e Using players as guinea pigs would wipe out Premier League's integrity | Paul Wilson By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T09:00:21Z The final league table will merit the biggest asterisk in history if teams are full of footballers who don’t want to be on the pitchAnyone who has spent the best part of an hour just waiting to cross a supermarket threshold in the past few weeks will be aware how quickly the outlandish becomes the new normal. Yet even in these strange days it was still odd to hear Gordon Taylor pop up on the radio with the suggestion that shortened games might be the solution to finishing the Premier League season sometime before the clocks go back.How that would have helped maintain the integrity of the competition or assisted those clubs worried they might be relegated in less than optimum circumstances remained unclear, for the Premier League was pooh-poohing the idea proposed by the Professional Footballers’ Association’s leader as ridiculous and unfounded within hours. Continue reading... Full Article Premier League Football Sport Football politics
e La Liga players test positive with five new cases confirmed in top two leagues By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T14:49:50Z Real Sociedad goalkeeper Remiro confirms positiveLa Liga plans to return without spectators in JuneFive players in Spain’s top two divisions have tested positive for Covid-19 since clubs began testing players and staff members last week, with the Real Sociedad goalkeeper Álex Remiro confirming himself as one of the cases.A statement from La Liga said the players would remain at home where they would continue individual training before being tested again “in the next few days” to determine whether they can return to their club’s training ground. Continue reading... Full Article La Liga Real Sociedad European club football Football Sport
e Bundesliga CEO adamant season will restart despite positive tests at Dresden By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T16:36:23Z Dresden players sent home after two test positive‘We are not changing our plans,’ says Christian SeifertThe Bundesliga is keen to press ahead with plans to restart the season for the top two tiers next weekend, despite Dynamo Dresden’s squad being quarantined for two weeks.Dresden’s players were sent home after two tested positive for coronavirus. This means the second tier club cannot play their first two games of the restart – against Hannover on 17 May and against Fürth the following weekend. Continue reading... Full Article Bundesliga European club football Football Sport
e Nathan Redmond: 'It's difficult to post a TikTok video if you've lost 1-0' | David Hytner By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T17:00:30Z The Covid-19 lockdown has given the midfielder the chance to show his acting skills outside the Southampton changing roomNathan Redmond hustles towards the camera, suited up, fedora jauntily perched and when he starts to lip-sync, the voice is that of Carter – the character played by Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 3. It is the scene involving him, Master Yu and Mi and, for those who have not seen it, has Carter getting into a word-play tangle as he questions Yu and Mi. “Who are you? Yu. No, not me, you. Yes, I am Yu.” It goes from there. Related: 'People's lives depend on it': the sacked English defender left in limbo | Sid Lowe Continue reading... Full Article Southampton Football Sport
e Global report: Covid-19 cases rise in Germany as Wuhan reports first infection in weeks By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T15:17:58Z Global infections surpass 4m; cluster detected in Dordogne, new cases highlight risks as lockdowns easedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew coronavirus infections rose again in Germany at the end of last week, a few days after leaders loosened social restrictions, while the Chinese city of Wuhan announced it had detected its first case in weeks, helping to push the global total past 4m on Sunday.On the eve of the UK starting to ease its lockdown on Monday, the new cases in Germany and China illustrated the difficulties governments will face over the next months as they attempt to reopen their societies without triggering a second wave of infections. Continue reading... Full Article Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Science World news Medical research Europe Germany China France South Korea Spain
e 'People feel a bit nervous': France braces for end of lockdown By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T14:11:02Z As schools and businesses get set to reopen some citizens urge caution, wary of a spike in infectionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFrance is set to end eight weeks of strict lockdown as the government urged people to behave responsibly to avoid a sudden spike in coronavirus cases.Hours before the national déconfinement there were reports of two new Covid-19 clusters in départments designated green – areas where the virus has largely stopped circulating and where most restrictions are being lifted. Continue reading... Full Article France Coronavirus outbreak Paris Europe Infectious diseases Science World news
e Little Richard obituary By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T11:03:57Z Prime force of rock’n’roll who made an explosive impact with songs such as Tutti Frutti, Good Golly, Miss Molly, Lucille and Long Tall SallyLittle Richard, who has died aged 87, was the self-proclaimed king of rock’n’roll. Such was his explosive impact that many of the baby boom generation will vividly recall the moment when they first encountered his assault on melody. Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom! That first hit, Tutti Frutti, released in October 1955, was wild, delicious gibberish from a human voice as no other, roaring and blathering above a band like a fire-engine run amok in the night. We glimpsed a new universe. The Sinatra-sophisticats were slain with a shout. Enter glorious barbarity, chaos and sex. With a few others – Fats Domino, Bill Haley, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly – Little Richard laid down what rock’n’roll was to be like, and he was the loudest, hottest and most exhibitionist of them all. Continue reading... Full Article Little Richard Pop and rock Music US news World news Georgia New Orleans Christianity Film US television
e Lockdown diary: 'There's a gran isolating in a tree communicating by catapult!' By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T14:00:26Z Like man buns on scooters and ukulele busking, Covid-19 has now spread to the north from London – inspiring a coronavirus soapcom from our self-isolating comedy-writerUp here in the north-west, we’re used to living in the slipstream of London’s sleek urban shenanigans. Whatever the cultural breakthrough – man buns on scooters, cashless ukulele busking, emotional support bees – it takes a while to reach the Lancaster and Morecambe Non-Metropolitan Area. If it ever does.A Street Stranger Watch leads to a death and the appearance at midnight of the street’s original Victorian inhabitants Continue reading... Full Article Comedy Coronavirus outbreak Culture Coronation Street Soap opera Television Television & radio
