Will all of England’s isthmuses come at once against Panama tonight? – politicalbetting.com
Will all of England’s isthmuses come at once against Panama tonight? – politicalbetting.com
The confluence of the heat, the World Cup, test cricket, F1, and Supergirl means blogging will be very light this weekend.
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Two proper wingers including Saka on from the start
Drop either of tippy tappy Rice or Anderson who cannot play quick ball forwards and simply allow opposition low press to set and reset.
Move Bellingham in to deeper Rice / Anderson role where his far greater passing range and also world class ability to run hard and directly will terrifty Panamanian defence. Play Rogers in front of Bellingham to link with Kane .
Cmon I'm trying!
Anyhoo.
Cape Verde are the big story,
The Scots must be frustrated in that they are likely to be eliminated on three points (which led to a third place finish) whereas Cape Verde have finished second with three points.
That said, being PM is going to be a shock to him and he doesn't know what's coming.
That's how I roll for World Cups.
(Kinabalu, eating of hat, England's defence, Panama)
The balance in the government treasury accounts have reached a two-year low, apparently due to bond auctions being cancelled.
This comes as the rate on 10-year bonds continues to increase, now ~16.5%.
The rate at which Russians are withdrawing cash from the banks is steadily increasing (though no sign of panic following the suggestion by the Communists to seize bank deposits to fund the war).
As global oil prices continue to decrease, the Ruble/Dollar exchange rate is moving in the opposite direction.
The ingredients for a major liquidity crisis are there, with the question being when, and can the state do anything to turn things around? Meanwhile there is an ongoing fuel crisis which will be disrupting the economy, with a consequent impact on tax revenues.
So as England attempt to conquer in the Isthmus, Can Al cut Burnham's campaign in half?
Reminds me of JFK's classic Why England Slept.
"The book addressed Kennedy's belief in the need for objective and detached calculation in foreign policy decisions." (Wiki)
Mon 9th June, midday. Mr Sandpit applies for a new passport online.
The website is easy to understand, has a reading age of about 8, uses details from existing passport to verify identity, uploads new photo, no setting up of an ‘account’ or passwords required. Overseas payment card worked just fine. Tracking number given and told to send old passport back to them.
Saturday 27th June, 9am, new passport arrives by courier 3,500 miles from the UK.
19 days total, including three days each way for the courier.
A number of email follow ups given at each stage of the process, often enough to be reassuring but not too often as to be annoying.
Well done to the Passport Office. 👏
Now, how can we get all of the other UK Gov agencies to be this efficient?
It will be interesting to see if they can succeed in reducing the number of missiles Russia uses against them.
Many people had vast experience and careful grooming for national leadership. Balfour. Eden. Neville Chamberlain. James Callaghan. Edward Heath. None of those turned out to be any good. We could add Asquith, whose record was at best decidedly mixed.
Meanwhile, several fairly successful PMs were either totally unexpected (Major, Baldwin, Salisbury, Thatcher on becoming party leader) or had been considered and discarded as possibilities due to the glaring faults they had displayed (Lloyd George, Churchill, Palmerston, although we should note they were all wartime leaders).
So maybe Andy will crash and Burnham. Or maybe he will turn out OK. But his previous experience is not of fundamental importance either way.
After all, Liz Truss had lots of experience. Just no brain cells.
England’s game tonight is a 1am start for me, although the local pub is kindly running a late happy hour from midnight!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(2026_film)
I hardly ever recommend summary execution for media folk but in this case..
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@LouiseRawAuthor
I will be pursuing a press complaint against you @DailyMail
for this revolting, dangerous, damaging headline.
His poor daughter went to live with him after a difficult life, hoping for love and stability. He got her blind drunk & raped her. She killed herself.
Shame on you.
https://x.com/LouiseRawAuthor/status/2070610767926239397?s=20
They should be asking Scandinavia to host.
What was the judge smoking?
Since Major is not dumb I have to assume he chose to make the point in a dumb way, rather than your way, intentionally.
And that's worse.
The hosting fees are ridiculous and leads to shameful decisions like Spa going two years between races.
2034 is in Saudia Arabia, however, because of Ramadan and with it likely to be a 64 team World Cup, then the tournament is going to be held between January and March.
RIP Christmas football that season.
I'd hate to see them trying for 'absolutely blatant' if this is their idea of not 'too much in your face.'
Is how it usually works, with the complicity of cesspits like the Mail.
This is the guy we're dealing with
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/68465516
And of course none of them will have custom air conditioned stadiums like Qatar, Saudi or Texas.
Madrid this week has high temperatures consistently above 35 degrees for as far as the forecast goes. Not just the few days like we've had here. Lisbon isn't far off. Morocco is actually cooler.
I wonder if it's worth moving the world cup to May or September.
*I tell myself this all the time. It’s sometimes true.
And I respect Major's intellect so I am sure he knows it was a dumb point. But i guess he's not above a childish dig.
Including a bad point alongside a good one undermines the latter. That's why you don't do it even if it makes you chuckle.
"Hah hah, being PM is not like running buses, i'm so clever. But seriously now..."
Why not just build a futuristic city that isn't shaped like a line? Screw you, that's why.
In Qatar there was no beer in the stadia other than the prawn sandwich seats, although they do have bars in many of the 4-5* hotels in the country. With a shortage of hotel rooms, many fans based themselves in more liberal places in the region such as UAE, Oman, and Bahrain, and flew in to Qatar for the matches.
It wouldn’t be much of a surprise to see much the same thing happening in Saudi in 2034.
Dubai was pretty fun at the time, with large tents set up in hotels, fans from all the countries mingling well.
The US has outdone everyone this year though, with all the city takeovers and road trips. Big up to the Scots in Boston especially, but also the English, Japanese, Germans, Dutch, Norwegians, all bringing tens of thousands of fans to each game and having a whale of a time with very little disorder noted. Perhaps the high cost of going to the tournament has kept out most of the unsavoury types this year.
One is that preparation isn't that important. The other is that, even with optimal preparation, you still have a decent chance of failing. There's no precedent for someone like Burnham coming in and taking over from a standing start. It's not so much about whether he has good answers to the nation's questions, or even whether he has the administrative competence to make those answers happen... It's more- does he have a full list of those questions in his head? We're about to find out.
And whilst I hate to question my learned friend, was Major becoming PM that much of a shock? If he was hiding, it was in pretty plain sight. Chancellor, before that Foreign Secretary. Becoming PM in 1990 was a surprise, because we hadn't been paying attention, but not that he got to the top. (Also, he'd had a stint in the Whip's office, which is a pretty good way to get an overview of everything. That's what AB doesn't seem to have.)
1) Find out what the defendant was charged with
2) Look up the sentencing guidelines - they are online and easy to read
3) read the judges sentencing remarks. They very often contain references to the tables in the sentencing guidelines that constrain the sentence.
The number of sentences that get changed on appeal is very small, because judges follow the sentencing guidelines carefully.
The issue is often (1)
Very often the issue is down charging - a lesser offence than the one apparently commited.