Opposition occamy...

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No, not the winged, serpent-bodied creature from Harry Potter but an alloy imitating gold or silver: something that seems it could be of great value but doesn't really stand up to inspection or analysis: yes, Jeremy Corbyn has won Labour leadership contest outright in the first round: "The veteran left winger got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall" [BBC] ...back to the future. Less than three months ago he only stood "as an alternative to the Stepford ['cloned/conformist'] candidates standing for the leadership". For all those who have sorely missed the animated debates* from the idealogical divide in politics, well now you can rest assured those days are back.



Not that you're bothered but Corbyn and I have a lot in common: Arsenal F.C., a love of cheese, secondary education was grammar school and...erm, well, that's it except I presume he speaks Spanish as his 2nd and 3rd wives are from Chile and Mexico respectively.



* debate from the 'Right': the Left don't and can't debate. Despite saying that we should remember he has been the MP for Islington North for over three decades; I concur with Nick Hurd, the current Conservative MP from a previous home constituency of mine:

Opposition occamy...

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No, not the winged, serpent-bodied creature from Harry Potter but an alloy imitating gold or silver: something that seems it could be of great value but doesn't really stand up to inspection or analysis: yes, Jeremy Corbyn has won Labour leadership contest outright in the first round: "The veteran left winger got almost 60% of more than 400,000 votes cast, trouncing his rivals Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall" [BBC] ...back to the future. Less than three months ago he only stood "as an alternative to the Stepford ['cloned/conformist'] candidates standing for the leadership". For all those who have sorely missed the animated debates* from the idealogical divide in politics, well now you can rest assured those days are back.

Not that you're bothered but Corbyn and I have a lot in common: Arsenal F.C., a love of cheese, secondary education was grammar school and...erm, well, that's it except I presume he speaks Spanish as his 2nd and 3rd wives are from Chile and Mexico respectively.

* debate from the 'Right': the Left don't and can't debate. Despite saying that we should remember he has been the MP for Islington North for over three decades; I concur with Nick Hurd, the current Conservative MP from a previous home constituency of mine:

Obama's Ohioan onomatomania...

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Today the name of North America's tallest mountain, Mount McKinley in Alaska, will be changed to 'Denali', which in the Athabascan language (Alaskan native) means "the high one"...Yep. The US DOI informs us; the decision was endorsed by Obama: "Under Obama's action, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will use her legal authority to end the long debate and rename the mountain" [Reuters]

The mountain has spoken 🗻
Mt McKinley officially renamed Denali: http://t.co/VSN2vl7yZo
Congrats, Alaska! pic.twitter.com/ZdRTJ2PEHL

— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) August 30, 2015

The Mountain has spoken? The mountain was named in 1896 after William McKinley, the Ohioan who became the 25th President of the United States and was assassinated in 1901. The first recorded reference to Denali in the journal of British explorer Captain George Vancouver around about 1794; Denali is already the name of the National Park (including Denali National Monument and Denali Preserve as well) and has been called that since 1917, why change the name of the mountain? And why now? It's an anagram of 'denial'. not sure whether that could be funny or not.



Moving on...in other Decline of USA news, the University of Texas removes Jefferson Davis statue [Link]. Hat-tip: Weasel Zippers



However, the not having things named after POTUS will be continued, no doubt...right?...Oh FFS. 

Obama's Ohioan onomatomania...

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Today the name of North America's tallest mountain, Mount McKinley in Alaska, will be changed to 'Denali', which in the Athabascan language (Alaskan native) means "the high one"...Yep. The US DOI informs us; the decision was endorsed by Obama: "Under Obama's action, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will use her legal authority to end the long debate and rename the mountain" [Reuters]

The mountain has spoken 🗻 Mt McKinley officially renamed Denali: http://t.co/VSN2vl7yZo Congrats, Alaska! pic.twitter.com/ZdRTJ2PEHL

— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) August 30, 2015

The Mountain has spoken? The mountain was named in 1896 after William McKinley, the Ohioan who became the 25th President of the United States and was assassinated in 1901. The first recorded reference to Denali in the journal of British explorer Captain George Vancouver around about 1794; Denali is already the name of the National Park (including Denali National Monument and Denali Preserve as well) and has been called that since 1917, why change the name of the mountain? And why now? It's an anagram of 'denial'. not sure whether that could be funny or not.

