Chris Emmerson

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Some debate on other threads reposting this questioning authenticity - overlapping categories, colouring wales and scotland as data 'unavailable', when it is - not the kind of issues associated with @houseofcommons.parliament.uk library. Could we get a link?

I'm sure you are aware, but for followers who are not, data are available for Wales and Scotland, they just haven't been included on this map, so the legend isn't accurate

phw.nhs.wales/topics/immun...

Great piece, awful thing you just did to John Cusack though

this will just encourage rogue potholes to target vulnerable council areas

Yes, given how far down the list of issues the smoking ban appears, it does seem more like a nail in the plaque on the front of a coffin that was already fully constructed and functional

"it [the smoking ban] was the nail in the coffin of a situation we were failing to make work anyway," Chainey said.

Thomas Jones, Wall in Naples, 1782

I went to a karaoke bar with some coworkers from a Beijing office where I worked for a bit in 2008, and I still get a song we sang going round my head, no idea what the words mean, whether the song was a classic or a one-hit wonder, not helping here I realise, not at all

"What's the use of being rich
If you don't know what to do with it
Cos you're too bleeding thick"

As one yorkshireman put it

Trigger's broom, but there isn't a broom any more, it's just Trigger pushing things around with his face

My parents told me that when they moved into the house i grew up in in 1976, a big selling point was that it had belonged to a GP and so had a phone line. The waiting list was years!

Also cricket!

Three nations:

England and Wales
Scotland
Ireland

"It is understood that following a breakdown in their relationship, Mr Martin subsequently took out a restraining order on the building, and Trump Tower is no longer allowed to approach closer than 100 feet"

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Not sure if this is still true, but the NHS was often cited as the largest customer for fax machines and consumables in the world. Lots of critical systems built around the fax when it was exciting new technology!

All happy wellness experiences are alike, every unhappy wellness experience is unhappy in its own way

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the Wellness Experience.

Hegel says somewhere that every Wellness Experience happens twice; he forgot to add - the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce

Eagerly awaiting an update on how The Fabric Of Reality is holding up in your vicinity

Also, 'the clubcard panopticon' all-time banger of a phrase

I love this piece.

The fetishisation of 'real time data' remains a persistent and weird obsession in some quarters.

Like a saintly relic, it will illuminate true believers with holy insight. I worry AI will be treated like direct angelic intervention

Inside the Clubcard Panopticon: Why Dominic Cummings’ Seeing Room might not see all that much “A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from…

There was some great commentary on this (and its limits) from people experienced in both data and govt, my favourite was @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social 'inside the Clubcard Panopticon'

medium.com/swlh/inside-...

Die hard is actually inspired by the Roman film 'Saturalia Hard'

For sale. Tiny Tim. Never died.

Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - The Freak Zone Carol Concert - BBC Sounds Stuart brings you two hours of alternative, experimental and unusual Christmas carols.

Featuring Can's version of Silent Night
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a snowman in the world ⛄ ❄

It was taken at Penllergare by Mary Dillwyn in c.1853 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Mary is thought to be one of the earliest female photographers in the world 📷

museum.wales/articles/972...

#Wales #History

Mari Lwyd - Wikipedia

Gnomes! That's adorable. In South Wales, we have to give food to a horse's skull on a stick; as for you, counterfactuals are rarely observed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Lw...

How are the spirits responding? And do you consider this intervention sufficiently well defined to permit a casual claim?

John Fowler, great call

Had a running joke with a colleague in the 00s that every charity shop in Britain had to have a copy of The Magus

You used to be able to tell when a generation was passing on, because novels of a certain period would glut the charity shops