And the community leaders who shout the loudest of Racism.
Can anyone remind me of which PM did not overrule her?
It's a failure by the entire Establishment, left and right, importing criminal migrant communities, failing to police them properly, feebly giving in to accusations of racism. Etc.
Well done everyone. London is now more dangerous than New York. We are ruled by a special class of inept c*nts.
I was under the impression most knife and gun crime in London came from within the British black community, not immigrants.
The West is self harming.
I don't know if there is opinion polling on this, but it's an issue that is limited to big cities - mostly London. I work in London, but I have absolutely no desire to live there.
Northern cities are pretty bad, too. But London has seen a particular surge in violence.
Thanks to Freedom of Movement, a lot of Somalis came from hostile Holland, heading over to the UK and London, which they found more "accommodating of Islam".
You will be pleased to know Somali asylum claims is down to a few hundred each year:
It's one of the reasons I voted leave. As soon as these Syrians and other "refugees" get citizenship on Germany they will head to the UK for a life of easy benefits a d under the table cash work/crime. It's already happened with the Somalis from the Netherlands.
' “We used the data that 3.2 million people consented to give away after signing up for the Guardian app,” Kale explains, “and we targeted our propaganda to the three key Remain indicators: people who liked Bob Geldof, soy milk and the CBI on Facebook”. '
And the community leaders who shout the loudest of Racism.
Can anyone remind me of which PM did not overrule her?
It's a failure by the entire Establishment, left and right, importing criminal migrant communities, failing to police them properly, feebly giving in to accusations of racism. Etc.
Well done everyone. London is now more dangerous than New York. We are ruled by a special class of inept c*nts.
I was under the impression most knife and gun crime in London came from within the British black community, not immigrants.
The West is self harming.
I don't know if there is opinion polling on this, but it's an issue that is limited to big cities - mostly London. I work in London, but I have absolutely no desire to live there.
Northern cities are pretty bad, too. But London has seen a particular surge in violence.
Thanks to Freedom of Movement, a lot of Somalis came from hostile Holland, heading over to the UK and London, which they found more "accommodating of Islam".
You will be pleased to know Somali asylum claims is down to a few hundred each year:
It's one of the reasons I voted leave. As soon as these Syrians and other "refugees" get citizenship on Germany they will head to the UK for a life of easy benefits a d under the table cash work/crime. It's already happened with the Somalis from the Netherlands.
You better hope the transition is not extended beyond 2021 then.
' “We used the data that 3.2 million people consented to give away after signing up for the Guardian app,” Kale explains, “and we targeted our propaganda to the three key Remain indicators: people who liked Bob Geldof, soy milk and the CBI on Facebook”. '
' “We used the data that 3.2 million people consented to give away after signing up for the Guardian app,” Kale explains, “and we targeted our propaganda to the three key Remain indicators: people who liked Bob Geldof, soy milk and the CBI on Facebook”. '
Times front page headline says Labour has lost 17,000 members "amid antisemitism anger"
Can't read detail.
It’s been occurring from the start of the year according to the front page.
OK - thanks.
Is that a NET loss of 17,000? If so, not huge but still significant in my view.
Well they had 552,000 members as of last June. They can afford a few more 17,000s... although if they are the most active members then it is a much bigger loss.
You might be able to zoom in here. They think it’s wiped out some of gains in membership since June last year where after the election it went up to 570,000 members from 530,000 before the GE. They’ve lost 3 pc of the paying membership as well according to the front page.
Thanks for replies - I think the significance is not the absolute size of the reduction but the fact that it suggests a change in momentum (no pun intended!).
It also suggests that it's highly likely there has been at least some impact on public opinion across the population as a whole.
Thanks for replies - I think the significance is not the absolute size of the reduction but the fact that it suggests a change in momentum (no pun intended!).
It also suggests that it's highly likely there has been at least some impact on public opinion across the population as a whole.
Re the last paragraph: members you’d expect to follow/care about politics more than your average member of the public. We’ve only had YouGov, so more polls will probably give us more clear indication of whether it’s made a dent in Labour’s coalition.
You might be able to zoom in here. They think it’s wiped out some of gains in membership since June last year where after the election it went up to 570,000 members from 530,000 before the GE. They’ve lost 3 pc of the paying membership as well according to the front page.