e William Smethurst obituary By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-17T15:07:26Z Radio and TV producer who revitalised The Archers during his tenure as editorDespite being a soft-spoken Lancastrian of mild-mannered appearance, the writer and producer William Smethurst, who has died aged 71, was known to his detractors in radio and television as “Butcher Bill”. But the ruthless skills combined with mischievous flair that he displayed as editor of The Archers for eight years from 1978 were widely credited with saving Radio 4’s flagging rural soap opera and making it the cult show it later became. Smethurst was the man who licensed writers to scandalise sleepy Ambridge and once persuaded Princess Margaret to make a guest appearance.He was less successful when Central TV lured him from BBC Pebble Mill in Birmingham to pull off the same trick with Crossroads, its Midlands motel saga, which had run out of steam. Smethurst ditched Tony Hatch’s theme tune, killed off characters (much as he had Dan and Doris Archer), and made the plots (and scenery) more credible and the cast much more glamorous, with the help of the motel swimming pool he installed. Some critics preferred its previous awfulness and the show folded in 1988. Continue reading... Full Article Radio The Archers Culture Television & radio BBC Media
e Race relations in 2016: much to deplore but plenty to applaud By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-18T12:15:01Z No one should be complacent about racism but the story is rarely as straightforward as some commentators routinely assertIn my city neighbourhood this summer a man on the run from police custody hit a black woman in the face. Understandably, she reported it as a racial attack. Except it probably wasn’t. The runaway also hit a boy when his mother opened the door and tried to spray another woman’s hair red at a bus stop. He had mental health problems.Not much harm done in this instance. But it’s one reason why I don’t often write about race relations in modern Britain, though I first did so 50 years ago when many aspects of them were pretty grim. Continue reading... Full Article Race Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Politics UK news Society
e EU referendum two months on: the 10 steps that led to Brexit By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-22T11:57:16Z As the dust settles, hindsight makes the chain of events that culminated in UK’s vote to leave easier to discern It is two months since British voters surprised themselves by deciding to end the UK’s 43-year relationship with the European Union – “independence day” to some and “the worst political decision since 1945” to others. As stunned political leaderships on both sides of the Channel continue dithering about what to do next, it is worth looking back at the origins of a crisis the EU elite had not expected. Continue reading... Full Article Foreign policy UK news Brexit European Union Europe Politics
e Who lives at No 9 Downing Street? By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-22T16:15:06Z The anatomy of Downing Street is complicated. The prime minister doesn’t live at No 10, No 9 has become a power address since the Brexit vote, and then there’s the house at the end …No 9: That’s the boring property next to the security gates on the west side of Whitehall, the one that TV news crews never bother to film because it leads a quiet life. All this may change now that it is set to become Brexit HQ, David Davis’s centre of Leave EU planning, or possibly of panic, plots and pique. No 9 used to be the office of the judicial committee of the privy council until that moved into the old Middlesex Guildhall along with the new-fangled supreme court in 2009. In recent years, it has been the office of the chief whip, though their official address remains No 12. But Davis, an old Whitehall hand, refused to be fobbed off with a base so far from Theresa May that it was almost in Wales. He has what he wants: his officials have a power address. Related: Boris Johnson forced to share mansion with Liam Fox and David Davis Continue reading... Full Article Politics UK news Brexit European Union Foreign policy Theresa May David Davis
e Owen Smith may not beat Jeremy Corbyn, but he passed the Today test | Michael White By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-24T11:51:13Z As he tussled with John Humphrys on Radio 4, the Labour leadership challenger sounded confident, articulate and humanListening to the radio this morning I had an experience I realised I’d almost forgotten. It was the sound of a Labour politician being combatively quizzed on Radio 4 by Today’s John Humphrys in the key 8.10 spot and giving confident, articulate answers in return. When did I last hear that, I wondered?What follows here isn’t a party political broadcast for Owen Smith. For the first time since Labour’s glittering leadership contest to succeed Harold Wilson in 1976 – Callaghan versus Healey, Foot, Crosland, Jenkins and Benn – he’s a leadership contender whom OAP Mike doesn’t really know. Continue reading... Full Article Labour party leadership Labour Politics Jeremy Corbyn Owen Smith
e Resentful Americans turn a blind eye to Trump's faults By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-25T14:12:19Z The candidate’s excesses appeal to voters who feel marginalised and for whom the temptation is to blur reality and illusionWhenever I think about the dysfunctional horror of the looming presidential election in America – so weird that Nigel Farage can pop up in Mississippi on the Trump campaign – I can’t get Susan Sarandon or Plato out of my mind. Let’s talk first about the actor. When did Plato make a decent movie, eh?A few weeks ago Sarandon gave a magazine interview to an overawed writer in which she set out her well-known political stall as a radical feminist who backed Bernie Sanders and doesn’t think much of Hillary Clinton. “There’s nothing about her I find feminist except that she’s a woman,” she said. Continue reading... Full Article Donald Trump US elections 2016 Nigel Farage US politics
e Rip-off Britain is going to get worse as the purse strings tighten By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-30T13:52:04Z From parking fines to airline fares, society’s financialisation is seeing the collective cake shrink as the rich claim an ever larger sliceIt is the dog end of August and the sun is shining in many places. A cue for all sorts of predatory people in the thriving British holiday trades to rip off customers who don’t always have a choice and feel ambushed.In a remote and empty Lake District car park the other day my sister fell foul of an unclear car parking regime. It led to a fine being levied for outstaying the time she had paid for by a few minutes. It happens to us all. In crowded Notting Hill last week, a man told me his car had once been given a penalty notice while he was away at the ticket machine paying his £1.60 for 30 minutes. Related: Corbyn promises to 'democratise the internet' - Politics live Continue reading... Full Article Politics Business Consumer affairs UK news Consumer rights
