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Until you have seen several hundred people at the top of a hill in Yorkshire pretending to be Kate Bush, you find it difficult to imagine several hundred people at the top of a hill in Yorkshire pretending to be Kate Bush.
Can we introduce compulsory peerages for everyone earning over £100K p.a.?
The result will be either a significant reduction in tax avoidance or the abolition of the House of Lords. I don't see a downside here.
nostr:npub1ex328w5w0hjweznw8t6f9epk5w5xy4ak6kzyc7y93lfjtelxuymsk9c58j Auden has an essay in which he talks — a propos Pickwick, I think — about the English legal system reducing justice to an "aesthetic contest". Back then, ofc, readers would have guessed he didn't consider that a good thing.
nostr:npub1ex328w5w0hjweznw8t6f9epk5w5xy4ak6kzyc7y93lfjtelxuymsk9c58j But is it news when Trump says something and — even coincidentally — it turns out to be true?
Small-hours-of-the-morning thought.
The plot of Mostly Harmless (1992): Vogons take over popular tech company supplying fun but erratic information; make it not-fun; use it to destroy the Earth.
Adams was a visionary.
The Hieland kye at Pollok Park have been kitted out like this for the cycling.
Not sure whether I'm looking at a Jersey cow, a wheely jumper, or cattle branding.
The #Govanhill Carnival Parade setting out this afternoon.
nostr:npub1uea7tkeg5s86a8g7x2vfusdjhqxc44sw370qksr7ftcj2h8hg3kqn27jm3 nostr:npub1vucaxpxepnwxg58f0utzwaqnpqtpykf6zz56n7atfefnr3lzqxrq6px8cc Yes, this is something I'm planning on covering at some point soon, especially the streey furniture which shows Glasgow developed and ran all its own utilities (water, gas, electicity, phones) for the benefit of its own people rather than for overseas share holders. It was the perfect circular economy which gave the old Glasgow Corporation the income to do amazing things for the city which we can now only dream about.
nostr:npub1ug8yq5ccfa64v3p6axqw8f94qxlznep53l22vjuecpd3629cqjhsgnytkq nostr:npub1uea7tkeg5s86a8g7x2vfusdjhqxc44sw370qksr7ftcj2h8hg3kqn27jm3 nostr:npub1vucaxpxepnwxg58f0utzwaqnpqtpykf6zz56n7atfefnr3lzqxrq6px8cc Water was an interesting one because the original piped system (early C19th) was private; it's really only with the city's rise in the mid-C19th that they had the confidence to invest in a publicly owned supply.