Stephen Bush

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.

(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

I know library ladders are cool but... if your kitchen requires a ladder to access about 30% of the storage, then you've designed a really shitty kitchen.

The actual building itself is lovely but the needlessly cramped and dark bedrooms, the needlessly cramped loos, the 'cinema room', it's like someone sat downa nd went 'what's the worst way to do this project?'

The 'Cinema Room' I think sums up everything that is wrong with the design choices, in that it has at least one windowless bedroom that would feel like sleeping in a tomb, while the TV is in a room that is cramped and flooded with daylight.

All right, Rightmove, I'm just looking...

The cinema room seemingly designed to have maximum glare on the screen is a real highlight.

So the cinema room, gym and boot room all get windows but two of the bedrooms don’t…they’ve put some real thought into that. 😵

Why would you choose to live in a start up advertising agency in between rounds of capital injections?

Madeline is much nicer than me: in addition to the failure to commit to the twee 'look how edgy I am' slogan, what a hideous and horrible use of the space.

I oscillate wildly between 'we are looking at an absolutely peerless commitment to the bit' and 'we are looking at a tragic case'.

Indeed. Genuinely compelling that they cannot understand how 'degrees of separation' work.

"hey, get a load of this grass-toucher"

'Hey, everyone, on any given day, this guy may be meeting as many as ONE person! What a loser!'

If it's trolling it is good trolling because it is adding to the gaiety of the nation. Phenomenal commitment to the bit.

We need to demand accountability from @beijingpalmer.bsky.social, who on any given day meets someone.

Absolutely gone laughing at this.

I'm never leaving this website. Where else do you find discourse like this

Yes. You should learn from this poster and never go outside again, duh.

They started with a new pacesetter of 'well, look, I don't interact with the outside world', and then to follow up with 'I lack reading comprehension', and top it off with 'actually I *do* in fact associate with people with Nazi views' - perfect. Liquid posting.

Amazing. Just amazing. Honestly I don't know how this crashout can be topped.

Indeed, frankly if you just go to *school*, you will, at some point, have rubbed shoulders with someone who has some pretty vile views.

Your post could have stopped at 'people'.

Look, it was 'build alternative pipelines or a navy' OR 'sink billions into the Line', which would you choose? Huh?!

What I love about this website is how there is always a new weird flex. 'Everyone I've met is virtuous' is a new one.

Indeed. The extent to which this war is stunningly unplanned, from 'why is the SPR so low?' to 'are you going to have to go to Congress asking for money?' is wild.

I've just reviewed my 52nd Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?

The point is they don't have enough munitions for *this* war. The Pentagon needs $50bn more!

The Greens are a pretty broad party, and 'are you joining some grounded ecologists', 'are you joining the local Lib Dems' or 'are you joining some absolute cranks?' is just a really important and basically invisible variable.

One Conservative MP I was rather sad to see go both from a personal 'I liked that guy' and a 'his replacement is a meathead' would absolutely have defected had his association not been pretty solidly 'depressed Remainer Tories' and if the local Labour party hadn't been pretty far to the left.

Indeed. Plus there are so many variables that it is really hard to see from outside, like 'what is the local Labour party like?' 'What is the local Green party like?'