Quarrel? Honey Ryder? Kerim Bey?
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Quarrel? Honey Ryder? Kerim Bey?
Hard to empathise with someone from a different era? Someone with PTSD? The racism issue is interesting. I mean against whom? Russians?
Examples of leftwing governments banning things? Enforcing their own preferences over others, and against evidence? Is that a serious question?
No idea. No idea. And probably not.
The books might help.
Certainly Labour shifted right to get elected and seems firmly committed to continuing that movement, at least when it comes to asylum seekers and immigration. But the left are equally prone to reaching for the authoritarian stick.
I think it's the political class as such, though liberals (true, rather than e.g. US insult version) specifically try to avoid it, even though as liberals we're very sure that the world would be better off if it was more liberal.
For people in Oxford it's not bad, though views would differ depending where you are. Oxfordshire though, bus service is city-centric. The council mandated a connection one. This means despite so many efforts to make car journeys longer it still takes longer on the bus. Working people are time poor.
Thanks.
Do explain.
Oxford is a case in point. Basically the only provider of a number of Oxfordshire health services is Oxford JR. Oxfordshire meanwhile is a long rural county. Driving is the only practical option for most people, patients and staff alike.
Back in old microblogging platform days, my pinned tweet was "Politics isn't a line. It's a circle with a dirty authoritarian bottom". Left and right politicians both end up there because they are convinced that "if people lived like I think they should it would be better"
This in Oxford JR, which has the stupidest ratio of parking spaces to hospital capacity ever seen; the parking pass allowed use of staff car parks as well as visitors, which meant you could get a space in "as little as" 30 minutes after arrival...
I think it should be free if you're visiting the hospital for health reasons, like when you have to get a ticket from the checkout at the supermarket. And charged for visitors except in special circumstances (when our son was in critical care after being born, we got a parking pass so I could visit)
Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation". If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
He's referencing a global elite plan where the Australian government are being funded by the UK. And Soros.
Vintage Red Leicester is sooooo much nicer than the stuff my mum used to buy
You'd think she could be looking into the Epstein papers and whether Trump is suppressing them.
Also when you ran out of tracing paper you could just go grab some toilet rolls
You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else
Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported
As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti. That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.
Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified… …once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’. Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.
Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”. The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.
So long as they would understand "train your own model" it'd probably be productive.
One fears actual innovation is not what they are recruiting for. More "buy stuff from large (US) software/solutions companies"
yo this guy is cooking
I thought it was a cabal? Maybe a coven.
Mithras?
Journalists, and the public, really need to learn the difference between an asylum seeker and refugee, and stop using the terms interchangeably.
Freedumb
I appreciate the posts from Labour activists about the vital work they are doing on the ground to oppose Reform but Starmer and his Cabinet seem far closer in rhetoric and in substance to Reform than even a centralist Labour government of the past like Wilson's or even Blair's.
These were National Front talking points when I was young, and attacked by everyone except extremists. BNP when I was older: the BNP was run off for being racist cunts. Now The Times is cheerily discussing what might happen “if the population was to be sieved.” Also “camps” is very deliberate.
Dear Labour government. Please grow some balls. The collective racist madness is not representative of most of the electorate. Please start calling it out.
Trump threatens extra tariffs, tech export bans, for any nation that dares to regulate Big Tech
Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
The vast proportion of people in the world never need to go to the US. Increasing numbers of people with family there don't need to go either, as US-based family has become very understanding of people not wanting to visit (unless they are MAGA, in which case best not to see them at all)
I repeat you haven't found Rhossili yet. Also Wales, it's rather varied. With Rhossili on top, unless you want an historic beach pub in which case you'd need to go to the Llyn Peninsula
Because you hadn't found Rhossili?
This is so embarrassing. Just an absolute nonsense.
Also do these people not read American classics? Cheaper By The Dozen is how I found out cheerleaders were *all* male until the 1920s
Good luck with them suing websites not based in the US.
You can't put cash in a bag of chips, the money would go all oily. A bag of crisps though, that'd work.
One person's centrist is another person's far left/right. All a matter of perspective. I mean I'm definitely centrist based on factual assessment but by US standards my facts are fake news and I'm some sort of commie-anarchist.
Trump's policy is he doesn't want to go to gaol. Epstein is not the only person who had dirt on Trump.
Yeah it didn't arrive
Worth reminding everyone in the UK Farage=Trump
Following the Trump-Putin summit I now know it's possible to be disappointed with something you had absolutely no expectations for. I am in other words I am now fully equipped to empathise with @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com when she finally reads my book.
Yeah but immigrants
I don't assess cars by their self-driving ability? But I note the list misses out Volvo, who have been working on car safety assistance systems for a long while
Home battery installs. But EVs, there are so many better options than a Tesla.
Back to Abingdon, our local depot It's out for delivery now hooray it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today 3 came and went, now end of day that'll work I say?
The next day it is definitely late The parcel has finally reached Essex Further than Bristol, nowhere near me A long way from its start What will be its fate?
But end of the day came and went My parcel in Bristol now it shows Further away my parcel goes Further from me than when it started That's where my parcel has now been sent
The Never Ending Parcel My package is on the way It started in Tamworth, in the UPS depot Now to Abingdon, our local depot It's out for delivery hooray it'll be delivered between 11 & 3 today 3 came and went, now end of day that'll work I say
Weird. There are like any number of better options than the Tesla.
