SpinningHugo wrote:Don't want to start a new day, and I am working all day today, but this interview with Balls (who I like) is worth reading.
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mikems wrote:What a nasty smear. Disgusting politics.
Of course, the Daily Mail was 'turning a blind eye' too, to protect the high ranking paedophiles in the Tory party, linked to Thatcher.
And Mann is supposed to be championing the victims, not using them as a political card to play in a Labour party election.
It is a coincidence that it is raised now, out of the blue, when Corbyn is doing well in the leadership election and one of his opponents, who is supposed to be concerned about the victims, is using the self-same victims as a political football and joining up with a fascist rag to do so.& do we only call things smears when they touch on uncomfortable areas ?
That's why it is being said now. To upset you and all other victims and turn away from Corbyn. It's nasty politics from utter scum and we should be aware of their dirty games and condemn them.As someone who has felt the extreme effects of family denial and secrecy over nearly 50 years this is pushing my buttons, I know that.
& was running my regular Windows laptop, I downloaded the Beta version of Win 10. It changed regularly as they developed it and not every change met with my approval but the final version is great, imo.I don't know anything about Corbyn in the way I do about Burnham and Cooper, having observed them in government and read the many things already written about them. It's hard to imagine there are any skeletons still lurking after all their years in Labour in prominent roles. Although this about Corbyn may well be nothing, it's hard not to imagine the press are sitting on plenty of stuff they are waiting to unleash once he's leader to try to destroy Labour. This could just be stuff already known to those who follow politics closely but unknown to his new fans, or it could be real skeletons. I hate to be the voice of cynicism, but the media are giving Corbyn the oxygen needed to created this surge and they wouldn't do so if it was in Labour's favour, of that I'm certain.mikems wrote:That's why it is being said now. To upset you and all other victims and turn away from Corbyn. It's nasty politics from utter scum and we should be aware of their dirty games and condemn them.As someone who has felt the extreme effects of family denial and secrecy over nearly 50 years this is pushing my buttons, I know that.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 94506.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;One of the bankrollers of Tim Farron’s successful campaign to lead the remnants of the Lib Dems was an eccentric named Derek Laud, a lobbyist who became a minor political celebrity in the 1980s because he was the first black member of the Monday Club, a Tory group that believed in “repatriation” – a polite term for deporting people with the wrong skin colour.
He was also the first black master of the hounds and, briefly, a Conservative parliamentary candidate, but a couple of years ago he denounced the Tories as a “racist” party. He gave Farron’s campaign £2,000.
Laptop.yahyah wrote:& a question for OhSo.
Did you download Windows 10 to a tablet ? Or was it a laptop or desktop ?
Just wondering if it would be a different experience if the former or latter.
And boy, did it work!AnatolyKasparov wrote:Add to that the fact Harman taking the line she did over the welfare vote was a fairly transparent attempt to stitch Burnham up.
What can one say?Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone 'to be made Tory peer'
The Ultimo underwear founder is said to be 'thrilled' about taking a seat in the House of Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -peer.html
Oh pfft...!ohsocynical wrote:What can one say?Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone 'to be made Tory peer'
The Ultimo underwear founder is said to be 'thrilled' about taking a seat in the House of Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -peer.html
Knickers?ohsocynical wrote:What can one say?Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone 'to be made Tory peer'
The Ultimo underwear founder is said to be 'thrilled' about taking a seat in the House of Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -peer.html
Off topic, but interesting.The body of Jack the Ripper’s final victim is set to be exhumed as a new book claims the world’s most famous serial killer was her estranged husband.
The Ministry of Justice has indicated it will grant the first ever exhumation licence for the grave of a Ripper victim after examining the new theory, which is serialised exclusively in The Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -book.html
PorFavor wrote:Knickers?ohsocynical wrote:What can one say?Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone 'to be made Tory peer'
The Ultimo underwear founder is said to be 'thrilled' about taking a seat in the House of Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -peer.html
Good morfternoon, everyone.
Of course, a disturbingly large number enthusiastically supported him - some still think he can do no wrong even now. We're not aloneWillow904 wrote:Oh pfft...!ohsocynical wrote:What can one say?Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone 'to be made Tory peer'
The Ultimo underwear founder is said to be 'thrilled' about taking a seat in the House of Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -peer.html
Cameron's making our country a laughing stock.
