Today evidence has emerged that I didn't emerge as a fully formed adult and I was once a child. Here I am on the telephone, probably canvassing for the Tories π.
Here I am with my big sister. I'm not the one on her knee.
A seventies fashion icon, possibly en route to a Bay City Rollers concert.
There was a reason I was called Joe 90 at school. π
This is the only photo I have of my dad not wearing glasses, he leaned over the balcony at the hotel and they fell off into the garden. The hotel found them a few days later.
My sister Sandra and I, Noddy was all the rage then.
Venetian blinds, Black & White TV, Dansette record player, Bakelite telephone.
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The problem with Labour isn't who leads it. It is who it is, the membership and it's MPs. Barring a handful they do not, and never can represent the former working class base that they look down upon as bigots, racists, and flag shagging nationalists.
Keir Starmer can never win back the red wall, they are chalk and cheese. Parachuting into Hartlepool a Remain campaigner who fought tooth and nail to overturn Brexit was the finest example of his arrogance. He knows better than the little people, and he doesn't mind showing it.
The party has nothing in common with itself so how can it be united. It is an odd assortment of Islington trots, and champagne socialists, with a smattering of trade unionists. It needs to split and rebuild from the grass roots. But can it?
Thread: The EU and AstraZeneca have agreed to publish the APA contract. Whilst the EU pushed for this they appear to have shot themselves in the foot. ec.europa.eu/commission/preβ¦
Clause 5.1 "AstraZeneca shall use its Best Reasonable Efforts to manufacture the Initial Doses within the EU for distribution...."
There are two features of this clause:
The first is It only requires Reasonable Best Efforts to manufacture. There is no guarantee of production.
The second is it only provides for access to vaccine manufactured within the EU. @vonderleyen's demand that @AstraZeneca should divert 75 million doses from the UK has no contractual basis.