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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well thank heavens somebody posted, where are all the other regulars?

RogerOThornhill wrote:Afternoon.

Shopping and then watching the test Match is my excuse.

You know you're getting old when you see the name peter Green trending on that twitter and you know immediately who it is and why it's trending...but not have a clue as to who Wiley is.

refitman wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:Afternoon.
Shopping and then watching the test Match is my excuse.
You know you're getting old when you see the name peter Green trending on that twitter and you know immediately who it is and why it's trending...but not have a clue as to who Wiley is.

It's nice(!) too see LordJohnMann finally doing some work as the 'anti-semitism' tsar, by....attacking Jeremy Corbyn

RogerOThornhill wrote:Yes, I saw that and thought "Huh?"

Some people really are too obsessed with Corbyn...need to let go people, he isn't leader any longer...

RFID Things That Made the Modern Economy,Series 2
At the beginning of the Cold War, musical inventor Leon Theremin managed to bug the US embassy in Moscow. The ingenious device he used is a predecessor of a humble technology that surrounds us every day: the Radio-Frequency Identification tag. Tim Harford asks if RFID is introducing an ‘internet of things’. Or are its glory days behind it?

Lewis Goodall
@lewis_goodall
BREAKING: We have a new contender for the "you couldn't write this stuff" stakes

Transport Sec Grant Shapps is on holiday in Spain. He will, therefore, have to quarantine for 14 days when he gets home.
9:24 PM · Jul 25, 2020·Twitter Web App

gilsey wrote:Paul
@PaulOnBooks
Rachel Riley, John Mann and Katie Hopkins trending in quick succession - has there been an explosion in a sewage plant?

citizenJA wrote:It's a lovely morning.

"" But the liberal Zionist condition was precisely one of willful blindness. It shut its eyes tight and saw no evil, even as Israel debased Palestinian life there for more than half a century. Looking back, Beinart recognises his own self-inflicted credulousness. “In practice, Israel annexed the West Bank long ago,” he writes in the New York Times.

In his two articles, Beinart denies liberal Jews the one path still available to them to rationalise Palestinian oppression. He argues that those determined to support a Jewish state, whatever it does, are projecting their own unresolved, post-Holocaust fears onto Palestinians.

In the Zionist imagination, according to Beinart, Palestinians have been reinvented as heirs to the Nazis. As a result, most Jews have been manipulated into framing Israel’s settler-colonialism in zero-sum terms – as a life-or-death battle. In that way, they have been able to excuse Israel’s perpetual abuse of Palestinians.

Or as Beinart puts it: “Through a historical sleight of hand that turns Palestinians into Nazis, fear of annihilation has come to define what it means to be an authentic Jew.” He adds that “Jewish trauma”, not Palestinian behaviour, has ended in “the depiction of Palestinians as compulsive Jew-haters”.

Nathan Ruser
@Nrg8000
In the current international system (using levers built by the Global North and quickly being encouraged by the Global South) there is NO legitimate avenue for non-state actors to express anger, and there is only legitimate violent responses to it from state actors.

frog222 wrote:

citizenJA wrote:It's a lovely morning.

Blue sky! 19, a 'fresh' breeze, even one con trail... and now have to find out who Jedward is (are-- I see) ! All I rather vaguely know about RR is that she's some sort of witchfinder on our least favourite campaign. After checking BylineTimes on Whittingdale and a very real Enemy Within https://bylinetimes.com/2020/07/24/swee ... ttingdale/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; will go to check up on Oborne and Jonathan Cook on the latest ME badnews ...

frog222 wrote:

citizenJA wrote:It's a lovely morning.

Blue sky! 19, a 'fresh' breeze, even one con trail... and now have to find out who Jedward is (are-- I see) ! All I rather vaguely know about RR is that she's some sort of witchfinder on our least favourite campaign. After checking BylineTimes on Whittingdale and a very real Enemy Within https://bylinetimes.com/2020/07/24/swee ... ttingdale/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; will go to check up on Oborne and Jonathan Cook on the latest ME badnews ...

refitman wrote:

frog222 wrote:

citizenJA wrote:It's a lovely morning.

Blue sky! 19, a 'fresh' breeze, even one con trail... and now have to find out who Jedward is (are-- I see) ! All I rather vaguely know about RR is that she's some sort of witchfinder on our least favourite campaign. After checking BylineTimes on Whittingdale and a very real Enemy Within https://bylinetimes.com/2020/07/24/swee ... ttingdale/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; will go to check up on Oborne and Jonathan Cook on the latest ME badnews ...

