Are we going to see bleating that this is "free speech" that doesn't merit a prison sentence? I hope not
Shocking!
This is just cynical.
You can make any argument if you impose 'regime shifts' to make your case. You might as well put in randomized time dummies. The issue, I think, is the interaction between inflation and public debt, where we in the past shortsightedly linked the latter to the former. As noted by financial markets.
Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
I think the NY times bot does this stuff all the time....
Boring. Merge them together for some originality. A Gladiator pilot in Malta in 1941 against the Luftwaffe.
Vance's reveals a comprehensive understanding of economics, not least the theory of central bank independence. There's an old 'Yes Minister' TV skit on appointing a new BofE governor with similar logic applied.
Very succinct WSJ summary of the staggering migration shock that successive Tory governments inflicted on Britain as they tried to mitigate and hide the economic consequences of the Brexit disaster
The attack on independent figures continues - from statistics to economics to science www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
With tenants complaining about rent rises, this will go down well. Of course, NI could be rolled into income tax and everybody pays it on all income. Oh, sorry, forget it...next I'll be suggesting nonsense commitments on tax are..nonsense.
Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 563 drones and 26 missiles.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Probably not. It's all rhetorical on both sides of the extremes. I once had to explain to a radical critic of the world economy that the World Bank was called that because it was...a bank.
The old chap can stick with GB(Reform)News and watch the ceaseless adverts for garage doors, recliners, support beds and garden centres in Essex.
Don't they have a Constitution in the US? I'm sure I saw one in a Pennsylvania museum once...?
We need to cut House of Lords not by a fifth, but by four fifths.
A lot of 'recognising' goes on with this government. It seems to me you should either reject, or act on, issues rather than 'recognise' them.
Godfather IV stuff but with considerably worse acting.
His primary objective is to find a way of making money for himself out of it. If 'normalizing' relations with Russia is the best way to do it, so be it.
At a UK university, he'll have to listen to his Pholosophy Assistant Professor complaining about 'wokeness' interminably.
Unlike hotels in California, of course.
Sometimes. Sometimes it's Trotsky. Both expressed contempt for 'the masses' who didn't always think the way they were supposed to think, as members of the proletariat.
Read Lenin.
Afraid that I do.
The trouble is, neither is the far left or the Guardian.
Respectfully, I don't agree. The lesson that has been learnt is that #Connolly can now use her celebrity status to grift columns in the Daily Mail, Telegraph etc as to how she was a political prisoner. There'll probably be a book with a co-author such as an assistant editor at the Times.
Given there are still some decent journalists there, the collapse of @thetimes.com into right-wing demagoguery is depressing. Still, what do you expect with a Times editor with his background?
I think that's something you are going to have to deal with, hard though it is to handle.
Report Finds Humans Waste 74 Billion Gallons Of Water Each Year Making Tea https://theonion.com/report-finds-humans-waste-74-billion-gallons-of-water-each-year-making-tea/
Arrest him, maybe?
At least Dr Evil had a heart of gold by comparison with the orange narcissist.
Extraordinary comment!
Off-the-wall. Slight misprint there.
I don't think the Lib Dems had turmoil. The SDP certainly did and split 3 ways with majority joining then Liberals. SDP interesting case as 20 defected from Labour (even Cons) but couldn't organise thereafter. Reform is a defectors party and may go same way. FPTP elections - very hard for new party.
We are not the Netherlands. They have coalitions. They also have PR.
This won't last once they come to power and tax inheritances. If they had principles they'd forgo the receipt of it.
Labour Party zero? Perhaps I'm missing them...
I expect Corbynites and the Greens will both have internal splits long before the GE. This is what did for the Green council in B&H; + it's already started with JC and Sultana.
To be abbreviated to the FFS.
Yes, Russians want 'certain pieces of territory'. They are called Ukraine, Moldova etc. How about giving them Alaska? The orange narcissist already thinks it's part of Russia anyway.
We must all accept that he is merely a narcissistic ignorant clown. Hence, no point in negotiating anything with him involved.
At least 31 civilians have been killed and 145 injured in Russian strikes across Ukraine since U.S. President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15.
'While Trump still commands the daily news cycle, he no longer commands the West... It is Europe that is becoming the new arsenal of democracy.' Exceptional, morally urgent and utterly clear sighted column in the Telegraph. Yes, you read that right. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
See above.
Irony is too difficult for Fox to understand.
Telegraph gets weirder every day.
Trouble for Tories is that there already is a mad xenophobic populist right wing party led by a plausible grifter, so they can't really compete....
Indeed.
"AISLE 3, RED HOODIE SHOVED A 4 PACK OF SAUSAGE ROLLS DOWN HIS TROUSERS"
'Political' = not sharing Jenrick 's views.
Time to sack Robert Jenrick. Say I.
By Putin
Haha. How The Times must have choked on this headline having done more than anyone to spread the non dom fake news which was based on the patently flawed Henley Partners data extrapolated from 200 LinkedIn accounts
Stolen from lizards, obviously. Keep up!