The story about the police is even more significant. But they still can’t get it right, seemingly. It’s not a question of believing or not believing victims. You take all allegations seriously and investigate them thoroughly. Only once you have done the investigation can you really say whether or not you believe the victim. Assessing the credibility of the person making the allegations is a part of the investigative process but by no means the most important part. But the critical factor is not the police’s belief or disbelief but the strength and thoroughness of their investigation.
Theresa May is stepping up plans to tackle the Irish border question in Brexit talks through an audacious customs scheme once described as “magical thinking” in Brussels.
The scheme, which will be discussed with EU officials this month, would see the UK act as the external frontier for the EU, collecting tariffs and carrying out other checks on imports, but it could take many years to introduce.
British officials claim that in preliminary trade talks in Brussels last week the idea was no longer being written off as “magical thinking”, the term used by EU officials when it was originally mooted last year.
(Though I must admit I was surprised that there are about 100k Somalis in the UK - more than Indian Muslims apparently.)
As I say, m number 5718
Still, immigrants, on the whole, are a lot less likely to commit crime than white British people. My parents are Iranian immigrants and British Iranians barely commit any crime at all. I suspect that is because we are mainly highly educated people from urban backgrounds.
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Bizarre warping of stats. Blacks are more likely to commit crime than any other ethnic group. Roma are close behind. Pakistani Muslims are a growing problem (grooming aside) Whites - being the vast majority - are understandably in the middle. Highly educated Iranians, Japanese, French, Germans, barely commit crime at all.
And it's got almost fuck all to do with poverty in the end. Chinese people come from a poor country. They don't go round knifing people or chucking acid in faces.
It's culture and genes.
You think people are genetically predisposed to commit crime? Exactly what point going east from Tehran does the murder gene kick in? The Lut Desert perhaps?
I don't want to talk the figures down, because it does suit my natural bias, but those not renewing a direct debit, assuming they are paying yearly, could be those members simply drifting away because they didn't want Corbyn. It would be interesting to see what percentage of the leavers are Smith voters for example.
Im glad SeanT is here to remind us that the real lunatic bigots and racists are of course supporters of the Tory party, much though their various feral propaganda organs try to vainly and ludicrously persuade us otherwise. Cheers, Sean x
Do we really live in a world where anyone likes Angela Rayner, and anyone has heard of Damian Hinds?
Presumably the Sun just found 1000 respondents from the NUT...
Also ex employment at the DWP - the role that's made everyone who's done it hugely unpopular as it's meant fronting up for the string of disasters caused by IDS.
Despite campaigning against her in Wirral in 2015 - feel some sympathy for McVey as she was always sent out to defend the indefensible when IDS was too stupid and cowardly too.
I have just had an awful realisation - if the absolute bilge vis-a-vis facebook groups gracing the front cover of Uncle Rupe’s vanity publishing project has any traction, that means posting on here could leave me open to being accused of endorsing the absolutely disgusting opinions posted here day-in day-out. Chilling thought.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
I watched Flint Town. It's interesting, but fairly depressing.
I've heard more enthusiastic recommendations!
Highly recommended, just a bit depressing at the end. You really want them to succeed at changing and you hope they can, but the reality of corrupt, thieving politicians kicks in.
I have just had an awful realisation - if the absolute bilge vis-a-vis facebook groups gracing the front cover of Uncle Rupe’s vanity publishing project has any traction, that means posting on here could leave me open to being accused of endorsing the absolutely disgusting opinions posted here day-in day-out. Chilling thought.
I agree. How people support AV over FPTP is beyond me.
I have just had an awful realisation - if the absolute bilge vis-a-vis facebook groups gracing the front cover of Uncle Rupe’s vanity publishing project has any traction, that means posting on here could leave me open to being accused of endorsing the absolutely disgusting opinions posted here day-in day-out. Chilling thought,
Recently Anazina, The Jezziah and Elliot have joined, so that’s diversified the range of views here a bit more.
No, I’m just joking. The whole story is utter shitehouse, and Im happy to rub shoulders with the purveyors of ‘interesting’ opinions on here, it’s all part of the rich tapestry of life. Just pointing out the desperate insanity of the guff coming out of the Tory Pravda set at the mo.
I have just had an awful realisation - if the absolute bilge vis-a-vis facebook groups gracing the front cover of Uncle Rupe’s vanity publishing project has any traction, that means posting on here could leave me open to being accused of endorsing the absolutely disgusting opinions posted here day-in day-out. Chilling thought.
