paulconvery.bsky.social
Husband; father; Scot; Londoner; social & economic researcher; Islington Councillor; Labour since 1973.
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Starmer is framing this exactly right. No more Green Party politics please. It’s about jobs, bills, security.
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It’s *a* flag of Ireland not the only flag. But it does represent the whole. The green and orange bits are a clue to the differences that make the whole.
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And I remind those folk that the tricolour is a flag of all Ireland.
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Having bought the Observer pretty much every week for 40 years, I’ve already paid for the journalism!
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I might write a bit of code to swipe the archive before it gets paywalled then.
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Yes, we fly the Union flag every day. Despite its complicated history it’s the flag of the UK notwithstanding that my many Welsh friends who rightly decry Wales being subsumed within the England colours.
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As I mentioned this is a formula which for when some people moan that in March each year we fly a flag they say is a foreign country’s. “British Isles”was also a handy way to describe the 4 nations tourist team that played Rugby in the southern hemisphere when I was younger.
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Here’s the funny thing. I regularly get people asking why we fly the tricolour but not the flag of the 6 counties. Answer: because we fly the flag of Ireland. Hence the “British Isles” formulation.
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But be assured I am not saying that all of the island of Ireland is “Britain”. It isn’t.
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The archipelago in which our nations are located is known as the British Isles. Ireland is part of that group of islands.
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Very interesting but bear in mind the scaling seems to auto change for each visualisation so on first glance, they aren't quite so comparable.
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we could always make a flag for Turner like this maybe?
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Indeed. But we only have flag for St G
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There are 7 clubs from London in the Premier League (35%) London isn’t the North (obvs) but it isn’t really the South either.
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The “senior figures” will actually be very attention seeking junior nobodies entirely lacking political experience or judgement
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When he says "the Europeans" he really means UK. No other European country participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Poland initially contributed 194 troops but withdrew from the subsequent occupation). USA committed almost half a million troops to the invasion and occupation; UK about 45,000.
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There will be a Phase 3 consultation in the Summer. Officially: phase two shaped the "concept designs for the ... project. These designs will be shared for input during a public consultation in 2025."
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This is a review of the comments "pinned" to the Phase 1 online consultation map. I'm surprised it's only 88% favourable to improvements to "make streets safer, greener, healthier, fairer." My own comments could be interpreted that way too. But this doesn't mean 88% will support 15 street closures.
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I wish I could say for sure. There's a few Councillors been agitating to fix this. It doesn't affect the streets closest to the stadium (they're cordoned). But there's a noticeable impact slightly beyond. The parking management folk say "yes it's an anomaly but it's ever so complicated to fix". Pah.
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As PL kickoffs are now staggered, Islington's match day parking system is out of kilter. Designed in days when Saturday KOs were all 3pm, the restrictions finish at 4.30pm. Today, there's therefore a full hour before KO without any parking controls at all. It only happens a few times each season.
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The reason people don’t use garages is their cars are too big. That’s why the end up as storage.
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They cannot cope with Trumpists flooding the zone; and they are experiencing initimidation.
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Half way through a visit to Bristol. Time for a nice pint in the Shakespeare by the docks. Last time I had beer in the Shakespeare it actually had sawdust on the floor.
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Labour's high command was told.
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Hard to understand why the Guardian has published this Cummings self publicity. The attribution of remarks to "friends of Cummings" is funny. Presumably it's spouse Mary Wakefield (an editor at the Spectator). Cummings doesn't have "friends".
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Oh dear, this is on Facebook.
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I was a kid when Glasgow’s Victorian tenements were torn down and modern housing schemes replaced them. A dream has truly died as we come full circle and these contemporary slums are demolished.
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Don’t even bother with climate risk. Renewable sources are cheaper. Bills come down. UK needs energy independence to be more secure. Anyone notice how Putin’s Russia had Europe in an energy chokehold?
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Glasgow landmarks. But also very poor quality homes. End of the postwar dream of slum clearance as these contemporary slums come down.