FlyTheNest

Morning

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

Sadiq Khan calls for rollout of universal credit to be paused

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... y-councils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

England faces school places emergency, say councils
By 2023 more than half of councils will be unable to meet secondary demand, says LGA

http://ukandeu.ac.uk/a-question-of-word ... eferendum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"A question of wording? Another look at polling on a second referendum"
John Furtive on whether there's been an increase in favour of a second referendum/vote & importance of wording in polling question.

In short, polls that ask people whether the ‘public’ should have a vote usually record a higher level of support than those that just ask whether there should be another referendum. Equally, polls that do not specify what the alternative would be to endorsing whatever deal is reached tend to secure higher levels of support than those that indicate that the choice would be between leaving (on whatever terms have been agreed) and remaining.

More support to help schools with costs

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more ... with-costs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-roge ... yn-problem" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good on Jon Snow for promoting this piece on Israel and Corbyn

http://ukandeu.ac.uk/what-low-skilled-w ... er-brexit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"What low-skilled worker programmes should the government rely on after Brexit?"

London Crossrail opening postponed until autumn next year

Spokesman for £15bn project says it will miss its planned December opening date

Andrew Adonis, the former chair of the national infrastructure commission, said: “It’s clearly a further massive catastrophe for Chris Grayling, who didn’t say a word in public about the scale of the crisis." (Guardian - my emphasis)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... -next-year

tinybgoat wrote:http://ukandeu.ac.uk/a-question-of-word ... eferendum/
"A question of wording? Another look at polling on a second referendum"
John Furtive on whether there's been an increase in favour of a second referendum/vote & importance of wording in polling question.

In short, polls that ask people whether the ‘public’ should have a vote usually record a higher level of support than those that just ask whether there should be another referendum. Equally, polls that do not specify what the alternative would be to endorsing whatever deal is reached tend to secure higher levels of support than those that indicate that the choice would be between leaving (on whatever terms have been agreed) and remaining.

That's a great typo tbf.

Good-afternoon, everyone

In my defence it's the curse of predictive texting,
'curtice' becomes furtive.
Seems that Androids make lousy spell checkers, as well as terrible PMs.

Yes, I suspected some sort of spill chucker.

Closed consultation

Personal health budgets and integrated personal budgets: extending legal rights

Woefully underused,certainly a possible way to usurp the soggy wet flannel fifteen minutes if you are lucky ,State controlled or need for profit thing.

Not left or right meaningful emancipatory independent living,choice facillitation that others take for granted .

Take control

Frank Field thinks he would hold his seat if he forced a by-election, does he?

DO IT, THEN.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/d ... table/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Donald Trump’s WTO threat shows he is becoming predictable"

The best way for other world leaders is to humour his ego. Let him go away thinking he has personally saved the world’s trading system. The only regret is that his threat to exit the WTO won’t be taken seriously enough and so will not create an opportunity to reform world trade in the way the barking at Kim Jong un reformed North Korea’s relations with the world. But as for Brexit, I wouldn’t worry too much – the WTO will continue to be a fallback for UK-EU trade – even though a deal is still far preferable.

Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?

RDA - Recommended Daily Angst.

Trump poised to cut all US funding for key UN Palestinian refugee programme

US administration to withdraw from services affecting 5 million people, reports say (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -programme

PorFavor wrote:

Trump poised to cut all US funding for key UN Palestinian refugee programme

US administration to withdraw from services affecting 5 million people, reports say (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -programme

he can't do that by executive command

edited to add
can he?

tinybgoat wrote:https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/d ... table/amp/
"Donald Trump’s WTO threat shows he is becoming predictable"

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But as for Brexit, I wouldn’t worry too much – the WTO will continue to be a fallback for UK-EU trade – even though a deal is still far preferable.

Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?

(cJA edit)

The author of this piece, Ross Clark, is mistaken in his final line posted above. He might have meant it as irony or something and I didn't get it; I'm not feeling so great today.

tinybgoat wrote:---
Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?

(cJA edit)
It's not healthy, chronic worry. Keep your health and strength as best you can; no fortune can buy good health if it's gone.

Edited to add
Apologies if I sound cranky. I don't like being ill; I've got so much I want and need to do.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/hom ... .cpEdGERQe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


The Home Office Has Created A Secret Process To Solve Immigration Cases That Generate Negative Headlines

Have a "worry half hour period"a day etc ,send it all there?