I agree. How people support AV over FPTP is beyond me.
Or claim that The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie, when its easily as bad as attack of the clones.
I have just had an awful realisation - if the absolute bilge vis-a-vis facebook groups gracing the front cover of Uncle Rupe’s vanity publishing project has any traction, that means posting on here could leave me open to being accused of endorsing the absolutely disgusting opinions posted here day-in day-out. Chilling thought.
I agree. How people support AV over FPTP is beyond me.
Or claim that The Last Jedi is the best Star Wars movie, when its easily as bad as attack of the clones.
No. Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars movie.
I enjoy the variety of views here, though I accept no personal responsibility for anything posted. Most of all the nonsense that appears under my name
I enjoy your posts. This place is very Corbyn-sceptic, myself included in that so it’s always nice to have a bit of a balance and to challenge the stereotype of Corbynistas.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
The Man in the High Castle might appeal, if you've not seen it - avaIlable on Amazon Prime and no doubt as a box set. The Axis won the war and each occupies part of America, with some wild neutral lands in between. The Japanese are desperately worried that the Germans are poised to move to take the whole country. The ordinary populaion shifts uneasily between collaboraiton and resistance, and there's a Matrix-like underlying SF element of alternate timelines. Clever, well-acted, engrossing.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Watch 1864.
It’s a Danish series about what happened when Denmark’s politicians thought it was a good idea to pick a fight with Bismarck’s Prussia.
War, love story, eye candy - something for everyone.
Ooh that sounds cool. I've heard others say it's good, too. Where? Netflix? Prime?
Amazon Prime. Well worth £4.99
I've got prime. I'm sold!
Oh yes, 1864 was good. I've recently been enjoying Irish comedy - Derry Girls on C4 and The Young Offenders (film) on Netflix. I think the TV series of The Young Offenders might still be viewable on iPlayer or RTÉ player.
I have just had an awful realisation - if the absolute bilge vis-a-vis facebook groups gracing the front cover of Uncle Rupe’s vanity publishing project has any traction, that means posting on here could leave me open to being accused of endorsing the absolutely disgusting opinions posted here day-in day-out. Chilling thought,
Recently Anazina, The Jezziah and Elliot have joined, so that’s diversified the range of views here a bit more.
I’ve always assumed that most posts on here are elaborate spoofs, or the product of overactive rebuttal units from right wing eurosceptic interests.
I have just had an awful realisation - if the absolute bilge vis-a-vis facebook groups gracing the front cover of Uncle Rupe’s vanity publishing project has any traction, that means posting on here could leave me open to being accused of endorsing the absolutely disgusting opinions posted here day-in day-out. Chilling thought,
Recently Anazina, The Jezziah and Elliot have joined, so that’s diversified the range of views here a bit more.
I’ve always assumed that most posts on here are elaborate spoofs, or the product of overactive rebuttal units from right wing eurosceptic interests.
LOL there some great contributions on here from both the left and right, but I agree that quite a few posts on here do read as you describe it!
Awesome Observer ‘correction’ buried on page whatever, basically saying that their front page splash on Vote Leave and Cambridge Analytica last week was a load of...
“In two news articles last week (“Revealed: the ties that bound Canadian data firm to Leave campaign in referendum” and “Brexit insider claims Vote Leave team ‘may have broken law’”), we are happy to clarify that we did not intend to suggest that AggregateIQ is a direct part and/or the Canadian branch of Cambridge Analytica, or that it has been involved in the exploitation of Facebook data, or otherwise been involved in any of the alleged wrongdoing made against Cambridge Analytica. Further, we did not intend to suggest that AIQ secretly and unethically co-ordinated with Cambridge Analytica on the EU referendum. We are happy to make clear that AggregateIQ is and has always been 100% Canadian owned and operated.”
And, as Dominic Cummings pointed out last week in his blog, the Guardian Facebook App (yes, there’s a Guardian Facebook App) has a long list of Ts and Cs saying that the Guardian will harvest and sell your data and all your friends’ data. The Guardian also host digital marketing courses where they train businesses on the best way to target social media advertising!
What did you expect from the Guardian? This is the newspaper that goes on and on about tax avoidance, yet used the Cayman Islands to avoid tax. You couldn't make it up.
