What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
It has a use, but no plausible revenue scheme. It is the sort of thing that would be a good open source charity, not a profitable business.
Yes, you could imagine the people behind open street map implementing something like it, were it not for the fact that what three words would send the lawyers after them.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
A theoretically brilliant idea, terribly implemented.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
A theoretically brilliant idea, terribly implemented.
If they had realised how unoriginal it was, they would have done it much better.
There are a number of codes for easy reporting of positions in lat and long through history.
Rayner is the PB idea of a working class Everyman, or woman.
She’s so authentic and working class, working class communities should love her.
Nah. She’s awful
She’d be labours Liz Truss.
I get the point, but that's not the issue. Neither Rayner, Streeting nor Burnham are generating ideas, and Rayner couldn't manage a ministry. Miliband and Mahmood are generating ideas, but those ideas are best suited to the pre-Polanski Greens or the Conservative/Reform parties. Nobody in Labour is coming up with left-wing solutions to current problems...which for a left-wing party is kind of fatal
We have Starmer because he is willing to mouth words to suit the occasion, even if he says the exact opposite the next day. He is justly criticised for this, but if he leaves what words will his successor say? Do they even know? I'm tearing my hair out over this.
Three migrants, who illegally entered Britain on small boats, have been convicted of gang raping a woman on Brighton beach.
Iranian-born Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, and Egyptians Karin Al-Danasurt, 20, and Ibrahim Alshafe, 25, attacked the woman in the early hours of October 4 last year.
Well, that should be the end of their asylum applications. I'm by no means unsympathetic to asylum seekers, but that's one hell of a blot all over their applications.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
I was on another website in the early 2010s. Somebody mentioned PB. I went to this ooo-dangerous website and asked why the odds didn't add up to 100%. @NickPalmer politely pointed out the existence of the vigorish/overround. I bet money on an election (2012 French Presidential or 2012 London Mayoral, I can't remember which), won money like a proper grown up, and never left
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
It made more sense when there was a full schedule on a Saturday afternoon. As we ended up with footballfootballfootballfootball on most days - and then long international breaks - it rather lost its, er, Focus.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Why do I get the feeling Russell Brand’s barrister will be tearing out their hair?
Russell Brand says he had ‘exploitative’ consensual sex with girl, 16, at height of his fame
Brand, who will be tried in October over allegations of rape and sexual assault, tells podcast he slept with 16-year-old when he was 30
Russell Brand said he had “exploitative” consensual sex with a 16-year-old girl at the height of his fame.
The comedian, actor and podcaster, 50, will be tried in the autumn over allegations of rape and sexual assault made against him by six women. Brand denies all the charges, which date from 1999 to 2009. Speaking about his past actions in an appearance on the YouTube show of the US journalist Megyn Kelly, Brand described himself “selfish” and an “exploiter of women”.
He said: “I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30. When I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old.”
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
I have mostly lurked here since becoming slightly obsessed with polls in the run up to the 2010 general election. Was recommended by a political geeky housemate who is now a clerk in the commons.
Approximately 2006, I was a mix of posting and lurking on Anthony Wells website UK Polling Report. Someone linked PB.
I won quite a bit of money betting on Boris for Mayor, and Obama for POTUS following tips here. Then lost some spread betting on a Tory majority for 2010, luckily I got out of that one before it became too bad!
I started political betting on the 1997 general election. I was campaigning in the run up to the 2004 euro election with our third ranked candidate and I was impressed/amazed by her optimism. I asked her if she thought we were going to get two candidates elected, trying to disguise how unlikely I thought this was. She said something along the lines of "oh I think we are going to do better than that".
I wondered if there were more similarly deluded people out there but didn't think there would be markets on the Euros, typed in political betting - and this is what came up.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
I'm not finding any examples of telegraph codes for reporting latitude and longitude, alas.
Among others, the German Short Signal Code of WWII and Enigma fame was a way of compressing location. So that the resultant messages were really short.
Which meant that the Germans accidentally advanced information theory. The compactness and lack of redundancy made it a perfect crib for breaking Enigma.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
As well as the lack of redundancy (so errors can be catastrophic) you also have the lack of continuity in that it is not obvious whether two locations are adjacent or widely separated (unlike latitude and longitude).
Should have happen 5+ years ago, since then the ratings have been tanking....and..
"as well as a bold new slate of exclusive shows on YouTube. Featuring fresh formats, big personalities and more frequent,"
Oh god they are going to make something for da yutt which will get 5 viewers.
We were posh and watched Grandstand. I remember as far back as Jimmy Hill, Sam Leitch and Bob Wilson. All the kids at school watched On the Ball with Brian Moore.
Football focus was left behind when Andy Gray launched In the Boot Room on Sky. When was that? Early 1990s?
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
Off on a trip at the weekend. Looking forward to it
Partly because I have just been told the cost of the trip, WERE I paying (I am not paying)
Somewhere between £30,000-£35,000. For a week
Miami for the F1? Although for most it will be a lot more expensive than £35k.
I've been trying to work out if it is the single most expensive week long trip I've ever taken
Probably it is. I did the maiden voyage of the Greg Mortimer to Antarctica, with Antarctic sea kayaking led by the man who invented Antarctic sea-kayaying. That was about £20,000 back then and might be £30k now, but it's nearly two weeks
Private helicoptering around the Whitsundays? My personal safari right across Zambia with my own little aircraft at various points? The Oberoi-only jaunt across north India?
All insanely expensive, were I paying, but I still think this tops out. Wow
That someone is prepared to spend so much to keep you and your ignorant poisonous bile out of the country for a while might surprise the person on the Clapham omnibus, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise to any regular PB’er.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
The more wounded Starmer gets, the more tempting it will be for someone like Barton to land the killer blow when he gives evidence. Even a vigorous defence of the process as followed by Robbins would put Starmer in an even more difficult position.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
The more wounded Starmer gets, the more tempting it will be for someone like Barton to land the killer blow when he gives evidence. Even a vigorous defence of the process as followed by Robbins would put Starmer in an even more difficult position.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
Yorkshire Ambulance recommend to use it to locate people, though it doesn't seem to be any use with Yodel (Who make Evri look like a custom concierge service)
Amazon won't use it either. The big issue is one letter wrong and you're f*cked: many.miles.sway = Anchorage Alaska; many miles.away = Zimbabwe.
Which goes back to what a number of people pointed out at the start.
They are using a version of what used to be called Telegraph Codes. These were used to reduce the size of commercial telegrams more than for secrecy - telegrams were expensive and charged per word.
Such codes rapidly ran into problems with errors due to words/letters misheard, written down etc.
So a whole raft of techniques were created to build checksums into the coding and prevent such errors causing problems.
But the Three Words people didn’t know about the basics of this stuff.
Aanpraten.
Pardon?
The Demolished Man: WWHG
The difference between a code and a cipher.
A cipher breaks a sentence down to its individual letters, converts each letter to another letter (ish), then reassemble the letters. So "British Atom Bomb 1959" translates to "CSJUJTI BUPN CPNC 2060"
A code attaches a group of letters to a sentence (or the words in them) that have no relation to the letters. So "British Atom Bomb 1959" translates to "Violet Club"
If you have the key you can decipher a cypher and you can use brute force to do it by trying every single combination. But you can't decode a code without the original code book (or thereabouts)
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
What3words running a secondary sale in an 80% down round is absolutely criminal This company has burned through hundreds of millions of dollars and in the last year generated £2m of revenue. It's doing a crowdfund and a secondary sale valuing the company at £50m way down from its heights. £50m on £2m of revenue for a company that is 11 years old is still massively over valued.
Who could have predicted What.Three.Words was a load of shite?
It has a use, but no plausible revenue scheme. It is the sort of thing that would be a good open source charity, not a profitable business.
Yes, you could imagine the people behind open street map implementing something like it, were it not for the fact that what three words would send the lawyers after them.
If what3words is genuinely useful in rescue situations, there might be a case for nationalising it but perhaps we only hear those news reports because they are very rare.
https://x.com/MikeLevin/status/2047300967754854758 Asked his thoughts on whether Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker serving 20 years, should be pardoned, Republican Oversight Chairman James Comer said, “A lot of people do.”
