After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to close Telegraph Wine Cellar.Can't bring themselves to be promoting reds in an election year?
The Daily Telegraph is getting out of the booze business.
Not unusual in working class communities back then afaik.As soon as my dad got back from work on a Friday he would simply hand his pay packet to my mum. He wouldn't even look in it.I am not @Jim_Miller, but my source is: my grandparents. Or more specifically you gave your paypacket unopened to your wife. The past was a very different place.FPT: Andy_JS linking to an interesting piece in UnHerd reminded me of this practice, about a century ago in the US. Mines (and perhaps some factories) paid men's wages to their wives. Typically, the wife would come down to the mine with his lunch at noon on Saturdays, collect her husband's pay, and give him enough back so he could get drunk that night.Do you have citation for your "paid . . . their wives" factoid? Sounds like bullshit to me.
Most people then thought that it was risky for a miner to have his full week's pay with him, while he was drinking.
(Here's the UnHerd piece again: https://unherd.com/2024/01/why-women-still-rely-on-richer-men/ )
He earned it, she managed it. That was the deal. A comparative advantage type thing I guess.
After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to close Telegraph Wine Cellar.Comes after Oddbins decided to close their conservative-leaning broadsheet newspaper division.
The Daily Telegraph is getting out of the booze business.
He didn’t start the French Revolution however he stood by and did nothing as Director of the revolutionary Tribunal whilst the sub-aristos were wrongly sentenced to the guillotine thanks to Robespierre‘s private prosecutions.Why? Why you ask?!! It's for the same reason he does everything.Starmer was in charge of the CPS when this megachurch scandal was going on though. Why didn’t he put a stop to this?Oh don't tellme Starmer was behind that one too.There are an endless list of 'scandals' that await us, after the post office situation passes and is 'corrected'. Mostly to do with hospitals, social services, prisons and the police. Many astonishing and unacceptable injustices need to get corrected and thousands of heads must roll.The TB Joshua megapastor scandal in Nigeria deserves more attention for one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67923906
Might have guessed.
He likes to cause trouble.
You know he started The French Revolution, dontcha?
Taking the risk of relying on the veracity of ANYTHING ever produced by the Post Office, this is what Royal Mail said specifically in 2010 in the document linked to by IanB2:Regardless of the precise legal position, the reality is that the PO occupied a privileged position within the legal system where there was a presumption that they had the right to prosecute. That document makes it clear that they had access to police records & facilities (It would be interesting to know /what/ facilities: that’s a curiously non-specific term. Interview rooms? Jail cells?) that would ordinarily not be available to any private company or individual..Five pages on the history of the Post Office's investigatory and prosecuting powers, for anoraks only:I love how the Post Office has its own prosecutorial powers, it reminds me of that time Kramer tried to stop the mail.I was under another misapprehension.
Postmaster General: In addition to being a postmaster, I am a general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8M9LF7Gz4E
The Post Office, since 1985 at least, does not have its own 'special powers' to prosecute.
The powers are statutory, but are the same powers any individual or corporate body has to bring a prosecution:
The powers fall under Section 6(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985.
Similarly with the RSPCA, while historically it was unusual in having an active role in regularly bringing prosecutions, it has been doing so since 1985 under the same powers that a private individual possesses.
The RSPCA has recently voluntarily given up conducting private prosecutions.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/post_office_investigation_branch_2/response/73875/attach/4/Brief History of Security in Royal Mail.pdf
If a random FTSE company tried to bring a private prosecution then one would expect the CPS to cast a jaundiced eye over the whole thing, not least for reasons of bureaucratic turf protection. At the same time the PO was being given a free pass to prosecute as they saw fit.
Hiding behind technical legalities doesn’t change this.
In 10 years time, there will a PB post: "If only we'd started on HS2 10 years ago..."It would have been worthwhile building HS2 in its entirety if it had been done about 10 years ago, before costs escalating for various reasons. (Look how successful the Elizabeth Line has been since it opened).Oh I agree with that. Westminster renovation is another long running saga of wasted money, time and facility almost on a par with HS2.It's quite an interesting story about how cold and uncomfortable the palace of Westminster is. They should just shut it for a couple of years, decamp to the NEC or a big Hilton somewhere, and then come back to a nicely and more efficiently refurbished Westminster. The Starmer derangement syndrome spin is the weird bit.B@st@rdHow is that even a story? What a weird thing to print.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/01/09/starmer-work-new-labour-office-freezing-parliament-building/
The good news is all these Starmer smears are in front of the paywall. Bargain!
Your continued attempts to make this a party political issue, particularly given the very long time frame of ministerial negligence, are just bloody stupid.No, that was the Pathway project.That would be the New Labour minister Peter Lilley in 1994/5?I’m surprised Starmer didn’t go on the Post Office scandal.His silence has been absolutely thunderous.
Given New Labour commissioned and pushed out Horizon they're up to their necks in it. He's decided silence is the best strategy and is probably all too happy for Ed Davey to take the hit.
The Horizon system was commissioned and pushed out by New Labour.