grim lol, does seem somewhat tacked on!
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
tbh John Crace has always looked like a prison guard who murders inmates for his own sexually-sadistic gratification— Rosewood Shoehorn (@apiarism) April 29, 2020
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/29/jd-wetherspoon-plans-to-reopen-pubs-in-june
The chain expected like-for-like sales to be 10% lower during the first month after reopening, and then gradually increase by 2% each month, ending up 3% higher than before lockdown.
Tim Martin must really be banking on a steady influx of parched Brits to replace the pub regulars heading onto the ventilators.
― all things must pasteurize (Matt #2), Thursday, 30 April 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
Sub Dom Raabs one out as Sir Keir felches him with forensicity pic.twitter.com/i4olmrvHQq— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) April 29, 2020
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
Sweaty Raab vs. Forensic Starmer, no contest.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:02 (four years ago) link
I could totally picture Raab in a Nazi-themed s+m dungeon and he looks quite like Baron Ribbentrop.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link
what in the name of shitting christ is wrong with people?
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:13 (four years ago) link
And they say it isn't a cult of personality, all this worship of Magic Daddy.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
tbf crace has always been worse than bad but now is his time to shine (even more badly)
― mark s, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:20 (four years ago) link
it turns out the so called adults in the room are as politically sophisticated as a classroom of recalcitrant children who've been on the yellow smarties!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
it puts their complaints about the cult of Corbynism into sharp relief
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:26 (four years ago) link
I watched a bit of it yesterday and Starmer did pretty well but not at the level you'd expect judging by all the hosannas. It is really difficult to overstate quite how terrible Raab is at PMQs, visibly shitting his pants on camera, apparently just making things up in moments of panic.
Credit where it's due Starmer is very good at one thing, which is using a follow-up question to puncture a balloon of diversionary bullshit. That will come in very useful against Johnson for whom diversionary bullshit is his primary method of communication. That's not even being forensic, it's basic interview technique and it shows up how bad most politicians are at it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
The downside is that Starmer appears to be doing this at PMQs and nowhere else. Most people don't watch PMQs obviously but in this quieter format and at this particular time you could argue it matters in a way that the old orgy of hot air and pre-rehearsed zingfest didn't.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:32 (four years ago) link
Turning Raab into a sweaty bumbling wreck isn't the most difficult task in politics. I wonder if the fact that Raab is a lawyer and knows that he's up against a far far more successful and talented lawyer isn't somewhere at the back of his small mind?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link
Boris should have retained Geoffrey Cox in his cabinet, in the old PMQ game of blowing much hot air without saying anything he'd beat any former barrister!
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
I wonder if the fact that Raab is a lawyer and knows that he's up against a far far more successful and talented lawyer isn't somewhere at the back of his small mind?
If this is the case I fear for anyone that Raab ever represented in court.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
When Raab did the daily presser last week he looked like he was going to faint. And that even before anyone had asked him any questions!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link
I declare Mr Raab is suffering from the vapours
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:12 (four years ago) link
Fuck this guy
NEW: Starmer met with Labour Friends of India, said: "We must not allow issues of the sub-continent to divide communities here. Any constitutional issues in India are a matter for the Indian Parliament, & Kashmir is a bilateral issue for India and Pakistan to resolve peacefully."— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) April 30, 2020
― gyac, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link
Internationalism begins at home nowhere
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
profiles in courage
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:53 (four years ago) link
let's not get too bogged down with "issues" like murderous ethnic cleansing, too much student politics is where Corbyn went wrong.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
Besides the message being "Pogroms are good" I don't know why Starmer is doing this. It's not going to shift Hindus that vote Tory. Modi doesn't give a shit, and if anything it alienates Muslim communities that turn out for Labour, or Hindus that hate Modi.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 April 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
the main way ppl seem to defend this kind of shit is to imply that to care about it is something inherently childish and unserious (see also wrt blair's dealings with countless other monsters), and that the only ppl who care about it are (presumed white) students (see also Israel/Palestine). it would be less infuriating if they would just be honest about their horrible views
― fuck it (Left), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
Lol he hasn’t a clue
NEW: Labour leader Keir Starmer is set to have some "gritty" conversations in a bid to win the trust of the electorate in a series of public 'call Keir' Zoom meetings – catch up on the latest with @elliot_chappell's morning briefing here: https://t.co/MBmScAWSGo— LabourList (@LabourList) April 30, 2020
― gyac, Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
“adult conversation” "his carefully maintained position of constructive opposition." “opposition for opposition’s sake”
let's fucking play melt bingo again and again and again..