Name them, Chairman.
Say out loud which Republicans on your committee or otherwise think a woman who groomed 14 year old girls for Jeffrey Epstein should walk free.
Comer’s other move is to stop holding real hearings so no one can be put under oath and no one can be held in contempt.
Every member of Congress, every parent, every survivor deserves better than floating a pardon for a child sex trafficker and a committee hiding behind roundtables.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
In a two party system, you get loons on both sides.
The difference is that Piker is a marginal figure; in the GOP the loons are in charge.
Is Piker a candidate, or does he hold any official position ? No. And most voters in the US have never heard of him.
But nice try.
Seems to be pretty big online though in fairness, I've heard of him many many times, and not just from GOP loons.
Exactly. And he gets paid for that attention. There may be another 100 Dem centrist bloggers who are more representative but what they say doesn't shock so gets ignored. Inevitably the ones we here from are from the ones who shock because that is how the system we use has been designed. It is not a reflection of the Democratic voters*, but of the internet system.
* over time it will corrupt the views of their voter as it has done Republicans, but it is not a current reflection.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
In a two party system, you get loons on both sides.
The difference is that Piker is a marginal figure; in the GOP the loons are in charge.
Is Piker a candidate, or does he hold any official position ? No. And most voters in the US have never heard of him.
But nice try.
The loons aren't in charge. Trump keeps them in line.
Oh dear, william.
You might be surprised - I've seen posts online of people angry with Trump because of a) Israel, and b) he hasn't deported all brown people.
I don't think anyone else would be worse, because of his unique ability to inspire loving devotion, his capriciousness, and his monstrous ego driving things, but there are technically even loonier people about.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
Approximately 2006, I was a mix of posting and lurking on Anthony Wells website UK Polling Report. Someone linked PB.
I won quite a bit of money betting on Boris for Mayor, and Obama for POTUS following tips here. Then lost some spread betting on a Tory majority for 2010, luckily I got out of that one before it became too bad!
UKPR was a brilliant site. Will be a few of todays posters here from back around the 2005 era
I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Starmer will resign after the local elections at the latest. He has concluded “he cannot continue”.
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
PMs need to tough it out more.
less than 2 years less than 2 years less than 50 days just over 3 years just over 3 years
Is a pretty embarrassing return consider there were two with solid majorities in there. At least Rishi can accept that the public thought he was crap and kicked him out.
Robbins refused to co-operate with the humble address.
How is it that UKSV were happy to pass the documents to Little if as Robbins maintained there were strict rules stopping him from doing this .
And you’re allowed to pass them across for exceptional circumstances. He seemed to ignore the Mandelson drama and sat on his hands whilst the PM was giving interview after interview .
Commentators seem to want to conflate two separate issues and ignore what the evidence so far has supported. Starmer did not lie to the Commons and Robbins was very uncooperative.
No one disputes Starmer made a disastrous mistake in appointing Mandelson but the matter at hand is if he lied to the commons .
Should have happen 5+ years ago, since then the ratings have been tanking....and..
"as well as a bold new slate of exclusive shows on YouTube. Featuring fresh formats, big personalities and more frequent,"
Oh god they are going to make something for da yutt which will get 5 viewers.
I can't believe it's not The Rest is Football. Televised podcasts are the new somethingorother.
It's like how certain genres of game became the 'default' for generic projects. Doom clones, GTA clones, Assassin's Creed, Soulslikes, just copy the basic formatting and slap a coat of paint on it
(Many good ones amongst them, but it's still the ones which get the mass produced garbage)
Televised podcasts are cheap and popular, but they are incredibly easy to replicate and the market is inundated.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Starmer will resign after the local elections at the latest. He has concluded “he cannot continue”.
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
PMs need to tough it out more.
less than 2 years less than 2 years less than 50 days just over 3 years just over 3 years
Is a pretty embarrassing return consider there were two with solid majorities in there. At least Rishi can accept that the public thought he was crap and kicked him out.
The Cabinet have so I understand completely lost confidence in him. They are helping to give him an out.
