First Aspect
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In thought it was? Every new rabbit hutch estate I've seen recently has them.
BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany
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briantrumpet
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The anti-immigration Meloni discovers the realpolitik about immigration (and the shortage is with Italy still being in the EU). I suppose it's a vague relief that she's not cutting off Italy's nose to spite its face. So far she appears to be vaguely competent/sensible from my very limited knowledge.
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"No PM since 1945 has been in as bad a place after 12 months"
Off the top of my head:
Sunak - it was already looking inevitable he was going to lose the election although you could argue he inherited the role when they were already doomed
Truss didn't get close to a year to be judged
May - called an unnecessary election, lost her majority and had to rely on loons in the DUP
Possibly Brown although had he called a GE in his first year he may have won Labour another term before the GFC
Undecided on Johnson, he still had some popularity and had 'got Brexit done' which was his first and pretty much only policy. It's hard to judge anyone with the pandemic playing such a part soon after he was elected. It was probably just over a year before his behaviour started catching up on him.
So I make that virtually very PM of this century other than Blair and Cameron (and possibly Johnson).
Off the top of my head:
Sunak - it was already looking inevitable he was going to lose the election although you could argue he inherited the role when they were already doomed
Truss didn't get close to a year to be judged
May - called an unnecessary election, lost her majority and had to rely on loons in the DUP
Possibly Brown although had he called a GE in his first year he may have won Labour another term before the GFC
Undecided on Johnson, he still had some popularity and had 'got Brexit done' which was his first and pretty much only policy. It's hard to judge anyone with the pandemic playing such a part soon after he was elected. It was probably just over a year before his behaviour started catching up on him.
So I make that virtually very PM of this century other than Blair and Cameron (and possibly Johnson).
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briantrumpet
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I'm putting this one here as we had quite a long discussion about terminology about 'non-white people' on Bike Radar, where I questioned why 'people of colour' was deemed better than 'coloured'. The poster here is a FT journalist for whom I've got quite a bit of respect.
First Aspect
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Agree. I've never been a fan of verbal contortions to avoid describing things as they are. Also, the changing terminology to me is suggestive of trying to describe something undesirable.
I am somewhat heartened that the term "global majority" as a means to describe any ethnic minority in the UK seems to have been and gone already. It was virtue signally nonsense that, if you actually put your brain in gear, is not far of the level of "foreign" as used in the 70s to describe non-white British people.
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briantrumpet
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The general consensus back at the time of the CS discussion was that a group can use whatever terminology it wants for itself, and as 'people of colour' seemed to have taken prime spot in the US, then it should be respected. So it interested me that Mr Bush should have directly contradicted that.
First Aspect
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I don't recall, but I do sometimes wonder which group "chooses" the terminology.
secretsqirrel
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I think if you follow the logic, ‘white’ people should be called ‘colourless’ on those terms.
I’ll see you at the station, you will spot me as I’m colourless. As an example.
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BoldonLad
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Isn't the "big" problem connecting into the house (and, possibly Grid) system?
PurplePenguin
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No. That's the point. You just plug it into a normal socket.
C R
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That sounds problematic to me.
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briantrumpet
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It's actually quite hard for me to wrap my head round 10" of rain falling in a few hours, and a river rising *22ft* in a few hours (and there not to be sufficient warning to evacuate riverside areas). I think I need to find a topographic map of the area...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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briantrumpet
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Ah, got it now. Kerrville, which was really badly hit, is kind of in the flat bit midway down a valley which has a relatively low gradient and width of outfall.
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briantrumpet
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Actually looks like there were warnings, and there will now be the inevitable blame shifting...
