jlharrison.bsky.social
Former maths extraordinaire (he/him)
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That's the most likely possibility
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Shah's family in "not liking the Ayatollah" shocker
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Best I can find is that the US base in Qatar is a plausible target for an Iranian retaliatory strike, should they choose to retaliate with an attack instead of e.g. closing the Strait of Hormuz.
Shelter in place order may indicate such an attack could happen in the next few hours.
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In short, for both the US and Iran, the choice is pretty binary, do nothing or escalate. There probably isn’t much of a middle ground remaining.
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Babe wake up, new “he’s 28 until he becomes 29” just dropped
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Presumably that’s an error that gets made if you confuse the Middle East with the East Midlands
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The further North you go the more likely it is that strangers will talk to you on public transport, but it’s still far from an obligation anywhere in the UK.
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Just like how I have the undisclosed capability to bench press 15,000lbs
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I genuinely think if fuel duty went up by even as much as 5p per litre nobody would notice the price impacts, at the petrol station near me a 5p fluctuation month to month is entirely normal.
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In the whole history of the United States the resist libs have not been wrong once.
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Yes was a silly English force of habit to type 2024, In terms of vote share it is a marked improvement for Reform, about an 8% swing to the right, but that substantially underperformed what pundits predicted. Overprediction occurred because the BBC seemed to be absolutely desperate for Reform to win
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I think the way to look at Reform’s performance, not just in Hamilton but nationally, is that they are replacing the Conservatives. And in this election Reform only slightly outperformed the Conservatives’ 2024 result, against a national backdrop of Labour and the SNP polling really badly.
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Reform’s base is not the working class, it’s middle class middle England, which you can tell by the fact that the furthest North seat they won in the 2024 election is Ashfield, well over 100 miles South of the Scottish border.
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I say this in full knowledge that the BBC’s political outfit seemed to think a Reform win was a dead cert.
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He’s doing the adverts for Safestyle UK?
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I have a feeling that everyone in politics probably calls the government department responsible for housing different things because its name has changed so many times.
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Worcester is fine but there’s Towcester in Northamptonshire which is pronounced “toaster” and I don’t think I can support that.
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For another TV example, I don’t know anyone who calls Channel 4’s online viewing service anything other than 4OD, a name it hasn’t gone by in more than 10 years.