e The Brexit debate needs more tolerance on both sides | Michael White By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-08-31T12:15:24Z Bad sportsmanship is not confined to either camp. Let’s have more signs of mutual respect across the divideI’m trying to cure this summer’s unattractive impulse before it turns into a bad habit. Whenever I see someone doing something stupid or self-harming like jumping an orange light on a bike or getting tattooed from neck to ankle, I want to shout: “Brexit voter.”It’s not nice and it’s not fair. I’m trying to stop. As Theresa May’s divided cabinet meets to decide where to go next, ministers and demoralised Whitehall officials should refrain from recrimination too. The “phoney war” lull before the negotiation storm is about to end. Continue reading... Full Article Brexit Politics UK news
e Can Labour win an election under Corbyn? Readers debate By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-09-29T13:00:00Z Catch up on our discussion looking at whether Labour can win under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership 2.05pm BST We’re going to close comments shortly - thanks for taking part in the debate today. We’ll have another one next Thursday lunchtime. 1.57pm BST The Labour Party will not win the next general election, but that isn’t the right way of looking at the problem. Labour is in the midst of the same crisis as its sister social-democratic parties across Europe, with one twist: as evidenced by all those new members, it is also home to the kind of new, insurgent politics we’ve seen with Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, the Bernie Sanders campaign in the US etc. Time spent this week at Momentum’s A World Transformed event in Liverpool reminded me that a great deal of Labour and the left’s future lies with some of the people involved (I’ve written a column about this, out later today), but a watershed moment is probably going to be a long time coming. As things stand, most of what we know takes the form of negatives: that the politics of New Labour are dead, that Labour is dangerously estranged from its old working class base, that the party is pretty much finished in Scotland. What happens next is unclear: my own belief is that it will have involve Labour embracing changing the voting system, creating a politics beyond work and the worker, and understanding that amassing a critical mass of support will involve other forces and parties. All this will take time. 1.57pm BST Can Labour win without electoral reform? Certain prominent Labour MPs have been convinced of the merits of proportional representation, and Chris, a reader from Exeter, thinks Labour needs to be thinking in terms of a progressive alliance.The future of British politics is coalitions and he can lead a combination of Labour / Lib Dem and Greens with support from SNP. He can reach out to those who are outside the current voting patterns and disenfranchised - which is a far greater number is the vote for 16 year olds can be passed. What really needs to change is our voting system so it takes account of proportional representation. A system where a government is formed out of 40% choice is not representative and also unfair to smaller parties 1.52pm BST Thanks everyone, we now have 10 minutes left to discuss. Please get any final points in while you can. 1.41pm BST Looking at the Labour party in its current state – confused, conflict-ridden and in desperate need of coherent strategy – it would be easy to assume that electoral success is off the cards for the foreseeable future. Certainly, current polling suggests the party is on track to lose dozens of seats unless something changes.It’s fairly widely accepted that Labour is in need of some new ideas for the 21st century. Encouragingly, these issues do seem to be being discussed. The Momentum conference fringe event was buzzing with energy and many speakers were tackling difficult topics such as automation and the possibility of a citizens income. Many politicians are also keen to explore similar themes, Jonathan Reynolds MP immediately springs to mind. 1.40pm BST How will the triggering of article 50 affect Labour’s chances? If Labour are to benefit from Conservative turmoil over Europe, what line should the party take on negotiations? Jamie, 37, from Sheffield, sees opportunities:Corbyn undoubtedly needs to reach out to the political centre. But we should not underestimate the trouble brewing for the Tories. This is Theresa May’s honeymoon period but already the cracks are beginning to show. Brexit, specifically the failure to trigger article 50, is a time bomb waiting to go off for the Conservative party. With a slim majority, a Eurosceptic rebellion could see off this government at any moment.A Labour majority is difficult to imagine. But a coalition with Labour as the largest party? Entirely achievable. 1.31pm BST A more optimistic view from a commenter, who believes the terms of the debate - particularly on austerity - have shifted to the extent that Labour’s only viable future is one where it tacks to the left.Before Corbyn, Labour is going the way of PASOK in Greece - a pro-austerity embarrassment of a Party surviving on the remembered fumes of the Trade Union movement. Since Corbyn became Labour the membership has doubled and the Party has shifted the debate inexorably to the Left. Austerity, as a proclaimed intent, is finished. Not even the Tories can promote themselves as the Party of inequality and free enterprise. Of course, it'll take time for the ideas which have reclaimed the Labour Party to percolate outwards, and it won't be a smooth transition as the Right doing everything in their power to stop Labour, but it's a start of something better. 1.20pm BST Readers responding to our form have been making the point that until Labour moves public opinion on key narratives, it’s going to be very difficult for them to make electoral headway. How can the party develop a reputation for economic competence when many voters still blame them for the 2008 economic crash?Here’s the view of Martin, a registered Labour supporter in Sheffield:The SNP have shown that the country is ready to elect an anti-austerity government. A government that actually provides excellent public services will find a public willing to bear the cost up to point. There is a lot that needs to go their way - but I still feel that the main challenge is to change the narrative on the economy. Until we can change the narrative that investment can be positive for the economy, or that cuts aren’t effective in dealing with debt it will be difficult to get anywhere with undecided voters. 