Joe Lynch

Oh hey, just dropped you an email 😀

Taking "every accusation is a confession" to levels that none of us had thought possible

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Launch unconstitutional disappearances of US citizens who oppose your agenda

When it comes to the bad-faith right wing: every accusation is a confession

He would make economic policy promises based on how many votes it would get him and then implement decisions which had nothing to do with those promises but were instead akin to what Liz Truss did.

Abolish them.
Keep the majority of the power with the PM, but we should have an elected president whose role is mostly ceremonial but also has an anti corruption and standards in public life remit too.

Finally caught up with The Celebrity Traitors and I am now convinced that Kate Garraway is the inspiration for Moira Rose

See also the "LGB not T" types who are utterly delusional if they think that they're not next on the far-right's list...

I have eaten more Jaffa cakes than you will ever know xox

Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you

Me: I didn't call you

Demon: I did

I'd always assumed that if one were renting a property which was repossessed by a lender then the lender would become the landlord, but that is only the case if it was a buy to let mortage or if a consent to let agreement was made with the lender.

I call out the B2L/C2L thing because in case you didn't know, if a landlord just stops paying their mortgage and there is no B2L/C2L in place then the tenant can be evicted with basically zero notice and the tenancy is nullified. This has happened to a friend of mine and I was outraged by it.

Wholesale reform of letting agency regulation, plus life-destroying penalties for landlords who rent out properties without a B2L/C2L mortgage in place (and business-destroying penalties for letting agencies who do not do these checks) should be a priority for the government.

Every interaction I've had with a lettings agency has made me want to scream, and with the passing of the Renters Reform Bill they now represent the largest pile of shit in the private rental ecosystem.

The take away for me from the Rachel Reeves "story" is that letting agencies need to be licensed with a binding code of conduct. Everyone working there should be DBS checked and should be a member of a professional standards body.

Abolish employee NI, and make the combined income tax bands 29/43/49%; it's a 1/1/2% effective increase but it'll capture NI exempt "income" from things like rental properties

(I will get to this, I promise: my initial post was screaming in to the void because of a passkey-related auth issue on remote VMs but I've now got a workaround and so I'm working on that urgent problem first!)

Hot take of the day: passkey based auth is a brilliant concept, but every single implementation out there right now is absolute dogshit, and the technology is fundamentally not ready for widespread adoption.

Taurus: Things aren’t as bad as they seem, they’re worse.

£200 for a chair in which people can comfortably work for ~8h/day is a bargain.
How much do the chairs in the Times offices cost?
How would you feel if taxpayer money was being spent on agency staff because the permanent staff were off sick with hip/back problems?

Hear me out Slow Horses but Muppets, Jackson Lamb the only human

It could absolutely work for any of:
Jackson Lamb
Diana Taverner
River Cartwright
Catherine Standish
Louisa Guy

The only person who 100% needs to be a muppet is Roddy Ho

One thing my career has taught me is that the SECOND senior management start micromanaging things which should be below their pay grade: run. It's the archetypal "I'm hopelessy out of my depth so I'm latching on to something I can control" move.

Hardcore Labour types: "your party shouldn't exist; you should join us and be one of our factional pressure groups from within"
Also hardcore Labour types (the second you disagree with them): "why don't you fuck off and join the Tories?"

I've heard a few hardcore Labour types openly talk about how the UK *should* be a two party system, "the party of workers and the party of capital". Truly staggering stuff to say post US 2016 election...

Me to credulous tech journalists: Stop trying to make second life happen! It’s not going to happen!

I suppose the difference the level of toxicity of the local CLP. In Tory strongholds they’re much more likely to work positively but where they dominate local politics it brings out the absolute worst.

YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken

I held off upgrading to iOS 26 for a while, but I capitulated and this is driving me round the bend. I'm glad it's not just me though!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksV...

Labour voters are generally agreeable towards the LDs.
Labour *activists* HATE the LDs with the burning fury of a thousand suns.

20.00 FILM: THE FANTASTIC 404 LISTING NOT FOUND