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- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 925
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 925
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
AK -- remember that's how , IIRC, they won a by election on ULEZ propaganda ?AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Tue 09 Apr, 2024 6:03 pm Many, perhaps most, people have now totally tuned out from anything the Tories say or do though.
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 925
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Hi AK Yes sorry it’s been a while But saw that Hodges post and thought of you all 😆 Bit busy today but I’ll pop back in soon. PfY and Yorkshire Bylines pops up on my notifications -- Elections 2024: Conservatives ramping up disinformation campaign As the mayoral and council elections loom, evidence...
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 925
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 8:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 925
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
I plugged out R4 before the Rachel Reeves, but expect she was pledging to use imagination to grow the economy ?
Wet and windy here !
Wet and windy here !
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 7:33 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 925
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
" Rats undermined my dam "
- Tue 09 Apr, 2024 7:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 925
Re: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Morning refit Gilsey having been an accountant reminded me of the olden days on Prem Sikka's accountancy threads at the G . Generally only a few score comments, and we had fun ! Steve Hill FCA etc defended the nobility and selflessness of the Big Four against all comers . A little similar fun at The...
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
Re: Monday 8th April 2024
6/4 Posting from the front, Stanislav Aseyev is Not Happy -- (DO Check his bio !) https://twitter.com/AseyevStanislav/status/1776546313863115067 BUT THEN, 8/4 --- " Following public uproar after an apparent incident of a “revenge summons” for a whistleblower report exposing corruption in Ukrai...
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
Re: Monday 8th April 2024
My favourite Tory MP ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOv7zPrheyo&ab_channel=RosieHolt " With a hint of mischief, Holt remembers the time that “a Labour MP quote-tweeted one of my videos and said: ‘This woman is appalling, she should stop inside’. I tweeted back: ‘How do I even know you’re...
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
Re: Monday 8th April 2024
Photographer Paul Conroy was with Marie Colvin when they were targeted by Assad's artillery in Syria . She was killed, and he's back at work after hospitals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MoZx6tp_kM&ab_channel=TimesRadio Nice story about the group of infantry soldiers who learned how to do ar...
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
Re: Monday 8th April 2024
Wes Streeting's war on the left ( nothing to do with his funders )A Youtube Short " Was Streeting has declared war today on what he calls the middle-class left-wing members of the Labour Party who want to prevent him from privatising the NHS. That's nonsense. What he's actually saying is he'd ...
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
Re: Monday 8th April 2024
I have Shaun's book, also Aiden Aslin's. The latter underwent a RT 'confession interview' with his torturer standing right behind the RT 'journalist' .
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
Re: Monday 8th April 2024
How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ? OK She had help ! She also had North Sea oil, something her predecessors mostly did not. And basically wasted it. It's always amazed me how some countries just can't look outside their borders to compare what their neighbours are doing differentl...
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
- Mon 08 Apr, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th April 2024
- Replies: 17
- Views: 843
Re: Monday 8th April 2024
How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ?
OK She had help !
OK She had help !
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 10:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Bah, using a grinder is cheating, I just use the bottom of an old mug to sharpen my kitchen knives (ceramics being harder than steel). Although admittedly with blades that size using my technique would probably take about a week. Evening Sky, a week's optimistic i think, I took off a LOT of metal !...
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Extremely pleased with myself, I repaired the rotoscythe in the background of the photo and sharpened the blade on the 15HP, and both performed very well ! Was awake extremely early today, found 11 articles in the Times, and surprisingly 12 in the G . Just looked at the last one I selected " Or...
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
"“The draft law on the media stipulates an increase in the share of the state language in television and radio from 50% to 70%,” the culture minister, Aida Balayeva, told reporters in the capital, Astana." Invasion fallout ? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/06/kazakhstan-drafts-m...
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Froggie crawled out from under his mower to find bizness as usual on the Xittersphere
Went back to sharpen the bluntest blade EVER, now for some tea before going to mow .
Went back to sharpen the bluntest blade EVER, now for some tea before going to mow .
- Sun 07 Apr, 2024 9:02 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
- Sat 06 Apr, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
- Sat 06 Apr, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Can't say I'm avidly following the WWragg saga , but this just popped up on his digging himself in deeper ...
Off to get petrol for mowers, much werk ahead !
Off to get petrol for mowers, much werk ahead !
- Sat 06 Apr, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
" 'Comrade' has posted on Canada being threatened by the US for buying Mig21's in the Sixties ! it was an APRIL FOOL on the WARTHUNDER.COM website Of course RU is using AI for their b0ts but it looks as tho they could sharpen up :-) " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIIWW_VbQnQ&ab_chan...
- Sat 06 Apr, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 924
Re: Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th April 2024
Morning refit Some light entertainment earlier with either a deluded , or more likely a RU troll ,at the Times Grief, anger and suspicion in Ukrainian village where collaborators killed 59 Two brothers from Hroza betrayed their own by giving Russian forces information which led to the biggest single...
- Fri 05 Apr, 2024 10:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 6th April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 654
Re: Friday 6th April 2024
This may well be the first lol of the day ...
- Fri 05 Apr, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 6th April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 654
Re: Friday 6th April 2024
Cryptic as ever AK .
- Fri 05 Apr, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 6th April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 654
Re: Friday 6th April 2024
Afternoon I heard the catflap at 0630 and got up a little later to see him flaked out by my bedroom door ... growling when I went to touch his back . He moved a bit, seriously limping and complaining . He came downstairs later, suffering loudly, and then went to hide in the extension behind the kitc...
