Paul writes.. Please use the comments thread below to discuss the US election results as they come in. Here are a few links which may help you get your head round what to expect and when to expect it: FiveThirtyEight has an excellent guide to the timings of the vote counts. Bear in mind that there are vastly more postal votes than usual this time. So results in some key states will not be available on election night. Florida, Georgia and North Carolina are the "needle states" singled out by the New York Times as providing good early indicators of ...
People in the United Kingdom have been paying more attention than usual to today's US presidential election. That's not so much because they want one candidate to win but rather because they fervently hope that the other one loses. Revealingly, a recent opinion poll showed that not a single UK parliamentary constituency would vote for [...]
Garry Kasparov says we must prepare for the worst from Donald Trump: "We cannot know exactly what Trump will do in these final days, only that whatever it is, he will be thinking only of himself. If he declares victory on election night, regardless of the uncounted ballots, what then? What if he calls the entire election a fraud, a hoax, and demands that the counting stop? Or if armed Trump supporters heed his call to intimidate voters at the polls? What if he takes to Twitter with "LIBERATE AMERICA!" and his MAGA zealots respond?" "In Nebraska I walked the ...
Second paragraph of third chapter:Natalie. I would have preferred to delay my promise to Lord Hilford, but if I was to leave in two weeks, I simply could not spare the time. "Thank you," I said, distracted, and went upstairs.I quite enjoyed the first in this series (nominated en bloc for the 2018 Hugo) when I read it, but was rather less wowed by the second installment and will skip the rest. Our plucky hero, in a parallel Victorian era England, goes to her world's version Africa for adventures and dragons. You can get it here. This was my top ...
One of the borders of Creeting St Peter is the River Gipping, which flows in a south-south easterly direction towards Ipswich where it mysteriously becomes the Orwell. Once upon a time, it was a major trade artery for mid-Suffolk, eventually being "improved" to form the Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation in 1793. It was, apparently, a profitable enterprise for about fifty years, with agricultural produce heading south, and coal and other heavy goods heading the other way. And then the railway came... Nowadays, the river is seldom more than a foot deep, and most of the infrastructure is in poor condition. ...
The latest edition of East Midlands Bylines has an article by Phil Bennion, a farmer and former Liberal Democrat MEP. Commenting on a Farmers Weekly poll last week that found 98 per cent of respondents took the view that the government does not have farmers' best interests at heart, he says: Considering that the overwhelming majority of farmers usually vote Tory, this is a resounding condemnation of government policy. The combination of government positions on the Agriculture Bill and the International Trade Bill have brought farmers to the conclusion that they have been betrayed by the government. Although many farmers ...
[IMG: Florida midlife influencer votes for Biden in the American election] Lorraine Cladish is a well known international midlife influencer. We are connected on Instagram. I asked her for this interview which I am grateful to... The post Florida midlife influencer votes for Biden in the American election appeared first on Ambitiousmamas.
Mon, 12:56: RT @IrishPolMaps: Half of all US Presidents (22 out of 44) have made claims of Irish ancestry. Like a lot of things in history, the evidenc... Mon, 14:00: The Crab With The Golden Claws, by Herg� A straightforward tale of Tintin, not much helped by detectives Thomson and Thompson, investigating a mysterious death which turns out to be linked to drug smuggling from Morocco. #nwbooks https://t.co/ivW6GxbJpS https://t.co/SHk5EoOMvA https://t.co/4EFTe3ywG1 Mon, 14:44: The Secret of the Unicorn, by Herg� Set entirely in Tintin's home country, chasing around the back streets of the capital (and Marlinspike manor) to track down the ...
We'll be maintaining an open thread for discussion of the US Election results tonight. It will open at 11pm tonight. Here are a few links which may help you get your head round what to expect and when to expect it: FiveThirtyEight has an excellent guide to the timings of the vote counts. Bear in mind that there are vastly more postal votes than usual this time. So results in some key states will not be available on election night. Florida, Georgia and North Carolina are the "needle states" singled out by the New York Times as providing good early ...
Today is the day politics nerds – and those who are deeply interested in the political fate of western civilisation – have been both anticipating and dreading for four years. The US presidential election. The chance for Trump to be judged on his presidency. For once, the hyperbole surrounding an election is fully justified – this really is the entire future of the western world we're talking about here. In 2016, I predicted on the day of the election that Donald Trump would win. I didn't employ any sophisticated psephology to come to this conclusion; I went with my gut. ...
When I saw the job advert for a party's Chief Technology Officer (CTO), I was very excited. As someone who works as a Head of Product Development for a startup, and has previously worked as a consultant specifically around digital strategy transformation, I see a great opportunity for the party. To me, it seems the party's current technology systems consist of tools that were bought off-the-shelf and are (mostly) perfectly good at doing what they were bought for. But these tools tend to be isolated, and coherence when trying to join things together, as anyone who's ever run a Typeform ...
As I write it is just over three and a half hours until the first American polling places open on what could be an historic (or disastrous) day for democracy. The Mirror is not wrong when they say that Trump is plotting the dirtiest US election fight in American history. Already we have seen voter suppression attempts across the country on an unprecedented scale and intimidation of voters and campaigners, while the President himself is said to be preparing to declare victory and cling to power irrespective of the outcome. The paper refers to reports suggesting the President is preparing ...
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Whoniversaries 3 November: Richard Hurndall, Creature From The Pit #2, Mark of the Berserker #1
i) births and deaths 3 November 1910: birth of Richard Hurndall, who played the First Doctor in The Five Doctors (1983). ii) broadcast anniversaries 3 November 1979: broadcast of second episode of The Creature from the Pit. Adrasta interrogates Romana and K9; the Doctor, now in the Pit, meets Organon and then the Creature. 3 November 2009: broadcast of first episode of Mark of the Berserker (SJA). Clyde's father turns up and takes possession of a peculiar pendant found by Rani and Luke. NB that Jocelyn Jee Esien, playing Clyde's mother, is only eight years older than Daniel Anthony, playing ...
Our Headline of the Day Award goes to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Last week, residents highlighted to me that on the foot/cycle path near the Roseangle playpark, a bollard required to be re-sited back in place. I have asked the City Council to attend to this.
