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Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶
@esseph63.bsky.social
Former (m)ad man, historian, writer and dog-walker. Londoner. Degrees from Oxford and Kingston. Scot, European, social democrat. Usually with the underdog. Quite worried about a lot of things.
Of course much of the east of England, including the parts that are most knuckle-dragging racist today, was once part of the Danish empire. Don’t know what to think about that.
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Never thought I’d be advocating tactical voting against Labour, but here we are.
November 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Shabana Mahmood has morphed into Priti Patel.
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Waiting 20 years in the hope of achieving secure status is an obscenity. That’s probably the most potentially productive and socially useful part of anyone’s life. I never imagined a Labour politician would come up with a policy this vile.
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I suppose getting Yaxley-Lennon’s approval is some kind of achievement unlocked for this government.
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Peanut butter.
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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A staged stunt for political gain.
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Such a shame this can’t be read in the U.K., where the production originated.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
That would make you five or under in 1970. Yes, most people have memories from that part of their lives, but I’d hate to try and construct a coherent history from them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Arguing politics at the age of nine? You must have been a early developer or perhaps too clever by half (an expression that I love because it says everything you need to know about the English).
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you’re 59 now, you’re a few years younger than me, and you were about nine in 1975.
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Anyone with adult memories of 1975 will be at least 68 years old. Childhood memories are unreliable guides to the state of a nation.
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
People who can remember 1975 are in their sixties now, at the least. That will have something to do with it.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM