The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
Away from the mindless nonsense of football they also seem to have a pretty promising wine industry. Obviously all Omnium funds are invested in clown-shows in the US, but if I had some free money..
Absolutely shameful nonsense from Infantino. The only thing he has achieved running FIFA is making people a little wistful for the common or garden corruption of Blatter.
On track to double FIFA revenue. Pathetic fawning to the global broligarchs works in terms of $$$$$$.
Away from the mindless nonsense of football they also seem to have a pretty promising wine industry. Obviously all Omnium funds are invested in clown-shows in the US, but if I had some free money..
Their wine is decent. We went to Korcula Island a few years back, The Posip and Grk were a delight.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
The article reads: “In response to a video clip showing the lawyer and academic Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Cooper replied with a crude mangling of her surname [Shaga Bing-Bong] and suggestions that she should “F[uck] off back to Nigeria.””
And: “Cllr Ian Cooper was listed as a “Top Fan” of the explicitly racist Facebook page titled “The European Race””
And: “In posts from February, Cooper referred to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and suggested that the British MP David Lammy should not be allowed to sit in the House of Commons, despite both men being born in London”
Cooper had said: “No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.”
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
The EU are the more advanced regulator. if the US doesn't want to play to EU rules, things could get very interesting.
I'd sooner eat a pizza with pineapple on it than have to watch his draw again.
I came on here after returning from an excellent long lunch in the LD stronghold of Wimbledon Village to look for the "subtle James Bond reference". About as subtle as John Cleese, Michael Palin and the Fish Slapping Dance.
Funny they forgot to mention this at the press conference yesterday.
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview. https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1996721228443181144
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
Unless they say nasty things about Trump or, like, pretend climate change is real.
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
If an American business wants to do business in the EU, they need to follow EU laws. I am not sure why people can't grasp this. It doesn't matter if it's a retailer or a social media company. https://x.com/RyanO_ChosenCoy/status/1997001805079658786
Little Marco is a bit slow. It took him half a decade to work out that he's a Trump poodle.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
If an American business wants to do business in the EU, they need to follow EU laws. I am not sure why people can't grasp this. It doesn't matter if it's a retailer or a social media company. https://x.com/RyanO_ChosenCoy/status/1997001805079658786
Little Marco is a bit slow. It took him half a decade to work out that he's a Trump poodle.
Arbitrary fines are problematic though. It's more of a make-it-up-as-we-go-along form of selective taxation.
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
If an American business wants to do business in the EU, they need to follow EU laws. I am not sure why people can't grasp this. It doesn't matter if it's a retailer or a social media company. https://x.com/RyanO_ChosenCoy/status/1997001805079658786
Little Marco is a bit slow. It took him half a decade to work out that he's a Trump poodle.
Arbitrary fines are problematic though. It's more of a make-it-up-as-we-go-along form of selective taxation.
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
If an American business wants to do business in the EU, they need to follow EU laws. I am not sure why people can't grasp this. It doesn't matter if it's a retailer or a social media company. https://x.com/RyanO_ChosenCoy/status/1997001805079658786
Little Marco is a bit slow. It took him half a decade to work out that he's a Trump poodle.
Arbitrary fines are problematic though. It's more of a make-it-up-as-we-go-along form of selective taxation.
Before beating Brazil with a Tierney hat trick, and then getting knocked out by Morocco.
That would be fairly typical from my recollection of Scotland's performances at WCs. We always do really badly against the "weaker" teams and then out perform against the better ones.
But given the number of teams that can qualify our first game against Haiti is our WC final. Win that and we have a reasonable prospect of getting past the group stage for the first time.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Even with a record day for wind we still ended up importing a small proportion of our power. We really need to be looking to produce something like 120% of our demand and become net exporters of energy again on the back of windpower. It could make a really useful contribution to our appalling balance of payments.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a landmark dispute over the constitutionality of President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Adult education could be provided in schools after 6pm. It would save on costs.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
My concern on that one is that they are (imo) in a tactical mode not a strategic mode. So Derbyshire will get a panic then worse services.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Adult education could be provided in schools after 6pm. It would save on costs.
Even with a record day for wind we still ended up importing a small proportion of our power. We really need to be looking to produce something like 120% of our demand and become net exporters of energy again on the back of windpower. It could make a really useful contribution to our appalling balance of payments.
Though more important than the immediate imports (which are basically European systems shuffling marginal surpluses) is the gas generation, which are imports (or forgone exports) at one remove.
Fortunately, increasing wind capacity doesn't require much more thinking- just upfront investment...
Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, also scored strongly - with members telling YouGov that the ability to beat Nigel Farage was a more important quality in a candidate than sharing their values
Keir Starmer's approval rating is **minus 3 per cent**. He had a positive rating of 33% when Labour members were last polled in September
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Adult education could be provided in schools after 6pm. It would save on costs.
In some councils it is but that works only for evening classes. Many authorities run daytime classes and these need to be held somewhere.
Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Adult education could be provided in schools after 6pm. It would save on costs.
At one time it was.
Cambridgeshire invented Village Colleges (secondary school by day, community hub by night) about a century ago, because it's just sensible.
See also 15 minute city theory. One of their precepts is that public spaces should double up their uses, so that buildings are rarely sat there dark.
Trouble is that laissez-faire models ought to make that happen, but mostly don't.
Indeed I think Scotland were the only team at that World Cup not to lose a match, therefore should have been recognised as the true winners.
And we played them again in 1982 when things were going quite well until Dave Narey's famous "toe poke" provoked them. And again in 1998 in our first game. I am starting to feel a bit picked on.
Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, also scored strongly - with members telling YouGov that the ability to beat Nigel Farage was a more important quality in a candidate than sharing their values
Keir Starmer's approval rating is **minus 3 per cent**. He had a positive rating of 33% when Labour members were last polled in September
Good Lord, they would poll even worse than now I reckon. I like Ed, in a kind of 'feel sorry for the complete geek' way, but he is a bad choice to be leader of a party or PM.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Adult education could be provided in schools after 6pm. It would save on costs.
In some councils it is but that works only for evening classes. Many authorities run daytime classes and these need to be held somewhere.
Even with a record day for wind we still ended up importing a small proportion of our power. We really need to be looking to produce something like 120% of our demand and become net exporters of energy again on the back of windpower. It could make a really useful contribution to our appalling balance of payments.
Though more important than the immediate imports (which are basically European systems shuffling marginal surpluses) is the gas generation, which are imports (or forgone exports) at one remove.
Fortunately, increasing wind capacity doesn't require much more thinking- just upfront investment...
Oh.
Yes, import substitution is highly desirable too. On the investment thing the decision to reduce capital allowances in the budget was one of the most disappointing thing in a dismal effort of a budget.
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
The EU are the more advanced regulator. if the US doesn't want to play to EU rules, things could get very interesting.
(and F**k US cultural imperialism)
I wonder what the overlap is between people who don't like cultural imperialism and people who cream themselves over the "brussels effect".
Indeed I think Scotland were the only team at that World Cup not to lose a match, therefore should have been recognised as the true winners.
And we played them again in 1982 when things were going quite well until Dave Narey's famous "toe poke" provoked them. And again in 1998 in our first game. I am starting to feel a bit picked on.
Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, also scored strongly - with members telling YouGov that the ability to beat Nigel Farage was a more important quality in a candidate than sharing their values
Keir Starmer's approval rating is **minus 3 per cent**. He had a positive rating of 33% when Labour members were last polled in September
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Adult education could be provided in schools after 6pm. It would save on costs.
In some councils it is but that works only for evening classes. Many authorities run daytime classes and these need to be held somewhere.
Perhaps they should all be evening classes
They could use schools for adult education classes during the day, and secondary education at night, when the kids are awake.
I keep trying to convince my wife that driving on a motorway is safer and much less stressful than driving on a winding country road that isn't always wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
We'll never agree on this.
A few months back I was driving and we ended up taking a ridiculous route to end up at a destination about half a mile from a junction of the M62. I was not pleased!
I often take one route to go somewhere and a different route back. I don't know why.
I prefer winding roads to motorways as I enjoy driving them and hate motorways. If I'm on a long journey I use the motorway but get very bored very quickly. I am not capable of driving long distances on a motorway and don't know how people manage that.
In the past I drove quite often from Llandudno to Lossiemouth in the day using motorways, the infamous A9, and county roads from Aviemore
A distance of 456 miles and I could do all of that and back to Perth on a tank of diesel
It is now way beyond my ability
I think the furthest I've driven in one day is SE London to Campbelltown, about 550 miles.
My dad drove us from Ilford (east London) to Aviemore in a single day, back in 1989.
Sir Tony Blair’s think tank is putting together a comprehensive policy plan for how to renew Britain and save the Labour Party amid speculation that Sir Keir Starmer will face a 2026 leadership contest
Friends of the former prime minister said he is frustrated about the trajectory of Starmer’s government. One source said that last week’s budget “killed any idea this is a Blairite or New Labour-like government”
“Some of the individuals are there [former New Labour figures], but there isn’t an overall plan to radically reform the state,” the source added
Labour figures who have spoken to Blair in recent months said he had all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer. One friend said: “He is looking closely at each of the leadership campaigns.”
Blair will speak publicly on Wednesday at an in-conversation event with Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary. Mahmood and Blair are both from the right of the Labour Party
Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, also scored strongly - with members telling YouGov that the ability to beat Nigel Farage was a more important quality in a candidate than sharing their values
Keir Starmer's approval rating is **minus 3 per cent**. He had a positive rating of 33% when Labour members were last polled in September
Even with a record day for wind we still ended up importing a small proportion of our power. We really need to be looking to produce something like 120% of our demand and become net exporters of energy again on the back of windpower. It could make a really useful contribution to our appalling balance of payments.
The good news is that 2025 was a very slow year for new generation hooking up to the grid. Should be a big increase next year, all going well.
The Guardian's deep-dive into Nige's schooldays continues.
"Bankole is one of 28 school contemporaries of Farage’s at Dulwich college, a public school in south-east London, who claim to have witnessed deeply offensive racist or antisemitic behaviour by Farage."
He would have made a memorable character in a George MacDonald Fraser novel. Right up there with Flashman.
Reform leader of Staffordshire County Council, reportedly, just bitten the dust.
An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
What's interesting here at present is tracking the ones where Farage reacts. There are far more cases where he does nothing, hunkers down and hopes it will go away, rather than actually acting. It seems to revolve around extensive media coverage.
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
The idea of stand alone Adult Education Centres is challenging from a property perspective. Unless you have enough classes to run the buildings all day, they become very expensive to manage and maintain.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
Adult education could be provided in schools after 6pm. It would save on costs.
In some councils it is but that works only for evening classes. Many authorities run daytime classes and these need to be held somewhere.
Perhaps they should all be evening classes
They could use schools for adult education classes during the day, and secondary education at night, when the kids are awake.
Just to improve understanding, this is how Adult Learning works in Newham:
Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, also scored strongly - with members telling YouGov that the ability to beat Nigel Farage was a more important quality in a candidate than sharing their values
Keir Starmer's approval rating is **minus 3 per cent**. He had a positive rating of 33% when Labour members were last polled in September
Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, also scored strongly - with members telling YouGov that the ability to beat Nigel Farage was a more important quality in a candidate than sharing their values
Keir Starmer's approval rating is **minus 3 per cent**. He had a positive rating of 33% when Labour members were last polled in September
I read on here that FIFA has awarded Mr Trump a peace prize. FIFA is football, no? Is that an in-house joke carried over from a previous thread? A reference to quelling hooliganism? Some kind of alternate universe thing?
I keep trying to convince my wife that driving on a motorway is safer and much less stressful than driving on a winding country road that isn't always wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
We'll never agree on this.
A few months back I was driving and we ended up taking a ridiculous route to end up at a destination about half a mile from a junction of the M62. I was not pleased!
I often take one route to go somewhere and a different route back. I don't know why.
