Goodness, Parker, that was a close call.

Yes ma’am.

Times Square, Parker. Quick as you can.

Yes ma’am.

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Me too

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
September 2,1946

“Pigeon” ✅

Whatever it blows up into, if you’re one of those who have skin in the game it doesn’t feel quite like a matter of ‘culture’!

If ‘gender identity has no observable reality’, how would anyone be able to observe ‘gender non-conforming appearance or behaviour’?

They say Winter’s coming.

Trump’s eating his heart out over this.

Trump is a solipsist. He probably thinks everyone else is as stupid as he, deep down, knows he is. The only person in the world he thinks cleverer than him is Obama.

It may be a little more specific than that, George. I remember some vox pop interviews before the EU referendum, and one lady saying something like “I think we should leave … we could do with a bit of a change …”

Hard *is* what’s needed. The English (especially) need to be shaken vigorously to rid us of the crust of complacency, entitlement and post-Empire nostalgia that will sink the country otherwise.

It is because the hex-taboo of Breximus Heximus 👻 is so powerful, and so strongly enforced by vaguely defined threats. Watch those threats get better defined the more the govt moves into Forbidden Lands.

“There’s an appetite for *authentic* politics…”

There’s an appetite for authenticity generally. It’s why, for example, generative AI is already doomed. It’s why suppression of gender expression is also doomed.

And it’s why reformistas are definitely not the only ones able to say what they think.

Everybody knows you can’t just ‘join’, no more than ‘just rejoin’ or ‘reverse Brexit’.

But what is doable and sayable if you have the guts and the ‘patriotism’ to do it right now is:

• acknowledge and demonstrate the damage Brexit has done

• announce a new direction of travel toward Europe

This ‘zealously antagonistic’ version is what I call ‘brexitism’. The event was one thing. The state of mind is another.

… of the VooDoo kind.

Breximus Heximus 👻

Ta daaa! 🏆

A win is a win.

Us? Hemingway put in a couple of shifts and I cleared up the thing. Mission: accomplished.

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Yep. Just go.
As quickly as possible.

Ernest and I also got a Four.

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It’s possible that Starmer understands [that the EU will require] that the move to bring back the UK into the SM must be driven by demand from citizens and not just led by government.

Cost & availability of goods (esp food) and ‘free movement’ will be key. Free *inward* movement is the issue.

Do you find yourself addressed as Mr /voːʁt̪/ ?

“File Not Found” …. Aaaargh!

Aha. I must have stared at ‘GEC-Alsthom’ for hours on Tube train carriages and silently wondered in what country ‘Alsthom’ was a name.

Even ‘GEC’ is potentially misleading. For a while I worked at General Electric—Healthcare division! And I always pitied them for their severely dated logotype.