1.04pm BST This is an interesting comment – making points about the fact that Jeremy Corbyn spent his career on backbenches. What do you think? Is he not very good at preaching to the non-converted? Or is he a man of the people?No one would think of appointing a CEO of a major company who had no experience at a relatively senior management level, yet this is what the Labour Party has done with Jeremy Corbyn – and Leader of the Opposition is at least as demanding a role as leading a global corporation in terms of the organisational and negotiating skills, strategic vision, stamina, drive, pragmatism and media savviness required. Corbyn looks like what he is – someone who has spent his entire career on the backbenches, free to follow his own principles and unaccustomed with the burden of having to make compromises and prioritise. And who is now out of his depth. 1.03pm BST We’re trying out a new poll tool. Let us know what you think in the comments - and don’t forget to vote! 12.43pm BST A commenter below the line makes the reasonable point that it’s all far too early to tell. Given the upheavals seen in domestic and international politics over the past few years, predicting the 2020 election is very difficult - particularly with the full effects of Brexit still to come.The next election is most likely three and a half years away during which time we will experience the unprecedented upheaval of leaving the EU. There is also issues around boundary changes, scottish independence, the relevance of UKIP, whether labour can resolve their internal issues and divisions within the tory government. So on that basis nobody can say that Labour are not going to win the next election.In the run up to the 2010 election the tories managed to paint the 2008 crash as caused by Labour and argued they were not economically responsible, yet could not win outright power. And against Gordon Brown of all people.During the 2015 election campaign the tories maintained the argument, cast Ed Miliband as the son of Britain hater, glorified their own work on the economy since 2010, scapegoated the Lib Dems and saw the SNP all but obliterate Labour in Scotland, yet only managed a 17 seat majority.Who wins the next election is pure guesswork, mine is that nobody wins outright. 12.40pm BST Possible path to victory. 1. An electoral pact. The right win because they always vote together as one big monolith. Our turn. The scare of a small handful of Tories going over to UKIP was enough to panic Cameron into a Brexit referendum. I'm in a supposed Tory safe seat but the truth is that if you counted the Lib Dem and Labour vote together, we would comfortably win. That's repeated up and down the country. An electoral pact means not standing candidates against the most likely to win. It also means people can vote strategically yet maintain allegiance with the party of their conscience.2. Stand a Labour candidate in Northern Ireland to recover ground lost in Scotland3. Try and win over the 40% of non-voters.4. As far as immigration is concerned, it really isn't rocket science. Saying Labour will build 60k new council homes a year is great but it is also arbitrary. Labour should go a bit further and say "we will institute whatever policy is necessary and build however many homes are required to make sure that house and rent prices don't outstrip wages, and if we can't achieve that, we'll look to reduce immigration" 12.33pm BST One repeated criticism of Corbyn’s electoral strategy is that he doesn’t do enough to reach out to the centre: the kind of voters with no fixed political allegiance, the kind of voted for Blair in 1997 but were more convinced by David Cameron in 2015.One ready, a 46 year old Labour member from Brighton, got in touch to say there’s another way of winning: by reaching out to those who don’t currently vote.At the moment more that 35% of the eligible voters in the UK don’t vote. This is equal to or more than the number of eligible voters that voted Tories to win the last election. Most of these people are mostly not taken into account by pollsters. In my view, Corbyn is connecting with this group of eligible voters. If he can bring them into play in a large number, together with the traditional labour voters that remain loyal to the party, he has a credible path to victory. 12.27pm BST An interesting comment from a reader below the line who suggests Corbyn does something to surprise voters.For Corbyn to win he will need to do something big to convince enough Tories, Liberals and swing voters to vote for him - that's just the mathematical reality. It will be painful for him and his loyal membership perhaps, but he'll need to have at least one or two proposals that make this voting group sit up and say 'wow, I wouldn't have expected him to say that!', it's called cognitive dissonance and is used in advertising to cut through a crowded market place and change brand perceptions. New Labour understood this; the end of Clause 4, being relaxed about the filthy rich, keeping to Tory spending plans for two years, and making the BoE independent all raised hell in the party, but were highly effective in changing damaging perceptions very quickly and forced the wider electorate to reconsider the brand. There is a downside of course; he will get slated by many on his own side and that hurts, but he has their votes already, he needs to hold his nose and put forward policies that appeal directly to the voters of his opposition. 12.07pm BST In a year when Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House has moved from ugly fantasy to likely outcome it would take a very rash old political hack to say without reservation: “Labour cannot win a general election with Jeremy Corbyn as its leader.”That’s what I think, of course. I do so on the basis of 40 years watching mainstream British politics from a ringside seat inside what my Twitter detractors routinely call the “Westminster bubble” - as if Momentum activists or Ukip Brexiteers don’t live in a tiny confirmation biased bubble of their own. 12.01pm BST Comments are now open. For those without a commenting account, there’s also a form you can fill in at the start of the live blog. 11.46am BST We’ve been hearing from Labour members on whether they think the party can turn around its electoral fortunes - keep the views coming, though we’re happy to hear from non-Labour members too. What would it take for you to vote for the party under Corbyn, and what put you off voting for them in 2015? On opinion, we hear from a Labour member who vows to be more engaged in communicating the party message.Our engagement isn’t just about reassuring the Labour faithful. The polls are a stark reminder of just how much work there is to do. We must turn the party into a movement that can be radical, and can win. As Corbyn said in his speech at conference, this wave of new members is in fact a “vast democratic resource” – not, as some people see it, a threat. Related: New Labour members like me need to do more - it’s time to get involved 10.53am BST Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave his keynote speech to conference on Wednesday, relaunching his stewardship of the party by outlining his agenda for the country under a Labour government.Responding to critics who accuse Corbyn of being more interested in campaigning than the more complicated and compromise-strewn business of winning general elections, Corbyn said: Related: Jeremy Corbyn’s critics must decide: unity or terminal decline | Owen Jones Continue reading... Full Article Labour Jeremy Corbyn Politics Labour party leadership Owen Smith UK news