I thought they avoided tax by not making a profit.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
I am this close to recommending "The Expanse", but you probably wouldn't like it. Similarly "Altered Carbon". The recommendations below about "The Man In The High Castle" below are correct, and it is further graced by the burny cheekbones of Rufus Sewell.
But since you probably only go for normal people stuff, I can recommend the "American Crime Stories" (series 1: The People v. O. J. Simpson, series 2: The Assassination of Gianni Versace).
Or you could just go straight to "The Bridge", as series 1-3 are on iPlayer
Or, casting wider afield, the last episode of Mash - "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" (1983) - is on YouTube, as is "Path To War" (2002), a bloody good drama doc about LBJ and Vietnam.
You can also get the 1979 BBC "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" from YouTube, but you'll have to pay.
What did you expect from the Guardian? This is the newspaper that goes on and on about tax avoidance, yet used the Cayman Islands to avoid tax. You couldn't make it up.
I thought they avoided tax by not making a profit.
You don't understand. The Scott Trust is other people's money.As such, it is infinitely large and can be spent willy-nilly.
That, in a nutshell, was Alan Rusbridger's business plan.
As this is Britain, such ludicrously irresponsible financial management was not punished by impalement but was instead rewarded by being appointed Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Principal of Lady Margaret Hall.
It's one of the reasons I voted leave. As soon as these Syrians and other "refugees" get citizenship on Germany they will head to the UK for a life of easy benefits a d under the table cash work/crime. It's already happened with the Somalis from the Netherlands.
You better hope the transition is not extended beyond 2021 then.
German citizenship is pretty hard to get (much harder than in the UK), so I doubt any of the Syrians will be getting citizenship until 2023 at the earliest (8 years from 2015). And even if the transition period was lengthened until 2025 (which it won't be), post genuine transition period there will clearly be no requirement for the UK to offer benefits to anyone who's not a citizen.
So, it's pretty fanciful/paranoid to think - on any reasonable timeline of us leaving the EU - that there will be any Syrians with German citizenship arriving in the UK to take long-term advantage of the UK's benefits system.
And to address Max's earlier point about illegal work: this is something that we in the UK are just spectacularly shit at addressing. The Albanians in your local carwash aren't working legally. We could arrest them and deport them (and jail the person who employed them). It's just that we don't.
So, it's pretty fanciful/paranoid to think - on any reasonable timeline of us leaving the EU - that there will be any Syrians with German citizenship arriving in the UK to take long-term advantage of the UK's benefits system.
Owen Paterson during the referendum campaign: "This is a genuine and legitimate concern, for Germany’s migration policy is now so out of control that in February of this year, federal ministries were estimating that Angela Merkel’s asylum amnesty would have attracted 3.6 million people by 2020. Many of these will, after five years, be able to acquire EU passports and move across Europe and into the UK.”
So, it's pretty fanciful/paranoid to think - on any reasonable timeline of us leaving the EU - that there will be any Syrians with German citizenship arriving in the UK to take long-term advantage of the UK's benefits system.
Owen Paterson during the referendum campaign: "This is a genuine and legitimate concern, for Germany’s migration policy is now so out of control that in February of this year, federal ministries were estimating that Angela Merkel’s asylum amnesty would have attracted 3.6 million people by 2020. Many of these will, after five years, be able to acquire EU passports and move across Europe and into the UK.”
Morning, so we all managed to avoid the Chinese space station, which came down eventually in the South Pacific. And England’s cricketers have run up a good score to be favourites to beat the Kiwis. A good morning.
On murder rates in New York and London: the story is much more of a very sharp drop in New York than a rise in London. London’s rate, while certainly rising, is currently suggesting a return to the rate in the early 2000s. New York in that period was recording three times as many murders and the current fall is unprecedented.
On murder rates in New York and London: the story is much more of a very sharp drop in New York than a rise in London. London’s rate, while certainly rising, is currently suggesting a return to the rate in the early 2000s. New York in that period was recording three times as many murders and the current fall is unprecedented.
So Khan has brought us back to the murder rate levels of Livingstone, after the significant decline under Johnson. Coincidence of statistics, of course.
On murder rates in New York and London: the story is much more of a very sharp drop in New York than a rise in London. London’s rate, while certainly rising, is currently suggesting a return to the rate in the early 2000s. New York in that period was recording three times as many murders and the current fall is unprecedented.