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
lovely four-minute story on captain tom moore’s 100th birthday on the bbc lunchtime bulletin there, surprised to see it followed by an excoriating broadside from a healthcare union representative pointing out that torturing the elderly to support the nhs is not a sustainable funding model
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:21 (four years ago) link
nah sike it was a total exercise in supine bootlicking
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
Oh man that Zoom thing is not going to end well. Let someone else be the guinea pig for that first.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
can i be arrested for showing keir starmer my arsehole on zoom y/n
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
It's going to be like in the early days of Twitter when the Tory Party Conference decided to do something like display everything with a hashtag on one of their big screens without thinking through the consequences.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link
he should conduct the Zoom meeting looking like this imo
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article21788031.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200b/5_Screen-Shot-2020-03-31-at-160109.jpg
― Number None, Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:25 (four years ago) link
Starmer obv never saw the live Matt Bianco phone in on Saturday Superstore
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link
oh good now an in-depth exploration of tom moore’s ww2 experiences on the bbc news channelwe can’t get enough fucking greatest generation porn even in the middle of a catastrophic government response to a pandemic
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
"torturing the elderly to support the nhs is not a sustainable funding model"
come on ... I want to see a 144 year old mummified corpse of a Boer war veteran doing a 7k marathon carrying Kitchener's corpse while some Tiger Moths do a flyover next.
― calzino, Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
wait it’s not even the news channel it’s the fucking bbc1 news show, good thing there’s nothing else happening they could be covering
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
They'll just run the zoom call like they did the party one with no public chat just the ability to send questions through to someone else who will filter
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
The India thing is insanely grim
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Thursday, 30 April 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
We’re going to have an opportunity to see how far right-wing smear campaigns have affected concrete foreign policy positions if the West Bank is annexed in July.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
Regarding what his expert support entails, Phillips said the govt will be using his company’s 'Origins' software, which tracks people's ethnicity by their names. They'll use it to help compile Covid-19 data on disproportionate BAME deaths. https://t.co/YWb5hfwasL— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) April 25, 2020
This seems weird, idk.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
Mr Phillips and his colleagues believe their ethnicity tracking is unique in its method, size and ambition. Software developed by Richard Webber, a visiting professor at Newcastle University, draws on a database of 1.2bn individual records globally. It uses 2.5m family names and 800,000 first names to build algorithms that he says can link names to an individual’s ethnic or cultural origin from around the world with more than 95 per cent accuracy. The results are cross-checked against publicly available sources such as LinkedIn profiles and companies' annual reports.“[The algorithm] can even show what might be called social integration — the likelihood of [people of ethnic-minority heritage] using Anglo-Saxon first names,” says Mr Phillips.
Mr Phillips and his colleagues believe their ethnicity tracking is unique in its method, size and ambition. Software developed by Richard Webber, a visiting professor at Newcastle University, draws on a database of 1.2bn individual records globally. It uses 2.5m family names and 800,000 first names to build algorithms that he says can link names to an individual’s ethnic or cultural origin from around the world with more than 95 per cent accuracy. The results are cross-checked against publicly available sources such as LinkedIn profiles and companies' annual reports.
“[The algorithm] can even show what might be called social integration — the likelihood of [people of ethnic-minority heritage] using Anglo-Saxon first names,” says Mr Phillips.
― ShariVari, Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
Said Trevor Phillips. Sounds like bull to me.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
This app should be called Callipr
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
there it is
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
this sounds deeply fucking suss
― julian sprinkles (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:37 (four years ago) link
If a hypothetical child of mine had a Muslim surname and an Irish first name would it be integrated or not? Fucking head-measurers, I swear.
― gyac, Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
This is going to be an absolute bonanza for highly technical snake-oil salespeople.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
what measure of integration could exist that wouldn't leave god knows how many white natives registering as unintegrated?
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
I'm trying to think if any of the Afro-Caribbean people I work with have 'black' names and don't think any do.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
I mean: Tony, Susan, Marie, James, Sharon, Christina, Chris etc.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 April 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link