old skool tankie, proper CPBer - was in Straight Left

Stephanie Burt | Twee as Fuck The music that showed me who I wanted to be, what I wanted from life, was the music that came out on Sarah Records...

“In the songs’ combination of joy and scepticism, heady complexity and hits-the-first-time riffs, I found an art, and a worldview, that looked like a life I might live.” [3/3]

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

#SarahRecords #Heavenly

Dad of a kid in childcare with us had the collected works of JV Stalin - jaw dropper..

TransformGov Talks: April 2026 · Luma Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, Local Government Association on the state of digital Local Government and LG2040: The State of Things to Come Jonathan Slater,…

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Lisa Trickey and Rebekah Wilson, LGA : LG2040: The State of Things to Come

​Jonathan Slater (ex DfE Perm Sec), Visiting Professor at King’s College London and QMUL

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It's corruption in plain sight airmiles

And it's a grim dynamic of rising intercommunal tension

It's apply the disdain for Jewish communities in the Arab world to the rest

And it's on them

Cokey

Good thread that focuses on lawful authority and constitutional roles not bloggers opinions

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Yes, looking forward to her get getting lamped in the finale

Oh yes

We are half way through season 2 - still in love with Daniella Nardini, still think Egg and Millie are annoyingAF and Miles is still at twunt (staying at Lawyer pals I lived with in London at the time)

Super low key election

Except that 90% of people who have had male puberty can kill 90% of those who haven't with their bare hands

And a crisis visible from space

Old Appalachian baby names from Appalachian cemeteries.

(IG: appalachian_bluebird)

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

The question that springs to mind is 'what constitutional order?'

Quote disrupting Unquote the Internal Market Act makes presumptions about that act which are not warranted

The problem with this argument is that the UK is an a-constitutional state containing mostly-constitutional devolved institutions and the SNP operating in this twilight have consistently been a constitutional actor

Sopwith Camels, coward!

not in 1999 it didn't, Microsoft went at it with ie, then, I think, Firefox and it was dying before Chrome

never heard of them but wunt, wunt, wunt

Endangered British dishes - and the home cooks reviving them Carrageen pudding and Staffordshire clangers might no longer be household staples, but some home chefs are bringing them back.

Love a Staffordshire Clanger. They are works of genius.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

chortling here

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate Behind the language of legality, the new emir has pushed a political project to narrow national identity and roll back decades of democratic reform

This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it

within two weeks everybody was using Google and not Alta Vista, Yahoo or Excite