My Mam, when I go down to Parliament

Surely this contradicts the *front cover* of the Labour manifesto?

Thread of the coolest photos of the Moon 🧵 1. Paris' Arc de Triomphe by Stefano Zanarello

This is pleasingly diverse. (I wanted to know about an Olympic hammer. I already knew the answer to #6.)

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Two options in response to these data: 1. Mis-adduce them to make some tired point about gender that they don’t actually support but to which you’re too angrily committed to realise it [see the replies]. 2. Study Politics, a marvellous and more or less gender-balanced subject.

Watching David Denver give a lecture at Manchester University in 1987 when I was at sixth form, was instrumental in my academic choices. Later he was a huge help to me when I first became candidate for Westmorland. A brilliant, funny and kind man. Sending love to his family.

Who could ask for more in a workforce?

Lookalike.

The Wizard of Oz is 85 And in 1998, Rick Polito wrote the greatest one line description of a movie ever for a listing on TCM.

Of course there’ll be talk of lightbulbs and the internal combustion engine, of course there will, but for me the two key inventions of the industrial era are central heating and prescription sunglasses.

Interesting review article by Markus Wagner : Affective polarization in Europe | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/476jla2

Paul says the thing no politician will say:

A piece of work that is as heartening as it is excellent.