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- Fri 31 May, 2024 7:18 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st May 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 166
Re: Friday 31st May 2024
May I second Refit on that! QT booked in for Sunday with great anticipation.
- Thu 30 May, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th May 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 261
Re: Thursday 30th May 2024
@sky
Good man, Chris Mullin. I’ve enjoyed all his books that I’ve read.
Hope you make QT tonight. Your reviews set me up for a viewing after the event!
Good man, Chris Mullin. I’ve enjoyed all his books that I’ve read.
Hope you make QT tonight. Your reviews set me up for a viewing after the event!
- Sat 18 May, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
- Replies: 22
- Views: 253
Re: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
@refit
We’re off to Kos next weekend and the weather forecast is, and has been, sun, sun, sun. Hope Corfu has improved for you?
We’re off to Kos next weekend and the weather forecast is, and has been, sun, sun, sun. Hope Corfu has improved for you?
- Thu 16 May, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 173
Re: Thursday 16th May 2024
Please explain, AK. I'm struggling a little with this one!AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Thu 16 May, 2024 2:13 pm Is this the same Alex Niven who went full-on accelerationist just days before Truss and Kwarteng (hopefully) cratered the Tories for a generation?
- Sun 05 May, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1371
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
notnowsonny MAY 5, 2024 AT 12:01 PM I quote Braverman on Kuenssberg this morning: “…it’s a disgrace that we are trailing up against Labour led by Keir Starmer, who has the charisma of a peanut, who is overseeing a party which is a rabble of hard-left maniacs, who would undo Brexit, who would open ou...
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th April 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6688
Re: Friday 26th April 2024
I sat next to Steve Richards at a showing of "King Lear" with Glenda Jackson at the Old Vic and had quite an interesting chat with him beforehand and at the interval. He gently accepted my gushing admiration of his writing ( I suggested he was in a line starting with James Cameron and Hugo...
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th April 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6688
Re: Friday 26th April 2024
Finally I really must look up 'Centrist dad' which is obviously an insult, gilsey to Notnow on Steve Richards . It certainly wasn't meant as an insult to notnowsonny, or even Steve Richards, who is far from being the worst offender. Just that there's plenty of them for QT to choose from. Let us kno...
- Fri 26 Apr, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th April 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6688
Re: Friday 26th April 2024
May I echo frog and gilsey's praise for sky's QT report. I watch it the day after on iplayer enthused by our in house commentator and he's seldom proved to be wrong or having exaggerated - well, not often!
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 10:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7557
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Crap formatting. Sorry, but you know what I mean.
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7557
- Thu 25 Apr, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7557
Re: Thursday 25th April 2024
Kate Andrews was making one of her customary appearances and I was absolutely astonished when she fully backed the plan and declared that the privatisation of public assets had been an unmitigated disaster...only joking, she talked a load of absolute guff about how it would deter investment and be ...
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5485
Re: Friday 19th April 2024
Remember that this was started by Israel destroying Iran's consulate in Syria. (I presume this is in response to me Refit?) Absolutely and, after all, Cameron said that had we been on the receiving end we would have given a very strong response. What Iran actually did is part of the reason that I t...
- Fri 19 Apr, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5485
Re: Friday 19th April 2024
Israel could have done a lot worse though. It is possible widespread calls for restraint from normally supportive governments did have some effect. I don't think "they only fired a few missiles" is a valid line to take. The whole Iran strike - Israel retaliation does have the feeling of p...
- Mon 01 Apr, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2525
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
@sky and @AK It's a bit of a pisser when you're pushing 80 (albeit with a longish stick) and realise how little time you have left, even if you're in reasonable health - which I am. I really wouldn't like to be 18 now with most of my life ahead of me. The world is becoming a crueller place day by da...
- Fri 22 Dec, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 22nd December 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1792
Re: Friday 22nd December 2023
We walked in front of that building three days ago and across the bridge the students used as an escape route. Lots of happy people then. Dreadful for all concerned in yesterday’s shootings.
- Fri 15 Dec, 2023 10:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 15th December 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1704
Re: Friday 15th December 2023
@gilsey
Credit where it’s due, however begrudging!
Credit where it’s due, however begrudging!
- Fri 15 Dec, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 15th December 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1704
Re: Friday 15th December 2023
I usually have a lot of time for Sam Freedman but this is way off the mark. I've barely seen any personal attacks on Kate Andrews, just a lot of people questioning why she's been so ubiquitous on the BBC for years and why they've repeatedly failed to inform their audience of her background. Not tha...
- Tue 21 Nov, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21st November 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1793
Re: Tuesday 21st November 2023
@sky from the weekend "On a lighter note I was sitting up having a few drinks with my Dad last night when he began going on about Frenchmen called 'Onion Johnnies' riding around on bikes selling onions when he was a kid. According to him they wore stripey Breton shirts and berets and would ride...
