enlightbystand.bsky.social
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I fear it’s its how much of a chunk of those who pay speaker’s fees in the US agree with those shouty racists
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Sounds a lot like a good chunk of the Lobby and the then Government’s position on the election this time last year…
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The story has a 17:55 initial time, and then a 18:40ish update time, so I suspect they’ve done a quick rewrite of the top lines.
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Looks like the Mail had the scoop on them, and No10 was able to get the reaction out quick enough (presumably from being asked to comment, getting all other outlets to hold for the sacking rather than running about the Mail’s original?) that sacking was the story. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Given the relative balance on Richard III (who I would expect to be worse due to Shakespeare) I think there might be some Ricardian tendency in there as well.
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More generally, Richard is often the good ruler in Robin Hood adaptations, so that where the views come from. King John is the bad King, but the poll has described him as John Lackland instead, pretty much no one knew who that was.
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He’s been kicked out of several denominations before this…
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I’m guessing from the 2014 reference that this is talking about north of the Border, rather than in the Midlands
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I think vaguely remembering his involvement in the Irish Parliament was what threw me, I thought it was Irish Parly -> Army -> Lords whilst in Spain
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No just checked, he was in the Commons between India and the Peninsular.
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Wellington maybe?
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Oh no. They’re not going to do it that literally are they?
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Anoosh is still off on mat leave as far as I’m aware (or if she is back, she’s not back to the NS podcast)
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I half expected Claudia to drop it in after Leanne revealed hers…
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I think the key thing is that you were expected to know them, with a presumption you were on the US reality treadmill - which is one of the reasons I didn’t carry on past the first episode.
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Also that being in a coffin in the middle of a lake is nothing close to the worst he’s likely been through in FCDO training, so he wasn’t as fussed as they expected coming out.
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Although Starmer did spend a reasonable amount of his time still addressing Sunak as PM, so the AI’s not the only one…
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There are a few of them around, the scenario is generally that the couple are just back from a celebration of the life of the previous customer, reflecting back on how nice it was compared to being at a traditional funeral.
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Looks like the Green candidate is local council party leader, ward in thirds where they hold all the seats on 60+ indicating a well dug in local operation, which might have given them an advantage in the campaign?
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Huh.
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Ok, that is weird. I’ve been having the odd one go off every few minutes since the main assault finished off…
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Might be people who had a box of them, and have just noticed the last one at the bottom that they didn’t get to fire in the main batch?
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It was technically a working day, so they may have been limited on when the kickoff could be?
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It’s the RiffTrax version (spinoff from MST3K) although seemedly without the actual Riff on it.
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My memory is that Mrs Flood does not recognise the TARDIS when she first sees it and is surprised when it departs, only making her fourth wall comment the next time, which implies she is familiar with the tech, but not the specific capsule. Anita knows a phonebox is linked to 15, but not ‘TARDIS’
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It’s also that the original script for that bit purely said ‘the Fellowship proceeds down the stairs’ and the entire sequence was developed during active production…
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Pretty sure they’re a Yank.
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I think this is considering governments as party changes rather than changes of prime Minister.
Admittedly, that ties it down to just 6 points in Cowley’s lifetime.
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Although the cabinet office have also apparently made him resign? They’re listing him as former President.
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Who apparently they’ve forced to resign a year early? Describe him as former President
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It does seem weird but a) Norway is loooooong, and b) China goes so far west, and relatively north;
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Whilst mentioning singing Rawhide always brings this to mind for me…
youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA?...
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I think the issue is that unless the Governor of the Bank of England became chair of the BFI, there isn’t really anyone who would see it as their most important line…
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No, it was all over the trailers - this one is how it was being sold, more Ant-Man v Kang (or even Kang v Ant-Man) rather than fun Paul Rudd romp 3
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I think part of the problem is that it was sold as the introduction of Kang as the major force, so it was expected not to be fun filler…
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Basically no, without her resigning herself.
When Carswell defected to UKIP in 2014, he did it on a supposed point of principle, which likely reduced the amount of defections at that point.
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Just FYI, Guardian/Observer are on strike today/tomorrow and asking not to share links as part of that
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The normal purpose of 10min rule bills is to allow the proponent to make a speech in favour of things. They aren’t normally pushed to a vote, so it was a surprise.
The government generally has control of what is presented except for specific gaps, so they won’t give more time for it.
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Yeah, of course it is. Johnson’s column comes out on Friday, there’s no way he’s bothered to do an extra one…
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Former Tory MP for Walsall, tried to do the chicken run to Tamworth in the period between Pincher say he wouldn’t stand again and having to quit, meaning their by election candidate was only standing for a year before Hughes replaced. Both lost to Labour.
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The properly balanced polling on why people voted and who they were takes a couple of months to come out.
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I think Gamechanger is the Taskmasteresque show from Dropout the @snell.zone was thinking about.
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It will need Vance to be confident he would retain the levers of MAGA power after doing it, and it to be February 2027 or later so he has the chance at up to 10 years.
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We know that there was a point where the Starship rocket landing was a second from aborting to a crash because Musk was streaming during a debrief on the flight, and the audio leaked through. Admittedly, a second is a long time in rocketry, but…
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I think he was one of those who quit in the last couple of days before the deadline
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Zahawi was a runaway we won the seat of like Gove, rather than a straight win.