I prefer winding roads to motorways as I enjoy driving them and hate motorways. If I'm on a long journey I use the motorway but get very bored very quickly. I am not capable of driving long distances on a motorway and don't know how people manage that.
In the past I drove quite often from Llandudno to Lossiemouth in the day using motorways, the infamous A9, and county roads from Aviemore
A distance of 456 miles and I could do all of that and back to Perth on a tank of diesel
It is now way beyond my ability
I think the furthest I've driven in one day is SE London to Campbelltown, about 550 miles.
My dad drove us from Ilford (east London) to Aviemore in a single day, back in 1989.
I drove from Sutton in South London to Perth Racecourse in a day once to arrive just 20 minutes before the first of the evening's races.
I read on here that FIFA has awarded Mr Trump a peace prize. FIFA is football, no? Is that an in-house joke carried over from a previous thread? A reference to quelling hooliganism? Some kind of alternate universe thing?
I read on here that FIFA has awarded Mr Trump a peace prize. FIFA is football, no? Is that an in-house joke carried over from a previous thread? A reference to quelling hooliganism? Some kind of alternate universe thing?
Blatent flattery to the Bigliest ego in the world.
I read on here that FIFA has awarded Mr Trump a peace prize. FIFA is football, no? Is that an in-house joke carried over from a previous thread? A reference to quelling hooliganism? Some kind of alternate universe thing?
They should put him in goal for the final.
Will he be better at taking a penalty than Diana Ross?
Sir Tony Blair’s think tank is putting together a comprehensive policy plan for how to renew Britain and save the Labour Party amid speculation that Sir Keir Starmer will face a 2026 leadership contest
Friends of the former prime minister said he is frustrated about the trajectory of Starmer’s government. One source said that last week’s budget “killed any idea this is a Blairite or New Labour-like government”
“Some of the individuals are there [former New Labour figures], but there isn’t an overall plan to radically reform the state,” the source added
Labour figures who have spoken to Blair in recent months said he had all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer. One friend said: “He is looking closely at each of the leadership campaigns.”
Blair will speak publicly on Wednesday at an in-conversation event with Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary. Mahmood and Blair are both from the right of the Labour Party
A public rift with Tony Blair would probably help Starmer quite a lot with the membership
I keep trying to convince my wife that driving on a motorway is safer and much less stressful than driving on a winding country road that isn't always wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
We'll never agree on this.
A few months back I was driving and we ended up taking a ridiculous route to end up at a destination about half a mile from a junction of the M62. I was not pleased!
I often take one route to go somewhere and a different route back. I don't know why.
I prefer winding roads to motorways as I enjoy driving them and hate motorways. If I'm on a long journey I use the motorway but get very bored very quickly. I am not capable of driving long distances on a motorway and don't know how people manage that.
In the past I drove quite often from Llandudno to Lossiemouth in the day using motorways, the infamous A9, and county roads from Aviemore
A distance of 456 miles and I could do all of that and back to Perth on a tank of diesel
It is now way beyond my ability
I think the furthest I've driven in one day is SE London to Campbelltown, about 550 miles.
My dad drove us from Ilford (east London) to Aviemore in a single day, back in 1989.
I drove from Sutton in South London to Perth Racecourse in a day once to arrive just 20 minutes before the first of the evening's races.
I read on here that FIFA has awarded Mr Trump a peace prize. FIFA is football, no? Is that an in-house joke carried over from a previous thread? A reference to quelling hooliganism? Some kind of alternate universe thing?
I read on here that FIFA has awarded Mr Trump a peace prize. FIFA is football, no? Is that an in-house joke carried over from a previous thread? A reference to quelling hooliganism? Some kind of alternate universe thing?
Blatent flattery to the Bigliest ego in the world.
Good heavens. Just googled it. I thought it was a joke.
I keep trying to convince my wife that driving on a motorway is safer and much less stressful than driving on a winding country road that isn't always wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
We'll never agree on this.
A few months back I was driving and we ended up taking a ridiculous route to end up at a destination about half a mile from a junction of the M62. I was not pleased!
