Deep in the heart of Texas – politicalbetting.com
Deep in the heart of Texas – politicalbetting.com
BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, endorsed by President Trump, won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, defeating four-term Sen. John Cornyn. https://t.co/TAs4qMaOuh pic.twitter.com/N2WUbal8ck
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Assuming they think, what were the Republican voters thinking?
I did tip him several months ago, of course.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5898599-carroll-trump-defamation-probe-doj/
Tis not alone the MAGA hat, good mother
Nor customary robes of Trumpian black
Nor windy suspiration of forced breath
Nor not the fruitful river of the eye
As I behold the addled orange visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of greed,
That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits I throw.
That is, what does the system you create actually do?
In the case of the elaborate vetting for senior jobs in government, it actually resolves to “Give him the job because he knows the right people”.
Which is a mild variation on “Give him the job because he went to the right school and knows the right kind of people”.
#NU10K same as #OLD10K
It's very preliminary data, but I think that the region of the UK with the highest fiscal deficit as % of GVA has moved for the first time I've ever known it, to be in England...
..The erosion of the economy of the English Midlands from being a net contributor to the national finances in 2000 to now running a bigger deficit than Greece at the deepest point of its financial crisis is an economic catastrophe and a deep threat to our country's survival.
https://x.com/thomasforth/status/2059748175947194392
With several other state Senate races with GOP incumbents like North Carolina and Alaska and Iowa and Ohio leaning Democrat or tossups that could give the Democrats the 4 gains they need to take control of the Senate, or at least give Susan Collins, the moderate establishment Maine Senator who is one of the last Republicans left in Congress who voted to convict Trump, the casting vote
With several other state Senate races with GOP incumbents like North Carolina and Alaska and Iowa and Ohio leaning Democrat or tossups that could give the Democrats the 4 gains they need to take control of the Senate. Or at least give Susan Collins, the moderate establishment Maine Senator who is one of the last Republicans left in Congress who voted to convict Trump, the casting vote
He was right then and he's right now, but it's probably too late to do much about it.
Manufacturing is becoming more important, not less, to national economies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otr9AiDDrTg
They got very upset when I pointed out that Donald Fucking Trump is using the FCC to try and ban his definition of Fake News.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/clyp7l7zxdyo
Used to employ hundreds.
Manufacturing has been in decline for many years and people in power happy for it to be. Same with hospitality
We monitor the water quality on a daily basis at the club.
The local seal popped up while I was out, yesterday.
This is painfully accurate, and were it not for my partner regularly going through the food cupboards and fridge freezer like a dose of salts would largely be me.
What British people have in their freezers:
-Frozen peas (some in a bag, some rolling around loose)
-Full bag of oven chips
-Another bag with three oven chips left in it
-Tupperware half-filled with unidentified brown stuff
-Half a scoop of mash potato that you saved for some reason
-An empty box that used to contain ice lollies that fools you every time you look in it but you still don’t throw it away
-Bag of hash browns
-Some sort of meat joint (possibly lamb) from 2014
-A near-empty ice cream tub
-Something that might be chilli or might be bolognese but you didn’t label it
-Some party food from three Christmases ago
-An empty bag that used to contain ice cubes
-A pack of chicken or fish that you needed to eat but you chucked it in the freezer because you ordered a takeaway instead
-One drawer that doesn’t open anymore
https://x.com/soverybritish/status/2059707754181267628?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
No, wait…
But she's still toast.
Yes,that's likely true, but that's not a great recommendation.
The Thames is cleaner than the Seine or the Danube? I mean, show me a low bar.
Consumers have been protected,
Among other things, it blocks productivity improvement - install machinery, then pay a fortune to run it.
Britain ‘sleepwalking into a food crisis’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/28/britain-sleepwalking-into-a-food-crisis-without-urgent-action-experts-say
It also means she's had to explain the nickname to at least 3 of her neighbours.
Forecast rather less than accurate.
On balance, that seems unlikely.
Passengers sometimes hear an odd, rhythmic “thumping” just after takeoff, when the gear is retracted. Particularly if seated near the front.
That’s the nose gear, and the wheels being stopped once they get into the bay. Unlike the main gear, which applies some brakes before pulling in the wheels, the nose gear has no brakes installed.
So, to stop the wheels, it pulls the gear up until the tires come in contact with “snubbers”. These are flexible strips w/ a bit of rubber mounted to them. As the tires come in contact, the snubbers slow & stop them. In the picture, you can see some rubber gets flung around the nose gear bay.
Anyway, contact is not always perfect, so you sometimes get a rhythmic thumping as the wheels slow. Other times you may hear it as a constant sound for a few seconds that seems to slow down & change pitch…and slowing down is exactly what’s happening.
https://x.com/MCCCANM/status/2059776257563427246
She might have a few novices for the summer jumping meetings.
Striped Hawkmoth, at the maximum point of the upbeat.
Just thrash your existing assets.
High energy pricing certainly is a problem. Less so for a screwdriver facility than a primary manufacturer like a trade moulder or casting company.
Who would set up a manufacturing company in the UK that was energy intensive now unless you’re going to get a lot of cash from HMG.
But there have been other problems too. Govt policy has not been keen to keep key product or commodity production in this country.
My last company was fortunate that it was able to negotiate a corporate deal for electricity. It was still a big chunk of spend. They, foolishly, invested in new end capping machines which use a fair bit of electricity in the process as it’s hot plate welding. All to grow the Business.
The growth never came as the sale price was too high so they had part utilised assets. Cut the price and you’re on the corporate naughty step for too low a margin.
It looks as though the MIlburn Report will be a damning indictment of failure of successive Governments who have seriously compromised the future propects of a generation.
When I was in local Government, and I confess I was only on the periphery of this, there was a requirement for every 16-18 year old certainly to be either in work, education, training or on some scheme. The Council partnered with a provider and used space at local libraries and youth centres to run the training.
It's always been the way (well, it was when I graduated back in the late Permian) employers are reluctant to take on staff, however well qualified, without experience and you can't get that experience without a job. The public sector did its bit - we took on trainees in a number of the professions and supported them through their qualifications in the sure knowledge once they got their accreditation, they would be off to a much better paid job in the private sector.
There was of course a time when every graduate became a barista but I suspect that's not the case. I worked in betting shops marking the board as was the fashion in the Triassic.
There's a lot of talk about apprenticeships and that has to be the way to go for those less academically gifted but that needs far more from all sectors of industry than seems to be about currently.
The cost of everything, the value of nothing.
Oh, sorry, you meant Baron Harkonnen?
Park a problem that had built up before Covid and which Boris palpably ignilored after it.
Regards
Desperate captains are turning off transponders and running the blockade it would seem.
One tanker has 2 million barrels of Saudi crude for China and another has 1,8 million barrels of Emirati crude for India.
Indeed, the availability of cheap labour was a disincentive to business investment and automaton and, some argued, a drag on productivity improvement.
How many worked in your Black Sheep, Costa or Starbucks in say 2018 compared with today? The big difference is many have automated ordering facilities so you don't need the numbers - you just people to make coffee and clear tables.
There's another question about the cost of employing staff which isn't just what you pay them.
Cars
Steel
Mines
Glass
General Manufacturers
Even Sauces...
I'm reliably told that massive issues that AVFC had for years with pitches was after HP Sauce factory closed.
Didn't affect St Andrews, like most Religious Shrines it's on top of a hill.WBA is the highest ground above sea level in England
The millions of gallons that the Factory constantly used effectively turned the area in to a swamp
The consumer support was politically expedient stupidity, it did nothing to promote energy efficiency that would have had longterm benefits, just subsidised demand.
If answering the question doesn't have the potential to change the answer (you want), then there is no point asking the question.
Did the government, and probably Keir Starmer, want Mandelson as US Ambassador? Yes.
There was therefore no point doing the vetting. Just say, "We're not doing vetting, waste of time, this is happening anyway."
Save everyone the time and effort to do a pointless task.
There's no shortage of food in the world; none is likely; and the danger to food supply in this country is that we can't afford it because of protectionism and our poor economic performance, not that it's unavailable for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByAGlvj3bfE
Now renamed to something else, but raising £4.4 billion per annum:
The Growth and Skills Levy (formerly the Apprenticeship Levy) is expected to raise approximately £4.4 billion for the current financial year. This funding is primarily generated by UK employers with an annual pay bill exceeding £3 million, who contribute 0.5% of their payroll into the scheme.
