I shot a man in Waitrose just to watch him die
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
Jun 12
That competition is Manchester plus 50 miles. Call it whatever you like. "Northern Powerhouse" worked for me. It's Europe's third largest urban area. It's also just about Europe's weakest economy for a big city. And we know how to fix it. Much easier than the Greater South East.
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
Jun 8
You are unable to drink outside where Douglas lives in the USA
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
Development Corporations will help aid development but no panacea.
Ebbsfleet DC just revealed latest annual starts. Despite the DC and transport links such as HS1, only a little more than 200 homes started across the year.
Worse than 2020/21. 75 yrs to complete at that rate
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
May 31
*BBC Radio 4 voice*
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In 1893 the town of Pudsey built its grand Liberal Club. By 2026, the word Liberal had eroded to almost nothing. Today, on our walk into Leeds, we ponder what this means for liberalism today and discuss what comes next,...
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
Jun 2
The erosion of the graduate premium everywhere in Britain except for London, where housing eats up most of the premium anyway, means that young people are probably right to have got less positive about university. But what will they do instead? tomforth.co.uk/graduatepremi…
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
Jun 2
"Confidence in the value of a degree hits record low in England" > markets work. Kids are, overall, quite smart. giftarticle.ft.com/giftartic… via @FT
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
the obit is too polite to say this but of course you'll struggle to attract job ads if the front half of the paper is dedicated to insulting and threatening the job candidates and indeed the clients.
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
interesting obit of Guardian exec Caroline Marsland reveals something...you know how so many horrific columnists used to whine all the time about the Guardian job ads?
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
Equine Studies has 24 times as many first degrees students as gender studies in the UK and I doubt it has ever been mentioned in an opinion piece.
Given the role it plays in commentary on higher education, I don't think I have ever seen this stat cited: there are currently 35 students in Britain doing a first degree in gender studies. They are outnumbered literally 10,000:1 by students doing business and management degrees.
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
May 27
I really pity the intelligent people who are professionally required to make sense of the grey sludge emerging from Tony Blair's mind
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
May 26
looking for jobs is awesome man should I apply on bebee or jooble
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
May 22
What the hell did Brum do?
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
May 23
I wonder if the "necessary works" are things that became necessary because someone threatened to hold up the project until they got them....
May 22
The real reasons why HS2 costs have overrun, according to Heidi Alexander’s statement to parliament on 19 May: one third inflation: the rest things being added [by parliament…] to the spec, and poor cost control. Nothing about how much cheaper the line would be if slower 🧵1/3
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We have had a (twee) Great British Railways ad on YouTube
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
May 14
Leeds is looking lovely today. Light rail conference - lots of speakers kept saying we need to work harder on our business cases - felt like heckling "doesn't matter how hard you work - Treasury will tell you to piss off".
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
We tried this for 14 years with the tories and the end result is the destruction of their party for the damage it did to the country and you lot want to do it all over again
May 11
Until someone bites the bullet, slashes spending, and does the difficult pro-growth reforms this country desperately needs, we will continue to have a ridiculous carousel of Prime Minsters.
The truth is the Prime Minister could have survived the Mandelson scandal if people felt better off in their pockets.
While there’s no growth, there’s no longevity of political tenure.
Blair survived plenty of scandal, and plenty of Mandelson, ultimately because everything in life’s wider context didn’t feel so desperately shit.
Until we have a political class brave enough to end the overspending, liberalise the labour market, and *actually* overhaul the planning system - we’re going to be stuck in this same psychodrama of doom.
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
The Chair and CEO don't have to accept this naff livery for their new new arm's GBR. Assuming anyone will want to be Chair having seen how DfT can unilaterally sack non-exec Directors.
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
You know what I’m not certain this does happen in every country. Think you have to be dealing with a truly poor healthcare service for a patient with previous history of pulmonary embolism to be treated as if they were having a panic attack when experiencing difficulty breathing.
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As of next week, three of the United Kingdom's four nations will be led by parties created to destroy it - and the most likely next PM could have been lab-grown to raise Celtic hackles. So what are the odds for the Union? Me for @thetimes times-comment.com/fate-of-th…
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Celestial M Weasel retweeted
Apr 28
(the NEF proposal is actually not bad, incredibly from Flaky & Co The Flaky Thinktank, but a pain in the arse to administer and we'd find out how many of the boomers who pretend they want rationing back would countenance it for a hot minute before burning down post offices)
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