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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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OK a threesome and an all-in punchup on a holiday cruiseliner.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/carnival-cruise-threesome-scandal-led-to-60-person-brawl-says-passenger/G44DY43OTZ2MBEBEKO3SRE6YRY/
Now that's a holiday.
Blue balls, black eyes, broken bones, bruised egos, and bloody noses, just like it was at college, for some, I’ve been told Some people never grow
upold.I'm still trying to understand who would get on a cruise ship during a pandemic.
Just seen a report on 1new that a quarter of pupils were BELOW average!!!!
If you apply a normal statistical bell curve that's good.
I heard that same argument from a National party candidate on an election platform that too many students were below average. He became an MP for nine years.
If all the students were above average what does that tell us about the measures employed.
Also, eventually, one of the many brain surgeons is suddenly going to ask themselves. Who the fuck is going to mow my lawns or deliver my groceries.
It takes all levels of intellect to create a society, we need to strive for dignity and respect for a job well done.
How can all students be above the average?
Do you mean that all the students were above the standard?
They can if they come from Minnesota.
"Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average."
And it doesn't automatically follow that the person who mows lawns or delivers groceries is dumb. Some are far from it but prefer to opt out of the rat race.
Wellingtons new high frequency airport bus,carries more passengers in first 6 days,then previous service did in a month.
Higher frequency,lower cost,will be interesting to see vehicle stats after 1 month ( the service only took 20% from nearby bus service)
ok pedants, is this grammatically correct?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/06/johnson-clings-on-amid-cabinet-standoff-and-dozens-of-resignations
Are we supposed to know that Gove is the snake rather than Johnson, or assume from the grammar?
They're Johnson's allies. They wouldn't be allies if they bagged their ally Johnson
Gove's the snake.
Oh I think it's quite possible for Johnson's allies to call Johnson a snake.
Euphemistically correct to call a Johnson a snake.
Grammer be buggered. They're both Tories, so should we differentiate
yep. All are snakes johnr.
lol. What's it a euphemism for though?
Maybe the phrasing was deliberate on the part of the journalist.
We can tell from the hair rather than from the grammar.
I'd have said that the snake is the person referred to last- that is, Johnson, grammatically. But I guess from the context that the allies of Johnson are being allies and the snake refers to Gove.
Better and clearer to have written, "In the wake of Gove’s sacking, Johnson’s allies reportedly described him (Gove/Johnson cross out the non-applicable)) as a “snake”."
Or used the passive, "In the wake of Gove’s sacking, he was described by Johnson’s allies reportedly as a “snake”," or "In the wake of Gove’s sacking, Johnson was reportedly described by his own allies as a “snake”."
this was my thinking too,
Doesn't have the same satire though.
The grammar is adequate, but could generate cognitive dissonance, were they not both snakes.
There are often English sentences like that where a pronoun can be ambiguous because we cannot tell which of 2 or 3 people of the same sex it refers back to.
(And I deliberately used a pronoun to finish that sentence up with.)
eg – 'Peter raised his hat to Simon as he left the room.' Who actually left the room?
Imagine the potential for chaos if ever those ridiculous new pronouns for people of new and original genders ever become commonly accepted…
I’ve seen whole articles that took three times as long to read because I had to keep stopping to figure who they were referring to because the pronouns weren’t regular English. The argument is then usually we should make an effort, change doesn’t hurt us. I fall on the side of don’t mangle language so that communication becomes harder.
heh
https://twitter.com/IcelandFoods/status/1544720221843456001
edit: says it all
https://twitter.com/Hardeep_Matharu/status/1544798587799863303
Breaking feed on bloomberg ticker,Johnston to resign after being stabbed by calls from new chancellor,
https://twitter.com/BloombergUK/status/1544957280587751425?cxt=HHwWgoCx6cGd5fAqAAAA
FROM GUARDIAN LIVE:
But will he resign when the time comes, or do a Trump and refuse to go?
he cant do a trump as he is selected from the party.The problem would be if the 1922 committee changed the rules to overturn the PM at any time rather then only one chance in a 12 month period.
aww…
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1544958928240402433
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@johnjohnstonmi
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One Tory MP's response when I asked them about tonight's events: "Each time my phone rings I am terrified he's calling to offer me a job."
A link is still required Anne, if you are going to quote.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-latest-resignations-today-conservatives-uk-politics-live
Okay. Couldn't be bothered.
https://twitter.com/DavidBrentMovie/status/1544964131396227072
The succession knife fight for the Conservative leader and Prime Ministership are just going to be beautiful in their long deep evisceration of that party.
It will give great impetus for Scotland to leave and join the EU.
Happy 70th O Queenie.
He's got no government. Everybody’s resigned. What's he going to do, chair the spitting image cabinet?
https://twitter.com/Simon4NDorset/status/1544973565770039298
Boris Johnson is to resign on Thursday as Conservative leader but will push to stay on as prime minister until autumn, prompting a backlash from some Tory MPs who say he has to go now.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/boris-johnson-to-resign-as-conservative-leader?
Auckland’s public design team was really going gang busters there for a while.
Reckon High Street is a definite candidate for pedestrianisation, with others to come. That’s a corridor from Britomart for pedestrians, rather than the slim footpaths that are there now.
YouTube video about Melbourne’s pedestrianisation. Funny how we only heard about this because of Simon Wilson. What else are we missing out on because we rely on the ZB columnists? Rather Auckland be included with Paris. Melbourne and Europe in general than other car jammed highway and strip mall suburb locations…