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john bone
@johnbone.bsky.social
contentedly retired academic (economics)
diatonic accordion fumbler (https://www.youtube.com/@ekhezlaik/videos)
shelfloads of #vinyl - not a collector though, just old.
#COYI btw
Fortunate to have seen him as Grenfell in Tony Harrison’s ‘The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus’ at the National in 1990.
One of the theatrical experiences of a lifetime.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Wait, you say there’s a Budget coming up?
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
What a former colleague used to call a ‘preemptive cringe’.
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
simpler times indeed.

On the 1979 bbc results show Butler et al made their first call after just 22 seats declared. All holds, but markedly uneven swings. No exit polls of course.

Final outcome 269/339/11
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Does “Quite Ugly One Evening” signify closure on the Parlabane saga? Sad if so.
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
How do they know it was called Theia?
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM