Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

🎶🎶 I'm at the Newt Gingrich Nuclear bypass. I need oil but god I hate him. 🎶🎶

See in particular the documentary in which he volunteered to have a camera crew follow him around, which was called "the Real PM".

It took FDR the best part of a decade to get the rest of the country to that point. It's going to take another FDR to rebuild it. I'm just hoping that they've got one lined up.

Can I join the occasional chorus asking the Government to take a deep breath, remember Westminster has five year terms for a reason, and perhaps take a lesson from @robskinner.bsky.social and well known Marxist historian Dominic Sandbrook @theresthistory.bsky.social robskinner.net/2025/01/14/h...

When you are the incumbent government, your re-election strategy is downstream of your governing record, which is what you should be preoccupied with now.

To give you an idea of how far in the future the next election is, snd how stupid it is that Labour MPs are giving it any real thought ar this stage, the United States could capture Maduro more than 1200 times between then and now.

See also the table of cases for any public law text "R on the application of" or criminal law text "R v".

Nire’s thread is hitting a lot of notes, and I think framing the movements in the past decade makes more sense when we see the challenge that the web has made for everything, and we’re *all* still learning what is social and socially feasible now

the move to the internet for a lot of activist-etc communities meant a sort of lost generation bc the libraries did not survive the leap to digital and a lot of the oral histories took a lot of time to make it there. And only some of each movement ever crossed into Online, fewer bridging the gap.

Wagergate, surely?

The original

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It's (a) unusual for the judge who grants permission to hear a substantive JR (b) common to have a divisional court for important cases (c) entirely normal not to know which judge will hear a case until the day before. This is not to say English courts could be more transparent about case allocation

This works well for "revisions required" following a PhD viva as well. The omerta around discussing it means very few realise how common it is, how it's not the end of the world, and how it's not going to haunt you for the rest of your life (even if it does mean a few more months of graft).

I saw Michael Gambon do Krapp's Last Tape in the West End a decade or so ago and there were some very confused Harry Potter fans in the audience.

Your reward is somehow more pogoing and more prick birds

100%. Not helped by my just having replayed Hollow Knight in anticipation.

Richard Hackley - God's Backhand (1999) YouTube video by Mei Clover

My flatmate did this pre-Spotify. Highlights included this unforgettable gem m.youtube.com/watch?v=sDoR...

Hmm

Making Surveillance States - University of Toronto Press

This would be a good start utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

‘A nightmare’ which causes 'irreparable hardship': report on the 10 year route to settlement A new report outlines the damage caused by the 10 year route to settlement, and outlines a number of key recommendations

For info on the human consequences of past goalpost moving, see righttoremain.org.uk/a-nightmare-...

It might, but I don't think it is likely to succeed because eligibility falls to be assessed at the time you apply for settlement, and by reference to the rules then in force. (This lot aren't the first to have moved the goalposts either).

The doc with the power. What power? The power of the doc. Hudoc? You doc? Doc what? Remind me of the doc.

1 [Show an image of a basic pot of TESCO COLESLAW, on a table] VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE: Slaw. 2 SECOND VOICE [pointing a hand at the coleslaw]: Coleslaw. 3 [We pull back to see a YOUNG MAN sat at an interview-style table in a therapy session, with a professional opposite him wearing a lanyard]. YOUNG MAN: Slaw. PROFESSIONAL: No... coleslaw, Peter. And it comes in a...? 4 YOUNG MAN: In a... pot from... Tesco. PROFESSIONAL: Very good. 5 [We are now outside the room this scene is in. On the wall outside the room is a sign reading]: ABDP: American 'BBQ' Deradicalisation Programme [Beneath the sign is a professional looking woman, also wearing a lanyard]: PROFESSIONAL [with concerned, serious face]: The process can take a long time. 6 [We now hear her voiceover, but we are looking at a scene of a male hunched over a laptop in their bedroom]. PROFESSIONAL: Every year we see more and more British men being exposed to this content from America. 7. [We see what's on the screen: a YouTube video about AMERICAN BBQ, with a bearded, thick-glasses, plaid-shirt wearing man holding a big rack of ribs in black-gloved hands]. 8 [Cut to a garden scene: a typical British man is incinerating sausages on his crap little barbecue] PROFESSIONAL V/O: One day they're incinerating sausages like a normal person 9 PROFESSIONAL V/O: The next they re standing in front of a 'smoker' and expecting you to ask them about it. [Same man, same scene, but he is now a heavily bearded, plaid and glasses wearing American BBQ bro, stood in front of a huge smoking cabinet bearing the legend PIT BOSS PRO, and forking a big rack of ribs. A woman is approaching his table tentatively, and politely asks:] WOMAN: What's tha- BBQ BRO: OH IT'S MYSMOKER. 10 BBQ BRO: I USE MESQUITE WOOD CHIPS. [She looks alarmed, confused] 11 BBQ BRO: DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY SMOKE RING [Two ABDP agents, like police officers, have arrived and are lunging for him - one saying]: POLICE OFFICER: Grab his tongs

Talk to your sons

It was bluebell time in Kent

It was 2001, British High Commission election "night" party.

Bit of research about NZ/UK relations and unearthed some very learned commentary from @timbale.bsky.social. Considerably more learned than the commentator before him suggesting NZ was missing out by not following Blair's lead on PPPs.

The Beatles’ first number one (“Please Please Me”, 1963) is closer to Victoria’s reign than to the present day

Can you guarantee it'll be great?