I seem to recall a quote from, I think the mother of his 5th illegitimate child saying "it's something about the hair"

Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.

Love all, help all.

Go Jackets.

No no, it's very pleasurable and good to periodically hear the ARU explain that the big problem with union is that teams are a couple of players too big, there's too much kicking, and scrums are too unpredictable. I'm especially keen on their innovative ideas about limiting possession to 6 tackles

Sorry but I think this is rubbish. The goal of government for the last 75 years has not been extraction, it's been protection of one of a couple of specific swathes of the electorate. For a long time that was Middle England, now it's generally Old (People) England. It's not a colonial project

John Green recently observed that the modern internet appears to be constructed to erode trust at every opportunity. This seems unhelpful for promoting stability, to put it mildly

Not entirely, but they are a big anchor on us recovering. The root issue is a lack of productivity growth that nobody has provided a definitive explanation for as yet (although my personal bet is that it's mainly down to dire management practices and a total lack of interest in improving them)

Even with how toxic Labour is to the young right now, you'd have to imagine that voting at 16 juices their vote tally a bit as well

While also holding the reins of public comms in a death grip so that, bar periodic and completely insufficient morning media rounds that nobody notices, nobody else who is a more gifted public communicator is in a position to make a positive case on his behalf. It's truly baffling

Something I had tacitly absorbed but not consciously recognised until the Origin Story podcast flagged it up is that Marxists have a tradition of incredibly tedious florid denunciations. It's so ubiquitous that it turns into white noise very quickly

Tuition fees were not the *reason* for LD poll collapse, which came before the decision was made. But they subsequently became a *rationalisation* for switching among voters who had already turned against the party. The broken pledge didn't drive the slump, though it may have made recovery harder.

The Browne review reported in October 2010, and the govt adopted its recommendations in Nov 2010. The vast majority of the LD fall in the polls happened *before* this. The Lib Dems paid an electoral penalty for forming a coalition with the Conservatives, a party much of its 2010 electorate disliked

Had no idea you were a sort of a Preacher fan