https://ichef-bbci-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/590/cpsprodpb/6ECA/production/_113126382_mos-1.jpgJoke country
― covid coronenberg (wins), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:18 (three years ago) link
ah finally a real pic of Boris when he was in ICU
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
What was the Mail's response to Corbyn and O'Donnell pledging to spend money on infrastructure projects to build sustainable growth?
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:26 (three years ago) link
McDonnell, sorry
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
God that press ups thing is embarrassing.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
anyone with a minimum awareness of mid-life crisis jokes/themes would die of embarrassment
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:47 (three years ago) link
Boris Johnson has to be an entertainer, otherwise what's the point of him?
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 28 June 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link
Not exactly putin doing karate is it?
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
Also Kate is showing some v poor manual handling technique there, whole country has gone to shit
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
hope the posh arsehole does her back in!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
Only a matter of time I'm afraid
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
well obv the lazy brat doesn't get much practice with good lifting techniques when the cameras aren't there!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 11:19 (three years ago) link
Observer covers the week's scandal by asserting: 'If you pick a fight with Starmer, you'll lose'.
He picked the fight. Others then avoided escalating it.
It all makes me feel even more that he is actually a bastard.
I think that Calzino was right.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 28 June 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
I regret to inform you
I’m looking forward to your support of the West Papuan people who’s occupation started 5 years earlier. Where Journalists are not allowed to go. Any meetings held here are attended by the Indonesian EmbassyVery different to critism of the Israeli Government which is omnipresent https://t.co/0DzBbbOwuN— Alex Sobel says stay home (@alexsobel) June 28, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Sunday, 28 June 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
The first rule of politics is: don't express an opinion on Israel unless you absolutely fucking have to, as it's a sinkhole with no bottom.
― the bournemouth supremacy (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
you’d think someone who obviously cares so much about west papua would notice how the people who’ve fought hardest to bring the situation to mainstream attention for years almost universally support the palestinian struggle
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
scrolling down the replies to that BLM tweet is like gazing into the faces of all the fash social media ogres the uk has been regrettably saddled with since brexit got popular
― imago, Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
generally, opining about israel is a terrible idea sure but they are annexing the west bank so idk special occasions
― imago, Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
Actually it's good that Johnson is having to prove his fitness to work in ways a rona-free PM Corbyn would inevitably have also.
― nashwan, Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
pm corbyn forced to prove fitness by launching a new airstrike every week
― imago, Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/27/we-are-in-desperate-need-of-a-recovery-plan-but-the-treasury-has-gone-missing?CMP
Once again I'm struck by how much more substantive and useful Brown's interventions are than Blair's.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 28 June 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
I'm guessing the don't mention Israel quips here are at least partly tongue in cheek and I understand where they're coming from but the UK has some historic responsibilities here (which is also why De Subjectivisten should release a statement on the Indonesia/West Papua situation asap).
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
going off topic here Daniel Rf, have you heard that latest Sara Serpa album, recognition? it's a soundtrack to an experimental doc about Portuguese colonial history in Africa and rather beautiful in places - just saying because I lack thread discipline!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
Re: Scotland this is a good review of the possibilities: http://publicpolicypast.blogspot.com/2020/06/where-in-scotland-going.htmlTLDR: digging his heels in and saying "no" has only (short-term) upsides for Johnson, even if it inevitably pushes Scots even deeper towards indy in the longer term.
― stet, Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:16 (three years ago) link
calzino, I learned about it from your post on the Jazz thread, don't think she's very well known in Portugal! It's lovely stuff.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
that spoken part about Queen Nzinga is so powerful, wonderful album!
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
The battle on the blob is beginning, that’s Sedwill out. See also
.@michaelgove delivered the annual Ditchley Lecture last night. It was one of the most compelling critiques in modern times of the British state and its ability to deliver reform to tackle inequality. This is the "hard rain" coming to Whitehall very soon.Some highlights:— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) June 28, 2020
― stet, Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
(Apols for Payne editorialising)
― stet, Sunday, 28 June 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Blaming the Civil Service for the Tories ten years of inadequacy mostly I guess
― nashwan, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
it was the deep state wot dunnit
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
Setting them up to be overtly politicised is my read. The idea that the civil service doesn’t have brains able to comprehend the staggering awesomeness of the Monte Carlo method is obvious bs. The actual problem is they repeatedly produce the “wrong” answers.
― stet, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
DomCum plotting to chuck out The Blob, that contains deeply troubling imagery
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
"Britain has <....> experts"
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
#BLM isn’t some school project. It’s about dismantling the racism that allows something like this to happen. pic.twitter.com/3VqWGmq3kr— Your Mum says Black Lives Matter (@judeinlondon2) June 28, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 28 June 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
I am genuinely shocked about that, I mean wtf?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 28 June 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
I can't even imagine the mindset of these scumbags and I don't lack imagination.
― calzino, Sunday, 28 June 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Gove and Cummings have got Mark Sedwill to quit.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 06:19 (three years ago) link
Not clicking on Unherd but the graphs in this PolProf thread point to why Cummings et al are so keen on ‘culture war’.
Here's another... pic.twitter.com/nVI2XKZrwZ— Tim Bale (@ProfTimBale) June 29, 2020
Tory voters are consistently to the left of the MPs on economics but to the right of them on social conservatism, if the polls are to be believed.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:16 (three years ago) link
christ that’s grim
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:24 (three years ago) link
Discovered a covid tracking app that I never downloaded on my phone this morning, haven't seen anything about this happening in the news?
― plax (ico), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
Oh okay apparently it's an API, not really clear from the jargon attached
― plax (ico), Monday, 29 June 2020 07:58 (three years ago) link
Making me feel very 5g truther
are you sure it's not just the new U2 album?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:07 (three years ago) link
one of them is to *prevent* sickness
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:16 (three years ago) link
What does this thread think of Lloyd Russell-Moyle?
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
Genuine quotation:
Johnson says UK needs to address obesityJohnson said the UK is significantly fatter than other European countries and admits it is issue. “It’s something we need to address.”
Johnson said the UK is significantly fatter than other European countries and admits it is issue. “It’s something we need to address.”
― the pinefox, Monday, 29 June 2020 08:23 (three years ago) link
Need to speed up coastal erosion in suffolk a bit then
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:25 (three years ago) link
imo he wasn't *incorrect* on some dark unconscious level but it was a terrible unnecessary way to attack JKR given how many other non-gross ways of calling her an idiot are available
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
Johnson subtly laying down his approach to the coming famine, you have to admire that level of weaving the threads together
― i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:27 (three years ago) link
in this difficult times, we must all tighten our belts
(because we are starving)
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 08:29 (three years ago) link