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Martin Palmer

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Deputy Chief of Stuff at Palmer & Palmer. Amiable misanthrope. Music & photography. Master of none. Left-leaning, evidence-based pragmatic idealist. Manc. https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinpalmer/

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

That’s a very specific time-frame. If only there was some way of finding out which party was in power for all but the most recent of those 15 years…

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. It’s being held in the first city.

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding behaviour.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I think my toes are stuck like this now…

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

"Not clear"? It's crystal clear. No living Presidents on the coins. It's not a "tradition" - it's literally written in the Federal Code. Why don't you have the balls to say that?

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Everybody back then saw the world in exactly the same detail and colour as we do now. So it's quite literally just what he saw in front of him. The real surprise in seeing an old painting like this is: why aren't there more examples of artists from that era (or even earlier) painting in that style?

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Quite. Satirising current affairs has no place in the public discourse. We should treat *all* politicians and celebrities with absolute reverence, and avoid, at all costs, any form of joke or comment which might suggest that any public figure is less than an absolute paragon of honesty and virtue.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. You’re angry, aren’t you? What exactly is it that you’re disagreeing with me about? I’m with you: the guy is British. I am commenting on the pressures - from the far right - upon Police and broadcasters, to reveal information at early stages of an investigation.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

"Nice try" at...what, exactly? I'm just making an observation. No useful purpose is served by making public his ancestry, at this early stage of the investigation. But the Police and broadcasters are now mindful of the baying mobs who scream "cover-up!" if such information is not released promptly.

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Police and broadcasters get it in the neck whether or not they disclose this information. Do they accommodate the “Why does it even matter?” faction, or the “Why are we not being told who the offender is, what are you hiding?!” lynch-mob element?

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to the grovelling apology at the top of next week’s HIGNFY

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Her husband gets a mention before we learn her name…

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Her husband gets a headline name-check, but her name is only mentioned once we get to the body of the article.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Hannan there, reliably wrong about EVERYTHING...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 7d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 7d

I came here to say this…

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 10d

It is clearly being tolerated. Therefore we can only assume that, to American golf fans and tournament organisers, this is not, in fact, unacceptable behaviour.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 13d

It’s an actual village…

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 14d

These people know what they’re doing, of course. It’s an ages-old technique. Float an incendiary idea, framed as a ‘joke’ or a metaphor. They’re just having a laugh! But the message gets out, loud & clear, and dissenters are derided as having “no sense of humour” or simply “misunderstanding”.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 16d

The facts of migration don’t become “more true”, as you put it, just because geneticists have added hitherto unknown pieces to the jigsaw of knowledge. Nobody is dismissing the vital work of historians, or denying the mountains of hard evidence they have uncovered. You’re tilting at shadows.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 17d

I already explained this. It's not *more* true, it's *provably* true. Historians told us that Richard lll was probably buried in Leicester. Archeologists then proved it. The facts of his burial didn't become "more true" at that point, but the extra evidence confirmed, and increased, our knowledge.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 17d

These ghouls are cock-a-hoop. Hallelujah and Praise the Lord, they only gone and got their very own martyr. It's a dream come true. The perfect vehicle for justifying their vengeful instincts. He's more use to them dead than he ever was whilst alive.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 17d

Who wrote this gobbledygook?

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 17d

The research has not made the fact of chronic human migration *more* true. It's made it *provably* true. This may not, in itself, convert a single racist. But, by kicking away a vital pillar of their argument, it makes the racist's position harder to maintain. This is a good thing.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 17d

There’s a world of difference between empirical ‘common knowledge’, and actually having hard, rigorously researched data to back it. The scientists haven’t “caught up”, they’ve worked hard to give us the proof, and detail, we needed.

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