I often take one route to go somewhere and a different route back. I don't know why.
I prefer winding roads to motorways as I enjoy driving them and hate motorways. If I'm on a long journey I use the motorway but get very bored very quickly. I am not capable of driving long distances on a motorway and don't know how people manage that.
In the past I drove quite often from Llandudno to Lossiemouth in the day using motorways, the infamous A9, and county roads from Aviemore
A distance of 456 miles and I could do all of that and back to Perth on a tank of diesel
It is now way beyond my ability
I think the furthest I've driven in one day is SE London to Campbelltown, about 550 miles.
My dad drove us from Ilford (east London) to Aviemore in a single day, back in 1989.
We used to regularly drive from Ayrshire to Felixstowe in one day. That was before we realised that Yorkshire was too good to drive through without stopping overnight.
I read on here that FIFA has awarded Mr Trump a peace prize. FIFA is football, no? Is that an in-house joke carried over from a previous thread? A reference to quelling hooliganism? Some kind of alternate universe thing?
Sir Tony Blair’s think tank is putting together a comprehensive policy plan for how to renew Britain and save the Labour Party amid speculation that Sir Keir Starmer will face a 2026 leadership contest
Friends of the former prime minister said he is frustrated about the trajectory of Starmer’s government. One source said that last week’s budget “killed any idea this is a Blairite or New Labour-like government”
“Some of the individuals are there [former New Labour figures], but there isn’t an overall plan to radically reform the state,” the source added
Labour figures who have spoken to Blair in recent months said he had all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer. One friend said: “He is looking closely at each of the leadership campaigns.”
Blair will speak publicly on Wednesday at an in-conversation event with Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary. Mahmood and Blair are both from the right of the Labour Party
A public rift with Tony Blair would probably help Starmer quite a lot with the membership
Interesting that Mr Blair might have thought 2025 Labour would be any kind of New Labour.
I keep trying to convince my wife that driving on a motorway is safer and much less stressful than driving on a winding country road that isn't always wide enough for two vehicles to pass.
We'll never agree on this.
A few months back I was driving and we ended up taking a ridiculous route to end up at a destination about half a mile from a junction of the M62. I was not pleased!
I often take one route to go somewhere and a different route back. I don't know why.
I prefer winding roads to motorways as I enjoy driving them and hate motorways. If I'm on a long journey I use the motorway but get very bored very quickly. I am not capable of driving long distances on a motorway and don't know how people manage that.
In the past I drove quite often from Llandudno to Lossiemouth in the day using motorways, the infamous A9, and county roads from Aviemore
A distance of 456 miles and I could do all of that and back to Perth on a tank of diesel
It is now way beyond my ability
I think the furthest I've driven in one day is SE London to Campbelltown, about 550 miles.
My dad drove us from Ilford (east London) to Aviemore in a single day, back in 1989.
I drove from Sutton in South London to Perth Racecourse in a day once to arrive just 20 minutes before the first of the evening's races.
I hope your bets were similarly successful.
It was near on 30 years ago - mid May in the mid-90s. First race was 6.15pm and I thought if I left at 9.30am I could do it. All day, as I was driving north, I thought "I'm going to make it" followed by "I'm NOT going to make it". Literally pulled into the car park at Scone Palace racecourse at five to six and had a quick look in the paddock before the first.
Can't remember the punting but I do wonder it was a glorious evening (I was staying near the course and there was a second car dof races the following afternoon).
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An unfortunate social media history by all accounts.
As the Reform councillor pool increases, so do the number of unexploded bombs.
OMG how awful
Vote Lib Dem
FIFA are deeply skilled in understanding narcissistic corrupt bad taste lunacy.
The article reads: “In response to a video clip showing the lawyer and academic Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, Cooper replied with a crude mangling of her surname [Shaga Bing-Bong] and suggestions that she should “F[uck] off back to Nigeria.””
