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Paul is a better fit for that role.

I think the Bermondsey Beer Mile is interesting, because although it's undoubtedly a more bourgeois experience than your regular common garden pub crawl....it kinda isn't really. You go to Bone Daddies afterwards instead of the Kebab shop maybe, the first pint or two might be 'savoured' slightly...

Although I am relying on the Fry/Laurie TV adaptation, I recall Jeeves talking about how the upper class blood needed occasional freshening up or somesuch. Similarly in Orwell's 1984, iirc the Inner Party is broadly hereditary in its makeup but they will let a small amount of the...

This will sound dismissive, but the truth is that there remains lots of places to do most of those things. I'm not blind to the issues around telling someone old person who's lived in Elephant their whole lives that they should move to Burnley, but there are places beyond the capital cities...

Costs a fucking fortune. Obviously it's a question of lifestyle. But as I say, you can hang out in Sofia sharing cheap lager outside the National Theatre. In Britain, it's £8 for a Schooner of Craft innit? Many years ago, there were some informal post-drinks on the River in Hammersmith. Now I...

I've spent months in Sofia, Bulgaria, and lots of people from Europe man the call centres and have a studenty but nonetheless fun existence of sharing 2L bottles of £1 beer & £3 bottles of bad gin. I spent the Summer there a few years ago and it was the happiest time of my life. Bit cold in the...

I'm probably going. I've been thinking about it. The whole extension thing has been putting me off making the decision, and then there's where (I think I know, but decisions, decisions).

I don't think that's quite it though tbh. They're not micromanagers of what emerges in place of what they destroy, but they have an opinion about it. They're just more 'directional' when it comes to that. The new conservatism is much more participatory than its previous incarnations. They make a...

I like Haggis and I like Bahn Mi, not sure about the combination.....

"He wants spiritual brokenness, the kind of brokenness He can use. He wants godly sorrow that leads to repentance " (2 Cor. 7:10)

The tweet is not new, but it remains useful context here: https://twitter.com/crispinblunt/status/1126886830882938880

I'm not sure what has been said tbh. The ugly truth is that Irish Republican Paramilitaries have not been beyond killing people anyway.

You sound just like Boris Johnson! Let me try again. RoI only gave up their claim on Northern Ireland as part of the GFA. To many, it is occupied territory. But, the GFA allowed Republicans (and anyone else fwiw) to consider themselves Irish and essentially operate as if Ireland was one...

Basically the Good Friday Agreement is dead, and peace was entirely predicated on that agreement. The power of the GFA is its vagueness, but it's also become the problem. If you look at what it says in the text, there is very little that is specific with regards to there being border...

There's a danger that one is seen to condone things by merely talking about them. But the GFA was 1999, and..erm...terrorism has moved on since then. This is really not good.

The point was raised in the Labour Conference thread about the aim/aspiration of the Torys to have a minimum wage of £10.50ph for everyone over 21+. Now this isn't a very hard commitment; they essentially mean by the end of the next Pariiament but it's still very much a line in the sand - there...

So Ireland's fucked then right? I will give Boris and his acolytes credit; they've done a good job of making Brexiteers into Unionists, whereas before they patently didn't give two shits.

I'm not sure the steelmanning of alt-light talking points is necessarily a good idea. I think it's quite earthy to ask people to ground their claims in logic and reasoning tbh. High-handed.....*shrug* maybe, but for better or worse they'd actually be a bit less rancour on the politic-related...

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