matthewkilburn.bsky.social
Freelance writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
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I suspect many of those I would like to appreciate this are just too young...
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It tends just to be lines and prejudices with me; wariness of imagined tribes.
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I understand. I've succumbed myself in the past and been embarrassed later. There can be comfort in the indignation even when you should know you are believing rubbish.
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Though political orientation makes little difference really.
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Also a growing number of provocateurs from the right, rather like the other place.
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And lots more - well before the hypermarkets took off, family businesses owning department stores in depressed areas might find it easier to close the store and rent out the building as multiple units in search of a more reliable financial return - and car ownership was low in these areas.
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I wanted Labour to be seen to move fast and *mend things* - disruption seems a tired and shallow cult.
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It's very close to Reform territory - one of their Tyneside candidates' manifestos last year was dominated by a wish for the shops on the main streets to come back and a complaint that no-one had explained why they had gone.
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Not *especially* anyway, as I understand the problem is worse than we realise; but even so.
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First seen two years ago in Kidlington Sainsbury's of all places, which I'd not have thought vulnerable to shoplifting.
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Yes, let's give more room to the other parties.
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I know of a similar successful case.
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There was some discussion yesterday...
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'Christmas special 2026,' I thought.
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In 1978 the lists often were, yes. I think I got Auton Invasion early in the school term - the reprints were often more visible than new titles in the shops I visited in the second half of 1978 - but again this is all from memory.
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Tenth is right - our Windsor visit was in August - but I might have to revise my memory of when I bought The Dinosaur Invasion.
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So it is from memory - the format of the publishing information page suggests it was printed before the official date. I wish I had made notes and kept the information sheets I had (not intentionally discarded...) as the reprint schedules were often at variance with what was happening on the shelf.
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I bought Dinosaur Invasion early in the year - it might not have been February as the latest book on the 'Also available' list is Horror of Fang Rock. Perhaps April - but I'm sure I had it before the great reprint rush begins in the summer when I picked up The Auton Invasion. 1/2
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Yes, same here.
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We must wait to be surprised, is as optimistic as I can be.
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Was he? I didn't realise!
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I'd no idea! Thank you.
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Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 gave rise to grant penalties on LAs that exceeded expenditure limits. This included use of RTB receipts. Intention was LAs could use no more than 20% of receipts. In the 5 years before 1980 Act 627,830 council houses built. In the 5 years after, 215,580.
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There's a poster at my doctors' urging patients with depression to consider social prescriptions; nothing seems riskier or have more potential as a cover for neglect.
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Cf. Sartre in 1946.
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Oh, of course!
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I happily find its use difficult to process.
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Not medieval, but I do like that the Page-Turner baronets changed their surname to Dryden (short version of the story), as if endorsing the readability of the first poet laureate's work.
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That's not been appreciated before, I'm sure.
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Congratulations - what a good idea this series is, and your title of course.
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Yes. Experiential knowledge gained from wandering around actual books and archives is real. Wrote a thing about PhD research and what you learn from engaging unmediated primary sources: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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Oh, for the 1990s when a certain company had a large sum of money hanging around for fifty years which they wanted to laund- I mean, put to a good cause, and offered to endow an Oxford college with it...