I'd always wondered how Italians felt about having to put up with the embarrassment that is Berlusconi and now I know.
ohsocynical wrote:What can one say?Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone 'to be made Tory peer'
The Ultimo underwear founder is said to be 'thrilled' about taking a seat in the House of Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -peer.html
Not really off-topic, if you take this article (from yesterday) into account -ohsocynical wrote:Off topic, but interesting.The body of Jack the Ripper’s final victim is set to be exhumed as a new book claims the world’s most famous serial killer was her estranged husband.
The Ministry of Justice has indicated it will grant the first ever exhumation licence for the grave of a Ripper victim after examining the new theory, which is serialised exclusively in The Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -book.html
The somewhat devious Mark Palmer-Edgcumbe may well be a bit pissed off.This week, residents of the Cable Street area of London were horrified to discover that a site proposed for “the only dedicated resource in the East End to women’s history” turned out to be something unexpected: a Jack the Ripper Museum. This small museum, whose precise contents are as yet unknown but whose frontage boasts the cliched silhouette of “Jack” and a corny skull and crossbones, joins the myriad ways – walking tours, bus tours, guidebooks – in which the Jack the Ripper tourism industry has come to define and historicise the East End of London.
Those who live in the Cable Street neighbourhood – where no “Jack the Ripper” murder actually occurred – are particularly incensed by this prurient version of East End history expanding into their area. Julian Cole, a filmmaker who lives near the site of the museum, was quoted in the Guardian as saying it felt like a sick joke. “You propose a museum celebrating the achievements of women and then it turns out to be a museum celebrating London’s most notorious murderer of women.”
Reacting to the onslaught of criticism, the museum’s creators, who include a former Google diversity chief, Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, say it will be presented from the “perspective of the victims of Jack the Ripper”, but there is little other evidence that this will actually be the case. The displays in the museum are described as “never-before-seen Jack the Ripper pieces which will provide a glimpse into the sinister world of the mysterious murderer, the panic his reign of terror sparked in Victorian London, and a look at those who tried to track him down”.(Guardian)
All those cross dressing cross benchers I assume.rebeccariots2 wrote:ohsocynical wrote:What can one say?Lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone 'to be made Tory peer'
The Ultimo underwear founder is said to be 'thrilled' about taking a seat in the House of Lords
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... -peer.html
She'll be able to provide a bespoke lingerie service for her fellow peers then ... Cameron is being very considerate in his appointment.
Q 34 Kevin Brennan: If I may say so, that observation seems to be in direct contrast to what Sir Daniel said earlier. Sir Daniel, would you care to come back, rebut and destroy the points made by the representative of the National Governors’ Association?
Sir Daniel Moynihan: IEBs are an effective solution and in many cases IEBs precede academy conversion. In a number of the schools that we have taken on which have been—
Q 35 Kevin Brennan: I apologise for stopping you, but briefly, the Bill says “must” and that was the question I asked you earlier. It does not envisage an IEB as a possible tool to be used in those circumstances.
Sir Daniel Moynihan: No, but IEBs have often been used in those circumstances, so part of the success of the figures that we have just heard is that of IEBs on their way to delivering an academy solution. I know all academies are not successful and I am not claiming that they are, but not all treatments for any problem are successful and it does not mean that you should not have the treatment. In many cases, sponsored academies are doing an amazing job.
It was actually already improving before Harris showed up.Q 42 Mr Gibb: I think education is about the individual pupil. Can you describe the change in pupils’ life chances at Downhills primary school as a consequence of Harris taking it over, compared with what would have happened to those children had you not intervened?
Sir Daniel Moynihan: At Downhills, the school was failing. Around 70% to 75% of children were making expected progress, so a quarter of children were not making the progress we would expect. In our most recent year, 2014, 100% of children made expected progress. No child underachieved. The number of children reaching secondary-ready standards in reading, writing and maths has improved dramatically. They are better prepared for secondary and will be successful as a result.
Gibbs' response is unbelievable - thanks to our reforms, there are more kids being excluded!HindleA wrote:A bit old,apologies if seen/known about:
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English schools see first rise in exclusions in eight years
Fareham has six academies - five converters and one that was a sponsored takeover. The converter academies were all either Good or Outstanding (as you might expect) so she has to be talking about the sponsored one which is St Columba Church of England Primary Academy, sponsored by the Portsmouth & Winchester Diocesan Academies Trust, and taken over in Sept 2012.Suella Fernandes (Fareham) (Con): Is it not clear from the evidence we have heard that some academy chains perform excellently and some do not, and some maintained schools perform very well and many do not? It is a mixed picture, but it is clear that the academisation programme over the past decade has produced success. The academisation of a school in my constituency has taken it from below average to “good”, and it is on track to “outstanding”. That must surely be progress. Anything that empowers that process and takes it a step forward must be supported.