Well it's a trait on all sides of the political divide. Though I note your point.
This 'social circle's issue in SW1 is one thing: it doesn't follow that the rest of us ought to be told to seek out Reform voters. (I know some for sure but we don't necessarily argue politics). Btw, despite my party affiliation(?), I fully support ID cards.
What sort of contribution to the debate is this? Fwiw I do know people who I suspect vote Reform. I don't ask and I don't care. Though I care about politics
Ah, magic word 'Thatcher'. 1996 was in fact Major. RTB was initially a popular policy - originally proposed by Labour (check it out). True, policy exploded in mid-80s as did buy-to-let in 1990s. Neither good. Sure we need greater supply, which is why rent control wouldn't help.
Maybe he's talking about a different nirvana and this was the only T-shirt he could find.
Next, denounce economists and statisticians who fail to announce 'good' indices improving every day, followed by show trials & imprisonment or even execution. See e.g Bukharin in Stalin's Russia.
Agreed you have to dress some of it but the three you mention largely avoided much of the substantive content or indeed understand the economics. Blair especially & Brown's zeal for complexity and evasion didn't help.
It's these silly names that give the game away. Tax reform, moving closer to our trading neighbours, some acceptance our transfer payments are too high for what we can afford (starting with triple lock) would do.
My point, I think, David. You obviously long for Tony Blair's ' things can only get better'. Though I must say, some similar mood music would help...
Re-read David Peace's Red Riding Quartet to cheer you up. Things have been worse (despite more allegedly competent politicians in charge).
Some chance.
'Backward country'. We are heading there independently of illegal migrants with Jenrick, Goodwin and these media grifters.
Conservatives went from rowing to rowing. Sorry bad puns are not dead.
So Hitler 'earned' France, Belgium, Holland etc. Is this man a complete moron? Never mind; don't answer.
Part of the story, I agree. But you shouldn't go round thinking you are Rogue SAS and stay unpunished. Sorry.
Anti-immigration poster on the other side: "Rapes in England have gone up tenfold in last 20 years". I: "Where's that figure from, I don't recognize it?". He: "Grok". Fact: CSEW: sexual assault self-reported roughly constant 2005-23. #Musk really is quite an evil man.
Merely showing the term 'economist' covers a broad range of competencies, unfortunately. Perhaps, like a driving test, self-appointed economists would have to retake Econ101 (how does a tariff work?) before qualifying.
I'd rather listen to birdsong. Still depends where you are walking, I guess.
A useful idiot, as Lenin would have said.
It went to Kissinger, remember. As the late Tom Lehrer said, political satire died that day.
So they go to an RAF base and damage aircraft. So it's just worth a slap on the hand? Conscientious objection used to be when you refused to fly the things.
"These posts are protected" by Hegseth on X. Hopefully his carer is full-time.
Yes, dog walkers....
Exciting, though. My local Co-op stocks Heritage Tractor Monthly. Well worth a read!
For which (Spectator) he blocked me. Perhaps he will unblock now he's suddenly talking sense.
Don't rush....
BREAKING: Ukrainian President isn't wild about a deal he wasn't involved in negotiating which cedes huge tracts of his country to the occupier, including thousands of square kilometres they don't hold and which contain Ukraine's defences, in exchange for a temporary ceasefire Putin needs anyway.
Many of the columnists seemingly egging on English rioters don't even live in the UK. Private Eye again
General Melchett:'God it's a bleak barren landscape out there". Captain Blackadder: "Sir, You've got the map back to front".
⚡️ UEFA pays $13 million in 'solidarity' money to Russian football clubs while Ukrainian teams fail to receive funds, Guardian reports.
Total vulgarity?
He was in a cave. Catching fish. For 2 whole films. Can't wait.
Definite vibes of the South Sea Bubble etc. "We invite you to invest in a company, the purpose of which, we are not yet aware of".
Minor detail. We wrote 10%+fall when we meant 60%+ increase. Oops.
Or FPTP could be the system that gives Reform few seats despite, say, 20%+ in the polls. And, what kind of PR would you like instead? PR is a bit like the Brexit vote - we want to leave but can't make up our mind what we have instead. Maybe STV best scuppers extremes.
True but a lot of this is making the right noises.
And Brown introduced pension credit indexed differently from BSP causing more complexity. However even a double lock would be an improvement (however prices seem to jump disproportionately in the month where updating is assessed??)
I think 'if' rather than 'when', if that's any help. The major parties have to be brave in attacking his economic nonsense while probably giving more ground on being 'tough' on migrants. Which means overhauling the Home Office.
The worst of both worlds in the sense that Labour sold at GE that public finances needed restoring but then did silly things. Winter fuel payment is understood by population and costs peanuts whereas majority of people do not understand triple lock & making it double or even single saves lots.
Frankly, it is stupid to make commitments of the type they did about tax. Better to say as little as possible.
They would have won fewer seats for sure. But, either way they would not be in the mess that they are now in.
Labour should have been braver by lowering NI, raising income tax rates, fuel duty and getting rid of triple lock
Hurrah! (allegedly)