04/07/17

[Maik]

Inside the high society birthday bash of the year: See how Princess Olympia of Greece celebrated her 21st birthday with star-studded guest list

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/events/inside-princess-olympia-greeces-decadent-21st-birthday-party/


I'm sure the Greek people are delighted for her

[Maik]

Tory aide and Oxford graduate dies after fall on Greek stag do just three weeks before his wedding

A leading Conservative aide died on his own stag do in Greece after suffering head injuries in a fall just three weeks before his wedding.

Ben Davies, 32... had travelled to the party island of Mykonos with six close friends for a stag week in the sunshine. but suffered a fall and spent a week in a coma.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/04/tory-aide-oxford-graduate-dies-fall-greek-stag-do-just-three/

[Maik]

Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays
Scientists have cracked the secret to Roman water-based structures’ strength – and findings could help today’s builders

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/04/why-roman-concrete-still-stands-strong-while-modern-version-decays

[Maik]

Brexit: Vote Leave chief who created £350m NHS claim on bus admits leaving EU could be 'an error'
Dominic Cummings also described the referendum as a 'dumb idea' - shaping up to be a 'guaranteed debacle'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-vote-leave-director-dominic-cummings-leave-eu-error-nhs-350-million-lie-bus-a7822386.html

[disco69]

Brexit: Vote Leave chief who created £350m NHS claim on bus admits leaving EU could be 'an error'
Dominic Cummings also described the referendum as a 'dumb idea' - shaping up to be a 'guaranteed debacle'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-vote-leave-director-dominic-cummings-leave-eu-error-nhs-350-million-lie-bus-a7822386.html

OH DEAR, IS THAT WHY WE VOTED TO LEAVE, it's not why i voted to leave

[TonyKath]

Brexit: Vote Leave chief who created £350m NHS claim on bus admits leaving EU could be 'an error'
Dominic Cummings also described the referendum as a 'dumb idea' - shaping up to be a 'guaranteed debacle'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-latest-news-vote-leave-director-dominic-cummings-leave-eu-error-nhs-350-million-lie-bus-a7822386.html

Dominic Cummings was "Mr. Brexit" the tough, even aggressive leader of the Vote Leave campaign, controversial  to the extent that a group of traditional pro-Brexit Tory MPs, Bill Cash, Peter Bone etc and others tried unsuccessfully to get rid of him in January 2016.  Along with Daniel Hannan he was the main brains behind Brexit and was said to have planned out the campaign two years in advance in an article in the Times, coining the slogan "Take back control".  He totally opposed using Farage in the campaign as he considered him a vote loser, leading to some bitter disputes across the pro-Brexit campaign as a whole. 

All told (plus much more, including the the failures of the Remain side) in extraordinary detail and frankness in Tim Shipman's All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class, a remarkably even-handed book, welcomed by all sides.

This partial climb-down from Cummings is more striking.

Tony