e Will Britain's exit from the EU be bad for business? Readers debate By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-10-06T13:08:59Z Catch up on our debate on Theresa May’s plans to push ahead with Brexit and what this means for workers and business 2.08pm BST Nearly four months after June 23’s fateful Brexit vote, even more half baked nonsense is still being talked by both sides than was spouted during the shabby campaign. Nothing is clear except that it is all going to be a lot trickier to disengage from the EU than some foolish people said – and still say despite mounting evidence to the contrary.So my starting point is one of humility as I learn stuff I didn’t known before. It’s safe to say that some things will be better outside the EU, others worse, some sectors and individuals will thrive, others languish. The consequences of Britain’s leap in the dark – 37% of the total electorate voted Brexit by a very slender margin – are still largely unknown for all 28 members states. Only charlatans and romantics pretend otherwise.If we left the EU, we would end this sterile debate and we would have to recognize that most of our problems are not caused by Brussels, but by chronic British short termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and underinvestment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure.” 1.57pm BST We will be wrapping up the debate in the next four minutes, but we welcome any final comments and remarks.We will keep comments open until 2.15pm 1.56pm BST A view from Nigel Stern, who runs a design agency in London:The biggest impact will hiring staff with the right skills. It’s already almost impossible to find skilled staff for our design agency - I say this having battled to keep an Australian whose Visa ran out, and lost the battle. I can’t imagine how difficult it will be when Brexit happens. Good skills are literally the biggest growth driver, so for my business Brexit is a disaster waiting to happen 1.43pm BST An anonymous take from a bookseller, who thinks that Brexit will be bad for business and will have profound consequences for non-British citizens living and working in the UK.I am a small on-line antiquarian and used bookseller. Since Brexit I have noticed an uptick in sales to the United States, but I have noticed a distinct decline in sales to Europe, though they do still take place. The effect of Brexit on Europe’s perception of Britain as a country is very negative - and the announcements from the Tory party conference will only reinforce the impression that Britain is not opening up for business. In fact, the very reverse: closing down for business and pursuing policies of discrimination against foreigners, especially from Europe. The level of discrimination against immigrants from Europe is most definitely alienating what should be Britain’s closest friends. As someone with a slight foreign accent I no longer feel entirely safe in this country. A hard Brexit would be a disaster for me - as many books go abroad and the customs paperwork would add a considerable workload as well as extra costs in the case of more valuable books. There literally is not a single advantage to be derived from Brexit except for the lower pound, which could have been lowered by other means which would have done far less damage to Britain’s economy and society. I don’t know whether in future I will be able to continue business in this country and am wondering whether to move elsewhere. 1.33pm BST News of job losses in Scotland are alarming.The Scottish economy would suffer a severe shock if the UK has a “hard Brexit”, losing up to 80,000 jobs and seeing wages fall by £2,000 a head per year, an economics thinktank has warned. The Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI) has told the Scottish parliament that entirely leaving the EU single market – known as a hard Brexit – would see the Scottish economy decline by 5% overall, or by £8bn within a decade. Related: Hard Brexit could cost Scotland £2,000 a head and 80,000 jobs 1.21pm BST One commenter says that Brexit will cause some economic pain, although the extent of this is not yet known.What we know for sure is that Brexit of any substantial kind will certainly cause some economic pain in the short, medium, and long-term, from breaking existing trading relationships and loss of easy access to a large pool of human capital. The additional opportunities, on the other hand, are all long to very long-term, and are uncertain and beyond the UK's control. Even the bits which are under the UK's control (like massive investment in training and education in a way which actually achieves something instead of pfaffing around with needless re-structuring and testing kids to the edge of mental breakdown) are all things that would have made sense before, so it's optimistic to imagine that they'll happen in a future where the public finances are under more pressure than ever before (once Brexit decline takes hold). 1.16pm BST Here’s a view from Richard Rose, who is worried about Brexit’s impact on the car industry.I am an engineer working at Rolls-Royce in Derby but I have spent most of my working life so far in the car industry. I am 100% certain that if the UK Brexits out of the single market, it can wave ¾ of its car industry goodbye within 5 years. The idea of replacing the current arrangement with one of tit-for-tat tariffs on cars sold into and out of the UK is preposterous – we will be in the absurd situation of paying taxpayers’ cash to car companies in the form of ongoing subsidies, and every successive government will be looking for ways to reduce or avoid these payments every four years. The whole arrangement sounds ridiculous and seeing as all the manufacturers who build here have sites inside the Eurozone where they can avoid all that uncertainty, what do you think they’ll do? Its keeping me awake at night as I feel ‘my’ industry is potentially about to be rendered economically unviable just as my right to live and work abroad is being curtailed. 12.54pm BST Quitting the European Union’s single market is considered bad for business unless you belong to the small band of economists who believe that Brussels’ employment and environmental protections stifle innovation, that maintaining a low pound is easier outside the EU, and restrictions on migrants is unlikely to ever be enforced.But the threat from Nissan to switch investment in its next car away from the north east without some form of compensation is the clearest indication yet that multinationals based in the UK to benefit from the single market are going to drift away as they consider an upgrade or new factory that would be cheaper abroad. 12.46pm BST John Flahive, 51, a documentary producer and sales agent, is concerned about the implications of a “hard Brexit” on his business.The impact on business is inevitably negative. At the moment we have free movement of goods throughout the EU, all I have to do in my own business is put an address on a shipment and off it goes. It’s just not possible for whatever is put in its place to improve on that.A ‘trade deal’ usually involves reduced tariffs which is a dis-improvement on no tariffs at all. This would bring back customs paperwork and all the associated admin, whereas currently we have none at all. There is no upside, only a downside. 