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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly. That's my why and how.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 3h

As I often find, @davidmcwecon.bsky.social is a genius for a great phrase:
"Abandoning a bad idea can often be more difficult than adopting a good one."
Someone tell Downing St.
For more I can recommend...

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 4h

Another reflection I've come to is that if Thatcher hadn't closed the pits, someone else would have had to. If not, the Greens would be screaming to shut them now.
I used to work for British Coal & got made redundant, so didn't like the WHY & HOW she did it. But it was inevitable in the long run.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 4h

On reflection, we tend to judge them by Thatcher and her coterie of nutters like Tebbitt, Redwood Lawson and that bastard Bernard Ingham.
My MP at the time, John Biffen, was quite sane.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 4h

@rave74.bsky.social
Welcome to my madhouse. 🤭

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 4h

Frankly, they are a lot more intelligent and have a much broader background of experience.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 4h

You should also note that Poland has a lot more room. It a much bigger country.
Trying to shoehorn another runway into an already rammed and congested corner of West London is sheer insanity.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 5h

I doubt she can find her own arse to wipe it.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure Andrea Jenkyns will sort it.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 6h

Too obvious ever to happen. As Sir Humphrey would say: "Very courageous, Minister."

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 6h

I'll bow to your expertise, but reserve my scepticism. I don't expect it to be resolved in my lifetime, so baby steps.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 6h

But it's all a waste of time if the EU, fearful of us having another hissy fit and swanning off again, can't be bothered putting all that effort and resource into renegotiating our re-entry.
We need to understand what their attitudes are, and only then discuss what our approach is.
Cart...horse.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

@chrisbjohns.bsky.social
@jimpowerecon1962.bsky.social

What think ye?

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe the one thing we could look at is the massive windfall increase in land value by the stroke of a pen granting planning permission. That is the ultimate in unearned income, and is probably the source of much low-level corruption at local level.
Anyone seen The Long Good Friday?

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe the one thing we could look at is the massive windfall increase in land value by the stroke of a pen granting planning permission. That is the ultimate in unearned income, and is probably the source of much low-level corruption at local level.
Anyone seen The Long Good Friday?

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

Ah! I see. The EU institutions would be summoned to explain themselves....

We could give them a damn good grilling, preferably over an open fire. That would work.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

Any chance of some European input into this Commission, or will it be more navel gazing and exceptionalism?

"To see ourselves as others see us...."

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Lady Anytimenow working with Sir Nearlythere @lady-anytimenow.bsky.social · 9h

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

You really have to worry about a society so superficial that looks are more important than intelligence and character, and the Kardashians are people to emulate.

mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

Sounds fair.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 20h

Man wins ‘right to offend’ appeal after burning Quran outside Turkish embassy bit.ly/42AtR8v judges support free speech more than government! Torah outside Israeli embassy? Bible outside Westminster Cathedral?

Man fined for burning Qur’an in London wins appeal against conviction

Judge says Hamit Coskun has ‘right to offend’ and overturns conviction for religiously aggravated public order offence

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 7h

And thousands of young people of working age who want to come here are locked up and not allowed to work. Make it make sense.

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 9h

This is a question I keep asking. There is a disconnect between economic and management academic studies.
Economists are now at panic levels over productivity but it’s not something you hear discussed in businesses. A lot of organisations don’t even measure it according to its economic definition.

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 3d

Given the productivity puzzle has now been a thing for decades, is anyone doing deep empirical work on it - e.g. ID'ing cohorts of high/low productivity firms in the UK and then digging into differences and drivers in their operations, ways of working, strategies etc. via proper observation?

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Seems @Nigel_Farage is trying damage limitation on the Reform Russian Bribes scandal.

He’s known Nathan Gill for 20 years, and claims he knew nothing.

No one believes you, Nigel.

Keep the story moving. Questions must be answered.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 8h

Journalism will never recover until someone redefines what the word means. When Max Hastings and Sarah Vine can both call themselves journalists, then the profession is royally fucked.
And if the NUJ had any balls they would lead the fight for standards. Not everyone with a byline is a journalist.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 8h

Harry Evans? Bill Deedes? Nick Scott?

I think you'll find the rot set in when Murdoch came to this country. When The Sun is the country's biggest selling paper maybe we get the journalism we deserve.

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 9h

See my pinned post.

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