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Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th July 2018

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Morning

Thank #### it rained,non-lawn looks slightly less part of of an alien landscape.
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No rain yet, but it nearly always does after a spring tide , which is tomorrow .

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( Apparently potus broke protocol and plain good manners in walking in front of HM ... )
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Mentioned yesterday by Por Favor I think, there's a 'Long Read' from the G a while ago...

How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended in disaster
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Reading the Guy Hands MOD privatisation saga, which began with rail ... !

"" According to the financier, over a two-week period, one of Nomura’s researchers rang or visited every single train manufacturer in the world. He soon figured out that Angel Trains, one of the three rolling stock operating companies, was seriously undervalued. Its trains were being sold with a projected use of seven years, when in fact they would almost certainly be used for significantly longer because there was insufficient manufacturing capacity worldwide to replace the trains.

Instead of valuing the deal on a seven-year projection, PFG valued it on a longer timeline. PFG could easily outbid competitors, while still being confident that they would make money on the deal. “Surprise, surprise, we won,” said the financier. “And some of those trains are still running today.” ""


Salmond interview on Toady , quote : " White House tweet -- ' POTUS on way to Scotland, departing the UK ' , which is good news for the SNP. "
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frog222 wrote:No rain yet, but it nearly always does after a spring tide , which is tomorrow .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam ... width=1240" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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( Apparently potus broke protocol and plain good manners in walking in front of HM ... )
Not mentioned on today's (genuinely hilarious) Mail front page.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:
frog222 wrote:No rain yet, but it nearly always does after a spring tide , which is tomorrow .

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam ... width=1240" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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( Apparently potus broke protocol and plain good manners in walking in front of HM ... )
Not mentioned on today's (genuinely hilarious) Mail front page.
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frog222 wrote: Salmond interview on Toady , quote : " White House tweet -- ' POTUS on way to Scotland, departing the UK ' , which is good news for the SNP. "
Makes a change from the more usual Yank conflation of GB/UK with "England", I suppose ;)
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Late edition of Dacre's rag

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Tower of secrets: the Russian money behind a Donald Trump skyscraper

The Trump Toronto reveals the links between a shadowy world of post-Soviet money and a future president


Which coincides nicely with those Mueller indictments . Mmmmm !

19 minute audio at FT, this is only 1.52 and well worth a look :-)

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It's a witchhunt !

[i]" " Tom Keatinge, a former JPMorgan banker who now specialises in financial crime at London’s Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), said that if the $100m payment were deemed a bribe, the flow of money through Shnaider to the Trump Toronto meant that “you could argue that the Trump Organization is receiving the proceeds of crime and therefore is being used as a money-laundering opportunity”. The Financial Times""[/i]

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Good-afternoon, everyone
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A'ternoon.

Hats off to GPUK for the Trump protest:
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duplicated
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frog222 wrote:duplicated
As in "so good you posted it twice"?
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AK - not sure what happened !
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Jeremy Corbyn
‏Verified account @jeremycorbyn
Our message today to President Donald Trump was: We're united in our hope for a world of justice not division.

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Prizes for the best headlines:

Daily Record:
The ego has landed in Scotland...
MEET THE FAKERS
Daily Star (Scotland):
HAIR FORCE ONE
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The blimp may not have made it to the golf course but apparently he's going on a word tour.
Starting with Australia.
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Or even world...
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A selection of favourite placards:

1) Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi Potus
2) Star-spangled Gobshite
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Aardvark
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Schools, pupils and their characteristics: January 2018


Amended title of table 8e in attachment 'Schools pupils and their characteristics 2018 - LA tables'.

