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shouldn’t... have made some of the promises
Of course they shouldn't. But if they hadn't, the journos would have taunted them "that means you're gonna put up taxes, doesn't it. Doesn't it. Doesn't it. We're gonna print that, anyway.".

A snippet of last night's Guy Fawkes fusillade.
#fireworks #video #GuyFawkes

FYI, the "Tragedy of the Commons" is a myth, invented in a piece of libertarian polemic. In feudal England, for instance, the Commons worked very well for centuries.

"when the lane is icy or floods"
How many days a year?

Delighted (and a little surprised) that BBC Arts actualy exists.

A canal narrowboat goes under a bridge.

The Kennet & Avon Canal
#photography #KennetAvon #canal

Graffito - "Hope is round the corner"

#hope

While Starmer was negotiating with Trump? Don't be daft.

Green landscape.

View over the Avon Valley - from Cold Ashton, Glos.
#photography #Avon #Landscape #ColdAshton #Gloucestershire

And Lady Posh.

"dodges detail"
Anyone who expects a Chancellor to give details, weeks before her Budget, has no business calling himself a journalist.

Ah! Fine.

Is there a way to see if I'm on some starter pack? I have a sudden influx of followers. (Not complaining - they seem nice people.)

Very basic. Unserious.

Cheap, nasty Austin. Takes his politics from a 12-y-o Sun article.

That comment says more about you, James, than it says about Zack.

Ornate, ecclesiastical building - now domestic.

Little Priory, Abbots Leigh, Somerset.
#photography #LittlePriory #AbbotsLeigh #ecclesiastical ##Somerset

#CommonSayingsInASongOrMovie
Curiosity killed the Catch-22

#CommonSayingsInASongOrMovie
A stitch in time saves Private Ryan

poster for The Seventh Son

Sonos speaker

#ASongOrMovieForHomeGadgets
The Seventh Sonos

Poster for The Glimmer Man

#ASongOrMovieForHomeGadgets
The Glimmer Switch

#ASongOrMovieForHomeGadgets
A Roomba with a View

leaf litter covers the ground.

Litter.
#photography #LeafLitter #Autumn #Fall

I contest that you could take any single frame of The Third Man, frame it, hang it on the wall - and it would be beautiful.

Reminder that the current system *was* a wholesale reform.
It's indicative of UK's political logjam that a bad system replaced a bad system which replaced a bad system - and there really is zero chance we'll ever get it right.

Hannan and Frost in the Telegraph.
Sunak in the Times.
Kwasi Kwarteng in the iPaper.
Johnson in the Mail.
Gove editing the Spectator.
Farage everywhere.
All of them shamelessly honking out their ‘Listen to me!’ garbage, as the country flails around in the unbelievable mess they’ve made.
Nauseating.

A statue of two lovers, smothered in pigeons.

The Fountain Of Harmony, Lecce, Puglia.
(otherwise - the Cock-Blocked Lovers.)
#photography #statue #FountainOfHarmony #Lecce #Puglia #pigeons

I don't suppose anyone will care that I get really pissed off with authors world-building, at the expense of TELLING THE BLOODY STORY.

Nempnett Thrubwell church

You called?
Nempnett Thrubwell church
#photography #NempnettThrubwell #church

You know that neither Joseph nor Mary could apply for jobs, because there was no Zoom at the inn.