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I once sat there, outside, about 35 years ago, with my first wife. Perhaps 1991. It was around 1700 hrs. Two besuited French office workers (I presume) strolled past, glanced at us and one remarked to the other something about “les deux magots” (with hard “g“, too..). Neither of us having more than basic French, we wondered whether they were referring to us, and as “the two maggots”, but the name of the place refers to two Oriental figurines (something akin to “Magi”).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Deux_Magots
Our animal friends. It is good to see that, in a country, China, not usually noted for animal welfare.
“The world is not without kind people” [Russian proverb]
Someone once told me that she had known a former doorman at a block of expensive flats where many politicians lived (I think probably in the 1950s). According to that report, the good tippers were mainly Conservative MPs, the poor ones mainly Labour Party ones (and Oswald Mosley).
The relative generosity was attributed, rightly or wrongly, to the view that Conservative MPs regarded relative poverty as inherent in society, so to be ameliorated by personal charity now and then, whereas socialists and other radicals regarded what was important as the changing of society so that poverty no longer existed, ergo tipping the relatively poor, or giving to them, was only a distraction from the real task.
I mention it out of interest, though I concede that it cannot be given much weight, in view of the fact that I cannot identify the original reporter, or at all verify the report content. Interesting, though.
Are, in the supposed words of Jesus Christ, “the poor” “always with us“? Discuss.
Mark Hehir— “Hero Bus Driver”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hero-bus-driver-sacked-mark-hehir-b1269442.html
I see that the GoFundMe appeal set up for him continues to grow, if slowly: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mark-hehir-the-hero-bus-driver. Nearly £44,000 as of time of writing.
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Well, “Mark Lewis Lawyer” lost at trial (yet again), so hopefully was paid nothing.
Lewis himself admitted, years ago, about 8 years ago, that at times he has no idea what he is saying or doing, by reason of prescription drugs.
Beth Grossman. Barrister. Doughty Street Chambers, London. Jewish.
Mark Lewis. Solicitor. Patron Law, London (Lewis resident in Israel). Jew.
Daniel Berke. Solicitor. 3D Solicitors, Leeds. Jew.
All three Jew-Zionist fanatics and fervent supporters of Israel, as well as UK-based arms of Israeli propaganda, snooping, and “lawfare”, such as “UK Lawyers for Israel” [“UKLFI”] and the fake charity known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” [“CAA”].
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Oh, dear…someone’s (still) in trouble. Starmer-stein.
Scribblers and talking heads such as Dan Hodges always think such figures are terribly important. They are not, because any “growth” benefit, unless explosive, benefit goes, almost entirely, to about 1%, and certainly not more than 5%, of the population; any fall, unless catastrophic, scarcely affects the 95% of the population.
Starmer-stein is desperate not to appoint a man because of any further hidden sex scandals, so has appointed, or is about to appoint a woman, one who apparently has no sex scandals but is a money-obsessed careerist office bully (incidentally, she married one of her former bosses in the private sector…).
Lisa Nandy. Privileged background. Partly non-European. Pro-Israel. Pro-Jewish lobby. Pro-immigration. Anti-Russian.
Nein danke…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nandy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/45a4d28ceeaff959
I have blogged once or twice about the by-election. I see that Betfair now has the Greens odds-on, Reform about 5/2, and Labour well back on nearly 9/1.
I have found bookmakers’ odds a poor indication of the result of by-elections, but Labour already look like the big losers in this one. If I have to eat my words on the 27th (by-election is on 26th), so be it. I just cannot see either the Muslims (about 30% or so of the electorate of Gorton and Denton) or most English/British people (about 68% of the voters there) voting Labour now, despite Labour’s 50.8% at GE 2024. A lot has happened in the past 18 months.
I still think that Reform can do this, but we shall have to see. Exactly 2 weeks to go.
Ian Robert Millard 