Fears cash-strapped council may cut services for vulnerable children
Northamptonshire county council scrambles to save £70m amid warnings even core services are at risk
Universal credit payments at risk of being used by abusers, MPs say
Single monthly payment means abusive partner could receive entire family income, report says
Garden Bridge trustees may have ‘breached their legal duties’ says QC
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 9:18 am
by gilsey
HindleA wrote:Morning
Fears cash-strapped council may cut services for vulnerable children
Northamptonshire county council scrambles to save £70m amid warnings even core services are at risk
@nearlylegal
12h12 hours ago
More Nearly Legal Retweeted Patrick Butler
Finance director apparently suggesting statutory duties to eg vulnerable children will be cut. But they can’t. Not where statutorily obliged to provide. This will be... interesting
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 9:39 am
by PaulfromYorkshire
Happy Yorkshire Day!
I'm celebrating in Cumbria
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 9:59 am
by tinybgoat
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Happy Yorkshire Day!
I'm celebrating in Cumbria
A Yorkshire bit of Cumbria? (Dent, Sedbergh, Garsdale)
-we were in Dent 2 yrs ago, on Yorkshire day, pleased to see one of useful things their mp (Farron) had done was get Dent beer served in house of commons.
How BBC balance and bad think tanks discourage evidence based policy
Wren-Lewis
Another zinger from him.
And why has he become so good (IMO anyway)? Because, even though he still thinks Brexit is very important (and it is) it is no longer the be-all and end-all.
Others could learn from that.
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 12:37 pm
by PorFavor
"No deal is better than a bad deal."
However you define a "bad deal", that doesn't sound very accidental to me.
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 1:04 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
Abi Wilkinson now totally pwning the execrable David Aaronovitch on Twitter. Do take a look while you still can.
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 1:42 pm
by frog222
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Abi Wilkinson now totally pwning the execrable David Aaronovitch on Twitter. Do take a look while you still can.
AK -- I looked for her yesterday but couldn't find her self, just a comment she made elsewhere , Linky Please ?
It did appear that D A was consorting with some very wicked people ...
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 1:46 pm
by refitman
frog222 wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Abi Wilkinson now totally pwning the execrable David Aaronovitch on Twitter. Do take a look while you still can.
AK -- I looked for her yesterday but couldn't find her self, just a comment she made elsewhere , Linky Please ?
It did appear that D A was consorting with some very wicked people ...
You give people money and the spivs and the shysters will just work out ways to take it off them.
That's why I'm a fan of renting people council houses. It fulfils a need - shelter - in a way that makes it difficult for the already wealthy to get their hands on any of the money involved. Think about how the right-wing is especially exercised over life time leases and you'll see what I mean.
How BBC balance and bad think tanks discourage evidence based policy
Wren-Lewis
The Knowledge Transmission Mechanism (KTM) is how knowledge produced by academics and other researchers is translated into public policy. Evidence based policy is the result of this mechanism working.
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The rigid application of political balance in the broadcast media is in danger of negating the KTM, and therefore evidence based policy. The moment an issue (call it issue X) is deemed ‘political’ by the media, balance dictates that any view expressed on issue X is an opinion rather than knowledge.
(cJA bold)
I liked this Wren-Lewis article a lot
Calling an issue political doesn't have to mean it's not knowledge-based and factual. A 'political' issue doesn't make it an opinion. A 'political' issue can be factual, verifiable.
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 5:34 pm
by citizenJA
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Anybody out there?
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 5:41 pm
by citizenJA
Willow904 wrote:---
I'm a fan of renting people council houses. It fulfils a need - shelter - in a way that makes it difficult for the already wealthy to get their hands on any of the money involved. Think about how the right-wing is especially exercised over life time leases and you'll see what I mean.
(cJA edit)
Precisely; a safe home is essential. It's impossible to do more than survive without a safe home. Take care of that for everyone and worlds open up for them.
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 5:54 pm
by PaulfromYorkshire
tinybgoat wrote:
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Happy Yorkshire Day!
I'm celebrating in Cumbria
A Yorkshire bit of Cumbria? (Dent, Sedbergh, Garsdale)
-we were in Dent 2 yrs ago, on Yorkshire day, pleased to see one of useful things their mp (Farron) had done was get Dent beer served in house of commons.
Ironically I think we may be in Furness, so Lancashire
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 6:18 pm
by frog222
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Anybody out there?
Siesta after the swim, reading more Peston WTF ? plus sawing firewood for winter !
( No Russian gas away from the towns here . )
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 6:25 pm
by AnatolyKasparov
I know opinions on Basic Income differ here, but I have always thought it a concept with real possibilities.
Its true that some right wing "libertarian" types support a version of it (the late Milton Friedman did) but that alone shouldn't put people off the idea.
A radical left wing government could well find pursuing this attractive.
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 6:31 pm
by PorFavor
Government says it will take control of Grenfell Tower site
U-turn means Kensington and Chelsea council will ‘take no role’ in decisions over site
(Guardian)
scene in Aliens
Gorman insisted the area was secure
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 8:02 pm
by frog222
I was up before five this morning, and heard the R4 reports of the Corbyn Apology.
My immediate DailyMail headline-generator response was —
CORBYN CRAWLS !
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 8:57 pm
by frog222
AnatolyKasparov wrote:I know opinions on Basic Income differ here, but I have always thought it a concept with real possibilities.
Its true that some right wing "libertarian" types support a version of it (the late Milton Friedman did) but that alone shouldn't put people off the idea.
A radical left wing government could well find pursuing this attractive.
OR some variation on it ... Good BTL discussion here --
Boris Johnson has returned to being the darling of the Tory grassroots after quitting government in protest at the prime minister's Brexit strategy
Just think how popular he'd be if he took the next step & quit politics.
very good
Re: Wednesday 1st August 2018
Posted: Wed 01 Aug, 2018 11:07 pm
by citizenJA
Zimbabwe election unrest turns deadly as army opens fire on protesters
Three people killed after live ammunition, water cannon and teargas fired in capital