It's smart piece with great photos.Henry Higgins!PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Morning All
And, remarkably, I open with a link to the Mail. One of the more bizarre urls of recent times
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Morning All
And, remarkably, I open with a link to the Mail. One of the more bizarre urls of recent times
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rence.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I-didn-t-Parliament-bit-f-ing-arm-candy-Female-Tory-MPs-complaints-walk-alongside-Cameron-party-conference
What lovely company David Cameron keeps. How the Tories have the gall to moan about Labour being funded by ordinary citizens via the unions, given the dubious lowlife who donate to them is beyond me.A BuzzFeed News investigation uncovers secret details of a “shady” deal between the offshore empire of a major Tory donor and the nephew of the former Sri Lankan president accused of corruption and war crimes.
Joy! Kindle becomes kindling. (Sorry - I'm seemingly in whimsical mood today. I'm sure it will pass . . . )yahyah wrote:Good news for any Luddite book lovers like me !
''Waterstones to stop selling Kindle as book sales surge
Managing director James Daunt says: ‘Sales continue to be pitiful so we are taking the display space back.’''
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Still, I'm sure it's all the fault of the incompetent NHS and nothing to do with the government.“Our member chief executives tell us that they feel under greater pressure than ever before, particularly because there’s a huge, ongoing pressure in managing their financial deficit while continuing to provide the right quality of service”, says Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers. “It therefore seems no accident that we’ve had such a large number of chief execs retiring or resigning over the last 12 months. This is a very worrying trend. It means that just when the NHS needs leadership more than ever, because of the necessity of transforming how care is delivered, people are becoming increasingly reluctant to do these jobs. We can’t afford to lose experienced chief execs as we are currently doing.”
A personal account from an education journalist.What I learned wandering around the Conservative conference protests as a journalist
Never have so few . . . . .AnatolyKasparov wrote:You are watching it so the rest of us don't have to
Pride of the one-Tory nation compassionate thingy.David Cameron vows to scrap requirement to build affordable homes for rent
In his conference speech the PM will promise to tear up planning rules in effort to encourage developers to build more housing for first-time buyers
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... t#comments
You utter disgrace, Dave Cameron.StephenDolan wrote:'And on the subject of protecting our country from terrorism, let me just say this:
Thousands of words have been written about the new Labour leader.
But you only really need to know one thing: he thinks the death of Osama bin Laden was a “tragedy”.
No.
A tragedy is nearly 3,000 people murdered one morning in New York.
A tragedy is the mums and dads who never came home from work that day.
A tragedy is people jumping from the towers after the planes hit.
My friends – we cannot let that man inflict his security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology on the country we love.'
Stay classy DC.
Yes, it was.PorFavor wrote:I thought it was under the Conservatives that interest rates went through the roof? I must be mis-remembering.
I suppose this is what "looking like a leader" amounts to these days. He really is a disgusting fucking excuse for a human being.StephenDolan wrote:'And on the subject of protecting our country from terrorism, let me just say this:
Thousands of words have been written about the new Labour leader.
But you only really need to know one thing: he thinks the death of Osama bin Laden was a “tragedy”.
No.
A tragedy is nearly 3,000 people murdered one morning in New York.
A tragedy is the mums and dads who never came home from work that day.
A tragedy is people jumping from the towers after the planes hit.
My friends – we cannot let that man inflict his security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology on the country we love.'
Stay classy DC.
I found it annoying, as he effectively writes off anyone with a point as a misfit, part of a tiny minority, whilst accepting that maybe more could be done for them.RobertSnozers wrote:This is interesting
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I don't know whether to be reassured by his willingness to talk to people whose views are so opposed to his own, and his acceptance that they may have something of a point, or annoyed at his utter failure to grasp the implications of his own privilege.George Grant: Meeting Manchester’s Class Warriors
I'd say the reforms aren't working for at least a quarter of the population, that's a hell of a lot of exceptions.These are the people for whom the Government’s reforms really might not be working, the exceptions who prove the rule maybe, but exceptions nevertheless.
That is why I’m so passionate about academies and free schools:
Head teachers are growing in confidence as they throw off the shackles of local council control…
They are right - but they should be very, very assertive about attacking Cameron for his lies.We've just witnessed the most disgraceful name calling from David Cameron during his leader's speech. According to Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn has a "security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology". Personalised, playground style attacks.
You'll notice the similarity between the Prime Minister's words and those of the tabloid press, who have smeared Jeremy Corbyn throughout the summer and beyond. The motivations are the same: to drown out debate and make our arguments taboo.
Well, we have a message to David Cameron and the Tory Party: this is a renewed, strengthened and bigger Labour Party you're dealing with - and you've very much got a fight on your hands. But we won't fight it by personalised attacks, we'll fight it by widening the debate and involving people, across communities and in workplaces, to create a better society.
