Always ignored him Helene.

Two days in a row I've rung NHS services, spoken to cheerful receptionists and got an appointment NEXT DAY: one dentist, one GP. What is happening? Am I confabulating? Is this a fluke? Is this Starmerism? #Baffled #Weird #Inagoodway

It's as if the whole of life is now computers locking people out of services to which they're entitled.

If you want to pledge something to help Fairfield House acquire this noble model bust of HIM by one of the UK's finest sculptors... message me
bonhams.com/auction/...

I rarely attend auctions but today I'm attending one (Frome, a friend selling family items) but listening in to another (Bonhams London, where a Haile Selassie bust is coming up, which would be perfect in Fairfield House...but Jacob Epstein...won't come cheap)

Bonhams : Sir Jacob Epstein (British, 1880-1959) Study for Emperor Haile Selassie 34.5cm (13 9/16in) high including base; 29cm (11 7/16in) high excluding base (Conceived in 1936, cast circa the 1960s by R. Fiorini & J. Carney) Study for Emperor Haile Selassie bronze with a dark brown patina 34.5cm (13 9/16in) high including base; 29cm (11 7/16in) high excluding base Conceived in 1936, cast circa the 1960s by R. Fiorini & J. Carney

Jacob Epstein HIM study up for auction tomorrow: it's a gem.
What chance Fairfield House puts in a winning bid?
To help: pledge now to trustees@fairfieldhousebath.co.uk
tinyurl.com/HIM-bust

My bad - www.longfinance.net/news/pamphle...

Of course. Entirely consistent with our commitment to integrity ;-)

@natjdyer.bsky.social see also this piece from 2020 by Chris Yapp (via LinkedIn)
#Ricardo
#ComparativeAdvantage

Going up steep learning curve there...(as many of us have had to)
#Ethiopia
#civilwar

Great piece James. For Ethiopian perspectives check out the proud and surprising history of www.fairfieldhousebath.co.uk
#anticolonial
#imperial
#welcoming
#redemptive

I should hope not.
They should be paying you!
Anyway: be the salt in the stew. One voice of reason can be enough on these occasions...

My old firm was commissioned by the Home Office to research why young people wanted ID cards.
We warned them...but the New Labour Minister wanted to know, and urgently.
So we did the work. Sure enough: what young wanted wanted was fake IDs to go drinking.

One would almost think that civil society doesn't cough up for platinum sponsorship and the folks at Westminster Forum Projects Ltd are more interested in the money than in truth and justice.

Bath interfaith group hosts lively discussion on faith and science The Bath Interfaith Group (IFG) arranged a lively discussion on religion and science, held in a packed St Michael’s church. Bath Quaker John James was an original founder of the Bath IFG some…

In Islam's age of reason translators were paid the weight of the texts they translated in gold, we learned last week bathquakers.org/2024/11/18/b...

Letter: COP29 has a chance to put people before policy From William Heath, Bath, UK

Nice of the FT to publish my letter
www.ft.com/content/1328...

Fairfield House: Tripadvisor now saying #6 of best things to do in Bath
Still time to book your tour 1200 or 1330...Sundays till Christmas
www.ticketsource.co.uk/fairfield-house

Oi. @Google If we're trying to log into a little used GMail account then what's the point of sending a verification code to the GMail account we're trying to log into? Just asking...

Lengthy long sanctimonious callcentre waiting list lecture from @Ecotricity about all the good things they do. And "great news" about something apparently (I'm too seething to listen to what it is).
The only GREAT NEWS will be when you get round to answering the **** phone

Call me a dumbass techno-ignoramus but...why does my mobile say it has no internet until I turn the Wifi off, when it seems to work? Can't it work out for itself that there's a mobile signal but no wifi?

Everyone's circumstances are different I guess, but I can imagine talking it through among friends over just having to deal with professional advisers with their misaligned incentives...

Is it something to discuss in a collective or support group do you think? Or a deeply personal matter?

Trump, Biden, and Harris Political News Today’s essential guide to the daily shock and awe in national politics. Read in moderation.

Another top tip from resilient and good-natured Melissa Ryan at Ctrl-Alt-Right-Delete: save your headspace from daily Maga2.0 clowncar crash news; just check the WTF Just Happened Today newsletter - whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com

The Chicken (Studio Version) YouTube video by Will Trigg

Pistorius...Pastorius..whatever...
he ain't no chicken

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBvx...

Author Nat Dyer points out that even the saintly Isaac Newton ended up getting rich minting guineas out of gold mined in South America by enslaved Africans. Comparative advantage at work... #RicardosDream

Ricardo’s Dream Ricardo’s Dream - How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray; Ricardo’s Dream tells the fascinating story of David Ricardo, Adam Smith’s only real rival as the ‘founder of economics’: who introduced the study of abstract models to economics. He also developed the theory of trade that underpinned globalization and hides a history of power, empire and slavery.

New book - Ricardo's Dream, by Nat Dyer - published this month which points out the enormous human cost of crude adherence to "comparative advantage" economist thinking.

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/ricard...

We forget about comparative advantage at our peril Companies and countries should maintain a laser-like focus on what they do best

Stuart Kirk today advocating Ricardo's comparative advantage theory to the COP folk - www.ft.com/content/e574... (paywall, whatever)

Blowhard Stuart Kirk writes in #FT COP delegates should remember comparative advantage theory. Meanwhile new book Ricardo's Dream shows very clearly the monumental damage caused when policymakers fail to take into account the human cost of adherence to David Ricardo's idea.

How James Dyson’s farming empire may land his estate with £120mn in death duties Billionaire known for vacuums and hairdryers has become one of UK’s largest farmers

"How James Dyson’s farming empire may land his estate with £120mn in death duties"
Couldn't happen to a nicer tax-avoiding Brexiteer...

We should be on Mastodon as well, and see how things play out...