Rebecca Gower

This IPSO adjudication against the Telegraph is quite something

Confirms their story titled: ‘We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays’ was completely fabricated, with the family involved non-existent and stock pictures used

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0210...

Those paid a fortune to assess global risks say ‘not these global risks’.

Thursday,
Gorton & Denton voters: we don't want Reform and we don't want a Labour party that imitates Reform.

Monday,
Labour MPs: more Reform-like policy is what we need.

fwiw there is never going to be a good answer to the question "what should a UK government do faced with a mad US President given frightening levels of powers by his own party?"

Are they counting the people who were instructing the family voting as well as those who were being instructed?
Because anyone instructing others would not change their vote if unable to instruct others, so the discrepancy would not be 12%.

The article could be clearer.

My problem with these figures is that the article states 545 votes were observed and they saw 32 cases of "family voting", but then uses those numbers to say "12% of those voters observed either caused or were affected by family voting.”

32/545 is NOT 12%.

Me too!

Now if I had said “drill baby drill” last week, Brent Crude heading north of USD80 per barrel and the Straits of Hormuz looking a tad iffy would make that short term economically interesting wouldn’t it….

5. Reform have eaten the Conservative party's lunch.
6. Badenoch is pointing to Labour's failures and has failed to notice how bad hers are.
7. Trying to out-Reform the Reform party has NOT worked for either Labour or Conservatives

Radiohead to Trump: “Take it down… Go fuck yourselves.” 🎵

My husband and I often travel to the voting station together, either by foot or by car.
Sometimes the kids came too because it was part of another journey.

It's legal to get a family member to vote for you as a proxy, if you follow the correct procedure.

These claims are just hate-stirring.

Yes, very much not the point of the original post.
HR is definitely about protecting the company first and foremost.

Yes, a lot of this.
But also HR can be incompetent and cause repeat work.
And there can be empire-building where they are amongst the gatekeepers for expanding departments.

This is the second set of expensive stone paving that has been set down and then lifted again in the last (approx.) 20 years!
It's such a shame and a waste of good stone

Four years ago Russia began it's full scale invasion of Ukraine. They expected it to fall in days. They were wrong. Long live Ukraine.

A small mosaic outside a building which says "1894".

And one from the streets of Grenoble, in France.

A mosaic in a doorway that says "office".

Here is an example of a mosaic from the streets of Oxford.

I like a little mosaic with a message underfoot.

The worst things about some political parties trying to match the "tough stance" on immigration from the bigots are that it normalises it and it takes airtime and brain space from other more worthwhile things.

A drawing made with pencil and colour pencils of 5 sea creatures. To fishes, a sea horse and a crab. All have little orange purses.

Deep in the Mariana Trench, every sea creature has a little purse.

#art #drawing #illustration #pencilsketch #pencildrawing #handdrawn #bskyart #sketch #sketchbook #coloredpencil

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Also, the UK's problem with class can partly be blamed on not having a revolution (that stuck).
Not that I would recommend something as violent as the French Revolution!
Grudges and views of one's position in life and the structure are inherited, sometimes unreasonably.

Working class in the 21st century: your sofas take up most of your sitting room. Your art is mass-produced from the same shop as your sofa so the colours match, or framed inspirational messages about family life.
Your TV is large and doesn't form a comfortable subtended angle of view from your sofa.

Upper class: you have 3 to 4 sofas and there is still room for large dogs to run around.
Your art is hand-painted original portraiture of your great, great uncle who was a hunting companion of the king.

It's the modesty that makes it middle class.

Middle class: you have two sofas and your art is something you bought on holiday or an original by a contemporary local artist.

Green/economically-minded: you have blankets or throws on your sofa so it lasts longer. (See picture.)

Compare with...

I was going to say something similar.
I believe the lady in the photo was a support worker. Did she say was from the council?

Crowds in Radcliffe Square - they wear flags and carry placards

Deputy Lord Mayor Mike Rowley in his mayoral chain makes a speech.

Crowds gathered in Radcliffe Square today to mark the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Attendees were greeted by Deputy Lord Mayor Mike Rowley, who said Oxford stood in solidarity with Ukraine. (📷 Roger Close)

OTD in 2000 Ukraine sent its final strategic bomber to Russia.

Having given up strategic arms and so having no long-range ability to threaten Russia, Ukraine was subsequently rewarded with invasion and supplied with limitless grave concern.

The post was about Russian air defence, not the Ukrainians.

Yes, I am confused. I admit my geography is weak, which isn't helping. I need updates for dummies.