Xann

@Jonesy7211, what are you and your Missus going to be buying?

New or second hand? Any particular genres?

If you're after an og of Iron Maiden's 'Number Of The Beast' and your other half wants the latest Tech House 12", you'll maybe gravitate to different vendors?

4 hours ago, bickster said:

... Szabodelico, recommended by @Xann a few years ago iirc

@chrisp65 bought it?

We did chat about the title being a Gabor Szabo reference though

Phantom Orchard - 'You May Dream'

De Beren Gieren - 'A Loving Stumbler'

Red Venom & Donald D - 'Stop Actin' ' (Jazzed Up Funk Remix)

Antichrist Siege Machine - 'Vanquishing Spirit'

Bukimisha covering Barry Gray.

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Record-breaking rain over the past few months has left fields of crops under water and livestock's health at risk, adding to pressures on food producers.

The flooding and extreme weather linked to climate change will undermine UK food production unless farmers get more help, the National Farmers Union said.

The NFU is calling on the government to do more to compensate flooded farmers and support domestic food production.

The government said it was looking to expand a new compensation scheme.

The NFU has warned of "substantially reduced output" and "potential hits" to the quality of crops in this year's harvest thanks to weeks of rain since the autumn.

NFU vice president Rachel Hallos said UK farmers were "on the front line of climate change - one of the biggest threats to UK food security".

BBC

What could possibly go wrong?

https://throwflame.com/product-category/flamethrowers/

Paul Williams - 'Roan Pony'

I think supermarket food in general has deteriorated, then there's shrinkflation.

The international markets are best around here.

Mr Bhavin the local grocer immortalised on Getty...

This is now.

They've dumped their cavalry riders and legged it.

Bit of claret for added drama.

They believe in small government.

Easily delivered by spunking all the state's cash.

Look at the the numbers for everything they do.

5 hours ago, choffer said:

Good tip. Only a mile or so away from where I am in Bermondsey so will have to check it out at some point.

Walked from Elephant Park to Anspach & Hobday a couple of weeks back.

That route was two shades of moody AF not a million years ago, you didn't hang around.

I'm like, whoa this has changed. She's cooing at period property with original features.

Lil Yachty - 'We Saw The Sun'

It really is interesting looking back through the political threads here, because they do work as some sort of diary.

This article was linked in the Brexit thread in 2017.

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FOR a think tank few have heard of, the Legatum Institute has a lot of influence. Funded with £4m a year from secretive billionaire Christopher Chandler, its surveys are namechecked by newspaper columnists, while it promotes the hard Brexit cause from its Mayfair offices.

As the Eye went to press, Legatum was planning to show its pulling power at the Conservative party conference, where Boris Johnson would be star speaker at a Legatum rally on how to create a “Global Britain”. If Johnson resigns from government to lead a right-wing assault on Theresa May, he will make good use of Legatum’s argument that no compromise that leaves Britain “locked in” to EU regulations or standards is acceptable.

The think-tank was not always a home for EU rejectionists. Until September 2016 it supported liberal ideas and employed acclaimed US historian Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev, an authority on oppression in Putin’s Russia. Then Baroness (Philippa) Stroud took over. Best known as an ally of Iain Duncan Smith, she had little time for colleagues who worried Brexit might go wrong. “Almost the entire staff has left or been fired,” one ex-Legatum employee tells the Eye. “Some agreed to be fired or even jockeyed to be fired in order to be paid off.”

Right-wing ministers
In their place have come the hardmen and women of the Tory right. Toby Baxendale, who helped run Andrea Leadsom’s Tory leadership campaign, is a trustee. Matthew Elliott, chief executive of Vote Leave, is a senior fellow, along with Tim Montgomerie, founder of Conservative Home, who recently accused the BBC of “looking unpatriotic” when it reported that the French were poaching jobs from post-Brexit Britain.

Right-wing ministers have welcomed Legatum’s “expertise”. It’s not just Johnson who entertains its gurus. Shanker Singham, Legatum’s director of economic policy, has advised David Davis and Liam Fox. Although the media describe Singham as a “former US trade negotiator”, a former US trade official told the Times: “He didn’t negotiate anything.” To imply that he was an authority on trade deals was “a bit of a stretch”.

Although Montgomerie plays the patriotic card, no organisation could be further from Britain than the Legatum Institute. It is funded by a foundation registered in Bermuda and controlled by a company in the Cayman Islands. Behind it stands Christopher Chandler, a remarkably shy billionaire from New Zealand. With his brother Richard, he turned a family inheritance of $10m into $5bn. They have given just one press interview in the 21st century – to Institutional Investor in 2006. Even then, Richard did most of the talking.

The Chandlers’ Sovereign Global Investment made money by finding undervalued assets the rest of market ignored, Richard explained – “transition economies or distressed sectors where information is not easily available and standard metrics don’t apply”. Sovereign was one of the first funds to pile into Brazil when the country opened to outside investors in 1991. It moved into Russia after the collapse of communism, and bought up assets in Japan and Korea during the banking crisis of the early 2000s.

The idea that investors could swoop on cheap assets after Brexit wrecks the British economy is, of course, so preposterous no sane person could entertain it. For, as no less a statesman than Boris Johnson told the Telegraph: “I am here to tell you that this country will succeed in its new national enterprise, and succeed mightily.” Who can doubt it?

 

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/

It's from Private Eye, their website has changed I think? The link goes to the homepage now.

Look at the names and what's happened since?

Collapsing councils in fire sales shocker.

Beaver & Krause - 'Short Film For David'

The Boswell Sisters - 'Crazy People'

Everything's changing, and the short term profit, flat footed thinking here is going to f**k most of us over.

It's interesting watching other countries jostling for places in a new World order.

The fossil fuel nations are absolutely stuffing us for cash, so they can invest in their new futures.

China intends to impale us on capitalism. How that goes I'm not too sure? The US and China prop each other up, if China actually has a plan that drops the US in the shit without bringing themselves down? Ah well, that's maybe a problem for future generations?

What's the UK doing whilst other nations look forward?

Bleeding out on the floor with a Brexit bullet in one foot and a Tory bullet in the other.

All whilst the parasite economy and scum made stacks of cash.

The money's been in the UK tanking, and Tory Brexit didn't half deliver.

Worse to come.

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When do I need to register to vote by?

To vote in person in England and Wales, you must be registered by 23:59 BST on Tuesday 16 April.

This can be done online with your National Insurance number, or by contacting your council's electoral registration office.

If you are already registered, the deadline to request a postal vote is 17:00 on Wednesday 17 April.

If you are already registered, the deadline to apply for a proxy vote is 17:00 on Wednesday 24 April.

The rules about voting by proxy have changed. If you applied for a proxy vote before 31 October 2023, it has expired, and you must apply for a new one.

Will I need ID to vote?

Voters will need to show photo ID in order to vote in person. You do not need your polling card.

There are 22 acceptable forms of ID, including passports and driving licences.

Anyone registered to vote without the correct ID - or who no longer looks like their photo - can apply for a free document known as a Voter Authority Certificate before Wednesday 24 April.

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Four English councils declared themselves effectively bankrupt in 2023 - including the country's largest authority, Birmingham.

A fifth of English councils say they are in danger of going bankrupt, according to the Local Government Association.

The crisis follows long-term cuts to local government funding dating back to 2010.

 

BBC