bathosprey.bsky.social
Policy analyst background. Family orientated, dog loving and curious. After all this time, still has lots to learn and understand.
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Not cheap for Devon people just for the metropolitans pricing locals out of the housing market.
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Is football and curries the best examples you can provide of the City’s culture ?
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My father was conscripted in 1939 and left the RE in 1945. He was rescued at Dunkirk, fought Rommel in N.Africa, worked his way up Italy after landing in Sicily and returned to the UK for D-Day and the subsequent final European phase of the War. He did not want to talk about any of it. No joy!
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My father was conscripted in 1939 and during his 6 years of the war, he was rescued at Dunkirk, fought Rommel in N.Africa, worked his way up Italy after landing in Sicily and returned to the UK for D-Day and the subsequent final European phase of the War. He did not want to talk about any of it.
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…. and what’s his obsession with eggs all about?
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Yes! I was going to end my subscription this year anyway. There is, for example, only so much of John Gray’s articles I could take hammering the West, Progressives and Starmer. I still remember his article, praising Badenoch, with much hilarity and disbelief. Will it now be called The Reformist?
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It is important to recognise that the abolition of NHS England is the final nail in the coffin of the disastrous NHS reorganisation of Andrew Lansley and meekly accepted by the coalition Government of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.
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I might have missed it but I haven’t read anywhere that the abolition of NHS England is the final nail in the coffin of the Lansley NHS reorganisation, a reorganisation that meekly got the go ahead by the Coalition Government of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.
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Project Chainsaw’!! Puerile and the last straw, I have just resigned from the Party. One last piece of advice to the Party, for what it is worth, disband Labour Together and counter balance the power and influence of Morgan McSweeney.
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‘Project Chainsaw’!! Puerile and the last straw, I have just resigned from the Party. One last piece of advice to the Party, for what it is worth, disband Labour Together and counter balance the power and influence of Morgan McSweeney.
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I am still wondering what Zuckerberg spotted in the photo and why it terrified him.
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Can someone explain how the 48% figure was calculated by Mr Goodwin? I presume he did not pluck the figure out of the air so he must have used some corroborating evidence, however spurious it was.
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Great post from Stephen Bush. Reading this piece was the perfect antidote to the response of the increasingly anti-Labour New Statesman. Reading the article in SB’s former home by Freddie Hayward, you would think that Starmer’s visit to Trump was a complete waste of time.
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Interesting how you segue from English to British. It is irritating for the Welsh, including me, and the Scots.
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For your enlightenment, John Bew has written a very good book on Realpolitik. At least if you read it you might better understand what the concept means. Btw I’m a Labour Party Member
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Member of the Labour Party actually! You need to get your head out of the fantasies of Warhammer and rejoin the real world.
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And you are someone who does not understand realpolitik, the art of the possible and …. nuance! Proposing utopian recommendations is a vanity for those who will never have to implement them.
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Do you mean you or your parents never intended to use?
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She’s a hopeless, she’s getting more hopeless with time, the Tories know she’s hopeless, what are they going to do?? (to be continued)
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As outreach agents for Putin, they don’t see the need for any defence.
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His copy and paste articles invariably include a criticism of the West, progressives and Starmer. He even wrote an article praising Badenoch (yes he did!) but still managed to slip in an attack on Starmer. I have failed to read anywhere what his alternatives proposals are!
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It would be a massive understatement to say that Vance failed to read the room. In a moment of provocative ecstasy, his brain cells were bypassed and his mouth went on autopilot. The result a massive overreach which can only end in tears.
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It is not possible for the MAGA cult to look more idiotic than they currently do! My hope is that Trump loses focus on his objectives as he becomes entrenched in dealing with the feud between Tech autocrats with their global business interests and the nativist MAGA cult.
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Mason has become Robbie Gibb’s mouthpiece. Agree with Mason or not, but he is not stupid so there can no other credible reason why he has made “a right chump of himself.”
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McConnell has been powerful GOP mover and shaker for a long time. Unfortunately, his passive response to Trump and his politics from the time of the birthing attacks on Obama and since, makes him a major enabler of the current state of American politics.
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His time would be better spent trying to improve the mediocre drinks he sells which purport to be “ale”.
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That was particularly true of Peston and Kuennsberg during the Tory psychodrama years where they competed to be first with any snippet of trivia about the dysfunctional Tory Government. One would have hoped now we at least have a serious Government in place, journos would have upped their game.
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Thank you.
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I can’t understand why it’s not had more of an impact in policy circles. Government would be better addressing the implications of Dan Davies’s book for improving accountabilities for formulation and implementation of policy, rather than taking an unhelpful and unfocused swipe at the Civil Service.
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The master of hyperbolic criticism is never happy with anything Government does. In reality GM is a bossy idealist who has never understood the compromises and sheer messiness of governing a democratic state. Indeed, I sometimes wonder if his ideal solution would be a Monbiotian believing autocrat.
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Interesting that you are more surprised that a Murdoch rag indulges in xenophobic journalism than the Mail or Telegraph.
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To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, One must have a heart of stone to read Owen Jones’s repeated and identical policy advice to the far left without Gavin a good laugh.
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and love the use of the pejorative verb “cosying up’ to emphasise the journo’s view that the Home Office and No 10 are at mutually exclusive, opposite ends of the ‘relationship with China’ spectrum.
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… and your point is?
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Has Trump learnt Greenlandic Inuit then?
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Ah a reminder of the great C Wright Mills! As a science graduate, it was his The Sociological Imagination that, not only influenced by switch to the social sciences, but showed that my approach to academic reading was deficient and inefficient.
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1. True but hard not to
2. Very True
3. True for their early pop period
4. By the mid 60s The Kinks ceased to be a rock band.
RD’s songwriting grew more introspective, whimsical and nostalgic, relying more on overtly English musical influences -- such as music hall, country, and English folk.
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Does Badenoch think May, Truss and Johnson will respond with a nod of the head and silence?
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Adam Tooze’s brings some reality to the supposed bond yield crisis in his newsletter.
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Incompetence can’t spot incompetence!
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They could substitute ‘social democracy’ for ‘socialism’ if the latter sticks in Morgan McSweeney’s craw.
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Yes good piece and much more important than Musk’s latest utterances. However Starmer should emphasise, pace Bevan, that “ The language of priorities is the religion of socialism”. This would be a start in treating the electorate as grown ups.
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How long before Trump decides there is only room for one loose cannon in his administration? I’ll give Musk the maximum of a year before he is dropped.
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Channeling your inner Oscar Wilde, I see?