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Lib Dem President and Life Peer. Author, "Polling UnPacked" / http://www.theweekinpolls.co.uk / https://libdemnewswire.substack.com / imprint + privacy http://markpack.org.uk/legal-privacy / he/him
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Next up, a book that gave me so much to think about that I did a whole podcast episode about it - www.markpack.org.uk/174939/liber...
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The example used - 20p for toilets - is also particularly bad as pay by card is so much more convenient than having to carry the right change around, just in case.
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More in Sunday's The Week in Polls. Sign up at theweekinpolls.substack.com
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I asked an AI tool to find the hidden message in the newsletter. It reported back to me: "t r e t t g a o l a o i l t d".
Sorry, Jonn, the AI ain't going to rescue you.
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I made me wonder if @jonnelledge.bsky.social had been kidnapped and was sending one last newsletter by sneaking a bit of internet coverage in the back of the van as the kidnappers drive him to a farm somewhere near Nether Wallop.
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And indeed Robert Hannigan's book makes a pretty effective case that 'being woke' has made GCHQ more effective.
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Have you come across www.cartercenter.org/documents/21... ?
It includes, "Health requirements for the presidency were introduced into the constitution in November 2001, shortly after former President Abdurrahman Wahid, who is nearly
blind as a result of a stroke, was impeached."
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I like the way it appears that the dog went to fetch help.
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One of your very best!
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"in the end" makes it sound like it takes rather longer than it usually does!
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I've got, I think, three TV series and one film in my 'to watch' list that I keep on putting off because I worry I can't remember enough from their predecessors.
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I will remember that next time I worry I'm commenting too often on your posts and should go away from your notifications for a bit.
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Yet the government also makes clear is has drawn heavily on the responses to the consultation.
So why won't they let everyone know who it is they are listening to?
More details: para #12, p.5 - publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
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(a) There were only four responses to the consultation (which started under Conservatives but concluded under Labour), and
(b) As a report published by a Lords committee (which I'm on) says today, "We were asked by the Department not to reveal the identity of the organisations which responded".
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More here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Once again, you all need to be shouting at me more. bsky.app/profile/mark...
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It shows impressive self-confidence to use a criteria which makes himself more white British than Winston Churchill.
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Are you going to start a channel in which you tour the nation's A+E departments, pose pointing at the "Emergency Department" signs and shout "Take that, Pack!"?
I promise to subscribe. (Briefly.)
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There are no such things and therefore there cannot be a nearest one.