I now think it won’t be Burnham (at least this time around), however I think he will be into Parliament by the end of this year.
Yes if Rayner was PM the City and CBI would likely desert Labour, which they backed in 2024 with Starmer for the first time since New Labour. The Conservatives, Reform and LDs would all be beneficiaries.
Rayner if she did defeat Starmer and became PM after a leadership challenge would need a heavyweight centriat who understands the economy like Yvette Cooper to be her chancellor. Then to listen to their advice not dictate to them like Truss did Kwarteng
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
Should have happen 5+ years ago, since then the ratings have been tanking....and..
"as well as a bold new slate of exclusive shows on YouTube. Featuring fresh formats, big personalities and more frequent,"
Oh god they are going to make something for da yutt which will get 5 viewers.
I can't believe it's not The Rest is Football. Televised podcasts are the new somethingorother.
It's like how certain genres of game became the 'default' for generic projects. Doom clones, GTA clones, Assassin's Creed, Soulslikes, just copy the basic formatting and slap a coat of paint on it
(Many good ones amongst them, but it's still the ones which get the mass produced garbage)
Televised podcasts are cheap and popular, but they are incredibly easy to replicate and the market is inundated.
The last thing is why recommendation algorithms are so powerful. They decide which podcasts are put in front of the most people.
I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Starmer will resign after the local elections at the latest. He has concluded “he cannot continue”.
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
That depends on the results surely? If Labour is beaten on seats and NEV by Reform, the Tories and Greens he will surely go. If Labour come second to Reform and beat the Conservatives and Greens Starmer likely stays for now
Evidenced rebuttal of Robbins, red faces all round for those who declared him the best of the Civil Service?
Most of the media have ignored her evidence today as it didn’t fit the narrative of Saint Olly being a total victim .
Yes, they don't have the attention span and she's a woman. Based on her evidenced testimony, it's no surprise Robbins got shitcanned
Really? It seemed decidedly mixed to me.
I'm not sure there's a huge difference between thinking results could not be shared with ministers, and thinking the same but taking legal advice to be certain and the lawyer OK'd it.
But arguably this is the wrong question anyway if the UKSV turned up no new facts because then, as Dame Diana said, everyone already knew about Mandelson.
I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Starmer will resign after the local elections at the latest. He has concluded “he cannot continue”.
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
That depends on the results surely? If Labour is beaten on seats and NEV by Reform, the Tories and Greens he will surely go. If Labour come second to Reform and beat the Conservatives and Greens Starmer likely stays for now
Beating the Greens would be a massive surprise at this point.
I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Starmer will resign after the local elections at the latest. He has concluded “he cannot continue”.
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
PMs need to tough it out more.
less than 2 years less than 2 years less than 50 days just over 3 years just over 3 years
Is a pretty embarrassing return consider there were two with solid majorities in there. At least Rishi can accept that the public thought he was crap and kicked him out.
It's a race to the bottom with the Premier League football managers.
I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Starmer will resign after the local elections at the latest. He has concluded “he cannot continue”.
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
PMs need to tough it out more.
less than 2 years less than 2 years less than 50 days just over 3 years just over 3 years
Is a pretty embarrassing return consider there were two with solid majorities in there. At least Rishi can accept that the public thought he was crap and kicked him out.
The Cabinet have so I understand completely lost confidence in him. They are helping to give him an out.
I now think it won’t be Burnham (at least this time around), however I think he will be into Parliament by the end of this year.
Reportedly the Cabinet united to stop Starmer from joining in to bomb Iran. It was said they were led into that by Miliband. So it's quite possible that Miliband is the Kingmaker.
Are we about to see Rayner as PM and Miliband as Chancellor?
How many times a day is Rayner pressuring/asking for an update from HMRC?
Well, what I told the police was that I was just browsing the internet for some mild and legal political porn and came across this by accident, that I was very sorry and wouldn't do it again. I think I got away with it.
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins * One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence * Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
Hodges predicts imminent departure of Starmer, day 247.
Starmer has driven Hodges close to needing an intervention since Currygate.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Hodges isn't going mad, essentially more clicks equals more pay and he knows this story gets clicks so runs it every day.
