Robert Neuschul

You do know that it is possible to guarantee farmers a price without permitting derivative trading?

You're bulding straw men instead of addressing the underlying problems.

It would only wipe out supply chain businesses if one didn't do any forward planning. It's entirely possible to do as suggested with a bit of care.

You beat me to that ....

Time to kick overseas investors out of Britain?

I think he'#s about five years late coming to this conclusion.

We are in the end times for both Tories and Labour.

Terms like left and right are now meaningless: up and down have more relevance for most people.

There's no point writing about the past; how about addressing the future?

And that in turn means that we need to find a way to insulate our actions from the 5 year electoral cycle so the next incoming government can't simply undo everything that gets done for their own political advantage, or for mercenary reasons.

to include things like flood-plain defences, strategic design for building on flood plains such as floating buildings or floodable buildings, and also for non-chemical [biological filters] treatment plants.

Taking the water companies into public ownership without a plan will NEVER work

Having said which: we also urgently need a proper strategic and tactical plan for each of the nations for water and waste management to cover the next 20-25 years. Rectifying the mistakes of the last 30 years is going to cost us all around 10-12 £Bn over that time frame -

The UK Water and Thames Water Crisis: Public Ownership | Atlas Institute for International Affairs Thames Water is left with a difficult choice ahead: a private deal or a public rescue. A senior creditor deal remains in play.

I sympathise with the aim but not the method. Not nationalise; that costs us money and pays the owners.

Instead let's declare them all bankrupt under spercial administration regimes and charge the directors with trading whilst bankrupt; then seize the assets.

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I cannot find where our sourdough toast with grilled mushrooms and poached eggs fits in there .....

I think I may have found the event horizon.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Anyone would think that President Bliar Bush never happened.

Ah well. Ashes to ashes and all that jazz.

See y'all on the other side folks.

OK, I get why BS needs to do age verification here in UK.
But the mechanism they're using is inherently flawed and poses security risks: asking for a credit card deposit process instead of using one of the Government's validated digital identity providers where there's zero exposure of credit data..

Why does anyone listen to Ms Bad Enough is Worse Enough?

Just about the _only_ good thing about Reform is that they're likely to nonimate the Tory vote at the next few local bye and general elections.

The only real question is why BBC/ITV/C4 still ask for her comments.

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We exist only to serve the leadership. We exist only at their pleasure.
This is the echo of fear: the 1970s research which showed that US demographics would overturn the white Euro Christian majority by no later than 2050 because other ethnicities breed faster - allegedly.

Actually: their unstated core belief goes far beyond that: their belief is that our bodies and selves belong to the head of state - the great leader: and that all of our so-called rights are gifts from on high to be waived or enforced at the leader's pleasure.

Somebody at Refarm needs to read Erika Mann's "School for Barbarians"
Oh, wait, that'd be counterproductive. As you were.

At last, a use for AI: Andrew Carnegie reviews Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" It is a curious privilege, having spent one’s life amid furnaces, rail, and the sober arithmetic of enterprise, to behold commerce rendered as spectacle.

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And doing that once again runs the risk of more LA corruption. Not entirely sure how one balances needs against methods in an equitable and fair manner.

What's clear is that the council house sell off didn't produce expected results and made our housing crisis far far worse and degrading weekly.

A certain fake shiny aluminium lady fooked this all up for everyone by destroying local authority building capability whilst forcibly selling off useful land into private hands.
The situation is now *almost* irretrievable without some fairly draconian action to put powers back into LA hands.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin has not achieved his goals, Zelensky says on fourth anniversary Ukraine's president says his country will do everything to achieve peace, ahead of an address on the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Let us now priase famous men and women: V. Zelenky and all those in Ukraine.

Lest we forget.

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So I guess the Loire won't be producing much dry white this year ....

I'll get my hat .....

The Road from Dachau What circumstances can you imagine that would bring two brothers to try and kill each other?

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until that nice Mr Rockefeller put Standard Oil's hands in the pot and gave it a stir at Versailles.

Er, *what* influential American Jews?
There were almost none of any significance at that time in US history. Certainly not enough to sway war entry
The thinking here in the UK was different. The big battle was over the spoils of the Ottoman Empire and its putative division between France and GB

In a Marvel Universe we'd call Trance Loki.

The Trickster President.

It's a grave mistake to believe that Trance built everything, or anything, around tariffs.

Trance is now and always has been all about sowing confusion and creating chaos. Tariffs were only one fairly small element of a much wider goal: disruption of both foreign and domestic circumstances.

One need only read the many dox surrounding Lawrence of Arabia's various actions in theatre and the way Allenby's staff behaved during and after the war to see just how great the diviion was.
Balfour was trying to keep a lid on the tensions within the government; he wrote as neutrally as he could.

In context of the time British establishment was greatly divided between the arabists and the jewists. This was particularly true in the military where the arabists held great sway and didn't favour any such reconciliation with the zionist faction or any form of settlement with favouring jewists.