badgerx16

Somehow I doubt the Mail, Express, or Telegraph will push him too hard on the matter.

Damn, I've got to be in Lancaster tomorrow lunchtime. Sorry, maybe another time.

Just finished binge watching season 4 of Snowpiercer, via IPTV. We find out who caused the world to freeze, one of a couple of cardboard cut-out bad guys, there is a huge technological WTF moment, but it all works out well in the end - or at least as well as might be expected with the Earth still in snowball mode. Two bits of good news ; S2 of Silo due in November, and the disappointing The Acolyte will not get a second run.

Unexpected but classic lines spoken on TV..... "She only wanted to leave after I threw up on her" ( From a 'case' on Judge Judy )

Eliot

A bit of advice for GM: not everybody interviewed by the Police is guilty, and the CPS have a responsibility, if only to the public purse, to assess each case to test whether there is a reasonable chance that a prosecution might be successful.

I don't know, I quite enjoy your having me on ignore, you stupid twat.

I am sure Sue wouldn't mind being compared to Taylor Swift.

Says the man who gets all his opinions from the Telegraph and uses ChatGPT to construct his arguments.

Posting anything by Trump to support a line of argument is surely sign that you have lost all credibility.

That went well. Do you think that GM is playing some sort of reverse logic game, posting bollocks in order for it to get shot down ? Nah, come to think of it, he's just a deluded thick reactionary old twat .

Rehash of an old story, they said exactly the same thing in 2011, strange how in 14 years no Tory administration chose to take up their ideas; https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/jul/13/thinktank-advocates-abolition-of-nhs "Shrinking the size of the state by abolishing the NHS and limiting overseas aid to humanitarian disasters could save more than £200bn a year and pave the way for growth-generating tax cuts, says a leading free-market thinktank." "Health and development assistance have been spared from the coalition spending cuts, but the IEA said overseas aid did not help reduce poverty and called for the NHS to be replaced by a system of individual health savings accounts with insurance for "catastrophic events". The thinktank said its health reforms would save £44bn year and a tougher approach to welfare spending would raise £46.5bn." GM - there is no need to apologise, you are just too gullible.

They have the majority to do it, but how much support do they enjoy in the mass media ? One slight perceived miss-step and so much negative publicity is generated, and even Chris Mason at the BBC seems happy to join in the shit stirring.

Of course there was. The Wuhan lab was a centre for the study of coronaviruses and the potential for zoonetic transmission, especially in strains found naturally in bats as there was thought to be a history of localised cross-infections into humans in a mining area close to Wuhan. There is always a risk in any laboratory - when I was at Uni we had a field trip to Porton Down and were shown the store where 'live' Smallpox was being stored, naturally the level of biosecurity in that lab was high.

The problem is that they see their huge majority as vindication, rather than understanding how the vagaries of FPTP delivered a vastly disproportionate result.

Here's one for GM and nutty Nic ; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8095xjg4po "A team of scientists say it is “beyond reasonable doubt” the Covid pandemic started with infected animals sold at a market, rather than a laboratory leak."

I suspect that all PMs this century were millionaires in their own right before they ever got to number 10, so it is unlikely the salary was a deciding factor for them.

They are, but I strongly suspect that the figure Boris got paid was grossly inflated, and there was an expectation of something in return for those paying him over £250 thousand a time.

Whilst still an MP Boris was paid over £1 million for 4 speaking engagements.

I assume that isn't "For want of a nail the shoe was lost,.....".

hazard

SOG and GM in the same place - that's like mixing matrter and anti-matter.

The 'kill rate' was not the intention, it was to incapacitate - maim, blind, etc, and the success rate at that level seems to be near 100%. It seems that the original plan was for these weapons to be enabled as the first strike of an offensive military opeartion against Hezbollah, but there was a risk the pagers and radios were about to be exposed as having been compromised so the IDF decided to use them before they lost the chance..

Dominic Cummins was on between £140K and £145K when he worked in Downing Street. For comparison, these are the senior Civil Service pay grades; Revised SCS pay ranges with effect from 1 April 2024 8. Departments must implement the new pay range minima: Pay Band Minimum (£) Maximum (£) 1 £76,000 £117,800 1A* £76,000 £128,900 2 £98,000 £162,500 3 £128,000 £208,100 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-the-senior-civil-service-pay-award-202425/practitioner-guidance-on-the-2024-25-senior-civil-service-pay-framework-html

Unfortunate, yes, but war, even a pseudo-war, is never 'clean'. Innocents and non-combatants will always get caught up, and that is without bringing in the ( potentially false ) equivalence of the hundreds of civilian deaths in the October 7th attacks .