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Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be – politicalbetting.com
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be – politicalbetting.com
Terrific piece. Reminds me of this piece of YouGov polling: we all think the past was better, we just can't agree on when https://t.co/m6AMEzfjMV pic.twitter.com/7kpOUuJVXV
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Clearly we all can agree.
It was apparently when we were young and had few responsibilities.
Everyone agrees that society was best when they personally were late teens/early 20s. Which is why nostalgia politics is so potent, but also why it doesn't work.
Confirmed that Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a federal prison in Texas.
GB news owners are pouring their money down the drain in order to influence the news agenda.
They run a story, the right wing papers report on it, link to it and the idiots at the BBC report on it because "it's in the news".
The government has said that while it wanted to make sure customers get redress, it also wanted the motor sector to be able to continue "supporting millions of motorists to own vehicles".
And it has expressed concerns that the size of the compensation bill for lenders could undermine the competitiveness of UK banks.
But the Supreme Court did not grant the Treasury’s application to intervene - a decision the government said it respected.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqjy087n9j2t
This has been advised by the Financial Conduct Authority that the outcome may “affect the price of securities in the car price market," Lord Reed says.
He adds: "The markets will need time to digest and consider its implications.”
But, Lord Reed says the court upholds Mr Johnson's claim "that the relationship between him and the finance company was unfair".
"We award him the amount of commission plus interest," Lord Reed says before adding that "other customers claims are rejected".
There's something rather interesting in that poll. The fortysomethings and the seventysomethings have a higher view, proportionally, of their youth decades of the 1960"s, and 1990's, respectively, than the other cohorts do of theirs.
I don't think that's a coincidence, and to a certain extent I think they're right.
Those were two particularly hopeful periods.
https://x.com/mims/status/1951256592642441239
https://www.racingpost.com/news/britain/racing-tax/i-will-certainly-be-fighting-it-reform-leader-nigel-farage-voices-opposition-to-governments-racing-tax-proposals-aBwcY0A2smTM/
No real surprise here - I thought the most cogent opposing voice was that of Richard Hoiles who tried to divorce betting on the horses and dogs from games of chance.
The proposal would raise general betting duty to 21% and racing has come out with all sorts of projections of doom and gloom (some of which might be a bit overdone in my view). It's suggested tax harmonisation would take £66 million out of the industry in the first year along with 2,750 jobs.
I'm struggling a little with the "how" of all this - the theory is the bookies would cut back on their interest in the sport if they have to provide so much tax to the Government and that would ripple through the industry and affect all aspects but I don't know if the Government proposal extends to Pool Betting Duty which covers bets struck in shops on other sports such as football, cricket and politics.
The other side of it is, as on-course bookmakers aren't involved or affected, it might strengthen that market.
So, @Leon While I bow to Roger's experience in terms of advertising, as an ex marketing bod, if this helps you write your Sidney Sweeney article:
- It's _heavily_ based on Brooke Shields 'my Calvins' 1980 campaign for Calvin Klein Jeans - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9-2uJz2df4
- Interestingly, if you want to draw a parallel between then and now, Shields was 15 when she made these ads. Sweeney is what, 27?
- I don't think you can really cover the 80s jeans ads without referencing the granddaddy of 80s jeans ads, Levi's Laundrette - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwG_wym3p68
- Famously lovingly appropriated by Carling Black Label a year later - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCemJAd3KZA
- What's interesting of course is that the Levis ad 'objectifies' men (in a fun way) and is made for the female gaze. Quite forward for its time in a way. And more interesting still, is they remade it a year ago with Beyonce in the male role but it fell flat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q40oimgnN00 - mainly because it lacked any of the playfulness of the original and just felt... meh. But there is a definite *trend* towards reobjectification that started before the Sweeney ad.
So lots here to play with in terms of changes in attitudes between the 80s (which Sweeney's ad is deliberately rooted in) and now.
Just an ex-marketing bod's opinion, hope that is useful.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8deq8qm504o
What happened to the EU equivalent of US ESTA, where everybody has to pay a fee and fill in a load of information prior to departure?
Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
From 1952 to 1960 as I went through my teenage years were fantastic, as was the 1960s to mid 1970s as I got married, had three children, and built two successful businesses
Indeed each decade has had more than it share of happiness, though ageing into our 80s comes with challenges
We tend to forget the bad bits now - and if we went back now the smoking in restaurants and pubs would probably annoy us, as would the lack of smartphones and internet connectivity - but the benign environment essentially explains why Blair kept winning.
Will no one spare a thought for earlier centuries ?
It's a very interesting and mad arms race.
(I'm probably wrong, but I have absolute conviction that I'm not)
For example, you'd print off a map for where you were going before leaving the house and text or call people to meet up, on the nokia, once yoh were close.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgprxzggz4o
As in 2 minutes before it was made public?
"Social media is engineering amnesia
We’re trapped in Big Tech’s mind maze
Gurwinder Bhogal"
https://unherd.com/2025/08/were-trapped-in-big-techs-mind-maze
https://bsky.app/profile/luketryl.bsky.social/post/3lvduyiqzvk2g
I reckon that they have the vegan vote sewn up.
The real meat here is that for a lot of tasks “AI” is a useful for a rough guesstimate of what is required.
It’s output s about 70% of what is required and you need to do the rest yourself. However, generating the prompts to get to 70% takes a chunk of the gains.
How much is that worth?
Anyone remember Streetmap? A-Z data plus a postcode finding feature. So your printout would have an red arrow marking the destination.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c24zn043d6qo
What's going on here?
The numbers from run-your-own-LLMs suggest that it is expensive vs the results.
What’s the real profit margin that is possible?
The Yellow Sam betting coup
the track was serviced by just two telephone lines, one public telephone box and a private telephone line belonging to the Extel company which supplied racing data to betting shops. The Extel line was put out of use [probably cut] early in the day leaving just one telephone line available to communicate to the course bookies who determined the starting prices for the participants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Sam_betting_coup
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It's Biden's economy again.
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🚨🚨Trump: I have ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in appropriate regions near Russia.
Is it time to panic-buy toilet rolls yet?
(80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb on Wednesday btw)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-sydney-sweeney-jeans-ad-backlash
My index funds seem very US tech heavy....
Two out of five people prosecuted after the Southport riots had previously been involved in domestic violence.
Doesn't this tell us something disturbing about the far right who are currently leading in the polls?
Ref 32 (+2)
Lab 23 (-4)
Con 18 (-1)
LD 13 (+1)
Grn 8 (+1)
Changes since end June
With Corbyn
Ref 31
Lab 20
Con 19
LD 13
Grn 7
YP 6
There are others, but they change.
https://streetmap.co.uk/
https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1951236937169158301
Repeated criminal damage is unfair to my staff and an attack on democracy.
I will not be commenting further while there is a live police investigation.
https://x.com/wesstreeting/status/1951308368716427450
RefCon winning on 50%
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Smith
Atkinson
Bashir
Archer
Wood
Tongue 12th.
Carse 13th
for Oz.
Wouldn't bother with Dawson or Overton.
England throwing this game away.
They could all be archers at Agincourt. Bashir maybe more of a stretch, but still one of the team.