tom flemming

Not really. He's more delusional?

Did he politely ask it to quieten down a little? Did he???

Melle Mel Stride??

Sorry, "this" was referring to the PPE/VIP lane thing in the post just above.
Not spinnable (and AFAIK not spun) as the advantage of the governing party being Close to Business (which as you say, is a line that can be tried elsewhere)

I'm not seeing this. The Mail and Badenoch are both turning on Mone today. The original (obvs bad faith) excuse for the VIP lane that "we had to move fast to save lives" isn't a right-wing move, it's one anyone could make?

Sorry, not trying to be difficult but I just don't see "we're more venal!" in anyone's manifesto?

Yes. Not convinced there are naturally fewer arseholes on the left tbh. But maybe we need Data?

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Why would left-thinking politicians be any harder to lobby than right-leaning? Different people, different pitch, same mechanisms.

Status quo is "access to pliable people in power" shurely?

"Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning... Choose painting a fence. Choose running the raffle. Choose cutting the half-time fucking orange."

Flour/water/rolling pin????

Confused the hell out of me until I realised it wasn't actually in York... I mean, it's half way to Wetwang! ;)

And "when you yell curse words all day on the internet, it's easy to get people to pay attention..."

Really? If only we'd known this One F&ing Neat Trick!

Lol just saw the advert in the print edition - overgrown holiday cabin on disused gravel pit would be more like it.
There are lakes and "lakes"...

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I've visited places like this (near the famously exploding Buncefield oil depot) and they are kinda anonymous and low-key? Eerily quiet outside tbh.
Definitely low jobs/MW power draw, but I can think of a lot worse trad industrial neighbours to have

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Under-recognised and entrepreneurial Scots hide-flayer I do think.

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Concept II rowing machine display post mediocre workout in garage

Also out East. Driven off the bike and back onto the Machine for the first time in a few months...

The truth about immigration Ageing societies seeking to preserve living standards will continue to rely on new arrivals — but governments can be clearer about the trade-offs

An excellent, clear-eyed FT weekend essay by @stephenkb.bsky.social setting out the choices confronting governments on immigration: on.ft.com/3IxIcvo

Who can forget the Wesleyan invasion of 1039?

A proud tree! Lovely.

Thanks. And there are standardised racism/xenophobia question sets too?
(If authoritarianism is the best proxy, just wondering how the proxy relationship is established...)

Not familiar with particular methodology, but I guessed it asks respondents to agree/disagree/weakly/strongly with standard statements of authoritarian/liberal attitudes?

still worried about those techno-racist libertarians though...

The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea

The Congregation Also Rises

...on the virtues of strategic planning or "free markets"?

And despite 40ish years of pro-market governing consensus, we still have a chunky state that intervenes broadly across the economy, so it feels like we recognise the limitations of markets implicitly already.

I guess I want to distinguish between a new "model" (dramatic!) and adjustments within existing models (banal!).

I think it would be a good idea to tax more to support better services, whether or not that restores pre-2009 trend growth.

That's a banal adjustment that doesn't imply any view...

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Let's go!

the emergency alarm shouldn’t be an alarm sound, it should be the Wallace & Gromit theme

Why should we expect to find any replacement?

Why wouldn't the answer be: you've had your long 20th century, from here on it's diminished/ing returns and better cake-cutting. Government's job is to moderate expectations, and stop pretending we can return to old trends?

Or more "tasty fly and spider, shall we move on to the bird course or call it a night?"