Thursday 31st May 2018
Posted: Thu 31 May, 2018 8:42 am
The last day of May!
If only....
Good morning
If only....
Good morning
I've actually agreed with her a few times recently - what's this latest one?PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I agree with Sayeeda.
And I never thought I'd say that!
Islamophobia in the Tory party.AnatolyKasparov wrote:I've actually agreed with her a few times recently - what's this latest one?PaulfromYorkshire wrote:I agree with Sayeeda.
And I never thought I'd say that!
These Brexiters are really taking the piss.Nigel Lawson, leading Brexit campaigner, is applying for residency in France
Given their raison d'etre was supposed to be (I) opened mainly by parent groups and (ii) innovative, that's a bit of a failure.The majority of free schools opened in areas of need, research has found, but they are usually neither innovative nor opened by parents, and they do not take in enough poor pupils.
The National Foundation for Educational Research, together with the Sutton Trust, have conducted an in-depth analysis of the 311 free schools open as of September 2017, seven years after the coalition government made them its flagship education policy.
Free schools are new schools which, like academies, are outside local authority control and directly funded by the government, and can be set up by groups such as charities, universities, teachers, parents or academy trusts.
B-but...........I thought Labour were meant to be the real nasty party these days??!!?PaulfromYorkshire wrote:[Re Warsi] Actually I'm not sure it's new, because I know she has said this before.
I caught it in a news report, but perhaps it was a clip from a couple of months back.
Anyway, Islamophobia in the Tory party seems to be "news" this morning and she has said some good stuff.
Wonder when the scales will start falling from Trumpites' eyes?Mirror Politics
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I think HindleA is taking time away the politics thread. I miss him here.AnatolyKasparov wrote:The same to you.
Another quiet day today, it seems.
Where has Hindle got to? Hope they are all OK......
HindleA wrote:I'm fine.I avoid work sixty hours a week and in the middle of four half marathons in five weeks,not a moan,no one is forcing me,I have less time than previously and 20,000 posts (+1)seemed an appropriate juncture to stop boring the arse of people.I still read.
no more bicycle manufacturing factoryPorFavor wrote:It's just been confirmed (on Sky TV News) that the US is to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico, starting tomorrow (from midnight tonight, US time).
(10% on aluminium and 25% on steel, I think.)
At least it rains!citizenJA wrote:Stoke air quality is currently unhealthy
lack of clean air is depressing as hell
Not yetPaulfromYorkshire wrote:At least it rains!citizenJA wrote:Stoke air quality is currently unhealthy
lack of clean air is depressing as hell
No one should be standing 10 hours a day without breaks, pregnant or otherwise. Why do shifts even need to be 10 hours long anyway? The last few hours are always going to be extremely inefficient and unproductive, because people become physically tired and unfocused. There may be good logistical reasons for some long shifts - e.g. A lorry driver, because of the time it takes to drive somewhere and back again - but in a warehouse?Amazon accused of treating UK warehouse staff like robots.....
.....The GMB added that four-fifths of the 200 union members working for the American firm who had responded to a survey said they suffered pain as a result of their workload, with one pregnant woman complaining she had been forced to stand for her entire 10-hour shift.
I'd settle for him being out of office, as a first step.
A cornered animal becomes more fierce because it knows it's in a position where it has likelier than not come to its end. Trump isn't lashing out because he can't stop counterpunching and masterfully changing the narrative. Unlike the rest of us, he's had a tickle at the back of his brain, an anticipation of what is possible in a world where we have not savvily and cynically foreclosed on the idea of the nation choosing, at its founders intended, to bring parts of itself to justice. It is not silly to demand that we realize a dream so unlikely that it clearly daily haunts the dumbest chief executive in American history: After a long list of extraordinarily deserving, very very beautiful, very very talented runners-up — from Jefferson Davis, to Warren Harding, to Richard Nixon, to Ronald Reagan, to George W. Bush — Donald Trump can become the first president from the United States to die in prison.
[BBC]Corbyn wades into Chuka Umunna 'unpaid intern' row
"Wade in" = make a vigorous attack or interventionThe Labour leader's office then sent a reminder to Labour MPs of the party's commitment to ban unpaid internships.
I think it's another American work practice. My daughter says 12 hour shifts are normal.Willow904 wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ike-robotsNo one should be standing 10 hours a day without breaks, pregnant or otherwise. Why do shifts even need to be 10 hours long anyway? The last few hours are always going to be extremely inefficient and unproductive, because people become physically tired and unfocused. There may be good logistical reasons for some long shifts - e.g. A lorry driver, because of the time it takes to drive somewhere and back again - but in a warehouse?Amazon accused of treating UK warehouse staff like robots.....
.....The GMB added that four-fifths of the 200 union members working for the American firm who had responded to a survey said they suffered pain as a result of their workload, with one pregnant woman complaining she had been forced to stand for her entire 10-hour shift.
