FlyTheNest

Last day at work until next September...

The Trump administration is reportedly considering labelling a number of leading international humanitarian organisations as antisemitic after they documented Israeli rights abuses against Palestinians, including settlement building in the occupied territories. The groups include the UK-based Amnes...

No real surprise to see "Baroness" Fox voting with the Government in the HoL alongside other deserving Peers such as Austin, Stuart, and Hoey. https://votes.parliament.uk/Votes/Lords/Division/2343#not-contents" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; :roll: From the parlia...

Donald Trump paid nearly $200,000 in taxes to China, report claims Tax records reviewed by the New York Times showed a previously unreported bank account in China controlled by Trump International Hotels Management. The account paid $188,561 in taxes in China between 2013 and 2015 in connection to ...

tinyclanger2 wrote:EU talks anyone?

Apparently not. And that's a full and complete answer.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ...like preparing a dinner party then realising all your guests are dead and nobody is going to show up.

I know in what a limited way we all know each other but would I be pushing it to suggest that that sounds like your kind of dinner party?

I grew up with gardeners for parents - especially my dad - and married the daughter of smallholders who is a committed gardener herself, and I just have no interest at all.

Brexit: No 10 startled by EU insistence that UK accept trade terms Downing Street reacted in dismay as Emmanuel Macron led EU leaders in warning Boris Johnson that he must swallow the bloc’s conditions, in what appeared to be taken as a direct challenge to the British prime minister’s threat to wal...

AnatolyKasparov wrote:
citizenJA wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Anybody any clearer about anything on the government's virus response than they were yesterday?
No.
Thought not, just checking

Less is better than more. Later is better than sooner. Nothing is better than something. It's all your fault.

Can't read the article - paywalled - but don't really need to... Nick Timothy in the Telegraph The repeat failures of the state are why we’re locking down again From contact tracing to PPE, the machinery of government has proved inept and unaccountable Government, Nick. The repeated failures of the ...

Reports that Trump wanted to leave hospital and pull his shirt open to reveal a Superman shirt underneath, but was talked out of it. I find this more believable than the one about him thinking about resigning. Although obviously if he loses then losing will be exactly what he wanted.

Interesting thread by Krugman on the US, came up on my timeline in the context of businesses not preparing for Brexit. Do they still believe something so bad can't/won't happen? https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1314245330171559936" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Paul ...

Regeneron, the antibody cocktail that Trump has been mischaracterized as a “cure”, was developed with cells derived from human fetal tissue – a practice that the administration opposes. Not for the first time, you wonder at just how much the Republican's hardcore from the church will put up with. I...

tinyclanger2 wrote:I remember watching the 2012 opening ceremony while on holiday in Italy. We sat on the roof terrace to watch the tv inside the room. I enjoyed it for sure, but I had no idea how wonderful and amazing such a simple, carefree experience would seem 8 years later.

You will be wanting this.

Didn't Theresa May have a secret meeting with Nissan, widely believed to have been along those lines? Paying those tariffs won't stop them leaving the UK in the medium term anyway. It was certainly said that many of the far-East companies stayed put and stayed quiet through all of this because they...

Nissan and Toyota want Britain to pay for no deal Brexit tariffs (Telegraph - paywall for whole article) The two companies want the government to cover the expected 10 percent taxes that would hit UK automotive exports from January 1 if Britain leaves the transition period without an agreement. Nis...

Trump going for a drive by to wave at his supporters outside the hospital means Trump ordering his driver and secret service agents to sit inside a hermitially sealed very close environment with him whilst he's infected. Let's hope he's lying about being ill.

There's a great deal of not being able to tell what might be true through the fog of, at best, misinformation and contradiction (as Robet Harris has said about the UK, we are all being led by oxymorons). But it would be a very big lie indeed to say that he'd tested positive if he hasn't, and if he h...

We are drifting towards the possibility of the confirmation of Barrett by the Senate being very tight. If the two Republicans who say they won't vote to confirm - Collins and Murkowski - hold their ground, and if the vote gets pushed back beyond November 3rd (which seems quite possible at the moment...

citizenJA wrote:Is there chocolate, please?

Mint aero. The very best kind of aero. It's quite a big one too.

Johnson's timeline, from announcing the diagnosis to being discharged from hospital, was about two and a half weeks, but he was reporting symptoms at the time he was diagnosed so he might well have been a week or so down the line from actually being infected. It was two more weeks after that before ...

He [Johnson] asks Starmer to be a little bit consistent, and to instil confidence in the measures he supports.

Satire is indeed dead

Good on the NYT - long quote from the US politics blog at the graun As we wait for Donald Trump to take the podium in the White House briefing room, the New York Times reveals it has obtained the US president’s tax return data for thousands of personal and corporate returns going back more than two ...

And apparently Fox wants to reform the BBC...as someone pointed out the timing of that given the news of the likely appointments of Dacre and Moore is...unfortunate. It's too woke. It doesn't spend enough time actually stuffing burning rags through non-white families' letter boxes or punching lesbi...

I know the story about the catholic sect that Trump's likely SC pick is from being one of the inspirations for The Handmaid's Tale has been officially denied but it's still a good story.

