Support for Britain becoming a republic grows – politicalbetting.com
Support for Britain becoming a republic grows – politicalbetting.com
Our latest tracker data shows that 64% of Britons support keeping the monarchyShould continue to have monarchy: 64% (no change from Jan)Should have elected head of state: 24% (+1)yougov.com/en-gb/articl…
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I mean, he’s not as idiotic as general counsel to Wonble Bond Dickinson who famously accidentally described himself as a liar, a bully and ignorant of legal procedures by comparing himself to them, but he’s still not come out of it well.
But I suspect they’re just planning to resume bombing Iran.
I was going to put Trump there, but so far despite the increasingly detachment from reality in his assessments of what’s happening he hasn’t actually chickened out.
Which tells me there’s something really terrible in the Epstein files he’s absolutely desperate to hide.
Or, he thinks there is.
President Starmer has a ring to it.
With Wales of course it is different. Although Charles does speak Welsh and has lived in Wales, the first Prince of Wales to do so since 1409, the actual heir to the Welsh throne is - of all slightly unlikely people - Peter Scudamore. And I don’t somehow think he would be pressing his claim to it.
How dare people spend their Sunday mornings in a quiet leisurely pursuit when he's in a desperate rush to get down on his knees in front of the vicar.
I have no statistics but I'm certain that cyclists have killed far fewer people than christians.
As a scientist, I taught ologies.
And an oxymoron is someone who stupidly messes up combustion experiments.
In fact even 18 to 24 year olds by a 7% margin prefer keeping the monarchy to a republic, despite a plurality of them voting Green.
Cyclists who kill pedestrians riding dangerously at most can get 2 years custody
It's the second one there in a few years - in 2020 a dad of three was killed by a retired lorry driver who said he was "driving slowly and carefully" but was "blinded by the sun" so did not see the cyclist.
So to me this raises 2 questions - firstly the road design, and secondly the driver continuing education. The latter is being somewhat addressed in the current Bill coming up in Parliament.
So I think there will be pressure for that junction to be properly redesigned taking all road users into account, perhaps as a T rather than a "grass triangle Y" layout. What it probably wants is a good quality sealed surface alternative route for cyclists and pedestrians usable year round avoiding the junction entirely.
The MEN report: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/stretford-grammar-michael-mullins-headteacher-33810433
The other report:https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/driver-who-killed-dad-three-21061140
Another tribute from the Walk-Ride GM Discord server::
There is so much love for him on the school WhatsApps, he was so caring about the kids and their well-being and so passionate about active travel. I cried when I went past Longford Park today and remembered him crossing all the kids over at the crossing. When I met him for work he told me how often he was out there ensuring their safety. He was a big part of why we chose that school for our daughter. All day after we had a letter from school to say he had died in an accident I was hoping that it wasn’t while he was on his bike. Such a huge loss and so senseless.
The monarchy meanwhile remains as strong as ever and of course if anything the monarchy is more Scottish than English, descending from the Scottish Stuarts and James VI once his cousin English Elizabeth 1st died and Elizabeth's grandfather was of course Henry of the Welsh Tudors before he became Henry VII
https://x.com/RidgeandFrost/status/2046476698057580819
🗣️ Ed Miliband: "I steered well clear of Mandelson when I became Labour leader in 2010."
He tells @SophyRidgeSky both he and David Lammy were "worried" about Peter Mandelson's appointment to be UK ambassador to the U.S.
https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Internal_RoyalsTrackers_260414_w.pdf
On another note, LDs and Labour voters still give King Charles higher favourables than Reform voters, 64% and 57% to 55% respectively even if Tories still most keen on the King at 83% positive.
With Prince William that is reversed, he has an 87% favourable rating from Reform voters compared to 78% from Labour voters and 73% from LDs (albeit William is still more popular with all of those parties voters than the King is)
Niall Ferguson
@nfergus
Let me walk you through the events of the war so far:
1. The United States and Israel tried regime change; it didn’t work. Or rather, they got regime change—Iran became an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–led military dictatorship. That was not an improvement.
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the final compromise will take longer to be agreed upon than Mr. Market currently believes.
https://x.com/nfergus/status/2046678480512057346
We are not here long
No surprise Ed doesn't throw the drowning man any kind of life bouy.
