Jon the Hat

Sadly I think you either have it or you don't.

All the medical professionals who are fed up with meeting the public / patients and who would otherwise quit the NHS?

Feels like Starmer has a lot of the attributes to be an excellent MP, just not enough of them to be an excellent PM. He is clearly smart, has some good ideas, but lacks TV Charisma to sell them (it's quite different to personal Charisma), the conviction to stick to them, and the political savvy to realise what will fly and what won't. Farage on the other hand has a few good ideas, many terrible ones, but seems to know instinctively which ones fly, comes across far better on TV (but probably worse in Person), and also has the help of some nasty algorithms which appear to show people the only the bits they agree with.

Day to day illegal migration is of course not the problem. The problem is the defacto open borders experiment of the last 25 years which no one voted for, no government ever admitted, and only the better off really benefitted from.

Like a corporate ninja.

I would note as a company director in Australia I already have such an ID, which is linked to companies, tax authorities, numerous govt institutions, along with a personal gov digital id which links my tax number, Medicare, health insurance etc. and I have no current concerns.

It’s not that they aren’t possible already, more that if you are required to utilise this digital id for more than essential government services it could be abused by grouping information which data analytics might use to discriminate against and individual. For example for credit assessment, criminal Profiling or immigration assessment.

I think we just need to resist using that ID for non-government activities so it doesn't morph into something worse.

Yes I agree, I think people like to think they would do the right thing, but given even at an accident the vast majority of people take pictures instead of helping i seriously doubt they would.

Either way he doesn't deserve to be in this thread.

Only one side is leveraging the FCC to threaten the licenses of news / tv networks.

The whole political monolog thing is quite US late night talk show isn't it? I suppose because it only really works if it is up to date and the UKL doesn't tend to do daily talk shows - at least at night.

I'm amazed it lasted this long given the parent company already paid Trump $15M this year. Free speech was always subject to backlash from the audience, general public. That public seems to be listening to Trump rather a lot. Nightmare.

No doubt there is. 150 billion pounds of investment announced. That is bound to create some jobs.

Someone has to draw a line under these legal challenges.

Its unaffordable clearly, as is the current retirement age, the number of people not working and claiming disability benefits, tax breaks for earnings from general capital investment, and the current rates of income tax.

Independent advice can indeed be very valuable, however how much do you bet a lot of this is one faction pitting their advisers against another?

Yes probably - whether Farage is the brains or the patsy I can't quite tell, but there is certainly money floating around in the background that wants to raze the establishment to the ground.

Woah woah woah. Hold on there Mr BKLFox! You cannot expect people to make decisions without having an external consultant report telling them to do what they were going to do anyway! What if it goes wrong? They might get told off!!

If you were fed as much fancy rich food as these leaders are fed, you would be craving some simple fast food as well!

Noooo you can't deny knowing it if you ask Donald, he will no doubt post it on social media on the way home.

Fackin live Ricky!!!

We can make some early firm conclusions like "deciding someone is a fascist because you disagree with their views and then concluding the best course of action is to murder them is ****ing stupid". This does make some assumptions that the killer in question had no personal relationship with Mr Kirk which gave even the slightest cause to his action.

Yep. I reckon there are tens of millions of Americans who could make that shot. Almost anyone ex-military, any half capable hunter etc.

Mendelson is gone then. Apparently due to emails suggesting he believed Epstei first conviction was dodgy and should be challenged. On a side note, I am slightly surprised to hear Maitlis keep calling Epstein the world's worst pedo. Many worse I would have thought. Edit: Biggest pedo who ever lived now...