- Sun 19 Nov, 2023 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November 2023
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2657
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November 2023
@AK
Fair enough. However, I would say that our soft power is on the wane rather alarmingly.
Fair enough. However, I would say that our soft power is on the wane rather alarmingly.
- Sun 19 Nov, 2023 4:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November 2023
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2657
Re: Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th November 2023
@AK
I would hazard a guess that most ‘dissenters’ on here fully recognise that whatever Starmer says or does it will make no difference, but just believe he should do the humanitarian thing!
I would hazard a guess that most ‘dissenters’ on here fully recognise that whatever Starmer says or does it will make no difference, but just believe he should do the humanitarian thing!
- Thu 02 Nov, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 2nd November 2023
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2837
Re: Thursday 2nd November 2023
I'll take pity on the nesters who complain about AK's cryptic comments, here you go This one I actually got, mainly because it was first up on Neville's feed. Neatly done by GN. Man U fans really ought to think about what it is to support someone else who haven't had their success. The entitlement,...
- Wed 01 Nov, 2023 7:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 1st November 2023
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1606
Re: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Unlucky @sky re Covid. If it’s any consolation (I know it won’t be) Mrs Sonny got it a second time recently and it wasn’t so bad as no 1, so perhaps this strain is less virulent. I enjoyed your review of Cummings’ cummings on TV. I watched an hour or so and have to agree with your assessment that he...
- Sun 29 Oct, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th October 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1388
Re: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th October 2023
My comments are occasionally a tad cryptic I will admit, but it was big news last night so I assumed people had heard :) Not for me as I was in transit. Cryptic is good in a crossword, perhaps not do much in a political discussion forum, particularly as I do find your contributions interesting, if ...
- Sun 29 Oct, 2023 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th October 2023
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1388
- Mon 23 Oct, 2023 2:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 23rd October 2023
- Replies: 9
- Views: 774
Re: Monday 23rd October 2023
Condolences ROT.
- Tue 26 Sep, 2023 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th September 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3616
Re: Tuesday 26th September 2023
So sorry, RO’H. Even though you know it’s going to happen, it’s still horrible. Sincere condolences.
- Mon 25 Sep, 2023 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 25th September 2023
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1482
Re: Monday 25th September 2023
@RO'T
Follow the tweet (X-it?) and some of the responses are appalling. I know that they don't represent the attitudes of most of us, certainly not on here, but to think that they have the same rights as us is scary. They'd say the same about me, of course, but I got in first!
Follow the tweet (X-it?) and some of the responses are appalling. I know that they don't represent the attitudes of most of us, certainly not on here, but to think that they have the same rights as us is scary. They'd say the same about me, of course, but I got in first!
- Wed 05 Jul, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 5th July 2023
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1955
Re: Wednesday 5th July 2023
I watched Politics Live today pre PMQs and wondered how they're going to get the left-leaning journalists and pundits to make up the panel if (when) Labour win the next election. Today they had regulation Tory MP and Labour MP, together with Ellie Whelan, of Spiked (she's described as libertarian wh...
- Mon 22 May, 2023 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd May 2023
- Replies: 7
- Views: 962
Re: Monday 22nd May 2023
@tiny and most of the rest of us Surely the thing now is to get the Tories out. The only way to do that is by voting Labour, in the main. Lib Dems in the blue wall if they’re threatening to overturn eg Raab or Gove, I accept, but Labour almost everywhere else. My political origins are to the right o...
- Sun 25 Dec, 2022 1:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Xmas weekend 24th-27th December 2022
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2850
Re: Xmas weekend 24th-27th December 2022
A happy Christmas to everyone and an infinitely better new year!
- Thu 08 Dec, 2022 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th December 2022
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1540
Re: Thursday 8th December 2022
They’ll need to kill us off if our house is anything to judge by: 100% of over 66s will definitely not be voting Tory!Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Thu 08 Dec, 2022 2:33 pm Sooner or later the Tories are going to have to start raising the dead if they want to win elections.
- Sun 30 Oct, 2022 8:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th October 2022
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3151
Re: Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th October 2022
I'm a great fan of Doonesbury. Second bubble tells all we need to know how far we've fallen in 40 years.
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1982/10/29
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1982/10/29
- Fri 21 Oct, 2022 2:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 21st October 2022
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1758
Re: Friday 21st October 2022
Truss gone
Jonathan Pie
Jonathan Pie
- Fri 14 Oct, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 14th October 2022
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2755
Re: Friday 14th October 2022
I have to ask myself, why, when the PM has just sacked her chancellor, the BBC can’t have a Politics Live programme about the PM sacking her chancellor, rather than trying to bring in an examination of Labour’s plans to sort things out? Jo Coburn had two (at least) attempts to change the direction o...
