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Jo Kibble (Political Animal)

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politic_animal from the Musk shop. Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · Jun 21

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 14m

I believe so (I remember a story around 2016 of some people trying to set an EU flag on fire and couldn’t because of EU regulations on flammability.)

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1h

We have - happily - never got into that whole US debate on whether burning the national flag is free speech or not, but I’d be fascinated to know if Jenrick would walk into court with someone who took a cigarette lighter to the Union flags he was attaching to lamp posts the other week.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h

Call me crazy but I've got a sneaking feeling that putting the country in charge of a politician who likes to encourage people to publicly burn religious texts won't work out too well

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 1h

Gentlemen, you can’t fight over this. This is a Peace Prize.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 15h

Nice thinking.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 15h

Precisely that - he’s not good at sharing! If he never gets it, he can just have it as a grievance and claim he’s been nobbled by those damn Norwegians. But if he has to share, he’s always slightly behind Obama, who got one to himself…

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 17h

Oh boy yes.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 17h

Counter-intuitively, I think the thing that would annoy Trump most is if he did get the Nobel Prize - but as a joint award.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 18h

Me returning from picking up my prescription in the glorious not-so-distant-future (small box of aspirin not shown).

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 19h

Definitely that too. Just not perhaps from the man’s legal team (unless of course they strongly advised him against the appeal…)

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 19h

I think the legal term that is used for this sort of thing is ‘oops’.

Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 19h

⚖️ Procès des viols de Mazan: la cour d'assises d'appel du Gard a condamné l'unique accusé ayant fait appel de sa condamnation à 10 ans de prison, soit un an de plus qu'en première instance.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 20h

‘Specialist cleaning services’ clearly includes salt scrubs.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22h

That could work!

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22h

Indeed. In fairness to survey designers, finding a single word that works across that many languages and cultures is always going to be a hiding to nothing, but it's a very odd choice for English.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22h

Like couples who allow each other a celebrity free pass, you are allowed one [1] gayness.

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Luke Horn @lukebro92.bsky.social · 22h

"after thirty days at sea"?

Or maybe "if it's [insert name here]"?

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, I guess there could be a belief that a very small number of people are 'born with it', so to speak, and the rest have all been turned by the pernicious media into the path of gayness.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22h

'Share of people in each country who say homosexuality can never or rarely be justified' is making me wonder a lot about someone who might say 'rarely'.
What are those extenuating circumstances for them?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22h

Some work still to do, shall we say.

Chart: Homophobic views have declined around the world with Iceland at the top and Nigeria at the bottom

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 22h

Well, that pretty much confirms some suspicions I have always had.
(Speaking, I hasten to add, as a cat lover.)

Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23h

Interesting how the accepted meaning of the word has become a lot more PG!

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah, I think it is a good thing to recognise that the people a young person can best relate to or share interests with may not happen to live round the corner. And that - with risk minimisation - it is good to harness technology to enable those connections.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23h

I was intrigued to see that Andorra recognised Palestine a day after France did. Wonder if the bish was holding out.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23h

Have seen that particular conspiracy theory doing the rounds plenty that this is his long game! A constitutional provision that was a lot less problematic when most presidents were well into their 60s or 70s when first elected, and the septennat meant they were generally dead or ga-ga after 2 terms.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23h

Those robes must still be in storage somewhere.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23h

Precisely. We had just the same thing about general internet access 15 years or so back. No - it’s a thing that exists which has both positive and negative aspects. Teach young people to use it responsibly and appropriately, how to spot dangers, how to use it for benefit in real life.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 23h

Has Macron finally spotted that Article 8 of the French constitution doesn’t appear to specifically state that President and PM can’t be the same mec?

When you’ve worked through all your existing allies, turning most of them into non-allies in the process, there’s only one way to turn…
#Jupiterian

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

New French PM to be named by Friday as Macron resists pressure to call snap elections

Government spokesperson says it may be ‘last chance’ for politicians to regain credibility and cut risk of far right taking power Emmanuel Macron will name a new prime minister by Friday evening, his office has said, hinting at the French president’s hopes that a sixth prime minister in less than two years will manage to steer a budget through the country’s deeply fragmented parliament. “This might be the last chance,” government spokesperson Aurore Bergé told RTL radio on Thursday. “I believe this is the last chance for politicians to regain credibility ... all of this is only strengthening the chances and capabilities of the far right to take power.” Continue reading...

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