Rebecca Gower

US soft power now completely abandoned in favour of spectacular displays of ineffective hard power.

It is, I believe, Richard Tice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

I like the fancy iron-work too.

Can I also just point out that he does *not* have unlimited ammunition?
It may *seem* limitless to him, but it is not.

Australian state orders inquest into deadly 1973 firebombing A firebombing that killed 15 people at a Brisbane nightclub will be examined by a coroner.

Is this a reference to the Whiskey Au Go Go nightclub? Not many people outside Australia would know about the firebombing.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

Well done Labour!

The landmark Tobacco & Vapes Bill passed its 3rd reading in the Lords last night.

I believe it only has government approved amendments, which means the Bill just needs final approval by the Commons before going to Royal Assent!

The bill marks a major shift in public health.

1/4

Oh, that's awful!

I paid 1.329/litre, I believe, yesterday for unleaded at a supermarket petrol station in Oxfordshire

Doesn't sound good. 😢

I love the bit about the spiritual advisor with no spirit and no advice. 😀

The contrast is ghoulish. A "pro-business" president nearly killing people because cruelty is the point.

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Those paid a fortune to assess global risks say ‘not these global risks’.

Thursday,
Gorton & Denton voters: we don't want Reform and we don't want a Labour party that imitates Reform.

Monday,
Labour MPs: more Reform-like policy is what we need.

fwiw there is never going to be a good answer to the question "what should a UK government do faced with a mad US President given frightening levels of powers by his own party?"

Are they counting the people who were instructing the family voting as well as those who were being instructed?
Because anyone instructing others would not change their vote if unable to instruct others, so the discrepancy would not be 12%.

The article could be clearer.

My problem with these figures is that the article states 545 votes were observed and they saw 32 cases of "family voting", but then uses those numbers to say "12% of those voters observed either caused or were affected by family voting.”

32/545 is NOT 12%.

Me too!

Now if I had said “drill baby drill” last week, Brent Crude heading north of USD80 per barrel and the Straits of Hormuz looking a tad iffy would make that short term economically interesting wouldn’t it….

5. Reform have eaten the Conservative party's lunch.
6. Badenoch is pointing to Labour's failures and has failed to notice how bad hers are.
7. Trying to out-Reform the Reform party has NOT worked for either Labour or Conservatives

Radiohead to Trump: “Take it down… Go fuck yourselves.” 🎵

My husband and I often travel to the voting station together, either by foot or by car.
Sometimes the kids came too because it was part of another journey.

It's legal to get a family member to vote for you as a proxy, if you follow the correct procedure.

These claims are just hate-stirring.

Yes, very much not the point of the original post.
HR is definitely about protecting the company first and foremost.

Yes, a lot of this.
But also HR can be incompetent and cause repeat work.
And there can be empire-building where they are amongst the gatekeepers for expanding departments.

This is the second set of expensive stone paving that has been set down and then lifted again in the last (approx.) 20 years!
It's such a shame and a waste of good stone

Four years ago Russia began it's full scale invasion of Ukraine. They expected it to fall in days. They were wrong. Long live Ukraine.

And one from the streets of Grenoble, in France.

Here is an example of a mosaic from the streets of Oxford.

I like a little mosaic with a message underfoot.

The worst things about some political parties trying to match the "tough stance" on immigration from the bigots are that it normalises it and it takes airtime and brain space from other more worthwhile things.