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Pete Miles
@petermiles.bsky.social
Ex- consultant, manager, marketer, engineer. Interested in Complexity, Systems and Collective Intelligence. GSOH (Brit)
Wow!
November 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
🤞
November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thanks. Good film.

And that reminds me, this is on iPlayer for the next 29 days (I've not seen it myself yet!)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074sgv via @bbciplayer
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Classic British epic about the life and loves of a reactionary army officer, tracing his career from the Boer War to World War II.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'd like to see the old and new side by side
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
'Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge'

His latest post here...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/labo...
Labour’s Brexit stance is as untenable as their tax pledge
In my last post about the prospect of Labour breaking its tax pledge, I did something I don’t often do, which is indulge in some ‘I told y...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ah, the new-fangled ones
November 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I plan to have another go in the morning 🙂
November 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I agree. I got brain-fade by the last chart but the overall argument that emerges from the data is compelling.
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We did.

But what about this one over here that says "Farage"?
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I think they are. The kids are still messing around, spending too much time on their phones.
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
In theory...
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I think it's fair to say that all the easy levers have now been pulled. (You can see why they are so tempted by the one labelled AI 🙂)
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
And as you have pointed out, the bounty of North Sea oil & gas. (And the European single market let's not forget!)
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It's a pretty stark chart.

I also think @warringfictions.bsky.social has a good set of proposals on how to face the situation.

bsky.app/profile/warr...
3/ Part 1 looks at communications in an era of hyper-scrutiny and low deference. Populists should not have a monopoly over authenticity. The blog consists of nine suggestions in this area.

It can be read here: parables.substack.com/p/putting-do...
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
How appropriate!
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Striking chart from Chris Clarke of total net satisfaction with all 3 main party leaders: voters have gone off them since 2010 parables.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM