Wednesday 30th May 2018
Posted: Wed 30 May, 2018 8:46 am
Morning all.
Bill Browder ‘arrested in Spain under Russian warrant’
Latest in a series of efforts to have outpoken Kremlin critic extradited to Russia
The article doesn't say if Jonathan Bartley is likely to stand on his own. He seems quite good from what I've seen of him and would probably do quite well.tinybgoat wrote:Morning.
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"Why I’m not going to stand again to be Green party leader" (Caroline Lucas)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/4 ... d-newsbeat" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Willow904 wrote:The article doesn't say if Jonathan Bartley is likely to stand on his own. He seems quite good from what I've seen of him and would probably do quite well.tinybgoat wrote:Morning.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... line-lucas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Why I’m not going to stand again to be Green party leader" (Caroline Lucas)
edit: browser on the blink."My own situation is that I have a son who I need to support who's disabled, I wouldn't be able to do a full time lead role, but I'm able to do it with our MP Caroline Lucas."
Oh ok, I didn't know that. The Greens have often had two leaders/spokespeople in the past so I didn't think much of it. I didn't realise he had a specific reason for wanting to jobshare. So someone new, then. Molly Scott Cato, maybe?tinybgoat wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/4 ... d-newsbeat" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Willow904 wrote:The article doesn't say if Jonathan Bartley is likely to stand on his own. He seems quite good from what I've seen of him and would probably do quite well.tinybgoat wrote:Morning.
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"Why I’m not going to stand again to be Green party leader" (Caroline Lucas)edit: browser on the blink."My own situation is that I have a son who I need to support who's disabled, I wouldn't be able to do a full time lead role, but I'm able to do it with our MP Caroline Lucas."
After her campaign in Bristol West last year, perhaps not?!Willow904 wrote:Oh ok, I didn't know that. The Greens have often had two leaders/spokespeople in the past so I didn't think much of it. I didn't realise he had a specific reason for wanting to jobshare. So someone new, then. Molly Scott Cato, maybe?tinybgoat wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/4 ... d-newsbeat" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Willow904 wrote: The article doesn't say if Jonathan Bartley is likely to stand on his own. He seems quite good from what I've seen of him and would probably do quite well.edit: browser on the blink."My own situation is that I have a son who I need to support who's disabled, I wouldn't be able to do a full time lead role, but I'm able to do it with our MP Caroline Lucas."
In other words they've run out of family silver to sell.....The Conservatives are in crisis because “popular capitalism” is no longer possible.....
....The revenue from privatised assets, and the North Sea oil boom, underwrote Thatcherism as unemployment spiked, and funded costly income tax cuts. But these unique circumstances cannot be repeated. As left-wingers have taken to remarking, the problem with Thatcherism is that eventually you run out of other people’s assets.
What a genuinely weird story.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-44307611
"Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, has turned up alive at a press conference."
AnatolyKasparov wrote:What a genuinely weird story.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-44307611
"Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, has turned up alive at a press conference."
Hmm, flowers or chocolates, tricky.The journalist was reportedly found by his wife bleeding at the entrance to his block of flats, shot several times in the back, and died in an ambulance.
He apparently did not tell his wife that the murder had been staged. "Special apologies to my wife," he said at the press conference.
Yes, and we can't have that now can we?When the peer was appointed, the DfE said he was “agreeing arrangements with the permanent secretary and Cabinet Office to ensure that processes are put in place to prevent any conflict of interest between his ministerial role and his charitable interests”.
Tes asked for a copy of these arrangements in October 2017. Under the Freedom of Information Act the DfE should have responded after 20 days.
Finally, after a delay of more than five months, the department said this month that it would not release the conflict of interest agreement because doing so “may invite external scrutiny”.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... nse-sanofiAmbien maker responds to Roseanne Barr: 'Racism is not a known side effect'
The drug manufacturer Sanofi felt compelled to clarify that one of its most popular medications, the sedative Ambien, does not cause racism. They tweeted that “while all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication”. (Guardian)
I'd say.AnatolyKasparov wrote:What a genuinely weird story.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-44307611
"Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, widely reported to have been assassinated in Kiev on Tuesday, has turned up alive at a press conference."
Or perhaps not!!!Willow904 wrote:This comes on the back of the recent murder of a Russian journalist in Ukraine.
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The EU has just passed a law that could end the problems with free movement which led to Brexit in the first place
Corporations will no longer be able to undercut local workers by exploiting migrants. Looking beyond Brexit, this law will make a big difference regardless of the option chosen for our future relationship with the EU
This is good news!tinyclanger2 wrote:https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/eu ... 75836.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The EU has just passed a law that could end the problems with free movement which led to Brexit in the first place
Corporations will no longer be able to undercut local workers by exploiting migrants. Looking beyond Brexit, this law will make a big difference regardless of the option chosen for our future relationship with the EU
A defunct European political grouping that was dominated by Ukip has been asked to repay €1.1m (£977,000) to the European parliament following an investigation into misspending of EU funds.
The Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe was a Eurosceptic pan-European political party, until it was closed down after a 2016 auditors’ inquiry found misspending of EU funds, including on Nigel Farage’s bid to become an MP in the 2015 UK general election.
Diddums.Farage, who is being docked half his MEP salary over a separate dispute, told the Guardian he “wouldn’t know” anything about ADDE finances, noting that he had never been a director. He accused the parliament of singling out Eurosceptic parties: “Ever since Brexit, the whole thing has been vindictive in the most extraordinary way.”
Why is our traditional left failing? It is true that the other side doesn’t play fair any more, but it’s also true that the Democrats are lost in a fantasy of white-collar benevolence. For all their algorithms and their lavishly detailed position papers, their leaders have little personal sympathy any longer with the travails of working people. Populism isn’t the name for this disease; it’s the cure.
A group of major European companies has warned the Prime Minister they may cut investment without more clarity over the terms of Britain's EU exit.
and from the graun's version of the story the quote continues...PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Brexit: Time is running out, big business warns May
BBCA group of major European companies has warned the Prime Minister they may cut investment without more clarity over the terms of Britain's EU exit.
And there's only one way that can be achieved.and said businesses want post-Brexit trade with the EU to be as frictionless as with a customs union.