@silentsweeney.bsky.social
Pianist for dance and silent film. Citizen of Aotearoa
Tax return?
February 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Tax return?
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I refuse to believe that I'm unusual among hitherto Labour voters in seeing this policy as unforgivable. I'm a firm centrist in that I understand and accept policy compromises are unavoidable - I'm not into purity tests. But there have to be lines. Centrism can't be defined by extremes.
February 3, 2026 at 9:08 PM
I refuse to believe that I'm unusual among hitherto Labour voters in seeing this policy as unforgivable. I'm a firm centrist in that I understand and accept policy compromises are unavoidable - I'm not into purity tests. But there have to be lines. Centrism can't be defined by extremes.
I found it a bit meh - that scene in the bedroom somewhere which goes on forever, but i think the new Linklater film Nouvelles Vagues is really enjoyable, much more so than Breathless
January 31, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I found it a bit meh - that scene in the bedroom somewhere which goes on forever, but i think the new Linklater film Nouvelles Vagues is really enjoyable, much more so than Breathless
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Indeed. It is right to cry ‘wolf’ at the sight of a real wolf.
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Indeed. It is right to cry ‘wolf’ at the sight of a real wolf.
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Our planning system essentially has no friend/enemy distinction (i.e. it has no way to differentiate between 'I really do want this railway built but I also want you to double-glaze my window for the extra noise' and 'I will find any pretext to stop this railway')
Build the rail! Save the snails! — Labour Together
Why does British infrastructure cost so much? This paper, by economist Dan Davies, argues that Britain’s adversarial planning system forces developers to gold-plate solutions to hypothetical problems....
www.labourtogether.uk
January 28, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Our planning system essentially has no friend/enemy distinction (i.e. it has no way to differentiate between 'I really do want this railway built but I also want you to double-glaze my window for the extra noise' and 'I will find any pretext to stop this railway')