Carl Gombrich

Yes, I think you're wrong 😊

Had she been watching Al Jazeera, do you think?

Thank you! I'm in somewhat unchartered territory but take some comfort from the fact that I did rehab a nasty achilles tendinopathy and bursitis about 2.5 years ago - but it took me 10 months!

No. It's a constant cycle of work, feedback, evaluation, listening and response. And some day, who knows where and when, there will be an answer. 4/4

#Running
#Swimming
#cycling
#rehab
#training

There are no excuses. Many have overcome far, far more and succeeded. It is not a question of 'they have better genetics than me; my body isn't made for this'. Nor is it 'I'm a veteran athlete so things are different'. And it certainly isn't 'I can't stand the boredom and discomfort of this' 3/n

It's during periods like these that you learn most about yourself and your limits: how resilient can you be? How persistent? How adaptable?

How much do you want it? Isn't quite the right question, as the 'it' might have to change. 2/n

Dealing with endless hip tendinopathy at the moment: psoas, gluteal and trochanteric. Months and months with little progress and many setbacks.

My #training is currently around 20% of what it needs to be if I am to have the #triathlon season I planned and make it to European champs. 1/n

Er, you ARE sounding a bit like a bot now! Have we been strung along all this time @rogerc1981.bsky.social ?!

„The co‑host of the Fifa World Cup finals this summer is currently bombing one of its participating nations. The co‑host of the tournament has murdered the head of state of the third‑ranked team in Group G. Nothing quite like this has happened before.“

Yeah, he was a bad loser. Not a good look.

Doesn't change the fact that there was a helluva lot of dodgy voting going on, and that we need to change the possibility of that happening in any constituency.

How do you mean?

Terms of Reference.

Yep. I've had my say on the ToR. Have you had a go with them yet? I think we have til Friday?

Yes. There are many aspects to getting the grooming-rape gangs enquiry right. Obviously, more justice for victims and more convictions for criminals, but also a proper enquiry will reveal so much corruption throughout society.

I speak for myself and say: absolutely. This is about protecting democracy and public trust. Far more important than any particular political party.

How might we ever get to the bottom of whether Iran is An Existential Threat, or not?

There must be a way to vote remotely now using secure biometrics or something better than postal votes. This doesn't help at all, of course, with some of the block/family issues - and may even make some worse (e.g. easier to 'explain' things at home than in a polling booth) - but we need change.

Isn't it also that there is fundamental disagreement on what those challenges are?

Yes, I've been following Raja a long time. I'd still like to understand better exactly what he did wrong when he worked in schools. But whatever wrong-doing there has long been surpassed by his bravery and analysis of these issues.

A huge part of the scandal is that the authorities allowed this abuse to go on for so long because they lived in fear of being seen as racist and of raising "community tensions".

And for the first part of this, academia must take some responsibility for leading the discourse on racism. 2/2

More superb work from openjusticeuk.org on the grooming-gang transcripts.

Lots more work to do, of course, but so far the picture is really that religion and race were only - at worst- a *factor* in this mass crime, not the *cause*.

1/2

Polanski is a liar.

This is not the first time he has lied.

I doubt it will be the last.

I find these things almost as impossible to believe as the Big Bang.

Utterly amazing.

We just don't know anything, really.

I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo.

Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

100,000+ Underage Victims: This Has Been Going On Longer Than We Know… YouTube video by Winston Marshall

#groominggangs

Julie Bindel - 1.00 in - says "we have sacrificed hundreds of thousands of girls in the name of multiculturalism and community cohesion"

She identifies the Labour Party particular, and it would be fair to say all "progressives" as well

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uA...

The Green's have so much dangerous nonsense once you scratch the surface, ripe for exposure.

On any health-related issue, an attack would be particularly salient given Polanski's hyno-boob history.

(I can't quote-post the clip so it's screen-shot. The original is on the author's profile)

*vicious. Bloody hell 😳 🤣

Good comment. Look forward to more chats on here, hopefully 😊, although, so far I've found this place a mixture of sanctimonious, self-serving and viscious 😁

I disagree about the extent of success so far. There is a world of work still to do to smash these gangs - think Italian mafia 1970s-80s before the authorities and prosecutors Falcone and Borsellino started to get a proper grip.