Moving on...in other Decline of USA news, the University of Texas removes Jefferson Davis statue [Link]. Hat-tip: Weasel Zippers

However, the not having things named after POTUS will be continued, no doubt...right?...Oh FFS. 

Objurgatory oblectation...

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From probably the most copied piece of film ever: Hitler reacts to England Rugby World Cup selection, really very funny:

Objurgatory oblectation...

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From probably the most copied piece of film ever: Hitler reacts to England Rugby World Cup selection, really very funny:

Ongoing overcrowding III...

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"Net long-term international migration = +330,000 (up 94,000 from YE March 2014), in the year
ending (YE) March 2015. 

The net migration figure was a statistically significant increase from 236,000 in YE March 2014
and is the highest net migration on record."

Just two points from the summary from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Migration Statistics (PDF full report); this is getting stupid. From Migration Watch press release: "There could hardly be a worse time for the Treasury to cut the funds available for immigration control." Looking at Fig 4 (in the ONS link) we see that from 2011 to 2013 there was a fair amount of success (down 25%) in lowering the non-EU immigration but half of this was counteracted by increased EU immigration. Since 2013 both sets have increased. Nearly 30% of the total net immigration (year to March 2015) were students, we'll give them benefit of the doubt although many thousands are not students at all and as we have seen in the past, some colleges and courses or tests were entirely false (and "Each year, around 100,000 non-EU students get their visas to stay in the UK extended"). A full 16% (year to March 2015) say the reason they came was "looking for work", WTF? If I turned up anywhere at a frontier and said I was just looking for work I would get turned back; I cannot think of any of the 50-60 countries that I have visited that would accept this. Are no questions asked? At all? A further 13% came as family/to join someone already here. Dare I suggest that of this 29% nearly* all shouldn't be here. * clearly some family of those on long term work contracts should be.



[Update] And when we look at the National Insurance numbers (NINos) and the probable number of illegal immigrants we can safely say the ONS figures are a massive UNDER estimate. 

Ongoing overcrowding III...

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"Net long-term international migration = +330,000 (up 94,000 from YE March 2014), in the year ending (YE) March 2015. 

The net migration figure was a statistically significant increase from 236,000 in YE March 2014 and is the highest net migration on record."

Just two points from the summary from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Migration Statistics (PDF full report); this is getting stupid. From Migration Watch press release: "There could hardly be a worse time for the Treasury to cut the funds available for immigration control." Looking at Fig 4 (in the ONS link) we see that from 2011 to 2013 there was a fair amount of success (down 25%) in lowering the non-EU immigration but half of this was counteracted by increased EU immigration. Since 2013 both sets have increased. Nearly 30% of the total net immigration (year to March 2015) were students, we'll give them benefit of the doubt although many thousands are not students at all and as we have seen in the past, some colleges and courses or tests were entirely false (and "Each year, around 100,000 non-EU students get their visas to stay in the UK extended"). A full 16% (year to March 2015) say the reason they came was "looking for work", WTF? If I turned up anywhere at a frontier and said I was just looking for work I would get turned back; I cannot think of any of the 50-60 countries that I have visited that would accept this. Are no questions asked? At all? A further 13% came as family/to join someone already here. Dare I suggest that of this 29% nearly* all shouldn't be here. * clearly some family of those on long term work contracts should be.

[Update] And when we look at the National Insurance numbers (NINos) and the probable number of illegal immigrants we can safely say the ONS figures are a massive UNDER estimate.