Looks like Trump bent over and got banged mercilessly by the Mullahs , and is now making out as if he isn’t a gimp !
Turns out the extent of the Ice Age ice sheet in 11,000 BC roughly maaps the Elizabethan Protestant Plantation of Ireland and, therefore, the six counties of Northern Ireland and the "UK in Ireland", today
https://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/maps/historical/ice_age.gif
This is like fucking Ground Hog Day but with mad people in charge.
Did today's debate see Kemi Badenoch make any headway or did Kinnock/Westland it again?
Now he is proposing an indefinite ceasefire.
Stable Genius my arse as Jim Royale would have said.
The people at Chelsea who gave Liam Rosenior a six year contract.
1. If it can survive a monstrous wanker like Andrew it can pretty much survive anything
Why? Because
2. In an ever changing and often distressing world, people see it as a source of consoling continuity. The King is in Buck House, life goes on
This is a natural human urge, to look to the ongoing family as a comfort. The Royal Family is the National Family. We rejoice at the births and lament the deaths, and it binds us together. It has a kind of genius. And, note how many monarchies are in the top 20 nations by wealth per capita, it is about half or more, despite the supposed anachronism of the institution
They are all going to wait until Burnham is in Parliament.
Shades of Fats Waller sitting right down to write himself a letter ..
Pedestrian fatalities 2020-24 Table 3 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-pedestrian-factsheet-2024/reported-road-casualties-in-great-britain-pedestrian-factsheet-2024#pedestrian-traffic-and-reported-casualties
9 of 1906 in collision with a cyclist, 1047 in collision with a car driver.
As I posted a week ago my deep union/labour mole says it will defo be Burnham who emerges as leader.
What time is his warm milk and cookie due from nursey?
It is a measure of her charisma and emotional hold over us all. I genuinely miss her. I miss her more than I miss my own father, who also died a few years ago. Is that bad and weird of me? Maybe, but
1. my dad was a vain selfish twat, albeit talented and genuinely loving at times, so I have an ambivalence
and
2. The Queen was THE QUEEN and everything has gone wrong ever since she snuffed out
Edit to say, I should also add
3. I can be quite ruthlessly cold. I don't give a fuck if things die, in general
(Makes official speech. Takes sheet out of pocket, "That was my Government's speech. I also want to make these personal remarks to encourage the people of the USA to make sure their Constitutional Republic lasts ANOTHER 250 years ...".)
Edit - I should also point out that there was two Kings of England who were even creepier. One seriously considered marrying his 16 year old niece and the other in addition to raping multiple women (numbered in the hundreds) but married a twelve year old (and not purely in formal terms either.
Anyone know who they were?
Drag this out , fxck Trump for the mid-terms and a weakened USA won’t be so gobby on tariffs.
Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’
Firm whose partners bill more than $2,000 per hour apologises to judge
Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple “hallucinations” made by AI software.
Andrew Dietderich, the head of S&C’s restructuring practice, apologised in a letter to New York federal judge Martin Glenn on Saturday for mistakes that included misquoting the US bankruptcy code and citing cases incorrectly in a court filing made on April 9.
“We deeply regret that this has occurred,” he said in the letter.
Dietderich said the firm’s policies on the use of AI had not been followed when the document was prepared, and it was considering whether it needed to make “further enhancements” to its internal training and review processes.
The letter did not say which lawyers prepared the documents or whether they were still at the firm. S&C declined to comment.
https://www.ft.com/content/657d86df-5e0d-4d03-bf0c-cb768a58e758?syn-25a6b1a6=1
I thought his "Ma'am Darling" biography of Princess Margaret was absolute genius: superbly readable, informative and bitchy, while also reinventing the biographical genre
Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش
@citrinowicz
https://x.com/citrinowicz/status/2046687279079387612
It certainly is!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTeB10Wyzlo
Edit - I should point out it wasn’t just their sexual depravity. They had also both usurped the throne and murdered their nephews to secure their rule. Not sure if that gives the game away as to who they were.
Surely Iran would need a deal of sorts before they start shutting production down. Perhaps someone in the know like Richard Tyndall or RCS may have an idea ?
WE WILL ANNIHALATE IRAN UNLESS IT MEETS ALL OUR DEMANDS BY WEDNESDAY OR PAKISTAN ASKS NICELY.