@alanbeattie
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“I will have such revenges on you both,
That all the world shall—I will do such things—
What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be
The terrors of the earth!”
The invention of the spear was a massive retrograde step because it mechanised hunter-gathering and led to mass unemployment among mammoth-stranglers.
"Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death. War is a grave step after all other options have been exhausted. That Trump had other courses of action is well known. That he preferred this one is hard to unsee." My column. www.ft.com/content/2f3e...
Delete your account you heartless ghoul
How can you post that when there's war in the Middle East, you monster.
Am I doing Bluesky right?
As long as they generally don’t fuck about with it, I don’t care who runs Bluesky.
You're gonna need a bigger oh forget it.
I feel that could stand as a footnote to my entire life tbh.
My Trade Secrets newsletter today. Trump has hit a highly networked 2020s economy with a crude 1970s shock, and while it's hard to be optimistic, the catastrophe in the Gulf hasn't actually crashed the rest of the world trading system yet.
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John so-called Springford, if that is his real name
But when the US was still a net oil importer, right?
Who needs reporters
You’re suggesting that it might be a bad idea to get involved in a….land war….in…..Asia?
Our live blog on this shit show is up and running again. Just a mounting nightmare - as.ft.com/r/bbc5b47c-1...
I know thee not, old man.
You fled ethnic conflict to a safe haven? Wise.
My brother’s description of the rugby union communities of Britain is “public schoolies, farmers and the Welsh”.
My half-arsed theory is that this is to do with population density and land ownership ie lots of space and a right to roam. Golf in England is feudalism in silly trousers.
Yeah one of my oldest friends is a vg golfer and grew up on a pig farm in West Kilbride. Zero chance there is an English equivalent.
Not really counting that as a sport rather than a pastime but you’re right, they might as well hand out yellow rosettes with the bibs.
Scotland ruins a lot of generalisations. Golf is absolutely the most Tory sport there is except in Scotland where it’s non-partisan.
Tried it once. Decided to stay on the sane side of the Pennines thereafter.
Right, they go and win things in a foreign country because no one here cares. Ergo it has no political coding in the UK.
Cycling as a sport is French/Belgian. In the UK it’s recreation or a means of commuting.
Correction: Rugby Union (Welsh): Labour. Rugby Union (everywhere else): Tory.
Rugby is v much not LibDem unless you’re averaging over Union (Tory) and League (Labour). The only true LibDem sport is orienteering.
It’s a push-me-pull-ewe, I won’t even take my coat off.
Exactly. Ignore the special interests and listen to the wool of the people.
“Too early to open a bottle?” was one of Blunkett’s worst moments.