Michael George Hartley

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BP Garden at Salford Quays? Look out for the Petra statue, languishing in a corner like a once-famous actor forced to work in a pub.

Yeah, it's where some of the cheapest housing is (40 years ago it was the largest council estate in Europe, apparently), but there are expensive areas too, such as Old Headington

have we all seen Noah Smith managing to book a flight from Dublin to Paris with a 90 minute layover in London and concluding this demonstrates Britain is doomed

I always love the fact that Seymour Cocks' first name was actually Frederick and he *chose* to be known as Seymour (his middle name)

Renaissance?

And cheap marrowfat mushy peas at that. None of this minted fresh-pea nonsense

Ooh, this is like the current right-wing fad for not wiping bottoms

It's the horseshoe theory of stinky bums

(This was obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes $50bn ago. Autocracies - no matter how much oil they can drill, how many foreign advisors they can hire, and how slick their PR - remain highly inefficient at allocating resources in the long run.)

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

A fantastic piece of reporting, brilliantly illustrated data, thorough, neutral analysis, transparent data collection… and frightening conclusions. Well done @skynewsrss.bsky.social for putting in long miles on this one

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Had to share this from twitter just because

"Crucifixion?"
"Nah, freedom for me"
"Oh jolly good, off you go then"

Hythe Bridge Street!

Absolutely +1 to this. It is completely baffling to me that this govt has decided on such an "all in" approach - what is the justification? Is that alignment with the EU would be seen to be weakness, or is it ongoing hope for crumbs from the table?

Cured by the carbon dioxide, killed by the carbon monoxide. Bummer

Certainly ends with a bang!

Ah, OK. I'll delete it.

An important consideration is that you can't deport that number of people without developing a police-state infrastructure of goon-squads and camps. And that infrastructure won't be happy when it runs empty.

And the latest scam is 'estate management fees' - leasehold for new-build *houses*, in other words. Often overlooked by the buyers as the fees (perpetual and unlimited) can be buried in the back of the contract, unnoticed

So Gary Neville is apparently a traitor despite employing 600 Mancunians, paying all his taxes and opening his hotel to front line workers during COVID lockdowns.

Sounds like much more of a patriot than those who criticising him who just spend their time talking the UK down.

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When AI translation goes _sorely_ awry.

Yeah, dammit - mother experienced middle-class shame about 'rubbish from a packet', which meant no Homepride sauces despite that nice Richard Briers doing the adverts

Oh, that is fine. If you wear that here in England we have to give you a seat in the House of Lords. You know that, don't you?

Mmmm...a plate of mince, remember that? With boiled potatoes and boiled peas. Oh the exquisite flavours - salt, basically. Bland, bland, bland

Native, tasteless and popular with old folks. Reform in other words.

great joke from @zaltzcricket.bsky.social on the news quiz this week: “statistics are like comedians at the riyadh comedy festival: treat them right and they can be made to say whatever you want them to say”

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A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.

Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …

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