So Khan has brought us back to the murder rate levels of Livingstone, after the significant decline under Johnson. Coincidence of statistics, of course.
It was particularly good in the early years of this decade.
No doubt it was all that mass immigration that introduced civilising influences.
Or the birth rates in key years might be worth looking at. Troublemakers tend to get into trouble in particular age bands. If there were fewer in those age bands in given years, you would expect crime to go down.
On murder rates in New York and London: the story is much more of a very sharp drop in New York than a rise in London. London’s rate, while certainly rising, is currently suggesting a return to the rate in the early 2000s. New York in that period was recording three times as many murders and the current fall is unprecedented.
So Khan has brought us back to the murder rate levels of Livingstone, after the significant decline under Johnson. Coincidence of statistics, of course.
It was particularly good in the early years of this decade.
No doubt it was all that mass immigration that introduced civilising influences.
Or the birth rates in key years might be worth looking at. Troublemakers tend to get into trouble in particular age bands. If there were fewer in those age bands in given years, you would expect crime to go down.
If you want to play silly buggers with statistics, the second derivative (i.e. the rate of change of immigration) correlates with the actual murder rate in London.
However, as one is a London number, and the other a UK one; as the number of data points is small: and as we are comparing a second derivative with an absolute number, I think it's reasonable to argue that it is just statistical noise.
Hard to disagree with Mr. Smithson's reading of the situation. Pretty feeble attempt at an explanation for the Leader of the Opposition, the man who aspires to be PM, getting rid of his Facebook account because he doesn't want the media or electorate to see what he thinks (about murals, for example) or whom he considers his friends to be.
Morning, so we all managed to avoid the Chinese space station, which came down eventually in the South Pacific. And England’s cricketers have run up a good score to be favourites to beat the Kiwis. A good morning.
Not sure about the second sentence. Not at all. Nor the third; grey and drizzling here.
Morning, so we all managed to avoid the Chinese space station, which came down eventually in the South Pacific. And England’s cricketers have run up a good score to be favourites to beat the Kiwis. A good morning.
Not sure about the second sentence. Not at all. Nor the third; grey and drizzling here.
Looks like Christmas day out here. As per Bing Crosby, absolutely tonnes of snow
King Cole, it's snowing here. Has been for at least an hour.
Which part of Yorkshire’s ‘here', Mr D? Granddaughter One has to get back to work in Beverely. Work’s tomorrow, of course, but she’s planning to drive up today from Essex. Works in Beverley, has a flat in Hull.
Back in the early 1990s LAB was looking for a new PR Chief and I was a candidate. Peter Mandelson got the job. I wasn't helped by not being a party member although it was said that this was not a requirement
I enjoy the variety of views here, though I accept no personal responsibility for anything posted. Most of all the nonsense that appears under my name
I enjoy your posts. This place is very Corbyn-sceptic, myself included in that so it’s always nice to have a bit of a balance and to challenge the stereotype of Corbynistas.
On murder rates in New York and London: the story is much more of a very sharp drop in New York than a rise in London. London’s rate, while certainly rising, is currently suggesting a return to the rate in the early 2000s. New York in that period was recording three times as many murders and the current fall is unprecedented.
So Khan has brought us back to the murder rate levels of Livingstone, after the significant decline under Johnson. Coincidence of statistics, of course.
It was particularly good in the early years of this decade.
No doubt it was all that mass immigration that introduced civilising influences.
Or the birth rates in key years might be worth looking at. Troublemakers tend to get into trouble in particular age bands. If there were fewer in those age bands in given years, you would expect crime to go down.
Removing 4* petrol from forecourts probably had the biggest effect on the crime and murder rate from the 90s to early 00s.
The recent rise is probably a mix of the police becoming too lax, an increase in gang violence and under resourcing of foot patrols.
So, it's pretty fanciful/paranoid to think - on any reasonable timeline of us leaving the EU - that there will be any Syrians with German citizenship arriving in the UK to take long-term advantage of the UK's benefits system.
Owen Paterson during the referendum campaign: "This is a genuine and legitimate concern, for Germany’s migration policy is now so out of control that in February of this year, federal ministries were estimating that Angela Merkel’s asylum amnesty would have attracted 3.6 million people by 2020. Many of these will, after five years, be able to acquire EU passports and move across Europe and into the UK.”
