presume it is OK for the rest of us?
I do hope so, because I LOVE handing out this stuff, particularly to a worthless shit stain of a human like, ooh, @Roger
I'll be amazed if the Digital ID is well thought out.
I believe quite a few of wee Duggie’s colleagues consider him a bit of a gash.
Today is not a day to piss me off.
It will do absolutely Jack Shit to deal with those who pay cash in hand to those working illegally too, as existing laws are already breached for that.
https://www.gov.uk/prove-right-to-work
I too was surprised, but that's what she said
However, let us please have the rules applied equally. Ta
Nice breath of fresh air in the rare occasions when the Lib Dems actually stand up for liberalism.
Still in working order but decided to sell it off cheap.
Below are the specs
13 year old
British
Male
Speaks English
Price negotiable
I generally take it as read that its not a good idea to piss you off.
From the tech deals anoumced last week : "The new investment programme is designed to strengthen the data analytics company Palantir’s role across the UK economy, with projects spanning defence, health, policing, and other public sector services."
Although I doubt the government, any UK government in modern times, can actually build this thing in three years.
They'll still be doing consultation with selected pathfinder partners by time Nigel is measuring the curtains.
You’d obviously have a physical card, as well as digital, in my system.
The card would be your drivers license - so would be issued as replaced. Also issued with any new passports.
It’s the mad Minority Report fantasies that cost the billions and break all the rules on data security.
"Children's names, pictures and addresses stolen in nursery chain hack
Hackers say they have stolen the pictures, names and addresses of around 8,000 children from the Kido nursery chain. The gang of cyber criminals is using the highly sensitive information to demand a ransom from the company, which has 18 sites in and around London, with more in the US and India. The criminals say they also have information about the children's parents and carers as well as safeguarding notes. They claim to have contacted some parents by phone as part of their extortion tactics."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ldyvpwv9o
There's no available slots for me nearby until the middle of next week.
Children are a pretty common sight throughout the land.
Tom Nichols
@RadioFreeTom
·
2h
I don’t know why Hegseth is calling this big jamboree in until I do. I can’t really evaluate it. On its face, pulling all these guys from all over the world and making them all sit in one place seems kind of stupid.
https://x.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1971237953692443045
The Apple Pro Max 17 must be bloody good!
Palantir’s data harvesting creates detailed digital profiles of individuals, which can also be used for surveillance. Palantir is connected to the “PayPal Mafia,” a group of influential tech figures led by Peter Thiel, who wield significant political power. Palantir benefits from both Democrat and Republican administrations, with consistent contract growth regardless of who is in office:"
Reality is that I've got a few things on this weekend and early next week (such as meeting JohnO and having lunch in Claridge's again) and I need my phone.
All my tickets, Uber bookings, etc are all on there.