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Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
What are the main reasons voters have switched from Labour?
Winter fuel allowance trumps all else.
After that, impatience over public services + cost of living.
Immigration less salient. Net Zero of no salience whatsoever. Scandals less than I expected.
via @YouGov
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
Cracking anecdote from John Banville in The Guardian
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
A good day to recall one of John Prescott's most famous lines. And to honour its promise. “The Green Belt is a Labour achievement and we intend to build on it”.
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
Nov 18th 1815 - Jean Valjean is released from prison, after serving 19 years. 5 for stealing a loaf of bread, the rest for trying to run.
📽️📅 Les Misérables (2012)
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
*squints* Theatre Twitter? You still out there? If so come and see my play "Fandemonium!" at @ScotStoryCentre on Tuesday, part of Gateway New Writing Festival.
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
The CIA publishes the craziest stuff on their website.
"Oh yeah we had professional remote viewers, yeah, we asked them to go visit Mars one million years ago. What did they see? Pyramids, obelisks, a dying elder race looking for a new home. Anyway its declassified now."
ALT https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/cia-rdp96-00788r001900760001-9.pdf
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
Years ago, in the 1990s, me and my boss were looking at a client's rental accounts. He asked was I sure about the mortgage repayments. I said I had checked them with the bank. "They can't be less than the rent," he said, "That never happens. Not on a 90% mortgage." Seems like...
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Okay, two nickels teapawt.net/MenezesCracked/status/…
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
Just thinking of that time in 2018 when Quincy Jones gave a couple of remarkable interviews with eye-popping details. RIP to a real one.
Here's the Vulture interview (1/2)
vulture.com/2018/02/quincy-j…
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
Rewatching Paddington & I can’t help but notice he manages the whole boat trip from Peru without breaking a single jar of his marmalade. Not so clumsy when it’s your stuff & it matters to you are you, you little prick?
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
What does the term 'woke' mean to the British public? We asked them to define it in their own words, here's what they said:
Awareness of social issues: 15%
Overly-sensitive: 10%
Political correctness: 9%
Thoughtfulness and inclusiveness: 6%
Conjugation of 'wake': 6%
Stupidity / rubbish / insanity: 5%
Someone too left-wing: 5%
Derogatory term: 4%
General awareness: 4%
Respondents answered in their own words, which were categorised by YouGov AI Topic Quantifier
yougov.co.uk/society/article…
Alistair Maxwell (is moving to Blue Sky) retweeted
EXCLUSIVE sneak preview of new film by Adam Curtish! youtu.be/yIn7bh0gU-w?si=wOF6… via @YouTube
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1. Go to Settings
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5. Turn off