Hope this works !tinybgoat wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/d ... sider-hJeb Lund Donald Trump is scared of the Mueller investigation. As a D.C. outsider, he's right to be afraid."I'd settle for him being out of office, as a first step.
A cornered animal becomes more fierce because it knows it's in a position where it has likelier than not come to its end. Trump isn't lashing out because he can't stop counterpunching and masterfully changing the narrative. Unlike the rest of us, he's had a tickle at the back of his brain, an anticipation of what is possible in a world where we have not savvily and cynically foreclosed on the idea of the nation choosing, at its founders intended, to bring parts of itself to justice. It is not silly to demand that we realize a dream so unlikely that it clearly daily haunts the dumbest chief executive in American history: After a long list of extraordinarily deserving, very very beautiful, very very talented runners-up — from Jefferson Davis, to Warren Harding, to Richard Nixon, to Ronald Reagan, to George W. Bush — Donald Trump can become the first president from the United States to die in prison.
Can I use this to very tangentially recommend 'Carter Beats The Devil' by Glen David Gold for any fans of the Harding presidency/erea, or, even more, of early 20th Century America and the 'golden age' of stage magic.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/d ... sider-hJeb Lund Donald Trump is scared of the Mueller investigation. As a D.C. outsider, he's right to be afraid."I'd settle for him being out of office, as a first step.
A cornered animal becomes more fierce because it knows it's in a position where it has likelier than not come to its end. Trump isn't lashing out because he can't stop counterpunching and masterfully changing the narrative. Unlike the rest of us, he's had a tickle at the back of his brain, an anticipation of what is possible in a world where we have not savvily and cynically foreclosed on the idea of the nation choosing, at its founders intended, to bring parts of itself to justice. It is not silly to demand that we realize a dream so unlikely that it clearly daily haunts the dumbest chief executive in American history: After a long list of extraordinarily deserving, very very beautiful, very very talented runners-up — from Jefferson Davis, to Warren Harding, to Richard Nixon, to Ronald Reagan, to George W. Bush — Donald Trump can become the first president from the United States to die in prison.
adam wrote:Can I use this to very tangentially recommend 'Carter Beats The Devil' by Glen David Gold for any fans of the Harding presidency/erea, or, even more, of early 20th Century America and the 'golden age' of stage magic.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/d ... sider-hJeb Lund Donald Trump is scared of the Mueller investigation. As a D.C. outsider, he's right to be afraid."I'd settle for him being out of office, as a first step.
A cornered animal becomes more fierce because it knows it's in a position where it has likelier than not come to its end. Trump isn't lashing out because he can't stop counterpunching and masterfully changing the narrative. Unlike the rest of us, he's had a tickle at the back of his brain, an anticipation of what is possible in a world where we have not savvily and cynically foreclosed on the idea of the nation choosing, at its founders intended, to bring parts of itself to justice. It is not silly to demand that we realize a dream so unlikely that it clearly daily haunts the dumbest chief executive in American history: After a long list of extraordinarily deserving, very very beautiful, very very talented runners-up — from Jefferson Davis, to Warren Harding, to Richard Nixon, to Ronald Reagan, to George W. Bush — Donald Trump can become the first president from the United States to die in prison.
(Although really for that time you should read John Dos Passos's 'USA' trilogy although I do accept that it's about 1100 pages long. It is very very good.)
The first story in this article has echoes of the fictitious Tom Hanks film "The Terminal". Quite remarkable.Woman left in limbo for a decade because Home Office lost her passport
I've been going through my handwritten journals. I've kept them for years. Just five years ago, I'd greater creativity, my writing reflected my feelings of overall safety. I was periodically anxious but it passed away. It's not a good time for our community. There's anger and fear. I often feel fearful.Willow904 wrote:Certainly, I would add, it seems likely the vast majority of the public would have understood the "hostile environment" to apply to people who had knowingly and deliberately smuggled themselves into the country on the back of a lorry.
And perhaps that was even the intention.
The problem is how do you tell the difference between a legal person with no paperwork and an illegal person with no paperwork?
Not easily, appears the answer, and that has implications for all of us, if we continue along this road.
I used to love Perth but it seems shabby by its own standards these days.Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Tonight we had Question Time from 'Och aye the noo' land held in the rather beautiful city of Perth.
And I must declare my own bias from the start as a supporter of Scottish independence.
So for the government we had Kwasi Kwarteng who appeared to be some kind of puppet with a Tory whip's hand up his arse moving his mouth around. For Labour we had Caroline Flint who put in a perfectly decent performance. And it pains me to say that because I've never liked Caroline Flint, she's always been a full on acolyte of Blairism and yet, she knows how to work a crowd which is something Labour desperately needs. For the SNP we had Kate Forbes who was gorgeous and everything she said was as melodious as the dawn chorus on Loch Lomond. Actually I've heard said chorus and it involves many loud honking geese. But anyway we also had Brian Souter the chief exec of Stagecoach who once again made me wonder how complete idiots get to run companies and finally Darren 'Loki' McGarvey, a Scottish rapper who was superb.