alastairmeeks.bsky.social
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This is a revamped version of his blogpost a couple of days ago.
It’s striking how he doesn’t even try to identify how the Conservatives contributed to what he identifies as problems.
www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-conflu...
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My simple-minded approach is that if a customer is not being disruptive or otherwise harming the business, he or she should be served.
While I very much dislike Tommy Robinson and everything he stands for, I would have let him stay if he was behaving appropriately.
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The 1940s equivalents of Nigel Farage were rooting for the other side.
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Having finished a gym session I really wasn't in the mood for makes me feel so virtuous.
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Do The Bartman is one of the number one songs Michael Jackson sings on.
I Feel For You was the first number one with a rap.
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I see far too much of this on Facebook. Sadly, some people do care.
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Imagine if you are a wet Tory MP, very unhappy with her performance but fretful about her being replaced by Robert Jenrick. How might this news make you feel?
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However, the incentives for political leaders of all stripes, especially those currently in power, are tilted towards exploiting gullibility rather than eradicating it and being held to higher standards.
Change will not be led from above.
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I know it sounds boring but when constitutional, legal, and governmental processes aren’t properly understood, it means we lack the tools to adequately respond- or perhaps even grasp- when those very processes are the things being abused.
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Btw one of my firmest held opinions is that Flat Beat is a flagrant rip-off of Washing Machine by Mr Fingers.
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Every single Simply Red cover version, however, needs logging at the Hague.
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My extremely unfashionable opinion is that Stars is an outstanding album. It breaks no new ground at all but it does what it does extremely well.
For Your Babies in particular is a work of art.
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They weren't number one for 12 weeks.
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The interesting thing is that songs still break through to the wider public (Stick Season, Austin). But not necessarily the biggest sellers.
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It's not like you to post Arsenal content.
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I'm in a fifth floor flat on the river, and the ecosystem up here is so different that many plants that thrive at ground level will simply not grow on my balcony.
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I'm astonished I'm the only Yes so far. I could even sing a song of his.
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Define "living". I have an apartment there I visit regularly.
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Happy birthday!
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“ ‘I found a clue once,’ said Poirot dreamily. ‘But since it was four feet long instead of four centimetres no one would believe in it.’ “
Agatha Christie, Lord Edgware Dies.
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Let's see which bits of this you disagree with.
1) services as a general rule are VATable
2) education is a provision of a service
3) private education, exceptionally for services, has not till now been subject to tax
4) this exceptional treatment is a tax break in normal English.
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When thieves fall out…
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What bridges hasn't he burned yet?
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You don't think it's a tax break to not have to charge VAT when other service providers do have to charge VAT? That really is an impressive contortion.
The extreme sense of entitlement that private school enthusiasts have that their elite choice should be specially privileged is highly unedifying.
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The removal of a unique tax break is the application of market forces to something that had previously been cosseted from it.
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how are blockchains securable if quantum computing can work like this to unpick passwords?
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While the world's population is still rising (it is still projected to increase by c25% in the next generation or so), it's a bit early to worry about that.
Also, we have proven pretty poor with predictions about future work trends in an ageing population, see eg:
www.ft.com/content/3e31...
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Immigration (coupled with longer working lives) looks like a pretty good solution.
We can't keep working on the basis of ever-increasing population. That's a Ponzi scheme.
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I'd worry about that in a few generations' time. The world's population is still rising for now and is due to hit 10 billion in a generation or so.
We had as few as a billion at the turn of the 19th century. It's not a period thought to have been one where humanity was in existential crisis.