buttoneer.bsky.social
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I don’t think it helps that unlike Reform representatives, you don’t see many LD’s on TV political panels or newspaper column inches.
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My issue is with the Substack model. I’d love to read more of your pieces but (with the greatest respect) I don’t want to read all of them. I’d like to pay a flat rate fee for access to (say) 15 articles a month and have that be any 15 I choose. Substack can distribute the cash as appropriate.
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The Germans always have a word for it. In this case ‘Backpfeifengesicht’ which means something like ‘a punchable face’
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Nothing more likely to raise blood pressure than the mental pressure to do this at those times every day because a doctor is worried about you.
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I do that when I get one of those crank calls where they say you’ve got to pay HMRC or whatever or they’ll come and arrest me.
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Is this real? Please say it’s real
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Is Michael here? He’s one of the follows I miss from ‘there’
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The what?
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Isn’t this the plot of Die Hard 4?
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But he’ll be able to answer the serious questions clearly and concisely with perfect diction.
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They did the 70mm Version of 2001 (with interval) a little while back and it was glorious.
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If they’re consistent enough in the ‘labour bad’ story they don’t need to do any more than this to achieve penetration of the messaging. Most people are not politically engaged enough to even know TRIP exists.
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But I can see a newspaper headline when I pay for petrol or go for a bottle of milk so the reach is much higher.
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It’s definitely a thing.
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Yes - just posted a few minutes ago. bsky.app/profile/t0ny...
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Yuge. It’s a yuge red flag.
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What does a ‘mainstream’ politician do these days except anything which gets them publicity. If that come from lies, exaggerations and extreme positions they will do it. It’s all about attention. And he’s got it.
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Then perhaps better to complain about the truthfulness of the statement rather than his being tongue tied?
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Thank you that worked! And yes the plot twist is brutal.
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FYI it’s not free to me at least. FT asking for money to read it.
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I don’t think it’s fair to be too critical of broadcast slip ups like this because it’s very easy to do, but it’s the kind of thing that would have had Diane Abbott roasted on the front pages.
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There’s an interesting piece here on the political value of calling for an inquiry so an inquiry of inquiries ramps up the political value tenfold.
dividinglines.substack.com/p/under-review
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Bowie being a black ally in 1983 challenging MTV’s lack of diversity.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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We should do what Brazil did and close it down for a while.
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It’s possible he might have been working hard from the inside to prevent this and felt obligated to leave when he failed.
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2025 has delivered early possibilities
www.ign.com/articles/nin...
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The porn bots still find you either way.
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It’s ‘Deal or No Deal’ levels of guesswork. They think they can work it out but it’s really just pack behaviour.
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I imagine people putting their phone down and nodding sagely to themselves when they do that.