The Singers is a work of genius

@brettroberts.bsky.social wondering if you're in this picture somewhere...

2 dogs on a sofa and one is a flat coat retriever, whose front legs are on the floor while rear end is lying down on the sofa

Flat coats are basically just giant spaniels and all the oddness and risks that implies

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Quarrel? Honey Ryder? Kerim Bey?

Hard to empathise with someone from a different era? Someone with PTSD?

The racism issue is interesting. I mean against whom? Russians?

Examples of leftwing governments banning things? Enforcing their own preferences over others, and against evidence? Is that a serious question?

No idea. No idea. And probably not.

The books might help.

Certainly Labour shifted right to get elected and seems firmly committed to continuing that movement, at least when it comes to asylum seekers and immigration. But the left are equally prone to reaching for the authoritarian stick.

I think it's the political class as such, though liberals (true, rather than e.g. US insult version) specifically try to avoid it, even though as liberals we're very sure that the world would be better off if it was more liberal.

For people in Oxford it's not bad, though views would differ depending where you are. Oxfordshire though, bus service is city-centric. The council mandated a connection one. This means despite so many efforts to make car journeys longer it still takes longer on the bus. Working people are time poor.

Thanks.

Do explain.

Oxford is a case in point. Basically the only provider of a number of Oxfordshire health services is Oxford JR. Oxfordshire meanwhile is a long rural county. Driving is the only practical option for most people, patients and staff alike.

Back in old microblogging platform days, my pinned tweet was "Politics isn't a line. It's a circle with a dirty authoritarian bottom". Left and right politicians both end up there because they are convinced that "if people lived like I think they should it would be better"

This in Oxford JR, which has the stupidest ratio of parking spaces to hospital capacity ever seen; the parking pass allowed use of staff car parks as well as visitors, which meant you could get a space in "as little as" 30 minutes after arrival...

I think it should be free if you're visiting the hospital for health reasons, like when you have to get a ticket from the checkout at the supermarket. And charged for visitors except in special circumstances (when our son was in critical care after being born, we got a parking pass so I could visit)

Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation".

If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.

He's referencing a global elite plan where the Australian government are being funded by the UK. And Soros.

Vintage Red Leicester is sooooo much nicer than the stuff my mum used to buy

You'd think she could be looking into the Epstein papers and whether Trump is suppressing them.

Also when you ran out of tracing paper you could just go grab some toilet rolls

You see, it's not the absence of the lowest common denominator that oppresses them, it's the existence of anything else

Most people are decent. Would be nice to see that truth reported

As noted elsewhere in this thread, Isaac from Crystal Clean Windows York Limited came over and cleaned the restaurants windows for free and helped remove the graffiti.

That's patriotism! Trying to make your community better. Reaching out and helping others.

Ultimately it matters not if your constitution is written or unwritten or codified or uncodified…

…once those in power do not recognise political or legal rules higher than their own personal or partisan advantage it is constitutional ‘game over’.

Constitutions need constitutionalism, most of all.

Nigel Farage has, inevitably, said that this ruling means “Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer”.

The court’s short summary makes it explicit in two separate places that didn’t even enter into its reasoning, which centred on criteria for injunction.

So long as they would understand "train your own model" it'd probably be productive.

One fears actual innovation is not what they are recruiting for. More "buy stuff from large (US) software/solutions companies"