Nick Tordoff

Unfortunately the Keir Starmer we got wasn’t the least like “someone like Keir Starmer”

Said Starmer to Morgan from Cork
We now really must have a talk
“You must pay the price
For your shocking advice”
So now Dear McSweeny please walk”

Do you mean that sort of thing

“Nah! We just need to wait until the media moves on and then … Oh shit! We’ve fallen into another blindingly obvious elephant trap despite a very large sign saying “Elephant Trap” because the lads … Sorry I mean our highly experienced advisory team told us that elephant traps are no biggy”

Paper’s bust when the data drives

It’s the age old problem of working out
what the question is you need to ask,
what answer the data is pointing you towards
and, as the supplicants at Delphi realised sooner or later, what that answer means.

So asylum seekers, who are not illegal immigrants because they have the legal status of immigrants who have claimed asylum, can use taxis. Am I reading this right?

Always someone else’s fault. No wonder everyone hates us.

England HAD a deserved reputation for lack of discipline when defending their line. They have been getting away from that in recent games and their play and reputation have improved. This was a step back and, my original point, fair or not, they cannot afford it against France.

My post was about the impact of ENGLISH indiscipline on their chances against France

Ok. My original point was about England’s performance. Both the penalties, as I recall, were not bad but they were deliberate and intended to disrupt a Welsh try. He was strict but within bounds. England have built a reputation for this behaviour. Refs will not give them the benefit of the doubt.

The neck roll by the England forward we deliberate and bound to be caught. The ref had no choice. Itoji was unlucky. It was pretty well his first touch but England had just been warned after multiple penalties. When the ref had discretion he seemed to use it reasonably.

and indiscipline leading to two yellow cards against a disciplined French team will be disastrous

Just listened to a Radio 4 More or Less trashing er sorry debunking Tim Montgomery lying about the number of Social Security claimants. Any pollution QT or similar shared interview panels needs to say “xxx has a habit of spouting untrue statistics. We can assume this isn’t true either”

I live in the West Highlands so my view may well have changed by the time Newsnight airs

I am available for any panel discussions to put the counter case, based on my particular perspective, that it is not, in fact, raining and that the idea that it raining is a metropolitan elitist view.

The govt’s problem is that they don’t want to explain to the public that the cause of these long taxi journeys is the incompetence of the Home Office in moving asylum seekers around all the time. 2/2

This strikes me as being less about causes of crossings as about fairness of treatment when asylum seekers are here. The public see asylum seekers getting free transport to hospital when they have to pay for that themselves. 1/2

Photo from the Dagenham women’s strike. Strikers are stopping a car with placards saying “No deal till you recognise our skills” and similar slogans

ONE OUT ALL OUT!
NO DEAL TILL YOU RECOGNISE OUR SKILLS!

Definitely medium for the guys carrying your sedan chair. They’re pros after all.

Yes but those aren’t just sentences, they are copywritable sentences.

And then leases the watch back to you and charges you each time you use their copyrighted TimeTelling(tm) model.

A Guardian Top Ten social media services. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Feeds

And all the debts they have built up will be transferred to everyone’s standing charges and all the profits will buy the ex-owners a highland estate each.

A Hebridean weaving company called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Tweeds

This one in Orkney struck me as a rather obscure protest movement on behalf of poor Mr Lane

I would say
1. Management systems need managers not “front line staff”
2. Management systems need systems designed and implemented by guess who.

This is a classic example of short term savings leading to long term costs.

But I think you knew that.

Take advantage of the Yorkshire coast levelling down to create level playing field with Doggerland.

IMMEDIATE INDEPENDENCE FOR YORKSHIRE AND UNIFICATION WITH DOGGERLAND

I married a Weegee so can only comment on this particular schism as an outside observer.

I feel that most Glaswegian would agree.