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Nick Clifton
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Economic Geography Prof at Cardiff Metropolitan University, affiliated Member at CIRCLE, Lund University. Father of 2, European, follower of #SaintsFC, lately obsessed by trees. Personal views, RPs≠endorsements, blah etc. .. more

Business 43%
Political science 21%

Absolutely right.

More on this in the FT. As noted present funding model is both economically stupid and socially divisive. #Productivity puzzle anyone? 🙄.

Truly the worst of both worlds, not least given a big chunk of the capital will never be repaid anyway.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Probably a fair result in the end, we looked mostly ok certainly better than recently. Stick with the back 4 & keep Bree in.

I guess the market for orange cheese with a half-life rather than use by date is limited in South America...

True enough...I think most did think Reform would win albeit narrowly. Obviously the election itself occurred in tragic circumstances with the previous incumbent (Lab) also being well-liked, but the Lab vote collapsed nonetheless.

I would be a mistake to assume that the Reform vote in Wales is restricted to English retirees and the like. The South Wales Valleys voted strongly for Brexit after all. Although the recent Caerphilly by-election (mixed urban / valleys) suggests Plaid vote might be enough.

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League 1 Minus 10. Middlesbrough 4 Southampton 0. RPs appreciated.

Garbage #saintsfc give up. Featuring Odd-Fellows, 10 back but, no one marked, Weak everything, Spreadsheet Management, Azaz life choices and an Inverted Goalkeeper.
Championship Match 26 – Middlesbrough 4 Southampton 0
Exit Finn, Pondering his life choices With no goals in their last seven hours of football, Middlesbrough must be licking their lips with anticipation at playing Southampton this Sunday afternoon. Saints of course kept to clean sheet in their last game, so it’s all adding up to there being absolutely no chance of that being repeated. Middlesbrough have been in the top two all the season, having maybe been expected to be aiming for the playoffs this season, but these four games without a goal have seen them dropped to 3rd place as Ipswich have overhauled them.
league1minus10.co.uk

I have some sympathy with the view that if you don't want to sit in a queue all day but pay £500 later that's your choice; but isn't the key issue the hoovering up of tickets at source (sometimes it seems with the primary sellers in cahoots, other times industrial bot usage) that distorts the market

Must have been a bloody big abacus
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

You mean we get 4 they get 2?

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War on Christmas
"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

okeydokey👍Yeah those regional development fans are a nightmare...

...or maybe you meant me, that could also be true...

I mean I did wonder...

Actually @path-dependent.bsky.social do you have a report / paper related to your pres that you could share? (was going to DM you here but apparently that now requires age verification, since when has that been a thing?!)

When I say 10.15 I mean pm... otherwise I might have got all my money back 😏

Ha! yes see post above, I thought I was confused (easily done!). Yes legged it back to Pad only for for 21.48 only to be delayed til 10.15 (another 3 mins and I've got the 30 quid back and been quids in)

I knew I shouldn't have had the fancy larger in that place 😏(luckily after I made it back just in time to Paddington the Delay-Repay covered it in the end...)

Ha!
My money is on Mads Mikkelsen

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My money is on Mads Mikkelsen

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Efforts to deal with this would be a little more convincing if the #EPL wasn’t a rapacious money-hoovering machine in its own right, never mind the illicit activities that surround it. Also this piece seems to conflate organised touting & fake / scam ticket sellers
Premier League tickets: Touted resales exposed by BBC highlighted in Brighton vs Spurs match
The BBC examines Brighton's ticket operation to explore the scale and human impact of touted Premier League tickets.
www.bbc.co.uk
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk

Thought exactly the same thing..!

Indeed. We had this experience in South Wales a decade ago, words such as efficiencies, synergies and critical mass are bandied about without any real definition of what these actually might be, and how achieved in reality (and what resources might there be to do so...)

Assume you're right, legal entity only I guess. Not sure who exactly would apply to "London and South East University Group" 😱

Is it just me or is that an awful name

Will never catch on

The fact that Owen himself felt the need reply in the way he did tells you all you need to know about his character.