Ciaran

I can see keeping the wording until the end of the cold war, but you would think in the 32 years between then and 2023 this might have come up

To save a piddling 15 million quid, they’re going to make an extra 17,000 people a year suffer for no reason

This is especially funny because what's there currently is an empty 7 storey office, a derelict shopping precinct, and a car park no one uses. What the residents want is the old precinct but profitable...

Local residents are up in arms about knocking down a shopping precinct which has been derelict for 2 years (and has been in decline for the past 30) and replacing both it and the office space behind it with housing

Jenrick reminds me of Maximilian from Cabaret

Large man famous for eating big dinners (woke)

The cracking plumber (woke) Vs the silent (ergo presumably un-PC) tradesman

(When I was a Labour member I voted Corbyn-Smith-Starmer so I cannot cast stones)

Screaming into the void: the class politics of right-wing protest Recent weeks have seen a spate of demonstrations outside Home Office asylum seekers’ accommodation, and national flags hung throughout England, largely in expression of anti-immigration and anti-gover...

Honestly I think Renewal is good, though I don't read as much of it as I used to as I'm no longer professionally obliged. I remember thinking this was decent on the class politics of far right protesters

renewal.org.uk/blog/screami...

All progressive patriotism discourse has become this Simon Day bit

youtu.be/8lMexzk3TA8?...

YouTube video by Finlay Christie every british advert is like this

100%

youtube.com/shorts/X9mir...

On the actual hypothesis of the piece; a list of British things, most of which seem to just be adverts, the rest of which consumer choices & media feels to me a much weaker vision of progressive patriotism than anything that's been put forth on the subject so far. Which is saying something

I really don't want to sound cruel but this genuinely reads as parody, as if the concept of an open-minded tradesman is just so rare the information has to be passed on second hand so others can live the dream of striking up a conversation with them in the future

Doing the rant from the start of The Newsroom but about how Labourites seem to think the UK is the only country in the world with politeness

*literally everyone who runs a focus group in UK politics

but they were, all of them, deceived, for another bald fraud was made

I'm so sorry April

More vintage mechanical watches for sale via my eBay.

The Phenix features a rare German Buser movement.

The Rila is a great example of how brass wears over time (my guess would be 50-60 years) compared to stainless steel

Today's work: reassembly of a Tissot 781-1

The finished article

A time lapse of me dressing 3 sets of tweezers

Vintage mechanical watches currently for sale via my eBay include:

A Seiko 5 from approx 1980

A gold plated women's Citizen

A women's Sekonda manufactured in the USSR

All are in working order.

you did your best to have as many high information people on that march at least fella x

SRPJ85 | Seiko Watch Corporation

Check out /r/affordablewatches. Imo in that price range something like this Seiko is the best you'll get

www.seikowatches.com/uk-en/produc...

Before I learned how to set pallet stones I bought a donor movement to replace the pallet fork. It turns out that the donor (right) has a different problem, where the original (left) has damaged shellac and loose stones, the donor's stones have been set too deep. So I can pick which one to repair...

More assembly of the Elgin 485

After much adjustment & readjustment this balance is running as it should. Mechanical watchmaking is not so very different to what it was almost 100 years ago, but it's now much easier. On modern, shock-protected movements this is a much quicker, relatively hassle free job

This is the donor movement chaton, thankfully for me the cap jewel is fine. The silver in the middle is a broken balance staff pivot