Celestial M Weasel

5 Live is bad, but the non sports stuff is worse than the sports.

I think 5 Live ones are somehow worse than the local ones

IF THIS WORKED, SHE WOULDN'T NEED TO SELL THE TECHNIQUES TO YOU

Well, my funeral suit (other people's funerals) no longer fits. It dates back to 1996ish and has been a bit marginal for a while.

Where all the mediocrities who have fucked up the country end up

Social distancing lives on in Durham

“… and it was fucking terrible”

"Full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist rejoinerism" is the funniest thing a Labour MP has said for some time I'll give it that. It's like a Jordan Peterson quote about Elmo.

And their main complaint against Labour was that we're building cycle lanes! There's something about spending a lot of time in a car that makes you more right-wing I think

Tal der Ahnungslosen - Wikipedia

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"the valley of the clueless" appropriately

Good work

She is now a crossbench member of the lords apparently

You mis-spelled Maurice Glasman.

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

Right, but just to clarify, you did not appoint Peter Mandelson, because you were not Prime Minister.

A sane and competent party would expel him

mashallah he is gone, to celebrate I've made the piece I wrote last year about arguably the most embarrassing project I've ever worked on free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

Not to overanalyse, but this pattern: send out ministers to defend bad decision in the morning media round, walk back bad decision in the afternoon is what ultimately killed Johnson's administration.

Dominic Cummings currently dusting off his CV and writing a 25,000 word covering letter

ChatGPT

Actually it's a Force Multiplier of a Chief of Staff. Apparently. A sort of Buy One Get One Free. (I daren't ask Grok.)

If you could somehow promise 10 of the 100000 + conurbations "you can have a tram and someone else will pay for it" they would turn it down because of the disruption and the reduced car capacity

I do have strong views on this - and it is very cheems. I agree that growth is hard and you probably can't get developing country/catch up country growth, but I think we have been entirely too accepting of the idea that growth has bumped around 0 since the GFC and nothing could have been done.

Yes, this is the standard Virgin Media experience.

(To cross the streams, this is another element of why the country is just angry.)

I am banking on this for after the crash when I need to work for a couple of years. (I have spent many years with water companies whose problem is "we want a single source of truth, no for God sake not that bit of truth we don't care about that"

a scam economy is when you try to have an information economy with no information quality control