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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15m

Also frankly not much for the UK public that it has the object permanence of a gnat about the last time one weird isolationist trick would solve everything

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 16m

On the old thousand fathers/orphan metric the absence at the current Tory and Reform conferences says it all frankly

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5h

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 8h

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 1h

What a bizarre airport location

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

The lack of popular knowledge of the Holocaust by Bullets phase of it really obscures how unimaginably monstrously evil the Holocaust was imo.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

the first weeb, I've seen him called, and you know what, it fits.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 2h

Quite a startling use of colour in some of these segments to play up the deliberate staginess.

Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 2h

A Japanese film based on stories written by an Irish-Greek man based on Japanese folktales, with music by Japanese and Irish artists. www.nch.ie/all-events-l...

Kwaidan, with Live Musical Score - presented by Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival | National Concert Hall

The National Concert Hall is a national cultural institution and the designated home of music in Ireland.

www.nch.ie

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

Well, yes, heavy infantry versus horse archers went quite badly if said horse archers were able to replenish their arrows...

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

www.google.co.uk/books/editio... Always sticks in my mind this about how soldiers, even when equipped with bayonets and in an era where firepower was the killer.

discussion by a late 19th century German officer on the use of bayonets

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

yeah; they conquered the largest every European empire with it; I'm wondering why nobody else has replicated it at scale preferring shield/spear as the main combo for a large army.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

I’d be lying if it said “demo at the Royal Armouries” last summer wasn’t one of mine

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

A basic knowledge of how double entry bookkeeping works is truly invaluable imo; being able to understand the relationship between p&l and a balance sheet is immensely powerful

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

for a start

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

Spears over swords are what you generally use when you actually want to win a battle (cf samurai wound testimonies); it’s the Roman early imperial legionary that’s the exception that really needs explaining imo

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 3h

always fun when you realise why knights moved to pole axes by the 15th century or so; use the hammer bit to knock them to the floor or jam a joint, and then ram the spike through one of the joints/vision slits .

And then remember where said gaps in the plate are

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 4h

Ahah. Whoops

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Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 5h

There's also the separate issue with franchised providers with both huge drop out rates and an intake that is disproportionately likely to have ILR but not citizenship, where there is clearly a case of parasitic businesses taking advantage of the marginalised.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 5h

My boss said to me the other week "I went into [Big Four] as a trainee and they covered my accounting degree in the first week..."

(OTOH, he's my boss)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 7h

They had a long cut to his face on BBC News during the standing applause for Badenoch’s speech; proper father-in-law at a shotgun wedding expression

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 7h

#youtoowhichcollege but

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Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social · 7h

Somewhat misleading account of what I said here.

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 7h

Anglican priest @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social recalls the moment she blessed some Unite the Kingdom protestors on the tube. “It was, I suppose, better than saying ‘God damn you.’”

Why I’m praying for Tommy Robinson supporters

An encounter with two elderly football hooligans on the tube made me consider the purpose of preaching in our fractured times

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

Yes

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 8h

Why do nurses, when giving you an injection say 'you'll just feel a little pinch'? Pinch is the wrong word. They don't want to say 'little prick', do they.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

(They see themselves as the employer not the employee living under the cosh, and this was a quite senior sounding professional role)

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

A good friend worked out in one as an expat for a bit of the state and had his job completely changed - literally who he worked for and what he was doing was moved and he had absolutely no right to complain because his visa was absolutely dependent on employment - which is, of course, the point.

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

It’s people disappointed that they missed out on Keenya really

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 8h

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah... converted in 1102 *after* probably fighting in the First Crusade.

Obadiah the Proselyte - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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