Presumably the circumstances were him saying “you’re firing me for something you knew when you appointed me, and if you don’t give me a good payoff I’ll make sure everyone is aware you knew it when you appointed me”
• Income 10 • Employment 95 • Education, skills and training 118 • Health deprivation and disability 181 • Crime 43 • Living environment 42 • Barriers to housing and services 10
• Income 120 • Employment 14 • Education, skills and training 5 • Health deprivation and disability 45 • Crime 153 • Living environment 258 • Barriers to housing and services 61
Also the M in IMD means similarly ranked places can be deprived in quite different ways. Eg Tottenham and Clacton, both in the top decile:
New to me as well, but it seems manikin is preferred for medical ones, while mannequin is used for clothing - presumably because of French influence in fashion v Dutch in medicine
It reminds me of something I saw a couple of years ago, where an LLM had “written” a chapter or so of a novel, and people were saying it was obviously AI because the first sentence was so clunky and nonsensical. It had actually lifted the first sentence of The Bell Jar verbatim
There’s some stuff here: transactual.org.uk/change-actio... but tbh the main thing is just to write *something*: it’s less about the detailed argument and more about the weight of numbers. (I also think a physical letter carries a little more weight than an email, if that’s a possibility)
Just pick the ones with the most likes on here!
Surely not? She didn’t become an MP until well after Blair stood down
I genuinely think it treats the word “scam” as a red flag, even though that makes no sense. I sent out an email to a small mailing list and make a joke about scams and got a handful of spam rejection notices I hadn’t got with previous emails
But Friday is the best day for Capybara meat if you’re Catholic, it counts as fish
I have no idea what this means except Number Goes Up therefore good, congratulations!
MPs have absolute immunity for anything said in the parliamentary chamber
Does it, though? I can’t think what I’d go into there for that I wouldn’t just go into a generic/independent corner shop for instead. Unless I wanted some really terrible celebrity memoirs
Yeah, I’d even go so far as to say she doesn’t really look similar. Like you say, she has the same basic descriptors, but there’s no actual resemblance any more than there is to eg June Whitfield or Joan Hickson
As seen about 20 seconds in here
That meme with an angry woman on the left pointing at a cat on the right sitting at a table with some food
Very similar energy
“Pattern recogniser” is often used by far-right racists on Twitter as a way of justifying crude stereotypes (mostly either typical antisemitic ones or “non-white people are all criminals”)
Jeez. The one near my old place in Battersea was pricey, but still half that (though tbf they kept their costs down by not really having a proper store front or anything)
That article is a bit weird though. I agree Today is appallingly bad and its style, priorities, and biases have a deleterious effect on the country’s politics… so it was jarring that the author’s first complaint was “it has too much arts coverage”
It would be a waste if you were, though 😛
Chorley, technically
A plausibly-deniable arms-length "grassroots" campaign? They remind me of the anti-Labour campaigns from the 2019 GE, which were unaffiliated with the Tories - of course! - but happened to all be run by Tories www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
Caithness and Sutherland, 1945. 61 (0.37%) votes separated 1st and 3rd
But your name is so complicated and counterintuitive, Fill
I do think presenting canvass returns as if it’s a proper poll is misleading - for one there’s no proper sampling, if anything 38% of people telling Green canvassers they’re voting Reform is *disastrous* - but it’s also far from new, all the parties have been doing it for donkeys’ years
A tongue that literally goes in two different directions is also an obvious metaphor for untrustworthiness even if snakes themselves weren’t
Well, this is the thing: they do have canvassing data going back decades. The trouble is canvassing data that old is useless. And between complacency and a lack of activists they don’t have a lot of up to date data, which is what is actually needed
I was about to say the same. Make pear (and ginger) crumble, that way if they’re a little underripe they’ll soften with cooking!
Yeah, like I can see a general argument for “we shouldn’t sanitise his condition by editing out his tics” but in this case the balance of harms is surely in favour of doing it. Especially if you’re also going to censor pretty middle of the road political statements