- Thu 04 Apr, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 863
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
Liked this --
- Thu 04 Apr, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 863
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
"LOTO and others" have already changed their line on this conflict a great deal since it started. That is just stating the facts. Just a little sail-trimming meekly following Washington AK . If you bothered to read the article Labour has no objection to killing a hundred others to get one...
- Thu 04 Apr, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 863
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
He has form, this is 2014,but there's probably some earlier stuff :-) In the aftermath of the House of Commons vote, which overwhelmingly urged the British government to recognize Palestine, Duncan launched what the London Times called “an outspoken attack on Israel for its construction of illegal s...
- Thu 04 Apr, 2024 8:08 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 863
Re: Thursday 4th April 2024
Morning refit Thanks for this Sky, I somehow missed it last night https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes Unsurprised at the depth of depravity, but new to see the large numbers of civilians of all ages officially considered acceptable. . Tracking peopl...
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 771
Re: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
RE the pandering to racists nuttery we also have the pandering to tax reduction nuts, ex ... Trussonomics !
Listening to France Culture on my way back from the beach
" Public expenditure is about the same, but
Receipts are DOWN because of Tax Cuts "
Listening to France Culture on my way back from the beach
" Public expenditure is about the same, but
Receipts are DOWN because of Tax Cuts "
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 771
Re: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Listened with half an ear to Part1 this morning, a GHASTLY story of Voice Chat, housewives backbiting on subsidiary private chats away from the'official' one .... Part 2 -- listening now ! " In 2016, amid the post-EU referendum chaos, one man had an idea. His name was Steve Baker, and he was a ...
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 771
Re: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Same here, after my walk on the sand will now do a little strimming of jungle !
- Wed 03 Apr, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 771
Re: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Rather too much reading and watching so far, plus racking my brain how to fix a small practical problem ...
so will go for a health-walk on the beach , stopping off to get some self-tapping screws at the agri-coop to hopefully fix said fiddly problem !
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 862
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
We seem to have a bit of a birthday bonanza going on. To be honest being born on April fools day does help somewhat when viewing life as one big cosmic joke. An outlook shared by Sunak apparently given the bizarre jollity he expressed today. Can anyone remember when Gordon Brown became Prime Minist...
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 862
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
We were discussing birthdays in the long weekend thread, its my sisters today and she is 56. (almost exactly 20 years after our mum, and roughly 18 months younger than me) HB to your sister and missed ones to the others -- , Sky and your young Mum AK ! I'm with notnow, pushing 80, in 3years for me....
- Tue 02 Apr, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 862
Re: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Lazing by the stove while a gale blows outside . It's also too wet .The cat agrees . Another saddo non-negotiable Zionist -- https://twitter.com/Loyalfan68/status/1775089286267666825 The USUK actions on continuing to supply munitions don't sit well with this -- https://twitter.com/ChrisMcGreal/statu...
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Amazon book, rather journalistic style, I thought it might be fiction ...
I checked --
I checked --
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Reminds me of one T.Blair's fagpacket idea of fining bods, was it also rough sleepers ?refitman wrote: ↑Sun 31 Mar, 2024 10:19 pm When Damien Green and Iain Smith say you're being too cruel...
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As tho they have charged-up bank accounts AND a bloody card !
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
"""" After the CIA PLOT which brought the Nazis to power .... these are either extras re-enacting and playing dead OR the result of a false flag operation ! """" George Galloway News (I wouldn't be surprised ! ) https://twitter.com/olddog100ua/status/17745017...
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
<r>Heroes of Putin's Russia -- <br/> <br/> <B><s>[b]</s><SIZE size="150"><s>[size=150]</s>How Putin’s convict soldiers return as ‘savages’ to rape and kill again<e>[/size]</e></SIZE><e>[/b]</e></B><br/> <B><s>[b]</s>Thousands of criminals have come home broken after fighting in Ukraine to secure the...
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Radio 4 early this morning was deep in the Shitty Rivers story --
Good one in The Times too--
Good one in The Times too--
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Nice read with a very funny bit at the end -- Some people notably Davis Runciman this week in the G have assumed that a Corbyn labour government wold inevitably have led to a run on the pound similar to the Truss Disaster and Mitterand's first govt after 1981 ! Well Corbs would have had some sensibl...
- Sun 31 Mar, 2024 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Lovely morning... which I spent getting up late, making an experimental sweet and sour pork ...AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Sun 31 Mar, 2024 3:07 pm Its another nice day today, I suppose that explains why it is so quiet here.
then it rained !
Nice thread --
- Fri 29 Mar, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
This looks really good, will watch after getting in the last of the wood ( by headlamp ) ! " Marci Shore is an American professor of intellectual history at Yale University, where she specializes in the history of literary and political engagement with Marxism and phenomenology. Marci is author...
- Fri 29 Mar, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
The Russian Church was very much persecuted between the Wars, until Stalin brought it back to help the War Effort in 1943 as so many Russkys were still believers ! Since then it is documented that they were then literally a part of the KGB and now the FSB . ( Sergeant Starsky was infantry from Maida...
- Fri 29 Mar, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Jonathan Fink began his daily hour-long Youtube interviews not long after the Invasion and his interviewee last night - " I'm obliged to watch a lot of Russian TV , and it's NOT good for my health ! " With which he heartily agreed as he has to do the same . The Russian public has had this ...
- Fri 29 Mar, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
- Replies: 47
- Views: 1446
Re: Easter Weekend - Good Friday to Easter Monday
Not really news, from heli gunships with hellfire missiles to tanks at Be'eri kibbutz on the day .