Steven Fielding

YI’m racing thru it now too while at the same time not wanting to finish it. I think it’ll be Thackery & Hamilton for the next few months for me. My ed of the novel has an intro by Priestley, in which he phrases Hamilton for being a great minor novelist but not a major one, a distinction I don’t get

Off the bat, and it’s not exactly a field overflowing with those who meet those criteria, that’s Angela Rayner.

And then the mystery was solved. I wonder if Berkhoff would make more money as a Tommy Cannon look alike or Cannon as a Berkoff look alike?

Initially I thought what is Steven Berkoff doing there (top right) and why is he smiling, that’s not like him?

While Reform supporters are usually the most isolationist/appeasing when it comes to Ukraine the Russia Threat sees them as relatively bellicose. Something to work with perhaps?

We should all have such a pretty death.

But Winter (eventually) kills.

And optician?

I live in South Manchester and the bigger picture here is that it seems the Greens have taken over from the Lib Dems as the party of choice if you don’t want Labour or the Conservatives. In North Manchester, it’s Reform.

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If he’d survived the plane crash and entered a flatulent middle age having to perform Peggy Sue for the millionth time. There’s a definite sense of ennui about that expression.

‘Figure reconsidering their options on the Labour leadership’.

To be fair, it looks more like Ronaldo than does the Ronaldo statue.

After reading 2 Thackery novels I have finally got round to Hangover Square and not even a few pages in and I’ve got to thank you for reminding me to read this!

Good answer but wrong.

It’s an uncanny likeness isn’t?

After a mud bath, yes.

Indeed. If I remember right he was suggesting that they were as a consequence of their riches malformed and that they would benefit from becoming fully human via socialism. The evidence suggests not too many plutocrats were convinced.

Ramsay McDonald did once write that capitalism had many victims and the rich were amongst them. 🤷‍♀️

What would Charlie Kirk say?

Yes, I had to look it look it up!

The good bits I am sure.

IMMIGRATION » 20 Aug 1965 » The Spectator Archive Defending the White Paper By ROY HATTERSLEY, MP BURIED deep beneath the layers of professional assurance and synthetic self-confidence, most politicians possess a skin as sensitive as any- body else's...

Isn’t her position consistent with the 1 outlined by Hattersley in 1965 that asserts without limitation of (non-white) immigration there can be no integration? What’s striking abt the present policies is their continuity with the past whoever is Home Sec. archive.spectator.co.uk/article/20th...

That's what it looked like to me before leaving. They might have a very small number of 'stars' that can attract grant funding but everybody else esp in arts and hums and social science will become weekend researchers - if they're not already. 😟

Who is this?

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But isn’t that because the so-called research intensive universities have increased the number of students while keeping their teaching staff numbers down to squeeze out more income and consequently resulting in becoming research light/haphazard/perfunctory/whatever?

I’m not sure that’s at all unusual: one glance at the leading Nazis might confirm that broken men often play that role.

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