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Trainee Bristolian Thoroughly retired All photos posted (except reposts) are mine, all mine Left Xitter (@StrumstrumStrum) Hedging my bets with Mastodon (@[email protected]) More of me @ www.strum.co.uk My profile picture is me, over 70 years ago.

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strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 8h

So what? What does the Times pay for desk & chairs?

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 8h

Win friends like Cicero.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 9h

So what?

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. All these things. If it doesn't, it isn't a constitution. We have failed, miserably, to address these things individually. It's time to buy wholesale.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 9h

A CCC would rise above 'partisan fury'. If partisans didn't like what the people wanted, they can get lost.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 9h

"cobbled together in a contested process, that lacked broad public support ... would be a high road to disaster"
Whereas a carefully-considered document, in a process above contest, brought before Parl & approved by referendum, would be extremely difficult to overturn.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 9h

The majority of those shows were original drama. Most of them were in the last few years.
(The only reason those older shows are in the list is because I have been countering this daft golden-agery for a very long time.)

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 10h

The kind of drama you like?

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 10h

#ASongOrMovieForTypesOfPeople
Arsehole on Fire

Poster for 'Soul on Fire'.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 10h

BBC has been *churning* out huge amounts of drama, over the last few years.

Here's a non-exhaustive list:-

Text list of BBC dramas.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 11h

Anzio & Nettuno - Lazio coast
#photography #Anzio #Nettuno #Lazio #BlueSea #BlueSky

A panorama of a long stretch of coast, between blue sea & blue sky.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

You only need to wait for a sitting govt to decide it doesn't want powers.
500 years is optimistic.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

You are proposing a raft of changes, far more difficult to achieve than a CCC.
"Getting rid of Henry VIII powers"? Would only take another 500 years.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think there's evidence of that.

Epstein used those girls to draw influential men into his orbit - to make connections. After a certain point, connections breed connections. He doesn't need to blackmail anyone; they're all in the gang.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

You want simple? Do nothing - that's simple. Good luck with that.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

" a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged"
Then assemble a Citizens' Constitutional Convention - draw up an unrigged, widely-acceptable document, for HoC to vote on (& dare them not to).
Our*current* constitution continues to deepen our problems.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

#ASongOrMovieForAthleticSports
High Jump Confidential

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

#ASongOrMovieForAthleticSports
The Secret Life of Vaulter Mitty

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

#ASongOrMovieForAthleticSports
The Long Jump Friday

Still from 'The Long Good Friday'

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

#ASongOrMovieForAthleticSports
It Might as Well be Sprint
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkLP...

It Might As Well Be Spring

YouTube video by Richard Rodgers - Topic

www.youtube.com

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

#ASongOrMovieForAthleticSports
A Shot Putt in the Dark

Still of Peter Sellars in 'A Shot in the Dark'.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

I caution against over-reliance on the Epstein files. They are not going to say 'Donald tonked a 14-y-o last night' or anything so precise. They *may* list flights in the Epstein jet, or visits to his island, or even financial relations. It's going to be difficult to frame any criminal charges.

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

How many of the 'million or more' Boriswave actually wants to stay in this poisonous society?

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 1d

Casa d'Amore, Alberobello, Puglia.
Before you get the wrong idea, it was named after Francisco d'Amore, who built it in the 18th Cent.
Mind you, the local council put up this (pic 2) on an adjacent wall, just in case.
#photography #CasaDAmore #Alberobello #Puglia

A whitewashed building, labelled 'Casa d'Amore'.

A condom vending machine

strum @strumstrum.bsky.social · 2d

The ground between the two main parties is a narrow strip of parched earth, even if the Tories are speeding off into the distance. If Labour continues to follow them, why should anyone vote for them? Even LD is comfortably closer to tradLab values.