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I visited Hiroshima a few years ago - as well as a few stone built buildings like the Cathedral, the tram network also survived and has been kept going as a memorial. Both my 12 year old daughter and I found the museum a bit too much and cut out after an hour or so. In terms of the effectiveness of the nuclear bombs and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » New IndyRef poll for Scottish Daily Mail from Survation has
No, alex (see I got it right!) - the market reacts very quickly and very strongly if it believes the bookies have mis-priced a bet. In this case when Mike first announced Carswell's defection, he referred to Paddy Power's opening price for the ensuing by-election as being 4/6. Within half an hour the sheer weight of money… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Sean Fear looks back to the Jewish boys during his school-days
Only Kohli among batsmen on either side has had a good match, 200 runs for once out, around half of India's runs excluding extras. England have been bailed out by their bowlers, especially Curran with bat and ball. Three batsmen got starts and failed to convert, and in the second innings the entire top seven were pathetic.… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Why Jeremy Hunt might be onto a loser in his fight with the
Corbyn shows his complete ignorance of Syria and the Middle East in general. The modern Syria was a construct made real by the French and British dividing spheres of influence after WW1. Syria has/had 5 distinct religions, four of them Muslim: Sunni, Shia, Druse, and Alawites. Christians also made up a large group. Since… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » PB Nighthawks is now open
There has been a lot of progress in eastern europe so I am glad they are reaching our level. In part it is a triumph of the EU developing their economic and social infrastructure. Ranking matters much less than the absolute rate of infant deaths. Perhaps if we had EU wide standard recording and definitions we might be able… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Now the US orders sanctions against Russia for interference WH
Many structures - particularly bridges - are at their least stable during construction, and there have been numerous collapses over the years. It may not be the actual design of the completed bridge at fault, but the construction procedure, e.g. failure of temporary supports. Often these don't get quite as much design work… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Betting on the next Foreign Secretary
To be fair, it was made obvious during the indicative votes exercise that an alternative to the Deal - well, a tweak to the Deal - would garner cross-House support. The Government could have thrown their weight behind the Customs Union amendment championed by Ken Clarke. Had it done so, then MPs who had supported it during… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The CON race: A new poll, a May campaign denial and more fr
I liked the Hague article on Monday. People might be happy now, remorseful in 2017, happy in 2019 and so on. Personally, while it's not remorse, I can't feel pleased when the referendum has clearly caused others so much distress. I vividly remember conceding that Remain had won on the 20th June and then sitting in my study… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Lynton Crosby could do it again next week and give the Tori
Perhaps Shadsy could open a market on this Senior members of Jeremy Corbyn's own team say he has "lost control" over his own party and it is only a matter of time before he suffers his first resignation from the shadow cabinet. On Wednesday night the Labour leader allowed members of his ministerial team to defy him by… -
Re: Andy Burnham backers please explain yourselves – politicalbetting.com
Hamas' leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar at the top of Israel's kill list He was arrested and imprisoned by the Israelis in 1988 on charges of attempted murder but was released in 2011 – one of more than 1,000 Palestinian inmates who were exchanged for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for five… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The 2017 LAB leadership contest starts on June 9th whether Cor
Well, so far Corbyn has exceeded expectations. The expectation was that either he would assault somebody or would start shouting abuse, like he normally does, or would say that he would scrap Trident and not order the police to stop terrorist attacks. The bar was low. So far he has only put one journalist in hospital and… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Betfair sees £2m of matched IndyRef bets in just 36 hours a
This comment in The Times has struck a chord with a lot of readersAnthony Warren 4 hours ago As a Canadian I can say, welcome to the club. The UK is in for endless pandering to Scotland to keep it in the Union. This has been Quebec's strategy for the last 75 or more years. Separatism is pretty much dead in Canada now as we… -
Re: Could Attorney-General Barr be next in line to be sacked by Trump? – politicalbetting.com
Every government announcement is leaked ahead nowadays. The key fact, in this case, is that the whole of the NHS was advised and has been planning on one basis, which has now changed. That is very clear from the sequence of HSJ articles and you have it also from a horse's mouth here on PB. Bringing the Pfizer to the island… -
Re: Sunak is no real improvement on Truss – politicalbetting.com
The Standard (Hong Kong) - US state senator charged for illegal possession of firearms A senator from Washington State, United States was charged with possessing arms without license after being found with a revolver at the Hong Kong International Airport. The case has been adjourned to next Monday (Oct 30) and the… -
Re: Why Isn’t Labour Cutting Through? – politicalbetting.com
Delivered by a bloke in a van, just as an online order for something was delivered to me three hours ago. This is the weapons grade lunacy that our People’s Soviet in Cardiff Bay has contrived. Spend your money locally, nope illegal, buy the exact same thing anywhere else on planet Earth and have it delivered? Yup fine… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The pressure mounts from Britain’s biggest car manufacturer
This whole process has been significantly derailed by "talking heads" on both sides sitting on the sidelines thinking they know far more than they do Norman Smith on the BBC was claiming only four hours ago that there was more chance of Ed Balls becoming a world dancing champion than there was a deal with the UK and… -
Re: Starmer out of line on Brexit with GE2019 LAB voters – new poll – politicalbetting.com
I think the South West has been lucky that it was a couple of hours late, and missed spring high tide. -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » The Tories’ EU divide is making life harder for Corbyn’s op
Mark Williams beat the Tory by over 9000 votes in the most disastrous of LibDem years! Most of Preseli - in terms of electorate - would not form part of the Pembroke North & Ceredigion seat but would be combined with South Pembrokeshire as was the case 1983 - 1997. North Pembroke is quite similar to Ceredigion in being… -
Re: politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Populus back to “normal” following Friday’s shock LAB 11pc
"ITV's Laura Kuenssberg has been speaking to business secretary Vince Cable about revelations that one million workers in the UK - four times official estimates - could be on zero-hours contracts. Such agreements give employees no guarantee of work. He told her he would not consider an outright ban but wants to look into… -
Re: Laying the favourite – politicalbetting.com
I suspect I don't have your level of professional knowledge but I do possess a little. "No brownfield development coming forward" - well, when brownfield is all you have such as in Inner East London, you have to use it and at least three significant developments in my immediate vicinity are (or are planned to be) on retail…