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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 17:09 31 Oct 2024
Bond yields creeping up this afternoon. Let us hope this doesn't get too serious. |
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Reply | Slavery reparation
at 14:05 31 Oct 2024
The EU certainly fixed Ireland. After it imposed the excessive deficit procedure the RoI suffered years of austerity and still has a two-tier health system, with most people having to pay for supplementary private insurance. Killy is gagging to bend over and take whatever Brussels demands, and imagines we want the same. [Post edited 31 Oct 15:59]
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 07:54 31 Oct 2024
Commentators are slowly processing the implications of the budget. The OBR suggests that the impact will be very little growth and a slight rise in inflation. This must be a huge disappointment to Labour as they hoped the OBR announcement on budget day would help them by confirming the existence of the black hole of about £22 billion. Actually, even that seemed more like £9.5 billion, and the projections for future years were pretty negative. Public spending will go up by over £70 billion a year, which should help improve services, but almost half will be financed by borrowing. One question will be how much of the £40 billion tax increase will affect "working people", and it does look like there will be big indirect effects that will work their way through to jobs and wages. One group who will be hit hard are small businesses, another is family farmers. [Post edited 31 Oct 7:54]
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Reply | Slavery reparation
at 20:42 30 Oct 2024
More of the ad hominem stuff that got you banned before. Not really the way to win friends and influence people. |
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Reply | Oxford United v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 17:15 30 Oct 2024
Perhaps it is best to leave our forum members anonymous. I've discounted the Wrexham connection and my guess is a certain Welsh footballer who we're lucky to have joining in our discussions. He seems to like Millington, who however would be a bit older. [Post edited 30 Oct 17:17]
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Reply | Oxford United v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 15:57 30 Oct 2024
Interesting. Were you playing for Wrexham on 30-7-80? If so. some well-known names in that team - e.g. Dai Davies, Joey Jones, Dixie McNeil. Too lazy to try to ID you by checking Swans connections.
Edit. Or Crystal Palace? [Post edited 30 Oct 16:18]
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Reply | Oxford United v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 15:47 30 Oct 2024
I arrived in Oxford in 1987, the same year that Jeremy Charles retired through injury, and I don't remember seeing him play. Dean Saunders was probably the star striker at that time. though I also remember a few goals from Martin Foyle and Billy Whitehurst. However, the Us were relegated in the 1987-88 season, so I really missed the best part of their 3 year spell in the top division when John Aldridge scored a lot of goals. Robert Maxwell was chairman at the time I arrived but resigned shortly thereafter, and passed the role to his son Kevin. Maxwell senior took over Derby - I imagine he foresaw that Oxford's time at the top was going to be limited. Things then went downhill for the Us before I left in late 1991. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 14:21 30 Oct 2024
I thought both speeches were good, and Rachel Reeves's performance was better than I expected. It is going to take time to digest the implications of the overall budget package. |
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Reply | Oxford United v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 12:26 30 Oct 2024
Good game preview. I lived in Oxford in the late eighties to early nineties and attended many games at the Manor. The Us indeed had a good side, and some great wins, although in truth it was hard to compete against the bigger wealthier teams. The Oxford admission price was higher than average to try to get the most from a small capacity. |
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Reply | Southport killer is charged with additional terrorist offence.
at 08:51 30 Oct 2024
We probably won't learn much more until the trial now. What I wonder though is whether we are seeing the playbook that the authorities will use if more incidents of this kind happen. Many fear the latter because, on the one hand large numbers of unscreened people have entered the country, and on the other hand there have been several cases where 2nd generation migrants offend after becoming bitter about their situation. How would the authorities respond if incidents multiply and civil disturbances follow? One imagines it would be a combination of news management, statements that information can't be released because it will prejudice pending cases, rapid and harsh penalties for disorderly behaviour/ hate speech, and more use of the "far right" label to stigmatise protest. Am I being too gloomy? |
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Reply | Tata and the new UK steel strategy
at 12:21 29 Oct 2024
Still not great though, as steel production from scrap puts us very much in the second division and needing to import. Tata has just built a new coke blast furnace in India (one of the largest there), and is building a directly reduced iron plant (fueled by hydrogen) to complement their EAF in the Netherlands (so maintaining virgin steel making capability there). I can't help thinking we should have played our cards better in terms of the subsidy offer, and perhaps been willing to invest a bit more to get our own hydrogen DRI furnace at Port Talbot.
Some would say we would still need to import ore, but the only reason we don't mine the deposits we have is that it is cheaper to buy abroad. In a world where that became difficult we still have the strategic asset on our own territory though. |
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Reply | Slavery reparation
at 08:35 29 Oct 2024
Is what I said untrue? It was water off a duck's back, but you made yourself look very silly. |
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Reply | Releasing prisoners for the army
at 18:09 28 Oct 2024
This seems to me a distinction without an absolute difference. One of the alleged points of difference is that serfs had limited legal rights while slaves did not. However, there was a spectrum of practices in colonial slavery, and also variations in how owners treated slaves. The Berkeley professor Dylan Penningroth argues that in fact many American slave communities recognised property and certain other rights.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/08/civil-rights-movement-law-s |
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Reply | Slavery reparation
at 12:00 28 Oct 2024
I know that was a big issue, but if you look at his last post on the thread in which he was banned it was an insult directed at me. |
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Reply | Slavery reparation
at 09:09 28 Oct 2024
As I recall, his last forum holiday came about because of his intemperate language. Nothing much seems to have changed, looking at the two posts above. |
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Reply | Slavery reparation
at 19:57 27 Oct 2024
One of the leading lights of the Senedd's anti-racism strategy is Maya Sharma, an adviser who helped write the programme. Amazingly, she argues that racism is only something initiated by White people: “Racism is, fundamentally, the belief that white people and their ways of thinking, culture, political systems and histories are superior to that of other ‘races’.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/racism-white-people-hold-negative-140000105.html?gucc
One would think that with a name like Sharma she would have a global perspective on race relations. Does she really know Asia?
Is Ms Sharma a prominent academic and historian? No, she is Collections Access Officer at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in Manchester. Next we will have librarians rather than academics deciding university curricula. [Post edited 27 Oct 20:08]
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Reply | Slavery reparation
at 18:03 27 Oct 2024
Looks to me as though there are two or three who are out of tune with the rest of us on here. |
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Reply | Labour MPs
at 18:01 27 Oct 2024
As you'll know I have no love for many of them, but best to wait to see whether Amesbury was defending himself. I don't, for instance, blame "three Jags" Prescott for that punch years ago. I'd rather see that than the effete victim response that would come from some of them. Have to say it looks as though Amesbury has had a lemonade or two. [Post edited 28 Oct 8:02]
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