franciscandlin.bsky.social
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They don't pause to think how only-just-five-figure parents get on?
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On the face of it, seems extraordinary he's not in prison with a very long sentence.
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The corollary is establishments with glowing reviews that all seem to mention the same essentially irrelevant thing. eg hotel with across the board five star reviews all highlighting the fluffy pillows.
OK. Great pillows. Did you notice anything else about the hotel?
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The absolute certainty people will turn out to vote for them has been the secret to the Conservative Party success for the last 200 years. Maybe the same would work for Blairites?
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They feel like the desperate names businesses invent when they need one that hasn't been used before so they can bag the URL: abrdn Verizon Pussi
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The EU isn't invested in a deal because it got most of what it wants with TCA, while the UK hasn't. That's the starting point for negotiations. The UK needs to make significant concessions to get anywhere. Blame previous poor negotiation, or maybe the stupidity of Brexiting in the first place.
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Thanks! Will look forward to reading your piece if you do write it.
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Could you explain the diagnosis you think is correct?
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Can't we just call it old fashioned Central Belt? Avoids cut and shuts on accident damaged names
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I think that respecting an ally by not naming your battleships after one of their crushing defeats is deemed to be woke.
I don't imagine however the French will rename their many train and metro stations recalling their own victories - Austerlitz, Solferino etc
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They seem to have dusted off unfulfilled US imperial ambitions of the first half of the 20th C on Greenland and Panama, which have been the concern of absolutely no-one for the past fifty or more years
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Wonder if the house has been divided lengthways at some point so you only get two thirds of the portico, which is clearly the main feature. For £18 million I would want the whole thing.
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In general I think it is bad if ex-MPs can't find employment after parliament. It is yet another reason for capable people not to go anywhere near the place.
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It doesn't make sense even at face value. Reform can try to win their arguments with the same kind of money as the others.
Otherwise their money is their only argument.
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It always comes down to data. Everything else is just a technique.
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Swype was the best keyboard for swiping on Android but Microsoft took it over and killed it in favour of its own inferior product.
Sometimes accuracy will improve if you delete your keyboard dictionary so it no longer remembers mistypings.
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I think partly just 'steps'. We are no longer used to governments making conscious policy decisions with consequences. Not much since Cameron 8 years ago.
Policy decision here is raise taxes for public spending. The consequence is NICs as voters prefer taxes on business than directly on them.
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Starmer isn't even the worst prime minister of the last one year.
Theresa May I think realised her mistake and spent the rest of her premiership trying to mitigate it. To be really bad you need to lack awareness. I also go with Cameron on the basis you set out.
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The offence seems particularly minor. Haigh doesn't appear to have benefited so her explanation of oversight, not dishonesty, is plausible, it was a long time ago and was declared.
It's hard avoid the conclusion Starmer wouldn't have dispensed with her if she had been more useful to him.
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The AI transcript should throw in a couple of "Charlie, you're on mute", "Sorry, was that for me? I was just dealing with something Scott's asked me to do"
Adds authenticity.
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I would say the case has been made in principle. The issue to me is you probably can't completely protect against abuse and shortcuts.
So are you prepared to accept some reduction in moral clarity over end of life? This itself is a moral question.
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Do activities with other people maybe. You don't get to choose what to focus on.
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NHS England guidance here: www.nhs.uk/conditions/p...
You can ask for one if you are over 50. I had one done but was warned PSA has high false negative and false positive rates, which is possibly why they don't offer it routinely.
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Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll.
I think we can agree on that.
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Makes sense to me. But big caveat that vaping doesn't appear to be an effective cessation tool overall, today. I am sure it works for some people however.
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Vaping probably is a gateway to smoking because the people giving up cigarettes are older than those taking up vaping. The two balance out for now but the much larger numbers of new vapers will likely transition at least partially to smoking over time.
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Even the much despised Scottish Parliament Building came in at "only" £400 million.
On your other point it's much less of a bear pit than Westminster. Not sure how much that's to do with the shape of the room rather than the overly cosy setup we have here.
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A party where absolutely everyone at it was so passionate about AV they had spent every waking hour campaigning for it, seems somewhat .... specialised?
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More interesting is whether it mattered. The EU developed a successful vaccine as it turned out, helping the UK programme as well. If they had failed, the UK had AZ as a backstop.
We're really arguing about the counterfactual.
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I went on a business trip to Stockport and realised the carpet in the Travelodge bedrooms was older than some of my colleagues.
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Money probably. My guess NFL has a campaign to make its sport less niche in the UK and sees ITV free-to-air as a vehicle to promote the sport to new viewers, to afterwards push them towards paid for channels. The content costs ITV essentially nothing but they get the substantial ad revenues.
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Probably the road in the photo doesn't need to be two way traffic
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This guide I think suggests larger employers only need to pay 10% of statutory pay ?
www.gov.uk/employers-ma...
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Members are really saying, we want Boris Johnson
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If you want to be even more cynical, Duffield waited until she was safely re-elected as Labour MP for Canterbury before going independent at the earliest opportunity.
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Bluesky is an echo chamber (let's go with the collective noun) of commentators who enjoy thoughtful and polite discussion. X is an echo chamber of people who rant at each other in vaguely fascist ways.
And so? We are all making choices.
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Yes. Easy to steam perfect rice in a pan. Slightly easier to do the same thing in a rice cooker.
Marginal I think.
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There is ONLY one reason not to describe yourself as an engineer in this situation. Someone with car trouble might ask you to check their camshaft and all you know is there's a button somewhere to open the bonnet.
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My other more serious comment is that positive feedback combines praise with suggestions for improvement and people generally aren't comfortable with giving this kind of feedback.
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Moaning about having to be positive is a bit referential, no?
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So a more expensive version of Wetherspoons.
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Shrewsbury, an important county town, has no buses after six or on Sunday. It's not surprising people don't take them. Options for a large chunk of the population is taxis or don't move at all. I'm actually outraged.
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As in the 1850's when explorer John Rae discovered the site thanks to the help of the Inuit. Lady Franklin got her friend Charles Dickens to pen a racist hatchet job on Rae and the Innuit because their account didn't fit her heroic narrative.
www.johnraesociety.com/john-rae/
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Basildon Bond is watermarked with a suitably aristocratic crest, so when you hold up your best ink pen handwritten letter to the light you know it's from a good place
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Poland has easily the best food in Eastern Europe.
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Except this issue isn't really about Europe, it's about the UK and what people want for it.
The situation we're in, most people expert and non-expert think Brexit a mistake and causing long term damage, but we absolutely won't reverse the mistake. If course people will talk about it.
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Simplify. You could for example make an omelette. It's a surprisingly sophisticated dish, takes about 3 minutes and is just, um, eggs...
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Fair comment. The EU tends to see others as an extension of its own system.
The question is for UK though. What it does it want to do given the EU operates on its own terms?
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Sometimes clearing the keyboard app's user dictionary helps. It removes all the misspellings you have been building up.