12.42pm BST This has just launched online. Polly Toynbee asks why the health secretary would insult the one third of our doctors who were born abroad by suggesting that they’re only “interim”.Hunt’s claim that we will be “self-sufficient” in medical staff is nonsense – and he knows it. These new doctors won’t qualify as consultants until 2030, while everywhere has ageing populations and the WHO estimates a global shortage of 2 million doctors. The number of people in Britain over the age of 85 will double by 2037 – and who is to care for them if we chase away all foreigners? Related: Telling NHS doctors to go home is self-harming madness | Polly Toynbee 12.36pm BST An interesting take from one commenter below the line:The main reason I don't think it'll be good for business is the way it is and has effected Britain's image around Europe and probably the world. Made in Britain isn't actually very popular in Europe at the moment. When I am with my girlfriend in Spain what image of Britain is on the television? Farage, Boris Johnson and their xenophobic rhetoric. After all it's the consumers who are the most important when it comes to our exports. Do you really want to buy goods from a nation who's image is one of distaste and xenophobia to their neighbours. Look at the effect the Iraq war had on French products in the U.S when they went ( rightfully ) against the Iraq war.... Everything Farage and Boris do is making it far easier for the E.U to take a tough stance in negotiations with support from their people. Especially when they act so arrogantly by saying the E.U has too much to lose and will have to take any deal we offer. Brexiters seem to have no idea on how politics will effect us more than anything else. 12.25pm BST Comments are open below the line and our debate is underway. Kicking us off from the form is a small business owner in the south east of England, who has noted a definite impact of the vote:I’ve already seen an impact in car buying attitudes in the months following the referendum. Traditionally, September is a busy time for my business (my company move new and used cars around the U.K.) and already the volume of movements compared to March and this time last year is worrying.Every dealership I visit, staff say the same thing; “It’s unusually quite for this time of year”. The uncertainty created by the referendum is clearly having an affect and I worry for the future of my business once article 50 is triggered. If people are out of work they won’t be buying cars, meaning I won’t be moving them round the U.K. 12.22pm BST Polly Toynbee raised some interesting questions about the impact of hard Brexit this week. She wrote:As speech after speech salutes “taking back control” as “a fully independent sovereign country”, only old sober-sides Philip Hammond throws cold water. There is a price to pay, he warns. He didn’t disagree with Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that Brexit will cost the UK 4% in growth in coming years. Related: Will Theresa May be the next Tory leader to be bulldozed by the Europhobes? | Polly Toynbee 11.02am BST Theresa May made one thing perfectly clear during this year’s Conservative party conference: Brexit means Brexit.The Tory leader said controlling immigration and withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the European court of justice would be her priorities during European Union (EU) exit. She says Article 50 will be triggered before the end of March 2017. Continue reading... Full Article Politics Brexit European Union Europe Foreign policy UK news World news
e Michael White reflects on 45 years as a Guardian journalist By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2016-10-28T10:21:29Z As the former political editor and columnist retires, he considers his career at the paper and the greatest scoop he never wroteMichael White, the Guardian’s assistant editor, retired last week after almost 45 years at the paper as a reporter, foreign correspondent and columnist. He was political editor from 1990-2006, Washington correspondent (1984-88) and parliamentary sketch writer (1977-84). Here he reflects on his Guardian career.When did you first know you wanted to be a journalist?I was never a student journalist but, after failing a few interviews for industry in my final student year, I decided – correctly – that I am by nature an observer, not a doer. I was lucky in my timing: 1966 was a very good time to embark on a career in journalism. Continue reading... Full Article Membership The Guardian National newspapers Media Newspapers Newspapers & magazines
e Hanging out with the Alice Cooper band - archive, 30 June 1972 By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2017-06-30T04:30:09Z 30 June 1972: The much-maligned Alice Cooper band is about to perform at the Empire Pool, Wembley. At the weekend their bandwagon rolled into Pittsburgh and Michael White flew over to hear themLadies and Gentleman, I give you a great American success story. If not from log cabin to White House, then at least from modest beginnings in Phoenix, Arizona, whence also sprang Jenny Jerome and Barry Goldwater, to Greenwich, Connecticut, home of some of the Republic’s super-rich. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the Alice Cooper rock band. There’s no point in pretending it’s a conventional success story, not on the surface anyway. Media penetration in the United States reached what must have been a high point last week with an Alice Cooper item in the Wall Street Journal. Over here there’s a feeling among the cognoscenti that what Billboard has described as “the best theatrical rock ‘n’ roll show since the Stones” needs more than the one previous live airing it got at the Rainbow Theatre last year to make its full impact. Hence Alice’s concert at the Empire Pool, Wembley, this evening. Related: Alice Cooper: 'Rock music was looking for a villain' Related: How to access the Guardian and Observer digital archive Continue reading... Full Article Alice Cooper Music Pop and rock Culture
e Howard Green obituary By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2018-03-18T16:26:55Z Howard Green, who has died aged 91, was my first editor, a journalist of the old school who worked his way up from junior reporter at 15 to the board of Thomson Regional Newspapers (TRN) when it was a force in the British regional press.In the mid-1960s he was a key player in the plans of his Canadian proprietor, Lord (Roy) Thomson of Fleet, to ring London with new evening papers, located on the emerging motorway network and printed on state-of-the-art web offset presses. With well-run local papers still profitable, the big idea was eventually to print and distribute Fleet Street newspapers away from the clutches of its famously disruptive unions. Continue reading... Full Article Newspapers Reading Media Newspapers & magazines Conservatives
