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Listening to her speech, the single biggest problem is that all the things she says need to be done are precisely the things her party has spent a decade demonstrating that they are incapable of doing.
.

Exactly.

Why should anyone believe them.

A decade in purgatory beckons.

Deservedly so

Very, very positive response to the Tories on WATO. And a blast from the past, Julie Kirkbride who is now a More in Common pollster.

Helen Whateley very impressed with Kemi today. Whateley suggesting that the ending of stamp duty will be paid for by cuts. There is no replacement tax ( yet) apparently.

I’d be more surprised if Whateley was not impressed.

I haven’t listened to WATO in years. I’m watching the last Michael Praed episode of Robin of Sherwood. The Greatest Enema. It’s quite good.

(hums Clannad)

It’s a great theme

You’re a cult tv fan.

Have you ever rewatched an old tv show you had happy memories of that disappointed.

I have, it was this.

It’s okay but nothing special

Rather sadly, I was also disappointed when I rewatched Robin of Sherwood: not because it was bad, but the slow pace didn't work any more. What was appropriate in the era of four channels and rainy afternoons doesn't work in the 2020s. I have a horrible feeling the same thing would happen if I rewatched The Children Of The Stones or Airwolf. And I'm not going near Space:1999 (1st series), just in case.

It's not all bad news: when I went to the BFI to see a film (see previous posts), I spent about a hour in its "mediatheque", a free-access row of terminals where you could rewatch programmes. I watched an episode of Edge of Darkness ("Northmoor") and it really stood up. And I think/hope Our Friends In The North would too. And I rewatched some episodes of Big Deal and they really worked, at least for a bit. How about Tales Of The Unexpected, at least the early scripts. Perhaps they would too.

Now I'm wondering. Now we are past the laugh-at-the-tacky effects, if we considered Blake's 7 as a period piece: would it still stand up? Similarly, Miami Vice. Hmmm

I rewatched Edge of Darkness not long ago. Definitely stands up. A classic.

My Dad watched a fair few Tales of the Unexpected at times and when passing I found they were vaguely amusing but getting rather dated.

The Flypaper is a rather disturbing episode

FPT

Listening to her speech, the single biggest problem is that all the things she says need to be done are precisely the things her party has spent a decade demonstrating that they are incapable of doing.
.

Exactly.

Why should anyone believe them.

A decade in purgatory beckons.

Deservedly so

Very, very positive response to the Tories on WATO. And a blast from the past, Julie Kirkbride who is now a More in Common pollster.

Helen Whateley very impressed with Kemi today. Whateley suggesting that the ending of stamp duty will be paid for by cuts. There is no replacement tax ( yet) apparently.

I’d be more surprised if Whateley was not impressed.

I haven’t listened to WATO in years. I’m watching the last Michael Praed episode of Robin of Sherwood. The Greatest Enema. It’s quite good.

(hums Clannad)

It’s a great theme

You’re a cult tv fan.

Have you ever rewatched an old tv show you had happy memories of that disappointed.

I have, it was this.

It’s okay but nothing special

Rather sadly, I was also disappointed when I rewatched Robin of Sherwood: not because it was bad, but the slow pace didn't work any more. What was appropriate in the era of four channels and rainy afternoons doesn't work in the 2020s. I have a horrible feeling the same thing would happen if I rewatched The Children Of The Stones or Airwolf. And I'm not going near Space:1999 (1st series), just in case.

It's not all bad news: when I went to the BFI to see a film (see previous posts), I spent about a hour in its "mediatheque", a free-access row of terminals where you could rewatch programmes. I watched an episode of Edge of Darkness ("Northmoor") and it really stood up. And I think/hope Our Friends In The North would too. And I rewatched some episodes of Big Deal and they really worked, at least for a bit. How about Tales Of The Unexpected, at least the early scripts. Perhaps they would too.

Now I'm wondering. Now we are past the laugh-at-the-tacky effects, if we considered Blake's 7 as a period piece: would it still stand up? Similarly, Miami Vice. Hmmm

I e rewatched Tinker Tailor, Smileys People and some early Tales of the Unexpected and they all stand up well.