With a remain vote or would have been a legitimate concern regardless of the length it takes to acquire a German passport. It would be a literal repeat of the Somalis coming here from the Netherlands as soon as they were able to.
(Though I must admit I was surprised that there are about 100k Somalis in the UK - more than Indian Muslims apparently.)
As I say, m number 5718
Still, immigrants, on the whole, are a lot less likely to commit crime than white British people. My parents are Iranian immigrants and British Iranians barely commit any crime at all. I suspect that is because we are mainly highly educated people from urban backgrounds.
Bizarre warping of stats. Blacks are more likely to commit crime than any other ethnic group. Roma are close behind. Pakistani Muslims are a growing problem (grooming aside) Whites - being the vast majority - are understandably in the middle. Highly educated Iranians, Japanese, French, Germans, barely commit crime at all.
And it's got almost fuck all to do with poverty in the end. Chinese people come from a poor country. They don't go round knifing people or chucking acid in faces.
It's culture and genes.
I'm not sure it's "culture" so much as the brutalising nature of growing up in a warzone (and learning that violence gets you what you want).
Awesome Observer ‘correction’ buried on page whatever, basically saying that their front page splash on Vote Leave and Cambridge Analytica last week was a load of...
“In two news articles last week (“Revealed: the ties that bound Canadian data firm to Leave campaign in referendum” and “Brexit insider claims Vote Leave team ‘may have broken law’”), we are happy to clarify that we did not intend to suggest that AggregateIQ is a direct part and/or the Canadian branch of Cambridge Analytica, or that it has been involved in the exploitation of Facebook data, or otherwise been involved in any of the alleged wrongdoing made against Cambridge Analytica. Further, we did not intend to suggest that AIQ secretly and unethically co-ordinated with Cambridge Analytica on the EU referendum. We are happy to make clear that AggregateIQ is and has always been 100% Canadian owned and operated.”
And, as Dominic Cummings pointed out last week in his blog, the Guardian Facebook App (yes, there’s a Guardian Facebook App) has a long list of Ts and Cs saying that the Guardian will harvest and sell your data and all your friends’ data. The Guardian also host digital marketing courses where they train businesses on the best way to target social media advertising!
What did you expect from the Guardian? This is the newspaper that goes on and on about tax avoidance, yet used the Cayman Islands to avoid tax. You couldn't make it up.
I thought they avoided tax by not making a profit.
The Autotrader structure - while standard for PE and driven by Apax not the Guardian - avoided capital gains tax on the sale of the Guardian's minority stake. They are, quite simply, hypocrites.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
I gave up on Billions after about 3 episodes. Self indulgent twaddle.
What the fuck are they doing here? Do we need Somalians? They were never even in the commonwealth?
Factual correction: there was a British protectorate in present-day northwestern Somalia from 1888-1960, occupied by the Italians from 1940-1. This territory was incorporated with ex-Italian Somaliland when Somalia became independent, but has now de facto seceded from Somalia. Most Somalis in Britain, including the long-established community in Cardiff, originate from former British Somaliland.
Mr. Sandpit, I'm not a fan of heat. I'd probably go mad living in a desert (although dry heat's a lot easier to handle than the humid variety).
It’s okay for another month or so, then gets horribly hot and humid for the summer until about October. Nice weather usually for the GP in Abu Dhabi in November, and of course Bahrain next weekend.
- The Looming Tower on Prime; the run up to 9/11 focussing on the bitter rivalries between the CIA and FBI
- Halt and Catch Fire on Prime; essential for anyone around in early 80s when personal computing was first emerging, the corporate characters are spot on and seeing PCs boot up to the c:\ is so comfortingly nostalgic...
- The Looming Tower on Prime; the run up to 9/11 focussing on the bitter rivalries between the CIA and FBI
- Halt and Catch Fire on Prime; essential for anyone around in early 80s when personal computing was first emerging, the corporate characters are spot on and seeing PCs boot up to the c:\ is so comfortingly nostalgic...
I forgot about HACF. Probably the best US TV show of the last 5 years IMHO.
What the fuck are they doing here? Do we need Somalians? They were never even in the commonwealth?
