Will pay your place a visit next winter - enjoyed my 5 weeks in SL this winter

We will see now the glare of the spotlight in the age of rage starts to filter through.

Not bad for an average 1st team player wage of 100k a week. Bring it on!

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you are going big on this Gramscian war of position......

Reform's support has plateaued . They are as likely to unravel as Labour has done recently. Labour will get a new leader bounce soon. The UK is f... generally. There is nothing left - the last worthwhile global institutions are the places we inhabit and they are being decimated by all parties.

Even with PR you would still have a very 50/50 divided electorate. Labour had their opportunity to develop a coherent narrative to appeal to people in so-called left behind place but blew it - now they are paying the price of the incumbent government - like a lot of places re the politics of rage.

Three years to go yet - lot of water to go under the bridge yet. More focus on both Reform and Green now - no guarantees in the current climate

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Gary Lineker - hegemonic change

Well with the rise of so called Positive Public Policy I would agree.

Not in Hartlepool.... - although the Indian on the Marina is open 15.95 2 courses and a drink - anyway fear not I am utilising your work with M Cooper in a paper and a seminar I am doing soon - putting the P (power) back into UK Public Policy research. I like your work.

It is my job to articulate it but essentially - yes. When there are no people on the streets at 9am or 5pm and everything shuts on a Monday - you know you have problems

I am doing fieldwork in Hartlepool - suggest you get out of your London bubble. Not sure the label Gen X/ Boomer is something you would find there or appropriate. Social Infrastructure crucial in developing communities

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But reckoning with that means protecting and investing in spaces for kids to hang out unsupervised outside of the home and school, which hasn't been happening (as I discussed in my review of his book here www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... )

Are you going to tell us?.

Conduct of conduct destroyed?

There needs to be a populist policy for these things. Raging bourgeois man syndrome......

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You are so so 2024........

Win the toss - bowl - win the match feel to next couple of days with DLS around the premises

Placing a lot of emphasis on civil society organisations in this Gramscian 'war of position'. You forget you are dealing with a national government that does not seem to be able articulate any sense of vision let alone get involved with alliances of civil society organisations.

yeah sorry Blue Sapphire - looks nice and 6 minute walk to beach so that is fine. Will do if hotel turns out to be a dud. Cheers

I have booked to go to Bentota for 25 days over Xmas and New Year. 3k for direct flights and accommodation - I think that is a good deal?. Hotel I am staying at Royal Sapphire only built last year and has only 10 rooms - I hope you resort recommendations are correct!

Balderson not Bohannon! - always nice to turn Somerset over!

Take your point to an extent but they only bowl 77 overs on average a day. More to it than that and this test has been relatively sedate

Lords and Wimbledon - strangely heritage UK but oddly very modern.

Stick to league cricket - it is more fun and less hassle.