kateallen.ft.com
Weekend news editor, the Financial Times. I did write the headline.
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The RNLI. Though it shouldn’t be necessary to fund it as a charity.
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Can I just mention here the joys of being east-west facing rather than north-south. Never in my life will I understand the desire for a south facing garden.
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You’re not the only one to think that …
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In other words - If you’re the person who has to run the top of the NYT homepage: call me! I feel you 💕
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If we continue down this path, ignoring the collapse of shared reality, failing to rebuild the systems that stabilise truth, we will see democratic norms erode from the inside out.
Not in a single catastrophic moment, but in a thousand small compromises.
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This is exactly what I came here to say. While many men continue to underperform in the parenting stakes, many women will continue to choose not to expose themselves to the risk of having to do it all alone.
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I’m definitely not going back for Bridgerton season 4. Not after waiting so long for season 3 and then it being a hot mess.
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Interesting piece, thanks. The point about skills is a good one (it seems to me, definitely not an expert). The writing/plotting in the second half of Bridgerton season 3 was terrible, unimaginative, seemed to have amnesia about two key new characters who had been introduced in the first half … etc.
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(Plus, they don’t even make the most of the reams of material they have time to shoot. The last series could easily have run to 12 episodes and was arguably worse for being so short, imo,).
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Maybe I am just ignorant of how elaborate modern TV production needs to be, but whyyyyy does it take so long, whyyyyy?! Am going to assume it’s partly the fault of Netflix for not commissioning the next one speedily enough but the shooting also seems to take an incredible time for 8 episodes.
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Can’t comment on Dr Who but that’s certainly the case for Bridgerton. The vast gaps between series absolutely kill any momentum / enthusiasm it had built up.
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Wait long enough and you’ll be burgled and they’ll nick it, solving your dilemma. That’s what happened to ours.
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Thanks for this recc, looks fantastic. Have added to my reading list!
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And those people - like my mother - who refuse to acknowledge the existence of the 1972 Local Government Act.
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Whereas ‘Lancashire’ would probably get a pretty strong response.
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Hand ownership over to the National Trust
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Could recategorise them as part of the national heritage industry perhaps?
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Yes, plenty of scope nationally you’d think.
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Isn’t this what TfL have been doing?
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Because it happened two days ago?
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They discussed their headlines publicly. Then they realised they had failed.
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We did how to build a Norman fort for what felt like forever. Also what medieval peasants ate. The Tudors three times. WWI at least twice. Nothing on the 17th century, which in retrospect seems like a bit of an omission.
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The facepalms will continue until morale improves.
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She’s basically saying he looks quite boring, isn’t she
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It’s odd because I would say @henrymance.ft.com is a soft autumn. So cream should suit him …
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Bit odd!
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I find it hard to believe one of the quotes in that piece describing the earls of Lonsdale (the Lowthers) as ‘an evil aristocratic family’. Mistake by transcription software?!
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Reminds me of the criticism of the Bob Dylan film for its disgraceful treatment of Toshi Seeger …
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I imagine Canada must have felt like this for quite some time
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In conclusion, if we end with Reform councils, there will be thousands of words written about What This Means For Morgan McSweeney and Kemi Badenoch and far fewer written about the politics of bins and council tax. Then everyone will move on and local govt will continue its death spiral unhindered
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Southeastern only let people in first class have charging points. Just to really rub it in.
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The most important thing in any relationship is finding someone with the same attitude to airport timings as you. Team Early To The Airport is fundamentally incompatible with Team Late To The Airport.