"NHS" test and trace app won't take covid test results from NHS in branding misfire non-shocker. Bumbling Boris and the terrible Tories have managed to privatise a pandemic. (sigh) I am (honestly) a good citizen who has been waiting and waiting for improvements in t/t/i to make public tra...

More Mersey poets - this is my favourite one, I think. The Stolen Orange - Brian Patten When I went out I stole an orange I kept it in my pocket It felt like a warm planet Everywhere I went smelt of oranges Whenever I got into an awkward situation I'd take out the orange and smell it And immediately...

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I need a small commando force to rescue Mr citizen from the pestilence office he's been made to return are you with me Not if it involves wading through students, discretion is the better part of valour. Discretion by Roger McGough Discretion is the better part of Valerie (though all of her is nice...

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Apparently Ben Wallace accused Labour of waging illegal wars. the mess from which his party were having to clear up. No 10 said that his was a 'personal view' and didn't represent the view of the government. The only problem with that is that he was speaking from the despatch box at the time as Def...

I am clearly lacking in Hindle-esque qualities of posting and deleting without everything appearing as nonsense.

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Dare I say I feel a bit psycho...
Dare I say it feels very nice though...

I'm going to delete this in a moment I'm afraid but the real reason I can talk about taking a year's sabbatical is that I've just won a shitload of money on the lottery. Not a 'buy an island and never work again' shitload but a shitload none the less.

Truck queues could be 7,000 long when Brexit transition ends, ministers warn UK ministers have warned of 7,000-truck-long queues in Kent after the Brexit transition period ends as a worst-case scenario if hauliers fail to prepare for changes to customs rules. ... The Road Haulage Association (RHA),...

We have a student with a positive CV19 test. Apparently the advice from PHE is 'all you have to do is identify the students who have been spending lesson time sat near him/her and tell them to isolate - no more than that.' So the student in question and nine others are isolating and the other 190odd...

That wasn't his finest moment (though I rather suspect Milne was the ventriloquist there) granted - but still, when comparing it to all Johnson's crimes........ Young Jeremy's fondness for the IRA did not pass completely unnoticed by the voting public , either ! Adding it all up , the numbers of 'A...

frog222 wrote:@adam -- fascinating on those nine Justices .

Follow up to this - apparently Congress decide how many SC Justices there need to be, and the chance of the Democrats losing Congress are effectively nil (usual warnings apply).

@ adam " We are moving to compulsory masks out of classrooms for everyone without medical exemption all of the time from Monday. Ideally I won't be there after this week... " We have compulsory masks all the time, except when actually eating in the canteen ! We had a 'guide' given to us t...

First report from daughter was ten days into the school year, and she's been so busy the next one was only after three weeks, last night . She, her husband who is also an English teacher and sons of 11 and 13 have all been masked, and seem to be managing. Her own experience is that classes seem a b...

https://mobile.twitter.com/marcthiessen/status/1307132148625870848 Marc Thiessen@marcthiessen Level 1: Ted Cruz with an excellent point. If election is litigated can't risk having just 8 justices and the possibility of a deadlocked court. Could cause a constitutional crisis. 2:39 AM · Sep 19, 2020 ...

RIP RGB Three things God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.... the Republicans will now do what they will and there's little that can be done about that You never know but you would hope that there are few in the Senate who will know voting a replacement through now would be...

My news is that school is as fine as it can reasonably be expected to be, and the trains are really quiet, but circumstances have allowed me to think about taking a sabbatical for a year, and just staying put at home in much more control of my environment hoping that a year will see this out, and I'...

New UK Covid test is effective but won't impact numbers as hoped A paper in the Lancet Microbe journal assessing the DnaNudge test’s performance found it was 94.4% sensitive – so it will fail to identify 5.6 cases in 100. Which, if it's a big part of the whole moonshot idea, is false negatives for ...

In the old days files used to get "mislaid", not much has changed really. James Hacker : [reads memo] This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967.....

Willow904 wrote:Morning.

So a rebellion still sees a majority of 77? Sigh.

It's a serious coming down to earth for anybody who thinks they might not survive until 2024. (Which doesn't mean Johnson might not decide to run away much earlier)

Good morfternoon. Boris Johnson pinning hopes on £100bn 'moonshot' to avoid second lockdown Some of the technology it would require does not yet exist. (Guardian) What does that remind me of? Could it be something connected to "Brexit"? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/09/boris-...

Certainly, Extinction Rebellion seems to be rattling the establishment. After the print works blockade, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson had to jump to the defence of the ‘free press” and even the Labour leader Keir Starmer eventually condemned their actions. Some commentators even characterised th...

Willow904 wrote:Meanwhile the government's plans for an internal market remain illegal whether we talk about it or not.

I think we all need to remember that when people say 'WTO rules' they don't mean 'WTO rules', they mean 'We will be able to write our own rules and do exactly what we want'.

So, we can't gather in groups of 6 or more people apart from all day, every day, in work and school. This needs proper explanation, basically. Not a late night, rushed announcement that seemed more aimed at knocking other certain news items off the agenda rather than actually trying to control the ...

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