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Martin Palmer

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Deputy Chief of Stuff at Palmer & Palmer. Amiable misanthrope. Music & photography. Master of none. Left-leaning, evidence-based pragmatic idealist. Manc. https://www.flickr.com/photos/martinpalmer/

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 4d

Much as I enjoy the dancing, the costumes and the music, I do feel that #Strictly is slowly suffocating under the weight of dull, repetitive motivational speeches. God spare us this endless sentimental stodge.

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a human interest piece, concerning two people in relationship. I can quite understand how unrelatable that must be for you.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 7d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
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GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 7d

It’s a recurring weekly set-piece, where readers vote, and comment, on whether someone should modify a behaviour or attitude that annoys their partner. Just a light-hearted, human-interest diversion from the relentless tide of depressing shite that seems to require our constant attention.

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 8d

That’s a very specific time-frame. If only there was some way of finding out which party was in power for all but the most recent of those 15 years…

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 8d

Agree. It’s being held in the first city.

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 8d

Outstanding behaviour.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

I think my toes are stuck like this now…

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

"Not clear"? It's crystal clear. No living Presidents on the coins. It's not a "tradition" - it's literally written in the Federal Code. Why don't you have the balls to say that?

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

Everybody back then saw the world in exactly the same detail and colour as we do now. So it's quite literally just what he saw in front of him. The real surprise in seeing an old painting like this is: why aren't there more examples of artists from that era (or even earlier) painting in that style?

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

Quite. Satirising current affairs has no place in the public discourse. We should treat *all* politicians and celebrities with absolute reverence, and avoid, at all costs, any form of joke or comment which might suggest that any public figure is less than an absolute paragon of honesty and virtue.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

Wow. You’re angry, aren’t you? What exactly is it that you’re disagreeing with me about? I’m with you: the guy is British. I am commenting on the pressures - from the far right - upon Police and broadcasters, to reveal information at early stages of an investigation.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

"Nice try" at...what, exactly? I'm just making an observation. No useful purpose is served by making public his ancestry, at this early stage of the investigation. But the Police and broadcasters are now mindful of the baying mobs who scream "cover-up!" if such information is not released promptly.

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

Police and broadcasters get it in the neck whether or not they disclose this information. Do they accommodate the “Why does it even matter?” faction, or the “Why are we not being told who the offender is, what are you hiding?!” lynch-mob element?

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 12d

Looking forward to the grovelling apology at the top of next week’s HIGNFY

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 13d

Her husband gets a mention before we learn her name…

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 13d

Her husband gets a headline name-check, but her name is only mentioned once we get to the body of the article.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 14d

Hannan there, reliably wrong about EVERYTHING...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 15d

I came here to say this…

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Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 18d

It is clearly being tolerated. Therefore we can only assume that, to American golf fans and tournament organisers, this is not, in fact, unacceptable behaviour.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 21d

It’s an actual village…

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 21d

These people know what they’re doing, of course. It’s an ages-old technique. Float an incendiary idea, framed as a ‘joke’ or a metaphor. They’re just having a laugh! But the message gets out, loud & clear, and dissenters are derided as having “no sense of humour” or simply “misunderstanding”.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 24d

The facts of migration don’t become “more true”, as you put it, just because geneticists have added hitherto unknown pieces to the jigsaw of knowledge. Nobody is dismissing the vital work of historians, or denying the mountains of hard evidence they have uncovered. You’re tilting at shadows.

Martin Palmer @martinpalmer.bsky.social · 24d

I already explained this. It's not *more* true, it's *provably* true. Historians told us that Richard lll was probably buried in Leicester. Archeologists then proved it. The facts of his burial didn't become "more true" at that point, but the extra evidence confirmed, and increased, our knowledge.