this is how I learned they are two different people

sure, why not

I just think if the government was to become this unpopular this quickly, they might as well have done it by increasing taxes on median+ earners.

Keir Starmer says he did want to know about Peter Mandelson, but how was Olly Robbins to know that Starmer wanted to know, when Starmer looked so much like someone who didn't want to know? thecritic.co.uk/the-...

Exactly. Didn't rule the whole of England but we don't reallt know when that starts, I think 878 is the point where the thing that *becomes* England starts.

Edward the Elder too who DEFINITELY COUNTS

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just lucky I guess

SEASIDE. ffs

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anyway new favourite off brand convenience store name here

now i'm on a metro to the seadire for the evening.

someone i met yesterday said how unusual it was for people to come here for no particular reasons and it remains entirely baffling to me that Newcastle isn't on the tourist trail

bit more

What sank Johnson in the end was not so much what he'd done but that his MPs got sick of being sent out to defend it.

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

bang on!

Newcastle

gone for a walk in what appears to be an Edmund Burke essay. if I asked how things were going in Westminster would I regret it

It wasn't 20% of the workforce, but that aside:

that happened because the economy was booming and new jobs were being created. Will that happen if AI does do what its boosters claim? Maybe! But recent history is not reassuring, much of the west has had essentially no growth in 20 years

okay how candid do you imagine you have to be to prevent a 30% unemployment rate leading to some kind of societal collapse, exactly

this was delightful, thank you for the rec

Putting the fun in fundamentalism Ahead of packing up his bags in the wake of the Barack Obama victory, Jonn Elledge treats himself to a unique slice of Americana: Kentucky's creationist history museum.

Oh I went to a proper American version of one of these in 2008, it was genuinely one of the best days out I've ever had

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He also has a lifelong fear that one day I will get off a train and leave him on the train, a thing that has literally never happened

why this is all so sudden

I really hate the - honestly very right wing - framing that it is somehow good to constantly be shocked and offended. This is simply not how the real world works *or should be expected to work*

I do not like them driving fast
I do not like them driving past
I do not like them close to me
I do not like Airbnb

yeah definitely a factor - although I once left him in a different airbnb for 11 hours to go to a wedding and he was absolutely fine, he's just highly strung

mind you, my mum's front door leads straight onto the street and he can relax there, even if he does have to keep an ear out for arrivals, so perhaps he's just cold

HS does not like this Airbnb and I think it might be because he's not used to a front door onto the street? Unnervingly close outside world. Requires monitoring.

ha! is Sutton Coldfield still in denial?