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kevverage.bsky.social
Investor/chair of a couple of Scottish businesses; chair of constitutional think tank These Islands; keen analyst of Scotland’s economic data (particularly “GERS” #fml); occasional political commentator; runner, hill walker & dog lover - views own, obv
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never believed i’d say this, but right now i simply would not travel to the USA

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

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I'm writing a patreon post about the Hereford Map, and I'll share it when it's ready. But, along the way, I made this little Antipodes explainer, and I thought I'd share.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

this chimes “I’m increasingly convinced that [xx] understands very little about figures and regards them mainly as pegs on which to hang rhetoric. Directly one discusses the details of the [yy] budget with him, his attention flags and he seems quite unable to follow even my most lucid developments”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

as a businessman he’s undeniably got balls of steel, but he’s not actually *that* smart, is he?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Posted before, but it seems more relevant and applicable by the day.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Overheard just now. Two middle class middle aged Penarth ladies in convo as I’m walking slightly behind them. “I said I can accept you being gay. But the mullet. I thought you lot had natural style.” “What did he say?” “He said “bloody hell Mum.””

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

I forgot my favourite David Goodhart story! When I pointed out in my LRB review of "The British Dream" that he'd got some facts wrong, he emailed me to complain that "80% of the facts in the book are accurate"...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Trump boasting about deporting the mentally ill? sickening

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Feels like quite a few people have been waiting their whole lives for the moment when being openly racist in print is no longer career ending and are determined to make the most of it.

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

the Gaelic gender-swapped reimagining of Men in Black? #niche

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

not the biggest issue here obviously, but isn’t it incredible that the leader of the free world™ has normalised grade school level name-calling (“Newscum”) - it must be so embarrassing to be a grown-up American these days

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

acceptable #iona

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

if you’ve never enjoyed a summer evening on Iona, i can’t recommend it highly enough (but don’t tell anybody else, keep this as our little secret)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 5 days ago • 3208 comments

Feels like this should be getting more attention: Treasury today: The govt's new Infrastructure Strategy includes "£16bn to establish a new, publicly-owned National Housing Bank that will end the social housing crisis once and for all." Even accounting for spin, that could be quite significant...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

evening all

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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