Early Blakes 7 I found too as well, but I forgive the effects 😂

Outstanding article.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201453/inside-stephen-miller-secret-plan-normalize-trump-dictator-rule

Fake news! It's three Democrats; Pritzker, Newsom and Schiff.

I was very interested by Newson’s policies using the economic might of California to resist Trump. He made it clear that educational institutions who bent the knee to Trump and paid him off would lose their much more substantial State support.
Not nice for those caught in the crossfire but a necessary step to resist Trump’s authoritarian power grab. I can see other Blue states following suite.

Here’s a really eye catching policy - that any of the major right wing parties could introduce

Add an extra hour to the day. Take three minutes off each of the other hours (no one will notice) then combine all that into a new hour

And here’s the right wing libertarian angle. Allow people to spend their new hour when they like. ie if you really enjoy early morning you could add your extra Leon-hour between six and seven. An extra hour to get things done while all the world snoozes!

Night owls could prolong the sultry mood at 1am. A Leon-hour of the night

And if you’re simply knackered just get an extra Leon-hour of sleep

This is what British politics needs. Not tax tweaks. Proper changes

Mealy mouthed incrementalism.
I propose a 100 hour day.
Each of 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
We could quadruple productivity instantly by introducing a standard 30 hour working day.
And all get 30 hours sleep too.
Leaving 40 hours free time. Every day!
Your sort just aren't ambitious enough.

If the current system was good enough for the Babylonians/Sumerians, surely it should be good enough for us. Anyway, didn't the Revolutionary French try something like Leon's scheme.
And quickly abandoned it!

All this is wimpish stuff. Be a stern Ancient Roman and go for 12 hours of the day and 12 of night, the divisions of day/night defined by sunrise and sunset.

Only a Mediterranean culture could conceive such a thing ...

FPT

Listening to her speech, the single biggest problem is that all the things she says need to be done are precisely the things her party has spent a decade demonstrating that they are incapable of doing.
.

Exactly.

Why should anyone believe them.

A decade in purgatory beckons.

Deservedly so

Very, very positive response to the Tories on WATO. And a blast from the past, Julie Kirkbride who is now a More in Common pollster.

Helen Whateley very impressed with Kemi today. Whateley suggesting that the ending of stamp duty will be paid for by cuts. There is no replacement tax ( yet) apparently.

I’d be more surprised if Whateley was not impressed.

I haven’t listened to WATO in years. I’m watching the last Michael Praed episode of Robin of Sherwood. The Greatest Enema. It’s quite good.

(hums Clannad)

It’s a great theme

You’re a cult tv fan.

Have you ever rewatched an old tv show you had happy memories of that disappointed.

I have, it was this.

It’s okay but nothing special

Rather sadly, I was also disappointed when I rewatched Robin of Sherwood: not because it was bad, but the slow pace didn't work any more. What was appropriate in the era of four channels and rainy afternoons doesn't work in the 2020s. I have a horrible feeling the same thing would happen if I rewatched The Children Of The Stones or Airwolf. And I'm not going near Space:1999 (1st series), just in case.

It's not all bad news: when I went to the BFI to see a film (see previous posts), I spent about a hour in its "mediatheque", a free-access row of terminals where you could rewatch programmes. I watched an episode of Edge of Darkness ("Northmoor") and it really stood up. And I think/hope Our Friends In The North would too. And I rewatched some episodes of Big Deal and they really worked, at least for a bit. How about Tales Of The Unexpected, at least the early scripts. Perhaps they would too.

Now I'm wondering. Now we are past the laugh-at-the-tacky effects, if we considered Blake's 7 as a period piece: would it still stand up? Similarly, Miami Vice. Hmmm

I rewatched Edge of Darkness not long ago. Definitely stands up. A classic.

My Dad watched a fair few Tales of the Unexpected at times and when passing I found they were vaguely amusing but getting rather dated.

Bought EoD on DVD after catching random reruns.