e How to change a prime minister – Politics Weekly podcast By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2018-10-25T15:58:46Z Jessica Elgot is joined by Michael White, Katy Balls and John Crace to discuss Theresa May’s future. Also this week: Jonathan Holslag explains how patterns in history can help us predict today’s political upheavalsAfter a week in which anonymous Tory MPs briefed violent rhetoric to the Sunday papers, and rumours once again swirled around Westminster about a confidence vote, Theresa May faced down her critics at the Conservative party’s 1922 Committee. She emerged looking stronger than she has for weeks, but for how long can she continue to survive in her own hostile environment? Continue reading... Full Article Politics Theresa May Conservatives Brexit European Union Conservative leadership 1922 Committee UK news
e From the archive: Coca-Cola changes its formula – 25 April 1985 By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2019-04-25T04:30:41Z 25 April 1985: The new taste is said to be smoother, rounder and bolder, not to mention more harmoniousThe hard-nosed men of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday made a snap judgment on the most sensational news in the mighty American soft drinks industry for 99 years. Without even trying the new, sweeter formula Coca-Cola, they backed the initial shock reaction of the amateurs: it tastes more like Pepsi.By lunchtime yesterday Coca-Cola shares had taken another 1.50 cent pounding on top of the 1.60 they sustained in late trading after the new formula was officially unveiled on Monday, despite the assurances of Coke’s chairman, Mr Roberto Goizueta, that the new taste is smoother, rounder and bolder, not to mention more harmonious. Reporters disagreed. Related: Milk Coke: another classic from the nation that invented Cheeky Vimto Continue reading... Full Article Coca-Cola Food & drink industry Soft drinks Pepsico
e How Theresa May’s exit compares with other difficult departures from No 10 By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2019-05-26T07:00:07Z The Guardian’s former political editor revisits humiliating prime ministerial resignations from Robert Peel to David CameronBoth Brexit camps claim Sir Robert Peel, the Tory moderniser whose 1846 resignation crisis most resembles May’s. But he had succeeded where she failed. Determined to cut food prices for industrial workers, Peel pushed through repeal of protectionist Corn Laws with opposition help. In retaliation, rightwing enemies defeated his Irish Coercion bill. Peel resisted Queen Victoria’s appeal to stay, but grateful crowds cheered him as he walked to the Commons to resign. He slipped out by a side door, but was spotted and cheered home. Divided Tories lost office for 20 years. Continue reading... Full Article Theresa May David Cameron Gordon Brown Margaret Thatcher
e Opting for quarterly return By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 13:37:12 GMT I want to opt for quarterly return but by mistake i opt for monthly returnhow can i rectify this? Full Article
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e Gst Cancelation By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 14:30:21 GMT Hi everyone. One of my client is having textile retail business and he has taken Composition scheme. He had closed his business in Jan 2020. There are stock Leying with him. While canceling his registration whether he need to pay tax on stock? What are the docs. required in order to cancel the Regis Full Article
e GSTR9 REPORTING OF ITC By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:08:45 GMT A sum of Rs. 413460.00 being the ITC available under head IGST for the financial year 2017-18 was claimed in the financial year 2018-19 in August 2018 through FORM GSTR3B, now while filing form GSTR9 for the financial year 2018-19 where to show this ITC as the form is showing difference in 6(J) t Full Article
e Interest on Fd, paid by the bank and TDS deducted By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:22:23 GMT sir required help received statement from the bank for my FD's investments in the SBI bank, regarding Interest paid and TDS deducted , But unable to understand how to pass entries in the books of accounts,,------------------------------------------------------------ Full Article
e Reg: E way Bill By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 16:25:01 GMT Dear sir, IAM a registered taxpayer payer in telangana, I have purchased some goods from Maharashtra seller and sold in same state...the movement of goods are with in the state of Maharashtra..my Query is how can generate E way bill in above situation..is it possible to generate.. Full Article
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e Refund of Unutilized ITC By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:03:13 GMT A Company is registered in different States under GST, having Branches in those States. The Company used to raise Invoices to their Branches (cross billing) by charging IGST. But, the outward Supply in those States is not so much that could utilize the ITC of IGST, being accumulated due to the "cros Full Article
e TDS Under 195 Clause andamp; 15CA By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:48:06 GMT My firm takes IT projects from an online Service based Marketplace www.guru.com; where Websoft Inc (doing business as Guru.com) is an entity from Pittsburgh, USA and they charge a certain percentage (%) of the total project value as a "Project Fee" and also take a monthly fee as "Subscripttion F Full Article
e GST On Non-Resident Payments By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 18:10:00 GMT My firm takes IT projects from an online Service based Marketplace www.guru.com; where Websoft Inc (doing business as Guru.com) is an entity from Pittsburgh, USA and they charge a certain percentage (%) of the total project value as a "Project Fee" and also take a monthly fee as "Subscriptttion Full Article
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e Unemployment due to Covid-19 is surely worth more than a footnote | Larry Elliott By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T10:24:36Z The mental and physical stresses caused by fear of layoff have left many workers feeling suicidalCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe number of jobless people in the US rose by more than 20 million in April, something deemed worthy of a mention in the “and in other news” slot on the BBC’s evening TV bulletin.Sure, it was the 75th anniversary of VE day and there were socially distanced street parties to cover and archive footage of crowds gathered in front of Buckingham Palace to treasure. Continue reading... Full Article US unemployment and employment data US unemployment and employment statistics UK unemployment and employment statistics Business Economics Coronavirus outbreak US economy
