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Thanks for clearing that up.
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IT by profession. Interested in education, politics and economics. Based in South Oxfordshire, UK, originally from the Wirral.
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Thanks for clearing that up.
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It's in the android appstore now.
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Is it allowed to be used for party announcements or just government, I wonder?
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Thanks for doing these. They are informative and fun.
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Female company directors?
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Is it something to do with renewable energy? Percentage of energy generated renewable or some such?
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I'm going to estimate that there are a lot with nothing, so the median will be at the lower end. $100K?
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Poor choice of words from me - clearly the EU don't *have* to do anything and can walk away. What I was trying to say is that Labour have a red line on FoM, but there are ways of fudging that if both sides want an agreement. Fudgist rather than cakeist maybe?
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Alastair Wilcox
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The Labour response has the advantage of killing off the discussion rather than inviting a criticism for not setting out a Labour position. The Labour "no" is a powerful negotiating statement. It tells the EU they are going to have to give on FoM - perhaps simply agreeing equal quotas would do it?
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There's also one side with less to lose by breaking those laws. The asymmetry in behaviour could be quite marked.
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10 years should be enough to unwind much of the current mess.
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Labour could use that as their GE narrative. Set an expectation that they are going to have to prioritise. Stabilise what they can and pick a few low hanging fruit to improve. Show they've fixed some important things by the end of the first term and they should be set fair for a second.
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Unparalleled.
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European focus is Denmark and Germany, Asia is China, Brazil more than Argentina in S. America and a big cluster in the north of the US perhaps where Scandinavian migrants settled. Very little in middle east. Has to be pork consumption doesn't it?
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I had an s8 that I was perfectly happy with except the battery life reduced to around 1/2 a day. Upgraded to a reconditioned 1 year old S23 and I've got about 3 days on a single charge. I don't need the extra features, just the battery life.
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There will be books written about how David Cameron killed the Tory Party by promising the Brexit referendum. It has cost them whatever reputation they had for economic competence and torn a previously coherent party into factions that hate each other. Who knows how the centre right will recover?
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I have a vegetarian cookbook that has half the recipes listed by the main ingredient (fine) and half of them listed under 'v' as "vegetable...[whatever]". It's not completely unhelpful, but could be so much better.
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They are either already permanently furious bots or such Elon fanbois that his every move is more proof of his divinity.
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Something to do with meat exports?
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I put the YouGov numbers into Electoral Calculus yesterday. Sunak was on course to hold his seat by 0.2%. It would become the second most marginal Con hold.
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The tables suggest they've lost a lot of votes to Labour. Roughly the same proportion of their 2019 vote as Cons have lost to Reform.
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Ah, the Bickering Fair - marvellous!
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It looks like it was popular up to 2019 when the Feed in Tariff scheme ended. The panel owners took some of the tariff money to repay the capital cost of the equipment. It appears to still happen, but without the FiT payments, it's much less common.
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I think some companies used to rent them to you and you paid a monthly (?) charge to them. This avoided up front costs, but did leave the ownership uncertain in the event of a house sale. I'm not sure if this model persists.
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Wine must offer a better return but more volatility, I'd guess.
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Then into adulthood women allow each other to do that again, but most men don't. Men who don't need to be part of the group are freer to express themselves sincerely, I think.
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There seems to be a shift from childhood when boys and girls allow their peers to express sincere emotions through to adolescence when neither can (maybe worse for boys?).
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The part in that article where she talks about looking for compromise is somewhat at odds with her Lancaster House red lines.
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Well we've all had our stereotypes challenged today. Thanks for posting these.
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Hmm who else could be up there? Poland?
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Maybe Italy then?
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Got to be South Korea, hasn't it?
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I'd expect it to go into cost cutting mode. Lose the high cost presenters and maybe go online only. If not that, then close down.
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That has Didcot and Wantage as a 3 way marginal with Labour winning. Locally, the vibes feel more Lib Dem.
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The word 'status' took me off in a slightly different direction. He really doesn't *need* to be an MP or PM and he's unlikely ever to be as rich as his father in law, but as a route to status it's golden and the contact list is priceless.
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#hashtags are here.
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Appears to have had 5 constituencies, and won in 4 different decades, so should qualify by the letter of the question. Last win was in the 1959 election in Woodford.
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Without outside intervention, they appear to be headed even further to the right and electoral oblivion. However, what if a powerful right-leaning media organisation decides to give Sunak a kicking for going too far right and tries to haul them back towards the centre in a bid for future power?
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Rather than something like Brexit being the rock that sinks the ship, it could be something much more prosaic like their leadership election rules. If a moderate gets on the ballot, the nationalist-right will want their candidate on there too and the membership will almost certainly pick the latter.
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Fair.
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A lot depends on the analysis of the defeat. If they lose 250MPs and most of those seats go Lab, some LD and 0 to Ref, will they really conclude that they should have tacked closer to Reform? Could Braverman and Badenoch be seen as part of the problem by MPs and not even get on the members ballot?
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That's a generous tick when I didn't specifically say "US gas"🙂, but I'll pretend that's precisely what I meant. Thanks for posting these Friday quizzes!
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First thought is gas. Spiked after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Cap lowered on retail prices today to lowest for 2 years (I think).
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Now we see Staunton's email note to himself. It could appear that Badenoch's actions may result in this being pinned on Grant Shapps. Why would she want to do that?🤷♂️ www.thetimes.co.uk/article/334d...
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Yeah, it definitely 'errs' on the side of assuming you want to buy something rather than want information about it.
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It seems fine for searches for information if you craft your search well (probably more necessary than it was). If you want to buy something, it's terrible for finding suppliers because the search has to be *very* specific to work well.
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Some seem to think they'll make 'wrong' decisions. That seems to underestimate the ability of diligent citizens to weigh evidence and come to reasoned conclusions. We should evaluate their usefulness outside the UK and trial them if they look useful.
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Digging a hole.
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Indeed. None of us have evidence, bit it's fun to speculate.
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