(Google AI answring the question.)
I'm not close enough to it to know whether it is effective, or whether employers have found ways of diverting the money into something else (aiui the mechanism is quite circular).
On electricity prices, I think there needs to be some more flexibility in the market - somehow. We need to stop teh price of cheap renewables being determined by the price of expensive, volatile, gas. SKS has failed to do it, for reasons I cannot fathom.
A mechanism is required for heavy users to avoid the slings and arrows over the long term, and another to let the lower prices of renewables be widely apparent.
There are things we can point to - the freeze on any new rounds of wind projects from 2010 to 2020 being one, but SKS has metaphorically stood in the Farage Firing Range and machine-gunned himself in the head, with Farage needing to do nothing.
I'm assuming primarily hollowing out of Birmingham, and also the auto industry.
Though presumably Denby Pottery (500 jobs) may come within the locus.
Most of it went online on the last decade or so; it's good to see that we were getting something right.
“The banks are doing vast amounts of pointless checkbox stuff. Not actually looking at real problems”
“So you in favour of total deregulation”
“No, regulation that regulates”
“But you want less regulation. More regulation is always good”…
Then they discovered that no one had been paying attention to risk - not on the regulatory forms, you see.
We clearly need to do even more to avoid farmland run-off and sewage directly entering the rivers, but we should remember that we have made significant progress.
https://x.com/thomasforth/status/2059746975507993023?s=20
"Over the years and the decades, the Old Took and his room grew older and shabbier together."
He is neither 2 decades ago he was the pro PFI health secretary, now he & his family trouser millions from his consultancy work for private healthcare interests.
Alun Milburn is another of Mandlesons boys
The Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT) said discovering a wild-born salmon in the river was the first evidence of successful spawning since they were wiped out by pollution and man-made barriers in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
It follows more than two decades of installing fish passes to reconnect the river, allowing salmon to return.
The trust's co-founder Chris Firth described the discovery of the fish as the "culmination" of his life's work.
He said although adult salmon had been spotted before in the river the trust had not been sure if they were managing to spawn.
The young fish, known as a parr, was found during an electrofishing survey in Sheffield this month by DCRT staff and volunteers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly7gqx2zw0o
But after COVID the dashboard team was hurriedly disbanded to prevent ideas like that happening. Because officials thought that information = power and didn’t want to give it up.
Someone put it in their manifesto, please.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30931950
Because of course it was.
Big solar embraces the tactics of big oil.
Chip Roy lost his bid for Texas attorney general last night. He was one of the solar industry's biggest opponents in Congress. And a group of clean energy investors decided there had to be a consequence.
They ran hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of attack ads calling him "not MAGA enough." The ads never mentioned clean energy once. They forced Roy into a runoff, which he lost yesterday.
I recently sat down with one of the lead donors to the campaign: Chris Larsen, the billionaire co-founder of Ripple, who is now investing heavily in climate.
Chris was one of the lead investors in crypto's Fairshake campaign that turned the industry from a regulatory target into one of the most feared political forces in Washington. It spent nearly half of all corporate political dollars in the 2024 cycle and won over 95% of the races it engaged in.
He thinks clean energy can do the same thing. And he does not mince words about what that requires: "This is political warfare. You talk about what works. You talk about what's going to take out that person."
I also sat down with his co-founder at the Clean Break Fund: Mike Brune, the longest-serving executive director of the Sierra Club.
"The next time someone votes against the solar industry, there's a lot of money that could come after them in the next primary or the next election," Brune said.
The clean energy industry has been historically focused on making the affirmative case by highlighting economic benefits, building coalitions, and telling a positive story. But Chris and Mike think that the industry needs to get more serious about delivering political consequences.
"The worst thing you want in a political fight is for your opponents to think you're weak," Chris told the room.
There's still a massive spending gap between renewables and fossil fuels. In 2024, the entire renewable energy industry donated $2.5 million to political campaigns. Oil and gas donated $75 million just to elect Trump.
That gap won't close quickly, but it's the first sign that the industry is serious about taking the gloves off.
https://x.com/Stphn_Lacey/status/2059677360329273577