Actor ~ Rep'd by Henry Alexander Talent. Singing Teacher ~ Associate Teacher, Mark Meylan Studio. Dad; Carpenter; lover of country walks and gardening.
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Terrifyingly it's well over a decade since the wonderful @swkplay Parade revival. But here's a little throwback to it that I recorded recently. Still one of my favourite jobs of my whole career...
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We really need to stop the “the idea of this law gives me happy feelings in my head, I don’t need to read it and think about what the words would mean in practice” school of discussion.
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Outside of Talarico, who managed to run a “big tent” lefty-populist campaign, there was a pretty strong correlation between being more progressive and under performing in these midterms. Which is something Dems should probably pay close attention to!
This is definitely true. You only need to look at the outcry about the winter fuel allowance to realise our image of pensioners is completely divorced from reality.
You do start to think that Social Media has basically sent us mad. Political discourse in so many of the various online bubbles is now so divorced from reality that being popular in government is basically impossible.
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One starts to get to the point of thinking that social media and stable democracy are simply incompatible.
And this is the real post-2008 story, since the dates of slow economic growth and social media are in fact the same. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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People are afraid to point out the bad arguments in their own tribe, because they rightly fear it will be interpreted by their fellows as treachery. So tribes typically have no quality control over their beliefs, except that provided by their enemies—without whom they go insane.
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If you and Donald Trump are in an enclosed space and you somehow reach the conclusion that he is the most well-read person in the room, the two of you are characters in a riddle where you are a cat.
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Voter: "I want to vote for a set of completely uncosted spending plans, fronted up by a charlatan with a cavalier approach to Putin and national security."
Pollster: "Right-wing or left-wing?"
Voter: "I'm not bothered."
Ben Walker: There is growing evidence the Greens are taking Reform votes newstatesman.com/politics/uk…
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Britain last built a major reservoir in 1992.
Our population has risen 13 million since then.
The result…
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I’m really pro-Palestine, but y’all are making it really hard to not think you’re the bad guys
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Imagine going back to the 90's and telling them progressives in the 2020's view schindlers list as being right wing.
They'd look at you as if you had three heads.
