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Johnson gives the green light to murderers, as long as they wear uniform.

Oops! CCTV footage of very, very high profile prisoner on suicide watch, who ""kills himself", goes missing. Just one of those things, I guess.

Sriracha mixed with yogurt is a very simple, tasty sauce. Takes 30 secs to make. Ottolenghi.

Veggie/vegan food is great. Wouldn't ever recommend it as a complete diet, though.

I've seen several reports over the last few days, individuals reporting their personal experience of racist abuse in public places. Many more than I normally see. Like after the referendum, there may be an emboldening of far right sentiments taking place.

This is the problem with political critiques these days. Not enough substance, too much froth.

Did a buffet for the Greens, about 100 people expected, fewer showed up due to post-election depression. Had some help prepping. Mostly vegan because, well, Greens. Goats cheese tarts with spiced onion, falafel, dolmades, Greek mushrooms, potato salad, hummus, squash and sweet potato dip with green salsa, feta and red pepper dip, butterbean mash with muharamma, tabbouleh, crushed courgettes, green beans in tomato sauce, root veg salad, apple and celeriac salad, foccaccia, pitta bread, flatbread with za'ataar, quince aioli, harissa, tahini lemon sauce, pickles. Bit knackered after.

My favorite is granary bread, sliced thick, with loads of worcester sauce, no butter (pah!), smoked back bacon, grilled, sometimes with either mushrooms quickly fried in extra virgin olive oil, or else fried egg also in EVOO. Sometimes I will turn the egg over, briefly, to reduce the leakage while also leaving it still moist in the yolk. And strong coffee. Tea is an abomination.

But was the milk frother an implement, or a domestic servant?

And who ran a racist campaign against Khan, let's not forget.

Parts of Scottish Labour are apparently becoming more open to independence. I understand the Fabians have done a paper on priorities, which identifies northern England but not Scotland as a priority area for action. Hard to see where Scottish Labour go now to recover support and find a way forward that can make sense, if they continue to oppose a further referendum.

Just in time for us to start thinking about a trade deal with them, the US is reducing its food safety standards still further. Cock au vin, anyone?

It's basically a network of people co-ordinated by a secretive unit which is funded by the Foreign Office, the British Army, and the Ministry of Defence. It has ties to other propaganda outfits like the Atlantic Council and Bellingcat. The networks consist of journalists and politicians, here and abroad, who can be relied on to circulate and amplify lines pushed by the intelligence services, but passing it off as their own independent thinking. It attracted attention because it was smearing Corbyn, and a dump of hacked documents gave a lot of information about who was involved in which countries, what they were being paid and so on. (The links in the article to the document dump won't work now, they had to keep moving them around every few days because the intelligence services were closing down hosting sites as far as they could, and I don't have a current link). They have got in trouble with the charities regulator for misusing charitable status. There's a piece here which gives some detail.

They haven't referenced it, but I assume it's based on reports a few days ago that he messaged his followers saying that he'd joined. The BF chief of staff displayed a photo of his (the BF person)'s membership card, but I'm not aware of any similar proof regarding Y-L. I assume anyone sensible in the tory party wouldn't want him, and if he has managed to join, you'd expect him to be removed simply because of his profile. They allow online applications, but they are subject to later approval, so it's possible that he might have joined (ie applied) online and that this was the basis for his claim - I don't know.

Could Neil's apparent outrage at Johnson breaking his word on doing the interview perhaps have been...confected...insincere...? It boggles the mind to admit the possibility.

Oh. Well there's a surprise.

The milder version was leaching votes and members since 1997. The more radical approach increased the vote, and recruitment. The recent election was so much about Brexit that it's hard to compare with more normal elections, but I think it would be a very big mistake for them to abandon the approach which managed to reverse the decline.

He'd have to shave that beard as well, or they'd know it's him.

Boards are generally unpaid, and the services of value to homeless people are provided by staff. Volunteers can be a useful addition, but it's very hard to run decent and reliable services without paid staff. Low staff cost is not the best basis for distinguishing good and less good services. I'd suggest not being put off by staff costs, unless the pay rates seem exorbitant, which is pretty unusual.

This is a fallacy. Individual trusts and health authorities may not have had the cash, if it was withheld by the government. The government could have spent it, and chose not to. As with all these things, it is a case of political choice, nothing else.

That whole thread was so funny. People quoting case after case which showed Peston not knowing what he was talking about. Basic facts. The funniest was someone pointing out that Lord Mandelson was Minister for Business when Peston was BBC Business Correspondent, but there are several others. Peston is paid around £250k a year for this level of incompetence.

I think your problem with my post is that I did actually read what you said. It was generic insults.

You have demonstrated the exact point I made. Do you read the Mail, and repeat its insights? It is not a crisis, and you will see that It will soon evaporate if it hasn't already. It was a convenient tool to attack him, nothing more. He wouldn't be keen to evaporate millions of people, leading to a conflagration that would destroy the planet? Bastard! Lefty, white feather, pacifist bastard! Get a grip, man. Many find that rather appealing, especially those who have not served in the forces of repression.

It's about where our leaders come from. The concept of "leaders" is not specific to a political party, and in fact one prevalent criticism of Corbyn was that he wasn't enough like the stereotype of a "leader" for those who take a deferential approach to politics.