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Beachy Head Radio @beachyheadradio.bsky.social · 12h

Our programmes this (UK) evening start soon, at 19:00 BST (18:00 UTC), with ‘Tiny Red Dragons #179 - Crawling Moon’, which has experimental, dark ambient and industrial rock music from Dark Sky Burial, Empty DNA, Midwife, Fean and more.

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Daz @dazwright.com · 13h

English Literature? How does that help us?

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Daz @dazwright.com · 22h

Ring's enthusiasm for selling me more doorbells indicates their marketing team overestimates how many front doors people actually have

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Phil Burrows @supergm.bsky.social · 1d

Here at the Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum where the headline act is the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster. Proceeding are about to begin.

Picture of the very loose agenda for tonight. The headline act is Simon Foster.

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Daz @dazwright.com · 2d

One key challenge I see to our ability to become more productive is the lack of useful change management across the uk. Investment or innovation is useless without understanding how change works.

For too long we’ve relied on outsourcing change to consultants without developing internal capability

Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 6d

I've written about the UK's productivity problem for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Come for the comparison of the UK economy to a hedgehog, stay for the comparison of Rachel Reeves to a Dickens character.

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – ...

The spines on the OBR’s charts are a signal to the chancellor to pull all the levers to improve our growth prospects

observer.co.uk

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 3d

Oldie but a goodie, Spice Girls Dune.

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Daz @dazwright.com · 3d

1) There are only 3 Tron films so why is this a thing?

2) There are only 3 Tron films how could they get this so wrong?

3) Does me sharing this nonsense explain point 1?

collider.com/tron-movies-...

Every Tron Movie, Ranked Worst to Best

This week's Tron: Ares continues Disney's groundbreaking sci-fi trilogy. Which movie in the series is the best?

collider.com

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Daz @dazwright.com · 4d

I don't know this. I'll give it a listen

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Daz @dazwright.com · 4d

An epic day of album releases with Jay Som, The Wytches, The Orb, The Utopia Strong and, of course, @warringtonruncorn.com

I've been really looking forward to this

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Daz @dazwright.com · 4d

The whole Godzilla thing was just weird. A hapless irritating little dragon and a big one whose only way of solving problems was to level a city.

The fun side of collateral damage

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Daz @dazwright.com · 4d

If we learned anything from the Second World War it’s that as soon as there are refugees from neighbouring European countries we would suddenly change our commitment to taking them

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Daz @dazwright.com · 5d

And we’d never know

Daz @dazwright.com · 5d

Are these the same pubs that can't find enough customers to stay open beyond 10pm?

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 6d

Why are the vibes so off with this government. The whole culture at the moment is about moderation and harm reduction, especially among the young and middle aged voters that Labour needs to cling on to if it's going to retain a coalition of support.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

www.theguardian.com

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Daz @dazwright.com · 6d

Is that the same performing arts which is one of the UK's most productive industries?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Daz @dazwright.com · 6d

It is a big bubble and it poses massive risk but the one mitigation that hasn't applied to other bubbles is that it's largely being underwritten by the enormous cash reserves of companies that have too much money and no real idea of what to do with it.

Wider markets might be sheilded

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Daz @dazwright.com · 7d

When Kemi Badenoch tells @channel4news.bsky.social that in Birmingham we elected "sectarian MPs" who is she talking about?

Perry Barr elected Ayoub Khan as an independent but he's a historic Lib Dem. Does she mean someone else?

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Daz @dazwright.com · 7d

There are two things that irritate me about this:

1) Why does it matter who he saw? That’s just racist

2) It’s not true. The idiot filmed himself while he was there. In the video there are obviously all ethnic groups right in front of him

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Daz @dazwright.com · 7d

I completed a form yesterday, to book a blood test, and someone rang me back within two minutes of me pressing submit.

The system can work

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 8d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Daz @dazwright.com · 9d

I sort of agree. I feel like I can avoid most of this stuff in my life but that seems to be changing. Last week we had the police protecting people putting up flags on lamp posts with a cherry picker because the community was vocally protesting about them doing it.

It feels like a real thing

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Daz @dazwright.com · 9d

Because no political party is trying to please the population as a whole?

All politics seems to have reduced to the narrow part of the population that can actually swing an election.

The election we are not having for many years

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Daz @dazwright.com · 11d

Cutting it a bit fine for that peace prize announcement

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Daz @dazwright.com · 12d

The Government persistently, and deliberately, misreprents how the asylum system works and the social context around it.

Everyone should listen to @snellarthur.bsky.social talking to @zoejardiniere.bsky.social in his most recent podcast

open.spotify.com/episode/2I1W...

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Daz @dazwright.com · 13d

Less the strong words more the bold choice of starting on a tongue twister

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