Not a Starmer superfan account, but on Iran he's- finally! - landed a blow on both Badenoch snd Farage. He got the public mood right and more importantly got the decision right.
We do. We need some with ideas, some good at policy, others at telling stories, some managing people while others can persuade them. We need different people with different skills from different backgrounds
I’m not sure our political or civil service systems support this breadth
Another bonus magnolia
Cherry blossom
Today's constitutional
Well it was post understandable bad news or post some of the other coverage and try to remember the bits I once knew about P&I clubs and maritime law
As ever, I expect there will be some lawyers making some money somewhere here
Yeah, the direct and indirect environmental costs of this are grim
Then there’s the impacts on agriculture, food and so hunger through fertiliser costs
And that’s before the wider economic harms
All long term, not immediate, so largely skipped over… again
Paying the price for not investing in anything since 2010
Yep. And yet we’ve built a way of thinking and structuring society and economy that doesn’t seem to encourage that long term view even for those who can afford it. Like you say we need better ways of distinguishing and supporting those better decisions, it could help everyone
There seems to be no plan on how to reopen the Straits let alone stop the wider problems. Markets are moving on unsourced tweets. A few ships are going through ‘dark’ (at night and with AIS turned off) mostly to get some oil from Iran to China apparently
“When the US and Israel attacked Iran, they opened up a Pandora’s box of unintended consequences for the global economy”
That’s rough 😞 🤗
And find ways of enabling that for people who have no means of funding such expenditure. Poverty has always been expensive and this just compounds it
It’s funny how often poor people get criticised for bad decisions when people with money to make better ones often don’t
Jump into our replies and start saying incredibly inappropriate things until you get blocked?
Apparently in the etiquette scale that counts as perfectly normal online behaviour rather than rudeness
For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d163...
This is fine but instead of a room on fire it’s the oil fields
One guy playing a massive tuba while another guy helps hold it upright. A regular size tuba (maybe a 4/4 BBb??) is next to them, resting upside down on its bell
big tuba
Happy Birthday-eve!
Agree! The incentives are all there as you say. It sort of feels like the easy out to take that route but many do. A politician with some self belief and skill should in theory be able to win… but we’ve tend to have them with only one of those two recently
The public seem aware and fed up too?
Today…. i’d go for mushy peas and mayonnaise
Well enjoy, whatever life, the restaurant and more likely the waiting staff bring you
Remembering the ides?
Being vegetarian that was difficult… beer and some rice and veggies was sometimes about it!
Have a hug 🤗
Yeah, ideas do seem to quite successfully evade them both
Up to a point. But all policy ultimately has winners and losers. You just get to choose and communicate those goals. The absence of policy or choosing also has winners and losers but they’re less obvious and not attached to ‘you’ as a politician.
A good politician makes an argument and convinces
I think we need politicians with ideas not ideologues
But yeah, we see to have people who rigidly stick to things regardless or flap around in the breeze untethered to anything
A bit of belief in something with enough flexibility to change if convinced feels about right
Latest in the steady slide of Epic Fury to Epic Failure
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It reminds me of that scene from Lady and the Tramp
Yeah definitely see that. Few seem willing to try to lead and use the politics of persuasion. I can’t really think of anyone who has had the conviction to sell something they believe in to the public for a while
