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- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 110
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 110
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Looking forward to the ReportSky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Thu 18 Apr, 2024 1:53 pm Tice vs David TC Davies could prove to be amusing. I guess I better go and get some cheap plonk.
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 110
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Good morning. Yeah, funny that... Jeremy White @jeremyiwhite 55m Absolutely, not yet clear what the facts are here but sounds suspiciously close to theft and yet the Police aren’t involved Years ago our great Corruption Inquiry judge Eva Joly wrote - " in my years as a magistrate common or gar...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 110
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Example above ! Readers added context they thought people might want to know This is not one of the 32 recommendations. The Cass review recommends establishing separate services for 17-25 year olds in order to increase the capacity of care available for the trans community and ensure a smooth transi...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 110
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Sigh Several years ago I decided I just didn't have the time left to spend it on properly researching and then making up my mind on MMT, tho I DO have some sympathy for the arguments I've seen around . The Trans Debate is about the same for me, time is limited :-) Below I notice that there is often...
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 9:15 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 110
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
We have no (IMMEDIATE) plans ....
- Thu 18 Apr, 2024 7:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th April 2024
- Replies: 18
- Views: 110
Re: Thursday 18th April 2024
Morning refit A free view for Gilsey ** and anyone else interested in the economy https://twitter.com/FT/status/1780244685182620063 ** First holiday for four years , something to do with covid ? I know it would for me if it involved public transport . ------------------------------------------------...
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 93
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 93
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 11:20 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 93
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 93
- Wed 17 Apr, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 93
Re: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Morning AK "Actually, the effect that Stein had on that election is still debated. It may have made some difference, but not as obviously as Nader did in 2000." Agreed . Not all Stein people would have voted Clinton rather than stay at home or very unlikely vote Trump ! Stein's 2016 campai...
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 123
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Jill Stein's votes lost three states for Hillary
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 123
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Just a little more on RT and the weirdos affiliated to it and all going back to Vlad --
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 123
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Anyway, the new Liz Truss book. Anybody buying it? :) I wonder if her US billionaire backers will buy enough to delay the inevitable remaindering ? I saw a parody of it on Xitt yesterday, and it might just as well have been the real thing . Much fun from Gaby Hinsliff Zoe Williams and Hugo Rifkind .
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 123
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
OUCH !
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 123
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
This fits with the popular " Forty Beheaded Babies" **-- https://twitter.com/broseph_stalin/status/1780233559971594249 One would think that in a decent society with any respect for truth and public safety she should see consequences for Hate Speech which very well COULD have fatal conseque...
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 123
- Tue 16 Apr, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 123
Re: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Parliament back yesterday, also John Crace after a heart attack -- " Matt Hancock got up to say he had nothing to say but wanted to say it anyway as he couldn’t bear to be left out. Cue an exit for the tearooms." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/15/rishi-sunak-tries-for-gravit...
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 112
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
If you want a scary listen, the new episode of This Machine Kills podcast talks about how Israel has used AI to 'identify targets' in Palestine. There should be war crime prosecutions based on this information https://twitter.com/machinekillspod/status/1779630717099442527 The guardian article was q...
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 112
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
Found it .
Tearful Biden and Sunak falling for the rubbish of FIFTY DECAPITATED BABIES etc etc
Excellent work from Aljazeera --
Tearful Biden and Sunak falling for the rubbish of FIFTY DECAPITATED BABIES etc etc
Excellent work from Aljazeera --
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 112
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
Yes, that last paragraph certainly rings true. One thing bugging me is the blanket description of everyone who went through the Wall, and committed crimes, as Hamas, when the crowd ranged from Hamas to groups of excited teenagers to individuals to criminal gangs (apparently not a shortage of those ...
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 112
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
Israeli media also has a habit of publishing "polls" purportedly showing that the overwhelming majority of Gazans still back Hamas. Still a free read -- Shaher generalizes, saying, "It's very hard to conduct surveys among Arabs. Everybody has two opinions concerning nationalist and m...
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 9:42 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 112
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
Haaretz gives six free reads pm, but the one in this Xitter post is Subscription Only - A Free Amira Hass tho -- 'People Are Constantly Cursing Sinwar': Gazans Opposing Hamas Are Sure They're the Majority Four Gazans who spoke with Haaretz rail against the Hamas leader in the Strip and the decision ...
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 112
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
Neat !
- Mon 15 Apr, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 15th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 112
Re: Monday 15th April 2024
Mornng refit
Glad to hear that Sky was only undergoing Family Meet-up exhaustion !