And: “Cllr Ian Cooper was listed as a “Top Fan” of the explicitly racist Facebook page titled “The European Race””
And: “In posts from February, Cooper referred to Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as a “narcissistic Pakistani” and suggested that the British MP David Lammy should not be allowed to sit in the House of Commons, despite both men being born in London”
Cooper had said: “No foreign national or first generation migrant should be allowed to sit in parliament.”
Along with whatever the Truss thing is, life's just too short.
The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.
The days of censoring Americans online are over.
(and F**k US cultural imperialism)
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1996721228443181144
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1997001519829242351
https://x.com/RyanO_ChosenCoy/status/1997001805079658786
Little Marco is a bit slow.
It took him half a decade to work out that he's a Trump poodle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMJ3ftUtnw
He's locked in a future stream of cases by reopening the doors in the summer to the "failed vetting" candidates who were rejected for the General Election, and since.
He has the need to look decisive and to be acting, but he also needs those type of supporters. It's one of those where the cover-up may well do damage at some point.
On another note, the Councillors leaving are still ticking up but at a reduced rate from Sept-Oct. The turnover of Council Leaders is more interesting imo at present, given that the hard yards (budgets) are coming down the track.
Here Derbyshire are proposing to close all their adult education centres, and outsource the service.
I'm also wondering about Tice's position; he's doing a stellar job of being an embarrassment.
But given the number of teams that can qualify our first game against Haiti is our WC final. Win that and we have a reasonable prospect of getting past the group stage for the first time.
A nil-nill draw as I recall.
Indeed I think Scotland were the only team at that World Cup not to lose a match, therefore should have been recognised as the true winners.
The new provider could take on the buildings and charge back to the authority and seek to get other users to take on the building when there are no classes. The provision of Adult Education is a stautory requirement and tutors will need to be paid.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a landmark dispute over the constitutionality of President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.
NY Times
Fortunately, increasing wind capacity doesn't require much more thinking- just upfront investment...
Oh.
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Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, also scored strongly - with members telling YouGov that the ability to beat Nigel Farage was a more important quality in a candidate than sharing their values
Keir Starmer's approval rating is **minus 3 per cent**. He had a positive rating of 33% when Labour members were last polled in September
Approval rating:
Ed Miliband: 55%
Wes Streeting: 44%
Lucy Powell: 31%
Shabana Mahmood: 18%
Rachel Reeves: 13%
Keir Starmer: -3%
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Ed Miliband is likely to be the Labour membership’s preferred choice to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, according to polling that reveals the scale of unhappiness at the party’s grassroots
The energy secretary has the highest approval rating of the mooted candidates to replace Starmer as leader, according to a survey conducted on behalf of City advisers last week
Shame we don't still have Darien Vessel in our squad.
See also 15 minute city theory. One of their precepts is that public spaces should double up their uses, so that buildings are rarely sat there dark.
Trouble is that laissez-faire models ought to make that happen, but mostly don't.
https://bsky.app/profile/jacktindale.bsky.social/post/3m7b7a5epe22u
https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1997019956114759810
Sir Tony Blair’s think tank is putting together a comprehensive policy plan for how to renew Britain and save the Labour Party amid speculation that Sir Keir Starmer will face a 2026 leadership contest
Friends of the former prime minister said he is frustrated about the trajectory of Starmer’s government. One source said that last week’s budget “killed any idea this is a Blairite or New Labour-like government”
“Some of the individuals are there [former New Labour figures], but there isn’t an overall plan to radically reform the state,” the source added
Labour figures who have spoken to Blair in recent months said he had all but “given up” on attempting to influence Starmer. One friend said: “He is looking closely at each of the leadership campaigns.”
Blair will speak publicly on Wednesday at an in-conversation event with Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary. Mahmood and Blair are both from the right of the Labour Party
#justsayin'
https://www.onls.ac.uk/venues.php
https://www.onls.ac.uk/courses.php
In Surrey:
https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/adult-learning
https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/adult-learning/courses/search?all
Both authorities use a mix of dedicated centres and other venues such as libraries to provide day and evneing classes.
Can't remember the punting but I do wonder it was a glorious evening (I was staying near the course and there was a second car dof races the following afternoon).