roryjoshuamartin.bsky.social
Hudders fan. I work a pub and a care home in West Yorkshire.
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Attlee wrote some pretty nice things about him - in particular absolving him of blame for gallipolo (fault of timid RN captains not used to used to risk after a century of dominance.) He wrote two essays after Churchill died, they're worth reading.
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We continually to have to take nice mixer taps out of care home en suites as the traditional clientele have an extremely dim view of them.
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But they can't shout or whinge cos they have zero constituency with the traditional tory press cos they're labour and no real or actual constituency that could elevate their numbers.
All the ex tory weirdos at least have the ear of the speccy.
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A really tight tower series would be cheaper and better. They already made the stand and it was meh, or mid as my kid says
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Best way I've found. My brothers taken his Filipino wife and three kids to limoges.
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Any time the estate is nil but the benefits are £8k+ pa its an easy temptation
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I get it a lot as I'm vocally centre left but in "business" so have to defend every decision made by the welfare state and that's always my response. They're really keen on cirminal prosecutions for benefit fraud, much more than the fines and slaps on the wrist for evasion.
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When did this last need to be said? 1865?
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Stephen baxters world engines has an alternate time line where Britain won ww2 alone behind a barrage of nukes and then made it into space as the dominant global hegemon. All the public school boys are now captaining space ships.
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Central heating just needs to be on enough to prevent the pipes freezing of course
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Told my Kent missus I was hard on (fast asleep) and she told me to "stop talking like a farmhand, you went to a private school"
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He was at one point genuinely OK in a flippant posh southern tory sort of way.
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For outsiders it was obviously going to need force to put an end to this. There's such delusion among Americans about how these things go. It just gets worse.
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He's such a reflection of the worst aspects of his society. Tetchy, self regarding, incredibly puerile.
The have been better, occasionally, but he represents them really well.
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Its ace. Hearing "10 9 8 7 6 everything's gone well Rory" like it was the same sentence
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Yeah plus he spends his time in here showing off incredible miniatures he's painted and tips for playing slay the spire. He's more productive in his hobbies than I am in my job and he still writes four books a year.
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Just laughably prolific. I spent a few months reading the shadows of the apt series and by the time I'd finished he'd published two new novels
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Ime they juice both sides anyway as the small tied pubs are ridiculously evasive by ignoring NMW, statutory leave and cash to evade NI. Makes it very frustrating when a competing pub can run £2.50 pints cos they're not on a level playing field with costs.
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So many buggered off across the channel they called the place they went to after them - Brittany
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And both in such opposition to their normal thinking ie all imperialism must be opposed except Russian, and all tyrants must be deposed, except Russian.
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Sure but also they're not organic, it's shit they've read on twitter but presumably from a similar source originally...
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My hard left brother and hard right father repeat the same lines to me about Ukraine.
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In this single context, finally feeling great about social care and pubs.
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The flirting is so middle aged and well observed.
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Wright is so good in that isn't he
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If only he'd joined the army and becoming a mid ranking officer then had an affair with an NCO. Major Major had a major scandal.
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Just a succession of political period dramas where mark rylance looks faintly puzzled (he plays Hyde in the restoration, Osborne in glorious Rev.)
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"we can't kick our creditors in the balls" as Keirs hero said
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Should add execute and give knighthood to the options imo
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There's a golden thread of the power of incentives throughout the book but that one is particularly stark. And Voltaire was trying to be rude about the British killing Byng!
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Obviously well staged if anything happens to an overweight stressed 79 year old in the next three years though.
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Have to say I felt dreadfully "seen" when the chapter on the RN made me want to dig out my Hornblowers and then you specifically mentioned Forrester two pages later.
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Ah but we can still volunteer to take a third of the responsibility for tens of thousands of deaths. Fun for Britain to be the scapegoat when there's such strong biblical allegories at hand
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It's just incredible that after a century of fighting for basic workers rights protections, they've been jettisoned for the most vulnerable due to a loophole in tax law and everyone is fine about it
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We don't even pretend to try now.
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Britain had entire parliamentary debates about obvious bullshit. youtu.be/y6fnXmsjB7M?...
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They had greater power than the first or second triumvirates, but get a lot less press (almost none)
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It was funny to see the mid Spain snobbery about andalucians being lazy drift into "yeah you can do absolutely nothing but exist for four hours in the middle of the day."
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Tbf other places have - Anthony Gormleys at Formby, Jerwood gallery at Hastings, refurb of De la Warr pavillion at Bexhill.
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Mine too! I also spent two hours watching ants in the garden last week.
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Well just when big states are involved you get an intensly pro status quo impulse of the financial stakeholders who keep modern countries running.
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Orwell made a similar point about power difusing during times easy replaceable parts made mass movement violent possible (French rev) and contracting into big states when the tech required such heavy capital demands that only big states could do it (eg nukes)
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The violence of the radio age put really powerful structures in place that kept a lid on it? Imagine the impact of TV in 50s 60s if the world is run by rival European empires.
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Evolutionary pressure is rarely as beneficial for the individual as the species...
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My son's class is performing the back to the future musical for his year six end of year show. Teacher asked if anyone had seen it, my lad put his hand up to say it was his favourite time travel film about incest.
So show them but leave them out of the discourse is my lesson.
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Sure but that's cos we don't care? Cos we're not 11? (with the exception of my 11 year old, who also doesn't care about flags)
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I've been there a couple of times and didn't really like it, and won't be immigrating any time soon, but it just doesn't seem so unreasonable an ask to be a bit of a flag shagger if you've chosen to go there?