- Fri 14 Oct, 2022 8:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 14th October 2022
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2755
Re: Friday 14th October 2022
@porfavor from last night:
My pleasure. I’ve enjoyed a few of the late night music bits from you and @sky, so it’s nice to repay the debt a little.
My pleasure. I’ve enjoyed a few of the late night music bits from you and @sky, so it’s nice to repay the debt a little.
- Thu 13 Oct, 2022 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th October 2022
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3160
Re: Thursday 13th October 2022
As citizenJA often used to post.
- Thu 13 Oct, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th October 2022
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3160
Re: Thursday 13th October 2022
Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Thu 13 Oct, 2022 5:34 pm I do believe I'll be investigating Savoy Brown further, that was great. Cheers Notnowsonny.
- Thu 13 Oct, 2022 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th October 2022
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3160
Re: Thursday 13th October 2022
Or even:
though this is better when you're two bottles in and with someone who really likes Yes!
though this is better when you're two bottles in and with someone who really likes Yes!
- Thu 13 Oct, 2022 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th October 2022
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3160
Re: Thursday 13th October 2022
I'll see you and raise with:
- Thu 13 Oct, 2022 4:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 13th October 2022
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3160
Re: Thursday 13th October 2022
I've been having one of my regular watching-music-on-YouTube afternoons and reminded myself of this one, which describes our joint position under crap PM number 4:
Really love the song!
Really love the song!
- Thu 06 Oct, 2022 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th October 2022
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1772
Re: Thursday 6th October 2022
And for the Guardian too. You make my (admittedly obscure) point for me.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Thu 06 Oct, 2022 11:53 am Crerar wrote for right wing rags before the Mirror, journalists can be remarkably "flexible" about these things.
- Thu 06 Oct, 2022 11:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 6th October 2022
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1772
Re: Thursday 6th October 2022
One of Jake Berry's intended-to-be-clipped-for-wider-broadcast-bits in his Nick Ferrari interview was, "When the going gets tough, the Truss gets going". God help me!
In other matters, I see that John Stevens, formerly of the Mail, has replaced Pippa Crerar at the Mirror. Hmmm.
In other matters, I see that John Stevens, formerly of the Mail, has replaced Pippa Crerar at the Mirror. Hmmm.
- Mon 26 Sep, 2022 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 26th September 2022
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3454
Re: Monday 26th September 2022
@AnatolyKasparov
'Hope springs eternal', as I believe the old saw goes?
'Hope springs eternal', as I believe the old saw goes?
- Mon 26 Sep, 2022 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 26th September 2022
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3454
Re: Monday 26th September 2022
From the G Politics: 'And in a blunt warning to the Truss government [Analysts at bank Nomura] write: "Hope is not a strategy, and markets are reflecting that." ' How true, how true! PS Fortunately it doesn't seem to be an Oxford comma in the quote from Nomura, so Therese (excuse lack of a...
- Mon 26 Sep, 2022 11:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 26th September 2022
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3454
Re: Monday 26th September 2022
Pleased to see that Chloe Smith has improved since her mauling by Paxman all those years ago. The patronising behaviour at 3:59 from a minister whose government hasn't allowed the OBR to prepare an assessment of the effect of their "fiscal event" or whatever, caused a sharp intake of breat...
- Wed 07 Sep, 2022 10:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th September 2022
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1650
Re: Wednesday 7th September 2022
At around 10:40 on this. Judging by her reaction to the fairly non-aggressive questioning on abortion here, Ms Coffey is going to have a big albatross hanging round her neck for a little while yet!
- Tue 06 Sep, 2022 10:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th September 2022
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2869
Re: Tuesday 6th September 2022
I thought it was impossible to top Priti Patel's self-congratulatory letter of resignation for unadulterated bullshit, but Borarse (copyright notnowsonny) managed it today. Within minutes of his departure (and how I laughed when he nearly walked Clarrie into a lamp-post, blind as always to those dep...
- Mon 22 Aug, 2022 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd August 2022
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1530
Re: Monday 22nd August 2022
Gosh, this is a surprise! (Said no-one on Earth). From the Guardian Daily Politics: "Johnson to focus on Ukraine and cost of living crisis in final two weeks in office, No 10 says Boris Johnson will spend some of his final two weeks in office working from Chequers, his country residence, No 10 ...
- Sun 31 Jul, 2022 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st July 2022
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3875
Re: Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st July 2022
@sky I only saw normal time and Germany were the better side especially out wide. But, and it’s a big BUT, that isn’t what wins the trophy all the time. The commentary in Croatian was distinctly underpowered and I didn’t understand a word, but it did seem to me that the kicking was from both sides, ...
- Tue 26 Jul, 2022 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 26th July 2022
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2065