Howell Harris

It’s echoing the standard MAGA attack line. Shows that the US Right is these British patriots’ home country.

Lucky man, to have that view (& walk) without having to drive 250 miles first.

The essence of it was always xenophobia.

You can begin to see why (1) Starner dropped her, and (2) the members chose her.

I used to quite like her on _Woman's Hour_. They should shift her to _Countryvile_ or maybe _Gardeners' World_, would shake them up a bit. All of the _Today_ presenters seem to me to be high on their own supply -- get paid so much that they act as if they are the story, or Tribunes of the People.

I have no idea, sorry (rather makes the point — I do follow British politics, but Starmer & co. have made no impression).

And even if you ever did, you‘d forget them even faster than they have, because they’d be so BORING.

“Whatever it takes” = “I don’t care how much it costs, or which other budgets get squeezed to pay for it.” Daft. It’s an old iron (or more likely steel) structure. It’s all old technology. It’s redundant. It wasn’t built to last forever, & it hasn’t.

Snide comments about ministers not properly dressed for the job will be the obvious next step.

What a surprise!

I don’t bother listening any longer. Mornings are nice & quiet and I miss nothing of value.

Who are the leading historians actually leading, and where are they trying to lead us? Mostly time-expired old farts.

An old friend of mine worked night shifts at BBC News in the late 1960s. His boss, a failed minor literary figure, brought a Gladstone bag with six bottles of claret to get him through the twelve hours. Had no apparent effect on either his temper or his intellect, but he died quite soon after.

Looks more like the National Amazon Warehouse Park.

If only acres could vote! (In a sense they can — the Senate.)

I also noticed @evanhd.bsky.social using the pejorative Republican term “Democrat Party” instead of the proper name (Democratic). I suppose that as he works at the BBC it is natural that he should absorb right-wing talking-points & think of them as OK.

Nobody else would go anywhere near him, but the poor dog had no choice.

@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social — no more than a litre… don’t think I ever managed that much, not even as an undergrad. Hope not, anyway. Found out recently that I have only had one kidney all my life; wish that I had sometimes taken better care of it rather than giving it so much liquid to process.

Or maybe because it’s a model that’s both (1) obvious & (2) in practical terms useless, except to provide ammunition for the usual crew of tax avoiders, market fundamentalists, & state-drowners & shrinkers who have made up the core of transatlantic right for the last 50 years.

William Rouse & Sons William Rouse & Sons Mariners, Fishermen, Marine Salvors, Towage Contractors, & Lighthouse Reliefs, c. 1890 - 1945

If you’re interested, Mr Peters, you’re very welcome to look at the presentation I did for a local history society recently (Sept.). My family is lucky to have a great photo etc. archive. docs.google.com/presentation...

Here she is, the Taliesin — built in the 1880s for the River Dee, so shallow draft and twin screws, but ALSO built to carry passengers, so moonlighted taking tourists on summer cruises along the N. Wales coast. Acquired by my family in 1930 for not much more than the cost of a new car then.

Tyrone seems to have become increasingly odd, don’t know quite why. I used to find sone of what he wrote quite interesting & sharp.

Has it done it again?

And how much of a “socialist” is Mamdani anyway? Good ol’ metropolitan progressive — after all, the policy lever he plans to pull most strongly (rent control) is one that’s decades old in NYC, a legacy of the old (New Deal-ish) Democratic Party.

Figuring out & comparing the power of vessels’ engines was also fun — nominal h.p., indicated h.p., huge differences.

“Mine” is a nice bit of auto-incorrect. “This little psychology of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.”

Why listen to Art Laffer on anything, particularly tax-related? An effective self-publicist with influential supporters, but what else?

Absolutely. For a few years I owned a BTL. When I sold it after 7 years I was quite happy to pay CGT on _real_ gains, i.e. acquisition & up-do costs, revalued (mid-90s, by RPI) vs sale price. When I pay CGT now, it’s at a lower rate than on earned income, but it’s also on paper gains, not real.

“Showbiz for ugly people.” No idea who said that.

Sadly true, @brynleyheaven.bsky.social. Probably it will never happen — just more mediocre, car-dependent estates in the wrong places. British environmental enshittification, has a long & noble pedigree.