NPR

Can you imagine the uproar if it was westerners being cooped up in an Indian harbour? Yep, we'd be hearing about it on day 2 and they'd be off the ship that evening. Unbelievable that they are still stuck there like non people. I would be wary of believing the stories are telling the whole truth. I...

C69 wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2024 2:46 pm The UK's most reknowned psephologist calls bullshit on the hung parliament suggestion from Sunak et al

Sky were first with the hung parliament analysis. I though Sunak was using that as his reasoning.

Lib dems ahead of the Cons now :clap: Screenshot_20240503-203259.png I really can't see London bucking this trend and voting for that mental hag. Although it would be a surprise, it's certainly a possibility through a combination of factors. The biggest Labour areas are in Central London where the ...

The solutions are not that hard, but it's the perception that they're going to cost so much money and make our lives so much more difficult. I live in a Passivhaus (since 2012), brilliant in all respects, it's what turned me into a property man built 3 more since plus 8 apartments, just started wor...

Preliminary loss reserves by insurers are in excess of $3bn… 😳 I bet it hits many more times that once the yank courts bend Maersk over BP style. Every resident of Baltimore and the surrounding area will claim compensation for loss and inconvenience. Oil & Gas companies tend to self-insure, shi...

But the action (croc roll) is carried out many times in each and every game and is deemed acceptable. The only difference here is outcome and a lot of bad luck.

The red card is right but there is a massive lottery here.

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:54 am In more unsurprising news, interaction between the Post Office's (independent and unbiased) expert Fujitsu witness and their barrister wasn't remotely above board in the trial that sent a pregnant post master to jail.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68606121

So clearly not an expert witness then.

Net zero is the new EU, a convenient Aunt Sally to hang any and all ills upon, and is easy fodder to stir up people. Unlike Brexit, climate change is going to prison shame everyone whether or not we "believe" in it, but just like Brexit, arseholes everywhere will use Net Zero to grift and...

It’s not that FS are evil, or they’re unnecessary. It’s that we shouldn’t have an economy that is structured exclusively for their benefit. I think it’s hard to sustain that we’ve had actively pro FS governments since the GFC. The truth is that if you have one industry that pays over double all the...

Odd hearing them talking about £600k compensation. Surely this is no more than a starting base as some have clearly suffered a lot more than others. Alan Bates himself has said he was one of the lucky one as he was able to maintain a reasonably decent lifestyle. Surely people who went to jail or wh...

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:58 pm
SaintK wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:36 am
Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:20 am faeces.jpg
WTF????
Typo. Faces nightclub….

Poster is not known for true and accurate content. Probably a fake, like a lot of his other posts turns out to be.

Not sure if I completely understand your post. If councils were able to increase their own tax then couldn't that £144m have been spent elsewhere? I think i read as well that the £144 is about a 4.5% raise but councils were saying they needed at least 6.5% raise just to keep functioning. We may wel...

I guess this is the best place to post this - a bunch of Canadian logging truckers have built a diesel-electric truck prototype. Built by truckers and mechanics, for truckers and mechanics, with not a bond villain or "engineer" in sight. They rip the absolute piss out of unecccesarily pro...

Some good English coverage on Sky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id41V7c5O04 Comments about how well-behaved the passengers are as they head for the exit doors. That is a facet of disasters in Japan that is admirable -- no panic, no looting, no rushing, no screaming. Even when you have fully train...

Very predictable responses. None of which invalidate the position that many of the people/families impacted will not be ‘rich’. ‘Impacted’ ffs this is all financial upside for beneficiaries- the only ‘impact’ is they will receive a bit less - many people -less than 4% the population? - how do you d...

Very predictable responses. None of which invalidate the position that many of the people/families impacted will not be ‘rich’.

Except it is not the rich that are being affected. It is impacting people based on where they live mostly as most wealth is tied to property and just owning a 4-bed house in London suburbia can make you liable. I know a lot of you hate the fact house prices have risen and you are cheering for a corr...

Last day for UK self assessment if you want to pay for any excess tax still due through your tax going forward.

What the actual fuck! https://news.sky.com/story/home-secretary-james-cleverly-apologises-after-joking-about-spiking-his-wifes-drink-13037198 It was a "private conversion" to a room full of women and just a 'joke'? In a normal world, a resigning offence. In this Government, not even unexp...

So my morning started with a drilling rig breakdown and me getting dragged into a call at 0730 whilst I was out walking the dog. Just so happens I had repurposed my coffee keep cup for champagne (keeps it lovely and cool) so I was rather more jovial and relaxed for something that was costing 0.5m bu...