Jedward were a 'talent' act on a TV show. Rather rubbish and annoying at the time. They have turned into rather amazing people, doing lots of actual good work with charities.
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Bribery: the one thing our leaders have made a success of
David Mitchell

frog222 wrote:Carole returns to the attack --
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck. Britain has a national security problem. And his name is Boris Johnson.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... s-in-no-10" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Tories are struggling to find a way to make Keir Starmer look bad
Andrew Rawnsley
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... r-look-bad" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Donald Trump has said he has “no responsibility” for the coronavirus pandemic, fobbing it off on governors and mayors whose repeated requests for federal help he’s denied. Yet he’s now sending federal troops into cities he says are controlled by the “radical left”, whose mayors and governors don’t want them there.
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Trump has never offered a national strategy for testing, contact tracing and isolating those who have the disease. He has provided no standards for reopening the economy, no plan for national purchasing of critical materials, no definitive policy for helping the unemployed, no clear message about what people and businesses should do. He rushed to reopen without adequate safeguards."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... n-protests" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Pandemic Response That Wasn't
Preparedness policies require a long view—but politicians tend to think short-term.
https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2020/pandemi ... that-wasnt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"With unemployment estimated at 20% a result of COVID-19, Pollack Porter says that a solid policy response to this secondary crisis will be key to helping the U.S. recover from the pandemic. This pandemic has illustrated vast systemic failures, including an underfunded public health system, lack of safety for frontline workers, and the absence of social policies like paid sick leave."

Department of Health and Social Care
@DHSCgovuk
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Our COVID-19 statistics website has been updated.
View the full UK dataset online:
Rightwards arrow
https://bit.ly/2D5Mw2W
Data on deaths has been temporarily paused while an urgent review into @PHE_UK
data is carried out.
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On 17 July, the Secretary of State asked Public Health England (PHE) to urgently review the way daily death statistics are currently reported.
We’re pausing the publication of the daily figure while this review takes place.
Daily
Cumulative
Deaths in all settings
not available
not available
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus ... the-public" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Guardian view on a wealth tax: necessary but not sufficient
As in the novels of Jane Austen, social mobility in Britain today appears dependent on the wealth you inherit or marry in to, rather than how much you can set aside from a pay packet
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... sufficient" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Household income inequality, UK: financial year ending 2020 (provisional)
Provisional estimates of income inequality in the UK for the financial year ending 2020.
Release date:
22 July 2020
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... rovisional" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The S80/S20 ratio highlights that the richest fifth of people had a share of income that was over six times that for the poorest fifth in both FYE 2019 and FYE 2020. The income of the person at the 90th percentile was over four times the income of the person at the 10th percentile, while the Palma ratio highlights that the richest 10% of people accounted for a greater share of income than the poorest 40%.

These measures of inequality remain largely unchanged from the previous year.

Biden's path to the White House could hit a dead end on Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... n-facebook" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Ten posts in a row - that's almost Hindle-esque.

"...Born in Tokyo and raised in California..."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/j ... ies-at-104" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

citizenJA wrote:

The Guardian view on a wealth tax: necessary but not sufficient
As in the novels of Jane Austen, social mobility in Britain today appears dependent on the wealth you inherit or marry in to, rather than how much you can set aside from a pay packet
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... sufficient" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Land value tax

The economist Thomas Piketty estimated that half of all UK private wealth is inherited rather than earned. A wealth tax is necessary but not sufficient. The political priority is to help working people build up savings. To level up Britain, there will have to be higher wages from labour and also policies that lead, in the words of John Maynard Keynes, to the (metaphorical) “euthanasia of the rentier” so that the intelligence, skill and determination of the entrepreneur can be “harnessed to the service of the community on reasonable terms of reward”.

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC1 between 1970 and 1972.[1] The series was set in the then present day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist (played by John Paul), responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers.

RogerOThornhill wrote:I've been watching a DVD of an old TV series from the early 70s.

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC1 between 1970 and 1972.[1] The series was set in the then present day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist (played by John Paul), responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers.

So...that's the new Joint Bio-security Centre, right?

Over-40s in UK to pay more tax under plans to fix social care crisis

Pensioner household incomes higher than those of working age, study finds