Factual correction: there was a British protectorate in present-day northwestern Somalia from 1888-1960, occupied by the Italians from 1940-1. This territory was incorporated with ex-Italian Somaliland when Somalia became independent, but has now de facto seceded from Somalia. Most Somalis in Britain, including the long-established community in Cardiff, originate from former British Somaliland.
I have posted on pb.com from Hargeisa in said former British Somaliland. A possibly unique distinction?
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
I gave up on Billions after about 3 episodes. Self indulgent twaddle.
Really? I binged it when we set up the shop, so wasn't exactly at my energetic best. But Giamatti (and Maggie Siff) make it for me.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
I gave up on Billions after about 3 episodes. Self indulgent twaddle.
Well worth persevering with Billions. The notion of the wife of the prosecutor working for the target billionaire strains credibility, but the end of the first series - the man with nothing to lose facing the man with everything to lose - is delicious.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
The Man in the High Castle might appeal, if you've not seen it - avaIlable on Amazon Prime and no doubt as a box set. The Axis won the war and each occupies part of America, with some wild neutral lands in between. The Japanese are desperately worried that the Germans are poised to move to take the whole country. The ordinary populaion shifts uneasily between collaboraiton and resistance, and there's a Matrix-like underlying SF element of alternate timelines. Clever, well-acted, engrossing.
It was good, but I thought it had something of a pacing problem, being pretty slow at the start, and then ending rather abruptly at the end of the second series. The art direction/ cinematography was absolutely magnificent.
In contrast, I thought Altered Carbon fairly rubbish. Took books which were interesting a decade ago, and went nowhere with them. And the lead was woeful.
Mr. Mark, impressive, though Mr. Owls must hold the all-time record (and I hope it's never beaten/repeated) for 'interesting' posting locations.
On TV: they're making a Witcher TV series. I think there was one a while back in Poland (the books and videogame studio are Polish) which wasn't great, but this is, apparently, a better-funded shindig.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
I have nothing to add on tv series (I barely watch them) but I met Versace’s killer.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
I have nothing to add on tv series (I barely watch them) but I met Versace’s killer.
Crikey!
The actor playing him in the series is wonderful. Has a very bright future.
If you have some patience (it starts quite slowly, and there are something like 21 episodes of well over an hour each... and of course subtitles), the Korean Misaeng is quite magnificent.
Which is extraordinary since it's more or less a serious drama version of The Office... (Netflix)
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
I met Versace’s killer.
Under what circumstances?
Of all places, at a friend’s party in Lewisham about a year before he went on his killing spree. There was nothing memorable about him at all.
On a lighter note, can anyone recommend any new box sets? Netflix series etc?
I've exhausted the Crown (brilliant series 2) and am stuck.
Billions (series 1 and 2, 3 started last week). Think it is all on NOWTV? The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
I gave up on Billions after about 3 episodes. Self indulgent twaddle.
Well worth persevering with Billions. The notion of the wife of the prosecutor working for the target billionaire strains credibility, but the end of the first series - the man with nothing to lose facing the man with everything to lose - is delicious.
I may have another go then. The wife thing was just irritating as was the clichéd performances and script all round. Especially the script actually. It did the actors no favours.
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Is that a NET loss of 17,000? If so, not huge but still significant in my view.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/938824/Germany-news-duisburg-state-of-emergency-fight-riot-machetes
Huge problems in Sweden, Holland, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium
Germany and Sweden at least have admitted to no go zones
Not going to end well
I've not been to his site for at least six months and it seemed to be no different to the things he usually had.
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You might be able to zoom in here. They think it’s wiped out some of gains in membership since June last year where after the election it went up to 570,000 members from 530,000 before the GE. They’ve lost 3 pc of the paying membership as well according to the front page.
It also suggests that it's highly likely there has been at least some impact on public opinion across the population as a whole.
The scheme, which will be discussed with EU officials this month, would see the UK act as the external frontier for the EU, collecting tariffs and carrying out other checks on imports, but it could take many years to introduce.
British officials claim that in preliminary trade talks in Brussels last week the idea was no longer being written off as “magical thinking”, the term used by EU officials when it was originally mooted last year.
https://www.ft.com/content/d7edc34e-3428-11e8-ae84-494103e73f7f
Step by step, inch by inch...
@tlg86 - I share your attitude, but I’m sure people who’ve left the parts of London with these issues felt the same as us at one time.
Our elite is still in denial.
