Gloucester Saint

Or score if we finally settle in.

Ogilvie has a huge bump on the side of his head. Their keeper looks to be struggling, get some crosses in and test him out.

Dowie is just saying what we can all see - Archer needs it into feet, not a hold up forward.

How is that a free kick against Fellows? Shit ref.

Manning nearly tees them up twice with poor headers. Mads done far too easily outside by Murphy, THB awake. Well out by Baz.

Got better players, get it down and dictate the tempo. Mousinho would prefer a bitty game. Azaz won’t get into it if we smash it over his head. Archer pressing like I’ve never seen before. Dozzell injured and going off for them.

Lucky there, not sure what Stephens was doing.

Better

Iffy joke by Matterface about igniting Pompey from the lighter thrown at Murphy. Yet to get going really.

Streeting or Burnham

Q - what is the difference between a bubble bus full of Pompey fans and a hedgehog? A - with the hedgehog, all of the pricks are on the outside.

That’s what I’m saying in a nutshell. We concur.

Hit. Nail. Head. And the US implementation is a key contextual difference. US Affirmative Action as it was a few years back was far more interventionalist because putting wrongs right re segregation as discussed with Hypo last night who has lived over there. I don’t like quotas either as that’s not the way to make inclusivity sustainable - hence Alex’s RAF example which is very rare for the UK - but in the US and SA there was a lot more of it. So yes, DEI is a good thing and we’ve got the balance about right here with the Equality Act. But there will always be voices who say it doesn’t go far enough or shouldn’t be there at all. Now, is there any further space on that fence of yours?

What he says later in the clip is better but that first assumption is nuts. If it wasn’t for clinicians from BAME backgrounds, I wouldn’t be celebrating hopefully a Saints victory on Sunday with loved ones. Likewise, white clinicians made mistakes which killed my cousin. Doesn’t mean that I automatically see a young white junior doctor and think ‘are you only here because you got a bursary because you were the first in your family to go to university?’.

American affirmative action was also quite different for some years which is important context as well. The Equality Act here is a lot more about safeguards and small adjustments to level things up, there’s no discounts whatsoever on the threshold for succeeding. But IIRC you lived in America in the past so you probably know that anyway.

Which they did too rapidly and in a way which was illegal and poor practice. The enquiry findings were fair and correct. What I’m keen not to see is all inclusion chucked in the bin and lumped together.

A joke to help relax things. A Southampton lad in his early 20s goes on a dating app and talks to Portsmouth woman. They get on and arrange a date in Whiteley. He heads off and his father says to him ‘give me a call after half an hour and let me know how it’s going’. They meet and getting on quite well, and the woman shares that she’s a virgin. The son rings his dad ‘It’s going well, but there’s one thing. She says she’s a virgin’. Dad ‘come home now son!’ Son ‘Why!?’ Dad ‘if she’s not good enough for her own family she’s certainly not good enough for ours!’

Lush! Was it great? Been to Bahamas and all around the Caribbean but never there. Another destination I’d love to go to is the South Seas islands, Moorea and Cook Islands. But need to finish renovating this house first…

Yep, that’s unfair practice, trying to change too quickly and the pace they were trying to do it would likely penalise some applicants, which the opposite of what it’s trying to do. Give you that one, said I’d be objective. An interesting question is whether people agree with white people from low income backgrounds receiving EDI encouragement or say bursaries to attend FE/changing careers/university?

Lovely. Did Mrs Trousers not fancy the Falklands in the end. Bit cold for me.

Genuine question, can you show an example? No straw men involved and I’ll look with open eyes, if I think they have, I’ll say so as well. Going to bed shortly as voluntary working tmw (but off on Sunday!) so it may be tomorrow that I see it.

A more diverse range of applicants were encouraged to apply. Not the same thing having sat on panels as an outside to that sector. Same interview/assessment centres/exams. What there can be under the law is say for a neurodiverse applicant a few extra minutes or having your notes in front of you. But if you’re not neurodiverse carrying this example on, you don’t have that impairment eg memory, so it the playing field, nothing more. If you don’t have the experience, ideas and skills, you won’t be the best candidate, and if you didn’t meet the essential criteria in the first place you would never get an interview. Shared experience from someone who has done 25 years of this stuff, and PS, commercial and charitable sector does it too.

What he’s saying is a bit of a straw man. The idea that hospitals, university medical faculties or pilot training schools are going to let less capable people, by they black, female or disabled into life and death professionals into roles because of EDI policies is Pompey FC level mythology. Affirmative action it should be stated has been very different to the UK Equality Act, in America and also in South African sport it has been a lot more active previously in addressing entry barriers but less so now, so that’s driving Kirk’s comments somewhat. All organisations have done is encourage more very talented and capable people from different backgrounds to apply for those roles, and in some cases make reasonable adjustments like bursaries for people from low income families, mentoring or slightly different shift patterns for a neurodiverse person. The training standard to pass is equally high and daunting. If you can’t do it really well, 100% of the shift, you won’t qualify, whoever you are. Train driver ages for training were dropped to 18 recently but they will have still have to pass months of very difficult tests and probation same as a 21 year old would (previous minimum age). But train companies are broadening their potential recruitment pool. Another form of EDI. The principle that people need to equally skilled and qualified is fine and my own position. Let’s be clear that this isn’t Sir Keith Joseph going to UK universities in the 70s to debate free market concepts, as he did at the time inspired by positive ideas and beliefs which he thought would enhance everyone. This clip is doing something down. The racism is debatable but it’s anti ‘other’ and presumes less competence with no foundation. I’m very sorry he was murdered though and I despise the lad that did it because there is no justification for it, full stop.

They aren’t, but it doesn’t exactly challenge the wider and common perception that politicians of all stripes are in for themselves and have multiple homes and opaque financial and lifestyle arrangements which don’t fit with the rules the rest of us have to live by. It really took off with the expenses scandal cross-party annd after the financial crisis, and never really subsided. Labour and Reform are supposed to be different, Lib Dem’s too, public expects it from the Tories more.

Pre-2020 I’d have agreed, but after the insurrection attempt, looking at how Covid ran through their health system, especially in GOP states, and overturning of Roe Vs Wade it’s more subjective now on what people’s own political outlooks are. Parts of it are still in decent shape but parts of it, especially in the south, can be worse than many middle income countries around the world.