But don't spend the other 23 and a half worrying when to have it.

Stress can be good/essential,it's a balance.

HindleA wrote:Stress can be good/essential,it's a balance.

Yes, for a limited amount of time, stress is essential.
Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety, and 21st Century Illness, by Richard O'Connor, Ph.D.

HindleA wrote:Have a "worry half hour period"a day etc ,send it all there?

That has the makings of a good practice for many contemporary, long-term stresses people deal with

HindleA wrote:https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/hom ... .cpEdGERQe

The Home Office Has Created A Secret Process To Solve Immigration Cases That Generate Negative Headlines

I'm sending this to the half-hour stress session
I can't look at it now

Maybe because the ultimate ,death, no longer holds any fear nothing can "hurt " me.I welcome worry as it means I am alive and responsive.

Not my idea,I heard it somewhere.

Witnessing incredible resilience to a constant increasing level,certainly helps.

A blueprint suitably personally adjusted.

Zero self pity/why me,merely another challenge.

I'm resistent to the word "struggle",insist on challenge.

Constance doing a jigsaw

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Chris Difford had something about him . . .

I used to live up the road from Jools Holland when he lived above a Barber's shop.

citizenJA wrote:

tinybgoat wrote:https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/d ... table/amp/
"Donald Trump’s WTO threat shows he is becoming predictable"

---
But as for Brexit, I wouldn’t worry too much – the WTO will continue to be a fallback for UK-EU trade – even though a deal is still far preferable.

Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?

(cJA edit)
The author of this piece, Ross Clark, is mistaken in his final line posted above. He might have meant it as irony or something and I didn't get it; I'm not feeling so great today.

I thought the article was a bit daft, when he wrote that DJT had a peacemaking deal on North Korea ? On the WTO, surely Congress decides ?

PorFavor wrote:Chris Difford had something about him . . .

I used to live up the road from Jools Holland when he lived above a Barber's shop.

Phew, I panicked when you said had ...
His voice (can't vouch for anything else) improves with age

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https://www.politico.eu/article/michel- ... rning/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Barnier asks for ‘who, when, where and how’ of Irish border plan"

LONDON — The unacceptable is becoming a bit more acceptable, it seems.
At a joint press conference with his British counterpart, Dominic Raab, in Brussels on Friday, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier revealed he had asked the U.K. for details about how an internal border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland would work in practice should it ever be needed.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-roge ... yn-problem
Good on Jon Snow for promoting this piece on Israel and Corbyn

Thanks PFY, good article -- " What of the situation in Britain? Independent assessments of anti-Semitism tend to suggest that, overall, Labour supporters are less likely to hold such views than Conservative supporters, and that anti-Semitism among Labour supporters may actually have declined in the first two years since Corbyn was elected leader."
and the link to Jonathan Cook and the Israeli activists sums up the situation very well --
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/isra ... -139423040" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If anyone believes that the Israeli government is not linked to the anti-Corbyn mania, I'm sure someone could sell them a bridge . Or two !

Just one local council byelection this week:

Sevenoaks DC - Tory hold with 55% of the vote, a small decrease since the last election in 2015. This ward returned two LibDems in 2003, but the Tories took a seat in 2007 and easily won both in 2011 (after the other LibDem had joined their ranks, where they remain to this day) when they had a sole Labour opponent - last time round they comfortably saw off both Labour and Green opposition. The latter absented themselves now, but the LibDems reappeared for the first time since they last won a seat here - they took over a quarter of the vote, quite a respectable showing but still some way off their former strength. Labour thus relegated to third, and like the Tories slightly down overall.

That concludes August - the new month begins with four contests.

https://welfareweekly.com/severely-disa ... adaptions/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Severely disabled child left waiting three years for special home adaptions


https://www.lgo.org.uk/information-cent ... hree-years" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Ombudsman has the power to make recommendations to improve a council’s processes for the wider public. In this case the council has agreed to review its policies and procedures to ensure it fully meets its duties to disabled children and their families in arranging adaptations to their housing, based on need rather than tenure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45377336" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


US ends aid to Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... -of-pupils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Dozens of secondary schools exclude at least 20% of pupils
Call for government to act after Guardian investigation reveals high suspension rates in England

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ons-pupils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Constance hunting for the missing piece

Will not find it,symbolic.

PTO