For those in peril on the sea – politicalbetting.com
For those in peril on the sea – politicalbetting.com
On average, over 60 large ships are lost at sea every year (although 2024 was thankfully low at 27). Startlingly, the number of deaths at sea per year is unknown, but strandings (at sea or in port) of sailors numbers in the thousands. We generally do not hear about such events unless they directly affect us. Compare this with air travel, where the loss of an air freighter can make world news.
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Zak Crawley, £180,000
Both sides transferred wounded sailors/troops and supplies to ensure no lives were lost needlessly.
Trump, Bibi, and the Iranians would consider that utter woke nonsense/a sign of weakness.
Not the same for the ME where you sense there is generational hatred. How it ends is unclear.
The tourist was detained under a law in the United Arab Emirates that prohibits publishing or sharing material that could disturb public security, according to Detained in Dubai, an organisation that provides legal assistance to individuals in the UAE.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c743g4yn4k8o
For example £240,000 for Joe Root to Welsh Fire is better value than £75000 for Mandelson to Epstein Fury.
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-03-12/oil-price-top-100-a-barrel-again-as-iran-steps-up-attacks-on-energy-facilities
Ref 26 (-1)
Grn 21 (=)
Con 17 (=)
Lab 15 (=)
LD 11 (+1)
Oth 7 (=)
SNP 3 (=)
PC 1 (=)
Thirty five years on and the Argentinians wanted to lynch the BBC Top Gear trio.
Lying on a job application or during vetting is Gross Misconduct and grounds for termination without compensation.
If he did not do that, then Sir Keir has lied.
Either he should have been fired, with cause, without notice, or the PM should be resigning.
120 balls? It wouldn't be the hundred then.
Consequently @Andy_JS has been added to the backstage subgroup. Draft 15 is the one at the bottom. Go to "vf.politicalbetting.com" and click on the envelope on the top right.
New: No 10 has denied Starmer misled MPs by claiming in September "full due process was followed" during Mandelson's appointment.
The PM's spokesman said today: "The full process that was in place at the time was followed."
No 10 also say they didn't bend the rules to speed up Mandelson's appointment.
Starmer's spokesman said: "There is a provision within departmental arrangements with UK Security Vetting to request a number of priority clearances each year. So that cases can be moved up the queue and completed earlier than others."
See the bizarre stuff about an aircraft carrier really being sunk and secretly replaced. Also that the more recent sinking of an Argentine submarine was actually a dastardly attack by a British warship.
Most Argentines regard this as a bit weird.
Source - Argentine relative-by-marriage, who is in their military.
(Apart from the added prominence it has given to women's cricket).
I’m on Polynesian’s. Revenge is best served on a cold Thursday in Cheltenham drizzle.
Having spent most of my life at sea* I agree that civilian sailors deserve better protection but in a world where civilian casualties including women and children seem to be accepted as necessary collateral damage, I am not sure what mileage there is in trying to get extra protection for seamen.
* I was offshore UAE in 1989 when a nearby rig was hit by a missile. The previous year the US had attacked and destroyed two Iranian oil platforms though they did allow the civilians to take to the boats first.
Otherwise if I were Daisy I'd certainly refuse lunch or dinner with Anderson. Dining out for 30p would be a great disappointment. Much like a Reform Government.
What was the world's policeman since WWII has now become a semi-rogue state itself.
It's not at all clear how we climb back out of this.
The global effects of indiscriminate attacks on shipping just make the problem more urgent/ difficult to ignore. And I hope provide some motivation for states to address it.
(Not looking forward to the return journey...)
The going hasn’t even changed… 🤷♀️
Focaldata found 2%
Find out nows 'other' is consistently 4% higher than pre Rupert's annoucement, Reform are off by 4 to 5% from the turn of the year/Jan average
YouGov only 3 points below Find Out Now
- This will upset his fellow academics (self-pitying and irrelevant)
- He found it difficult considering Thatcher and left her out (irrelevant to his thesis at this stage: that should come later)
- Various other gubbins about his life (I stopped listening at this point)
He did not at any point say the basics, which were- He has written an essay
- It has four parts
- Each part discusses a great disruption to the UK
- The first disruption is...
...and go from there.This is why the 60- or 30- or even 20-minute lecture format is better than the podcast format. Unstructured gobsh**e is not a good way to impart information. Bew might actually have a good point or a good essay but I'll never know because he just talked about himself for ten minutes. Aaargh!
I shall now listen to Lewis Sorely's lecture on William Westmoreland: 60 minutes with no bullshit and my recalibration lecture. Every sentence is informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6LR-UJsYRc
The Trump administration plans to issue temporary waivers for a century-old maritime law requiring American-built ships be used to transport goods between US ports as part of its effort stop surging oil prices
Let's see if that is maintained.
YouGov have them dropping back on 19 and everyone else has them 15 or below
You often have to do a lot of extra weighting as you’ll often end up with too many respondents in a particular demographic. Also the news cycle on that day can have a great impact on the results.
Still, the idea of the Greens only 5 points behind Reform would have sounded bonkers just 6 months ago.
And may yet sound bonkers in 6 months time.
Certainly the veterans groups and the families of those who fought there don’t seem to buy into it.
https://andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing-the-five-by-elections
Interesting iconography. St Nigel the Saviour who will heal broken Britain. My OH wanted our names taken off the 'list' until I told her, its the Electoral Roll so no deal. As a staunch One-Nation Tory she may actually vote Conservative this time.
The rope replies: “No I’m afraid not.”
Spotted on the Northern Line:
Trevor Phillips, carrying two phones and, according to the spotter, “wearing terrible shoes”.
As do the Welsh, since they occupied a chunk of it.
"What about def..."
"I've considered it thoroughly. No."
The effective closure of the strait, partly by drone attacks on oil tankers and cargo vessels, has pushed the oil price to about $100 a barrel. The quickest way of ending the blockade would be through “a de-escalation of the conflict”, Healey said.
He did not rule out the UK eventually participating in a possible convoy of merchant shipping through the waterway, but a formal proposal is not thought to be close while the US vacillates over the issue.
Where did you get your “‘Healey - UK considering defending the Strait of Hormuz” quote Big G? He’s clearly not saying that in anything I found. You got a link?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Wladfa
RIP
https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2021/june/08/20210608-sir-galahad
So he can defend them.
More now from Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi, who has told the AFP News Agency that Iran has allowed ships from some countries to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
“Some countries have already talked to us about passing the strait, and we have cooperated with them,” he said during an interview in Tehran.
“As far as Iran is concerned, we feel that those countries that joined the aggression should not benefit from safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.”