It’s a Danish series about what happened when Denmark’s politicians thought it was a good idea to pick a fight with Bismarck’s Prussia.
War, love story, eye candy - something for everyone.
this is good too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clarita_Diet
Despite campaigning against her in Wirral in 2015 - feel some sympathy for McVey as she was always sent out to defend the indefensible when IDS was too stupid and cowardly too.
Edit: I want to second Nick's suggestion of Man in the High Castle, really high quality and one you want to keep watching.
But since you probably only go for normal people stuff, I can recommend the "American Crime Stories" (series 1: The People v. O. J. Simpson, series 2: The Assassination of Gianni Versace).
Or you could just go straight to "The Bridge", as series 1-3 are on iPlayer
Or, casting wider afield, the last episode of Mash - "Goodbye, Farewell, Amen" (1983) - is on YouTube, as is "Path To War" (2002), a bloody good drama doc about LBJ and Vietnam.
You can also get the 1979 BBC "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" from YouTube, but you'll have to pay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expanse_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon_(TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crime_Story
h ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b09trdxr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_(2011_TV_series)
h ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b03bnc34
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen:
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3qeBn2bio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_Tailor_Soldier_Spy_(miniseries)
h ttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=EL4eYxtqSl4P8ViGkhnfJyVQ
@Floater
I can possibly see why but I was pretty hooked at that point.
That, in a nutshell, was Alan Rusbridger's business plan.
As this is Britain, such ludicrously irresponsible financial management was not punished by impalement but was instead rewarded by being appointed Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Principal of Lady Margaret Hall.
So, it's pretty fanciful/paranoid to think - on any reasonable timeline of us leaving the EU - that there will be any Syrians with German citizenship arriving in the UK to take long-term advantage of the UK's benefits system.
And to address Max's earlier point about illegal work: this is something that we in the UK are just spectacularly shit at addressing. The Albanians in your local carwash aren't working legally. We could arrest them and deport them (and jail the person who employed them). It's just that we don't.
Owen Paterson during the referendum campaign: "This is a genuine and legitimate concern, for Germany’s migration policy is now so out of control that in February of this year, federal ministries were estimating that Angela Merkel’s asylum amnesty would have attracted 3.6 million people by 2020. Many of these will, after five years, be able to acquire EU passports and move across Europe and into the UK.”
No doubt it was all that mass immigration that introduced civilising influences.
Or the birth rates in key years might be worth looking at. Troublemakers tend to get into trouble in particular age bands. If there were fewer in those age bands in given years, you would expect crime to go down.
However, as one is a London number, and the other a UK one; as the number of data points is small: and as we are comparing a second derivative with an absolute number, I think it's reasonable to argue that it is just statistical noise.
Hard to disagree with Mr. Smithson's reading of the situation. Pretty feeble attempt at an explanation for the Leader of the Opposition, the man who aspires to be PM, getting rid of his Facebook account because he doesn't want the media or electorate to see what he thinks (about murals, for example) or whom he considers his friends to be.
In other news, the DPP is stepping down, it seems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43614793
The recent rise is probably a mix of the police becoming too lax, an increase in gang violence and under resourcing of foot patrols.
Ray Donovan
The Night Of
If you like gritty westerns, Godless worth a look.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sinner_(TV_series)
The Looming Tower - Amazon Prime
Manhunt: Unabomber - Netflix
The Assassination of Gianni Versace - Iplayer
Interestingly, the last three are dramatised versions of real life events....
- The Looming Tower on Prime; the run up to 9/11 focussing on the bitter rivalries between the CIA and FBI
- Halt and Catch Fire on Prime; essential for anyone around in early 80s when personal computing was first emerging, the corporate characters are spot on and seeing PCs boot up to the c:\ is so comfortingly nostalgic...
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hargeisa-somaliland-somalia-africa/index.html
In contrast, I thought Altered Carbon fairly rubbish. Took books which were interesting a decade ago, and went nowhere with them. And the lead was woeful.
On TV: they're making a Witcher TV series. I think there was one a while back in Poland (the books and videogame studio are Polish) which wasn't great, but this is, apparently, a better-funded shindig.
Series 2 in production
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindhunter_(TV_series)
The actor playing him in the series is wonderful. Has a very bright future.
Which is extraordinary since it's more or less a serious drama version of The Office...
(Netflix)