You’d probably fail probation though. Ultimately most jobs asking you to do this ought to come with a decent salary to match, so there’s a willing buyer/willing seller relationship involved. Possibly incorrect use of the word 'promptly' by me. My last job had this clause but there it was clear that...

Mulled Cider was the thing trendy people were drinking 2-3 years ago. Is Mulled Wine making a comeback?

Edit - forgot COVID. 4-5 years ago.

yermum wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:30 am I have to admit that I do occasionally use the excuse of saying my wife is playing tennis to get out of stuff.

But it is poor form …

Rule 1 you shite

The whole thing is insane in general, but even if you take it on face value that deporting migrants to Rwanda is a good idea in principle, the amount of money being spent for the tiny number of migrants it will handle is bonkers. They'd have been better off using the money to hire more processing s...

When the Tories said there were no additional Rwanda costs, what they actually meant was the cost has doubled from £140m to £290m. This is only the up front cost, there's also the operating costs. Whilst the treaty is uncapped (I've skimmed it there's no cap), it is limited by Rwandan capacity to p...

Meanwhile seeing this shitstain being bundled away like a little dolly made my day https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67545868 I am sure there are very good reasons why this happened (the arrest) but it does seem somewhat worrying that individuals can now get detained based on request? To...

Meanwhile seeing this shitstain being bundled away like a little dolly made my day https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67545868 I am sure there are very good reasons why this happened (the arrest) but it does seem somewhat worrying that individuals can now get detained based on request? I ...

TedMaul wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:34 pm Meanwhile seeing this shitstain being bundled away like a little dolly made my day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67545868

I am sure there are very good reasons why this happened (the arrest) but it does seem somewhat worrying that individuals can now get detained based on request?

Slick wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 9:43 am This would be the absolute worst thing that could happen to rugby in terms of broadcasting.

If we also discount the other terrestrial broadcasters picking up the slack then yes, but losing the BBC is not all bad.

He's a classics graduate. But that's got nothing to do with it. Reading graphs is what you're taught at 12. You're taught about squared numbers around that time as well. This isn't advanced maths we're talking about, it's at the level I'd expect someone vaguely intelligent to understand from high s...

He's a classics graduate. But that's got nothing to do with it. Reading graphs is what you're taught at 12. You're taught about squared numbers around that time as well. This isn't advanced maths we're talking about, it's at the level I'd expect someone vaguely intelligent to understand from high s...

Today's evidence in the covid enquiry seems to suggest Eton School has a really, really shit science and maths department. Johnson apparently doesn't understand graphs, exponentials, doubling or the colour red. edit - the last one is obviously not the fault of the maths and science departments. He'...

I'll bring this here from the Gazza thread because this is a slightly more appropriate thread for this topic. Ideally I'd like every child's needs to be met in a way that the there isn't a profit motive behind the provision, I'm on a quick fly-by right now, but I thought this article was worth a re...

So you want to defeat the many private education facilities that are the ones that can actually cater for young people with very complex needs? How do you propose those who need a residential placement to enable any form of life to actually survive? The private sector exists in the special needs sp...

What I was referring to in that point was the Left v Right viewpoint, nothing to do with Israel. I believe that health, education, utilities, travel infrastructure, defence and other security (police, borders etc) should be funded for the benefit of everyone, there is no real profit to be made in t...

I feel I have to sometimes, for the same reason I read the Telegraph and Times, and even sometimes hold my nose and look up the Mail site and that of the Express too, making sure to wipe my feet when I close the page. If you spend your time talking out detail among yourselves you end up with no und...

Of coure it's a generalisation. My experience in lefty spaces is that we often need a lot of words to fully articulate a view because we try to account for more facets of a situation and actively seek a fuller picture. Righties are more likely to view things in black and white terms and express the...

Sadly that horse has long since bolted. One of the left's greatest problems with the electorate is not being able to condense things down to catchy slogans. There's a reason Take Back Control and Get Brexit Done, were so successful. If your view requires more context than a headline or 10 second cl...

So Starmer's had 11 MPs quit or be sacked from the front bench after the failed ceasefire vote. Naz Shah - "At some point there will be a ceasefire. Had we called for a ceasefire yesterday, 144 children might still be alive. A child dies every 10 minutes.” I really don't understand this attitu...

I remember when Esther Mcvey announced she was giving up morning tele and was going to become a Tory MP. Her companion on the couch asker her "what don't; you think there are enough unemployed people". She also insisted everyone in social housing should start businesses out of them, and u...

Search found 394 matches