badgerx16

"Big Society" 2.0

Astrology is bunkum. If you ever have Mercury rising in Uranus you are in big trouble.

I will wait to see (1) which division we are playing in, and (2) what happens up to the close of the transfer window.

If we win tomorrow I will be quite happy to have been proved wrong in predicting we wouldn't go up this season.

393 runs in the day. Presumably we plan on batting beyond lunch tomorrow, weather permitting, and Brown gets plenty more than the 1 he needs for his ton.

Going up the last climb, approaching a soigneur on his right with a fresh bidon, Pog had a young lad running alongside him on his left - he took the bottle in his right hand, switched it to his left, and handed it straight to the boy. 2 or 3 Grand Tours with the Worlds and Olympics in the same year is one heck of an ask.

Song

Every cloud, and all that......... A United win knocks Newcastle out of European competition next season.

100 for Toby Albert..

BBC headline ; "Family opens their back garden to 50,000 festival goers."' Reality ; farm clears 3 fields for music festival.

Teresa May ended her last speech in the Commons by saying that there are too many people standing for Parliament now who are only thinking "'What's in it for me. ?".

Sunak in Wales asked if the workers he was visiting were looking forward to the Euros..........

There are certain things the enquiry are not covering or querying as they either fall foul of Parliamentary Privilege, ( ie things said or omitted at, or lying to, the Select Committee, which should be picked up by the Committee after the enquiry report is published and if necessary referred on for legal sanction ), or run the risk of self incrimination, ( once the report is published it is likely that parts will be picked up by the Police ). Notwithstanding, Gareth Jenkins is almost certainly looking at prosecution for perjury, as it seems clear his evidence in the trials of SPMs was untruthful. There may also be action taken against PO legal officers who knowingly withheld evidence that might have been useful to the defence in Court. ( Some of the above is my interpretation and educated guesswork ). It is interesting that one of the former senior IT staff at the PO seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth, the enquiry has been unable to detect any trace of him - Sir Wyn Williams even asked Paula Vennels if she had had any contact with the missing man since 2016. She said she had not.

There is a picture on the BBC from New Road Worcester where they are trying to deal with a damp patch on the outfield by digging squares out of the turf and drying them under heat lamps.

She did say this morning that within the organisation she was known for asking probing questions, before naming those she felt had not been honest with her.

Dave Gorman would be proud.

Counsel for the SPMs accuses Vennels of inventing some of the undocumented corridor meeting with her legal team, says her account is 'la la land', and she is 'living in a cloud of denial'.

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/palestinian-refugees-exile-displacement-jordan/

Said in the context of 'the humanitarian situation in Gaza must be dealt with in Gaza, don't try pushing people out to achieve political aims'. There are estimated to be over 2 million Palestinian refugees in Jordan. Shocking !

I find it highly unlikely that anybody suggesting a 'one state solution' sees it as anything other than being founded on Israel.

However, it is clear she knew about the issues with Horizon before she gave evidence to the Select Committee, yet told the SC there were none. She knew the prosecutions were taking place, even after the first High Court rulings that convictions were unsafe. She may not have known/understood the technical detail, but she was not ignorant of the situation, and could easily have done something to stop it. She chose to protect the brand and image of the PO over the livelihoods and families of her staff, knowing the evidence against them was flawed. Do you believe her claim that it was over 5 years into her employment as a senior manager at the PO that she found out there was an investigation and prosecution department, employing over 100 staff ?

Presumably you are assuming Israel 'from the river to the sea', in which case where are the former population of the West Bank and Gaza ? If they stay put they would surely be an 'opposition' within, if displaced an opposition without. How do you satisfy their demands for self determination and a voice, or are they not worth consideration?

Beetle

Just wondering what your opinion of the current shower is, in comparison to those you named.

What about Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman, Liz Truss, or Jacob Rees-Mogg ?