Cambridge Liberal Democrat. Techie. One time pilot.
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Last Notes npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE And if one day the Greens win power ... npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE That would be a "fact", though, and facts don't matter to gammons - what they vote for is to fuck up other people's lives. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Listed was my thought too. I know where there are some listed cast iron gates which are always left open, and thus similarly useless, because, we're told, if they were continually opened and closed that might risk damage. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE But where's the court that will actually DO something? Like imprison Trump for contempt in such a way that he can't immediately pardon himself? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE What confuses me is why the people aren't defending themselves. The USA has things like the second amendment, stand your ground, castle doctrine, and more guns than people - why aren't ICE goons getting shot left right and centre? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Maybe there's an underlying feeling of "if these people are rich enough to travel abroad then they don't need benefits"? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Once Upon A Time that would be the inside of the bedroom window. (No car, of course, we weren't that rich.) npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE All I know about planes is that survey, a few years old now, that 97% of planes have covid on board according to waste water sampling. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE ... as long as they are then being used efficiently. Temporary labour is sometimes (when used properly) a perfectly sensible way of coping with lumpy demand as it beats having experts on the payroll who have nothing to do for a significant part of the time. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Well, we've already taken to defending Wikipedia - it's gone from "it's just written by some random bod on the internet, it must be crap" to "it's written by actual human beings, it's great!" npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE A Word template from, apparently, 1992. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I downloaded LibreOffice yesterday just to see what it's like. Once Upon A Time all our kids insisted on trying the then free versions of Office, and all after a while said "we need something that actually works, please can we have the real Office?" But that was many years ago, and I see reports that LibreOffice is much better now, so I thought it worth another try. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE How meaningful was the wait time anyway, as a useful[#] indication to an individual patient? Aren't wait times anything from "immediate" to "never", depending on triage? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I'm not that bothered about reading a #brexshit-supporting paper that I can be bothered with the workarounds. I stopped paying for the dead tree version years ago, and I've now stopped reading the online version. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Johnson did make a start on his election promise of a final solution to the social care funding crisis - by seeding covid into care homes thus reducing demand - but he never finished the job. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE It is generally believed that in the USA anybody can sue anybody for anything. Suing a foreign supranational not-government for "unfair not-state competition" seems fairly mild by US standards. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE pw;dr npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Indeed not. Moving 2,000 kg of hardware in order to achieve the movement of 100kg of person sound to me at least fifteen times as inefficient as a 30kg e-bike. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Well, that's what we've been (partly) living on for the last several decades - my wife is an academic publisher (books not journals). npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I think this might be more of a problem at a lower level, as well established and well respected academics can "self publish" and be taken perfectly seriously by those who want to read their stuff. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I'm not sure I entirely get this. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE If only the farmers hadn't voted for #brexshit, then they might not be having to whine about their tiny margins. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE What should the overturn rate be? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I was under the impression that governments had performed such an examination more than once, and nothing much changed? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Trouble with that is remembering which false date you gave to which site, for when they use it as a security question. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Getting anyone to agree to an electoral pact in public seems out of the question at the moment. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I think in general (not limited to economics) the process is supposed to be something like npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE My reading so far suggests that there are *lots* of models. People even get Nobel prizes for them!! But I'm getting the impression that none of the models work terribly well on anything other than the data they were trained on, so predictive usefulness is somewhat limited. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE As a required exercise at work I asked an AI to generate a web application wrapper round an existing piece of back-end code. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE If you clobber small private planes you won't get any pilot training[#] so the airlines will run out of pilots ... which may be a deliberate objective? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I've just checked. There are no buttons that I can see or feel on the front of the telly (I haven't looked at the back, but it's not practical to operate controls there whilst trying to watch the thing anyway). npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Hmm. Though there is an obvious counter-example - we have for years now accepted television sets that can't be used if the remote control fails. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Why would anyone ever buy anything like that? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Wow. Non-zero based axes *and* very different ranges to the two scales, 1.4 vs 1.7, obviously chosen to make the graphs look as though they match. I don't recall there being anything that extreme in How to Lie with Statistics. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Seems to depend on the story. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (pw;dr - I don't pay money to #brexshit-supporting organisations) npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I am discovering as I look at my retirement finances that the "focussed social engineering taxes" seem to be designed to ensure that if you're rich enough (which for this purpose probably does include me) you don't really have to pay any taxes on investments. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE This is correct, of course. And you'll know this, but for any others reading who don't: npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE ITVx is however infinitely cheaper than IPlayer (0p compared to £174.50). npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE It's a much more general rule of politics: npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE When was the last time I watched any broadcast telly? OK, so a few months ago - I do watch a handful of hours per year. When was the last time I watched ITV? Last time a new series of Grantchester was being broadcast whilst I was coincidentally somewhere with a telly licence, maybe a couple of years ago. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE That's a bit broad brush - that map is roughly at district, or unitary, level? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Only because people outside the system take Ofsted ratings seriously. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Well, we've got to stop flying sooner or later, so this is yet another green win for Trump and MAGA! npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE The standard tension between a public body and the charities etc who want to do good things. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE That depends where you live, apparently. In the UK you have copyright by virtue of having written something, you don't need to register it. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE How would I get my hobbies declared tax exempt? For example, beer drinking? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Do churches not pay taxes? Why should they be treated differently to any other private hobby club? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Has ANYBODY EVER paid ANY fine to Ofcom? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Following the link from the Grauniad article to the source document we find: npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Paying NI, for people who currently don't, sounds absolutely fine to me ... so long as they then get the benefits of paying NI which they don't currently get. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I have never seen a private sector organisation routinely hit its budget to within 2% or so year after year like my council did. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Yeahbut that's 7,500 people who would be added to the *useful* labour force. We keep being told that there aren't enough people to do all the jobs. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I remain puzzled as to what's the point of a hybrid. You're carrying around two drive trains and two power sources, so it costs fuel to move the extra weight - where is the saving that makes up for that? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Sure. But for anyone who wants zero risk in an ISA, holding gilts in a stocks and shares ISA would appear to be a workaround - has she spotted this, and is she blocking it, and if not is she wasting her time? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Is she aware that you can hold gilts in a stocks and shares ISA, which with the right gilts are at least as good as a cash ISA? If so, is she going to stop that as well? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE If only it wasn't a Reform council, then it'd be easier to find someone to work for less than that. The risk of having deliberately chosen to work for Reform is obviously that it's likely to be career-ending, simply because with that on your CV nobody will ever hire you for anything ever again, so it has to be someone's last job before retirement, and they don't have to care about their reputation, so younger, cheaper, people won't apply, and those that do will bid up the danger money component of the pay. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Eh? Why would you call in sick if you're not being paid? Why wouldn't you just not be turning up at work if they're not paying you? - dunno about you, but I only work to get paid, and if they're not paying me I ain't gonna work, simple as that. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE But surely ... apart from its uses in electronics, gold is just as not-real as cryptocurrencies, in that it's worth only what gamblers decide it's worth? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE "People do not use physical force against them" npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE This is what's called "literary"? I take "Booker nomination" as an "avoid" flag. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE A foundation that wishes to continue spending long term rather than spend all its money quickly and shut itself down has to grow with inflation, at least, in order to carry on spending the same in real terms each year. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE "(changes in the law are seldom retrospective)" npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/financials ? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE The card you download a suitable picture and print, which is why you have some photo paper. These days I'm sure you can AI-generate the entire card 🤣 npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I did see something that really did look very much like an ad a few minutes ago (I don't know for sure, because of course I didn't click through). npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE The BBC headline was something like "Davey clowning around again - isn't it time for the Lib Dems to get serious?" npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I still reckon that disabling military assets which we might need to deploy at any moment to help defend the Baltics or Poland or wherever Putin invades tomorrow is pretty serious. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I was told recently that my GP of many years has stopped working as a GP "due to burnout". I'm mildly surprised, in this post-truth world, that receptionists are actually allowed to say that sort of thing to punters. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE And get the line length and leading right. You can certainly DETRACT from writing with poor design. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I still think that May was wrong to class students as "immigrants" rather than "customers". npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Careful with today's rules, though - you may not be allowed to turn up on your local beach with a tractor and remove it by the ton. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I have now attended several hours of training on the use of this new technology, at the end of which npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I once had a chat to the director of the Bennett Institute after a college dinner and she was quite clear that GDP had serious faults. She said that attempts to reform it over the decades had got nowhere because of the complexities of changing an international definition. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Just started reading another economics text book. This one, unlike the others I've read, questions everything, rather than taking it as holy writ ... npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I strongly suspect that many projects are completed on time and on budget. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I have a cheque book purely to pay the window cleaner each month. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Yeah, we've got lots of foxes now where we used to have lots of hedgehogs. Is the rise of foxes a global phenomenon? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Yes. And this is only necessary because (a) our tax system is incomprehensible to normal people, and even sometimes accountants and lawyers, and (b) if you ask HMRC for clarification they usually won't tell you. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Have they done a risk assessment as to what this will do for covid infections and death and disability? npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE The story is available online somewhere, or at least it was when I read it. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE They keep saying they would. How that would turn out in practice we don't know. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE So many people who can't count! npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE One can sometimes make a profit as a landlord, but it's not that rare to be carrying a loss forward from year to year ... in which case there's no tax to pay anyway. A six month void whilst £35k of maintenance is being carried out will eat up a few years' profits. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I know a medievalist scholar who gets really pissed off with people who talk about the "dark ages", on the grounds that actually they weren't that dark, she knows quite a lot about them! npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Yet another (not the first!) surprise example of Trump supporting the green agenda. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE A fair chunk of it (not all, but a fair chunk) will be disposable plastic tat. And if disposable plastic tat doesn't get manufactured, doesn't get shipped round the world, doesn't get used once and then wasted, and then doesn't break down to pollute the world with forever microplastics, then that's a win for everybody. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE The metric system is French, and therefore nasty and forrin and commie, whereas those who use the Imperial system obviously have some sort of nostalgia for when they were part of the greatest empire the world has ever known ... npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Yes, we've been trying to find new and interesting ways to eat figs and tomatoes twice a day for the last little while. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE This also involved a couple of trips to Westminster. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I was the planning portfolio holder. I'd been moaning about pubs for some time, and then one day the planning head of service sidled up to me and said she had some ideas, but it would need to start with an evidence base, and it would cost £20k (or whatever it was) for consultants to prepare a report. Which she could pay for out of one of her slush funds. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I did what I could. This is part of the evidence base for using planning policy to make it harder to close pubs in Cambridge. https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/media/2508/cambridge-public-house-study.pdf npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE I'm puzzled as to why it needs a van rather than just a body camera. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE In that particular job she might have done better to hand over management of her property to an agent, sort-of blind trust style. But requiring her to sell it when offered the job would sound a little extreme ... and being required to sell it would have involved kicking any current tenants out anyway. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE Lots of people are landlords as a result of (the previous) Labour government policies which clobbered pretty well all other methods of arranging that you could eat when you got too old and ill to work. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE You can pretty well always find a third of any profession "thinking about" leaving. It's the actual number of people actually doing anything more than "thinking about" that's rather more interesting. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE The change of government and the change of three-word-slogan is the problem. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE The problem is that people are choosing not to follow your advice. npub17tv294uql48gtq8g8p2rtny4v7yvuf3krzcuflpja5t6hwhc5t9quuq7ve Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE "We can't do that because" #brexshit, which is "The Will Of The People", so we can't "change it", because people like things the way they are.
