samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com)
Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024).
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
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"But people think keeping children cold and hungry is fair - we have polling"
Why bother being in politics at all if that's how you're going to do it?
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Appreciate this is very specific definition of "fun".
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Fun fact - Schiele went to the fine arts academy in Vienna in the same years that Hitler would have attended had he not been famously rejected. They would have been classmates.
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I always ask her permission first!
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Though to date Europe's strong rightward shift on e.g. migration has not really changed the parameters of our debate. I guess Bardella would be more high profile.
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Yeah - though it is somewhat unfortunate that they got Oswald Mosley's grandson to run the UK branch...
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(The story behind Palantir's name came up in my recent piece on sci-fi and the techbros)
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Could well be right - my point is just that it's not straightforward at all + potentially v expensive. They're also deeply embedded in the MoD.
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I'm guessing here but I reckon Palantir might have had better paid procurement lawyers working on the contract than NHS England.
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The last lot
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There's also a Augusta Urquhart-Nicholls. I'm not making these names up.
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Aurelia seems to own a lot of horses and was briefly a director of the company that organised William and Kate's wedding.
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Sometimes you just have to go route one and focus on crosses.
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He can do a job until we get to The Rapture.
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Understood but I think dunkers were reading it like me, which is also a valid reading and to the same point.
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That's certainly not what I meant in responding. I'm well aware these kinds of chores are still mostly done by woman (though not in all households) but that tweet was pushing the same stereotype: that doing these jobs is what defines you as a woman.
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But the reason for that is people still associate it with being a woman's job - which was the point of the dunking?
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He was 88. Died at 7.35am this morning.
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The embodiment of everything wrong with modern politics. Sociopathic ambition untethered from any practical purpose.
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She's 15! She has a bedroom...
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She actually did a version of the one on the left for her GCSE art portfolio!
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To balance out I'll note I never iron anything. But then neither does my wife. I'm not even sure we have one.
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Did not realise I was being a woman all those times I drove the kids around or made dinner.
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I'll ask her...
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No she's never tried selling anything.
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15
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Yeah she paints/draws all the time....
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Read those back when they came out and enjoyed them.
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Yeah it's legitimate, it's clearly the most contentious thing about the post as the comments illustrate. I just don't think it's fair to say he's ignorning net zero when he explicitly says he does think we should try to meet the target.
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Tbf he doesn't say it doesn't matter. His argument re: North Sea (which I don't know enough to judge) is that it won't effect consumption, but will bring in money to spend on green energy.