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I think this is my question for a GE. Won’t they have this problem on a grand scale?

@luketryl.bsky.social it's therefore interesting to me that Reform think aping Trump 2.0 is going to help them. There's an element of "declaring themselves the winners before the race is finished" element to some of their rhetoric at the moment? This is not me saying they can't or won't win...

I think he’s being a bit flippant as it’s going to affect a lot of struggling small businesses too, but I also think he has a kernel of a point.

@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk @benansell.bsky.social interestingly my dad, who worked for large corporations all his life and voted Tory, has no sympathy for companies complaining about the NICs rise for this exact reason. He thinks a lot of them can’t balance their books in the first place.

@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk interestingly having a “real job” has made realise that the right wing obsession with out of touch civil servants and public sector workers is mostly confected, mainly because the private companies are also full of maddening inefficiencies and out of touch leaders.

True but we weren’t asked to believe that 16 year old Nick Brendon was 13 year old Xander?

I think Mad Men offers the best tip on how to deal with Rand acolytes. Every time Bert Cooper talks about her, it just cuts to Draper looking coolly bemused.

Just clocked that the kid who will play Draco Malfoy in the HBO Harry Potter is Jack in this new BBC Lord of the Flies and he ALREADY LOOKS LIKE HE IS ABOUT TO HIT PUBERTY.

Trigger warning for @stephenkb.bsky.social here.

I do this in the private sector and the confluence of your policy, vision, comms is called your positioning. It’s why companies like Apple or Nike will have a document somewhere explaining who they are for and what they offer.

The Tories in this analogy used to be much better at updating theirs.

@jamesrball.com my dad worked in transport logistics and this means he’s been fantastic at explaining to me why we would be quickly screwed when we left the customs union - and why HS2 is a priority for rail *capacity* and not speed.

Which is a good diary to start with? Or is it worth just going in chronological order?

Newspaper ad board: EVERY FRIDAY GUN FOUND IN MAN’S BUM.

That’s EVERY Friday.

Ironically I had the same debates over Corbyn.

Corbyn-voting mates: But he’s so wonderful how could you?
Me: Yes I know he’s a great constituency MP but that’s not the same as FRICKIN PRIME MINISTER

Don’t get the mental gymnastics necessary to be a Starmtrooper. I mean I like KS, and having read the Tom Baldwon bio think he’s a decent person. I thought the same of Theresa May. But it should also be possible to admit OH GOD THIS PRIME MINISTER IS TERRIBLE AT THIS.

This also felt true for me buying a house under a Tory government. Politicians treat buying a house as one of the most liberating things you can do. And in one sense it is, but the red tape is shocking (and considerably greater than some other countrie)

His second era is stylistically very strange. RTD1 feels very him. A knack for designing dystopian but recognisable planets. A show with something to say about the human condiTimon. RTD2 felt like he just smooshed Black Mirror in with MCU to paper over some very boring story arcs.

Agreed - this is just nonsense if you have ever worked in an organisation of more than 50 people? My favourite example of people thinking attitude can trump delivery is when you get new “squads” or “task forces” across a company and it’s just code for more meetings and…very little delivery.

It’s a mark of how shit most government comms is that this is a piece of pure genius - and makes a confusing and boring topic for most voters seem instantly accessible

Especially as they’re fully capable of editing out a Reith lecturer who calls Trump corrupt.

The BBC need to do better than letting panelists simply lie about what they said
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Especially because it’s within their power to edit a Reith lecturer calling Trump corrupt.

@emmavj.bsky.social as someone who writes on the workplace what do you think about these predictions on entry level jobs? I can see some tasks being reoriented but if you wipe out entry level jobs how do you train people for…y’know…senior level jobs?

Sorry to read this Soph. What a little beauty he was ❤️

@johnharris1969.bsky.social I’m looking to write a Substack on how SEND is being weaponised by the far right. I write on narratives and comms strategies. Are you willing to be interviewed? I’m also a big admirer of your journalism and would learn a lot from talking to you I am sure.

Oh God don’t turn me into Marketing Copywriter Hulk.

But I think this bears out what you say about him being better with narrative. Ironically I think the Westminster government has been as left wing as him, if not more. It’s just odd that no one sees it as radical.

@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social what I think is interesting is that in Manc he has a much more “New Labourish” record than we might think. He’s seemed intensely relaxed about the filthy rich throwing up apartment blocks. Interesting that he’s crafted such a socialist persona.

I’m less sure. Some of my friends who still live in Manchester don’t rate Burnham and one of said friends knows a few people in local government. There’s a feeling that, as with his last two leadership runs, he’s a lot of talk.

Nothing is guaranteed to swing my sympathy back to Keir Starmer than looking at the comments under his LinkedIn posts

Or, indeed, at all.