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- Fri 23 Oct, 2020 7:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 23rd October 2020
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7063
Re: Friday 23rd October 2020
Last day at work until next September...
- Thu 22 Oct, 2020 10:58 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 22nd October 2020
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3587
Re: Thursday 22nd October 2020
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...
- Wed 21 Oct, 2020 10:27 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st October 2020
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7641
Re: Wednesday 21sy October 2020
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...
- Wed 21 Oct, 2020 8:41 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 21st October 2020
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7641
Re: Wednesday 21sy October 2020
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 ...
- Tue 20 Oct, 2020 9:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 20th October 2020
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5374
Re: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Apparently not. And that's a full and complete answer.tinyclanger2 wrote:EU talks anyone?
- Sun 18 Oct, 2020 11:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October 2020
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20932
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October 2020
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?Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ...like preparing a dinner party then realising all your guests are dead and nobody is going to show up.
- Sun 18 Oct, 2020 10:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October 2020
- Replies: 51
- Views: 20932
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October 2020
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.
- Fri 16 Oct, 2020 8:07 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th October 2020
- Replies: 62
- Views: 10015
Re: Friday 16th October 2020
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...
- Wed 14 Oct, 2020 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 14th October 2020
- Replies: 75
- Views: 11012
Re: Wednesday 14th October 2020
Less is better than more. Later is better than sooner. Nothing is better than something. It's all your fault.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Thought not, just checkingcitizenJA wrote:No.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Anybody any clearer about anything on the government's virus response than they were yesterday?
- Mon 12 Oct, 2020 8:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 12th October 2020
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4011
Re: Monday 12th October 2020
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 ...
- Sun 11 Oct, 2020 5:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th October 2020
- Replies: 40
- Views: 6535
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th October 2020
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.
- Fri 09 Oct, 2020 10:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th October 2020
- Replies: 25
- Views: 8024
Re: Friday 9th October 2020
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 ...
- Thu 08 Oct, 2020 10:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th October 2020
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3436
Re: Thursday 8th October 2020
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...
- Thu 08 Oct, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th October 2020
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3436
Re: Thursday 8th October 2020
You will be wanting this.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.
- Tue 06 Oct, 2020 12:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th October 2020
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5129
Re: Tuesday 6th October 2020
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...
- Tue 06 Oct, 2020 8:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 6th October 2020
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5129
Re: Tuesday 6th October 2020
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...
- Sun 04 Oct, 2020 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7972
Re: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
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.
- Sun 04 Oct, 2020 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7972
Re: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
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...
- Sat 03 Oct, 2020 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7972
Re: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
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...
- Sat 03 Oct, 2020 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7972
Re: Saturday, 3rd October and Sunday, 4th October 2020
Mint aero. The very best kind of aero. It's quite a big one too.citizenJA wrote:Is there chocolate, please?
- Fri 02 Oct, 2020 8:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 2nd October 2020
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5540
Re: Friday 2nd October 2020
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 ...
- Wed 30 Sep, 2020 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 30th September 2020
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4484
Re: Wednesday 30th September 2020
Satire is indeed deadHe [Johnson] asks Starmer to be a little bit consistent, and to instil confidence in the measures he supports.
- Sun 27 Sep, 2020 10:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9274
Re: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
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 ...
- Sat 26 Sep, 2020 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9274
Re: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
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...
- Sat 26 Sep, 2020 9:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9274
Re: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
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.
- Sat 26 Sep, 2020 12:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9274
Re: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th September 2020
"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...
- Fri 25 Sep, 2020 10:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 25th September 2020
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7164
Re: Friday 25th September 2020
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...
- Fri 25 Sep, 2020 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 25th September 2020
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7164
Re: Friday 25th September 2020
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- Fri 25 Sep, 2020 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 25th September 2020
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7164
Re: Friday 25th September 2020
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...
- Fri 25 Sep, 2020 10:05 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 25th September 2020
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7164
- Fri 25 Sep, 2020 12:06 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 24th September 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6799
Re: Thursday 24th September 2020
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...
- Thu 24 Sep, 2020 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 24th September 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6799
Re: Thursday 24th September 2020
I am clearly lacking in Hindle-esque qualities of posting and deleting without everything appearing as nonsense.
- Thu 24 Sep, 2020 10:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 24th September 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6799
Re: Thursday 24th September 2020
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- Thu 24 Sep, 2020 10:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 24th September 2020
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6799
Re: Thursday 24th September 2020
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.
- Wed 23 Sep, 2020 8:24 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6766
Re: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
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),...
- Wed 23 Sep, 2020 12:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
- Replies: 48
- Views: 8303
Re: Tuesday 22nd September 2020
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...
- Sun 20 Sep, 2020 10:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14183
Re: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
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...
- Sun 20 Sep, 2020 8:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14183
Re: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
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).frog222 wrote:@adam -- fascinating on those nine Justices .
- Sun 20 Sep, 2020 12:25 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14183
Re: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
@ 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...
- Sat 19 Sep, 2020 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14183
Re: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
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...
- Sat 19 Sep, 2020 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14183
Re: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
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 ...
- Sat 19 Sep, 2020 7:39 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
- Replies: 42
- Views: 14183
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September
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...
- Fri 18 Sep, 2020 8:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 18th September 2020
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8202
Re: Friday 18th September 2020
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'...
- Fri 18 Sep, 2020 8:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 18th September 2020
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8202
Re: Friday 18th September 2020
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 ...
- Wed 16 Sep, 2020 3:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 16th September 2020
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9732
Re: Wednesday 16th September 2020
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.....
- Tue 15 Sep, 2020 8:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 15th September 2020
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4605
Re: Tuesday 15th September 2020
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)Willow904 wrote:Morning.
So a rebellion still sees a majority of 77? Sigh.
- Thu 10 Sep, 2020 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 10th September 2020
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6271
Re: Thursday 10th September 2020
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-...
- Wed 09 Sep, 2020 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 9th September 2020
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8156
Re: Wednesday 9th September 2020
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...
- Wed 09 Sep, 2020 8:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 9th September 2020
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8156
Re: Wednesday 9th September 2020
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'.Willow904 wrote:Meanwhile the government's plans for an internal market remain illegal whether we talk about it or not.
- Wed 09 Sep, 2020 8:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 9th September 2020
- Replies: 56
- Views: 8156
Re: Wednesday 9th September 2020
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 ...