Finally, as I've already pointed out, the "up to 1.2 million illegal migrants" number on which Thames Water and the Telegraph based their false claims, and which included legal migrants, has officially been retracted by Pew. No journalist should be using it. www.pewresearch.org/global/fact-...
At least that's what the AI said
Much more worried that this is about catching criminals before they strike. I'm guessing they won't even use 3 AIs to decide guilt. Just Palantir.
cf. Silverberg, Robert "Downward to the Earth"
Didn't they learn about it at school? Pretty sure we did. And the oldest generation surely remember.
Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...
Depends. If you have to run along them, chased by an errant 9:10 scale Spitfire, they're quite long (yes, it has 2 runways).
Enstone only has 1 toilet. Just saying.
I understand just fine. Xenophobia, fed by lies, grows to the point we get Brexit; lies continue, things get worse. A new leader's job is to stop that. Admit there were lies. Point out the truth. Admit Brexit was bad idea, driven by lies. Move in a positive direction, not continue the negative one.
It was the first time most Americans found out he was British. A coincidence, the legal troubles that followed and his eventual banning from the USA, the country that had been his home for over 30 years?
I fear not. If I can read your claim is: a bunch of legal immigrants came to the UK and "took jobs" from 100 of your friends. These jobs were all paying considerably more than minimum wage and the people who had them couldn't get new jobs, lost their homes and then died homeless.
All round probably an Ubuntu variant - I've tried a lot and personally prefer a rolling distro, but for "user-friendly" with implication of "someone who's not that comfortable with tech" Ubuntu variants will just work, and there's lots and lots of help out there when you need assistance on something
Sorry, what?
The rhetoric started before Brexit, lead to Brexit. Starmer's job was to change the rhetoric, not double down on it.
You're welcome I'm sure
I've read some bad takes in my time but this one...
Sorry, that post smacks of ignorance or vendor bias.
Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up' me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ
What do you call a shellfish that can't get what it wants? ... A frustracean
Leave voters were honest? In what way? The ones who said "I'm voting against immigration" were honest, but deeply mislead. The ones who voted leave " because it won't make any difference" were honest, but utterly wrong because the leave campaigners lied, then lied again.
No, we didn't have any weeks of "discussing" what leave meant. We have 10 weeks of total nonsense from leave campaign in which they denied reality, followed by going full racist schmuck.
No, it's not 2 different cases. Brexit was built on years of xenophobic anti-immigration rhetoric - which has worsened post-Brexit.
It was for the Leave supporters to be honest about the consequences. They weren't. Mostly because their main motive force was either pro-US or anti-foreigner. Or occasionally, confusingly, both.
Don't talk absolute nonsense. You cannot have discussions around an undefined change option, because those supporting it were contradictory or just plain fantasising.
He was so wrong on so many things that he was unelectable. Lost against Theresa May.
In the specific case of Brexit and anti-immigration xenophobia
No, it isn't. Democracy is about discussion; voting comes at the end. The framing of the Brexit referendum didn't allow for discussion, because proponents were free to argue for different forms, often contradictory, sometimes impossible. Such vagueness meant it could only be advisory in nature.
Yes, I voted in the referendum. Let's see if I can help you: is democracy defined by voting?
Such postings are traditionally followed by
Delete emails, generate heat in the deletion process, system returns to using same power afterwards. Meanwhile "AI is great" "let's build more DCs to have more AI"
Without any description of the form of Brexit that would follow a "yes" vote, the referendum was just a badly made poll. Moreover the total % of UK residents who voted yes was small. Accepting the outcome as "the voice of the people" despite its failings was bad leadership.
It wasn't a "democratic referendum", so that was the first fail. For the referendum to have been "democratic" the outcome of voting for the change option needs to have been described, which allowed for debate on the benefits or otherwise of that change option.
Wait cooking in cast iron is a good thing again? Score one for me. What about enamel, I have a lot of enamel cookware...
They always have. In a Harvey Proctor sort of way
Malesh works. For most things.
And this data again confirms claims recent migrants are either not working or on low wages - a staple of right-wing "thinktanks" like @cps.org.uk or CMC and parroted by ignorant politicians- are based on a complete misreading of the data, deliberate or otherwise docs.google.com/document/d/e...
"Kayf halik?" can be your response. Then wait a bit and say "Malesh". Whole conversation can have taken place without you knowing what they were saying :D
Not convinced Trump can multi-task
In the park, just reaching the point where we really have to go to make sure we're back in time for the delivery. Text arrives "we've delivered your parcel" (£1.2k super-powered silent PC). It's 1120. They left it at the door. Which they could have done on Friday.
Now says "by 1732" so that's better than the last one, but not a lot given summer holiday entertainment requirements. Next day a text message arrives "your delivery will be made 1132-1732". A big old slot but hey at least we can take the dog for a walk and go to the park staying in to wait, again.
Site returns "there's no information for that parcel". Stay in all day, 6 year old bouncing off the walls, no delivery. Text message arrives shortly after the end of the 12 hour slot "Redelivery will be attempted next working day". Checking tracking number (having worked it out from the link)