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November 19, 2012
Today, I'm sharing 'Punk Before Chips' by Wild Billy Childish and the Spartan Dreggs.
The opening of this track might sound familiar—it was originally a jingle made for Marc Riley's show on BBC Radio 6 Music.
The title is a playful nod to a story Marc tells about going to the chippy before a Sex Pistols gig and missing most of their set.
It’s a clever mix of humour and punk grit, perfectly encapsulating the charm of both the music and the story behind it.
#Wild Billy Childish#Billy Childish#The Spartan Dreggs#Garage punk#garage rock#Punk#rock#rock and roll#rock'n'roll#Chatham#England#English#Great Britsin#British#United Kingdom#UK#2000s#music#SoundCloud#chips#BBC Radio 6 Music#6music#Marc Riley
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— David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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Boris Johnson refuses 17 times to answer questions about Downing Street lockdown parties #ٹاپسٹوریز
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Boris Johnson refuses 17 times to answer questions about Downing Street lockdown parties
Boris Johnson refused 17 times to answer questions about rule-breaking lockdown parties at Downing Street in an excruciating interview broadcast on Sunday morning.
The prime minister was grilled on the subject for a total of 11 minutes by a BBC presenter but refused to say what had happened or whether he felt ashamed – despite there being no obvious legal barrier to him doing so.
Repeatedly pushed on the matter during the interview the prime minister attempted to change the subject many times, and at other points simply refused to answer.
He said there was “not a bean I can tell you about that, much as I would like to”.
Mr Johnson notably refused to commit to resigning if he was issued with a fine by the police.
And other questions the PM refused to answer include whether he was ashamed of his actions, whether parties took place at his flat, and whether he was just burying his head in the sand about the issue.
“I understand your curiosity, but you’re just going to have to accept that for the time being – you won’t have long, alright, I hope – but for the time-being you’re going to have to contain your interest,” he at one point said, among many similar responses.
The prime minister also tried to bring the conversation back to the war in Ukraine despite the fact he had discussed the issue at length with the interviewer prior to the questioning over Partygate.
Told on BBC’s Sunday Morning programme that public found some of his excuses for attending No 10 parties “implausible”, particularly the “bring your own booze” event in May 2020, the PM replied: “You’re just going to have to wait until the process is complete.
Downing Street confirmed on Friday that Mr Johnson has now responded to a police questionnaire about which parties he did or did not attend.
Boris Johnson attended the Munich Security Conference on February 19, 2022
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The Metropolitan Police had previously asked senior civil Sue Gray not to publish details of her investigation into the parties in order to avoid prejudicing their own investigation.
But with the questionnaire now submitted the police are thought to have concluded their evidence-gathering.
Nobody has yet been charged with an offence at Downing Street, the point at which crimes are conventionally “sub judice” and considered not something that should be commented on.
Speaking at around the same time at the prime minister’s interview was broadcast, foreign office minister James Cleverly rejected suggestions Mr Johnson should resign.
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“I don’t think what the country needs at the moment is a vacuum at the centre of Government when we are dealing with our recovery from Covid, the accumulation of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, making sure that the the health service is able to deal with the sad, the unfortunate but nevertheless obvious, backlog that’s been created by Covid,” he told Sky News.
“That’s what the country needs. That’s what I believe the Prime Minister should be doing.”
Responding the interview, which was prerecorded in Munich on Saturday while the prime minister attended a security conference, Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey said:
“Boris Johnson is not fit to be Prime Minister. If Johnson is found to have broken the law, he must fess up and resign. No more cover-ups, no more lies.
“If he won’t resign, Conservative MPs must do the right thing and sack him. For a sitting Prime Minister to be found guilty of breaking the law would be unprecedented and put to bed once and for all the Conservative Party’s claim to be the party of law and order.”
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7,000 Covid air purifiers promised for classrooms still not delivered as pupils return from half term #ٹاپسٹوریز
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7,000 Covid air purifiers promised for classrooms still not delivered as pupils return from half term
The government has still not delivered the 7,000 air purifiers it promised to help make schools Covid-safe, ahead of pupils returning from their half term break.
During the Christmas holidays ministers said the machines would be sent to schools to help improve ventilation in classrooms, but hundreds are still missing in action.
Opposition MPs said government “penny pinching” was to blame and that the promised number of purifiers was too few to cover 30,000 classrooms to begin with.
Government scientists have said since May 2020 that improvements to ventilation in indoor settings like schools are essential to stopping the spread of the disease.
They said one way of achieving this – especially when weather is colder and opening windows is less practical – is to install air purifiers.
Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary, personally promised the air cleaning machines at New Year, and said they would help minimise disruption, but the latest stats show just 6,311 have been delivered half a term later.
Attendance data from last year shows that a further 10 million school days were missed due to Covid last term alone – on top of the 115 days education the average child missed between March 2020 and July 2021.
Schools have also been stretched further by teacher absences due to Covid, often spread in the classroom. The Department for Education has told schools that classes should be combined if too many teachers are missing.
Despite falling down the political agenda new Covid cases are still running at around 52,000 a day across the UK.
Responding to the broken government promise on purifiers Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesperson Christine Jardine suggested that companies like Dyson could step in to help cover the shortfall.
“It’s time this government prioritised our children by making sure that their classrooms are safe and the air they breathe is clean,” she said.
“The technology to do this is available and major companies, who’ve benefited from the pandemic and government contracts, should be helping to keep the next generation safe in school.