Mr Ohso used to work at British Car Auctions and we've been to Blackbush many times. He said the same as you. The runway isn't that long.TechnicalEphemera wrote:A brief departure into the aviation world with the Guardian's take on the Bin Laden family jet crash.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... rash-cause
This is a great example of how utterly incapable of accurate reporting our arts centric media are when it comes to technology related stories.
Firstly the jet is a small biz jet, always operating at the edge of margins almost by their very nature. Fast, clean but on a budget with limited safety systems. It is not in any way state of the art.
Secondly that long runway isn't, for this sort of jet it is at the margins and has no safe run-off area.
The state of the art navigation system is simply a visual reference that has been in use for donkey's years.
So single pilot operation (as I understand it) slightly long on approach, and by the time they realise their mistake they can't get the power on fast enough to go around (Jet engines requiring a fair amount of time to spool up). This is fairly standard for these sorts of accidents.
Now obviously anything could have happened but the above scenario is credible and hardly baffling. Good weather doesn't really help if you completely screw it up.
So if the media can't get stories like this right how can we trust them with anything outside of art reviews (and Mr Jones at the G is rubbish at those).
This is my stand out comment though.A positive light on the Labour leadership election
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There will be some who might ... but I appreciate him stating the obvious so directly.Geoff Cutting 1st Aug '15 - 2:59pm
You are delusional if you think any Labour member or supporter will forgive you for propping up the Tories for the last five years.
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Andrew said that it would be back when parliament is, in September.rebeccariots2 wrote:Has the Guardian retired the politics live blog for the summer? Or has it gone for good? I realise I haven't seen it for quite some time now.
It’s hardly surprising, given his investment in the cause, that Toby Young ignores the main points in responding to my piece, and cherry-picks the data. As I wrote, only 19 per cent of secondary free schools are opened in areas with a shortage of places: a colossal waste of funds that justifiably drew the attention of the Public Accounts Committee. When free schools do open in deprived areas, the students they enrol are not the poorest; one of the problems people have with free schools is that they make it possible for sharp-elbowed parents to separate their children from the children of their more deprived neighbours. Of the first wave of 24 free schools, all but two have free school meals rates below the local average. An Institute of Education report on free schools in 2014 showed that 13.5 per cent of pupils attending primary free schools were eligible for free meals when the local average was 18.3 per cent; for secondary free schools, the corresponding figures were 17.5 per cent and 22.1 per cent. Creaming off the children of more affluent parents constitutes social segregation; so too does the existence of religious free schools.
Young seems to think he is held in high regard by free school advocates. When I mentioned his name in the course of interviewing a former Department for Education employee for the piece, my interviewee headbutted the restaurant table in exasperation. I have found the sentiment, if not the gesture, to be common among his ideological comrades.
Dawn Foster
London SW2
And Owen Paterson - along with others - has been claiming that bTB has fallen dramatically in the cull zones .... which has, of course, been published by the media and gone totally unchallenged or checked by them. The Defra data / maps based on it are worth looking at.DEFRA SHOWS BTB INCREASES IN THE CULL ZONES DURING THE BADGER CULLS
Poor Policy: It would be funny if it weren't so serious. The badger culls have failed on every level and now, new Defra statistics show that bTB has risen in the cull zones. At what point do our government stop digging and abandon a policy that is too expensive, ineffective , unscientific, hugely unpopular and just plain stupid.
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So, in real terms, although the total Scottish government's total expenditure has not been cut since 2008, there has been a £2.5bn real terms cut in what it gives to local government. About £1bn of this occurred from 2013-14 when police and fire services were brought under central control, but that still leaves a real terms cut of around £1.5bn. In addition to this, the 2015-16 budget enforces a council tax freeze for the eighth year in a row, i.e. the tax councils collect from their residents has been decreasing in real terms for eight years.
Interesting bit from the Balls interview in the DT...HindleA wrote: Bishop of Dover pleads for PM to ‘rediscover what it is to be human’ as No 10 unveils plans for Calais reinforcements...
Leaving his politics aside, Osborne does actually seem a reasonable sort of guy unlike his boss...‘I had many hundreds of emails, from as many Conservative as Labour supporters.’ One of the first to get in touch was Osborne, with whom Balls would sometimes share a late-night drink at a financial summit. ‘He sent me a very nice text.’ Did David Cameron, who once called Balls ‘the most annoying person in modern politics’, do likewise? ‘No.’
