A man of wealth and taste. Exeter City FC. Amateur musician. Parish Council Chair. Mixer of cocktails. Works hard to bring out the worst in everyone he meets.
Note to ministers: if you think it’s difficult affording recommended pay awards you really don’t want to see how difficult strike action will be to manage. Find the money.
April 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Note to ministers: if you think it’s difficult affording recommended pay awards you really don’t want to see how difficult strike action will be to manage. Find the money.
Just got back from a splendid evening with @mrjohncrace.bsky.social in the People’s Republic of Stowmarket. If you can get to one of his shows, do so - highly entertaining but insightful too.
March 29, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Just got back from a splendid evening with @mrjohncrace.bsky.social in the People’s Republic of Stowmarket. If you can get to one of his shows, do so - highly entertaining but insightful too.
Seems to me that Zelenskyy is willing to endure personal humiliation in the service of his country whereas Trump will willingly degrade the reputation of the USA in the service of himself.
March 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Seems to me that Zelenskyy is willing to endure personal humiliation in the service of his country whereas Trump will willingly degrade the reputation of the USA in the service of himself.
Every year on January 27 in Warsaw, an empty old tram runs along the former Warsaw ghetto. She doesn't take any passengers to commemorate those who were no longer allowed to use the trams and were later deported and murdered. #HolocaustMemorialDay
January 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Every year on January 27 in Warsaw, an empty old tram runs along the former Warsaw ghetto. She doesn't take any passengers to commemorate those who were no longer allowed to use the trams and were later deported and murdered. #HolocaustMemorialDay
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
Only someone with no understanding of liberal history would treat fact-checking and free speech as a binary opposition. The whole point of free speech is that it gets us closer to the truth. Where free speech has no purchase in the truth, its purpose collapses.
January 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Only someone with no understanding of liberal history would treat fact-checking and free speech as a binary opposition. The whole point of free speech is that it gets us closer to the truth. Where free speech has no purchase in the truth, its purpose collapses.
Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.
November 16, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.