It's called #anewkindofpolitics
There was no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him [bin Laden], to put him on trial, to go through that process.
This was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy.
The World Trade Centre was a tragedy, the attack on Afghanistan was a tragedy, the war in Iraq was a tragedy. Tens of thousands of people have died. Torture has come back on to the world stage, been canonised virtually into law by Guantanamo and Bagram.
Can’t we learn some lessons over this?
He is just kicking the ball into an obligingly open goal, he doesn't do morality. The media should roast him for this bollocks but they won't.NonOxCol wrote:I suppose this is what "looking like a leader" amounts to these days. He really is a disgusting fucking excuse for a human being.StephenDolan wrote:'And on the subject of protecting our country from terrorism, let me just say this:
Thousands of words have been written about the new Labour leader.
But you only really need to know one thing: he thinks the death of Osama bin Laden was a “tragedy”.
No.
A tragedy is nearly 3,000 people murdered one morning in New York.
A tragedy is the mums and dads who never came home from work that day.
A tragedy is people jumping from the towers after the planes hit.
My friends – we cannot let that man inflict his security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology on the country we love.'
Stay classy DC.
The MSM would be going nuts if Cameron had been described in such a way.nickyinnorfolk wrote:Labour have responded:
They are right - but they should be very, very assertive about attacking Cameron for his lies.We've just witnessed the most disgraceful name calling from David Cameron during his leader's speech. According to Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn has a "security-threatening, terrorist-sympathising, Britain-hating ideology". Personalised, playground style attacks.
You'll notice the similarity between the Prime Minister's words and those of the tabloid press, who have smeared Jeremy Corbyn throughout the summer and beyond. The motivations are the same: to drown out debate and make our arguments taboo.
Well, we have a message to David Cameron and the Tory Party: this is a renewed, strengthened and bigger Labour Party you're dealing with - and you've very much got a fight on your hands. But we won't fight it by personalised attacks, we'll fight it by widening the debate and involving people, across communities and in workplaces, to create a better society.
It's called #anewkindofpolitics
None of that is going to be realised but they'll win in 2020?Over the next five years we will show that the deep problems in our society – they are not inevitable.
That a childhood in care doesn’t have to mean a life of struggle.
That a stint in prison doesn’t mean you’ll get out and do the same thing all over again.
That being black, or Asian, or female, or gay doesn’t mean you’ll be treated differently.
Nothing is written.
And if we’re to be the global success story of the 21st century, we need to write millions of individual success stories.
A Greater Britain – made of greater expectations…
…where renters become homeowners…
…employees become employers…
…a small island becomes an even bigger economy…
…and where extremism is defeated once and for all.
A Greater Britain…
…no more, its people dragged down or held back…
…no more, some children with their noses pressed to the window as they watch the world moving ahead without them.
No – a country raising its sights, its people reaching new heights…
…a Great British take-off – that leaves no-one behind.
That’s our dream – to help you realise your dreams.
A Greater Britain – made of greater hope, greater chances, greater security.
So let’s get out there – all of us – and let’s make it happen.
I think the rebuttal is rather weak as it stands. They should be addressing it far more aggressively and in principle not just complaining about personal attacks.AnatolyKasparov wrote:It is being rebutted already, I think Labour instinctively sense Cam went too far on this one and it could actually make some people think better of JC.
My bold. That's the same issue as always with Cameron & Osborne.he set out an attractive “one nation prospectus, ranging into areas like poverty, prison reform and racial discrimination that rarely feature so prominently in leader speeches at the Conservative conference. If Michael Heseltine had become Tory leader, he would have sounded like this.
Yet is any of it deliverable? It also sounded like a speech that Cameron may be anxious to forget by 2020. He called for more rehabilitation in prisons, but Chris Grayling pledged the same in the last parliament when he was justice secretary and the change he proposed never materialised. Cameron promised an “all-out assault on poverty”, saying that work was the best route out of poverty, but in-work poverty has been increasing, experts expect poverty on conventional measures to go up by the end of the decade and harsh tax credit cuts are about to come into force. He also deplored the lack of social mobility in the UK, and called for more equality. But on all these issues he had little or nothing to say about the policy levers he might pull to achieve his goals, and there is a danger that he is raising hopes he will not be able to fulfil.
Hi Utopian,utopiandreams wrote:Michael Gove accusing Andrew Neill of showboating. I must be dreaming!
TechnicalEphemera wrote:I think the rebuttal is rather weak as it stands. They should be addressing it far more aggressively and in principle not just complaining about personal attacks.AnatolyKasparov wrote:It is being rebutted already, I think Labour instinctively sense Cam went too far on this one and it could actually make some people think better of JC.
This is not going to be good for JC most people will just hear Cameron's words and believe him.