“The government’s penny pinching means that they haven’t even met their own target of 7,000 units, never mind the hundreds of thousand extra purifiers needed to cover all 300,000 classrooms. If ministers won’t act to protect schools, then it’s right that businesses step in and play their part.”
Ms Jardine added that “industry giants like Dyson must do their bit by donating the air purifiers that our schools are desperate for”.
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To qualify for a government air purifier schools must show their classrooms have persistently high CO2 levels, a proxy for poor ventilation. But research by NASUWT, the teachers’ union, found that more than half of UK teachers did not have access to a carbon dioxide monitor in the their classrooms.
The Department for Education (DfE) says air cleaning units are “not needed in the vast majority of classrooms” and “only where there is poor ventilation that cannot be easily improved”.
Robin Walker, the schools minster, said: “Over 99.9 per cent of schools continue to be open with millions of children enjoying vital time with friends and teachers – thanks to the hard work of education staff up and down the country.
“Enhanced ventilation continues to be important and we are making sure eligible settings that have applied for air cleaning units are receiving them.
“The majority of rooms that require air cleaning units now have them, with over 6,000 already delivered and more deliveries taking place every day.”
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Ukraine: Nato to send new battle groups to eastern Europe as Russia fails to deliver de-escalation #ٹاپسٹوریز
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Ukraine: Nato to send new battle groups to eastern Europe as Russia fails to deliver de-escalation
Nato is planning the deployment of new combat units to central and southeastern Europe, as it accused Russia of failing to pull troops back from the borders with Ukraine.
The move – which could see four “battlegroups” totalling 4,000 troops in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia – would represent the biggest shift in the alliance’s military posture since it set up operations in the Baltic states and Poland in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Separately, the UK is sending an additional 900 personnel with tanks and armoured vehicles to bolster its existing mission in Estonia as tensions mount over Vladimir Putin’s intentions towards Ukraine.
Moscow on Tuesday indicated it was pulling troops back after joint military exercises with Belarus and was willing to continue diplomatic discussions over its demand for Ukrainian membership of Nato to be permanently ruled out.
But Mr Stoltenberg said that, far from withdrawing a force estimated by US president Joe Biden at up to 150,000 men, satellite imagery suggested that Putin had in fact moved his troops to more offensive positions. Ukrainian authorities also reported cyberattacks on official websites.
“So far we do not see any sign of de-escalation on the ground – no withdrawals of troops or equipment,” said the Nato chief following an emergency meeting of alliance defence ministers in Brussels. “Russia maintains a massive invasion force ready to attack.”
Western intelligence briefings that an invasion of Ukraine could come on Wednesday were mocked by Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
“To the regret of many Western media, the war again failed to start,” Zakharova told reporters. “Fighting has erupted on their pages, but it has no relation to reality.”
In a Facebook post, she asked the “mass media of disinformation” in the West “to reveal the schedule of our ‘invasions’ for the upcoming year. I’d like to plan my vacations.” Mr Stoltenberg said that it was “not too late for Russia to step back from the brink of conflict and choose the path of peace”.
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But he said that Nato must face up to a “new normal” in which Moscow is ready to use force contest the fundamental principles that have underpinned European security for decades.
As a consequence, he said, ministers had decided to “develop options to further strengthen Nato’s deterrence and defence, including to establish new Nato battlegroups in central and eastern and southeastern Europe”. France has already volunteered to lead one group in Romania.
Mr Stoltenberg insisted the alliance’s actions were defensive and insisted that “Nato is not a threat to Russia”.
The Russian defence ministry published video that it said showed tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and self-propelled artillery units leaving the Crimean peninsula.
But a senior Western official said that intelligence showed Russian military exercises in the vicinity of Ukraine remain in an active phase and could intensify during the remainder of February.
“We are at a peak period where the exercises that the Russians had announced are in their active phases,” the official said.
There are “no credible signs at this point that there will be any kind of military de-escalation,” said the official said, adding that Russia could now attack Ukraine “with essentially no, or little-to-no, warning”.
This infographic, created for The Independent by statistics agency Statista, shows the relative military strength of Ukraine and Russia
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Defence secretary Ben Wallace, who attended the Brussels meeting, said the UK was bolstering the Nato response with additional troops, as well deploying naval and air power in the region.
The Royal Welsh battlegroup of around 900 troops began moving from bases in Germany and Britain to join a similarly-sized detachment of UK personnel already in Estonia under the long-standing Operation Cabrit mission. A further 1,000 servicemen and women remain on standby in the UK, while 350 have taken up their posting in Poland.
Meanwhile, Apache helicopters will make their way to conduct exercises with Allied partners in eastern Europe.
Four additional UK Typhoon jets have also landed in Cyprus and will shortly begin to patrol the skies over eastern Europe.
And the warship HMS Diamond is shortly to set sail to join HMS Trent conducting patrols in the eastern Mediterranean, alongside Nato allies from Canada, Italy, Spain and Turkey.
Mr Wallace said: “Alongside our Nato allies, we are deploying troops and assets on land, sea and air to bolster European defences in response to the build-up of Russian military forces on the border of Ukraine.
“Nato and our allies have been clear that an invasion of Ukraine will be met with severe consequences.
“De-escalation and diplomacy remain the only path out of this situation.”
Mr Stoltenberg said the movement of Russian troops revealed by intelligence were indicative of “the kinds of actions and measures that we expect will come in advance of a bigger military intervention into Ukraine”.
He said: “We do not know what will happen in Ukraine, but the situation has already demonstrated that we face a crisis in European security.”
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