Matthew @MatthewTorbitt Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
Just in case anyone was thinking the Democrats are going to win 100 seats in the mid-terms, this is their new young activist, Hasan Piker. He thinks we should be stealing from supermarkets and looting art galleries, and that the healthcare executive murdered in cold blood last year was a justified homicide.
UK 10 year old gilt at 5.197 already. Add anything more to that for Rayner and borrowing at all will be ruinously expensive requiring savage cuts in the deficit, either by huge tax increases or big spending cuts or both.
In some ways this might be a good thing. We cannot keep adding to our debt mountain like this. But I can't help feeling that a Rayner government might fall apart facing such choices.
I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Starmer will resign after the local elections at the latest. He has concluded “he cannot continue”.
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
That depends on the results surely? If Labour is beaten on seats and NEV by Reform, the Tories and Greens he will surely go. If Labour come second to Reform and beat the Conservatives and Greens Starmer likely stays for now
The implication is that the decision is done and the resignation would be tomorrow, were it not for the fact that the May elections are imminent.
Robbins refused to co-operate with the humble address.
How is it that UKSV were happy to pass the documents to Little if as Robbins maintained there were strict rules stopping him from doing this .
And you’re allowed to pass them across for exceptional circumstances. He seemed to ignore the Mandelson drama and sat on his hands whilst the PM was giving interview after interview .
Commentators seem to want to conflate two separate issues and ignore what the evidence so far has supported. Starmer did not lie to the Commons and Robbins was very uncooperative.
No one disputes Starmer made a disastrous mistake in appointing Mandelson but the matter at hand is if he lied to the commons .
I'm no wiser about what went on than before the hearing.
One notable thing, though, is that Robbins didn't keep a paper record of most of these interactions; Little did.
Well, what I told the police was that I was just browsing the internet for some mild and legal political porn and came across this by accident, that I was very sorry and wouldn't do it again. I think I got away with it.
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There are a number of codes for easy reporting of positions in lat and long through history.
We have Starmer because he is willing to mouth words to suit the occasion, even if he says the exact opposite the next day. He is justly criticised for this, but if he leaves what words will his successor say? Do they even know? I'm tearing my hair out over this.
I'm by no means unsympathetic to asylum seekers, but that's one hell of a blot all over their applications.
https://x.com/caroljsroth/status/2047348796036727015
(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Latest on Starmer:
* Ministers and officials believe he made catastrophic blunder at PMQs when he diverted from lines on Robbins
* One Minister says they think we will be forced to resign next week after Barton gives evidence
* Consensus is Standards investigation now inevitable
https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/2047345935328391401
A guy called SeanT. Was already here.
Whole Govt. goes next week or just SKS?
Not sure if I'll be here tomorrow; things happening in the morning and a funeral 2+ hours away in the afternoon.
Play nicely!
"as well as a bold new slate of exclusive shows on YouTube. Featuring fresh formats, big personalities and more frequent,"
Oh god they are going to make something for da yutt which will get 5 viewers.
I won quite a bit of money betting on Boris for Mayor, and Obama for POTUS following tips here. Then lost some spread betting on a Tory majority for 2010, luckily I got out of that one before it became too bad!
Evidenced rebuttal of Robbins, red faces all round for those who declared him the best of the Civil Service?
I wondered if there were more similarly deluded people out there but didn't think there would be markets on the Euros, typed in political betting - and this is what came up.
Exactly what’s the premise for the Priviliges committee . He didn’t lie and the so called pressure is subjective . A part of me hopes Starmer stays on just to see the meltdown from Hodges.
Which meant that the Germans accidentally advanced information theory. The compactness and lack of redundancy made it a perfect crib for breaking Enigma.
Football focus was left behind when Andy Gray launched In the Boot Room on Sky. When was that? Early 1990s?
Former Scottish Labour leader and new Stonewall chair Kezia Dugdale has issued an apology after saying she had “respect” for JK Rowling.
