don’t really post here any more - more active where the skies are blue…
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Looking at what @elonmusk is doing with this platform, I think I’ve had enough. Can be found elsewhere with same username. Might pop back occasionally.
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I care about the change slightly less than I do about someone writing “a millennia”.
Intensely depressing that the most mediocre group of MPs in history, almost all of whom will be eviscerated at the next election, were allowed to sweep away a millennia of history and pretend it somehow made life in the country they’re screwing up better.
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I see the useless leaders of @thameswater are doubling my monthly bill 😡 If ever there was a failure of the market, they really are the perfect example.
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Someone didn’t get an upgrade 😂
Not to get too deep about something like Tier points, but there is something about @British_Airways now which embodies a hollowed out management consultancy led, computer says no approach to service that pervades business and frustrates so many people and diminishes loyalty.
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This should be a cracker from @EdwardWilsonLee
A month today @WmCollinsBooks will publish THE GRAMMAR OF ANGELS, the book that has consumed my waking and sleeping moments for the last three years but which has been germinating for a decade and a half. 1/
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My last concert of the year 🥰
My last review of 2024 tonight: Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber in an evening of Schumann Lieder at @wigmore_hall.
I can't imagine a more civilized way to close my diary for the year. Reviewing for @bachtrack.
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At the moment there are no fees for the DPS system because the entities that safeguard the cash also get to keep the interest arising on it (at super low rates because it’s almost zero risk). So might not be much of an opportunity here.
Random thing that just occurred to me right now. But that's how my brain works.
Deposit protection for tenants is great. Very high value law change.
But it now needs to go further, deposits should accrue interest. Probably at a discounted rate. But still, there should be some.
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Stunning piece of beef via @Farm_Direct 🥰 Plus veg and bread for tomorrow’s leftover sandwiches
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Noooo! I bought my first CDs there when I was at school. (Mahler 2 IIRC). And we went there every Christmas to buy a load of stuff for family Christmas presents every year. Sad times…
More bad news. This was a fantastic shop, which had been operating since 1908. Just like Banks in York, it had personal associations for me: I bought many books, scores and CDs there as a student. Such a loss.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgw…
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It’s increasingly clear that this bill isn’t fit for purpose - even if you do agree with the underlying argument. Am hoping @JamesAsser will be voting against.
This seems pretty alarming: coroners will be unable to investigate assisted deaths under Leadbeater’s bill (h/t @historykev)
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My question is why don’t all staff in at least the Treasury (and possibly other departments as well) have automatic access to them? (Probably cheaper per head as well on an institutional subscription?)
🚨 NEW: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has charged taxpayers £371 for subscriptions to The Economist and The Financial Times since March
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A great historian and man. Very glad to see that he will take his rightful place.
🇫🇷 L’historien et résistant Marc Bloch va entrer au Panthéon
Emmanuel Macron a annoncé ce samedi que la nation allait rendre hommage à l’auteur de «L’étrange défaite», fusillé par l’occupant allemand en 1944 après avoir été torturé.
➡️ bit.ly/3CSagX5
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Almost ready for @aul357 😂
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