Who will be facing their Waterloo in today’s trilogy of by-elections? – politicalbetting.com
Who will be facing their Waterloo in today’s trilogy of by-elections? – politicalbetting.com
My prediction for today is that the betting will be brisk.
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Is always repeating itself...
"What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!"
Donald J. Trump, 24 Nov 2013
https://bsky.app/profile/russellengland.bsky.social/post/3mokawviyx22t
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken
“The president of #Syria. He’s done a tremendous job… He’d love to go in [to #Lebanon]… he wouldn’t knock down buildings every time he hears there’s someone there, he’d just go in with precision.”..
https://x.com/Charles_Lister/status/2067311287126647194
Of course this is (even for someone like me who thinks Julani/Ahmed al-Sharaa is, on balance, probably now a force for stability in Syria) objectively insane. But it shows which way Trump is leaning.
And the oil price fall back should create more pressure on Russia's finances.
It just feels wrong and ugly to me.
While if Restore take lots of Reform votes it will be Farage as Napoleon facing his Waterloo, at least for now
I'm sure I've made plenty of bad decisions. My life doesn't look like a straight path from A to B, much more like someone blundering around without a map. But I'm happy where I've ended up and changing any of those decisions would put me somewhere else (and quite possibly I'd never have met my wife - our paths only crossed briefly, possibly due to some of my bad decisions).
While if Restore take lots of Reform votes it will be Farage as Napoleon facing his Waterloo, at least for now
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/trump-freedom-250-concert-collapse/?recomm_id=82487db6-4e87-407d-9fc0-52e62e310f33
and
U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission
https://america250.org/about-america250/a250-leadership/
1) There are roughly 800,000 18 year olds living in the UK
2) About 660,000 people start an undergraduate degree each year of which about 18% are foreign nationals, leaving about 540,000 UK nationals.
3) 540,000 is 67% of 800,000. Far more than the about 35% who are said to go to university.
Obvs people go at various ages, but the 25 year old going now is an 18 year old who didn't go 7 years ago, so the size of the annual cohort is a decent proxy.
From https://bsky.app/profile/samd.bsky.social/post/3mojvo4kess2j
Sell your shares in MRI manufacturers.
amazing new medical tech from Midjourney
"This is a new kind of infrastructure. It’s Full Body Ultrasonic Computational Tomography. No such device has ever been built until now, and yeah, we’re calling it the Midjourney Scanner."
"Less than a dozen of these machines operating together at full speed can do more full body scans than every MRI machine together on Earth. Our goal is to build a fleet of 50,000 of these scanners, capable together of doing a billion scans a month—enough to bring full body imaging to everyone on Earth."
https://x.com/Dr_Singularity/status/2067459556809064863
In addition, archive.org aka "the wayback machine" is endangered because so many sites actively block its crawlers.
Likewise for Mamdani and Bukele.
I can see the queues from Brighton pier.
Might even be true.
Kosher
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Absolutely bonkers.
Trump: "Hamas actually behaved pretty well."
What the hell happened to this guy?
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/2067398551047385477?s=20
I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in <1 minute, virtually free to run. This is going to change medicine.</I>
https://x.com/SebastianCaliri/status/2067452733356122303
The tech accounts I follow on X think it fairly plausible, FWIW.
On the upside, it would end wait times for essential scans.
I don’t know about his view on Syria but he’s right about Bibi and Israel
In America, the US Open tees off.
Hopefully the whole sorry affair will have damaged both of their reputations
The sporting highlight of today is day 2 of the England v New Zealand test.
There one Country on the planet who could reciprocate in kind on Trump and that's Israel via Mossad.
There is a MUCH stronger case to be made for invading the UK, toppling its tyrannical government, and liberating its people than for pretty much any regime change war (to include Iran) over the past 30 years.
https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/2067278942545859067#m
Final two weeks a week in Portugal and a week in Ireland.
Last night, our long-range sanctions once again reached the Moscow region – for the second time this week, the Moscow oil refinery was hit. Targets were also struck in the Rostov region and in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. This is a fully justified response to Russian attacks on our cities and communities, and another important result of our warriors’ work against facilities that sustain Russia’s war machine. I thank our Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine for their coordinated efforts – the Security Service of Ukraine, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, Defense Intelligence, and our missile brigade for their precision.
In recent days, all of our partners have noted the precision and effectiveness of our mid-range strikes and long-range sanctions. It is time the war ended, and Russia must take the necessary steps in diplomacy.
In a witness statement to the Greater London Authority (GLA), the Green Party leader also admitted that he should have taken “greater care” over his tax arrangements while living on the vessel in an east London marina
City Hall has decided not to launch an investigation into Polanski's council tax arrangements
The monitoring officer said that the matter related to "private circumstances" rather the Polanski's role as a London Assembly member
They said the decision "does not make any finding on the merits of the underlying concerns”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/18/zack-polanski-financial-hardship-council-tax-green-party-uk/
This is claimed to take a couple of minutes.
Compute capacity is probably the bottleneck ?
Rupert Lowe’s party could hold the balance of power in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election by splitting the Right-wing vote with Reform UK, clearing the way for Labour’s Andy Burnham to win.
Some of Restore’s supporters are so openly racist that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the far-Right activist detained last week under counter-terrorism laws, has questioned whether the party is too extreme.
Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the alias Tommy Robinson, challenged Mr Lowe to ask whether black people would be allowed to stand as parliamentary candidates for the party, or whether their skin colour would rule them out. Robinson suggested they should be able to stand.
Among Restore’s recent supporters is Steve Laws, who campaigns for “total remigration” of all non-white people. He posted on social media that he had donated to the party.
Jared Taylor, an American banned from the UK because of his extreme racist views, has become a paid-up member.
Other neo-fascists who have paid to join Restore include Sam Melia, who was jailed in 2024 for stirring up racial hatred, Sam Wilkes, a Nazi apologist, and Simon Birkett, who is buying up land for the benefit of “the British people”.
Mr Laws, who has said he has “signed up and donated” to Restore Britain, describes himself as the founder of Remigration Now, which calls for the expulsion of every non-white and Jewish person from Britain.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/17/white-supremacists-fund-rupert-lowes-restore-party/
Just for interest, but do London Assembly members get paid?
Das Brot ist verdorben.
https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/governance-and-spending/spending-money-wisely/salaries-expenses-benefits-and-workforce-information
Oh and that is before we get to the fact that Trump seems happy to deal with any loathsome regeme.... Once they switch the top man!
Peter.
As to the unfolding of the monsters of the sleep of reason, will the Vikings wanting to expel the Saxons get their first, or will the Anglians wanting to expel the Picts beat them to it?
Peter.
However, time (and tech) had moved on dramatically. Thank goodness we can draw on such lessons and not waste billions on tanks instead of drones.
It seems to be based on this CalTech proof of principle.
Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-026-01660-4
Resolution here doesn't compare with MRI, and the scanned subject was submerged in water.
But there are all kinds of tricks for improving resolution and contrast, both computational and physical (eg phase plates).
It all looks feasible.
History very rarely repeats exactly (and if it does it is first as tragedy and then as farce), it mostly just rhymes.