lawred2 wrote: » Is movement of 1p that remarkable?
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » NI secretary just sent a shot across Cumming's bowhttps://twitter.com/JulianSmithUK/status/1181524619959963648
AlmightyCushion wrote: » I really, really hope Angela Merkel releases the transcripts of the calls. It would be pretty funny if she sued whoever published that shít for defamation.
Professor Moriarty wrote: » Agreed. But if you look at it from a No Deal Brexiteer perspective, i.e. unicorns, rainbows and lies, it would look like bias.
NotToScale wrote: » That's the problem though with the whole way the BBC has gone. They've more concerned about giving equal weighting to both sides of every argument than actually probing statements and checking facts. If you look at what happened when Naga Munchetty called out what she saw as racism for example, it shows the rabbit hole of absolute neutrality that they've gone down. Incidentally RTE, and more so the BAI, weren't much better during the run up to the marriage referendum. Journalism and broadcasting needs the freedom to probe and analyze. If you look at the UK you've the BBC being regulated to death while the newspapers might as well be political propaganda rags in most cases (and not just Tory ones). Yet, the focus is all on controlling the BBC, an organisation that saw journalism much like an academic might see their work.
Professor Moriarty wrote: » That's the free market. Tory papers can write lies and so they do. They're no longer accountable. Here's the thing, if people stopped reading the lies then the papers wouldn't exist. But they keep on reading them and believing the lies. And then they vote according to those lies. So, ultimately, they deserve what they get.
NotToScale wrote: » That's not my point. Rather that the focus of discussion is always on the one aspect of the British media that is extremely professional, thoughtful and thorough in what it does and all that it's doing is opening up more and more space for people who absolutely do not have those high objectives. The BBC has definitely been over regulated and neutered by a combination of those often well meaning people, who are fixated on rather crude measures of neutrality and a government that could do without having a well resourced broadcasting organisation holding its feet to the fire.
LeinsterDub wrote: » AlmightyCushion wrote: » I really, really hope Angela Merkel releases the transcripts of the calls. It would be pretty funny if she sued whoever published that shít for defamation. That's all part of the plan. "How dare she release the call when the incorrect version came from a unknown leak who we are attempting to track down now!"
spacecoyote wrote: » A 1p movement in currency trading markets for major currencies would be seen as a significant move generally, yes. The major currency pairs would trade in pips, rather than pence. A pip being 1/100 of a penny, so a move from 1.1101 to 1.1102 would be a single price movement. Generally moves in the "pence" part of the quote would be seen as psychologically significant and tend to generate increased volume of trading once they break.
Leroy42 wrote: » How can LauraK justify sending out totally one sided and uncoberated tweets? No checking of accuracy, no checking for multiple sources. Did she even reach out to Katya (for example) for her reading of it? It is highly dangerous the way she is carrying.
MrMusician18 wrote: » Laura K should've been sacked a long time ago. It's quite clear that she's enjoying being at the heart of power and is clearly clouding her reporting of the story. Laura's stories always seem to revolve around unnamed sources and rumours rather than hard facts. Gossip over substance. Katya hasn't been much better for delivering a European perspective. Clearly, her spices are almost entirely British within the institutions and they've been left in the cold so she had long resorted to tropes about the EU cobbling together a fudge at the last minute. She failed to recognize that the fudges are always for internal disputes and had walked away from negotiations with third parties in the past.In five, ten years when considered history books are written, the BBC won't come out of this looking great.
Tell me how wrote: » The books written in 5/10 years etc will at least in some proportion by people working for the BBC right now.
Stop moaning ffs wrote: » Merkel has denied it. And now tusk with this. Whatever Boris and Cummings we’re trying is blowing up in their faces
Ministers hoped their proposals might get a fair hearing from the EU. But there is frustration that this just doesn't appear to have happened. One senior source told me the talks are "meant to be a dialogue, not a question and answer session", suggesting that rather than getting down to business, the EU is simply tying up the UK's negotiators by making query after query after query. Sources say the EU ought to listen "to the people who won the referendum, not the people who lost". And there's a warning from this end that they will make a "historic miscalculation", if they expect saying no now will lead to calmer times ahead.
Stop moaning ffs wrote: » We know Laura isn’t exactly impartial journalistically speaking but an interesting thread. ‘Sources’ (eyeroll) tell her (I’m weirdly specific detail, Johnson back to calling Merkel this morning only to be told what he’s been told repeatedly before. And he resorts to petty threats and blame. I’m come to the conclusion it’s not that they’re acting in bad faith, Johnson and co simply don’t understand how any of this works at all.https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1181495898431528960?s=21
Tell me how wrote: » Is today the day (the latest one of them) where the walls of diplomacy are finally crashing to the ground. Seems like an awful lot of barely concealed frustration to outright disgust is coming from a lot of key figures. A Deal is impossible between now and the end of the month, I think that much is certain.
trellheim wrote: » Oh dearhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGWuWYXU4AAzUmU.png:largehttps://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1181542541583273985 walk that back then
