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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 45m

Struggling to see the point of an article that calls for a negotiated peace that says nothing (bar Ukraine giving up the Donbas) about the terms that would arrive at such a peace, and the implications of that on future Ukraine and Western security.

Unless he is just saying Ukraine should surrender?

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 3h

It will be interesting to see what it used for. I read one person say it would be a throne room and I wonder if that more accurately reflects the planned usage.

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 4h

I'm intrigued by all those little regions in Wales, need to look into this...

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 5h

Must be a fair amount of Russian microphones and associated tech he can give back to Vlad

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 5h

What an ace Mum 😀

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 8h

The equivalent in the UK is referred to as 'good chaps' (in case anyone is interested 🙂)

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 9h

Have they actually tried to deny any of this?

Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 11h

Oof, that's extraordinary. Great camerawork it has to he said

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 12h

So shocked at this

Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 12h

Really enjoying this this morning, it hangs together like a proper compilation should.

My only gripe is that it is on Spotify and not a lovingly curated C90 with appropriate artwork.

Can't have everything I suppose 😀

Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder if rounds of applause were standard in these situations 🙂

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Allan Hailstone @allhails.bsky.social · 15h

Potsdamer Platz, 29 August 1962. I post photographs taken on my many Berlin visits in the 1950s and 1960s. 180 unique historic street images of East and West Berlin are in my book "Berlin in the Cold War" (Amberley Publishing). #Berlin #up2310

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's on the list!

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 1d

Surely there's people involved with the3million could at the very least offer advice and support?

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a new playlist for you: Songs from the turn of the millennium. Boasts classics by the Beta Band, Super Furry Animals, Stereolab, Teenage Fanclub, Spiritualized, The Clientele, Broadcast, Shack, Spearmint, Mojave 3, Cornershop, Massive Attack and loads more
▶️🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/0MW...

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 1d

Ah Wayne County. Saw him live the once although he was Jayne by that stage

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 1d

Looking at how dependant (and therefore vulnerable) we are on tech I'm wondering if treating it as a mere crime is enough and it should start to be treated as something more akin to terrorism. Unless it is and this simply doesn't make any difference?

Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 1d

I guess it's stating the obvious but this isn't even the worst part of it. This comes in the statement (from Jenrick I think?) that definitions of the right to live here is never a closed subject and they can endlessly and retrospectively change the rules. Very sinister.

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 2d

Very good 🙂

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 2d

Guess so - in which case it is all absurd as well as nasty. Good thread here I thought in case you missed it...
bsky.app/profile/matt...

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

I have half an hour before my next interview so I'm going to sketch out what I find an important problem with the fashionable division of immigrants into "net contributors" and "net recipients" of government spending. 1/10

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The argument of Lam, Philp and Badenoch would be "tell the net contributors they can stay & tell the others we are v sad to kick them out"

Maybe they would have retreated just on pragmatic reciprocity, though Lam is willing to forget about that in what she says here about her mass expulsion plans

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 2d

Just seen the cover - very cool! Always wonder how much input the author gets to these things?

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

I have half an hour before my next interview so I'm going to sketch out what I find an important problem with the fashionable division of immigrants into "net contributors" and "net recipients" of government spending. 1/10

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The argument of Lam, Philp and Badenoch would be "tell the net contributors they can stay & tell the others we are v sad to kick them out"

Maybe they would have retreated just on pragmatic reciprocity, though Lam is willing to forget about that in what she says here about her mass expulsion plans

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 2d

There's an amusing moment in the 1780s where the Admiralty send a couple of likely-looking captains to the West Indies to mess with American trade.

Unfortunately the West Indies kind of relied on American trade, the two captains were Nelson and Collingwood, and things went horribly right...

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Oct 21

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar.

Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.

Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

Painting of a middle-aged Collingwood in blue admirals jacket, resting his had on his chin.

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Stuart McDonald @actuarybyday.bsky.social · 2d

Changes to the population at very old ages are a result of both improvements in life expectancy and historical birth patterns.

That dip in 90 plus numbers in 2008 is a window looking right back to WW1! 2/2

New ONS release out today: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

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Paul Moreau @betterpolo.bsky.social · 2d

That's crazy, a dip in a line on a graph that captures so much...

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