Ruari McCallion

Heartbreaking.

I agree. "Common Era" is rather "white supremacist", if may use that phrase. Or imperialist, or something. Maybe just ignorance. Islam has a different calendar and Muslims are 20% of the global population. There is a Buddhist calendar, a Hindu calendar, Shinto calendar and probably several of which I am unaware. Using BC and AD makes clear exactly which calendar is being used.

@CantonaCymru @NigelHeal @danielanadj77 May 7 looked rather more like a total rejection of the Labour Party. Swathes of what were long considered its heartlands didn't return a single Labour MS.

@NigelHeal @danielanadj77 👍There were so many reasons; protest vote, English retirees, NHS, FB ads, anti-Cameron… too simple to say Wales said No to Europe. A far more accurate description of today’s Wales was shown on May7; a total rejection of Brexit/Reform and a curious look at inclusive nationalism.

Why are people so surprised that a majority of the audience on last night's Question Time want to be in the EU? That's what they voted for. Of course they did. Staying in the EU was always much more preferable than leaving. It's a shame English and Welsh voters didn't see that.

@progressive_ji @DanielJHannan I don't think the video evidence from the phone shows that, does it?

@DanielJHannan Nowak provoked Mr Digwa with a racist attack and Mr Digwa acted in self defence Its not hard

“Why the asymmetry in coverage? Both men died after being restrained by the police. Nowak’s last words, like Floyd’s, were reported to be ‘I can’t breathe’. Yet there have been no riots over the white victim, no statues smashed, no corporate vigils. No one has been fired for saying that all lives matter. Indeed, until @elonmusk took an interest, Nowak’s death was being reported as a local crime story.” washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

@CordyHaig @emily4MK Firm but fair.

My knee jerk reaction goes something like this.... JFC are you really this stupid? I really wish the electorate would elect people who did their jobs properly. Your job is to uphold the law, if you dont like it, change it. Then we shall see how millions of women will thank you when they can no longer be protected against sex discrimination you dimtwit.

My thoughts on the EHRC Code of Practice

In Auschwitz, my mother taught me three rules. Not stories. Not prayers. Rules. The kind that kept you alive. Rule one: Never make eye contact with a guard. Rule two: Never show that you are sick. Rule three: Never, ever, lose your bowl. I was five years old. I memorized them the way other children memorize nursery rhymes. The bowl was a small tin thing. Dented. Scratched. It held whatever thin soup they gave us once a day. If you lost your bowl, you had no bowl. If you had no bowl, you had no ration. If you had no ration, you understand. I guarded that bowl with everything I had. I slept with it. I held it against my chest during roll call. I knew where it was every second of every day. Then one morning, I fell into the latrine. There is no delicate way to say this. The latrines in Auschwitz were wooden boards with holes cut into them over a pit. The holes were large. I was very small. I was in a hurry. I slipped. I went in up to my neck. The smell. The cold. The rats. I do not need to describe it. Your mind already knows. My mother tried to pull me out. She could not. I was slippery and she had no strength. None of us had strength. We had not eaten properly in months. She called out. Other women came. Together they pulled me free. Someone found a hose. They sprayed me down in the cold air while I stood there shaking. I did not cry. Rule number one in Auschwitz was the same rule everywhere, do not attract attention. But I got sick. Very sick. The kind of sick that comes from rats and filth and cold water and a body that has nothing left to fight with. And I remembered Rule Two, never show that you are sick. I hid it from everyone. From the guards. From the other children. Even from my mother, because I knew if she knew, she would do something. And doing something in Auschwitz got you killed. But someone saw. I do not know who. I do not know why they helped me instead of reporting me. I never knew. They took me to a room, a makeshift hospital. I lay in a bed, a real bed, not a wooden bunk, for the first time since we had arrived. I do not remember much of what happened next. The fever blurred everything. Days passed like smoke. When I came out, I still had my bowl. I had held it even in the latrine. Even in the fever. Even in the dark when I did not know where I was or what day it was. My mother looked at me when I came back. She looked at the bowl. She did not say anything. She just nodded, the way she nodded when something had gone the way it needed to go. People ask me what survival looks like. I tell them, sometimes it looks like a five year old girl climbing out of a latrine in a death camp, covered in filth, shaking with cold, still holding her tin bowl. Because she knew that the bowl was the difference between eating and not eating. Between living and not. Because her mother had told her. And she had listened. I am Tova Friedman. I fell into a latrine in Auschwitz at five years old. I came out still holding my bowl. Tova. #NeverForget #Survival #DaughterOfAuschwitz #ShesStillHere #TheirNamesLiveOn

@electricfelix @OctopusElectro You might find this interesting. My initial contribution at the Battle of Ideas last Autumn.