e Section 192A of Income Tax Act By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 14:03:47 GMT I worked in a company for three years from 2016 to 2019 and as I attained 60 years, as per company policy they retired me. After this I applied for final withdrawal of PF from EPFO. I got the withdrawal amount, however they deducted Income Tax at 10% (TDS). Here my query is my service was only 3 years and due to my age I was not able to complete minimum age of 5 years and company as per the policy retired me. In this case can I claim refund of IT deducted. If so, under which section.Thanks in advance Full Article
e Change of Truck Details in E way bill By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 18:16:48 GMT Sir We have issued an e way bill whose validity has expired on 10 April , as per notification 40/2020 validity of e way bill is deemed to be extended till 31 may. In our case the truck is to be changed as the exisiting driver is not ready to take the load and the truck is standing at 1000 km away at Ajmer border. A new truck driver is ready to take the load. So kindly guide us how to change the truck number on e way bill as we are doing but no updation is allowed. Or no updation is required kindly give circular number in support of your claim. Full Article
e How to withdraw PPF by legal heirs but not nominee? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 18:56:17 GMT Hello Sir,some years ago, my brother committed suicide and died. He had a PPF account which i recently discovered.I found nominee details thru net banking. The name registered as Nominee doesn't even exist and we don't even know anyone with that name. Now what is the procedure to withdrawal funds? Full Article
e Ansible 383, June 2019 By news.ansible.uk Published On :: Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:31:00 GMT Full Article
e Jethro Tull — My Sunday Feeling By rightmusicvideo.d3.ru Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 18:44:15 GMT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBNO9RMubpM&feature=youtu.be Написал asergj на rightmusicvideo.d3.ru / комментировать Full Article шотландский электрический блюз
e "Насыщенный" / Bodied By movies.d3.ru Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 18:37:19 GMT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Heses2X2hTE Кино о том, как белый студент литературного факультета увлекся нигерской культурой и стал королем рэп–баттлов. Я–то думал, что это будет очередная банальная история про рождение новой звезды, а оказалось — смешная, легкая и очень бодрая сатира на политкорректные нравы. Здесь троллят воинствующих феминисток, ранимых гомосексуалистов, обиженных на весь мир азиатов, мамкиных гангстеров с их показушной маскулинностью и так далее. Эпизод с "добренькими" веганами, которые в случае чего тебя с говном сожрут, пересматривал два раза и ржал как конь. Снято ярко, броско, с визуальными финтифлюшками в духе "Скотта Пилигрима" (режиссер Джозеф Кан — известный клипмейкер, так что он умеет сделать эффектно и красиво). Думаю, интересно будет даже тем, кто, как и я, к рэпу равнодушен, тем более что кино не только о нем. В сюжет вплетены культурологические рассуждения о силе слова, о смешении культур и творческой этике, а главный герой носит майки с Достоевским и Набоковым и в баттлах рифмует "без мазы" и "Иван Карамазов" (ну, или что–то вроде того). Тоже приятно. КП (7) / IMDB (7,1) Написал жирноевутесах на movies.d3.ru / комментировать Full Article
e To be fair, Cayla’s daughter hasn’t appeared in this strip in years By joshreads.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 11:22:05 +0000 Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/10/20 Hey, everyone! Were you worried that Buck was going to be inconvenienced, even briefly, […] Full Article Dennis the Menace Funky Winkerbean Rex Morgan M.D.
e 10 useless fact on me, because I am bored By www.mychemicalromance.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:38:02 +0000 I am sorry that I have been gone for a pretty long time but now I am back so yeah 1- my birdthay is 21 July 2- My colour eye is blue 3- I freaking love reading 4- when I was younger I told my mother that in the future I want a library be a part of my house 5- i hate math, I wish that this never exist 6 - i am obsed with vampire, but I am scare of blood 7- I freaking love, witchcraft 8- Before I was hating art because I was unable to drawn something, but Gerard made me like this 9- I have a collection of stuffy 10- I am deep down in love with the MCRmy, you guys are incredible always cheer up even that we don't know each other bonus : i am famous now XD look at this: https://www.facebook.com/505322182/videos/10157492150367183/ at 0:54 sec you can see me ( I am the girl with eh black parade jacket :P) <3 Full Article Blog
e bruh moment extreme (update on myself ig) By www.mychemicalromance.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 16:30:28 +0000 okay i haven't posted on this site in w e e k s i think. i don't remember how to tell time. but like here's a story for you guys. so i drew the four killjoys in danger days (like party poison, kobra kid, etc) and it looked sick and i wanted to upload at least one of the drawings on here cuz i think i mentioned it on here but never like followed up?? and yeah here's why: it was friday or something two weeks ago and i literally fainted from dehydration on my way up the stairs to get water. the IRONY is enough to kill a man. it only lasted a split second but i hit my head on the kitchen floor because, well, i collapsed. and that was the day i would've uploaded crap on here but i felt so incredibly sick after that i just forgot. and i have been watching television like a maniac during quarantine, like i watched four movies back to back yesterday and i've been watching four shows at once and it's insane, but i love movies and fictional characters more than people in real life and all i gotta say is you watch one star wars movie, you watch all of them. so currently, half my life is TV. the other half is a mixure of various things. one, i'm tryna exercise more because i'm stuck in my house. i had fitness at school which was cool because we had a track field at weight room and had a lot of stuff to do, but i've been slacking because now i don't. however, last week my mom and i decided to work out together so it's been fun. running three days a week on the trail outside the house. it's pretty cool mostly cuz i've got no endurance and need to build that up. second, i've been writing/drawing a comic and a bunch of other things, outlining and coloring it and stuff, and that's really fun and also takes forever. and third, i've been playing bass and learning electric guitar. i picked up guitar super fast so i can already play a ton of songs but i wanna be able to SHRED because that's super cool. and you can always improve, so there's that. that takes a lot of time, too, because i mess around and come up with riffs and i look up and it's been two hours instead of ten minutes. so i've been really enjoying myself. and last thing, it's MOTHER'S DAY. and i love my mom like more than anything. she's so iconic. like. i can't even begin to express. we cleaned the kitchen for her while she was in the shower and like. mm. idk seeing my mom happy hits different. anyway. that's basically what i've been up to. i think i'll upload one of my drawings. if not today, it'll come eventually. so yeah. peace. Full Article Blog