the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

They’re all just sorry they got caught and normally they can be found clutching something mauvish that ain’t pearls.

Again: David Walliams is a sleazy tosser.

That Amia Srinivisan LRB review of those Octopus books from last year was fucking banging, going straight to order that book before I forget again

thread has taken a delightful turn from spineless cowards to spineless heroes

i for one welcome our new octopoid overlords

also 'coat-hanger tycoon' is a thing apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQChiYxsdcU

I’d highly recommmend Stung! by Lisa-Ann Gershwin if you want to know more about jellyfish and how they are going to take over the world.

for the purposes of siphoning off this thread's good content in a fun-hating way:
D'AWWWWCTOPUS: post yr images of adorable octopuses here (no squid allowed)

surprise secondary market in charity auction prizes:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-24/boe-says-presidents-club-prize-was-an-unauthorized-re-auction

i guess this isn't the right detail to complain about at this point but the hostesses were paid £150, an effing paltry amount.

“The bank has a clear policy on the charities with which it is associated and this does not include the Presidents Club“, as of .5 milliseconds before the issueing of this statement.

Camilla Long seeking out the Hopkins market

I'd be pretty depressed if I were the FT and a report on some idiotic tits gala was the all-time most-read piece

— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018

Presidents Club disbanding now.

She does understand that the rest of the FT is behind a paywall, right?

She's trying to make the case that this is a nothing story, that everybody knew about it, it was just some hands on hips lets be cool, that this won't change anything, it's just clickbait -- basically like it's 2010 and feigning not caring about anything is still a good look.

Comparing it to the Spearmint Rhino is particularly dishonest given it's pretty obvious that a lot of the women involved here had absolutely no idea what they were letting themselves in for.

largely i think she's positioning herself for contrarian talking-head roles on this and similar topics

the thought of a intelligent Oakeshott/Hopkins fills me w/dread

isn't that just peter hitchens?

lol!

Camilla Long isn’t even an intelligent Camilla Long.

bingo

It just occurred to me that you can actually polish a turd, when it starts glistening is when it has transformed into a Hitchens.

beginnings of a guest-list:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/24/guest-list-presidents-club-all-male-charity-gala?CMP=share_btn_tw

Camilla Long isn’t even an intelligent Camilla Long.

― kim jong deal (suzy), Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:17 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2767360/Journalist-Camilla-Long-claimed-shamefully-molested-Dave-Lee-Travis-five-months-arrested.html

... it lays bare exactly how a bearded pipe-smoking hippy believed he had the right to behave exactly as he pleased in the company of women.

"The allegation resulted in The Chuckle Brothers – his co-stars in the 1990 panto at a theatre in Crawley, Sussex – coming to court in his defence."

at least one Chuckle Bro has form for this iirc

blobbytoilet.jpg

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2018/01/child-poverty-statistics-are-george-osbornes-final-legacy

(apologies for link to the new statesman's fuck-awful website)

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/F23.jpg

This UNICEF graph tells you where the UK is at r/n.

But but Dunkirk, Gary Oldman as Churchill...

bring back rationing, obv

I hope Maconie hasn't seen the graphic, he'll be marching on No. 10 again.

Lol Suzy

Croatia seems nice.

Weird that Graun link Mark S posted doesn't have Peter Mandelson on it (or not that I could see) when they were reporting at lunchtime the Labour Party confirmed he was there?

i think it's a very incomplete list: assuming more will be added as confirmed?

Yes, but strange not to include something you already confirmed yourself.

Has Maconie got back from his march on No 10 yet?

Mandelson unlikely to have been joining in with the groping in fairness but he's an absolute past master at turning a blind eye.

Robert Tchenguiz in there I see, funny how these things come around.

A lot of random sons and grandsons of established businessmen there. There are so many well known names on there already that there's no way this story doesn't snowball.

It's probably done for Dragon's Den in any case.

A possibility the Graun may have out-Graun'd itself by confusing Mandy with Jon Mandelson yesterday.

In other news about this event, it transpires the Indy ran a diary piece 8 years ago with the same content as the FT story and nobody noticed. (last item on page)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/slackberry-hornby-considers-guru-to-aid-rehab-1876933.html

*Mendelsohn*

If my phone autocorrects one to the other then I've even made their excuse for them.

one of the B-plots from McMafia has some uncomfortable/spot-on resonances with this story

huh who could have foreseen this

Universal credit is on course to deliver only marginal taxpayer savings despite driving through huge cuts in benefit payments to many claimants, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The independent forecaster warned that even these relatively slender £1bn savings – amounting to just 2% of the social security budget – could be knocked off course if ministers were forced to reverse potentially unpopular cuts built into universal credit affecting tax credit recipients, disabled people and self-employed claimants.
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It said political uncertainties and problems with the design and implementation of the much-delayed project, currently around five years behind schedule, meant universal credit presented a “significant risk” to public spending.

The OBR pointed out that some of the gross savings from universal credit were predicated on driving through cuts to relatively large numbers of families. The Resolution Foundation has said cuts to the generosity of universal credit will leave 1m working households an average of £2,800 a year worse off by 2022.

But but Dunkirk, Gary Oldman as Churchill...

speaking of which...

NEW - Trump told Theresa May she could be the new Churchill pic.twitter.com/ldiBzwK5P0

— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) January 24, 2018

"While the remark was not an explicit Continued on page 5"

Fucking Churchill, what a curse that cunt is on this country.

Gary Old ham should have been shot after Prick Up Your Ears. May should have been shot after the last election. These are the only parallels I can draw between May and that pile of drivel.