Here’s a really eye catching policy - that any of the major right wing parties could introduce

Add an extra hour to the day. Take three minutes off each of the other hours (no one will notice) then combine all that into a new hour

And here’s the right wing libertarian angle. Allow people to spend their new hour when they like. ie if you really enjoy early morning you could add your extra Leon-hour between six and seven. An extra hour to get things done while all the world snoozes!

Night owls could prolong the sultry mood at 1am. A Leon-hour of the night

And if you’re simply knackered just get an extra Leon-hour of sleep

This is what British politics needs. Not tax tweaks. Proper changes

“It may be me,” as the late great Lord Macfadyen used to say to me in the Commercial court, but the key utility of time is that it is the same for everyone. If we all have different times organising anything becomes impossible.

Like the railway companies discovered, very quickly.

Not sure they have ever come to terms with it in my experience.

Christ Church at Oxford certainly hasn't worked out how to change its clock to GMT rather than Old Oxford Time, either.

"Oxford Time" was always a good excuse for being 5 minutes late.

Here’s a really eye catching policy - that any of the major right wing parties could introduce

Add an extra hour to the day. Take three minutes off each of the other hours (no one will notice) then combine all that into a new hour

And here’s the right wing libertarian angle. Allow people to spend their new hour when they like. ie if you really enjoy early morning you could add your extra Leon-hour between six and seven. An extra hour to get things done while all the world snoozes!

Night owls could prolong the sultry mood at 1am. A Leon-hour of the night

And if you’re simply knackered just get an extra Leon-hour of sleep

This is what British politics needs. Not tax tweaks. Proper changes

“It may be me,” as the late great Lord Macfadyen used to say to me in the Commercial court, but the key utility of time is that it is the same for everyone. If we all have different times organising anything becomes impossible.

Like the railway companies discovered, very quickly.

Not sure they have ever come to terms with it in my experience.

Here’s a really eye catching policy - that any of the major right wing parties could introduce

Add an extra hour to the day. Take three minutes off each of the other hours (no one will notice) then combine all that into a new hour

And here’s the right wing libertarian angle. Allow people to spend their new hour when they like. ie if you really enjoy early morning you could add your extra Leon-hour between six and seven. An extra hour to get things done while all the world snoozes!

Night owls could prolong the sultry mood at 1am. A Leon-hour of the night

And if you’re simply knackered just get an extra Leon-hour of sleep

This is what British politics needs. Not tax tweaks. Proper changes

Why don't you ask the nice aliens to sort it with the earth's orbit?

A slower spin and a slightly bigger orbit to get a nice even number of days? Just enough extra distance to counteract climate change?

Why not.

Good practice for when we'll need a much bigger skycrane in a few billion years.

Here’s a really eye catching policy - that any of the major right wing parties could introduce

Add an extra hour to the day. Take three minutes off each of the other hours (no one will notice) then combine all that into a new hour

And here’s the right wing libertarian angle. Allow people to spend their new hour when they like. ie if you really enjoy early morning you could add your extra Leon-hour between six and seven. An extra hour to get things done while all the world snoozes!

Night owls could prolong the sultry mood at 1am. A Leon-hour of the night

And if you’re simply knackered just get an extra Leon-hour of sleep

This is what British politics needs. Not tax tweaks. Proper changes

No, the people actually want free sea otters.

Here’s a really eye catching policy - that any of the major right wing parties could introduce

Add an extra hour to the day. Take three minutes off each of the other hours (no one will notice) then combine all that into a new hour

And here’s the right wing libertarian angle. Allow people to spend their new hour when they like. ie if you really enjoy early morning you could add your extra Leon-hour between six and seven. An extra hour to get things done while all the world snoozes!

Night owls could prolong the sultry mood at 1am. A Leon-hour of the night

And if you’re simply knackered just get an extra Leon-hour of sleep

This is what British politics needs. Not tax tweaks. Proper changes

Mealy mouthed incrementalism.
I propose a 100 hour day.
Each of 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
We could quadruple productivity instantly by introducing a standard 30 hour working day.
And all get 30 hours sleep too.
Leaving 40 hours free time. Every day!
Your sort just aren't ambitious enough.