- A cipher breaks a sentence down to its individual letters, converts each letter to another letter (ish), then reassemble the letters. So "British Atom Bomb 1959" translates to "CSJUJTI BUPN CPNC 2060"
- A code attaches a group of letters to a sentence (or the words in them) that have no relation to the letters. So "British Atom Bomb 1959" translates to "Violet Club"
If you have the key you can decipher a cypher and you can use brute force to do it by trying every single combination. But you can't decode a code without the original code book (or thereabouts)The difference is that Piker is a marginal figure; in the GOP the loons are in charge.
Is Piker a candidate, or does he hold any official position ?
No.
And most voters in the US have never heard of him.
But nice try.
Matthew
@MatthewTorbitt
Cabinet member said to me today they think Tuesday will means it’s curtains
https://x.com/MatthewTorbitt/status/2047362513315004797
Allegedly.
I’ve walked across France to spend the night here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Georges-de-Montaigu
https://x.com/MikeLevin/status/2047300967754854758
Asked his thoughts on whether Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker serving 20 years, should be pardoned, Republican Oversight Chairman James Comer said, “A lot of people do.”
Name them, Chairman.
Say out loud which Republicans on your committee or otherwise think a woman who groomed 14 year old girls for Jeffrey Epstein should walk free.
Comer’s other move is to stop holding real hearings so no one can be put under oath and no one can be held in contempt.
Every member of Congress, every parent, every survivor deserves better than floating a pardon for a child sex trafficker and a committee hiding behind roundtables.
This is not oversight. This is a disgrace.
* over time it will corrupt the views of their voter as it has done Republicans, but it is not a current reflection.
"Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Hasan Piker?"
Unfavorable: 15%
Favorable: 7%
Never Heard Of/Have No Opinion: 79%
Echelon / April 2026
https://x.com/USA_Polling/status/2046636060260655168
If he's going, and I'm not persuaded yet, it will be after. I take responsibility for the locals, have become a distraction, yadda yadda yadda.
I don't think anyone else would be worse, because of his unique ability to inspire loving devotion, his capriciousness, and his monstrous ego driving things, but there are technically even loonier people about.
It's scary.
Not totally sure William isn’t just a fantastic troll.
NATO selects Swedish Saab GlobalEye to replace 14 E-3 AWACS planes in historic shift from the U.S.
https://x.com/ArmyRecognition/status/2047313252887957645
I’ve bet accordingly but DYOR.
less than 2 years
less than 2 years
less than 50 days
just over 3 years
just over 3 years
Is a pretty embarrassing return consider there were two with solid majorities in there. At least Rishi can accept that the public thought he was crap and kicked him out.
How is it that UKSV were happy to pass the documents to Little if as Robbins maintained there were strict rules stopping him from doing this .
And you’re allowed to pass them across for exceptional circumstances. He seemed to ignore the Mandelson drama and sat on his hands whilst the PM was giving interview after interview .
Commentators seem to want to conflate two separate issues and ignore what the evidence so far has supported. Starmer did not lie to the Commons and Robbins was very uncooperative.
No one disputes Starmer made a disastrous mistake in appointing Mandelson but the matter at hand is if he lied to the commons .
(Many good ones amongst them, but it's still the ones which get the mass produced garbage)
Televised podcasts are cheap and popular, but they are incredibly easy to replicate and the market is inundated.
I now think it won’t be Burnham (at least this time around), however I think he will be into Parliament by the end of this year.
Rayner if she did defeat Starmer and became PM after a leadership challenge would need a heavyweight centriat who understands the economy like Yvette Cooper to be her chancellor. Then to listen to their advice not dictate to them like Truss did Kwarteng
EDIT apologies I see this gaga has already been made - the risk of reading the most recent first...
But arguably this is the wrong question anyway if the UKSV turned up no new facts because then, as Dame Diana said, everyone already knew about Mandelson.
Are we about to see Rayner as PM and Miliband as Chancellor?
How many times a day is Rayner pressuring/asking for an update from HMRC?
Labour MPs couldn't even remove
Corbyn when most of them nominated Owen Smith to replace him
In some ways this might be a good thing. We cannot keep adding to our debt mountain like this. But I can't help feeling that a Rayner government might fall apart facing such choices.
One notable thing, though, is that Robbins didn't keep a paper record of most of these interactions; Little did.