politics 💼
Not the nicest of thoughts
Microplastics found in every human semen sample tested in study - www.theguardian.com/environme…
This is slightly weird
I am a politics geek.
I did politics at university, i listen to various politics podcasts, and i rarely miss Peston or Question Time
I find politics fascinating, vital and often entertaining
But i always get a bit bored with it during election campaigns
This Blinken chap has got something about him
As we reported earlier, Russia has accused the White House of trying to “eliminate” a political rival in Donald Trump.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Prague, was just asked about the comment.
“I would say that’s a classic case of projection,” he says.
BBC News - Donald Trump’s guilty verdict - we answer your questions live - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/live…
I may be wrong, but I think that if we’d had more working-class people in the House of Commons, and fewer professionals, then we’d have more Bank Holidays
There hasn’t been a new annual holiday since the 1970s
Harold Wilson, Leonid Brezhnev, and 'all the football'
This is fun, although the first bit is a tad unfair on Rishi, who does seem to be a proper football fan ⚽
This is on Harold Wilson and Leonid Brezhnev
“So there was no posturing towards the common man in his carrying around a postcard of the 1924 team, but it was a bit weird how often he got it out of his wallet to show it to people.
Anyway, he did that to Brezhnev, and Brezhnev thought he wanted an autograph, and signed it for him. So after that, he was carrying his beloved team, signed by the general secretary of the Communist party. This is really Brezhnev’s gaffe.”
An amusing UK political story
The bloke who made it compulsory to bring photo id to your polling station got turned away today… because he’d forgotten his photo id
We had to vote for a Police and Crime Commissioner today.
It turns out every one of the candidates were for the former, and against the latter…so i voted on party lines
This week the powers that be decided to stick with Ofsted’s 4-point scale of assessing schools - outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate
It’s still two points less than the food inspectors use to assess the hygiene of our local pub
Both are important, but you’d think schools need a bit more granularity than how the cleanliness of the pint glasses
Interesting point in this, at least for politics nerds like myself
Famously, JFK performed better in the Presidential debates than Nixon, according to TV viewers, but less well according to radio listeners
Danny Finkelstein says that a recent study suggests that this is entirely explained by radio listeners being more rural, more conservative and more likely to vote for Nixon in the first place
Liz Truss and Brian Clough
I’ve always enjoyed unusual political metaphors - for a while I collected and tweeted a #BrexitMetaphorOfTheDay, possibly the only thing I enjoyed about that whole thing.
Anyway, in this article Liz Truss is compared to both Brian Clough and Jeremy Corbyn…which I think is rather good
www.theguardian.com/politics/…
‘Angertainment’ is a great, and useful, word
‘It got vile very quickly’: how Alex Jones turned a tragedy into a battleground
Annual-ish tweet/toot/post to say I think it’s amazing that Oxford and Cambridge have both reached the Boat Race final again
I have chips on both shoulders