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I have zero name recognition on two of the Hyde Park British Summer Time headliners (Zack Bryan and Noah Kahan).
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Middle class Catholics in 19th/early 20th Ireland were also popping out 10 kids, so quasi theocracy is another model.
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A penny for the thoughts of the Labour Right stalwarts who were handed what seemed like plum seats before the last election.
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Nothing will be fixed without reforming the funding, but I do look forward to not having a District and County Council controlled by different parties blaming everything on each other and constantly engaging in self defeating NIMBY oneupmanship.
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You just know menswear Derek would be all over this look.
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I forgot to use up more of my ISA allowance last week and don’t I look like the financial whizz kid.
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When we were kids there was a massive campaign by the adults to block a McDonalds. Intergenerational unfairness is nothing new to us.
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My nearest one in Rickmansworth bizarrely only opened up around 20 years ago.
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Interesting. Is that for all names or just stage names? And what about stage names that sound like real names like Bob Dylan or David Bowie?
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Or P for Pop?
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Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges used to keep me up at night, especially as the first two albums are just credited to “The Stooges”.
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I read the accounts of what happened in my grandad’s village and it was just a cat and mouse game between the numerous but poorly armed IRA and the handful of remaining of well armed RIC (+later reinforcements) mostly hiding in their barracks.
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They also requisitioned a lot from farmers and the big estates. So much so that local brigades had to be told to stop as it was alienating people. There were also creative with what we would now call IEDs.
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Identity theft/digital crimes have so much less risk for the perpetrator than physical theft so I would think there is probably some displacement there. Unless you are at the ends of the scale where you are either a desperate drug addict or nicking something high end to order why do physical theft?
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We had a guy camped outside my son’s school for a month protesting against a proposed 5G mast. He got a lot of signatures because people just assume good faith on his part. Distributes “The Light” newspaper locally. Believes moon landings fake. Cheered on by “Free Tommy” types on local FB group.
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The crappest experience taking young children out of the keynote museums in London. My 7 year old is worryingly obsessed with historic empires and didn’t really enjoy it because it is just a load of stuff that doesn’t relate to the map videos he watches on YouTube Kids.
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I think his bandmates and others like Tony Wilson have all said at some point that 90% of the time he was just a normal young lad in a band having a laugh with the rest of them.
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I think a solid GDPR compliant way of collecting personal contacts is important so you have permission to just port along to the next channel without having to rebuild when something gets enshittified. I’m happy to give a cross platform permission for artists I like to contact me (within reason).
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Disappointed not to see David Miliband on this.
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We’ve got his national team mate Giorgi Chakvetadze at Watford. The key thing they seem to coach into Georgian children is mazy dribbles in the direction of the opposition goal.
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I think it is starter packs flooding microcultures with people who have no understanding of all the subtle reference points they’ve built up. That’s not a problem for the majority of people with the social awareness to take a step back and observe for a bit in that situation, but clearly not for all
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Could have got major US radio rotation if it weren’t for every single lyric on the album.
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Have you heard the US mix of The Holy Bible? Everything is turned up to 11 and it pretty much works, apart from 4st 7lb, which can only be described as “jaunty”.
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The only rationale I can think of is to create the illusion of engagement on their dying platforms.
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If you go to “her” follows there is a whole gang including relationship and career coaches.
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Yes, if you stared someone out while speaking to them that would be much more uncomfortable for them than glancing around.
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I had one as part of training the other day where the first question asked about your eye contact levels when speaking to people. So evidence free and discriminatory to boot.
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Similarly I remember Ken Livingstone from the early/mid 80s because of his accent, but probably wasn’t all over the dissolution of the GLC as a 6 year old.
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I remember Challenger and the famine very clearly. I don’t so much remember the Lebanon Civil War, but do remember Beirut as a watchword for chaos/destruction.
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I can’t pin these down to specific dates or events, but I was definitely aware of the SDP-Liberal Alliance because of their name being sung as a football style chant, and also Ken Livingstone because I thought he sounded like the narrator of Henry’s Cat.
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I was 7 and remember it for similar reasons. Holidays to France, but also much choppier ones to Ireland. Also my brother got an absolute bollocking off my mum for repeating a joke he’d heard in the playground.
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Im enjoying watching Wolf Hall, especially as Mark Rylance essentially plays the same role to Henry VIII as Cromwell as he does to Bing as Flop.
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A builder is the guy who does your extension. The construction workforce who do volume housebuilding is made up of specific trades and professions.
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Not sure if it is touched on in the article, but the current unpredictable planning system blocks a more productive manufacturing approach to housebuilding which could mitigate the skills shortage.
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I’m in overlapping but different wards/constituency for parliamentary, county, district and parish. We’re also a donut district around Watford. On local message boards people have no clue what the difference is, and who can blame them. The current system breeds democratic disengagement in my opinion
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As long as they kept the cigar smoking children from the film.
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Also we are just past a baby boom. There is increasingly spare capacity in primary schools. The people who cite school places rarely actually look up the data for their area.
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I had an increasing sense of terror as my then 5 year old son and I got towards the end of the animated version a couple of years ago. “Oh God please don’t understand this.”
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I want her attacking the Royal British Legion and Women’s Institute as woke by the end of next year.
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I hope there is a special unit within Labour HQ dedicated to laying subtle traps to nudge her into coming out with increasingly batshit stuff like this.
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She’s the leader of the opposition not a legal secretary or software developer or something else where you might be chained to your desk. Most of her job will just be - meeting and chatting with people.