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A bit worrying they don't know what they are.
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tinyclanger2 wrote:A selection of favourite placards:

1) Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist Nazi Potus
2) Star-spangled Gobshite
3) Orange is the New Twat
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Places of education,people that go there.No wonder the Country is in the state it is in.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... stol-wales" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Airbus ‘in a holding pattern’ waiting for the nuts and bolts of Brexit
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So its actually 4th place that is COMING HOME, then.
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missed this:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... t-obituary" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Julian Tudor Hart obituary
Doctor who set up a research practice in a Welsh mining community and pioneered routine preventive health care
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https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-st ... -1-5604103" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

STEVE RICHARDS: What would Harold Wilson do?
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This massacre must stop': Nicaraguan student rebels face militia assault
Witnesses describe terrifying attack on occupied university where activists are protesting president Daniel Ortega
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Daniel Ortega, eh? Now there's an example of the once familiar liberator turned tyrant thing.
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tinyclanger2 wrote:The blimp may not have made it to the golf course but apparently he's going on a word tour.
Starting with Australia.
The blimp didn't - but somebody did:
POLICE have launched a manhunt for the anti-Trump protestor who breached a security ring to paraglide within 60 metres of the President.
The US President was enjoying the evening sunshine with business associates on the lawn of his Turnberry golf course when a Greenpeace protestor swooped above carrying a banner saying: ‘Trump Well Below Par #resist’
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1635 ... ry-resort/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

("Manhunt" sounds a bit OTT).
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:So its actually 4th place that is COMING HOME, then.
Yep. Missed most of the first half though (probably a wise move) through following the final set of Nadal v Djokovic. Amazing tennis.
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England played a lot better in the second half tbf, but chasing the game was always likely to let in another goal once they failed to put one of their chances away.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:England played a lot better in the second half tbf, but chasing the game was always likely to let in another goal once they failed to put one of their chances away.
I knew there was a reason I had no memory at all of the 3rd/4th place match against Italy in 1990 - it was, like this afternoon, that I just couldn't be bothered with it.
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I have a cauldron of onion soup and some very nice cheese on toast to float and sink in it if anyone's interested.
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adam wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:England played a lot better in the second half tbf, but chasing the game was always likely to let in another goal once they failed to put one of their chances away.
I knew there was a reason I had no memory at all of the 3rd/4th place match against Italy in 1990 - it was, like this afternoon, that I just couldn't be bothered with it.
It (the 1990 game) was pretty decent from what I recall. Certainly better than the genuinely disgraceful final that year :twisted:
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adam wrote:I have a cauldron of onion soup and some very nice cheese on toast to float and sink in it if anyone's interested.
Later ! Off to the beach for a rinse after mowing the orchard. There is a rising spring tide.
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adam wrote:I have a cauldron of onion soup and some very nice cheese on toast to float and sink in it if anyone's interested.
beautiful, thank you
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Must be a ####ing big lawn mower.
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#FBPE will be in mourning :P
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I don't think this was one of ERG's planned resignations:
Mirror Breaking News

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ump-racism" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Why identity politics benefits the right more than the left
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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ump-racism


Why identity politics benefits the right more than the left
Sheri Berman
I liked the article
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Othering is the fascists friend,the left do it even in "sympathetic" terms,highlights the danger of counterproductiveness,solidifying concepts,ways of thinking/viewing self and others and related behaviour,appropriation/internalising of "expected" characteristics eg.sufficiently needy,acting oppressed/lack of agency etc.
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Terms like "metropolitan elite" are hugely divisive, too. What does it even mean?

Things which connect people are the apparatus of the state we all use - hospitals, schools, trains, buses.

Labour does best when it talks about these concrete things that everyone understands. Talk of the "left behind" I don't find helpful. In terms of less being spent on essential services we are all equally short changed and "left behind". Therefore we all potentially benefit from these areas seeing more investment. The right have been very successful at creating the idea of "winners" and "losers" with something for "someone else" only possible at another person's expense. Re-creating a sense of all of us being winners from various policies is clearly the key to shaking loose of current polarised and divisive narratives but it's quite a challenge, isn't it? Identify politics is working for those who seek to undermine democratic consensus and replace it with top down authoritarianism.
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My offer of benign dictatorship still stands
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# subject to tea and nicotine levels,I may have off days and slaughter a few,but nobody is perfect.
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Happiness is finding more chocolate bars,somehow forgotten.


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