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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...

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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...

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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!

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Crap formatting. Sorry, but you know what I mean.

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gilsey wrote: ↑Thu 25 Apr, 2024 10:09 pm Centrist Dads all the way.

Can’t speak for Mr Richards, but in my case it’s a little-bit-left-of-centre-but-not-really-that-much grandad!

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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@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...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Fri 22 Dec, 2023 1:05 pm The news from Prague is pretty sobering.

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.

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@gilsey
Credit where it’s due, however begrudging!

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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...

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@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...

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@AK
Fair enough. However, I would say that our soft power is on the wane rather alarmingly.

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@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!

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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,...

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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...

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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 ...

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refitman wrote: ↑Sun 29 Oct, 2023 10:15 am You're gonna have to be more specific.

Quite true! It does help on occasions to have a hint. I also quite like to know to which contributor comments apply if it’s not immediately obvious.

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Condolences ROT.

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So sorry, RO’H. Even though you know it’s going to happen, it’s still horrible. Sincere condolences.

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@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!

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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...

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@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...

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A happy Christmas to everyone and an infinitely better new year!

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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.

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!

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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

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Truss gone

Jonathan Pie

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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...

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@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.

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As citizenJA often used to post.

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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.

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Or even:

though this is better when you're two bottles in and with someone who really likes Yes!

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Thu 13 Oct, 2022 4:35 pm I wonder if this one's on Liz's playlist?

I'll see you and raise with:

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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!

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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.

And for the Guardian too. You make my (admittedly obscure) point for me.

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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.

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'Hope springs eternal', as I believe the old saw goes?

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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...

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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...

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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!

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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...

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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 ...

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@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, ...

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gilsey wrote: ↑Tue 26 Jul, 2022 9:34 pmFootball, eh.

Enjoyed that as much as any game for a while (I do support Wolves and England Men after all!).
Happy to be English again

@sky

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Wed 13 Jul, 2022 8:21 pm
notnowsonny wrote: ↑Wed 13 Jul, 2022 6:58 pmThe drinks are on me! Cheers.
Thanks. I'll have a pint of Romanee-Conti Grand Cru if that's ok.

I have a couple of bottles of Santenay. Will that do?

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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/13/kemi-badenoch-tory-leadership-culture-wars What is it with the Guardian? describing Braverman and Badenoch as “right-leaning” and seeking to win ‘the mini-race for prominence among right-leaning culture warriors’ is, to say the least, selling it short...

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He should sue, but has to pick the right case. Even when it comes to AS, a lot of stuff can be arguably defended under the "fair comment" banner. (one example that goes way beyond this was Simon Heffer's notorious statement that JC wanted to reopen Auschwitz - that was and is *surely* def...

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Needless to say, in the event of a court case, Corbyn would be crowd-funded to any necessary level!

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Corbyn still living rent-free -- Last night on the Week in Westminster the Tory made some slur against JC's honesty which Thornberry crushed very thoroughly. Good ! This morning on FiveLive Tugendhat explained the loss of confidence in politics as partly because Labour had had an antisemitic leader...

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