@RuariJM @OctopusElectro oh absolutely, the JAG was the 2019 TOP! I enjoyed those trips SO MUCH I miss it! (nobody wants to rent me one these days) and indeed, there should've been an I-PACE 2 and 3 since years, it's a sad story by now! I know of old owners that drive the ID.7 by now..

The Machine that Changed the World is changing the world again. Famous names from Europe, N America & even Japan may not survive. European manufacturers are struggling, building #EVs for an ideal consumer – affluent, urban, willing to compromise. Asian manufacturers build for real consumers – cost‑conscious, practical, focused on value. (Republished with a correction) open.substack.com/pub/mostlymanu…

Extraordinary stats via @hwallop over on LinkedIn: "On average, people said pubs make a profit margin of 40%. Last year, JD Wetherspoon made 3.8 per cent. They thought supermarkets made 50% profit margins. Tesco’s margin last year was 4.3%, the highest in the industry. Aldi and Lidl run at 0.7%, according to the UK competition watchdog."

We're deluding ourselves about #energy My intro at @BattleofIdeas @acadofideas. Why we need 40x40; 40 #SMR #nuclear power stations by 2040. Alternatives: rationing of #electricity by price, rolling blackouts etc #ukmfg #gbmfg #manufacturing youtu.be/RwMpQZaxM58?si… via @YouTube

Dissemination of nonsense. Unfortunately, there are those of feeble brain who will believe this sort of guff. Often, quite well-spoked, fashionably scruffy folk whose parents have spent a lot of money on their education.

@dgbailey Thanks, David, 😊

@RuariJM Well worth a read!

@Danjsalt Uninterested. They have a stake (an interest) in maintaining the system as is but they don't care about its effect or effectiveness (uninterested/don't give a damn).

Every day a new story about how useless the British state is and how disinterested the political class are in it

@Lord_Talbot64 @JuliaHB1 "cousins" isn't the only explanation. Nobbling could fit the bill, too.

@JuliaHB1 Cousins on the jury is the only explanation. They will not convict their own.

What a joke. Jury is discharged after failing to reach verdict in case of two brothers accused of assaulting police officer at Manchester Airport. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

Don’t miss out on the latest developments in #supplychain management technology. Find out how to make it work for you – step by step. @RuariJM Ruari McCallion gathers advice from experts for Eureka Materials Handling Magazine. eurekapub.eu/technology/202…

But I will note, as a PS, that you chose to rent what is generally regarded as the best electric SUV at the time it was launched & which set a benchmark for others. Why Jaguar chose to cease production of the iPace, rather than use it as the flagship of a switch to EVs is beyond me.

@RuariJM @OctopusElectro I have no car and no charger, I wish you well #rentelectric

@b_judah Thats nice Ben. Such amazing levels of research. Top of the class. Shame you didn't manage more than a 10 second google. Is this the level of effort you normally apply to your day job? Shocking if so. So AGAIN - do you advocate for animal testing of cosmetics, yes or no?

Keir Starmer in witty rejoinder shock!

@thesundaysport @timothy_stanley @EthanCroft98 The banter between her and the Beast of Bolsover was brilliant.

@timothy_stanley @EthanCroft98 One of Mrs T's best PMQs was after she'd got the boot

Starmer’s best performance at PMQs, much more relaxed, funny. @EthanCroft98 says “it reminded me of a leaving drinks”.

@hardemantweet Does this work? open.substack.com/pub/mostlymanu…

@RuariJM ?

@CF_Farrow Touche! Or, in the modern idiom...

Education Secretary? Bridget Phillipson did History and French because she loved them.