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This is purely informative, I am not taking sides.

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i have drawn a picture:

Marvellous stuff isn't it.

Is that different from Rosebay Willowherb?

1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.

Bored of you. Let him do his work over next few years then you can judge. Shysters.

The Times is scared. Let Keir and team crack on and do what they want. We can judge in a few years. Also can we sack all political commentators in the media.

Thanks for sharing. Let's let them crack on and try to deliver it.

OK, some more considered thoughts on the Industrial Strategy published on Monday and my comment on it.

The first, inescapable point to make about this thing is that it is *huge*. Not "Bidenomics" huge, which translated to £ would have meant £100bns. But in detail 1/

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Thank you. Blooming well put.

Haha.

It's nuts isn't it. Will there ever be a way to change things for the better?

Thank you. All my wife's work. 😃

Me too, so very happy.

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Agreed.

Ooof some spicy replies. You're absolutely correct imo.

Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Found the russian bot

RJ writing copy from -checks notes- the USA...

Supersonic parachute inflation and deceleration, simulated by the Electra supercomputer and matched to data from the ASPIRE flight tests:
youtu.be/8OCLzRBm9Kk
These all served to land Perseverance on Mars!

I'm not even going to read them. They must be vanquished. It's like they want everything to constantly be shit.

Microsoft use Pearson too!

AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts Wrong A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book.

A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book.

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Marvellous

@colinmurray1.bsky.social Walking dogs and listening to your show and absolutely loving it. Best radio anywhere. Thank you and also to Pat.

Shut down the youth clubs.
Sell off the playing fields.
Put up "no ball games" signs.
Make public places hostile to teenagers.
Then:
"Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."

Last time a horse didn't die was 2011...

Every single time...? Are you serious.

Love his articles. Just make me chuckle.

Great graphic design