First lol of the day --
Glad to hear that Sky was only undergoing Family Meet-up exhaustion !
First lol of the day --
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Good question !
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Several deleted Xitts this morning !
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
This was my first LOL of the day --
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 11:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
He sounds just the chap for New-New labour's internal policing -- Extortion, blackmail “Any information that might enable extortion of an individual is considered relevant,” one Unit 8200 reservist explained in the letter. “Whether said individual is of a certain sexual orientation, cheating on his ...
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Lawyers acting for a Palestinian activist and Labour member have complained to the party over its decision to hire an alleged former Israeli intelligence officer to help run its social media strategy. Assaf Kaplan was hired by Labour as a social listening and organising manager, a new post describe...
- Sun 14 Apr, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Stronger words from Starmer, than when Israel murdered 3 UK citizens Morning refit And no words at all on this ? Their accounts were shared exclusively with the Guardian in advance of publication. All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly ...
- Sat 13 Apr, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Yep, "small but vital numbers " decide SO much ! Not concentrating solely on gaining votes but also on persuading that small number of the opponent's potential voters into staying home . Now a truism when we've seen Cambridge Analyica at work . https://time.com/5197255/facebook-cambridge-a...
- Sat 13 Apr, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
For something more down to earth , a demonstration of how bad the roots on shop-bought plants/trees can be . Spending some time even on $2 herb plants is well spent
- Sat 13 Apr, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
Re: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
Its a complete non-story about Rayner, let's all remember that. Agreed , it's pitiful rubbish . So what do you do if she lived 50/50 in both houses, make her half an MP ? Another one on so-called 'crime' is the proportion of the US electorate supposedly not voting for DJT IF he's convicted on any o...
- Sat 13 Apr, 2024 10:28 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th April 2024
- Replies: 21
- Views: 299
- Fri 12 Apr, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 148
Re: Friday 12th April 2024
Ben Bernanke’s report into the Bank of England’s forecasting is measured but still quietly devastating, our economics editor Larry Elliott writes: The Bank of England has got markedly worse at forecasting the economy in recent years. Its economic model is faulty. Its systems are out of date. It has...
- Fri 12 Apr, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 148
Re: Friday 12th April 2024
20° also for the weekend, then down to ................ 10 ! The unconditional anti-nuke LP members of the past remind me just a bit of those Tories who voted in the CheeseLady . But now with Putin brandishing his nukes, have they changed, just a little ? The obvious answer to the RU govt TV bombast...
- Fri 12 Apr, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 148
Re: Friday 12th April 2024
FREE READ AT THE FT VERY HIGH LEVEL CRIME AND SPYING IN VIENNA
Back to the (not so) COLD WAR !
Back to the (not so) COLD WAR !
- Fri 12 Apr, 2024 8:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 12th April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 148
Re: Friday 12th April 2024
Bonjour !
- Thu 11 Apr, 2024 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 123
Re: Thursday 11th April 2024
Great one on ... among other things, religious freedom Ukraine compared to Russia , the extraordinary reach of Tucker Carlson & Friends ETC
- Thu 11 Apr, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 123
Re: Thursday 11th April 2024
Sister in Puerto Rico did the posters for this at her university .
Civilised idea !
" Yesterday and today we have the Election Commission here, for students to register to vote.
An event part of Library Week "
Civilised idea !
" Yesterday and today we have the Election Commission here, for students to register to vote.
An event part of Library Week "
- Thu 11 Apr, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 123
Re: Thursday 11th April 2024
Doubles all round !
- Thu 11 Apr, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 123
Re: Thursday 11th April 2024
I need the odd laugh these days --
- Thu 11 Apr, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 11th April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 123
- Wed 10 Apr, 2024 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 178
Re: Wednesday 10th April 2024
"Rats ate my dam" cont
- Wed 10 Apr, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 178
Re: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Biden risking doing something humane, election year ?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... ge-charges
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... ge-charges
- Wed 10 Apr, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 178
- Wed 10 Apr, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 178
Re: Wednesday 10th April 2024
I haven't watched PMQ's for quite some time, relying on Mr Sparrow et al, but I do miss THE Report !
We'll be back on 18th April with a studio audience from Buxton
We'll be back on 18th April with a studio audience from Buxton
- Wed 10 Apr, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th April 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 178
Re: Wednesday 10th April 2024
28 years an MP, and YES he claimed £££ 000'sf or cleaning his swimming pool and painting his summer house, BUT a very clear witness on the right side of History ! I watched half an hour of it , good honest stuff . A number of nuggets -- Liveblog 25m ago 11.55 CEST At the Post Office Horizon IT inqui...