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Craig Walmsley

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Medium height, medium build, brown hair, grey eyes.

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I’m not sure that’s what happens when you don’t win your constituency. Or maybe I’ve just missed those bits of the BBC Election Special?

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They don’t fear friendly politicians, they fear the people - which is only to be expected really when you set yourself and your friends above any form of accountability.

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If several justices suddenly died, that would probably do the trick.

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Nothing says “official act of the President” like arranging hush money payments to a porm star. What a time to be alive!

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Actually, I’d be fine with that.

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I hope God forgives, because no-one else will.

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Yup. I hope the leopards don’t eat their faces.

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You're welcome back any time.

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Yeah, well, let’s get the pitchforks and burning torches out.

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Saint Jude (or Saint Thaddeus), by James Tissot, 1886-94

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The Financial Times has backed the only economically sane option in the UK's imminent general election: A vote for Labour.

These 4 graphs say it all. The historically inescapable fact is that 14 years of Tory govt, driven mad by Brexit, have been a disaster for UK prosperity.

on.ft.com/4eHFChN

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Continuing the Teutonic theme, I did once see a stark naked gentleman wandering about the Tiergarten in Berlin while I was running through there. Apparently this is A-OK in Germany.

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In fairness though, they've still cranking out those decisions, so that could change shortly.

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OK - now she’s doing just doing a cover version - so I guess that works.

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I mean I do like Dua Lipa - and she puts on a proper show - but all her songs sound like knock off versions of better songs that you can’t quite place.

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The reflections between those cobblestones!

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I’m must confess I haven’t tracked all the different media (didn’t Luke get married in the EU?) I guess my general point was that Jedi could always come from anywhere so I was always a bit surprised when people professed this to be a big change presented in TLJ.

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I thought it was more “Jedi’s can’t form attachments to others as then they fear to lose things and that leads to the dark side” kind of a vibe - that was what Yoda implied in TPM if I recall correctly.

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Those fascists sure know how to screw up a country, don’t they? The arc of fucking around is long, etc.

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Where did people suppose Jedi came from? - the Jedi are celibate, so they can’t have their own children to populate the Jedi order. So surely Jedi must always have been recruited from outside the order - i.e. from anywhere?

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Fascists gonna fascist. God might forgive them, but no-one else will.

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Harris would get absolutely crushed - open convention at least gives alternatives a roll of the dice.

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Well, in fairness, this is what Reform UK candidates want, so they might as well say it out loud so everyone knows where they stand.

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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

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40 years ago today, Purple Rain was released, AND Michel Foucault died. In this essay I will

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The ST did what even George Lucas could not do - make the PT look competent.

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We’re British - we do things stupidly or not at all.

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“a few blinkered chancers trying to make a few bob on some dodgy bets” is a verbatim description of the ingrained ethos of the entire Tory Party - as the last 14 years has shown to spectacular effect. Sunak fully deserves everything he and his party have so assiduously earned.

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I just thought it was rather more likely that JJA was picking up some story themes from the universe and attempting to end the Skywalker Saga with reference to the Skywalkers than that he has some sort of psychological aversion to working class heroes. Is making this observation forbidden?

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Up to date with the NYRB for the first time in months.

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Craig Walmsley's avatar Craig Walmsley @craigwalmsley.bsky.social
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I made no such claim - I merely made an observation.

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Well, good to know who speaks for Star Wars fans And indeed, they did try - and now we have the results.

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Well, that’s one way to treat a story world certainly.

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Not to defend or denigrate any of the movies, maybe lineage and family are an important part of the Star Wars mythos as defined by the guy who created it? I have no idea if JJA is an aristo or a pleb - but maybe he was just calling on themes that were a visible part of the world of the story?

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